After having gained a central place within the extreme right, the fantasy of the
"great replacement" infiltrates an increasingly large part of the Frenchpolitical landscape. To demolish this theory, the truth of the numbers isinsufficient. We must tackle its ideological root: the division of the world intoincompatible and rival "races". ---- To define it quickly, the conspiratorialfantasy of the "great replacement" claims that a demographic reversal is underwayin Europe, where the "originalpopulations" (including white) are on the way tobecoming a minority in the face of massive immigration (mainly African or Arab,and Muslim) organized or even orchestrated by a "replacement power" whoseidentity fluctuates according to theories.For several years, demographers and journalists have demonstrated, withsupporting figures, the inanity of this theory, with an approach intended to beneutral and rational: no, France is not collapsing under an excessive migratoryflow, and no, the islam is not becoming the majority religion in the country[1].However, battling demographic and immigration statistics is a double-edged sword.Of course, we can demonstrate the lies of the far right. But we can also findourselves in the uncomfortable posture of the politician who pleads that the"threshold of tolerance" has not yet been reached [2]. But a double convictiondrives us. First, that there will never be "too many" immigrants, thatindividuals and peoples must be free to move around and live in peace whereverthey want.Then, that what is at stake is not a rational debate on figures, but anideological opposition between a racist, individualist and nationalist vision ofthe world, and a united, internationalist and anti-racist vision.If the modern incarnation of the theory is attributed to the writer Renaud Camus,the fantasy of submersion by foreign forces is an old theme on the far right. Theidea irrigated colonial thought and, in a text of 1900, the nationalist writerMaurice Barrès already warned about "the invasion of our territory and our bloodby foreign elements who aspire to subdue the national elements", evoking a nationin decline, birth rate at half mast, threatening immigration and radicallyincompatible cultures.Beyond France, the international far right has also produced its own versions ofthese theories. In his manifesto, the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik evoked,for example, "Eurabia", a theory according to which a plot would seek to mergeEurope and the Arab and North African countries. In the United States we findsince the end of the 1990s the theory of White Genocide developed by whitesupremacists.The "great replacement" is therefore not the fine and methodical analysis of thereality it claims to be, but the umpteenth incarnation of the fears and hatred offascist thinkers.Deconstruct a vision of the worldTo deconstruct this theory, it must be attacked at its root: the idea of adivision of humanity into deeply incompatible racial groups. If the defenders ofthis theory claim to be based on cultural differences, the "great replacement" isactually based on the idea of the existence of a white race superior to othersthat should be defended and whose purity should be preserved. facing the blackand Arab populations (modestly described as extra-European by the readers ofCamus). For example, the far-right weekly Causeur illustrated a few months agoits one "Smile, you are big-replaced" by a photo of babies with dark skin, frizzyhair or slanted eyes, much too young for the cultural argument is understandable.The theory is also based on an idea of war of civilizations, according to whichpeople could only live in conflict. This vision of a humanity doomed to anendless war of all against all serves in particular as an argument to justifyIslamophobic speeches claiming an insurmountable incompatibility between thepractitioners of Islam and a supposed French identity seen as immutable and uniform.And the key, the Jewish plotAnother major aspect of the "great replacement" is the idea of an organizedproject, orchestrated by shadow agents. Barres's theses were primarilyanti-Semitic, fantasizing about a Jewish plot that would seek to destroy theFrench nation and replace its elites to seize power. Renaud Camus has withdrawnthis idea to focus on the "clash of civilizations" with Muslim culture. In thisversion, the "Islamo-leftist" elites are seen as the allies (aware or not) ofthis "replacement", while the immigrants are seen both as dangerous invaders andas pawns in a plot that sets them apart. outrun.However, this development did not lead to a real break with anti-Semitism, andJewish figures such as Georges Soros or Jacques Attali are regularly cited asalleged actors in the replacement plot. We remember the slogan "Jews will notreplace us" ( "Jews will not replace us") at the rally neo-Nazi Charlottesvillein 2017 in the United States.Playing on the deepest and most violent fears and affects of reactionary thought,the "great replacement" theory and its various embodiments have been a recurringelement in the ideological paths of far-right terrorists in recent years. Thekillers of the El Paso, Christchurch, Pittsburgh and Oslo attacks notably allcited these theories as justifications for their actions, with the Christchurchkiller even naming his manifesto The Great Replacement.Faced with the number of deadly acts that this theory has already caused, we canonly be extremely worried to see it taken up by more and more actors in politicallife. The theory has become an acceptable object of debate on the right, but alsoin the most right-wing part of the French left: Arnaud Montebourg estimated inOctober that it "corresponds to a certain number of phenomena".When they are too prominent to directly incite violence, the proponents of thetheory generally call for "remigration", an extreme right-wing neologismdesignating the deportation of migrant populations, or even French and non-whiteFrench women! Under these slick and administrative terms hides a racist anddeportation agenda.N. Bartosek (UCL Haute-Savoie)To validate[1]For example: "The fantasy of the demographic" great replacement "", Le Monde,January 23, 2014; "What to say to your brother-in-law who believes in the 'greatreplacement' ? », L'Obs, January 9, 2018; "The great replacement villain" TheDétricoteuses / Mediapart, 1 stFebruary 2017.[2]In an interview in December 1989, President Mitterrand estimated that theFrench "tolerance threshold" towards foreigners had "been reached in the 1970s".https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Argumenter-contre-le-fantasme-du-grand-remplacement_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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