Values and Programmes

Abstract

One might suppose that despite the confusion over culture, multiculturalism and National Socialism, at least the nation and nationalism would be beyond question in New Right thought. Certainly an assertive nationalism is a consistent feature of New Right political philosophy. Pierre Krebs offers one of the most aggressive portrayals of the renewed sense of nation which followed the demise of Marxism in the East and German unification and which now challenges the liberal order of the West. Krebs sees the revolution that swept away Marxism in the East as still having some way to go. It will reach beyond political unification and seek a more profound reconnection with German history. It will search out the ‘essence of what is German’ and the sacred things that today’s politicians, from whatever party, would let sink into oblivion. Through this revolution the founding myth of the people will burst forth, the myth of Germans’ origins, the source of what makes Germans special and different. Representatives of a chaotic one-world ideology, from liberals to Marxists are hostile to German unification because it is based on a law of identity that undermines cosmopolitan nonsense about all people being equal.¹