Author : Zeev Sternhell
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Release : 1988
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Page : 50 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 from voters
On pp. 9-28, surveys the status of the Jews in France since the French Revolution, and the development and impact of right-wing antisemitism in the last 100 years. The main power of the right has always derived from its ability to infuse French society with a wide spectrum of positions that offer an alternative to the tradition of the Revolution. Antisemitism is an integral component of that attempt to offer an alternative. The Vichy regime was, in fact, a right-wing revolution. At present, the radical right and the conservative right are cooperating in a broad network of activities, with the same ideological basis as their predecessors but couched in more sophisticated terms. They advocate an Indo-European tradition as opposed to the Judeo-Christian, which is seen as the root of all evil and the source of the degeneration of the Western world. In terms of dissemination (mainly in the press) the ideology of the radical right is now a tremendous success story. Pp. 29-44 contain discussion of Sternhell's paper by six respondents and Sternhell's reply.