Anarcho-Fascism

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heap. We are the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world."

Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

Anarcho-Fascism (AnFash) is an Anarchist, culturally far right and economically third positionist political ideology. It wants to abolish the state and create a communal society based on the doctrine of Fascism. It is generally considered by Anarchism to be an embarrassment.

History

Anarcho-fascism is an oxymoronic political concept that combines elements of anarchism and fascism, two ideologies traditionally considered mutually exclusive. Despite its contradictory nature, anarcho-fascism has appeared sporadically throughout history as a fringe or satirical current, challenging conventional political categorizations.

The roots of anarcho-fascism trace back to early 20th-century political experiments where some groups sought to merge the anti-authoritarian stance of anarchism with the ultra-nationalist, tendencies of fascism. While anarchism advocates for stateless societies based on voluntary cooperation and rejects hierarchies, fascism emphasizes strong centralized authority, national unity, and often racial or ethnic supremacy. The fusion of these opposing ideas is often seen as a form of political paradox or satire.

Historically, anarcho-fascism gained limited traction in various subcultural movements and political provocations, sometimes used as a critique of both authoritarian left and right-wing politics. It occasionally appeared in radical or avant-garde circles that sought to disrupt traditional political binaries, promoting a chaotic rejection of existing social and political structures from contradictory standpoints.

In the modern era, anarcho-fascism is often referenced ironically or in internet subcultures as a way to mock or parody extreme political ideologies. It highlights the absurdity of blending diametrically opposed beliefs such as anti-statism and fascist authoritarianism. Despite this, some fringe groups have self-identified with anarcho-fascism, such identifications are generally considered more performative or provocative than genuine political programs.

Overall, anarcho-fascism remains a largely theoretical and satirical concept, serving more as a commentary on the contradictions inherent in political ideology than as a practical system of governance or activism.

Variants

Libertarian Fascism

Libertarian Fascism, also called Minarcho-Fascism, is a Post-Libertarian, economically right-wing (though sometimes third positionist) ideology which combines Libertarianism and Fascism.

Libertarian Fascists posit that individual liberty and national palingenesis (a revival or rebirth of national identity) as complementary, and in some cases, interdependent. Advocates of Libertarian Fascism envision a strong, efficient state capable of effective governance and administration. This state would oversee key functions such as infrastructure and security while promoting high levels of economic liberty. However, it would also adopt interventionist economic policies to align with national goals, balancing free enterprise with Corporatist principles like economic resilience, self-sufficiency, and innovation.

Libertarian Fascists often advocate for a dynamic, charismatic leadership which unifies and inspires the masses, distinguishing their approach from historic Fascist regimes. While they support high economic freedom, they also endorse policies such as drug legalization, sometimes based on Social Darwinist principles. Libertarian Fascism is predominantly found in the United States, where it represents an attempt by some American Fascists to reconcile their ultranationalist views with America's historical commitment to individual liberty.

Squadrismo

Squadrismo, the fascist militias that were organised outside the authority of the Italian state and led by local leaders called ras (a title given to Abyssinian headmen). The militia originally consisted of farmers and middle-class people, who created their defence from revolutionary socialists. Squadrismo became an essential asset for the rise of the National Fascist Party, led by Benito Mussolini, and systematically used violence to eliminate any political parties that were opposed to Italian Fascism.

The violence was not only an instrument in politics but also a vital component of squadrismo identity, which made it difficult for the movement to be tamed. That was shown in the various attempts by Mussolini to control squadrismo violence with the Pact of Pacification and later the Consolidated Public Safety Act. Squadrismo, which ultimately became the Blackshirts, served as a source of inspiration for Adolf Hitler's Sturmabteilung.

