Jef Costello, American Renaissance, December 6, 2024

Renaud Camus is a French novelist and essayist who coined the term the “Great Replacement” in 2011 and has been in hot water ever since. On May 6, 2023, at the behest of the Vlaams Belang party, he delivered a speech entitled “What is the Great Replacement?” before the Flemish parliament in Brussels. An English translation of Mr. Camus’s remarks, read by someone else, is available as an audio file from Legatum Publishing.

The speech is highly interesting in that not only does Mr. Camus articulate very precisely what the Great Replacement is, he also exposes, in striking terms, the dishonesty of all attempts to deny that it is occurring. Still more interesting is Mr. Camus’s attempt to situate our understanding of the Great Replacement within a much broader intellectual context.

Mr. Camus argues, in fact, that the Great Replacement is an expression of the fundamental metaphysical assumptions of modern industrial civilization itself. The basic ideas of the speech are an encapsulation of the arguments he presents in his 2022 book La Dépossession: ou Du remplacisme global [Dispossession: or On Global Replacism].

At the beginning, Mr. Camus states that “It has gotten to the point where we could proceed in the negative and define . . . the expression ‘Great Replacement,’ by everything that the Great Replacement is not and by everything that its adversaries — who oppose the name but support the thing — say it is.” To begin with, Mr. Camus claims, the Great Replacement is not a “theory.”

The establishment likes to refer to the Great Replacement as a “conspiracy theory.” Indeed, Mr. Camus’s Wikipedia entry calls him a “French novelist and conspiracy theorist.” But the Great Replacement is no theory at all; it is a reality. The systematic replacement of indigenous European peoples by more fertile and aggressive foreigners is happening. Further, it is happening as a direct result of government policy, and with the knowledge and blessing of the policymakers.

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