Decolonialism of the Far Right

The essay argues that far-right thinkers have adopted decolonial language, recasting Europe, Russia and Hindu nationalism as indigenous victims of a globalist, liberal or "colonial" order. Renaud Camus has praised anti-colonial texts, including those of Frantz Fanon, and claimed indigenous Europe needs its own FLN. Alain de Benoist and Alexander Dugin, the leading European New Right intellectuals, shifted from earlier white nationalism to defending "the right to difference" and a "pluriverse" of civilizations. The author contends this coexists with Carl Schmitt's contrast between a deterritorial, maritime imperium and a territorial Grossraum, which lets territorial expansion, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, be framed as anti-colonial.