After World War I, there was a general feeling of disillusionment. Diffused poverty, economic fractures, and a social and moral political upheaval generated by the mobilisation of the war contributed to the unstable climate preceding the armistice. That enabled an excess of violence to be present. Furthermore, (new) farmers were opposed to the new rural trade unions, which wanted to control the agrarian economy. The middle class decided it was necessary to fend for itself against the socialists because the government could not contain them. As a result, a series of middle-class defence leagues were formed. The first squadrismo was thus nationalist and founded on the traditions of the Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria, a phenomenon of citizens.

In that context emerged the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, founded on 23 March 1919 by Benito Mussolini during a meeting in the San Sepolcro Square, in Milan. Squadrismo was a movement that expanded instantly afterward, and by spring 1920, the fascists installed a political militia of squadre in various parts of Northern Italy, mainly in Trieste. Many of the squadristi (name given to individuals in the squadrismo movement) joined the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, but some remained independent from Mussolini's control.

From then on, various assaults by Trieste squads against Socialists and Slavs took place. Thousands of squads formed "action squads" and spread terror throughout the countryside. The squads were groups of 30 to 50 that former army officers often led. In towns in which socialism was still strong, squadrismo was a tool of intimidation. It was so violent that some have described the events as a civil war. That profoundly decreased the Italian government's credibility, which was seen as incapable of keeping law and order.

The habitus of squadrismo was characterised by violence and was used in a political way in which squadristi acted under the oversight of local leaders, also known as ras. Squadrismo had the protection from national and local leaders, which also legitimised and banalised its violence and enhanced the idea that there was no opposition possible to the new Fascist Party.

Towards March on Rome

At first, the movement had difficulty gaining power, but the fascists quickly drew attention through their ominous acts of violence. The movement grew exponentially from 1920 onwards with the Fasci di Combattimento, which launched assaults in Northern Italy in rural areas and contributed to the suppression of all other political and trade union organisations. Membership grew rapidly, and Mussolini soon declared war on socialist organisations, which led to "punitive expeditions" of squadre to the countryside to dismiss socialist headquarters and to fracture trade unions.

During the elections of 1921, the violence continued despite Mussolini's electoral success. 207 political killings occurred, and substantially more of the victims were socialists than fascists. Mussolini attempted to reduce the violence by the Pact of Pacification, but it soon became ineffective and was entirely ignored by the squadristi. As a result of attempts to discipline them, Mussolini decided to use their violence to his advantage by converting the movement into an organised party by a national congress, which met in Rome from 7 to 10 November 1921. The new party was named Partito Nazionale Fascista and stood for order, discipline, and hierarchy.

The March on Rome on 28 October 1922 further enhanced Mussolini's seizure of power, with thousands of squadristi marching through the Italian capital. King Victor Emmanuel III subsequently appointed Mussolini to lead the new administration, but this did not stop the violence associated with squadrismo, and thousands of people in black shirts participated in squadrista militancy from 1920 to 1922.

After the March on Rome, fascism was torn between the state, which wanted to end all illegal violence, including squadrismo, and the fasci, including the squadre leaders, who were determined to maintain their power. To control the violence at last, Mussolini issued the Consolidated Public Safety Act in 1926, which delegitimised squadristi violence.

Conflict with Mussolini

To end the escalating violence between the socialist and the Squadristi militias, Mussolini signed an interim Pact of Pacification on August 2 or 3, 1921 with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and General Confederation of Labour (CGL), which caused most ras in the northern provinces of Italy to denounce the peace pact. Mussolini had planned to assimilate the mostly self-organising squadrismo into his movement. Still, the violence against socialists was compromising his strategy of not wanting to "lose his position on the left", which included the establishment of a Fascist Labor Party or National Labor Party.

Several squadristi leaders voiced opposition to Mussolini's leadership and plastered posters in the city of Bologna that denounced "Mussolini as a traitor to Fascism". Some squadristi paramilitary units completely abandoned Mussolini's fascist movement. There were secret anti-Mussolini meetings that fixated on "Mussolini's lingering leftist loyalties", which included his leadership of the Italian Socialist Party (1912–1914) and his admiration for Vladimir Lenin. The historian Richard Pipes stated that during the turbulent times of infighting, "Mussolini would have been glad as late as 1920–21 to take under his wing the Italian Communists, for which he had great affinities".

