The latest essay by our English correspondent Seneca III is a study of the works of the French writer Guillaume Faye.

To Chaos and Beyond — Faye, on Fate and Futurism

by Seneca III

Preamble

“Are these the last days of Europe?”

— Walter Laqueur, from The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent, New York St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009.

This series of three essays explores the ongoing destruction of the West, of the origins of this debacle and of its enablers, both the deliberately misinformed and the malignant peddlers of Euro-ethnic cleansing. It also looks into a deeply perplexing future, mainly through the eyes and thought processes of one particular philosopher and political scientist, the French scholar Guillaume Faye.

With a doctorate in Political Science from the Institute of Political Science in Paris, Professor Faye was one of the principal theoreticians of the French ‘Nouvelle Droit’ in the 1970s and ’80s, prior to his developing an empathy with the Identitarian movement. He has also been a journalist at Figaro-Magazine, Paris-Match, Charlie Hebdo and Valeurs Actuelles.

Faye became known as the enfant terrible of the Nouvelle Droit. In 2000 he was sentenced to a heavy fine by a French court for his book ‘The Colonisation of Europe: True Discourse Against Immigration and Islam (L’Aencre). It was this action that first drew my attention. I have long held that anyone who brings down the wrath of the proponents of a proto-tyranny upon his or her shoulders is or has been presenting an idea or suggesting a course of action that is perceived as an existential threat to such totalitarian, monotheistic entities and their enforcement apparatchiks, and has hit the nail right on the head.

In essence such reactions are the typically Pavlovian responses to any ethnic, political or intellectually critical examination of an extant regime, and are an early sign of its desperation, a precursor to the full draconian reaction that will follow as the inevitable demise of its gratuitous construct begins. (A recent UK example of this is the British Establishment’s ridiculing, demonization and then what was, effectively, the elimination of the English Defence League — albeit a flawed and poorly-led organisation, but nonetheless one with a justifiable ethno-cultural raison d’être.)

Of his many books and publications three of Faye’s most seminal contributions to the dialectic are available in English language editions: ‘Why We Fight’ ^[A], ‘Convergence of Catastrophes’ ^[B] and ‘Archeofuturism’ ^[C]. The seven abstracts below from ‘Why We Fight’ are from his METAPOLITICAL DICTIONARY (187 entries in all) which constitutes its main thrust, although I would describe it as more of an encyclopaedia than a dictionary.

In the two short chapters following the FOREWORD and PREFACE, PRELIMINARY ELEMENTS and STRATEGIC PRINCIPLES, Faye deals with what he describes as ‘The Logic of Decline’, ‘Economic Principles’, ‘Islam Against Europe’, ‘The Dangers of European Disarmament’, ‘The Menace From the South’ and ‘Towards a Eurosiberian Strategic Doctrine’. A few short quotations from the Forward, Preface, Elements and Strategic Principles are interspersed throughout this essay with the intention of giving the reader a general flavour of those arguments as contained in the more substantial Abstracts.

Also from the Metapolitical Dictionary I have abstracted in Part I the definition of Archeofuturism, but I have left it without comment or elaboration as it is a complex proposition that begs a detailed analysis. Whilst Part II of the series will look at Convergence of Catastrophes, Part III will return to an examination of Archeofuturism — European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age.

Part I — Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance

In view of the recent destruction — or predominantly self-destruction — of Greece as an independent sovereign State, and in order to understand the inevitable destiny of fundamentally flawed socio-political engineering experiments implemented by hubristic power seekers, one has only to observe this event and the further slow, painful disintegration of the European Union.

Furthermore, on an even more disastrous scale, from Malmö to Chattanooga, from Rotherham to Madrid, from Boston to London to Paris to New York and to all points of the Western compass, a bloody tide of barbarism surges, seemingly free to do as it wills, and it is well on course to impose such destruction likewise throughout the whole of the Euro/Anglosphere.

In order to appreciate how this has come about we have to ask why those not of Islam but who enable its predatory advance either wilfully ignore or deny the old axiom that “a house built on sand will eventually collapse”, and its logical extension “a house built on quicksand will quickly disappear”. Should they not consider the reality that they will neither survive nor leave anything of substance whosoever triumphs in the conflict they have brought upon us, for when such a house collapses or disappears, into the vacuum so created there comes some form of chaos, its magnitude being directly proportional to the size and duration of their calamitous building project?

Many philosophers and political scientists, from the early Greeks on through the Enlightenment and beyond to the present day have attempted to dissect the causes of catastrophe and the subsequent chaos into which it leads. Mathematical treatments of Chaos Theory are well established, and this is not surprising in light of the fact that philosophy is at root as much a mathematical discipline as it is metaphysical, for it utilises symbolic logic in the form of both quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis of cause and effect in order to reach its conclusions. What methodology Faye employs in his work is not explained in the books so we can only speculate. However, George Boole, who first introduced the concept of Boolean Algebra (The mathematical Analysis of Logic, 1847 and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, 1854) predicated his theses upon the idea that variables could be represented as the values ‘true’ and ‘false’ by the use of the operators ‘AND’, ‘OR’, ‘NOT’, thus combining simple propositions into compound propositions, and was himself first and foremost a philosopher.

Abstracts and Quotations

(All bolds in block quotes are Faye’s or his editors’. Quotations in square brackets are from other sources. Footnotes and comments in italics are mine.)

ETHNIC CHAOS

A historical situation in which a people or civilisation loses its ethnic basis due to the mass immigration of aliens.

Ethnic chaos was a factor in the decomposition of the Roman Republic and Empire, Pharaonic-Egyptian civilisation and many ancient Greek cities. Europe is presently in the grip of a colonising settlement by overseas peoples. A civilisation disappears once it loses its original ethnic basis. It becomes a patchwork quilt in which any idea of a city, community and destiny is impossible.

Ethnic chaos signals the pure and simple disappearance of a people and a civilisation — and of true democracy — as all of the classical Greek philosophers warned.

An ethnically heterogeneous population — a kaleidoscope of communities — becomes an anonymous society, without soul, without solidarity, prone to incessant conflicts for domination, to an endemic racism (‘every multi-racial society is a multi-racist society’) — ungovernable because there’s no shared vision of the world. Ethnic chaos is an open door to tyranny.

In the name of multi-racialism, capitalism and democracy have made ethnic chaos part of their programme. Men are stripped of their attachments and remade as consumers, each interchangeable with the other, each without an identity.^[1] But this is stupid. Man never actually loses his memory or ancestral identity. A society of ethnic chaos leads in the long run not to prosperity, harmonious individualism or republican rule, but to political and social disorder. We’re now catching the first glimpses of this chaos. From it there will perhaps come the post-chaos — that is regeneration — a return to homogeneity.

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