A Right-Wing Student Revolt

This might perhaps be better placed in the ASB forum, since it's unlikely, but as I hoped to treat it seriously, I'll post it here.

What if the "Revolt of '68" had been far right instead of far left? Instead of hippies, Civil Rights and peace protesters, we see neo-Nazis, survivalists and the Klan. This is across all the world, and the rising is of the same relative strength as the left-wingers were IOTL.

What do they do? Do they manage to sabotage as much as the real '68-ers did, only skewing institutions and public opinion in the other direction? How different from OTL will the world be by now, and in what ways?
 
It's not as ASB as your think.

France had the 'Occident' student group, who spent the late 60s fighting with Leftist students. Sveral Occident members went on to political success later.

Maybe if you could find a way to introduce a couple of the reforms that were demanded in 68 at an earlier date-that way, the tension might be temporarily defused and spring up in another decade, like the 70s, when the far-right were stronger.

It's still a bit unlikely, but not impossible.
 
Wrong timing. The 60s were placed for a reaction against right-wing, conservative and traditionalist positions. Right-wing organisations would have fitted in with the establishment (they existed throughout, but didn't get much attention except from conservatives wondering why they couldn't all be like thast).

To get a massively right-wing youth movement, you need to give them a permissive, left-wing society to rebel against. For what it can look like, see Europe in the 20s and 30s or East Germany in the 90s and 2000s.
 
Possibly in the south where the federal Government really tries to push in amti-segregation laws.
 
In Italy, there could have been. The problem was with the intervention of Neofascist MSI youth at Rome University against the Communist and the Third-Way Fascists student occupiers, triggering the intervention of police and the Battle of Valle Giulia.

But till that moment (March 1968), the right-wing (not conservatives but neofascist) could have been a viable partner and alternative to the left-wing, since both movements rejected parlamentary right and left and pushed for much more extreme ideals.
 
That might actually work.

"Damn it, we don't want Negroes living in our dorms and seducing our women!"

Kappa Kappa Kappa?


I'd say that arguably did happen: a lot of universities across the South are still de-facto segregated, especially w/regards to the Greek systems and social life.
 
at my uni, conservative student fraternities used electric cow whips to break through leftist entrance boycotts in the early 70s. :cool: They did it to be able to take their classes. I don´t see the step to world revolution...
 
What about, rather than simply a "left" revolt or "right" revolt, you have "University Civil War" between leftist and rightist factions.

This happened to a degree OTL, but increase the tempo somewhat. Have universities where the leadeship goes 'gooey left' face protests and other problems with far right students, while at the same time more "conservative" universities face the same from the far left students. And in cases where neither side is happy, the universities descend into civil war... imagine a university where the cliques form posses to "teach those <insert derogatory name here>s a lesson", secret societies that actively plot against each other, fraternity rivalry scaling up to outright warfare - often literally, students caught in the middle forming their own "armed neutrality" groups for protection, and university administration that is universally reviled and has difficulty keeping the campus from collapsing into chaos. This would make an interesting RPG by the way...a stereotypical American or Western European university with the rivalries between the radical leftists+"black power" alliance (in the US) or communists (in Europe) against the fascists (in Europe) or racist whites (in the US).
 
Actually, for what I know, it seems that now Black Nationalists are more willing to work with White Nationalists, since both support Racial Separatism.

I was referring to a Third Way student revolt, which gathered from both extreme left and extreme right, as opposed to centre-left and centre-right democratic governments.
 
Have a commodity price boom in say 61.

USSR uses it for free cash and after sending the first man to space (Gorbachev. 'un'fortunately, due to malfunction he was left there), it stops funnelling cash to cold war-space race bravados but instead supports left wing revolutions in the Middle East. The regime to cruble is Iran, followed by Turkey (we had our share of left-right clashes in OTL, trust me...) and Afganistan. Thus, you end up with an oil exporting commie block with industrializing china and middle east countries. With the Turkish connection to Yugoslavia, it never collapses. Slowly, most of continental Europe is in a socialist zeitgeist (call it a Keynesian overdose with no Reagan or Thatcher, ever)

Thus, the counter culture is right wing, but NOT klan or similar stuff just as OTL hippies were not "for mother russia!" type Red Alert (tm) junkies. Instead, you have a libertarianish capitalist movement merged with get back to our non-secular consumer-friendly roots type of leanings. Just for fun, let them rally against a war against an authoritarian regime. (Butterflied Australia?). Instead of hippies, you have 'suits': suit wearing capitalist activists.

heh
 

Vault-Scope

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at my uni, conservative student fraternities used electric cow whips to break through leftist entrance boycotts in the early 70s. :cool: They did it to be able to take their classes. I don´t see the step to world revolution...


Oh my, that´s just.... :eek: :cool:
 

King Thomas

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Maybe an ATL where Hitler was not crazy enough to start WW2 or the Holocaust. Undefeated, with the evil things it does mostly secret, Nazism has a lot more support then in OTL. Instead of pictures of Che on their walls, many students have pictures of Hitler.
 

Xen

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Perhaps an entirely different twentieth century, not an unrecognizable one, but a different one. The Communists fail to take over Russia so there is no red scare or at least the red scare is defanged. A fairly liberal 1920's like OTL, followed by the Great Depression. Across the world governments begin to introduce socialist programs to ease the pain of the depression. Now without the USSR, Hitler never comes to power in Germany, and the Nazi Party becomes a loud minority, perhaps with chapters or copy cat parties in Russia, Poland, France, the UK, US, and elsewhere.

There is no WWII, the Great Depression lasts longer (lets say into the mid-1950s), when a new age of prosperity and optimism begins. In the worlds democracies, conservative parties are more moderate than they had been and are loathe to challenge many liberal reforms from the depression. The Far Right begins to feel disgruntled and betrayed by their respective governments, and blame the "Secret Jewish Takeover" of the west, and blame other minority groups living in their borders. Nazi branches, KKK and the like begin violent protests to save the nation from itself, targeting minority neighborhoods, clashing with police and government forces, perhaps a few pipe bombs and car bombs at very public events (World Series, political rallies, etc.) turns the public against these groups, with clashes between the establishment and the Far Right coming to a head in 1968.
 
Thus, the counter culture is right wing, but NOT klan or similar stuff just as OTL hippies were not "for mother russia!" type Red Alert (tm) junkies. Instead, you have a libertarianish capitalist movement merged with get back to our non-secular consumer-friendly roots type of leanings. Just for fun, let them rally against a war against an authoritarian regime. (Butterflied Australia?). Instead of hippies, you have 'suits': suit wearing capitalist activists.

I like this idea. Young Americans for Freedom was already being hijacked by the libertarians, all we need is for them to cling to the mother organization instead of breaking off, and voila. A Radical Libertarian-Right wing student movement.

Karl Hess sure could play a mean revolutionary. Draft dodgers AND tax resistors? Oh my!
 
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