Björn Höcke

Enoch Powell’s “Rivers Of Blood” speech became a model for the European far right, using deliberate taboo-breaking and rhetorical finesse to carry racist and fascist narratives into mainstream discourse. Björn…

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Why did Heidegger emerge as the central philosopher of the far right?

Julian Göppfarth
July 15, 2020

Heidegger’s philosophy has legitimised the far right’s regional environmentalism, populism and cultural racism. On 28 May 2020, Björn Höcke, the leader of Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland in the…

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Have We Seen the Eternal Return of Fascism?

Hans-Georg Betz
January 11, 2020

Unlike yesterday’s fascists, today’s radical right-wing leaders propagate neither territorial expansion nor anything close to the racial laws of the 1930s. Björn Höcke is public enemy number one in present-day…

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Björn Höcke: Germany’s Very Own Enoch Powell?

Why did Heidegger emerge as the central philosopher of the far right?

Have We Seen the Eternal Return of Fascism?