Troy Southgate

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Troy Southgate (* 1965 in London ) is a British writer , musician and national anarchist activist.

Life

Troy Southgate was born in Crystal Palace , London in 1965 . In his youth he moved to Jarvis Brook, a village in the Wealden District . He graduated from the University of Kent. In 1989 he moved back to London. Southgate has been musically active since his youth and is a member of the bands HERR (from Holland), Seelenlicht (Germany) and Horologium (Poland).

Political activism

Flag and symbol of the National Anarchist Movement

In 1998 he founded, together with other members of the " English Nationalist Movement " (Eng. English Nationalist Movement ), the nation alan-monarchist " National Revolutionary Faction " (Eng. National-Revolutionary Group ), which he in a Pravda -Article as "an extremely revolutionary organization with an underground cell structure similar to that of Hamas and IRA and the principle of leaderless resistance ”. A related association, based on Corneliu Zelea Codreanus Iron Guard , organized hikes and tent camps.

In 2000, Southgate and other NRF members sat on the editorial board of Alternative Green magazine for a short two-run period, which was published with the support of the Green Anarchist magazine , the main mouthpiece of British eco-anarchism .

In 2001 the Telegraph newspaper accused Troy Southgate and the NRF of infiltrating animal rights groups as a neo-Nazi organization in order to promote fascism.

Academic reactions

Southgate and his political ideas have been discussed in various books and publications, including The Beast Reawakens (1999) by Martin A. Lee, International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus by Roger Griffin (2002), Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism & the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2003), the five-volume study Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science (2004) by Roger Griffin & Matthew Feldman (ed.), The Radical Right in Britain by Alan Sykes (2005) , World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006) by Cyprian Blamires and Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture by Sara Buttsworth. In Germany, Southgate was discussed in Gabriel Kuhn's New Anarchism in the USA: Seattle and the Consequences (2008) and in Charles Lindholms The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century (2010). Southgate's musical ambitions are discussed in Battlenoise: The Blows of the Martial Industrial Music . A chapter from Southgate is included in Northern Traditions published by Primordial Traditions 2011 .

Views

Southgate sees the governments ruling capitalism as repressive and advocates collective action along national and identitarian lines. He represents a decentralized social order in which "like-minded individuals" organize independent communities. Decisions should be made at the local level. He focuses on the elimination of hierarchical structures of capitalism and government. The revolutionary-conservative concept of the anarch is at the center of Southgate's national anarchism. He sees liberalism as the main cause of the social decline of nations and cultural identities. He also rejects fascism and communism as a dirigistic and National Socialism as a failed totalitarian dictatorship. However, he was accused of co-opting left issues in the sense of a right-wing, racist ideology.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Troy Southgate: Transcending the beyond from Third Position to National-Anarchism , Prawda , January 17, 2002
  2. ↑ Neo-nazis join animal rights groups , Daniel Foggo in The Daily Telegraph, September 3, 2000
  3. ^ Macklin, Graham D. (September 2005). " Co-opting the counter culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction ". Patterns of Prejudice 39 (3): 301-326.
personal data
SURNAME Southgate, Troy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, musician and national anarchist activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH London