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Jean Raspail in 2015. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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The French writer and explorer Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and passed away in 2020, less than a month shy of what would have been his 95th birthday. He is best-known to the world for his prophetic anti-immigration novel from 1973, The Camp of the Saints. The novel was published as the Great Replacement of native Europeans in their own countries — a transformation which is today clear to all who look at the facts honestly — was just beginning. It depicts how modern Europe, and eventually the entire Western world, meekly and ineffectively reacts as a fleet of ships carrying thousands of uninvited migrants from India who are determined to permanently settle there — or else — bears down on the Continent.
Saints reads as though it could have been written during the peak of Europe’s 2015 “migrant crisis,” which makes it all the more incredible given that it was in fact published more than 40 years earlier. It certainly far exceeds in quality, message, and prophetic accuracy that other infamous Right-wing novel of the 1970s that had a much more unfortunate and self-destructive impact on those who read it: William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries. At the time that Saints was first published in French, and then translated into English in 1975, even many of those critics who derided it as “racist” conceded its literary merits and thought-provoking premise. It is a shame that the book has long since gone out-of-print in English, and secondhand copies now sell for exorbitant prices on the used book market.
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Raspail was much more than a one-hit wonder, however. He won several prominent literary awards in France during his lifetime, and in 2003 the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor with the rank of Officer, which is the highest order of merit in France. Raspail spent the first decades of his career travelling the world, gaining experiences that would inform his later writings. He published dozens of books over the course of his long lifetime, both travel writings as well as fiction. Only a handful of his novels apart from Saints have been translated into English to date, however: Welcome Honorable Visitors, Who Will Remember the People, Blue Island, and Septentrion. Raspail’s sympathies as a man of the Right — he was a traditional Catholic as well as a racialist — are made clear in several of his other books, especially Septentrion, which presents the decline of Europe as seen in 2041, and Sire, written in 1990, which depicts the monarchy returning to power in France in 1999.
As the everyday reality of life in Europe came to more and more closely resemble the dark vision he had conjured in 1973, Raspail did not hesitate to criticize the French government in his writings and interviews for its unwillingness to address the immigration crisis, for which he was unsuccessfully sued by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism in 2004.
It is to be hoped that more of Raspail’s work will be made available to anglophone readers in the future, and that The Camp of the Saints will be returned to print — perhaps in a new translation, given that Raspail revised the novel subsequent to its translation into English.
The following items have been published about Jean Raspail at Counter-Currents:
- “Before and After the Camp of the Saints: The Untranslated Writings of Jean Raspail” (Czech translation here).
- Eric Blair, “Septentrion: A Novel by Jean Raspail, an Old Bloyian at Heart.”
- “‘Our Civilization Is Disappearing’: Interview with Jean Raspail” (German translation here).
- Fenek Solère, “Apocalypse Now,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
- Michael Walker, “Remembering Jean Raspail.”
Jean Raspail is also occasionally tagged here he is mentioned in passing at Counter-Currents.
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33 comments
We re out of power especially in the System Artistic , literarry world
let s stop always obey copyright laws
we d still be a British Colony if the Founding Fathers obeyed all laws
Jesus Christ got arrested
JC insulted J money changers like George Soros
so should we
jr
This is especially true given the way copyright law has been warped by political corruption through bribes from large corporations like Disney. It was never intended to last 120+ years. The term set by the Founders is 14 years, with an optional extension to 28 years, and that was accounting for 18th-century technology where information traveled slowly.
The point of copyright law is to “promote the progress of… arts, by securing for limited times to authors… the exclusive right to their respective writings”. It does this by temporarily limiting the public’s long-standing right to propagate (i.e. copy) works of art and culture, to incentivize the creation of more art.
These days, information travels quickly. A movie will make 95% of all the money it will ever make within the first 5 or 10 years after release. A book will reach the 95% point in 5 or 10 or 20 years, depending on the book. The government has a duty to make prudent purchases on the public’s behalf, and this is especially so when the currency is the public’s liberty! Thus the appropriate balance must be struck near the 10- or 20-year mark. The extremely marginal returns that may be gained with an extra 100 years of restriction (gained through political corruption, remember) are not a prudent use of the public’s liberty. In fact, it’s more common that the extended copyright is used to remove disfavored works from public view – the very opposite of the goal of copyright!
