ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the new right (NR), a meta-political lecture and discussion group that meet regularly in central London to discuss a range of esoteric ideas drawn from a variety of political and ideological tendencies that are traditionally associated with extreme right-wing politics. It presents a brief historical overview of the location within the broader development of the new right tradition in Continental Europe. Turning now to the broad ideological contours of the ideas presented at NR meetings, the group initially stated on its website that it took its intellectual inspiration from five roughly hewn categories of political thought: the primordial traditionalists, the revolutionary conservatives, the Nouvelle Droite the Eurasianists and anarchism of the right. Through its lectures and educational/cultural activity, the NR, in its attempts to cultivate an intellectual/cultural elite, is following a reading of Italian Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci whose ideas about waging a war of position is arguably central to the New Right model.
