Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance [Paperback]

This book has two major parts: first, a summary of new right beliefs; second, and perhaps more interesting, a "Metapolitics Dictionary" in which Faye defines terms used in politics according to the values of the New Right.

If you want to understand post-1945 conservatism, these definitions are essential.

Most of them involve re-defining terms that were re-defined away from their historical meanings by leftist academics, politicians and media figures. For example, most people are oblivious to the true meaning of the word "nationalism." Faye corrects this and other mistakes.

He also contributes new meanings and new concepts that reveal political issues as their most important parts to a New Right thinker; for example, the definition of metapolitics itself. Conventional politics involves a democratic leadership looking to see what people are doing, what the economy is doing, what's popular, etc. and reacting to that. Metapolitics means that societies develop new ideas through cultural values, and then government and people in tandem go after those. It's a refreshing change from the advertising, pandering and demagoguery that defines Western politics at this time.

The concise definition of New Right values and call to arms is something every political movement needs, which is a bare bones statement. He could pare it down even further because in such a statement, one is no longer trying to "prove" anything and is instead trying to convince the converted to organize their thinking in productive, focused ways.

Together, these two parts make for one of the best and most powerful introductions to New Right (or American Paleoconservative, which is closer to New Right than contemporary American conservatives) thinking. Even if you hate the right wing with all of your heart, there's a lot to learn from this relatively small volume.

[...] we are engaged with an enemy who threatens the very essence of our being: the inviolable right to be and become what we are, with an identity embedded in the legacy of our ancestors, whose biographies tell the most important part of world history" (Dr. Pierre Krebs in the Foreword on page 23).

This book may become one of the most important books written from a European perspective, considering the fact that it carries within it the potential to expose "political correctness" for what it really is: "soft totalitarianism" (and not really very soft either, considering how it seethes into every aspect of our lives), and replace it with a positive vision of our own making. As Dr. Tomislav Sunic pointed out in his seminal book Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right, totalitarianism in the West (as opposed to the Soviet-variant which killed the body) kills the soul and air-conditions Hell, making the populations of European-descended nations into docile consumers whose only interest these days appear to be hedonism and the lowest imaginable culture available. Against this slow death of Europe, the Frenchman (or "Gaul", as he would presumably brand himself) Dr. Guillaume Faye proposes a positive identitarian vision of a grand federated "Europe of regions" from Lisbon to Vladivostok, from Malta to Iceland: soaked in the high- and folk-culture of Europe; both Traditionalist and Futuristic at the same time. Dr. Faye has written a whole book on this positive European vision of his, which recently came out in English for the first time: Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age. This particular book translated and introduced by the seminal Dr. Michael O'Meara, author of two classic books on these subjects himself: New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe and Toward the White Republic, contains within it both an introduction to identitarian thought and a thorough contextualization for the ideas within, and in addition the main part of the book is a work of brilliance by Faye: an Identitarian dictionary! The dictionary contains entries ranging from "Anti-racism" to "Mental AIDS", from "Biopolitics" to "Promethean", including essentially the very core of "Identarianism" (wondering what this word means? You'll get a definition in the book!) from one of the few European intellectuals that dares challenge the holy cows of our time head-on.

The point of Dr. Faye is that it is time identitarians leave what O'Meara name their "political ghetto" (I would rather say "mental ghetto", for the doors are now so ajar it is up to us to fling them wide-open), and challenge the authorities of our time on their own turf: the "Kulturkampf" and the war of the words has recently intensified. This book will give the reader the power to define his own reality, using positive words from a brilliant mind, instead of using the definitions and "new-speak" of what can hardly be named anything else than our enemies, conjured up to harm us as a people and break our will to life. The book aspires to (in the words of Michael O'Meara): "[...] lay the metapolitical foundations for such a unification - by designating and defining the key ideas and ideology that will make it possible" (page 10). By defining our own reality in this sense, identitarians will wield one of the most powerful weapons available: the indomitable mind that nothing can assail or conquer, aloft as it is in a positive enthusiasm for what is at the same time European, traditional and futuristic. I'm not always on the same page as Faye in his anti-Islamism nor his attacks upon De Benoist (though he often has a point about sterile intellectualism), but considering that he is writing from the French Republic, I guess it is hard to imagine the realities down there from the relative calm of Scandinavia. Still, to complete the picture, the prospective reader would be well-served by reading Dr. Kevin MacDonald's take on the mechanisms that led us to this situation, since it will complement Faye's volume nicely: The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements.

A Europe threatened not only by the ethnic implosion of her own people, culture and environment, but the death of her very soul, obviously has need of something positive to counter the prevailing atmosphere of mental and physical plague. Although most Europeans as of now would rather prefer to sit in their couch whilst watching TV and not speak of such uncomfortable matters, that may very well change quickly once the pay-check dries up or the availability of food declines, happenings that are right around the corner, if we are to believe Dr. Faye and those of his ilk. Once that moment of truth comes, Europe as a continent and Europeans as a people had better be ready to defend and promote their own identity, otherwise there are more than enough other peoples whom will gladly fill that role. To serve this purpose, Dr. Faye has here given the prospective reader a large part of that readiness, and I urge the prospective reader to acquire it no matter the current political, religious or cultural viewpoint of his or hers. In days such as these with the sky gloomy and dark despite what may appear to the majority as sunshine, there may well come a time sooner than we think when the necessity of this book will be clearer than day. Five stars for this classic.

This book explains why Marshal Pétain refused to fight, why Alsace-Lorraine, pardon, Elsass-Lothringen, rightfully belong to the Reich, and why hook-nosed Charles De Gaulle was really an agent of Perfidious Albion (read: the Jews). It also explains why Fichte was right in opposing Emperor Napoleon, that beast of revelation. And all this, in a book written by a Frenchman! This in itself should make it interesting reading for Völkisch patriots everywhere (including in Elsass). The splendid German eagle at the front cover should also call forth the right patriotic reflexes.

It's unclear why an effeminate French would want to write a Reichsdeutsche pamphlet of this kind. But then, it's possible that Guillaume Faye's real name is Standartenführer Elsass Lothringen, LOL.