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Far right, extreme right, hard right, ultra-right or radical right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. The terms far right and far left are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms are used by many political commentators to discuss political groups, movements, and political parties that are difficult to classify within conventional right-wing politics.
political terms left and right arose during the French Revolution, the term far right originally referred to throne-and-altar monarchists such as Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald.

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Far right, extreme right, hard right, ultra-right or radical right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. The terms far right and far left are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms are used by many political commentators to discuss political groups, movements, and political parties that are difficult to classify within conventional right-wing politics.
Etymology
The political terms left and right arose during the French Revolution, the term far right originally referred to throne-and-altar monarchists such as Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald. The original French meaning of far right is specific to a Roman Catholic nation, and more specifically to a Gallican society in which church and state were closely tied to one another. In this context, the term can be expanded to include the kind of Caesaropapism that occasionally existed in some Eastern Orthodox kingdoms. This specific interpretation of the term far right lost favour in the decades following the Revolutions of 1848, as a return to the Ancien Régime became increasingly implausible. By the reign of Pope Pius XI, this interpretation of far right had essentially become anachronistic even in conservative Catholic circles.
Usage
The term far right has been used by different scholars in conflicting ways. The term far right is mostly used to describe fascism, Nazism and other ultra-nationalist and reactionary ideologies and movements.
The BBC has called politician Pim Fortuyn's politics (Fortuynism) far right because of his policies on immigration and Muslims. The term far right has been used by some, such as National Public Radio, to describe certain authoritarian governments that promote free market capitalism, such as that of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Left-wing publication New Left Review has called Ronald Reagan's policies "radical right". The term radical right has also been used to refer to "a libertarian movement which places the individual squarely in the center" and has "even attacked such sacred taboos as taxation".
Alleged far right organizations
Africa
Europe
- European Union
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria - National Union Attack
- Croatia
- Denmark - Fremskridtspartiet - Progress Party (Denmark)
- France – Front National (FN) – National Front
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Italy - Movimento Sociale Italiano - Destra Nazionale (MSI) - Italian Social Movement-National Right.
- Latvia — National Power Union
- Luxembourg - Nationalbewegung
- Malta - Imperium Europa
- Netherlands
- Centrumdemocraten – Centre Democrats (defunct)
- Centrumpartij – Centre Party, later Centrumpartij’86, both defunct
- Partij voor de Vrijheid - Party for Freedom
- Norway
- Portugal - Partido Nacional Renovador - National Renewal Party
- Romania - Greater Romania Party
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland - Schweizer Demokraten - Swiss Democrats (SD)
- United Kingdom
North America
South America
Asia
Australia
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