The French New Right: multiculturalism of the right and the recognition/exclusionism syndrome
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/ Alberto Spektorowski
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This article studies a seeming paradox the adoption of multiculturalist strategies and arguments by the neofascist European New Right. Why would neofascists adopt such a theoretical framework, and why has multiculturalism failed in Europe In this article, I argue that the European New Right employs a multiculturalism framework, which I define as a recognition/exclusionist one, in order to create a new discourse of legitimate exclusionism of nonauthentic European immigrants. In short, multiculturalism, by celebrating differences between ethnic and cultural groups, inherently admits that there exist such differences between individuals. This allows neofascists to distinguish between themselves and others, immigrants not sharing their cultural heritage, and to claim the need for protecting such a cultural heritage through exclusion of others. As this article attempts to claim, immigrants will not benefit from multiculturalism, but the right of the radical integralist in its different versions.