Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Dream of Pan-European Empire
The purpose of this paper is to trace continuity in the attachment of the nouvelle droite to a homogeneous notion of pan-European identity since its birth in 1968. Like the nouvelle droite, early post-war neo-fascism and significant fascist elements in Italy were similarly obsessed with the decline of homogeneous pan-European or Western identities. Despite the ultra-nationalistic origins of historical fascism, early post-war neo-fascism and the nouvelle droite in different historical periods, the thread tying them together is the notion of a strong, unified, homogeneous, pan-European empire regenerated in defense against the dominant 'materialist' ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, social democracy, socialism, capitalism and communism.
Keywords: New Left; conservative revolution; empire; fascism; neo-fascism; nouvelle droite; pan-Europeanism
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Publication date: 01 December 2008
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