In short, respect copyright for 10 or 20 years. Then copy away! It deserves no more respect than that.
Good comment. You undoubtedly know far more than I do about the mechanics of copywrite, but it seems to me that copywrites should revert to the public domain only upon an author’s death. Unless I misunderstand, you seem to be suggesting that they should only hold for 10-20 years, even if after that expiration the author remains alive.
By your standard, I could publish a book in 2024, and then after, say, 2044 (when I might still be alive at 82-83) someone else could reprint my book and sell it, without paying me any royalty. Am I correct that this is your position? Could they reprint my book under a different authorial name? Could someone make editorial changes to my book that were unapproved by me, while still publishing it under my name? How am I to be assured of perpetual credit for my own work – and adequate reimbursement?
I do not think there should be any copywrites on books published by university professors unless totally outside the area of scholarship for which they are salaried. IOWs, eg, the late semanticist and novelist Umberto Eco should not have had a copywrite on any of his academic work (which is ultimately a “product” of his taxpayer-subsidized salaried professorship), but should have full copywrites for his novels (The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, etc).
Finally, all this is obviously irrelevant in the case of Raspail, who sadly is no longer with us.
The problem, I think, is that a lot of stuff is copyrighted by corporations ─ and corporations are “persons” that never die.
Unless we are dealing with living persons, copyrights should be limited to a fixed period of time.
Patents are only good for 17 years ─ barely enough time to get some things into production unless one has the megabucks to do so.
🙂
“you seem to be suggesting that [copyright] should only hold for 10-20 years…”
Yes, that’s correct (and it’s also the way copyright originally worked in America).
“By your standard, I could publish a book in 2024, and then after, say, 2044 (when I might still be alive at 82-83) someone else could reprint my book and sell it, without paying me any royalty. Am I correct that this is your position?”
Yes, that’s right. However, the lost income to you should be minimal, as after 20 years your book would likely have earned 95-99% of all the income it would ever earn.
“Could they reprint my book under a different authorial name? Could someone make editorial changes to my book that were unapproved by me, while still publishing it under my name?”
I believe this is illegal – and it’s certainly considered plagiarism. I don’t support that kind of fraudulent misrepresentation.
“How am I to be assured of … adequate reimbursement?”
If a book has the potential to make a certain amount of money, and you receive 95% of that amount, is that adequate? I would hope so. Perhaps this has been lost in the mists of time, but prior to copyright law there was a long-standing “right” of the public to share and propagate (i.e. copy) works of art. Copyright law sought to strike a balance between the long-standing desire of the public to share and propagate art and the desire of authors to benefit from their work, for the purpose of incentivizing the creation of more art, and I think in its original incarnation it did a good job of that. Extending copyright from 14/28 years to 120 years or even more, just to scrape up the last few pennies, is, in my opinion, unbalanced and needlessly impoverishes the public domain.
Thank you for your considered response, but I’m sticking with what I regard as a reasonable compromise: copywrites should last as long as an author, but not longer. I do not, however, believe in any authorial copywrite for university-press published books. Nearly all such presses are either agencies of some government, or, as in even nearly all US “private” universities (Harvard, Stanford, etc), heavily taxpayer-subsidized in various ways. Their “product” should be in the public domain, by which I mean, all university-press published books, for hard copies of which it is appropriate to charge, should also be downloadable as free ebooks.
The author or his dependents should be entitled to a gradually diminishing royalty over a long period but ought to lose the right to actually prevent re-publication quite rapidly. Once a book is published it ought not to be possible to memory hole it in this too oft-used way.
#won’t_happen_until_we_win
It certainly far exceeds in quality, message, and prophetic accuracy that other infamous Right-wing novel of the 1970.s that had a much more unfortunate and self-destructive impact on those who read it: William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries.
I don’t see how this sentence added anything to the review.
