ABSTRACT
Against the backdrop of an increase in right-wing violence in Europe, the paper argues that acceptance of political violence is not confined to the relatively small proportion of people actively using violent means and strategies, but involves a broader range of actors – the radical milieu – who supply them with indispensable social, cognitive, and emotional resources. Based on a case study on the terrorist group ‘Bürgerwehr Freital’, the aim of this chapter is to offer a more thoroughgoing understanding of how violent extremists become socially mobilized through a discursive expansion of the scope for violent action by their sociopolitical environment.
