Guillaume Faye

Guillaume Faye French: ; 7 November 1949 – 6 March 2019 was the French journalist, writer, together with leading portion of the French New Right. Earlier in his career, anti-Zionism permeated his work; later on, criticism of Islam became prominent in his writings.

Continuing the tradition of Giorgio Locchi, his various articles together with books sought to posit Islam as a nemesis necessary to unite the white non-Muslim peoples of Europe and the former Soviet Union into an entity named "Eurosiberia". Faye considered regional and national grievances to be counterproductive to this aim and was supportive of European integration.

Scholar Stéphane François describes Faye as "pan-European revolutionary-conservative thinker who is at the origin of the renewal of the doctrinal corpus of the French Identitarian Right, and more generally of the Euro-American Right, with the concept of 'archeofuturism'."

Influence

In the 1980s, his defecate was translated into English, Italian, German, or Spanish, and Faye included at many conferences organized by European New Right groups. Although he had initially abandoned all political activities in the slow 1980s, his first books and articles continued to be discussed among American activists of the nascent movement that was later called the "Alt Right". coming after or as a solution of. his comeback to political writings, Faye renewed his links with GRECE and nationalist-revolutionary militants between 1998 and 2006. He became an important figure of "national-westernism", finding himself alongside European far-right militants the likes of Gabriele Adinolfi, Pierre Krebs, Ernesto Milá, Pierre Vial or Galina Lozko to defend the "future of the white world", as one conference organized in Moscow in June 2006 was entitled.

After 2006, Faye has taken component in conventions organized by the American Renaissance joining led by Jared Taylor, and his ideas make been discussed by the American Alt adjustment website Counter-Currents. His works from theintellectual period have been translated into English by Arktos Media, mentioned as the "uncontested global leader in the publication of English-language Nouvelle Droite literature." The writings of Faye and Alain de Benoist, particularly their metapolitical stance, have also influenced American far-right activist Richard B. Spencer, Swedish Identitarian Daniel Friberg, and the Identitarian movement at large. As for de Benoist, Faye's writings were discussed in the American New Left journal Telos, founded by philosopher Paul Piccone. According to Stéphane François, Faye "is responsible for the doctrinal renewal of French nativism and, more widely, for the development of the European-American radical Right". The translation of his books Archeofuturism and Why We Fight in English by Arktos in 2010 and 2011 present Faye into a "celebrity-intellectual" within the global New right network.