And it’s unfair.
As far as I can determine, Pierce was attempting to reach out to ‘the lower classes’ with a pulp novel of racial warfare. Given the death-toll from negro-on-White throughout the history of the US, it’s acceleration in recent years renders The Turner Diaries just as prophetic as The Camp of the Saints.
It’s also a better read. I tried to read The Camp of the Saints and found something better to do. However, in general, ‘literature’ leaves me cold.
One essential difference between Pierce and Raspail is that Pierce as American and optimistic whereas Raspail was European and pessimistic. Oddly, though, I think Pierce was informed by at least some ideas from Europe, specifically the role of the Provos in the Irish Troubles.
As far as pulp fiction goes, The Turner Diaries is at least workman like and has been far more of a literary inspiration than Raspail. Who followed in Raspail’s footsteps? I see no one. On the other hand, Pierce has inspired two very good writers to take up the themes of ‘race war apocalypse’ (Harold Covington, Billy Roper).
As for the ‘self-destructive’ comment, I cannot imagine what the author is talking about. In an attempt to smear Pierce and the National Alliance, American ‘law enforcement’ has attempted to link The Turner Diaries with ‘racially motivated’ violence by pro-White groups. But the truth is, most pro-White groups inclined toward violence take their inspiration just as much from the violence of the American Revolution as they do from the Irish Troubles and The Turner Diaries.
Raspail is for the European and Turner is for the American, no need to have them compete (and if they do, i doubt the freemasonic national ideals f(o)unded by Haym Solomon would do better).
Fair points, except that The Turner Diaries can in no way be described as “literature”, whereas Camp of the Saints is one of the great novels – not just great dystopian novels – of the latter half of the twentieth century. Camp can be read as literature, and not only political prophecy.
Turner negatively influenced both Robert Matthews and Timothy McVeigh, whose crimes in turn hugely negatively affected the white racial justice movement.
I didn’t say The Turner Diaries was ‘literature’ but I often wonder what ‘literature’ is meant to denote except a class of writing that snobbish gate-keepers feel is sufficiently uninteresting to the common person that it can given an elevated status.
As I said, ‘literature’ generally leaves me cold. Give me a rousing adventure tale about racial revenge any day. Interminable navel-gazing and thumb-sucking (or self-loathing) just isn’t my thing.
While it’s true writers prefer to go on and on about ‘style’, readers, I think, prefer good stories with acceptable themes (like racial revenge or overcoming obstacles).
I think I’m a lower-class snob who finds upper-class fascinations rather unseemly.
You convinced me. I just ordered TD. Thanks!
Thanks, Theodora. Your $24 goes to support the <ahem!> “White racial justice movement.”
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When Lord says this, he agrees with the ADL that Turner is “the most dangerous book in America”:
Turner negatively influenced both Robert Matthews [sic] and Timothy McVeigh, whose crimes in turn hugely negatively affected the white [sic] racial justice movement.
Jewry has never said that about Camp of the Saints.
Do you run cosmotheistchurch? I would like to do an order, but I’m not sure how to pay, similar to counter currents. If I sent money through the mail, would my order be fulfilled? I want turner diaries, Hunter, and best of Attack!
DarkPlato: July 7, 2024 Do you run cosmotheistchurch? I would like to do an order, but I’m not sure how to pay, similar to counter currents. If I sent money through the mail, would my order be fulfilled? I want turner diaries, Hunter, and best of Attack!
Yes, I am Trustee of the Cosmotheist Community Church, a title inherited as Chairman of the National Alliance — both entities founded by Dr. William Pierce. I am also President of Cosmotheist Books. We published what some call our “Bible,” Cosmotheism: Religion of the Future a couple of years ago, available at our online bookstore cosmotheistchurch.org as “Religion of the Future by William Pierce”.
The other two books that you say you want are there also. Simply follow instructions at the site and mail a check, money order, well-concealed cash to our address in Mountain City, TN (or cryptocurrency, if you prefer), and I’ll see that you receive the books. They may not be considered “literature,” but are important books nevertheless for those who consider themselves pro-White activists.
