Alain de Benoist and the New Right

Part 3:

In order to describe it, I would use the expression of “the populism of the people” (Vincent Coussedière), this populism that doesn't identify itself with any political movement and that organizes itself outside of the unions. It's the party of those who have no party, the party of the victims of globalization, of those who have been victims of a triple political, social, and cultural exclusion for years, of those that we've ignored, humiliated, made invisible, who take the stage so that we recognize their existence. An anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois movement? Doubtlessly not consciously, but how could the popular classes and the middle classes in the process of decline, who are still bearers of “common decency” and know that “there are things that should not be done”, feel solidarity with a liberal bourgeoisie that ceaselessly displays a real class contempt for them?

The Yellow Vests' Movement has certainly been the carrier of “economic” demands from the start, but very quickly they gave way to more urgent demands (“Macron, resign!”, the people's referendum initiative). To reduce it to a pure demand for increased purchasing power, to a simple “social movement” as we've known, would be a serious error. In the past, many revolts started with simple fiscal grievances, before transforming into movements with unexpected extents. Let's remember the Boston Tea Party in 1773, which announced the war of American independence! You're certainly right to say that we must radically change our vision of the world in order to liberate ourselves from liberalism. But we will not reproach the Yellow Vests for not having read Nietzsche, Louis Dumont, or Baudrillard! Their movement is a tremendous symptom. The same causes always producing the same effects, maybe we must say: a general repetition.

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