Many prominent ras pushed for new leadership, lending their support to Gabriele D’Annunzio to "replace Mussolini". Grandi and Balbo sought an audience with the radical nationalist D’Annunzio in August 1921 and offered him a position to lead the squadristi in an "insurrectionary march on Rome". D’Annunzio was vague in his reply. In September 1919, D’Annunzio and his force of 2,000 armed followers, primarily ex-soldiers, marched into Fiume and occupied it for fifteen months.

Mussolini went on the offensive and disparaged the squadrismo by declaring that provincial Fascism was

"no longer liberation, but tyranny; no longer protector of the nation, but defense of private interests and of the dullest, deafest, most miserable caste that exists in Italy".

In another terse response, Mussolini warned,

"I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism".

Victory over Mussolini

Mussolini was unable to gain significant control over the squadrismo to preserve his old alliance of national syndicalists, revolutionaries, and Futurists. At the Third Fascist Congress in Rome from November 7 to 10, 1921, Mussolini was pressured into conceding to the majority delegation of squadristi leaders and members, abandoning his plans for a "Fascist Labor Party" and accepting the party as an "association of the fasci and their storm squads". In return for his concessions, Mussolini was recognised as the undisputed leader of the newly renamed National Fascist Party.

The action squads were to be identified by their black shirts, a motif that ultimately coined the name Blackshirts and became the inspiration for Adolf Hitler's SA during the Third Reich. Mussolini and his followers selected the iconic black shirts of labourers in the Italian cities of Romagna and Emilia, who had initially adopted their uniforms from anarchists.

Serious types of Anarcho-Fascism

These are the types of Anarcho-Fascism people actually identify with.

• Classical Anarcho-Fascism - This type of Anarcho-Fascism was an tendency within proto-fascism that believed that an commitment to anarchism was reconcilable with the social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of palingenetic nationalist ideology. This arose from collabaration between Italian individualist-anarchist tendencies and revolutionary nationalists.
• Nilssonian Anarcho-Fascism - This type of Anarcho-Fascism was created by Jonas Nilsson. It wants to combine individual freedom and voluntarism with cultural homogeneity and generally reactionary social values. It is not necessarily opposed to the State itself, but rather its monopoly on violence. It believes it is natural and necessary for men (and only men) to develop a capacity for violence in order to protect their individual freedom and property rights, which should be exercised to maintain order in their societies and protect them from external threats (such as an over-reaching government and people they don't like). It also believes that multiculturalism and feminism occur when centralized governments have no external threats, and instead begin to view their own male subjects and their fighting capacity as a threat to their own interests. It wants political power to be decentralized into the smallest units capable of defending themselves and maintaining their independence. It believes that a perpetual threat of violence (or mutually assured destruction) between competing political units is necessary (and desirable) to maintain the ideal system in the long-term.
• Donovanian Anarcho-Fascism - This type of Anarcho-Fascism was created by Jack Donovan. It is accelerationist, wanting to create a new beginning out of the corpse of the old like a parasitic fungus on the felled timber. When the state is destroyed, it believes society will turn men into idealized warriors and will revive medieval valor and morals, making the ideology reactionary. Anarcho-Fascists claim that they want to cleanse fascism from its Mussolinian, Catholic and Marxist ideas, and make it about the fasces where men are united in a collective and return to a more primitive spirit. It idealizes gang organization, believing it to be the best community organization for men while also be more relaxed on a criminal lifestyle. It generally has a hatred for anything non-masculine, like women and gay people. It also believes in what you would expect (antisemitism, Islamophobia, racial segregation, separation of white people in different racial communities). It is also very esoteric.
• Autonome Nationalisten Autonome Nationalisten (or Autonomous Nationalists) is a European [ movement which borrows the aesthetics and organizational model of the Black Bloc. It is a group with no central figurehead or committee and is instead made up of autonomous activists. The ideology of the movement is heavily influenced by Strasserism with elements of Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Capitalism. It also criticises America for its Cultural Imperialism which removes European culture. It has been noted that the organization sympathises with some radical islamic groups (such as Hezbollah) due to their shared hatred for American imperialism.

