Guillaume Faye

Guillaume Faye ([faj]; 7 November 1949 – 6 March 2019) was a French journalist, writer, and advocate of identitarianism as part of the French New Right. Continuing the tradition of Giorgio Locchi, Faye was instrumental in positioning Islam as the nemesis of the Western world.His various articles and books suggested an incoherence of ideology in postwar Europe and a quest for a nemesis necessary for the templative fascism to win support. Earlier in his career, anti-Semitism permeated his work; later on, criticism of Islam took that role.

With a PhD from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Guillaume Faye was one of the major theorists of the French New Right (Nouvelle Droite) in the 1970–80s. A former member of Alain de Benoist's New Right organisation GRECE, he took part in the splitting of the organization in 1986 alongside Yann-Ber Tillenon, Tristan Mordrelle, and Goulven Pennaod. At that time he was close to nationalist neo-Pagans. Simultaneously, he made his way up as a journalist, namely in Figaro Magazine, Paris-Match, VSD etc. Faye also led a journal called J'ai Tout Compris! (I Understood Everything!) which closed down soon after.

In 1987, Faye withdrew from politics. In 1990, he took part in Skyrock radio station as 'Skyman'. He also appeared in Telematin episodes on the France 2 TV channel from 1991 to 1993. In 1998, he returned to politics after publishing some essays on various subjects such as culture and religion. Several of these essays were collected as Archeofuturism, which was published in English translation in 2010 by white nationalist publisher Counter Currents publishing.

In 2000, Faye relaunched J'ai Tout Compris! as a monthly edition where he expresses his ideas: Faye predicts an abolition of European societies due to massive immigration, and a total war between the West and the Islamic world, endorsing the "clash of civilization" theory.

He took part in the Rivarol journal and regularly collaborated with Pierre Vial's Terre et Peuple neo-Pagan group. He also participated in conferences abroad, such as with the US nationalist group American Renaissance on 3 March 2006.

Faye has been criticized for his "extremism" by Alain de Benoist in a March 2000 interview published in the Italian review Area, close to the Alleanza Nazionale.

In 2007, he published La Nouvelle question juive (The New Jewish question) in which he strongly criticized Holocaust deniers and many Third Positionists and anti-Zionists (such as Alain Soral or Christian Bouchet), who he accused of sympathy for Islamism. As a response, he was accused of being a "national-Zionist".

Several of Faye's books have been translated into English and published by Arktos. These include Archeofuturism – European visions of the post-catastrophic age (2010), Why we Fight – manifesto of the European resistance (2011) and Convergence of Catastrophes (2012).

Faye's most renowned work is the two-part book Archeofuturism and Archeofuturism 2.0. The first book, Archeofuturism- European visions of a post-catastrophic age, published originally in french in 1998, discusses the catastrophic effects multiculturalism and globalism is having on Europe, and proposes a solution for the so called "post-catastrophic age". He analyses the European-, and specifically the French New Right, and identitarian movement, and concludes that most divisions and infighting within are pointless, insignificant disputes, proposing their ideological unification in order to achieve a common goal. He debates and ultimately rejects traditionalism, suggesting a fusion of Evolian- traditionalism with a forward-thinking ideology for Europe to regain its, in his eyes, now lost glory, while simultaneously rejecting modernity. His thinking can be seen as a metapolitical third-positionism.

Archeofuturism 2.0, which was published in 1999, serves as the fictional story accompanying the first Archeofuturism. it is a science-fiction novel which begins in the year 1914, in pre-World War 1 France. The book jumps through time, sometimes jumping thousands of years into the future, in order to depict Faye's view of what a post-catastrophic West would look like. Battista, the protagonist throughout most of the novel, is a young french woman who agrees to participate in a Russian time-travel experiment. After the experiment goes bad, Battista finds herself in a post-catastrophic Europe, with warlords and their followers replacing the old world governments. The novel again jumps thousands of years into the future and explores a new, advanced species that has replaced humans after their extinction, discovering the remains of their evolutionary ancestors.

After a long battle with cancer, Faye died on 6 March 2019.