Most of the thinking described as \u201cconservative\u201d is a kind of \u201cPolitical Hygiene\u201d: it is oriented towards what is natural, normal or best and functional in the social order. One danger of this focus on the right order is that it leaves us unprepared for emergencies. Thus, we all know otherwise intelligent conservatives who would continue, in the midst of generalized social uprising, even if blood flowed in the streets, to talk about the need to \u2026 elect some fiscally responsible leftists and progressives to \u2026 parliamentary office! The best cure for this peculiar kind of \u201cautoimmune blindness\u201d and \u201cpsychogenic stupidity\u201d is an intensive course in political pathology, such as Guillaume Faye\u2019s book on Archaeofuturism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The author of Guillaume Fay was for many years one of the leading figures of the notorious GRECE \u2013 \u201cGroupement de Recherche et d\u2019Etude pour la Civilisation Europ\u00e9enne\u201d (Groupement de Recherche et d\u2019Etude pour la Civilisation Europ\u00e9enne), of his friend Alain de Benoist. Starting from the principle of \u201cno Lenin without Marx\u201d, Benoist conceived his political activities as part of a \u201cGramscian\u201d strategy (or \u201chedgehog strategy that would systematically seek to make the domination and repression of the Regime prohibitively expensive, by participating in a widespread resistance) to undermine the hegemony of liberalism. In the early 1980s, as Fay recalls, each issue of the Group\u2019s magazine \u201cElements\u201d was \u201can ideological hammering that sparked angry criticism from the mainstream press,\u201d and people rose up and paid attention to the ideological-political \u201cParisian Conferences\u201d (\u201cColloques Parisiens\u201d) that his organization sponsored. The educated men of this \u201cNew Right,\u201d as it was called, despised the young National Front as a \u2026 \u201ctiny group of worthless people\u201d and even forbade \u201cthat pirate old soldier,\u201d the \u201crude\u201d Jean-Marie Le Pen, from participating in their meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, within a few years things changed, as disaffected \u201cNew Rightists\u201d flocked to the Front. Any doubts they had about Le Pen\u2019s peculiar populist\u2026 \u201cvulgarity\u201d were offset by the impression that his organization was the place where \u201csomething was finally happening.\u201d And Fay eventually concluded that the New Right had become a mere literary salon: \u201csince 1986 I began to feel that a \u201cclique\u201d spirit and a literary pagan romanticism prevailed over the historical will\u2026 To be effective, ideological and cultural action must be supported by specific political forces, which it incorporates and expands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book \u201cArchaeofuturism\u201d marked the author\u2019s return to the political scene after a conscious absence of twelve years. His first chapter is devoted to a friendly critique of his former comrades and colleagues. For example, in the publications of the \u201cNew Right\u201d he notes an excessive emphasis on folkloric aspects of the European heritage, such as \u2026. the \u201cBrittany hats\u201d and the \u201cScandinavian woodcarvings\u201d. Such charming, but absolutely harmless and invulnerable to the regime, traditions have their counterparts in all the peoples of the earth. Fay prefers to maintain and emphasize \u201cthe creative primacy of Western civilization\u201d represented by our tradition in scientific research, philosophy and engineering, as well as our unparalleled artistic and literary \u201chigh\u201d culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fay also sees the New Right as tied to a flawed political paradigm in which \u201cAmerica\u201d \u2013 methodically understood narrowly as the Hollywood\/Wall Street\/Foggy Bottom axis [Foggy Bottom, in the capital Washington, D.C., across the National Mall, is a government and cultural center, with the infamous U.S. Department of State and the riverfront John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, home to the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera] \u2013 this tripolar axis is our enemy! This way of thinking is well expressed in the title of the great Alain de Benoit\u2019s book \u201cEurope-Third World: The Same Struggle.\u201d Benoit in a romantic delirium invites the entire non-American world (even Muslims!) to \u201ca fruitful exchange of dialogue between the parts of this world that are clearly in relation to each other.\u201d In other words: a noble, wishful, romantic multiculturalism, with a seat at the table reserved\u2026. for White Europeans too! Despite the intellectual greatness of the persistent and militant Benoit, Fay rightly dismisses this as a \u201cDisneyland dream\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starting from what Fay considers \u201ca correct Nietzschean assessment\u201d of primitive Christianity as an egalitarian, leveling, and ethno-masochistic movement, the New Right launched a reckless attack on the popular Catholicism of ordinary French people. In the meantime, they ignored the right target they should have set: an attack on \u201cestablishment Christianity,\u201d on \u201cthe Bolshevism of antiquity,\u201d among the corrupt and degenerate high clergy, characterized by slavish-immigrant tendencies and autoethnophobia. This is the tendency that some have called the \u201cde-Germanization of Christianity.