• DOI:10.14321/JSTUDRADI.8.1.0045
• Corpus ID: 144052579

The New Right and Metapolitics in France and Italy

@article{Casadio2014TheNR,
  title={The New Right and Metapolitics in France and Italy},
  author={M. Casadio and M. P. Masterson},
  journal={Journal for the Study of Radicalism},
  year={2014},
  volume={8},
  pages={45 - 85}
}

• M. Casadio, M. Masterson
• Published 27 February 2014
• History
• Journal for the Study of Radicalism

T he label New Right (Nuova Destra in Italian or Nouvelle Droite in French), coined by the French press in the course of an intense media campaign during the summer of 1979, has long been a source of controversy and misunderstanding for both the protagonists of that political phenomenon and the various scholars who have dedicated themselves to the study of the history of the movement and its place in the politological catalog. Marco Tarchi, the foremost intellectual of the Nuova Destra in Italy, has shown how neither studies in the field of political science or historiography were able for many years to reach a consensus on a clear definition of the political phenomenon; rather, it was often associated with ideological subjects from the most heterogeneous of origins, “from Forza Italia to Skinheads, from Venetians to Reagan, from Thatcher to Sgarbi, from the Allenza Nazionale to Le Pen, from the anarcho-capitalists of the Northern League, from the Republican Visentini, who in the 1980s extolled the virtues of a technocratic government, up to intellectuals of Neofascist origin who made technocracy one of their favorite targets.” This innate confusion makes it difficult to argue with Pierre-Andre Taguieff, one of the foremost scholars of the phenomenon, when he claims that today this label seems “empty,” MASSIMILIANO CAPRA CASADIO