Will the Global depression sew the seeds of authoritarian nationalism in Europe?

10000maniacs

A nation is great when it translates into reality the force of its spirit. Sounds like a Sinn Fein motto, but is the Irish Blue-shirt motto from the 30's.
Ireland in in the next five years for many people will be at least as bleak as it was in the 30's. It took somebody as stong as De Valera to avoid Facism engulfing this country in the mid thirties. Is there any political leader in 2009 who can carry the same mantle? Somehow I doubt it.
The European situation will be even more extreme, where even in the boom years, Right wing national parties were getting a high percentage of the vote.
The bourgeois war has already started in Ireland, albeit it it a war of words in 2009. What will it be in 2015 if the recession becomes a depression.

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10000maniacs

donegalfella wrote: »

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Ok a Blackshirt motto from the 20s. Potato/potato.
Eoin O'Duffy based his manifesto on almost identical themes.

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donegalfella wrote: »

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Basically It is an historic term for a class war. In the Irish scenario, a conflict between the people who milked the system when the Celtic tiger was in full roar and the people at the bottom of the ladder who gained practically no benefit from the booming economy of the last 15 years.
Simply the point I am making is the gap between rich and poor is going to widen if the country goes into depression, and this will create a volatile political vacuum that will possibly be filled by organisations we never dreamed of only a few short years ago.

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Húrin

Yes, unemployment will create social unrest. If governments claim they are powerless to do anything about the global recession, people will turn to more extreme groups who say they can do something.

Hope not, that would suck.