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Introduction here, Chapter 2 Part 2 here, Chapter 4 Part 1 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Books on the crisis or dysfunction of democracy have been multiplying for some time now. (more…)
Counter-Currents
Tag: Front National
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2,926 wordsMartin Lichtmesz
Ethnopluralismus: Kritik und Verteidigung
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2020Lack of terminological clarity is a problem inherent to political discourse, no doubt because so much of it is manipulative rather than communicative in intention. The word “nationalism” is a case in point. To many it still evokes the revanchisme of a France humiliated by the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, or Hitler’s various territorial demands of the 1930s: i.e., demands on behalf of particular nations that could only be satisfied at the expense of other nations. (more…)
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Viktor Orbán & Matteo Salvini
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Since the American Alt Right fell apart, many commentators and outlets which formerly identified as “Alt Right” have started pointing towards European populism as an example to follow, and are often heard to say that the nationalist cause is much further ahead in Europe. As a European, I would like to comment on this, based on the Dutch populist movement, which is relatively strong for a Western European country. (more…)
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Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957.
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note: The following is a translation from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 389-391. The title is editorial.
When I began to write these Memoirs in 2016, I decided to divide them into two volumes covering equal periods of forty-four years, the first going from my birth to that of the Front National, the second telling the history of the Front National as I had experienced it. (more…)
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note: The following is a translation of the final paragraphs of the first volume of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 402-403.
. . . in the end, the Second World War is a detail of history and a detail in the use of history for ideological ends.
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Translated by Garrett Deasy
The following is an interview with Alain de Benoist that was published by the Hungarian magazine Mandiner on November 4, 2017. It was translated from the original French. (more…)
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The faces of European populism today: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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Alain de Benoist
Le Moment Populiste: Droite-Gauche c’est Fini!
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note: Bruno Mégret is a senior French civil servant, politician, and former right-hand man of Jean-Marie Le Pen until the notorious party split of 1998. The title is editorial. (more…)
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note: Jean-Yves Le Gallou was a member of Alain de Benoist’s GRECE in the 1970s and is a former Front National (FN) politician, as well as co-founder of Iliade, a leading identitarian think-tank inspired by the work of Dominique Venner. This article discusses the recent departure of the civic nationalist Florian Philippot from the FN, whose anti-EU and anti-euro line, to the detriment of identitarian and immigration issues, has been blamed for Marine Le Pen’s mediocre performance in the last presidential elections. The title is editorial. (more…)
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Five hundred years ago this year (2017), Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door of Wittenberg. It was not the first time that theologians and teachers had protested against certain doctrines and dogma of the Roman Church. There had been, to take two notable examples preceding Luther, John Wycliffe and Jan Hus. (more…)
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Macron with one of his siblings.
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note: Comments in parentheses are Faye’s, bracketed ones are my own.
An artifact is a manufactured object which replaces the real, whose true nature is distorted. (more…)
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A few years ago, a friend of mine spent a summer in the south of France with his daughter, who was in grade school at the time. Unfortunately, the daughter caught a bug toward the end of their stay, and my friend made multiple trips to the local pharmacy trying to find the right medicine for her. His French is imperfect, so he struggled to make himself understood by the druggist. (more…)
