The Dissolution of Modernism

Globalisation is not what Ernst Jünger called the “universal state,” <1> constituted by the progressive fusion of the “red star” and the “white star,” i.e., the East and the West. Globalization is the result of a modernisation which takes the form of a structural adjustment seeking to integrate each society in the world market. It is a process which presents itself as a response to the crisis of modernity stemming from the Enlightenment. <2>

<1> Jünger hinted that “the difference between the red and the white star is only the fluttering which accompanies the rising of a star on the horizon. Let it rise into the sky, and let unity be unveiled.” See L’Etat Universal (Paris: Gallimard, 1962), p. 35.
<2> Gustave Massiah, “Quelles Reponses a la Mondialisation?” in Après-demain (April-May 1996), p. 6.

Alain de Benoist, Confronting Globalisation (“Face a la Mondialisation,” translated by John Lambeth and Deborah Shair).


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