Of Alain de Benoist
Source: Barbadillo
Signor Alain de Benoist, in some environments, we tend to oppose two notions that everyone talks about today: identity and sovereignty. Nel Front National, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen would have represented the first, in opposition to Florian Philippot, which above all defends the second. Such opposition seems legitimate to her?
“Interviewed a few weeks ago by Causer magazine, Marine Le Pen said: "My project is intrinsically patriotic because it defends the sovereignty and identity of France in the same movement. When you forget one of the two, and the bar". So, we don't cheat. Because they should see themselves in the identity and sovereignty of opposing ideas, when they are complementary? Sovereignty without identity is but an empty shell, identity without sovereignty has every possibility of transforming into ectoplasm. So you don't need to separate them. One and the other, Furthermore, they are part of freedom. To be sovereign is to be free to decide your own policy. Preserving one's identity implies, for a people, to be able to freely decide the conditions of one's own social reproduction".
While identity is a necessarily vague concept, sovereignty is no longer easy to define?
“Less than it seems. The “one and indivisible” sovereignty recalled by Jean Bodin in The Six Books of the Republic (1576) it has little to do with sovereignty based on subsidiarity and the principle of sufficient competence, of which Althusius speaks in 1603 in his Politica methodice digesta. Bodin's approach is eminently modern. It implies the nation-state and the disappearance of the distinction that was previously made between power (power) and the authority or dignity of power (authority).
Sovereignty according to Bodin has this dangerous thing: making the sovereign a being who could not depend on anyone other than himself (individualistic principle), it is blind to natural communities and oppresses every limit to despotism: everything that is an obstacle to the prince's decision is considered an attack on his independence and absolute sovereignty. As, the purpose of the political is lost sight of, which is the common good. Popular sovereignty is, Furthermore, other than national sovereignty or state sovereignty. The first establishes the legitimacy of political power, while the others concern the field of action and methods of action of this power. Jacques Sapir, for his part, has recently distinguished social sovereignism, identity sovereignism and freedom sovereignism "which sees in the sovereignty of the nation the guarantee of the political freedom of the people". Identity sovereignty, he noted, it is not at all incompatible with the neoliberal order of things, while national and social sovereignism naturally refuses its protection.
We must also not forget that European sovereignty could very well exist, even if for today it is just a dream. The drama, from this point of view, it is not that nation-states have seen the disappearance of entire spaces of their sovereignty (politics, economical, tax, financial and military), but that this has been lost in the black hole of the Brussels institutions without ever having been brought back to a higher level".
What can I say, At that time, of identity, today it has become a claim and a slogan, ma della quale è possibile dare le più differenti definizioni?
“Che sia individuale o collettiva, l’identità non è mai unidimensionale. Quando ci definiamo attraverso uno o l’altro dei suoi aspetti, diciamo solo che è la dimensione o il tratto distintivo della nostra identità che consideriamo più importante per esprimere ciò che siamo. Un tale approccio contiene sempre un parte di arbitrarietà, anche quando si basa su dati che possono essere empiricamente verificati.
Un individuo deve prestare maggiore importanza alla sua identità nazionale, linguistics, cultural, religious, sessuale, professionale? Non c’è una risposta che emerge con forza. Per un popolo, l’identità è inseparabile da una storia che ha plasmato la propria socialità. The identity claim or protest appears when this sociality seems threatened with dissolution or disappearance. It's about, At that time, to fight to perpetuate shared lifestyles and values. But don't fool yourself: identity reveals itself even more than it is experienced, otherwise we risk falling into fetishism or necrosis. For individuals as well as for peoples, it is the capacity for creation that best expresses the perpetuation of the personality. As Philippe Forget wrote, “a people does not express their genius because they are endowed with an identity but manifest an identity because their genius activates it”.
(da Boulevard Voltaire bvoltaire.fr) [Translation by Manlio Triggiani]