Satirical types of Anarcho-Fascism

The term "Anarcho-Fascism" is often regarded as non-sensical, meaning that the term is very oftenly used in a comedic contexts.

• Opposite Unity between Anarcho-Communism - Within sections of the Polcompball community, Anarcho-Fascism is commonly used for unexpected agreements between the far ends of the Libertarian Left and the Far Ends of the Authoritarian Right. This manifests in a weird hybrid that supports "Sending those [REDACTED] back to Africa" because "They were abused by the white man too much"; agreeing with the statement "Antifa are the real fascists" and still supporting them; and matching skull masks with trans socks.

• Anarcho-Fascism as critique of Anarcho-Capitalism - Within left-wing anarchist circles, it is very common to compare elements of Anarcho-Capitalism with Fascism. This includes making fun of the term "Anarcho-Capitalism" being as oxymoronical as the term Anarcho-Fascism; Anarcho-Fascism is also used pejoratively for Hoppeanism.

Personality and Behavior

Anarcho-Fascism is seen in comics with slanted eyes to depict that it's well, stupid. With this he is seen saying something that agrees with another character like him and conservative saying "Antifa are the real fascists!". Sometimes he just does dumb stuff like drawing the swastika wrong. He is also ostracized by his siblings and mother. He gets made fun of by his sibling and appears in the background in family pictures (he also is angry in these).

How to Draw

Default Design

Flag of Anarcho-Fascism

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill the ball with a darkish red color
3. Draw a star on the ball
4. Draw a black, but not pure black, line running through the ball and star
5. Make the star the opposite color of the side it's one
6. Draw a yellow white supremacy cross on the star
7. Add the eyes.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Crimson	#CC0032	rgb(204, 0, 50)
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)
	Yellow	#F8FF00	rgb(248, 255, 0)

Nilssonian Design

Flag of Anarcho-Fascism (Nilssonian design)

1. Draw a ball.
2. Fill in with black.
3. Draw a crossing wheat plant and sword in yellow and the border white.
4. Draw in the eyes.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)
	Yellow	#FFD525	rgb(255, 213, 37)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

Donovanian Design

Flag of Anarcho-Fascism (Donovanian design)

1. Draw a ball.
2. Draw a black line.
3. Fill in with black on the bottom side of the ball and brown on the other.
4. Draw a fasces.
5. Draw in the eyes.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#202020	rgb(32, 32, 32)
	Brown	#813E00	rgb(129, 62, 0)
	Light Brown	#A0743C	rgb(160, 116, 60)
	Light Gray	#BABABA	rgb(186, 186, 186)

Relationships

Friends

• Fascism - Statist father.
• Nazism -Same as above.
• National Anarchism - This guy gets me! Don't know why he hates me so much tho.
• Anarchism - Yes! Away with the state! I'm an anarchist I swear.
• Anarcho-Conservatism - Almost there!
• Combatocracy - Bring back the motherf*king duels!
• Hezbollahism - Culturally right, economically third positionist and basically a private state with a bunch of weapons and rockets. You're literally me but in real life.
• Tribalism - Tribe is a great example of stateless nation
• Confederalism - Beware federalist and [removed]s because the south will rise again!
• Separatism - Men must secede from the central government into the smallest possible political unity.
• Anarcho-Totalitarianism - He taught me how to not govern the nation.
• Ethnopluralism - Global ethno-separatism and segregation is quite based.
• Avaritionism - A world of constant potential threat and violence is the only way.
• Patriarchy - We must return to this.
• Alt-Right - I'm part of the movement.
• Homofascism - Donnovan is a genius and very masculine! Ignore our homophobic fan
• Manosphere - I'm also in this movement, I love redpilling people specially men.
• Social Darwinism - Understands the need for constant violence in order to create a revitalized society, just stop sucking up to the state so much and fight me yourself for control of this land! Uh... knifes only, one-on-one, alright?
• Odalism - Hyper-Based!
• Soulist Kraterocracy - Well... Impressive. You are my steroids version, huh?

