In Spanien, den USA und Argentinien schreibt die extreme Rechte die Vergangenheit neu: „Nationalismus braucht seine Geschichte“
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-05/in-spain-the-us-and-argentina-the-far-right-is-rewriting-the-past-nationalism-needs-its-history.html?outputType=amp
Von StemCellPirate
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Nationalism – from it’s birth – IS the rewriting of history. The concept of nation is itself artificial, such as their conflicts, rises and collapses.
Far right movements have to get creative about the history of their predecessors. The truth isn’t flattering to them.
https://berghof-foundation.org/files/publications/2025_TJHub_Far-right-memory-politics_PolicyBrief_EN.pdf
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/far-rights-alternative-history
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1124/1341505-far-right-ireland-refugees-plantation-history-racism-misinformation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/23/why-far-right-populists-are-war-with-history/ – paywall
It has its history – it’s a vile human invention.
They are people who want to hear what they want to hear just to be right. There is often ZERO logical sense for some of their views aside from “that is how we always did it, and that is how it should stay”, cause in their mind, it sets standards of shame, it puts them above cause they follow them and it makes them feel importance. But again, some of their rules are like “due to basic human decency (social construct), you should wear very specific clothes to very specific events, and if you do not look orderly, you failed the standards”, even if standards do not matter per se.
Nationalism doesn’t need shit other than to get in the bin where it belongs
how usually, they don’t like the truth so they try to change the history
There’s a push for history revisionism in Slovenia as well, unfortunately.
It’s funny how people claiming to bring the future look so much to the past. Almost as if they don’t like what the modern world has brought. Stuff like freedom of expression, and such.
When has any country ever had a truthful and comprehensive view on its history?
Nationalism needs to become history.
My father’s generation has always subtly wanted to do u it historical revisionism. I v st he’s on that same train now
Yes but this it is hardly just the far right doing this.
In the UK we have had the modern equivalent of book burnings. With the left demanding statues are pulled down, artworks removed and books are censored by sensitivity readers.
Look I want free speech and don’t like censorship but if you believe in that. You have to oppose censorship from wherever it comes from.
We know the history of nationalism.
>“Both Lemus López and Gentiloni point to the same explanation: they associate the whitewashing of past regimes with the betrayal of the present. That is, young people who grow up with the promise that they will live better than their parents, only to discover that this isn’t going to happen.“
And there you have it *again*.
It’s unfortunate that people misconstrue the past, but for every true believer of these failed and odious ideologies, there are probably a lot more people who are simply exacerbated about having voted for, or at least seen, every other political alternative and yet see no meaningful changes on housing, on immigration, on economic advancement.
You can add or remove one or two issues and get pretty much the same principal arguments of all right-wing populist parties, from Portugal to Poland, and Greece to Sweden. If centrists are going to keep ignoring those concerns, people are eventually going to vote for far-right goons. And those will do nothing meaningful either, other than enrich themselves. But it’s still going to happen.
The Chinese bots are having a field day in the comments.