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...economic squeeze has had other unexpected consequences. Superchefs like Paul Bocuse were apprehensive when the Socialists imposed a 30% tax on business entertainment, but three-star restaurants are thriving as never before. "There was a downswing the first year," says Frangois Benoist, owner of Chez les Anges hi Paris. "But business recovered, and now is better than it's ever been." One possible reason: tighter currency export controls have prevented well-to-do French from spending their money abroad and compelled them, as it were, to eat it at home...
...complex theory such as E.O. Wilson's. Would one say that the genocidal policies of the Marxist Pol Pot regime "follow logically" form the writings of Karl Marx? Would one say that the Aryan superiority doctrine of the Nazis "followed logically" from the Superman statements of Neitzsche? Alain de Benoist, one of the espousers of the French "New Right" belief in genetic superiority, is also violently anti--Christian; does that mean that E.O. Wilson is anti-Christian as well? But all this could follow from the queasy logic of amalgam which the writers...
...basic premise of the New Right philosophy is a rejection of Rousseauist egalitarianism and the democratic ideals that follow from it. Writes Philosopher Alain de Benoist, 35, a founder and leading spokesman of the movement: "The enemy is not 'the left' or 'Communism' or 'subversion' but this egalitarian ideology whose formulas . . . have flourished for 2,000 years." New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley...
Like many leftist groups, the New Right traces its origin to the turbulent events of May 1968. In reaction to that upheaval of the left, Benoist and a number of similar-minded rightists organized a counterrevolutionary society called GRECE (a French acronym for Research and Study Group on European Civilization). The organization sponsored publications and seminars on such topics as racism, eugenics and Nietzschean ethics...
...Camus was saying that those who demand liberty and who then kill are no longer worthy of being loved. It is a message that is important to us today." Agrees New Philosopher Jean-Marie Benoist...