Tag: French New Right

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Ethnopluralism

The ND distinguishes between racial lovers and racial haters: the former regard the plurality and ethnic diversity of humanity as its very richness, while the latter deny the existence of ethnic groups and desire the disappearance of races, therefore the uniformization of ways of life. (more…)

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The European Question

The European philosophy [1] defended by the ND is one of a people’s self-assertion, the pursuit of its power in the world, the worldwide radiation of its influence, and the reconquest of its cultural specificity. It therefore opposes the pseudo-Europeanist ideology that makes Europe the first stone in the edifice of a world civilization and that urges European peoples to forget their cultural roots and wills to power in favor of the immaterial idea of “Western civilization.” (more…)

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Critique of the Society of the Spectacle

Given that what characterizes our species is a delayed physiological development, a persistent youth, and the organic deprogramming of its instincts, man needs to equip himself with other “programs,” constituted by culture and institutions. (more…)

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Critique of the Mercantilist Society

The mercantilist society is characterized by the hypertrophy of the economy—a society in which mercantile values have invaded non-economic and non-mercantile structures. In the tripartite social system of the Indo-European world, the economy was closely tied to the third function—production—yet remained subordinated to the warrior function and, above all, to the sovereign function. (more…)

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Critique of American Society

From its origins, Americans have held three fundamental beliefs: first, that America—the new promised land—is the prefiguration of the Cosmopolis, the future Universal Republic, and that the mission of Americans is to set an example and attempt to export the universal model of democratic “good” (more…)

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The Struggle Against the System

On this point in particular, I refer to the respective articles in the selected texts of the Nouvelle Droite. However, in order to expand upon the reflections contained there, I will summarize the essential lines of Guillaume Faye’s book Le Système à tuer les peuples. (more…)

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Guillaume Faye

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The West as Decadence

Western ideology [1] was born from the secularization of the Christian religious archetypes. This secularization unfolded in successive layers: the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; Anglo-Saxon liberalism and hedonism; the doctrine of the social contract; the Enlightenment ideologies; the socialist and Marxist doctrines, heirs to Hegelianism; and finally, the revised Marxism of the Frankfurt School, from which all radical reformism of the “Second Left” proceeds—the latest stratum of Western ideology. (more…)

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Critique of Contemporary Ideologies

For the ND, the principal enemy [1] is bourgeois liberalism and Atlantic-American West, of which European social democracy is merely one of its most dangerous derivatives. The existence and persistence of this system, the ND argues, entails for peoples the deepest form of decadence: the ultimate social disintegration, the collapse of collective identities, and the consummation of the end of history. (more…)

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Alain de Benoist

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Political Conception of the Nouvelle Droite

For the Nouvelle Droite, one of the fundamental criteria defining political activity is its polarization around a relationship of hostility—the friend–enemy polarity formulated by Carl Schmitt. The political act par excellence is that which mobilizes a population by designating an enemy. To designate an enemy can also mean to respond to an adverse challenge. (more…)

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The European Heritage: The Question of Paganism

On this particular point, I refer to the article “The Religion of Europe”, which appears in the selection of ND texts and summarizes the fundamental lines of Alain de Benoist’s book Comment peut-on être païen? However, to complement these reflections, the following remarks from de Benoist himself are included. (more…)

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Translator’s Note: In 1986, a compilation of texts by Alain de Benoist and Guillaume Faye entitled Las Ideas de la Nueva Derecha: Una respuesta al colonialismo cultural (The Ideas of the Nouvelle Droite: A Response to Cultural Colonialism) was published in Spain by Ediciones de Nuevo Arte Thor. The texts were translated from the French language by Carlos Pinedo Cestafe, who, in addition to the translation, produced an introductory essay (Bases Ideológicas de la Nueva Derecha) of about 140 pages that examined the ideological landscape of the Nouvelle Droite. The following is the first part of that introduction. (more…)

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Následující text je překladem přednášky F. Roger Devlina z jarního setkání Counter-Currents 2023

Termín populismus se v Americe hojně rozšířil od vzestupu Donalda Trumpa, v Evropě pak ještě o něco dříve, jako negativně zabarvené zastřešující označení protiimigračních protestních stran. Po všelidovém hlasování o Brexitu a zvolení Trumpa prezidentem se v anglicky hovořícím světě vyrojily knihy o populismu jako houby po dešti. Vsadil bych si, že za mnoha z nich stojí zadání vypočítavých vydavatelů, kteří doufali ve snadný zisk z náhle módní materie. (more…)

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The following was translated by Greg Johnson from the original French with permission from Breizh-info. The interview was conducted by YV.

We asked Alain de Benoist for his views on the recent European elections in France, as well as the French legislative elections, Macron’s dissolution of the Assembly, the nation’s current political theater, and of course the “two weeks of hate” that we are currently experiencing under the impetus of the Left. (more…)