Debating with the Nouvelle Droite: What did I learn? | sicherheitspolitik-blog.de http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/03/22/debating-with-the-nouvelle-droite-what-did-i-learn/[07.04.2016 16:03:08] von gast in Rechtsradikalismus Kommentare ( 0 ) This is the third article in our series Trouble on the- Far-Right . For more information on the series, please click here . by Tamir Bar-On I am the author of two books about the French nouvelle droite (ND – New Right): Where Have All The Fascists Gone? and Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity. In 2014, I published a piece entitled „The French New Right Neither Right, nor Left?“. Surprisingly, the French ND leader Alain de Benoist responded with a polemical and largely ad hominem article in the same journal. 1 I must stress that I neither identify with a political party, nor a political movement. I do not support any ideological current. De Benoist does. He is self-described as a man of the right. Hence, he cannot even claim intellectual objectivity. In this piece, I want to offer some comments on my debate with de Benoist. I argue that while we should strive towards intellectual objectivity, we cannot be silent in the face of falsehoods. In this respect, the ND plays a dishonest game. Its leader and other ND intellectuals feign intellectual objectivity and the platitudes of transcending right and left, but they want cultural hegemony and the triumph of their decidedly radical right-wing ideals. Thus, I want to take the debate as an opportunity for learning. Many people told me not to respond to de Benoist. How can you respond to a neo-fascist? Perhaps I am a real liberal. Moreover, I used the debate with de Benoist to demonstrate that the ND leader is a neo-fascist with a human face. In short, fascists today no longer state that they want to re-open Auschwitz, or put on their brownshirts or blackshirts. As Umberto Eco noted , neo-fascists maintain fascist core values, but do not subscribe to the violent tactics of the past. Those tactics are less acceptable in a post-WW II, post-Holocaust and anti-fascist age. In my debate with de Benoist, I argued that the ND worldview has similarities with fascism, but it does not use open violence: 1. Antiliberalism 2. Anticommunism 3. Anticonservatism 4. An attempt to create a new, modern, self-determined, and secular culture 5. A highly regulated, multiclass, and integrated national economic structure. 6. An economic framework that uses the state to restrain capitalism, banks, and multinational corporations 7. A desire for nationalist (or regionalist) states 8. The goal of empire 9. The desire for European grandeur in the geopolitical realm 10. A positive evaluation of authors that legitimize violence, such as Carl Schmitt and Julius Evola 11. A stress on the emotional and mystical aspects of life, including traditions, Indo-European symbols, and primordial ties to the region, nation, or Europe 12. An organic view of society and extreme stress on the masculine principle. Nouvelle Droite: Neo-fascism with a human face? There are no tanks to stop de Benoist’s „neo-fascism with a human face“. He BELIEBT KOMMENTARE NEU SUCHE TWITTER FEED CfP: 1. Tagung der Themengruppe Internet und Politik – Elektronische Governance https://t.co/8nRlb7nywL #dvpw #powi about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck The far right in #Austria: small on the streets, big in parliament – by @bweidin https:/ / t.co/ eJFlysyph2 #FarRight #FPÖ 6. April 2016, 10:05 from Twitter Web Client But – where do these people come from? @oula_silver writes about the (Re)Emergence of Radical Nationalism in Finland https://t.co/CK0nDih7e7 5. April 2016, 11:01 from Twitter Web Client TAGS SOCIAL MEDIA 22. Mrz. 2016 Debating with the Nouvelle Droite: What did I learn? Desinformation und Destabilisierung – Russlands unerklärter Krieg Start Podcasts Fokus Bücher Über Uns English Suche... Suche