Alain de Benoist

French political philosopher. Journalist. Founding member and leader of the #Nouvelle_Droite. Editor of the journals @Nouvelle__Ecole & @RevueKrisis. 1943–?.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

I would like to note again out of necessity: this account has nothing to do with the real Benoist, as it is not curated or run by him at all. This is just an account that was made by one of his many readers. Benoist's only official account is this: @alaindebenoist.
--Editor.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Please note that most of Benoist' excerpts which are shared here with you are almost entirely taken out of context. Some of them might be taken from, say, an essay Benoist wrote 15–30 years go. The man wrote more than 5000 articles and 75 books, and gave more than 380 interviews.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

they are suggesting we adopt. Given these conditions, people feel that freedom of choice is nothing but bait. Voters have realised that they are being offered a choice within a set of alternatives, but no actual choice of alternatives. #Benoist

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

It is thus getting harder and harder to distinguish the options presented by one party from those of the others. The impression is that parties are all striving for the same goal and the same model of society, differing only (to some extent) in terms of the means

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Out of demagogy and a concern to please, candidates all end up saying much the same things to everyone, and their organisations turn into ‘free-for-all’ parties. Platforms are increasingly being based on surveys, which clearly give everyone the same results.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

A world where all are equal is not a world where ‘nothing is worth a life’, but a world where a life is worth nothing. #Benoist

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The spectacle of those who profess the ‘sacred’ character of human rights, even while flattering themselves for having suppressed all forms of the sacred in social life, is no less comical. #Benoist

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Alain Renaut has, not without reason, mocked these theoreticians who, after having decreed the ‘death of man’, nonetheless defend human rights, that is to say the rights of a being whose disappearance they themselves have proclaimed.

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Nicolas Cage starring as...Alain de Benoist

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

It represents the symmetrical opposite of the error of the metaphysics of subjectivity, which reduces the good to that which is good for me or good for us, the true to the judgment of one’s own conscience or to the personal. #Benoist

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily. Instead of deducing conscience from being, it proceeds in an opposite direction.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Universalism does not consist in treating things objectively but from an overarching abstraction from which a knowledge of the nature of things is supposed to follow.

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The true antithesis is not between capitalism and Marxism, but between a system in which the economy rules supreme (no matter in what form) and a system in which the economy is subordinated to extra-economic factors, within a wider and more complete order,

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

The abstract egalitarian principle ‘one man, one vote’ must be replaced with the more realistic and concrete principle ‘one citizen, one vote’. #Benoist

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Democracy must be founded not on the alleged inalienable rights of rootless individuals, but on citizenship, which sanctions one’s belonging to a given folk—that is, a culture, history and destiny—and to the political structure within which it has developed.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Liberty results from one’s identity as a member of a folk: the liberty of the folk commands all other liberties. In genuine democracies, citizens only possess equal political rights as members of the same national and folk community.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

while also operating outside the world of advertisement—has now reached striking proportions. Advertising and marketing have taken the place of propaganda. No despotic regime so far had managed to get people to so passively accept a similar Gleichschaltung. #Benoist

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Not only did the spread of democratic procedures fail to prevent the development of conditioning techniques, but the two phenomena went hand-in-hand. The standardisation of ‘opinions’ and behaviours through the language of advertising—which continues to be based on stereotypes,

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

“The surest way of getting elected with the majority of votes is to start by gaining the majority of Francs.”—Serge Kolm.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

. . . In liberal democracies, the power of people nominated or co-opted far exceeds that of the people elected. #Benoist

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Political power is but one form of power among others. Power in society is also exercised by economic bodies, cultural institutions, financial groups, media, etc., where the people in charge, who wield genuine power in terms of influence & decision-making, are also never elected.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

A few years ago, a leader of the LICRA stated, ‘It is no threat to freedom of expression to bring an end to the actions of an organisation that dares present itself as anti-democratic.’ This is tantamount to saying that in democracy, only democrats enjoy freedom of expression.

[Alain de Benoist @Daily_Benoist]

Many ‘liberals’ acknowledge each person’s right to express his opinions . . . provided these do not challenge the ideological assumptions to which they are accustomed.