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Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far Right since 1945

By Matthew Feldman, Paul Jackson, Anton Shekhovtsov, Roger Griffin, Janet Wilson, Ruth Wodak, Graham Macklin, Hilde Coffe, Jeroen Dewulf, Koen Vossen, Leonard Weinberg, Gideon Botsch, Christoph Kopke, Anna Castriota, Alexander Verkhovsky, Chip Berlet, Per Anders Rudling

Published by ibidem Press · 2014

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This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a Trojan Horse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy. Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using ‘doublespeak’, aping the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of the extreme right pedigree means taking seriously their deliberately crafted slogans, symbols and themes. The essays in this book inquire into the extreme right’s attempts at ‘repackaging’ contemporary ultranationalism to make it palatable to more mainstream European and American tastes.

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