I much favor Pierce’s second, more thoughtful 1989 novel, Hunter, over the more notorious The Turner Diaries for how it addressed the toxicity of Christianity for our people, and other issues.
Pierce’s lasting legacy to our people will not be his two novels or even the National Alliance, but the non-Semitic belief system he founded for our people: Cosmotheism.
What sort of revisions were made to Camp of the Saints?
Myself, I thought it was quite an epic, with masterful language as well as insights on virtue-signaling Eurocrats that haven’t changed a bit over the ages.
It is to be hoped that more of Raspail’s work will be made available to anglophone readers in the future, and that The Camp of the Saints will be returned to print — perhaps in a new translation, given that Raspail revised the novel subsequent to its translation into English.
I know CC has largely ceased being a book publisher, but this is a project I think CC should consider taking on. My sense is that CC would actually make money if it printed a new edition of Camp of the Saints. Of course, this depends completely upon the availability of the copywrite, and I’ve heard that some leftist has control and for whatever reasons, won’t allow it to be reprinted.
This article does not carry its author’s byline, but I expect he may have read this SPLC piece that compared Pierce’s The Turner Diaries to Raspail’s Camp of the Saints and other “racist” novels that have had an alleged “negative” impact on readers of fiction: “The Turner Diaries, Other Racist Novels, Inspire Extremist Violence” at splcenter.org.
French novelist Jean Raspail tapped into a similar set of stereotypes and fears with his anti-immigration novel, The Camp of the Saints. Written in the early 1970s during a wave of Algerian immigration into France, The Camp of the Saints also took a while to catch on in the U.S. But when it did, two decades later, it had a major influence on the American anti-immigration movement… The plot concerns a famine-induced pilgrimage to the shores of the French Riviera by Hindu refugees described as “kinky-haired, swarthy-skinned, long-despised phantoms.”… As the flotilla makes its way around Africa to France, Raspail writes about the ineffectual reactions of government officials, church leaders, liberals and soldiers — the cultured and civilized who belong to the “camp of the saints.” He rails against the “monstrous cancer” of multiculturalism and lingers over descriptions of the brown and black hordes…
William Pierce was apparently on to something when he gave that old storyline a new, white-supremacist twist. Most extremist novels published since The Turner Diaries focus on a white protagonist who wakes up to what’s wrong with the world, and then acts against the odds to make things right… Pierce later told [his] biographer Robert S. Griffin why he believed novels could be so effective: “If the protagonist learns something or comes to believe in something, if he changes his ideas, the reader tends to do the same thing, he changes too. So what you have is a powerful teaching tool, a persuasive tool.”
Imagine that! Pierce’s protagonist, Earl Turner, loses his former herd mentality to become a responsible White loyalist, as did many readers of Earl’s diaries, penned by Pierce — as was his intention that they do.
Those interested in what prompted Pierce to put his ideas in fictional form 50 years ago will enjoy this article by Douglas Mercer: “The John Franklin Letters” at nationalvanguard.org.
Purchase Pierce’s widely banned “The Turner Diaries (Third Edition)” directly from the publisher at cosmotheistchurch.org. This latest edition has an Afterword in which Dr. Pierce explains what motivated him to write The Turner Diaries.
Jean Raspail is a great novelist, but I hate “The Camp of the Saints”, because of its defeatism. In my opinion, it’s a posture of a wealthy bourgeois. I prefer the invigorating optimism of William L. Pierce’s “The Turner Diaries” (who had read “The Camp of the Saints.”). For me, “The Camp des Saints” is a book to be banned, because it demoralizes its readers. On the contrary, “The Turner Diaries” invites them to firmly grasp their destiny and fight for their freedom. I’m not surprised that “The Turner Diaries” was written by an American. For me, it sums up the best of the American spirit: the hatred of tyranny and the pioneering spirit.
On the other hand, I don’t think Pierce’s novel should be in the hands of psychologically fragile people. For others, it will be cathartic. That’s exactly why Pierce wrote The Turner Diaries. I’m also struck by the fact that Pierce’s heroes are always emotionally stable women and men , always focused on the task in hand, however thankless it may be. This is sobering.
