Neo-Nazi Postmodern

<b>From the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK (<i>Kommando Spezialkräfte</i>) scandal of 2020 this book traces Germany's long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene.</b><br/><br/>Esther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD (<i>Alternative für Deutschland</i>) party in 2017 the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as <i>Querdenken</i> which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany's robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how since unification the intellectual <i>Neue Rechte</i> has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications.<br/> <br/><i>Neo-Nazi Postmodern</i> convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals - joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them<i></i>an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism - have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book<i></i>therefore traces the development of today's German far-right throughout several stages notable scandals and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis <i>Neue Rechte</i>intellectuals and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene Adaire adeptly demonstrates has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed 'Postmodern Terrorism': a mixture of cell-based terror structures reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.