Identitarian movement

Lambda symbol used by some Identitarian groups

The Identitarian movement is a pan-European socio-political movement started in France in 2002 as a far right youth movement deriving from the French Nouvelle Droite Génération Identitaire. Initially the youth wing of the anti-immigrant, far-right Bloc Identitaire, it has taken on its own identity and is largely classed as a separate entity altogether with the intent of spreading across Europe.

In Europe

In 2013 Markus Willinger, born in 1992, who grew up in Schärding, Austria and now is a student of history and political science at the University of Stuttgart wrote a manifesto entitled 'Generation Identity: A Declaration of War Against the '68ers', and translated into English from the German by Arktos and published in 2013. The book is considered the founding manifesto of the Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs.

German Identitarian at the PEGIDA march on 5 January 2015

The movement also appeared in Germany converging with preexisting circles centering on the magazine Blaue Narzisse. Drawing upon thinkers of the New Right and the Conservative Revolutionary movement such as Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt or the contemporary Russian Aleksandr Dugin, it played a role for the rise of the PEGIDA marches in 2014/15.

As their symbol the Identitarian movement uses a yellow Lambda sign.

In North America

In the United States, the term "identitarian" has come to be embraced by alt-right white nationalists as a self-designation, as a way of differentiating themselves from mainstream, colorblind conservatives.[1]

The term is used in a broader sense by political theorists like Adolph L. Reed, Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels to refer to any philosophy based primarily on social identity.[2]

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "‘Cuckservative’ — the conservative insult of the month, explained".
  2. ↑ Ross Wolfe, "On the term “identitarian”", On the term “identitarian”, Nov. 1, 2013

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