NEW CULTURE NEW RIGHT

New Culture New Right is the first Englishlanguage study of the identitarian movements presently reshaping the contours of European politics The studys focus is Alain de Benoists GRECE Groupement de Recherche et dEtude pour la Civilisation Europeenne which Paul Piccone of Telos described as the most interesting group of continental thinkers since the existentialists of the 1950s and which elsewhere is seen as the leading school of contemporary Rightwing thought Made up of veterans from various nationalist traditionalist far Right and regionalist movements the GRECE began as an association of French intellectuals committed to restoring the crumbling cultural foundations of European life and identity Due to the quality of its publications and its philosophically persuasive reformulation of the Right project it attracted an immediate audience By the late 1970s it had recruited an impressive array of Continental thinkers to its ranks In Italy Germany Belgium and a number of other European countries there have since emerged organizations and publishing concerns either directly linked to the Parisbased GRECE or involved in analogous endeavors As a result of these diffusions GRECEstyle identitarianism has come to form the chief ideological alternative to the regnant liberalism The European New Right to which the GRECE gave birth is new however not in the modernist sense of being novel but in the traditionalist sense of reappropriating an origin whose meaningful possibilities remain open for realization Such a revolutionary return to Europes roots has never seemed so urgent After a half century under the liberaldemocratic regimes imposed by the United States in 1945 Europeans now face extinction as a race and a culture In opposition to the ethnocidal forces of the American Occupation and its European collaborators New Rightists appeal to the primordial in their peoples heritage aiming to awake a spirit of resistance and renaissance in them The result as documented in this