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[[File:USA capital photo jan. 2021.jpg|thumb|Many neo-fascist groups were involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol riot|2021 United States Capitol coup.]]]]
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'''Neo-fascism''' is a term that refers to the post-world war two ideological trends that feature [[ultranationalism]], strong [[militarism]], [[Reactionary|reactionism]], and other features of the orginial [[fascist]] movements. Similar to the fascists of the 20th century, neo-fascism is born as a reaction to changing social climates, as well as growing economic hardships among the [[Petty bourgeoisie|petit-bourgeoisie]].
 
With the rise of [[neoliberalism]], and the increasing concentration of capital into fewer-and-fewer hands, neo-fascism has gained new popularity among many nations, particularly as things such as intensifying [[climate change]] and economic hardships (the results of [[capitalism]]) ravage the mddle class.<ref>{{Citation|author=Marc-André Argentino, Blyth Crawford, Florence Keen, Hannah Rose|year=2021|title=Far From Gone: The Evolution
of Extremism in the First 100 Days
of the Biden Administration|title-url=https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ICSR-Report-Far-From-Gone-The-Evolution-of-Extremism-in-the-First-100-Days-of-the-Biden-Administration.pdf|publisher=London: International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.|trans-lang=English}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|newspaper=EuropeNow|title=Understanding the Rise of the Far Right: The Need for a Historical Approach|url=https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/11/09/understanding-the-rise-of-the-far-right-the-need-for-a-historical-approach/|retrieved=2022-6-20}}</ref>
 
The term "neofascist" is often vaugely defined, and besides its usage as a mere pejorative, "neofascism" better refers to an entire grouping of [[far-right]] trends that appered after classical fascism largely died as a power-holding ideology after world war two.
 
== Features ==
Many neo-fascist movements are created and gain popularity for similar reasons as to how the old fascists got popularity - that is to say - by using social, political, or economic chaos as a means of advocating for a return to a past golden age; or other words - a palingenesis. Commonly, the fascists of the modern epoch will blame the ills a society suffers from on a scapegoat, one that rarely ever relates to the internal economic classes of a [[capitalist]] society, and much more often, foreigners, sometimes those whom are of another (often percived) race. In other cases, the neofascist will have his scapegoat be that of [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy]], blaming the problems the people face on an underground and otherwise subversive force, regardless of how scientifically or logically false it may be. These two examples of blaming issues on a race or on a conspiracy need not conflict, as often times, the neofascist will claim that a ''race'' is preforming or at least aiding in the ''conspiracy''. This trend is common with, for example, anti-semites.
 
Neo-fascists (and far-righters in general) often rely heavly and [[populism]] to spread their often xenophobic views. They will attempt to mobilize the social (often the petit-bourgeoisie) or ethnic group that their political program holds to be "the common people", and rally them to oppose a percived enemy. Often, this enemy will be "the eilitists" or "globalists", while the neo-fascist will commonly pose themselves as being "just an average joe"; not a class enemy but a compatriot. Furthermore, the neo-fascist will attempt to make themselves a demagogue; a "common man" who can save their nation or race from a percived enemy, or defeat the "elities". Neofascists will often look towards paternal figures to lead a movement, regardless of their economic standing, as such, it is highly [[Class collaboration|class collaborationist]], often denying [[class struggle]] in favor in national unity or "racial struggle".
 
== Neo-fascist movements ==
 
With the end of the 20th century, a large number of far-right movements have developed.
 
=== Neo-nazism ===
[[File:Black Front Flag.png|thumb|200x200px|Flag often used by strasserists.]]
''see main article: [[Neo-Nazism|Neo-nazism]]''
 
=== Strasserism ===
Strasserism is a [[Third positionism|third positionist]] ideology based on [[nazism]]. Strasserism is based on the works of Gregor and Otto Strasser, whom were both associated with the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|national socialist german workers' party]]. Strasserism calls for a more [[Proletariat|worker]]-based and socialistic form of regular nazism. However, much like nazism, strasserism is greatly anti-semitic, only in the case of strasserism, its racist conspiracy theories are bulit off economic anti-semitism, that is, a form of anti-semitism where the reason why jewish people are used as a scapegoat for economic ills is because, supposedly, they are of a higher economic status than the racially-pure worker.<ref>{{Citation|author=Christopher T. Husbands|year=2020|title=Militant neo-Nazism in the 1990s|title-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780429060076-3/federal-republic-germany-christopher-husbands|isbn=9780429060076|trans-lang=English}}</ref>
 
=== Ecofascism ===
 
== References ==
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