Status Updates From The French Right: From De M...

Hippolyte Taine (summarizing liberal theory): 'The best social institutions are those best qualified to change man's nature, to destroy his absolute being, to give him a relative being, and to convert self into the common unity, so that each individual may not regard himself as one by himself, but a part of the unity and no longer sensitive but through the whole.'

de Maistre (should seem familiar to RSB readers): "A general throws his men between two enemy armies and he writes his king, I have split him, he is lost. His opponent writes to his king, He has put himself between two fires, he is lost. Which of the two is mistaken? Whoever is seized by the cold goddess. [...] the only difference is a purely moral one. It is imagination that loses battles."

From the introduction: "On the contrary, 'Jew' is for them an ideogram which serves as shorthand for certain attitudes and doctrines of which they disapprove. [...] ideas of liberty and democracy are 'Jewish'; corrupt finance [...], the rights of man [...]. All that tends to break down national difference [...] 'Jewish' means rotten, foreign, democratic, libertarian, anti-clerical, anti-militarist, Marxist.