ABSTRACT
The emphasis on the indivisibility of race and identity and the need for ethnically-based states is a point of divergence between the European New Right and its closest ideological heirs and simultaneous influence on the alt-right, the European Identitarian movement. As the alt-right is a conglomeration of a number of pre-existing movements, it is no surprise that aspects of its ideology are rooted in longstanding far-right notions with origins outside of the United States. The broad Alternative Right’s rejection of liberal values, especially, can be traced back at least as far as the work of the Italian fascist philosopher Julius Evola who advocated anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, and radical Traditionalist ideas. In essence, Alain de Benoist and Champetier argue that globalisation, liberalism, and hypermodernism have led to the “eradication of collective identities and traditional cultures”19 and bemoan the “unprecedented menace of homogenisation” wrought by immigration, which – in blanket fashion – is held to be an “undeniably negative phenomenon.”