\u201d The New Right would be much better off joining forces with traditional Catholics in its fight against it than alienating its natural allies by accepting ungrounded puritanicalisms without social correspondence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, while the New Right rightly expressed its admiration for the German jurist Carl Schmitt, it never made any practical application of his concept of the \u201cCritical Situation\u201d \u2013 \u201cErnstfall\u201d: that extraordinary political and social \u201cserious case\u201d that cannot be dealt with within the normal framework of constitutional law. When Hannibal is at the gates of Rome, when the Royal Guard mutinied \u2013 there can be no recourse to the law! Such unforeseen situations can only be dealt with by the virtue of prudence, that is, the ability to make sound judgments about what should be done in specific cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This blind spot can be fatal, because Fay is convinced that the liberal regime is leading Western civilization towards an \u201cErnstfall\u201d the likes of which the world has never seen! He describes it as a \u201cConvergence of Disasters\u201d. Its components include: the failure of multiracialism, the disintegration of family structures, the disruption of the transmission of cultural knowledge and social branches, the replacement of popular culture by the passive consumption of industrially produced \u201cmass culture\u201d, the increase in crime and drug use, the disintegration of community, anti-national and homogenizing \u201canti-white\u201d neo-racism, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the re-emergence of viral and microbial diseases resistant to antibiotics and treatments, public debt and the preferential treatment of speculative profits, that is, the construction of our economy on the supports of \u201cinvestor confidence\u201d instead of the solid ground of production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, liberal ideology has proposed a utopian ideal of supposedly planetary universal \u201cdevelopment,\u201d according to which every last African hell is supposed to become a \u2026. prosperous, tolerant, democratic, and efficient consumer society. The nations of the Global South have been thoroughly convinced by this well-filmed and much-advertised project, dazzled by the deceptive prospect of economic growth. They have set in motion a process of industrialisation that has destroyed the natural environment, undermined their traditional cultures, and created social chaos, including terrifying modern \u201curban jungles\u201d like Calcutta and Lagos. The resentment over the broken promise of \u201cdevelopment\u201d runs deep, and the resurgence of fierce religious fanaticism is one of its expressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the banner of \u201cintegration,\u201d the liberal regime is now importing legions of immigrants who will act as the \u201cfifth column\u201d of an aggressive Global South. \u201cThe ethnic war in France has already begun,\u201d Fey wrote prophetically in 1998, a full seven years before the shocking racial and religious uprisings that came to be known as \u201cthe riots of the suburbs\u201d (\u201cles \u00e9meutes des banlieues\u201d). These 2005 riots were a three-week period that took place in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities in October and November 2005. The riots involved \u201cFrench\u201d Afro-Arab youth (whom the then French-Jewish Minister of the Interior and later President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, called \u201ccockroaches\u201d) in numerous violent attacks and the burning of vehicles and public buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are the lines of destruction that Fay expects to converge around the second decade of this century. His prophecy is reminiscent of Andrei Amalric\u2019s 1969 essay \u201cWill the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?\u201d\u2014which, of course, turned out to be outrageously accurate. [The Russian historical writer Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik, (\u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0435\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0410\u043c\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0440\u0438\u043a, 1938 \u2013 1980) was known mainly in the Western world for this essay]. However, the modern \u201csuspected\u201d wise reader would not want to overestimate Fey\u2019s time frame. Much is perfectly clear about the crisis we face, but \u2026. not even the angels in heaven know the day or the hour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The French writer and political thinker\u2019s masterpiece, Archaeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Era, was first