Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, refers to a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often including nativist tendencies. The term "far-right" is derived from the left-right political spectrum, with the "far right" considered further from the center than the standard political right. The far-right can be viewed as a combination of four broadly defined concepts, namely exclusivism (e.g. racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, ethnopluralism, chauvinism, including welfare chauvinism), anti-democratic and non-individualist traits (e.g. cult of personality, hierarchism, monism, populism, anti-particracy, an organicist view of the state), a traditionalist value system lamenting the disappearance of historic frames of reference (e.g. ....
Far-right ideology stresses aspects such as racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia, and far-right operators cast as enemies those whom they perceive as threatening the existence of the nation-state, the culture that these operators represent, or the white population. The extremist aspect of right-wing ideology is based on accepting the use of violence and seeking to overthrow democracy. Far-right ideology is mainly supported by various extra-parliamentary operators, ranging from individuals to small groups, and from street-level movements to international networks.
