Identitarian movement

Lambda symbol used by some Identitarian groups

The Identitarian movement is a pan-European socio-political movement started in France in 2002 as a far right youth movement deriving from the French Nouvelle Droite Génération Identitaire. Initially the youth wing of the anti-immigrant, far-right Bloc Identitaire, it has taken on its own identity and is largely classed as a separate entity altogether with the intent of spreading across Europe.

Geography

In Europe

In 2013 Markus Willinger, born in 1992, who grew up in Schärding, Austria and now is a student of history and political science at the University of Stuttgart wrote a manifesto entitled 'Generation Identity: A Declaration of War Against the '68ers', and translated into English from German by Arktos and published in 2013. The book is considered the founding manifesto of the Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs.

In Scandinavia identitarianism was introduced by the now non-active organisation Nordiska Förbundet (Nordic Alliance).^[1] It then mobilised a number of "independent activist groups" similar to their French counterparts, among which could be mentioned Reaktion Östergötland and Identitet Väst, who performed a number of spectacular political actions, marked by a certain degree of civil disobedience. A first manifesto, aimed at defining the identitarian movement in Northern Europe, was also published.^[2]

German Identitarian at the Pegida march on 5 January 2015

The movement also appeared in Germany converging with preexisting circles centering on the magazine Blaue Narzisse. Drawing upon thinkers of the New Right and the Conservative Revolutionary movement such as Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt or the contemporary Russian Aleksandr Dugin, it played a role for the rise of the PEGIDA marches in 2014/15.

As their symbol the Identitarian movement uses a yellow Lambda sign.

In North America

The term is used in a broader sense by political theorists like Adolph L. Reed, Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels to refer to any philosophy based primarily on social identity.^[3]

See also

• Technological nationalism
• Identity politics
• Dark Enlightenment

Further reading

• Virchow, Fabian (2015). The "Identitarian Movement": What Kind of Identity? Is it Really a Movement?. Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States (Lexington Books). pp. 177–190.

References

1. http://www.nordiskaforbundet.se/
2. (2009) Identitet och Metapolitik, Nordiska Förlaget:Göteborg
3. Ross Wolfe, "On the term “identitarian”", On the term “identitarian”, Nov. 1, 2013

External links

• http://www.generation-identitaire.com/