Where Have All The Fascists Gone?

by Tamir Bar-on

The Intellectual European New Right (ENR), also known as the nouvelle droite, is a cultural school of thought with origins in the revolutionary Right and neo-fascist milieux. Born in France in 1968, it situated itself in a Gramscian mould exclusively on the cultural terrain of political contestation in order to challenge the apparent ideological hegemony of dominant liberal and leftist elites. It also sought to escape the ghetto status of a revolutionary Right milieu wedded to violent extra-parliamentary politics and battered by the legacies of Fascism and Nazism. This study traces the cultural, philosophical, political and historical trajectories of the French nouvelle droite in particular and the ENR in general. It examines the ENR worldview as an ambiguous synthesis of the ideals of the revolutionary Right and New Left. ENR themes related to the loss of cultural identity and immigration have appealed to anti-immigrant political parties throughout Europe. In a post 9/11 climate, as well as an age of rising economic globalization and cultural homogenization, its anti-capitalist ideas embedded within the framework of cultural preservation might make further political inroads into the Europe of the future.

Genres: Politics

252 pages, Hardcover

First published August 20, 2007

Reviews

[Orhan · Rating 3 out of 5]

as political analysis it's worse than useless liberal inanity, but as an intellectual/historical overview of the French new right and fellow travellers it does a good job. recommended for that.

[Sami Eerola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Where thorough book on the European New Right (ENR) and how it is a neo-fascist movement. This book is very illuminating and precise in its arguments. The major problem is that it is very repetitive and goes way too much in details about the movements, meaning that this is very heavy and partially boring read.

But if you can read all of it, you are rewarded with sound arguments and a holistic knowledge on the ENR and can see how current political movements are influenced by it