Éléments

Not to be confused with Elements (journal).

Éléments
EditorRobert de Herte
CategoriesIdea magazine
FrequencyBi-monthly
Founded1973
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
Websiterevue-elements.com
ISSN1251-8441

Éléments (French pronunciation: [elemɑ̃] ⓘ) is a French bi-monthly magazine launched in September 1973 and associated with the Nouvelle Droite. It is published by the white nationalist thinktank GRECE.

History

Initially serving as the internal bulletin of GRECE, an ethno-nationalist think tank led by Alain de Benoist, the magazine began its public circulation in September 1973 as the general public showcase of the organization.[1]: 180–181 [2] Michel Marmin became its first president, followed by Pierre Vial in 1983, then by Jean-Claude Bardet [fr]. In 1991, Charles Champetier [fr], then aged 24, became the magazine's president.[1]

In 2017 the web television TV Libertés started to broadcast Le Plus d'Élements, a talk show hosted by Olivier François in collaboration with Éléments.[3][4]

Following the murder of Darya Dugina in August 2022, Éléments posted a tribute to Dugina which compared her to Salman Rushdie and also referred to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during his country's invasion by Russia, as a "clown in a khaki t-shirt" (French: le clown au tee-shirt kaki).[5][6]

Audience

In the early 1990s, Éléments had around 5,000 subscribers, mainly from the well-educated elites, along with an audience of university students. A 1993 poll revealed that 35 per cent of the magazine's subscribers were politically close to the Front National.[7]

According to scholar Tamir Bar-On, "Éléments generally appeals to GRECE's younger, more militant audience. Éléments might also be more populist and nationalist than the more aristocratic Nouvelle École", another magazine launched by GRECE in 1968.[7]

Spin offs

There have been several editions of Éléments. The Russian version, Elementy, was launched by Aleksandr Dugin and was published between 1992 and 2000.[8] It also had an Italian version and a German version, Elementi and Elemente, respectively.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Taguieff, Pierre André (1994). Sur la Nouvelle Droite: jalons d'une analyse critique (in French). Descartes et Cie. ISBN 978-2-910301-02-6.
  2. ^ Milza, Pierre (2002). L'Europe en chemise noire: Les extrêmes droites européennes de 1945 à aujourd'hui. Fayard. ISBN 978-2-213-65106-4.
  3. ^ de Vitry, Alexandre (2018). Sous les pavés, la droite. Desclée De Brouwer. ISBN 978-2-220-09564-6.
  4. ^ François, Olivier (22 May 2017). "Le plus d'Éléments n°1 : La nouvelle émission de TV Libertés". Éléments (in French).
  5. ^ Eysseric, Pascal (21 August 2022). "Notre hommage à Darya Douguine". Éléments (in French).
  6. ^ Méheut, Constant (24 August 2022). "Daria Dugina built ties with the French far right". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  7. ^ a b Bar-On, Tamir (2007). Where Have All the Fascists Gone?. Ashgate Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7546-7154-1.
  8. ^ Bar-On, Tamir (2012). "The French New Right's Quest for Alternative Modernity". Fascism. 1 (1): 20. doi:10.1163/221162512X631198.
  9. ^ Anton Shekhovtsov (July 2009). "Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right à la Russe". Religion Compass. 3 (4): 697–716. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00158.x.