Salafist preachers in Germany recruited rappers and used the Internet early on to gainig influence. Their preachers try to act like pop icons. Goal is to relate to the desire of teens and young adults to encourage radicalization and growth due to conversion. Their movement grew to 10.000 in the last years.Fundamentalist Islamism is effectively a right-wing subculture
The Beatniks tended to withdraw themselves into their own artistic world. Considering the time they were born, the thirties, any type of rebellion was not in their blood. Their successors, the hippies, were more vocal as they were a half generation younger. In many ways, the hippies weren't true liberals, they were social libertarians with no economic agenda. They became identifies as "leftists" because they sympathized with the anti-war movement, relaxed dress codes and recreational drugs. When the dress codes and draft went away, the hippies faded into obscurity. But wait! Their impact on relaxed dress codes continues today. It was a permanent society-wide change that settled in the seventies. Recreational marijuana, though, are still taking time.Beatniks were surprisingly right-wing OTL. Jack Kerouac supported Joe McCarthy.
A religious base movement can counter that. A lot of Christian movement have economic beliefs that are very similar to Marxist ones. Equality, distribution of wealth, anti-capitalism, welfare, and things like that can easily be put in a religious context. A Christian base group can tie these beliefs to Jesus rather easily. Maybe have a Christian youth movement that is agrarian, anti-capitalist, anti-Marxist, and believes in traditional living. They start up in the 70s and 80s. They feel like capitalism and industrialization is destroying the world and see it necessary to return to a more traditional life centered around religion. They start rural communistic towns.The thing is, as long as you are in "Cold War Mode" with the Soviets being indisputably the Leftist of the two, the primary US culture is going to be seen as the Right Wing in context. If you can oppose it and be construed as in the left you will be
That's exactly what happened in the early and mid nineteenth century. The Amana Colonies in Iowa and the Zoar settlement in Ohio are good examples. They were very faith based and communal. The French Icarians were communal but less affiliated with a faith. They thrived as volunteers owned little more than basic personal possessions and the fruits of their own labor. They faded away as succeeding generations found value in personal property. As an aside, we must remember Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto in 1848 and was one of many utopian idealists of the time. Had it not been for the Bolshevik campaign against the church in the name of Marx, communism and socialism would not be seen to conflict with religious faith.A religious base movement can counter that. A lot of Christian movement have economic beliefs that are very similar to Marxist ones. Equality, distribution of wealth, anti-capitalism, welfare, and things like that can easily be put in a religious context. A Christian base group can tie these beliefs to Jesus rather easily. Maybe have a Christian youth movement that is agrarian, anti-capitalist, anti-Marxist, and believes in traditional living. They start up in the 70s and 80s. They feel like capitalism and industrialization is destroying the world and see it necessary to return to a more traditional life centered around religion. They start rural communistic towns.
That sounds a lot like fundamentalist evangelical rock and pop. Though in USA is mostly made for consumption of their controlled communities. To keep themselves "pure".Salafist preachers in Germany recruited rappers and used the Internet early on to gainig influence. Their preachers try to act like pop icons. Goal is to relate to the desire of teens and young adults to encourage radicalization and growth due to conversion. Their movement grew to 10.000 in the last years.