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Nouvelle Droite is a school of
political thought founded largely on the works of
Alain de Benoist and
GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Culture).
Etymology and history
The term
Nouvelle Droite was first mentioned in the French media in 1979, in a media campaign against
GRECE and the
Club de l'Horloge. Some authors have traced it to
Le Figaro editor and
GRECE member
Louis Pauwels, who wrote in the
France Soir of March 29, 1979:
"My positions are those of what we can call the 'new right', and have nothing to do with the bourgeois, conservative, and reactionary right."
Paul Piccone, editor and founder of the New Left journal
Telos wrote in 1993:
"What makes the French New Right particularly interesting is that's doesn't propose a bizarre reversal of positions, but the end of the traditional contraposition of Left and Right in favour of a new political paradigm."}}
The Broader European New Right
Nouvelle Droite arguments can be found in the rhetoric of many major
radical right and
far-right parties in Europe such as the
National Front in France, the
Freedom Party in
Austria and
Vlaams Belang in
Flanders (
Belgium). This, despite the fact that Alain de Benoist and certain other ideologues of the
Nouvelle Droite, since the late 80s, had issued statements against some populist far-right movements.
Although mostly known in France, according to Minkenberg, the
Nouvelle Droite borders to other European "New Right" movements, such as
Neue Rechte in
Germany,
New Right in the
United Kingdom,
New Right (Netherlands)|Nieuw Rechts in the
Netherlands and Flanders,
Nuova Destra in
Italy,
Imperium Europa in
Malta, and the
New Right of
Paul Weyrich and the
Free Congress Foundation in the
United States.
This claim is disputed by most other scholars, who argue that the European New Right has some superficial similarities to certain sectors of the
New Right in the United States, but not the entire New Right coalition. The European New Right is similar to the
Cultural Conservatism movement led by
Paul Weyrich and the
Free Congress Foundation, and to the related traditionalism of
paleoconservatives such as
Pat Buchanan and the
Chronicles (magazine) of the
Rockford Institute (Diamond, Himmelstein, Berlet and Lyons). However these subgroups of the New Right coalition in the United States are closely tied to Christianity, which the Nouvelle Droite rejects, describing itself as a
pagan movement. Both Jonathan Marcus, Martin Lee and Alain de Benoist himself have highlighted these important differences with the US New Right coalition
As Martin Lee explains,
Neopaganism
The political ideology of the New Right has affinities with some
ethnocentric currents of
neopaganism, in particular
Germanic neopaganism or
Asatru. Some proponents go as far as describing the
Nouvelle Droite as an essentially pagan movement. The philosophical background uniting Neopaganism and the
Nouvelle Droite is the occultist or esoteric literature of "
Integral Traditionalism" of
René Guénon,
Julius Evola and others. A Belgian proponent of "Integral Traditionalist" Asatru is Belgian neo-fascist and high priest
Koenraad Logghe.
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