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Guillaume Faye argues that, paradoxically, those who vocally oppose Nazism have inadvertently ensured its survival and even bolstered its mythological status.

This is the third part of Guillaume Faye’s essay ‘The New Ideological Challenges’, published in 1988. Also read parts one and two.

The countless admonishing speeches about racism, fascism, Nazism; the constant suggestion of the supposed rebirth of mass anti-Semitism; the repeatedly stupid association of the blonde, violent, racist, right-wing radical Aryan with his victim depicted in the form of a Jew or a Southerner contribute to cultivating and unfolding a kind of ‘negative Aryan myth’ in the public mind, which, however, affects us just as much as the ‘positive Aryan myth’. A parallel can be drawn in this respect: just as the Western and the people’s democracies strive to legitimise themselves, to overshadow their grand failures, and to wash off the blood that has been on their hands since 1945, so does our society not cease to celebrate its victory over Hitler and Mussolini, precisely to cover up the current issues it cannot concretely solve: ‘The womb of the disgusting beast is still fertile’, as per Brecht’s famous formula — the founding and legitimising myth of a society that can only justify itself by presenting itself as a bulwark against a…

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Translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister

Dr. Guillaume Faye

Guillaume Faye, born in 1949, obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris. He was a principal organizer of the French New Right group GRECE in the 1970s and 80s, while also pursuing a career in journalism for magazines such as Figaro and Paris-Match. After leaving GRECE in 1986, Faye worked as a broadcaster for Skyrock radio and France 2 TV's Telematin program. He returned to political philosophy in 1998, publishing Archeofuturism, and went on to produce several challenging books. Faye passed away in 2019.

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