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"The idea of “getting away from it all” has long carried romantic connotations.
In extremist circles, however, the idea of retreating to the land has been
repurposed into a political strategy. It’s one that offers extremist actors a
range of advantages.
In the United States, the Highland Rim Project was recently announced in
Kentucky. The project is a venture capital-backed “aligned community” for
right-wing Christians seeking ideological separation and local political
influence, marketed as a refuge from society’s “cultural insanity of the
broader country.”
A similar project in Arkansas, this time specifically labelled as a “whites
only” community, has recently established its second enclave and plans to build
four more.
In Germany, the Reichsbürger movement rejects the legitimacy of the modern-day
German state, and instead promotes an ideology associated with an attempt to
storm the Bundestag, kidnap MPs and topple the state. In recent years it has
quietly acquired 40 rural properties.
The movement has attempted to establish an autonomous community, a
Gemeinwohldorf (common good village). Here they have sought to create
parallel societies outside state authority. They have even created alternative
institutions, currencies, and education systems.
Similar projects have been noted in Wales and across several Nordic countries.
These projects are not simply eccentric initiatives that can be ignored.
Instead, they can serve as sites of potential ideological embedment."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
