Editing New Acropolis (section)

==Political ideology==
New Acropolis officially condemns [[Nazism]], [[racism]], and political [[extremism]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.acropolis.org/en/frequently-asked-questions|title=New Acropolis – Frequently Asked Questions|website=www.acropolis.org|access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.acropolis.org/en/assembly-resolutions|title=New Acropolis – Assembly Resolutions|website=www.acropolis.org|access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref><ref name="ReligionsOfWorld" /> but the organization has been accused of supporting [[neo-fascism]] and [[neo-Nazism]].<ref name="ReligionsOfWorld" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Martínez |first1=Jan |title=Un profesor de instituto enseña teorías racistas a menores |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/02/14/madrid/855923054_850215.html |access-date=29 January 2019 |agency=El País}}</ref> Professor [[Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke]] stated in 2003 that "the structure, organization, and symbolism of the Nouvelle Acropole [New Acropolis] is clearly indebted to fascist models."<ref name="goodrick-clarke2003" /> According to [[Jean-Marie Abgrall]], "New Acropolis has borrowed elitist and [[Aryanism|Aryanist]] symbols and ideas."<ref name="abgrall2007" />

As stated in 2010 by ''Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices'' : "The alleged use of [[paramilitary]] language, symbols, and forms of organization, along with more recent charges of [[brainwashing]], have led to many criticisms of the New Acropolis in [[Europe]], especially in [[France]], since the mid-1970s.”<ref name="ReligionsOfWorld" />

The [[Theosophical Society]], of which Livraga was a member before founding New Acropolis, officially denies any links to New Acropolis,<ref>{{cite document|title=The Theosophical Society's Position on New Acropolis|date=2004-06-09|publisher=International Secretary Office The Theosophical Society Adyar}}</ref> saying that Livraga was expelled from the organization due to his connection with "extremism of the ultra right and Nazism".<ref>{{cite web|title=Letter to the Vice-Chairman of the European Council from Theosophical Society Secretary General|url=http://theos-talk.com/archives/199802/tt00311.html|last=Palmeri|first=Juan Carlos|date=1998-02-22|via=Theos Talk|quote=1. Livraga's theosophical devotion was a strong attachment expressly to H.P.B. with the exclusion of the leaders who followed her. 2. New Acropolis was established as an academy of theosophical and philosophical studies with definite subject matter and grades. 3. He and his wife acquired from the beginning a character, a temper of "instructors" assuming a strong "spiritual authority". 4. There are many evidences about the real nature of that institution which was ''internally connected with extremism of the ultra-right and Nazism.'' 5. Those and many others evidence that we omit show that he was never suitable to the structure of the Theosophical Society which never could support such disposition.}}</ref>