ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the collective learning of the far-right accelerationist movement, which in contrast to earlier right-wing extremists is increasingly embedded in global networks and acting within a strategic framework aimed at revolution, targeting the liberal order as such. While racist, antisemitic, or misogynistic terrorist attacks are mostly carried out by individuals acting on their own, the common term ‘lone wolf’ for these kinds of terrorists is in that sense a misnomer, as they can be seen as embedded in digital ‘wolf packs’. Although this movement is highly decentralized and heterogeneous, the author argues that there are interactive processes that connect and shape the online milieu of extremists into more than the sum of its parts, forming a structure that facilitates a certain degree of cohesion, strategic agency, and learning. The chapter uses a model of collective learning outside formal structures to analyze how the accelerationist right forms a community of practice engaged in generating collective identities and knowledge.
