Category talk:New Right (Europe)

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The European New Right and the New Right Coalition in the United States are not the same movements. The European New Right is more similar to the Paleoconservative wing of the New Right Coalition in the United States.--Cberlet 14:03, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Not according to the Minkenberg cite. I'll try for a CfD if I don't find information to the contrary. Intangible 15:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

This is a misinterpretation of the Minkenberg reference. Paul Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation are that segment of the New Right Coalition in the United States that most resembles the European New Right. However the Cultural Conservatism and Paleoconservatism of Weyrich and FCF is only a tiny sliver of the New Right coalition in the United States, which also includes neoconservatrives, libertarians, the Christian Right, business nationalists, corporate internationalists, etc., which are not similar to the cultural ideology and politics of the European New Right. Furthermore, most scholarly references explicitly state that the New Right in Europe and the New Right in the United States should not be directly compared and are substantially different. For example:

• "However, the label 'New Right' is potentially misleading. For the French nouvelle droit has little in common with the political New Right that emerged in the English-speaking world at around the same time."

Jonathan Marcus, The National Front and French Politics, New York: New York University Press, 1995, p.23.

[User:Intangible|Intangible]] is currently involved in several edit wars on several pages concering the topic of European far right movements--including one page that has been protected pending a discussion. Intangible has also refused mediation on one page. This is a continuation of an edit war. This category and its twin [[New Right (United States)]] are accurate, backed by scholarship, and deserves to remain.--Cberlet 20:04, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

From Minkenberg (2000, p. 178): "There are new groups of the radical right which try to influence public debate and the minds of people rather than voting behaviour. These groups—think tanks, intellectual circles, political entrepreneurs—are summarized as the New Right in the literature. In the United States, they include organizations led or founded by Paul Weyrich, such as the Free Congress Foundations and the Institute for Cultural Conservatives. In Europe the most prominent groups are the French Nouvelle Droite groups Club de l'Horloge and especially GRECE, led by philosopher Alain de Benoist, the German Neue Rechte, inspired by the the French counterpart but als by the Weimar Conservative Revolution, and the Italian Nouva Destra."

So I ask what misinterpretation I supposedly have made. Your definition of the New Right is heterogeneous, and thus not leaves a possibility for categorization at all! Intangible 20:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Note also that Minkenberg wrote in a refereed scholarly journal, and that Jonathan Marcus just wrote a book, without any scholarly refereeing. Intangible 20:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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Another Quote:

• "By rejecting Christianity as an alien ideology that was forced upon the Indo-European peoples two millennia ago, French New Rightists distinguished themselves from the so-called New Right that emerged in the United States during the 1970s. Ideologically, [the European new Right group] GRECE had little in common with the American New Right, which [the European new Right ideologue] de Benoist dismissed as a puritanical, moralistic crusade that clung pathetically to Christianity as the be-all and end-all of Western civilization."

Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1997, p. 211.

--Cberlet 20:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)