Friday, March 14, 2014
Capitol (Omni Shoreham)
One of the striking things characterizing the development of Europe's Radical Right is the absence of ideology. Differently from the rise of fascism and national socialism which were accompanied by an intellectual conservative revolution which contributed in delegitimizing liberal democracy, current Radical Right wing movements act under an apparently intellectual 'vacuum'. Paradoxically, during the 1990's, the intellectuals of the French Nouvelle Droite had already identified the ideological opportunity of resurrecting the ideological basis of the Weimar Conservative Revolution for post modern times. Invoking 'differentialism' rather than racism , ethno-regionalism rather than nationalism, and an 'Europe of the peoples' replacing the idea of the European Union, they forecasted a new anti-liberal European order, relying on ethno democracies, 'free' of 'third world' immigrants, but sympathetic to 'third world' resistance to 'American' liberal globalization. This paper examines whether an hypothetical new 'Europe of its ethnic nations', Catalonia, Euskadi Scotland, Flanders, Padania, etc would contribute to the resurrection of a whole European ethno-regional 'exclusionist' nationalism which in this paper we define as 'multiculturalism of the right' or 'multi tribal' resistance to liberal multicultural society.
