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These popped up briefly in the Russia thread last week and I picked up two books by authors associated with the movement. I was gonna just do 'What book did you read last night' post but hey, everyone likes a new thread.
Written by the fresh new face of the European New Right, it's not so much a book as an angry polemic against the EU. Nothing wrong with having a go at the EU but he never progresses beyond what they are doing wrong to how it can be put right.
His first work 'Generation Identity' sets out the purpose of the Identity movement; to get rid of the 68ers and restore Europe to its former glory.
This by the founder of the ENR. Rather better than the above, it's ideas are more fully fleshed out and developed and it manages to strike the right balance between ranting and overly academic.
There's a lot of appealing ideas in both however. While the term New Right suggests a neo-Nazism of sorts and they have some 'interesting' ideas with regard to race, a lot of their ideas could equally be considered left wing.
De Benoist is probably right in refusing to accept the 'New Right' tag but its one that has stuck. The theory is a mishmash of ideas from both sides and I suppose it proves the ultimate uselessness of the left/right divide today.
Broadly speaking the movement is concentrated in Western continental Europe so France, Germany, Austria etc.
Its intellectual foundations are in the French GRECE (Research Group for the Study of European Civilisation) group which aimed to "revive and redefine certain political and cultural ideas which had been discredited since 1945 as a result of their supposed association with the Fascist movements of that era".
The latest iteration, Generation Identitaire, is very much focused on the Islamification of Europe - it launched itself into the public eye by protesting the construction of a mosque in Poitiers, site of the Battle of Tours which seen Charles Martel defeat an invading Islamic army while more recently they blockaded a bridge in Calais in protest at continued migration. Bloc Identitaire seems to be the parent group for Generation, they are not hugely dissimilar, both protest the destruction of European civilisation, whether at the hands of Muslim hordes or American cultural influence.
There is some differentiation within the New Right when it comes to religion - originally it was very much in favour of paganism, viewing Christianity as non-European. It has however come to accept the influence that Judeo-Chrstianity has had on Europe over the past 2,000 years.
Anyway, the above is a bit all over the place and I'm not sure there can be any response to all that but hopefully someone learns something.
(Easy on the Fascist overtones there lads).
Written by the fresh new face of the European New Right, it's not so much a book as an angry polemic against the EU. Nothing wrong with having a go at the EU but he never progresses beyond what they are doing wrong to how it can be put right.
His first work 'Generation Identity' sets out the purpose of the Identity movement; to get rid of the 68ers and restore Europe to its former glory.
This by the founder of the ENR. Rather better than the above, it's ideas are more fully fleshed out and developed and it manages to strike the right balance between ranting and overly academic.
There's a lot of appealing ideas in both however. While the term New Right suggests a neo-Nazism of sorts and they have some 'interesting' ideas with regard to race, a lot of their ideas could equally be considered left wing.
De Benoist is probably right in refusing to accept the 'New Right' tag but its one that has stuck. The theory is a mishmash of ideas from both sides and I suppose it proves the ultimate uselessness of the left/right divide today.
Broadly speaking the movement is concentrated in Western continental Europe so France, Germany, Austria etc.
Its intellectual foundations are in the French GRECE (Research Group for the Study of European Civilisation) group which aimed to "revive and redefine certain political and cultural ideas which had been discredited since 1945 as a result of their supposed association with the Fascist movements of that era".
The latest iteration, Generation Identitaire, is very much focused on the Islamification of Europe - it launched itself into the public eye by protesting the construction of a mosque in Poitiers, site of the Battle of Tours which seen Charles Martel defeat an invading Islamic army while more recently they blockaded a bridge in Calais in protest at continued migration. Bloc Identitaire seems to be the parent group for Generation, they are not hugely dissimilar, both protest the destruction of European civilisation, whether at the hands of Muslim hordes or American cultural influence.
There is some differentiation within the New Right when it comes to religion - originally it was very much in favour of paganism, viewing Christianity as non-European. It has however come to accept the influence that Judeo-Chrstianity has had on Europe over the past 2,000 years.
Anyway, the above is a bit all over the place and I'm not sure there can be any response to all that but hopefully someone learns something.
(Easy on the Fascist overtones there lads).