This is oddly prescient. Despite its name, the New Right has nothing to do with neoconservatism, libertarianism or old-fashioned conservatism. Its roots lie in the realisation of fascist intellectuals that a return to power was impossible until the cultural atmosphere had been sufficiently changed. This involved a deep reverse engineering and repackaging of the fascist legacy, most prominently in the French Nouvelle Droite.

Under the lead of Alain de Benoist, the ND allowed fascists to think of themselves as something other than defeated. Instead of resentful losers, they were keepers of the faith during the interregnum: our current society of liberal democracy, cosmopolitanism, mixed economy, and human rights. When these false idols are discredited, the faithful would guide European civilisation back to its rightful path.

Taking this into consideration, left-wing anti-liberalism assumes a new importance. Democratic rightists such as myself may roll our eyes when James Lovelock says fixing global warming requires the "temporary" suspension of democracy, and fan our armpits when Sue Blackmore frets in the Guardian about whom "we" will allow to live and who to die. We can do this because it is tacitly understood that such people are phoneys. Neither Lovelock nor Blackmore have the power to back up their statements, nor the will to get the power, nor the nerve to use it if they did. But what do you make of a statement like this:

Hitler's racism, however, is only one form of racism [...] There are other forms of racism - cultural (asserting that there are high and low cultures), civilisational (dividing people into those civilised and those insufficiently civilised).

This might seem a standard piece of post-modern, left-wing drivel. It is, however, taken from The Fourth Political Theory, by Alexander Dugin, the Russian New Right theorist who believes in a Eurasian empire "from Dublin to Vladivostok", and that the Waffen-SS was "an intellectual oasis in the framework of the National Socialist regime". Though in fairness, Dugin also glorifies Stalinist Russia.