Alain de Benoist (1943-)
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A French thinker repackaged old hierarchical, far-right ideas into a respectable-sounding form that now shapes politics from Moscow to Silicon Valley.
Who they are
Alain de Benoist (born 1943), a French philosopher and founder of the group GRECE in 1968.
What they do
He is the main architect of the 'European New Right,' attempting a cleaned-up intellectual revival of anti-equality traditionalism.
How it works
He drops the Nazi-era imagery of 1933-45 while keeping the underlying anti-egalitarian structure, and his ideas have significantly influenced Russia's Dugin and the American tech-right; he is cited approvingly by Curtis Yarvin.
Why it matters
The engine calls him 'the sanitizer' — he preserves the shape of an old far-right worldview while stripping off the offensive aesthetics, making it palatable again.
The engine's record — word for word
French philosopher, founder of GRECE (Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne) 1968, principal architect of the Nouvelle Droite / European New Right. Attempts a de-Nazified intellectual traditionalist revival that nonetheless preserves the structural continuities of anti-egalitarian traditionalism. Significant influence on Dugin's Russian Eurasianism and on NRx / tech-right American traditionalism. Cited positively by Yarvin. Report #73: the sanitizer — preserves the Order's intellectual morphology while explicitly disavowing the 1933-45 völkisch aesthetic.
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