Hi everyone!
My name’s Dan McCallum, and I’m from London although I stay in Stirling right now. I’m still undecided on what to do for my dissertation – at the moment I’m interested in either the influence of the Ukrainian far-right on global anti-communism during the Cold War, religious resistance to Spanish colonialism in the Andes, or a study of the class basis of the American far-right. Would be really interested in talking to anyone looking at similar topics! Online learning is pretty weird, and can be kind of hard to pay attention to – hopefully this will get easier with time.
Fascinating topics, Dan!
A study on the class basis of the US far right would definitely need to define this political force and its ideology. It would have to go back some ways in history, likely to the 20th century (either the 1960/70s, or to the 1930s or the early century), but possibly even before, to the end of Reconstruction in the 19th century (1876). It would be fascinating to map out some of the class composition of the far right, from its ‘intellectuals’ to its wide social base and grassroots activists – and esp. the way they interrelated.
All the best,
Dr Toth