I had wanted to read Camp Of The Saints for years but couldn’t bring myself to spending upwards of $200 for a copy. But last year I found an immaculate copy of the 2018 printing at my local Half Priced Books for $6.99. I believe they had no idea of what it was because it would’ve either been behind glass with a much higher price or they wouldn’t have been selling it all.
It’s readily available for download as a free .pdf.
The translator appears to have been Professor of Romance Languages at Wesleyan , Norman Shapiro, who died two months before Raspail.
https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2020/04/13/shapiro-remembered-for-magnificent-translations-witticisms/
As I’ve read all works by Raspail as well as *The Turner’s Diaries* and *Hunter*, I feel authorized to give my two [milli]cents. 😉
*Le camp des saints* was born as a small editorial published in *Le Figaro* before it became one of the best French novels of the century. It was so exceptional it cost Raspail his legitimate place at the Académie française — though worthy writers were already a vanishing species there, except names such as Pierre Gaxotte, Jean-Louis Curtis or Jacques Laurent. Raspail liked to remind that many politicians privately admitted he was right, while publicly pretending he was a “fascist”, a “racist” and other stupid and undeserved names — I’ve read *The Bell Curve*’s author has been subject to the same treatment by similar cowards. Scientists are not better than men of letters and politicians, which is not a surprise.
Inspired in its form by Jack London’s *The Iron Heel*, *The Turner’s Diaries*, though readable and even enjoyable at times, is not literature : it’s written as 1930s pulps. Raspail writes for adults able to understand the tragic and the grotesque (only Jean Dutourd understood that the end of *Le camp des saints* was intended to make reader laugh at the absurd end of West), while Pierce writes for teenagers who desperately want hope and a happy end — they’d better read *The Iron Dream* which is more fun and so powerful that Spinrad must probably regret him writing this novel.
The new edition has not been modified ; it merely contains a new preface where Raspail tells us about the monster he calls “Big Other” in reference to Orwell. He also has fun enumerating all the passages which would prevent the book from being published nowadays or which would bring him in front of a judge then in a dungeon. Though they like to rewrite and modify history according to their imagination, French autorities — i.e. e.u. masters — have not yet been brave enough to pass laws with retroactive effects.
Many other works by Raspail are of the highest quality, such as his short stories gathered in *Le tam-tam de Jonathan* and *Les hussards* ; and novels such as *Septentrion*, *Sept cavaliers* and *L’anneau du pêcheur*. The chronicles published as *Boulevard Raspail* are excellent.
Only Jean-Louis Curtis and his *Le mauvais choix* can compare with *Le camp des saints* with a subtle parallel between the end of Roman Empire and the end of West. Both works are right about the main tendancies and the reasons, not in the details — but this does not matter : literature is not history. Let’s all be reminded of Descartes’ words in *Olympica*. And both works, rather depressing, give the urge to flee to Mars (see *The Prisoner*’s answer when Number 2 describes Schwab’s World in advance).
It’s no wonder both authors wrote first-rate short stories. With the linked short stories of *Un saint au néon*, Curtis has written a clever homage to Huxley’s *Brave New World*.
By the way, many French rightists now dare and look at Raspail with condescension, stating Raspail is not so great a writer, just a writer for boy-scouts stories. When they’re able to write the books mentionned *supra* (the others are pleasant but don’t have such a strength), they’ll be entitled to giving a piece of advice ; until then, they should shut up. Fortunately, “A lion never loses sleep over the opinions of the sheep.”
As a conclusion, I’ll mention John “Ingénieux ingénieur” Walker’s words about *Le camp des saints* in this review :
www . fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2008-06/001018.html
“This is a difficult read, which careens among tragedy, satire, and farce, forcing the reader to look beyond political nostrums about the destiny of the West and seriously ask what the consequences of mass immigration without assimilation and the accommodation by the West of values inimical to its own are likely to be. And when you think that Jean Respail saw all of this coming more than three decades ago, it almost makes you shiver. I spent almost three weeks working my way through this book, but although it was difficult, I always looked forward to picking it up, so rewarding was it to grasp the genius of the narrative and the masterful use of the language.”
