Far-right politics Facts for Kids

Far-right politics are politics further right on the political spectrum than the usual political right. The term is often used to mean Nazism, neo-Nazism, fascism and other organizations that have reactionary views.

Saying that superior people should have greater rights than inferior people is often associated with the far-right. The far-right have historically favored a society that believes in superior minority over inferior masses.

Some aspects of fascist ideas have been identified with right-wing political parties. The fascist idea that superior people should have more power in society has led to genocide.

In the United States, the term hard right has been used to describe some groups, such as the Tea Party and Patriot movements.

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Benito Mussolini, dictator and founder of Italian Fascism, a far-right ideology
Spanish Falangist volunteer forces of the Blue Division entrain at San Sebastián, 1942
Children make the Nazi salute in Presidente Bernardes, São Paulo, circa 1935
Dictator of Chile Augusto Pinochet meeting with United States President George H. W. Bush in 1990
Alberto Fujimori, the creator of Fujimorism
Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C., September 1926
Far-right flags on display at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville
Gaisen Uyoku (街宣右翼), a Japanese far-right group, holding an anti-China speech at the square of Kinshichō Station in Sumida, Tokyo (2010).
General Andres Larka speaking in 1933
Far-right torch march in Tallinn
The Peasant March, a show of force in Helsinki by the Lapua Movement on 7 July 1930
Captain Arvi Kalsta addressing an SKJ meeting
Ioannis Metaxas
German soldiers in 1941 raising the German War Flag over the Acropolis which would be taken down by Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas in one of the first acts of resistance
National Radical Camp march in Kraków, July 2007
Captain Francis de Groot declares the Sydney Harbour Bridge open in March 1932

Far-right politics facts for kids

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