1/ From the Right, apart from individual developments, there is obviously nothing to expect. If today it has not moved entirely to the side of money, at least it does not stop maintaining a scarcely artistic blurriness around the omnipresent reality of capital.
2/ In this way, the customary reluctance it feels with regard to society is added to a complete incomprehension of the historical period in which we live. Except in some small circles, the Right has abandoned what in the past could have constituted its legitimacy:
3/ its fidelity to the ethic of honour, charity, and disinterestedness. The Right has come to possess and thereby it has been dispossessed. It has stopped reading Sorel and Proudhon. It prefers the predators of the CAC 40 to Bernanos and Péguy.
4/ Instinctively allergic to ‘Marxism’ & to ‘Communism’, it advocates the collaboration of classes—without ever having seriously read Marx (or Rousseau). The Right has become liberal, forgetting that it is the liberalism of the Enlightenment which began to bring about its defeat.
5/ On its margins it survives with its obsolete slogans, its outmoded nostalgias, and its fetishistic references. Restorationist (‘it was better before’), it invokes the past like an alibi and makes history a refuge and a consolation.
6/ Always hostile to ‘men in too large numbers’, it lapses into racism and xenophobia, and also into Islamophobia in the name of an improbable ‘clash of civilisations’ (which plays the classic role of a diversion in relation to class conflicts).
7/ It has become blind and deaf to what is happening before its own eyes. It exhausts itself in sterile agitations, perpetually committing the same errors and caricaturing itself. #Benoist
