Is the far-right really getting more powerful?

[ProletariatPower]

These last EU election results have not been looking good at all, and what's worse, here in the UK people have idiotically turned to UKIP as a result of the economic situation I suppose. It's even worse in France though, with Nationalists taking power.

[Rottenfruit]

the far right is gaining because people are pissed off at centrism and the left has been a miserable failure in the last decades so that leaves the far right the only one left to pick from.

[Rottenfruit]

If the polls for the upcoming European elections are accurate, the far right would appear to be growing rapidly.

The UK Independence Party in the UK are expected to get 25% of the vote in the UK for the upcoming European elections, and also displacing the Liberal Democrats as the third biggest political party in the UK.

This should rightly concern us, though there's a whole host of explanations for this. They have successfully managed to sap support away from their rivals, with the BNP bleeding members to Ukip, as have the right wing of the Conservative Party. There has been a concerning growth of minor far right parties in the UK (such as Britain First, which alarmingly has 330,000 followers on Facebook), but most of these groups encourage their members to vote Ukip. It seems that the far right is largely organising themselves around Ukip.

More worryingly, it is becoming increasingly socially acceptable to vote for Ukip in the UK. They have successfully managed to portray themselves as an anti-establishment party, not one of the Westminster lot, resulting in a lot of support from people disillusioned with politics. At the same time, they have capitalised on the hatred for immigrants, benefit claimants and generally the weakest in society that the major parties (the conservatives and Labour) have themselves fanned up. Both major political parties have placed the immigration card in an attempt to shore up the Middle Englander vote, and this has backfired rapidly as these same people are perceiving Ukip as more credible on these (invented) issues.

We are right to be concerned.

oh ukip did better then that, they won

[Left Voice]

At 28%, they only did 3% better than estimates. They did indeed win though, which is reason enough to worry.

[RedRev]

Also, it seems that tendencies such as National Bolshevism are getting somewhat more popular

[Rafiq]

The masses turn to fascism because it is the logical conclusion of the ideology enforced by the state apparatus, once this loses cosmetic legitimacy, the underlying ideological presumptions of bourgeois ideology are still conveyed and accepted, organically stepping into a mutation like fascism. Essentially, it is a complicated backup plan for capital - or the existing order of things to survive.

The magnitude of their support is directly correlated with the failure of the Communists to establish legitimacy, in other words to present an ideological universe that has a place in current circumstances, and though this may be a distinctly severe problem today, it is a problem that has existed since the failure of the October revolution. It is much easier for the masses to turn to reaction, because the same ruling ideology which veils itself under the guise of progressive liberalism, at the same time establishes the nature of its own enemy (fascism) in a way that renders this villain a real, and viable choice.

[Sinister Intents]

In my area there is a large conservative populace, with very few leftists and very few liberals. In my area everything is pretty much stagnant and I don't know of other areas. So, there really is no difference here I don't think, other areas I'm not sure of at all

[Comrade Jacob]

Yes but so is the far-left...I hope.

[Comrade Jacob]

the far right is gaining because people are pissed off at centrism and the left has been a miserable failure in the last decades so that leaves the far right the only one left to pick from.

They are not old enough to remember the 1st half of the 20th century only the 2nd. Shame.