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Introduction
“English only!”
Drives me nuts. Drives others on varying degrees of the political middle and left nuts.
But it’s an echo of what Johann Gottlieb Fichte said to his fellow Germans living under the cultural, political, and - with Napoleon - military occupation at the beginning of the 19th century.
It also has echoes of the Maccabees, the devout Jews who faced torture and death under the Seleucids as the successors to Alexander the Great tried to force them to
give up the (in their minds, anyway) the God-revealed cultural identity that
made them a people obedient to God’s Torah for a homogeneous, empire-unifying
Hellenistic culture.
Now… play nice and have fun. :-)
What Constitutes a Nation? (Contemporary)
This manifesto remains the only attempt to date by GRECE, the primary New Right
organization in France, to summarize its principles and key concepts. It was
written in 1999 by Alain de Benoist, GRECE’s founder, and Charles Champetier on
the occasion of GRECE’s thirtieth anniversary. It offers a strong argument in
favor of the right to difference among cultures and civilizations, and the
right of peoples to defend themselves from cultural homogenization. It also
offers a vision of a regenerated Europe which will find its strength in a
return to its authentic values and traditions, in opposition to the new
imperialism of multiculturalism and the global marketplace. Alain de Benoist
(b. 1943) is the primary philosopher of the European ‘New Right’ movement. He
attended the Sorbonne, studying law, philosophy and religion. He is the author
of dozens of books, including The Problem of Democracy and Beyond Human Rights,
published in English translation by Arktos, and gives frequent lectures around
the world. He lives in Paris. Charles Champetier (b. 1968) is the former editor
of Éléments, one of GRECE’s periodicals. He continues to write on subjects
related to the New Right.
Author: Alain de Benoist (1999)
What Constitutes a Nation? (19th Century)
Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity
nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its
political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it
governs. This includes, depending on the particular manner of practice, the
language, race, culture, religion, and customs of the "nation" in its
primal sense of those who were born within its culture. This form of
nationalism arose in reaction to dynastic or imperial hegemony, which assessed
the legitimacy of the state from the top down, emanating from a monarch or
other authority, which justified its existence. Such downward-radiating power
might ultimately derive from a god or gods (see the divine right of kings and
the Mandate of Heaven).
Fichte made important contributions to political nationalism in Germany. In his
Addresses to the German Nation (1808), a series of speeches delivered in Berlin
under French occupation, he urged the German peoples to "have character
and be German" — entailed in his idea of Germanness was antisemitism,
since he argued that "making Jews free German citizens would hurt the
German nation."[56] Fichte answered the call of Freiherr vom Stein, who
attempted to develop the patriotism necessary to resist the French specifically
among the "educated and cultural elites of the kingdom." Fichte
located Germanness in the supposed continuity of the German language, and based
it on Tacitus, who had hailed German virtues in Germania and celebrated the
heroism of Arminius in his Annales.[57]
