• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline isn’t a long one and it shouldn’t be too big a surprise considering the Volkish movement that laid a lot of the groundwork for the Nazis had a lot of people involved in ideas of health, subsistence agriculture and the occult.

    From Wikipedia:

    The movement combined sentimental patriotic interest in German folklore, local history and a “back-to-the-land” anti-urban populism with many parallels in the writings of William Morris. “In part this ideology was a revolt against modernity”, Nicholls remarked. As they sought to overcome what they felt was the malaise of a scientistic and rationalistic modernity, Völkisch authors imagined a spiritual solution in a Volk’s essence perceived as authentic, intuitive, even “primitive”, in the sense of an alignment with a primordial and cosmic order.