by Guillaume Faye

Jul 02, 2024

Guillaume Faye argues that leftists favor immigration due to ideological guilt and political strategy, aiming to reshape the cultural and demographic landscape of France for both moral absolution and electoral advantage.

This is an excerpt from Guillaume Faye’s Archeofuturism.

Why do all leftists favour immigration? Why is it that the more people are to the left, the more they welcome unrestrained immigration? The reasons invoked are both sophistic and ridiculous:

First, the needy and refugees must be let in to uphold the honour of France, an open society, and the place where human rights were first formulated. According to this view, being a patriot means making one’s fellow countrymen support aliens who benefit from public aid more than they themselves. Being a patriot thus means transforming the anthropological, ethnic and cultural substratum of one’s country within one generation — an unprecedented phenomenon in French history. The second reason invoked is that, because of their birth rates, native Frenchmen are no longer able to provide a generation turnover; hence, immigrants are needed. This is a magnificent sophism indeed: why not simply take measures to increase the birth rates of the native French? Well, because natalism is seen as a political and ideological sin. So let us turn now to the real reasons behind immigrationism. The first is a psycho-ideological reason, while the second consists of a political plan.

First reason: the Left, which spearheads immigrationism and is followed in this by a guilt-ridden Right, suffers both ideologically and morally from a sort of binary complex: xenophilia and ethno-masochism — the idealisation of African and Asian foreigners, and hatred of its own roots. This is reminiscent of the syndromes affecting the antibourgeois Marxist bourgeois, anti-clerical defrocked priests, and anti- Semitic Jews. If applied to leftist ideologues, political psychoanalysis would reveal that these people regard the ‘White man’ as being intrinsically guilty and stained by the unforgettable and unpardonable sin of having exploited non-European peoples (through colonialism, racism, etc.). Immigrationism and theories promoting the idea of a multiracial, mixed society thus represent the work of being redeemed for our sins.

We must make up for our faults by disappearing as a homogeneous folk and allowing ourselves to be colonised and dominated. (By ‘us’ here I don’t mean leftist ideologues, but the hateful native European masses). One example for all: for work reasons, I often visit the world of showbiz. In the course of an interview with the beautiful and talented actress Béatrice Dalle, who has a perfectly leftist outlook and a pseudo-rebellious style, I asked her, ‘Why don’t you have any children?’ She answered, ‘They would make me fat. But I love children and would be happy to adopt some, if possible.’ I then asked, ‘You mean you would like one of those Romanian or Ukrainian orphans?’ Her answer — no further comment needed — was, ‘No. I don’t want to adopt any European children. Only coloured ones, from Africa or Asia.’ What an interesting psychoanalytical case this would be: might it be that the ethno-masochism and xenophilia of the Left stems from a racial obsession?

The second reason behind immigrationism has to do simply with political and demographic plans. According to official statistics on naturalisation, birthright citizenship and lax immigration laws, the number of voters of immigrant origin is constantly growing. Now, the vast majority of these people will vote for socialist parties and the far Left, which they regard as their ‘protectors’, while the native French working class — the traditional reservoir of votes for the Left — will turn their backs on them and choose the National Front. The plan here is a very simple one: to increase the population of immigrant voters; and then, to make it easier for them to vote by automatically enrolling them on electoral lists (this used to be a voluntary, ‘civil’ process). This is a short-term plan, but one that effectively serves the career interests of politicians of the Left and far Left, i.e., to ensure a lasting majority of votes to preserve their own power. For demographic reasons, right-wing voters will be a minority for a long time.

If our folk is not good enough — so the reasoning goes — then let’s replace it with another.