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[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No, I don't. Being "right wing" doesn't even have to be radical. Whether radical or conservative there is a noticeable lack of artists who are not liberal or leftist. There are some conservatives who work in Hollywood but rarely in writing. Vox Day is rare example of a novelist. Nothing is stopping the right from making art. There are endless amounts of political books by conservatives and even many far right books get published but rarely ever does the modern right produce fiction writing.

It wasn't always like this and it wont always be like this. Many of the all time greats would be considered rightwing or conservative in their era, like Wagner, Dostoevsky, and Tolkien; and the further you go back in time the left and right concept becomes irrelevant.

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Being "right wing" doesn't even have to be radical.

Being right wing is always radical, unless by "right wing" you really mean "liberal democratic". The fact to the matter is that all the institutions that deal with publishing and marketing are dominated by a group of people who despise rightism. Even if you write the best novel ever and praise the virtues of elitism, honour, loyalty, domination etc. these people will quietly sweep your work under the rug and pretend that it does not exist. I am sure that there are plenty of great novels written over the past century consigned to oblivion for similar reasons.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are endless amounts of non fiction books that get published by both conservative and far right writers. Amazon still has tons of books we would consider far right or nationalist and prior to a few years ago would sell basically anything, even Kevin McDonalds books were on there for years.

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those are two completely different markets, pop culture has nothing to do with nonfiction.