2003/02/01 by Alberto Spektorowski · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #French Historical and Cultural Studies #Ideology #Multiculturalism #Pluralism (philosophy) #Regionalism (politics) #Politics #Sociology #Political economy #Left and right #European union #Left-wing politics #New Right #Political science #Law #Epistemology #Democracy #Philosophy #Economics
paper · doi:10.1080/13569310306084
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This article deals with the ideological evolution of one of the most sophisticated intellectual right-wing groups that appeared in France and Europe during the 1970s. Despite its limited political influence the French New Right has not only shaped the ideological discourse of several right-wing groups in Europe but, paradoxically, has successfully penetrated the discourse of a post-modern Left. This article sheds new light on the synthesis of Right and Left. These ideas are the concept of a differentialist ethno-pluralism which, it is claimed, sets the basis for a right-wing theory of multiculturalism pitted against liberal multiculturalism, and the idea of ethno-regionalism which, it is claimed, provides a social and political content to the concept of right-wing multiculturalism. I demonstrate why and how the idea of cultural differentialism, which the New Right opposes to racial superiority, leads precisely to European assertiveness and technological superiority. The article also explains why this project is implemented within the framework of an ethno-regional Europe as a response to the liberal 'political and juridical union'. It is argued that precisely this shift to the left, and the new trend towards a Right-Left synthesis, should lead to renewed efforts to analyse whether the Left-Right synthesis that originated fascist ideology in the past can be reproduced, and in what form, in a post-industrial and post-nation-state society.