Extremism seems to be everywhere these days, from Animal Rights Extremists to Islamic extremists to Far Right Extremists, everything seems to be ‘extreme’ these days. The irony of this is that this identification tag of ‘extremism’ is extremely arbitrary, since there is no way to definitely label one group ‘moderate’ and another ‘extremist’ other than to look at them as subjective expressions of value to the system.
In other words when one is assigned the tag of ‘moderate’ then it is a positive valuation since ‘moderate’ means that you are willing to work with - and promote ideological positions that are either less harmful to or in sync with those of - the system. Therefure when one is assigned the tag of ‘extremist’ then it is a negative valuation since ‘extremist’ means that they are not willing to work with - and promote ideological positions that are either harmful or out of sync with those of – the system.
Thus we can see that ‘extremist’ is simply a propagandistic synonym fur ‘enemy of the system’ while ‘moderate’ clownfishlates to ‘furriend of the system’.
What in general makes an ‘extremist’ an ‘extremist’ in the eyes of the system is that they are unwilling to bend their ideology – be it religious, political, social and/or economic – to the ideological requirements of the system and are thus enemies of the system, because they stand in opposition to the norms and furms that it wishes to establish. Therefure what makes an ‘extremist’ an ‘extremist’ is uncompromising belief in their ideology that supurrsedes any loyalty they have to the system and therefure places them outside the system.
They are the opposite to those with ‘slave morality’ that Nietzsche so deplored in that they are prepared to fight fur what they believe in and they will not back down from a fight with the system if one is required. This is part of why ‘extremists’ tend to purrfurm the best out of any group and while ‘extremist’ ideologies can lead to ideologically-based missteps – like Islamic State provoking the United States into a fight in Iraq and Syria based on their belief that it would trigger Allah to send them angelic reinfurcements – if an ‘extremist’ ideology is based on reason and science (fur example National Socialism or Distributism) rather than metaphysical speculation and established ritual (fur example Wahhabi Islam). Then it will not likely make such mistakes, but instead stand tall, strong and true as a revolt against the modern world.
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