Article Title：Antisemitic Europe and the 'third way': The ideas of Maurice Bardeche
Abstract：
Maurice Bardeche is an important neo-fascist writer whose ideas derive from those of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle and Robert Brasillach. After 1945 he argued that right-wing thought had been ghettoized and even imprisoned by a post-Nuremberg liberal political establishment. In the face of a US military:and cultural occupation of Western Europe and an encroaching Communist Soviet menace, Bardeche argued for a united European 'third force' to confront these two enemies. His dream was of a fascist-ruled Europe that would regenerate and defend the continent and the West against Communism and liberalism. Organic and idealist fascist states, without the faults of Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy would implement a moral revolution, bolster economic affairs and prevent Europe being swamped by foreign goods, such as Asian electronics. He regretted Europe's membership of NATO and its being sucked into Cold War conflicts in the Middle East and in support of Israel. Europe's and fascism's enemies were blamed for all their ills, and a Jewish conspiracy was blamed for its campaign against the world whether in the guise of US financial power or through its control of Bolshevism, the latter being judged responsible for terrorism and subversion in the developing world. Bardeche was purely a warrior of the pen, and was important primarily for providing a link between fascism and neo-fascism and a training ground for new fascist writers in his journal Defense de I'Occident.
Keywords: antisemitism; Bardeche; Bradsillach; Drieu la Rochelle; fascism; France; Nazism; neo-fascism; racism; Vichy
DOI: 10.1080/00313220008559140
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