Pas mieux !
Excellent comment, if depressing to me as I’d never even heard of several of the authors you referenced (and I pride myself on being fairly literate!). Could you recommend any specific works from these men (besides Le Mauvais Choix)?
Pierre Gaxotte, Jean-Louis Curtis or Jacques Laurent
Anyone who fails to appreciate the brilliance of The Camp of the Saints is either an egalitarian leftist (secular or Christian), or not much of a literary connoisseur. I was blown away when I first read the book over 30 years ago. Unfortunately, my copy is covered in underlines and marginalia, so heated was my reading of it. I wish I’d purchased some additional copies when The Social Contract Press republished it back in the … 90s? or 00s? I forget now. It never occurred to me that it would be allowed to go out of print, or that old copies would one day fetch such high prices.
What is the book Siege about? How does that fit onto the wignat to high end hater spectrum?
It’s an anthology of essays by James Mason originally published in the newsletter of the National Socialist Liberation Front. From what I understand he was an advocate for white revolution through terrorism and a friend of Charles Manson. I have never read it but it seems like the kind of book that would get your name on a list or glowies with money and a kidnapping plot paying you a visit.
Lol! So basically it’s the essay version of turner diaries.
DarkPlato: July 7, 2024 What is the book Siege about? How does that fit onto the wignat to high end hater spectrum?
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Wignat? High end hater spectrum? I’m not sure to what you refer.
Considering the source, this will give you all you want to know: “Atomwaffen and the siege Parallax…” at splcenter.org. The lead paragraph says it all: “The racist “alt-right” is killing people.”
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DarkPlato: July 7, 2024 Lol! So basically [Siege is] the essay version of turner diaries.
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Lol! Not at all. Order Siege, if you can find it, and do a critical comparative analysis of it with Pierce’s first novel. You will not come to that conclusion.
C-C fans of the scoundrel Harold Covington’s fiction will find a closer connection to Mason’s “high end hate” essays in Siege, here: “The Base: Exporting Accelerationist Terror” at splcenter.org. Again, I remind you to consider that source — a Jewish source that is anti-White but nevertheless can provide useful information.
Thanks for replying. I don’t know about the literary merit of Pierce’s books, but I’m curious to read something with such notoriety. I have Covington’s books, but I couldn’t get into them. I wanted to like them, but I found them not well written and obviously derivative of recent things in popular culture. They seemed more comic than serious in tone to me.
I was being facetious about the wignat thing, of course.
Beau Albrecht: July 8, 2024 [Jared has] done tremendous work to raise consciousness in our people. Rather than armchair quarterbacking him, I challenge you to go out there and do as much as he’s done. If your way is better, the results will speak for themselves.
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Agreed. It’s results that count.
It’s not about me, Beau. I promote the teachings of my mentor, William Pierce and the organization, National Alliance and the religion, Cosmotheism, that he founded for our people 50 years ago.
I am now NA Chairman, have been for s decade, and am Trustee of the Cosmotheist Community Church that Pierce founded. It’s my job to promote the Alliance, our Church, our weekly radio show, American Dissident Voices, our online magazine nationalvanguard.com, our bookstore, CosmotheistChurch.org. and much more.
I just picked up our 8-page monthly NA BULLETIN (my 114th) from the printer today and will snail-mail it to our members tomorrow; while working with my plumber friend today at my home and supervising four National Alliance staffers and three visiting NA members on a project in our Cosmotheist Community. I also managed to call one of our lawyers and send him a book to help with an ongoing case; picked up and processed the mail; shopped a Lowe’s, dropped by my Realtor’s office, and made a bank deposit — no breakfast, no lunch during a busier than usual day’s work.
Now I’m finally getting around to my emails/phone messages and trying to find time to read and comment to Counter-Currents, the one and only social media site where I participate, other than our own that we control.
