Greece’s political paradoxes and labels

I have begun to wonder whether the term "extreme right" is the most suitable one for us to understand the wide range of politics adopted by significant sections of the population and which include radical, conservative (reactionary) concepts, extreme nationalism and nativism, the rejection of experts and institutions, suspicion towards local and foreign elites, and antagonism towards migrants and other minorities.

Perhaps the term, as it evolved after the political classifications which arose from the French Revolution, is useful in other Western societies, where the leader of a party corresponding to Greek Solution's Kyriakos Velopoulos would not be annoyed by his grouping being termed "extreme right." Last week, Velopoulos threatened legal action against anyone who tried "to blacken our reputation" with this label. "I did not know that 'Homeland-Religion-Family,' and ...