Nouvelle Droite, sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s.
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Nouvelle Droite began with the formation of Groupement de recherche et d'etudes pour la civilisation europeenne, a French group guided largely by the philosopher Alain de Benoist, in Nice in 1968.
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Nouvelle Droite had previously been a member of the ultra-nationalist Federation des Etudiants Nationalistes and involved with the racialist Europe-Action journal, both of which have been characterised as reflecting ND ideas in their "embryonic form".
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Nouvelle Droite sought to change the values and assumptions of French society in a similar way, by shifting the prevailing ideology without the need for any electoral victories.
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The Nouvelle Droite has revered the Italian far right thinker Julius Evola, who remains a potent symbol in the movement.
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Nouvelle Droite has distinguished itself from the mainstream right by embracing anti-capitalist, anti-American, pro-Third World, anti-nationalist, federalist, and environmentalist positions which were traditionally associated with left-wing politics.
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Nouvelle Droite was deeply indebted to ideas drawn from the New Left movement.
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Nouvelle Droite's ideas have been discussed by the American Alt Right website Counter-Currents, and the writings of Faye and de Benoist, especially their metapolitical stance, have influenced American far-right activist Richard B Spencer.
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Nouvelle Droite developed a presence in the United Kingdom, where the term "New Right" was more closely associated with the Thatcherite policies introduced under the Conservative Party administration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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The Nouvelle Droite's ideas were pursued in a more sustained way in Britain when far right activist Michael Walker launched the National Democrat magazine in 1981, renaming it The Scorpion in 1983.
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Nouvelle Droite felt that the Nouvelle Droite thinkers could aid the British far right by challenging two of its "sacred cows": biological racism and conspiracy theories.
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Identitarian Movement UK launched in 2017 espouses the ideas of the Nouvelle Droite citing Guillaume Faye and Alain de Benoist as inspirations.
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Nouvelle Droite has been the subject of various studies since its emergence in the 1970s and had gained a wide range of enemies as well as some unexpected supporters.
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