„Nach den Büchern die Bomben“Benoist, Altwegg und die Lüge von 1980 https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/ausland/2023/benoist-und-altwegg/ #AlaindeBenoist #NouvelleDroite #Terroranschlag #ArminMohler #Frankreich #Ausland

Antidemokratisches Denken: Wie die ARD Faschismus salonfähig macht https://sciencefiles.org/2023/07/05/antidemokratisches-denken-wie-die-ard-faschismus-salonfaehig-macht/ #FeindederOffenenGesellschaft #AntidemokratischesDenken #antidemokratischesDenken #öffentlicherRundfunk #FeindederDemokratie #AlaindeBenoist #NouvelleDroite #NeueRechte #MaxBauer #AfD #NPD

French neo-fascists are celebrating the legacy of Dominique Venner, who killed himself 10 years ago this week with a gunshot to the head inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He provides us with a great illustration of two principles I think about a lot: 1. “Replacement” ideology is a direct corollary to colonial ideology, and 2. The reactionary warrior cult is, ultimately, a death cult.

Venner made his first big splash in the world as a member of the Organization Armée Secrète (OAS, Secret Armed Organization) in the early 1960s. The name is as apt as it is unimaginative: they were a clandestine group within the French army. More specifically, while I’m generally not crazy about using the word “terrorist” where it’s anything less than a slam dunk, it does apply pretty neatly to Venner’s crew. They tortured people and carried out assassinations and bombings in the hope of both impeding the Algerian independence movement and stopping De Gaulle (who they also attempted to kill) from letting Algeria go. For all that, Venner spent only a year and a half in prison.

So he was obviously an ardent advocate for European settler colonialism. Or, put another way, he was fine with demographic replacement, so long as it was the right kind of demographic replacement. And he knew exactly how violent that process was. He had seen it up close and personal. He had directly participated in it. Is it any wonder, then, that he was absolutely terrified of brown-skinned people, particularly Muslims, taking up space within France and reproducing at higher rates than white, Christian French people? He was very much invested in the idea that different populations couldn’t just peacefully coexist, but rather that one always had to dominate the other. The thought of losing the upper hand must’ve really kept him up at night.

Despite the fact that concepts like “ethnopluralism” (coined by Henning Eichberg, an admirer of Venner’s) and “the great replacement” caught on as buffers against charges of blunt racism, I don’t think it’s any exaggeration to say that the people who embrace those ideas most vigorously are also the ones most resentful of post-Enlightenment principles like universal human rights and equality, which logically (at least in theory) point toward anti-racism and anti-colonialism. These people know just how violent those institutions are, and their rigidly hierarchical worldview makes them dread being on the receiving end. They can’t stand the idea of not being on top, because they only see one, absolutely terrifying alternative.

After he got out of the army, Venner first went into organizing young nationalist militants for several years. He then became a historian, writing very extensively (not to say obsessively) about the history of firearms and warfare. He also wrote a biography of Ernst Jünger, whose legacy is complicated, but whose early writings present war as a transcendent experience and the height of human experience.

Venner’s legacy is one of promoting nationalist militancy, and its absolute dead-end finality couldn’t be better encapsulated than by a guy who wanted to protest against the possibility that other people might get married, so he killed himself in a gruesome and public way. His final statement, in the name of Christian values (“pro-life”!) and racial competition, was a bloody one in opposition to marriage equality. If the logic of your ideology leads you to conclude that a big, dramatic suicide is a reasonable expression of opposition to other people just doing their thing and being happy, then you clearly value controlling other people’s lives over living your own. What is that, if not a death cult?

At any rate, the article below was published right after Venner killed himself. It’s a solid, brief summary of a terrible person. Worth checking out.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/dominique-venners-final-solution

#Venner, #NouvelleDroite, #GreatReplacement, #neofascism, #ethnopluralism, #NotreDame, #colonialism,

#GeeksAnciens #politique #France #SylvainTesson #Homère #ExtrêmeDroite #Antiquité #RécupérationPolitique #GrèceAntique #NouvelleDroite

Last November in Paris, #Catholic priest Thierry Laurent, who is closely aligned with the Catholic far right, celebrated a mass dedicated to "the repose of the soul" of Charles #Maurras on the 70th anniversary of his death. During the homily, Laurent reportedly praised Maurras' thought and his movement's rejuvenation through far-right journalist/politician Eric #Zemmour.

It seems the Diocese of Paris has formally reprimanded Laurent for it. In a letter to him, the archbishop's office states that the mass was "unworthy of the duty to teach and sanctify Christian people". However, the only real punishment Fr. Laurent seems to be facing is the same one the Catholic church always uses when a priest does something terrible: transfer to another parish.

Maurras was the antisemitic leader of #ActionFrançaise, a proto-fascist, #monarchist, #integralist organization that sought to restore not only the monarchy, but also Catholic law. Even the Vatican condemned Action Française in 1926. When we talk about #ChristianNationalism, Maurras really was a pioneer who has been an inspirational figure for Germany's interwar far right, France's #NouvelleDroite, up to the alt-right and today's Christian nationalists.

Action Française was founded in 1899 by Catholic reactionaries largely in response to the Dreyfus Affair, which catalyzed a lot of modern French nationalism and gave lots of antisemites leeway to make their views public. AF supported the Vichy regime during World War II and, when the war ended, its paper was banned and Maurras was sentenced to life in prison (he received a medical pardon in 1951 and died in 1952). But AF never actually went away. Today, it's members number in the low thousands.

https://www.liberation.fr/societe/religions/un-cure-parisien-sanctionne-apres-une-messe-pour-charles-maurras-20230110_MM44MKQOIFEKHJJDYW5ITE4NTQ/

See also: https://www.liberation.fr/societe/religions/a-leglise-saint-roch-point-de-ralliement-des-cathos-dextreme-droite-charles-maurras-vaut-bien-une-messe-secrete-20221116_CM6Z27UD4FBFRNPKMH5L3V3DSA/