Pegida is the first radical right political party in Germany which managed to successfully act outside the neo-nazi ghetto. This party managed to establish all the ultranationalist and racist positions in the public debate which were not accepted beforehand in the wider society. This party is heterogeneous and holds internally contradictory demands, but that does not hinder its political activism. One can see in Pegida's racism, antiestablishment-resentment, chauvinism and fear politics what Umberto Eco called the pre-fascism. Pegida is probably not the last format of mobilization of the racism and ultra-nationalism, but only the first element in the coming chain of conflict situations. A lesson for the extreme right is that it is important to rely less on the verbalization of the enemy, and more on emphasizing privileges of those who consider themselves to be victims of political developments.
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