I don’t know how that compares to Jared’s day and don’t care. He does what he does and does it well. I even carry some of his book at our bookstore. I subscribed to his American Renaissance newsletter in 1990 or ’91, but unsubscribed the same year when I saw he was promoting Jews. I attended a couple of his well-attended biannual gatherings in the ’90s, but to me they fit the eat, meet and retreat mold. Greg and I had planned to meet at one of them, I believe in Charlotte in 2012, but the Jews queered that one by pressuring the hotel to cancel.
I may have actually been active in racial politics longer than Jared, going back to at least 1985, but who’s counting? You can listen to a two-part interview (less than an hour) I did two weeks ago, if interested, going through my radicalization process from civilian worker-bee to political soldier, until today: “Gaining Understanding” at nationalvanguard.org
Apologies to you, Beau, and to others.
I should have responded with this to this other topic: https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/editors-update-8/
I had difficulty with Log-in so wrote it off-line, then cut and pasted it here by mistake
“It depicts how modern Europe meekly and ineffectively reacts as a fleet of ships carrying thousands of UNINVITED MIGRANTS from India…”
Most people realize that our third-world invaders are being invited by our treacherous Western governments. If Raspail didn’t even know that, what’s the point of reading his gloomy book?
“he was unsuccessfully sued by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism in 2004”
He may not have known about the JQ when he wrote his book in 1973. At least, he found out about it in 2004!
Saints reads as though it could have been written during the peak of Europe’s 2015 “migrant crisis,” which makes it all the more incredible given that it was in fact published more than 40 years earlier. It certainly far exceeds in quality, message, and prophetic accuracy that other infamous Right-wing novel of the 1970s that had a much more unfortunate and self-destructive impact on those who read it: William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries.
If you, whoever wrote those words, say so.
Did Raspail really prophesize accurately what would happen to France all these years later? Did he inspire resistance? Tell that to the new Parisians today: see “Street Impressions, Paris, France” at WhiteBiocentrism.com.
With Diaries, Pierce looked around the U.S. at trends in 1975 and predicted the racial mess today with amazing accuracy. He awakened and inspired hundreds of thousands of White Americans to organize to fight for our race with the ideas, albeit though fiction, in that novel — and scared the Hell out of our Jewish masters.
Did Raspail inform his countrymen how powerful Jews were and would continue to be since then, like their implementing Europe’s “race laws,” for example? Pierce predicted those in the U.S. and so much more that have come to pass.
Pierce courageously followed up his Diaries predictions as a courageous man of his race for another 27 years until his last dying breath. Did Raspail? Not so much. Seriously compare Pierce’s relatively minor body of non-fiction work since Diaries to Raspail’s since Saints.
Is Diaries “Right-Wing”? No, it is not. It is racist, anti-Jew, radical and revolutionary. Many Right-wingers would describe its impact as unfortunate and destructive.
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Armoric: July 10, 2024 Most people realize that our third-world invaders are being invited by our treacherous Western governments. If Raspail didn’t even know that, what’s the point of reading his gloomy book?
“he was unsuccessfully sued by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism in 2004”
He may not have known about the JQ when he wrote his book in 1973. At least, he found out about it in 2004!
He found out in spades, didn’t he? Pierce answered the JQ a decade before writing Diaries, addressing it as the JP (Jewish Problem)
I got the Hell out of North Carolina to the hills of Tennessee before NC lost its mind and went “blue.” What’ going on there now was just one of the things accurately predicted by Pierce in Diaries:
Cooper signs SHALOM Act into law (CarolinaJournal.com)
THERESA OPEKA
JULY 1, 2024
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed the SHALOM Act into law Monday.
HB 942, which passed in the House on May 8, amends Chapter 12 of the North Carolina General Statutes, defining antisemitism as consistent with the working definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016.
The definition includes contemporary examples of antisemitism set forth “as a tool and a guide for training, education, recognizing and combatting antisemitic hate crimes or discrimination and for tracking and reporting antisemitic incidents in this State.”
“Defining antisemitism is important to stopping it, and this new law helps do that as antisemitic incidents are on the rise,” Cooper said in a press release…
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