2024-05-10 07:00:11
The review of magazines. The extreme right recycles and creates ideas that they now manage to disseminate to a growing public. Its content must be clearly explained. If we want to effectively combat these ideologies, we must know and understand them. There Crier Review therefore offers in its latest issue, “Radical Rights: 50 Shades of Brown” (160 pages, 15 euros), a dive into this worrying universe.
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In the introduction, Joseph Confavreux, co-editor in chief of this review, and Ellen Salvi, journalist at Mediapart in charge of the extreme right, note that these movements are united by a common trait: their success is largely explained by the fact that they respond to a diffuse desire for transgression which pre-exists within a part of public opinion.
“Biological hierarchy”
By multiplying provocations, the far right claims to embody an uncompromising freedom, but above all seeks to impose its ideas. The review has therefore brought together different portraits of intellectuals to show where this worrying desire to return to a fantasized old order leads ideologically. Mathieu Bock-Côté, host of CNews, where he took over from Eric Zemmour after his departure in 2021, is one of the figures in this gallery. Mediapart journalist Fabien Escalona presents him as a “smuggler” which sets up American and Canadian controversies in France. Slayer of the“American woke imperialism”or even“immigrationism” which, in France as in his native Quebec, would distort the nation, he does not fear announcing the rise of a “terror”, worthy of 1793, who would like to see the West atone for its faults, such as colonization. Totalitarianism would even lie in wait. Faced with critics who accuse him of his linguistic excesses, Mathieu Bock-Côté overplays the « victimisation ».
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The virulence of the statement goes up a notch with Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), a great figure in the American libertarian movement, whose Crier Review also does the portrait. This author, controversial even within his camp, is no less appreciated by Argentine President Javier Milei, eager for brutal cuts within the state apparatus. Rothbard’s project aims at nothing less than establishing “a capitalism without a state governing all human fields”. What does it matter if this reinforces inequalities. Murray Rothbard even welcomes this, believing that the market would thus make visible the so-called biological hierarchy that exists within the population. Javier Milei does not openly subscribe to these ideas. His supporters especially appreciate his rebellion against a state deemed incapable. Libertarian thinking ultimately serves to mobilize voter anger. Who will be surprised that the far right is inspired by it?
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