Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O. has begun a new diplomatic drive stressing moderation. Arafat went to Vienna last month for meetings with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Even if the P.L.O. were to recognize Israel's right to exist, however, Jerusalem would not accept the P.L.O. as the legitimate bargaining agent for the Palestinians. Begin, who was released from his hospital bed last week after treatment for a blood clot that has impaired his vision somewhat, is certain to rebel at any U.S. attempt to dignify the P.L.O. and bring it into the West Bank negotiations. Says...
...right governs, the left thinks,' says a familiar French dictum. No longer. A vigorous group of right-wing thinkers is now challenging the left's longstanding intellectual hegemony, proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich. The rise of this bold "New Right" has ignited the liveliest political debate in France since the advent of the New Philosophers, a group of disillusioned leftists who launched a blistering attack on Marxist dogma two years...
...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...
Equally hostile to capitalism, Marxism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition, New Righters look fondly back to pagan and Indo-European cultures for alternative social models. Explaining paganism's curious fascination for them, New Right Journalist Louis Pauwels says, "We do not wish to burn Bibles or churches, but their message is only part of the European tradition." Just as important, says Pauwels, are "the mores of the ancient pagan cultures and heroes like Prometheus and Faust, who show that man is made to conquer the world...
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...