Modern far-right militias lack the disciplined mass-organizational character of interwar formations

Evidence

Militias like the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo movement, or Germany’s Querfronten, function as “individualized commandos,” as historian Adam Tooze put it, far removed from the veterans that populated the Freikorps or the Black and Tans in the early 1920s. These were disciplined formations with direct experience of combat, not lumpen hobbyists radicalized in a digital echo chamber. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 157

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the Jäger periodization: contemporary radicalism is ‘individualized,’ lacking the organized mass-institutional force that once converted feeling into action.
• DEFINE: Introduces Tooze’s term ‘individualized commandos’ as the diagnostic contrast to disciplined interwar formations like the Freikorps and Black and Tans.