Report from Paris by Joelle Leconte

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'New Right' backs Red Brigades and from the right. " Shocking admissions from some self-styled defenders of Their strategic perspective is "European civilization" in France. shaped by the geopolitics of the Brit ish Lord Halford Mackinder, and reads that Europe, East and West, has to reunify to constitute a Third Empire between the American and Russian I feel closer to these people-the on "blood and soil" and the Darwinian empires. Others call that the neutral Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and idea of "survival of the fittest." Like izedMitteleuropa. A few months ago, the Red Brigades in Italy-who died wise, they loathe the republican ideas GRECE called for a break with Atlan with their weapons in their hands for rooted in Judeo-Christian morality. At tic solidarity (and added, "as well as their ideas than to these liberals who the Versailles meeting, the GRECE with the temptation to submit to the are in ecstasy in front of Reagan and speakers wanted to rehabilitate the idea Soviets," a somewhat rhetorical qual John Paul II," said Pierre Vial, editor of "revolution" against "egalitarian ification). GRECE backs the German of the GRECE magazine Elements and ideology," "the natural equality be neutralists and pacifists. and claims a leading figure in the French "New tween human beings, the power of that the best of the Third Way propo Right," at a gathering at Versailles on reason, the meaning of history and the nents in Europe is the Greek chief of Nov. 11. GRECE, an acronym for the belief in progress," according to a government, Socialist Andreas Pa pompously titled "Group of Study and leading figure of GRECE, Alain de pandreou, who behaves as the most Research on European Civilization," Benoist. Another protagonist, Guil blatant Soviet asset! is in fact dedicated to the total destruc laume Faye, rejoiced at the coming of Indeed, if forced to choose, tion of European civilization and its "a neo-pagan ethic," already an GRECE would prefer to see Europe a Judeo-Christian roots, as Vial's state nounced by the "renewal of anti-egal satrapy of the Soviet Union, explained ment reveals. itarian ideas in the education system Alain de Benoist in a lengthy theoret A report on the event in the leftist . . . and the appearance of new soci ical review of the cultural differences newspaper Liberation announced: ological schools based on the imagi between United States and U.S.S.R. "For the New Right, the fight against nary and the irrational." (Elements; March-April 1982, "The Marxism is outdated. The true enemy The New Rightists are ready to Main Enemy"). De Benoist wrote that is liberalism which feeds into individ embrace the left. Jean-Pierre Chev "for us, the principal enemy would be ualism and leads to the Americaniza enement, leader of a faction (CERES) bourgeois liberalism and the Atlantic tion of society. " of the Socialist Party, was quoted fa American West." In contrast to that The French New Right, a hard core vorably by the GRECE orators, as idea, he wrote, Russian communism of Nazi, racist "intellectuals," looks "elitist, voluntarist, and anti-Ameri is "susceptible to evolution." This forward to the convergence of the ex can," commented the leftist Libera means, as many fascists understood in treme-left and extreme-right wings of tion. Indeed, Chevenement has been the 1920s, that the essence of policy politics against "the Americanization a positive reference for GRECE at least should be an Ostorientierung (east of society," against equality, prog since 1980 because of his strong hos orientation), based on the laws of geo ress, and rationality, and heralds the tility to the United States. He thinks politics. "The center of continental creation of a new European empire, that Europe must seek a third way be Europe drifts toward the East, i.e., between the Eastern and Western em tween the United States and the Russia. As Europeans we are on the pires. And it deems the Soviet Union U.S.S.R., but if one had to choose, he side of the masters of the land, against its best ally in that direction. would choose to side with the Soviet the masters of the sea. . . . America "Deja vu"? The New Right's main Union, like GRECE. Recently, the is not a new Rome, but a new Car intellectual sources are the intellectual French Communist Party also talked thage. We always will be for Rome inspirers of the Hitler Nazi move of the "decline of the West," like [Russia], ag�inst Carthage." De Ben ment, the spokesmen for the "conser GRECE. . Pierre Vial stresses that oist explained that GRECE opposes vative revolution" like Armin Mohler GRECE wishes to overthrow "the Christianit�, because it is the common and the late Moeller Van der Bruck, bourgeois system" with "a common matrix for communism and liberal proponents of racialist theory based front of revolutionaries from the left ism, two kinds of "egalitarianism."

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