published in French in 1997, while an English edition was released by the renowned Arktos publishing house in 2010. The foreword to the English edition is written by the American political scientist and thinker Dr. Michael O\u2019Meara, a respected scholar of Fay\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his book, Fay calls for a synthesis of will to restore the traditions of the West and the \u201cboldest\u201d technological and social developments, as well as an Empire that would include most of the Eurasian continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book has been praised as being truly original and important, but has also been heavily criticized for its sometimes fantastical ideas about genetic manipulation, the existence of “human-animal chimeras,” and for its uncritical promotion of unity between Europe and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Archaeofuturism is the stance that approaches the future in terms of ancestral values, believing that the concepts of modernization and traditionalism must be dialectically overcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fey tells us: \u201cArchaeofuturism opposes both modernity and conservatism, seeing them as opposites of each other and believing that modernity is regressive, having failed to realize both its ideals and its great works. Technoscience, for example, is incompatible with the humanistic and egalitarian values \u200b\u200bof modernity. The twenty-first century will see the revival of struggles that bourgeois and Western cosmopolitan ideology thought they had buried long ago: Identity conflicts, traditional and religious conflicts; geopolitical fissures; ethnic issues raised on a planetary scale; battles for scarce resources\u2026 I need not develop the concept here, since I have devoted an entire book to it \u2013 Archaeofuturism \u2013 to which one can refer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Archaeofuturism, an extremely important work in the tradition of the European New Right, which, by questioning many assumptions of the Right, provoked heated debates when it was first published. Fey believes that the future of the Right requires overcoming the divide between those who desire the restoration of past traditions and those who demand new social and technological forms \u2013 creating a synthesis that will enhance the strengths and limit the excesses of both: the synthesis of Archaeofuturism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fey also provides a critique of the New Right: An analysis of the ongoing damage that Western liberalism, political inertia, uncontrolled immigration, and ethnic hatred are doing to our White selves, as well as the need to abandon past positions and dare to confront the realities of the present in order to realize the ideology of the future. He prophesies a series of disasters after 2010 caused by the unsustainability of the current world order, which, he claims, will offer an opportunity for the reconstruction of the West and the implementation of Archaeofuturism on a large scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This book is indeed a must-read for anyone interested in the path that the Anti-Establishment, Patriotic, Popular and Nationalist Right must take in order to face the growing crises and challenges that the White World will face in the coming decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thinker emphasizes that the impending collapse, the ongoing melting of the White European world, also offers us historical opportunities: \u201cWhen people have their backs against the wall and suffer piercing pain, they easily change their views!\u201d The stormy century of iron and fire that awaits us will make people accept what is currently unacceptable. The right today must position itself so that it is perceived as \u201cthe alternative\u201d when the inevitable crisis strikes. This means devaluing the left\u2019s pseudo-dissent, the left\u2019s pseudo-resistance, which is simply a demand for the intensification of official ideology and practice. It also means acquiring a monopoly on alternative thinking: not by imposing a party line, but by uniting all healthy forces at the European level and abandoning the regional \u201cprovincial disputes\u201d and narrow dogmas, which undermine the necessary \u201cEuropean Nationalism\u201d. (Please also read the analysis titled “The West – as it is today – has set<\/a>“)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of the thinking described as \u201cconservative\u201d is a kind of \u201cPolitical Hygiene\u201d: it is oriented towards what is natural, normal or best and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[988,7],"tags":[6371,25,6173,470,7382,7383,6127,7381,973,70],"class_list":["post-26141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science","category-research","tag-alt-right","tag-eu","tag-europa-invicta","tag-europe","tag-european-nationalism","tag-guillaume-fey","tag-jean-marie-le-pen","tag-new-right","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26151,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26141\/revisions\/26151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}