White Guilt and the Demise of Western Civilation
Jean Raspail wrote in 1973 a masterpiece, entitled Le Camp des Saints (The Camp of The Saints). Sadly, the English language version is no longer available in print.
Greg Johnson wrote a wonderful review of the novel, Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints, Counter-Currents, 29 November 2024.
Johnson writes that "The Camp of the Saints is a beautifully written book, filled with aphoristic turns of phrase worthy of Nietzsche. The narrative is gripping. The characters are vividly drawn and feel real."
He continues, noting that "The Camp of the Saints is obviously a dystopian novel. The purpose of every dystopian novel is to be wrong."
Regrettably, it wasn't wrong. Johnson observes that "Raspail went to his grave in 2020, at the age of 94, with the gnawing feeling that he had been right. The Camp of the Saints was written as a prophecy, but with each passing year, it reads more like the daily news."
Johnson cuts right to the chase, stating:
The Camp of the Saints also belongs to another genre: the murder mystery. The victim is the white race. But Raspail leaves it to us to unravel the identity of the killers and figure out how the crime was committed. If we can do so, maybe we can halt the same crime that is happening to our race today.
For it is the White race who inherit and are obligated to preserve the Western Civilization built by their ancestors, and who in Raspail's novel - and in today's Europe - fail to defend their civilization against destruction.
In the novel, a million starving Indians embark on a voyage to invade Europe, ultimately targeting France. Johnson writes:
When the fleet approached the French coast, trust in the system evaporated, and millions fled. While their lips paid homage to universal brotherhood, their feet carried them to safety. All of them asked, “Why won’t other people take a stand to protect our lives and property and civilization itself - and, of course, allow the Left to martyr them for doing the right thing?”...
Once the fleet landed and France descended into chaos, the government was overthrown by a Leftist junta. The new government then used the French military to suppress the resistance of the native French. France was finished as a white society. It became legal to rob Frenchmen and to rape French women.
Johnson observes that:
If whites do not find the will to stem the tide, future historians, no doubt Chinese, will debate why the white race allowed itself to be extinguished. Throughout the book, Raspail invites us to consider different explanations...
Why are we hated to the point of genocide? It is complicated, but whites are not just hated for our crimes, real and imagined, but also for our virtues. The beauty of our race and our creations; the power of our science, technologies, and armies; our wealthy, free, and orderly societies: all of these inevitably stir feelings of resentment and envy, the desire to take what we have - or, barring that, to make us lose it.
Johnson calls the spiritual weakness that enables White genocide "white guilt," noting that "White guilt means that whites are somehow responsible for the suffering of non-whites all over the world."
As in Raspail's novel, today's invasion is facilitated by a Leftist minority. Johnson asks how the Left gained so much power, observing that:
The Right foolishly allowed the Left to take over religious, cultural, and educational institutions as platforms to preach white guilt. To the Right, such ideas seemed at best high-minded and impracticable, at worst stupid, crazy, and evil. But never for a minute did they take them seriously and think that they might matter someday.
Johnson agrees with Raspail in that "the ultimate cause of the crisis is moral. Therefore, it must be fought primarily on moral grounds."
The false premises of White guilt must be overturned in order to preserve the greatness of Western Civilization.
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The Camp of the Saints, by Paul Craig Roberts, 16 November 2022.
The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail, The Social Contract, Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 1993-1994).
The Camp of the Saints Revisited, by John Tanton, The Social Contract, Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 1994-1995).
The Emergence of a 'Classic', by Wayne Lutton, The Social Contract, Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 1994-1995).
The Traditionalism of Jean Raspail, The Social Contract, Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 1994-1995).
Book Review of 'The Camp of the Saints' by Jean Raspail, by Carol Joyal, The Social Contract, Volume 10, Number 4 (Summer 2000).
Jean Raspail on the Friendly Responses He Has Received From the Powerful - An excerpt from the new introduction of the latest French edition, by Jean Raspail, The Social Contract, Volume 25, Number 3 (Spring 2015).
'The Camp of the Saints' Revisited - Modern critics have justified the message of a 1973 novel on mass immigration, by K.C. McAlpin, The Social Contract, Volume 27, Number 4 (Summer 2017).
On John Tanton and The Camp of the Saints, by Michelle Malkin, The Social Contract, Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 2019).
Parable or Reality - Thirty Years after 'The Camp of the Saints', by Jean-Paul Gourevitch, The Social Contract, Volume 14, Number 2 (Winter 2003-2004).
Trump: London, Paris Have "Opened Their Doors To Jihad", Zero Hedge, 3 May 2024.
Read The Camp of the Saints
Note: The English language version of The Camp of the Saints was subsequently published by The Social Contract, which has closed their doors. Publishing rights for the book have reverted to the original French publisher. Here are some sources for the novel:
The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail, 1973 edition, Archive.org.
Camp Of The Saints Audio, Archive.org.
Download and read The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail, 1973 edition, Archive.org.
Download and read The Camp of the Saints in PDF format, Vibdoc.com, 1973.
Download The Camp of the Saints, Anna's Archive, 1994.
The Camp of the Saints, Scribd.
The Camp of the Saints, Open Library.
As of March 2023, Amazon offers The Camp of the Saints Kindle Edition.
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