Frenemies

• Anarcho-Communism - Communist who hate fascism but cometimes we are combined
• Anarcho-Monarchism - Don't really agree with monarchy but if the monarch buy a fellow conservative anarchist...
• Hoppeanism - We have similar ideas but he's way more capitalist than me.
• Anarcho-Primitivism-We both likes tribes and sometimes we are combined
• Anarcho-Egoism- Some of us like you
• Anarcho-Nihilism - He's just in it for the violence not so much the ideology but we can work together if we wanna beat someone up.
• Queer Anarchism - Your extreme progressivism and emphasis on gay rights is cringe AF but at least we both hate the state. But even then, why do you say my reasons aren't justified???
• Anarcho-Capitalism - Capitalism is often cringe, but Nilsson likes you and sometimes we are combined
• Christian Anarchism - Nilsson also seems to like you, and we are both against the state, but you are also a pacifist cuck who isn't traditional enough.
• Sweden Democrats - The best party of Sweden but he believes in democracy and the welfare state which it is cringe.
• Crusade of Romanianism - Libertarian Fascist gang but please drop socialism!
• Trumpism - Not bad for a statist.
• Insurrectionary Anarchism - Violence is based but stop being anti-fascist.

Enemies

• Jewish Anarchism - I'm not the fake anarchist here. It's you.
• Anti-Fascism - Fake anarchist. Also many of you are authoritarian communists who want supress fascism.
• Jihadism - Scum. You get the wall first.
• Conservatism - You call Antifa the real fascists but you don't realize that I'm the true anarchis fascist! By the way, religion and statism are degenerate. Also, yes all cops ARE bad because they prevent me from beating the minorities.
• Progressivism - SJW I wanna assault!
• Pink Capitalism - Your minority representation makes me sick! You shorted me a gram by the way.
• Marxism–Leninism - No.
• Marxism–Leninism–Maoism - Are you not just tankie again?
• Neoliberalism - Your immigration policies are replacing us!
• State Liberalism - Absolutely disgusting! I wanna molotov you!
• LesbiaNRx - Fake Anarchist Cyborg Woman who belongs in the kitchen.

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Autonome Nationalisten
• Guido Keller
• Jack Donovan

Literature

• The way of men by Jack Donovan
• Anarcho-Fascism: Nature Reborn by Jonas Nilsson
• Libertarianism meet authoritarianism: union of anarchy and fascism by Jonas Nilsson (In Swedish)
• When Migration leads to Conflict: Political Groups Dinamics by Jonas Nilsson (In Swedish)

Articles

• Anarcho-fascism
• Anarcho-fascism an overview of right wing anarchist thought
• The anarcho-fascist manifesto
• the principles of the alt-right have been around for nearly a century
• Fiume The last Pirate Utopia
• Anarcho-Authoritarianism

Videos

• Jonas Nilsson Anarcho-Fascism: Nature reborn by Red ice TV
• Oxymoronic ancaps devise Anarcho-Fascism
• FF6:the anarcho-fascist manifesto (reading/discussion/drinking)
• Very confused Dan Crenshaw calls Antifa "Anarcho-Fascist-Communists"
• Fascism is a step toward liberty
• Wacky ideologies 41 Anarcho-Fascism
• The Case For Libertarian Fascism
• Batman anarcho-fascist?-Vanguard 02
• Pro-White Libertarianism
• Debate with an Anarcho-Fascist?

Websites

• The American National Socialist Green party

Gallery

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  Nilssonial design
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  "Meet the Alt-Right" by NR34. Anarcho-Fascism is in-between National Anarchism and Strasserism.