Social:Kalergi Plan
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The Kalergi Plan, sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy,[1] is a far-right, antisemitic, white genocide conspiracy theory.[2][3] The theory claims that Austrian-Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, creator of the Paneuropean Union, concocted a plot to mix white Europeans with other races via immigration.[4] The conspiracy theory is most often associated with European groups and parties, but it has also spread to North American politics.[5]
Origins
The conspiracy theory stems from a section of Kalergi's 1925 book Praktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism"), in which he predicted that a mixed race of the future would arise: "The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes[lower-alpha 1] will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals."[1][6] Modern far-right individuals seek to draw relationships between contemporary European policy-making and this quote.[1]
Austrian neo-Nazi writer Gerd Honsik wrote about the subject in his book Kalergi Plan (2005).[7]
The conspiracy theory
The independent Italian newspaper Linkiesta investigated the conspiracy theory and described it as a hoax which is comparable to the fabricated antisemitic document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[8] The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Kalergi plan as a distinctly European way of pushing the white genocide conspiracy theory on the continent, with white nationalists quoting Coudenhove-Kalergi's writings out of context in order to assert that the European Union's immigration policies were insidious plots that were hatched decades ago in order to destroy white people.[9] Hope Not Hate, an anti-racism advocacy group, has described it as a racist conspiracy theory which alleges that Coudenhove-Kalergi intended to influence Europe's policies on immigration in order to create a "populace devoid of identity" which would then supposedly be ruled by a Jewish elite.[10]
Recent history
In 2019, the right-wing nonprofit organization Turning Point USA posted a photograph on Twitter in which a person was holding a beach ball that featured text promoting this conspiracy theory. The tweet was deleted soon after.[11][12]
See also
- Great Replacement
- The Camp of the Saints
- Miscegenation hoax
Footnotes
- ↑ Kalergi uses the German word Kasten, which means "castes" and not "social classes".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gaston, Sophia (November 2018). "Out of the Shadows: Conspiracy Thinking on Immigration". Henry Jackson Society. https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Out-of-the-Shadows-Conspiracy-thinking-on-immigration.pdf.
- ↑ "EXPOSED: For Britain and the "White Genocide" Conspiracy Theory". 29 August 2022. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/04/18/exposed-for-britain-and-white-genocide-conspiracy-theory/. "large groups of people being radicalised daily and hourly, by far-right and neo-Nazi propaganda and a ubiquitous belief in wild conspiracy theories such as the Kalergi Plan".
- ↑ "TPUSA Shares Photo with Visual Nod to 'White Genocide' Conspiracy Theory which revolves around the philosophy and political organizing of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an early 1900s Austrian politician who founded and presided over the Paneuropean Union. Some credit Kalergi for inspiring the later formation of the European Union". 12 April 2019. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tpusa-shares-photo-with-visual-nod-to-white-genocide-conspiracy-theory/.
- ↑ "Organization Candace Owens Represents Shares, Then Deletes, Photo Promoting White Genocide Conspiracy Days After Her Testimony". 12 April 2019. https://www.newsweek.com/candace-owens-white-genocide-turning-piint-1394703. "Believers in the Kalergi plan think that Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austrian politician in the early 1900s, constructed a plan to destroy white people in Europe by encouraging immigration"
- ↑ "Qué es el "plan de Kalergi", la teoría conspirativa que usan los partidos de ultraderecha contra la Unión Europea" (in es). BBC Mundo. October 22, 2018. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-45841641. "It is the conspiracy theory known as "Kalergi's plan", which, for just over a decade, has been circulated among the members of several European nationalist and far-right parties"
- ↑ Coudenhove-Kalergi, R. N. (1925) (in de). Praktischer Idealismus. Vienna-Leipzig: Paneuropa-Verlag. pp. 22–23. https://archive.org/details/Coudenhove-Kalergi-Praktischer_Idealismus-1925/page/n23/mode/2up. "Der Mensch der fernen Zukunft wird Mischling sein. Die heutigen Rassen und Kasten werden der zunehmenden Überwindung von Raum, Zeit und Vorurteil zum Opfer fallen. Die eurasisch-negroide Zukunftsrasse, äusserlich dem altägyptischen ähnlich, wird die Vielfalt der Völker durch eine Vielfalt der Persönlichkeiten ersetzen"
- ↑ "Che cos'è – o sarebbe – il "Piano Kalergi"" (in it). Il Post. January 16, 2018. https://www.ilpost.it/2018/01/16/piano-kalergi/.
- ↑ "Cos'è il piano Kalergi, la bufala dei migranti che uccideranno gli europei" (in it). Linkiesta. September 28, 2015. https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2015/09/28/cose-il-piano-kalergi-la-bufala-dei-migranti-che-uccideranno-gli-europ/27568/.
- ↑ "Day of the trope: White nationalist memes thrive on Reddit's r/The_Donald". Southern Poverty Law Center. 19 April 2019. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/19/day-trope-white-nationalist-memes-thrive-reddits-rthedonald. "With respect to Europe, the mythology of the “Kalergi plan” plays a similar role in constructing the “white genocide” narrative. Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was an Austrian noble and early advocate of European integration. White nationalists mine his writings for evidence that the European Union is the culmination of a nefarious “plan” for white genocide put into motion decades ago."
- ↑ "EXPOSED: For Britain and the "White Genocide" Conspiracy Theory". Hope Not Hate. 18 April 2019. https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/04/18/exposed-for-britain-and-white-genocide-conspiracy-theory/. "racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories have since developed that allege that Coudenhove-Kalergi devised a long-term scheme to undermine the white race by encouraging immigration into Europe, creating a populous devoid of identity who would supposedly be easily ruled by Jewish overlords."
- ↑ "Group Candace Owens represents shares post inadvertently promoting white genocide conspiracy days after her congressional testimony" (in en). 2019-04-12. https://www.newsweek.com/candace-owens-white-genocide-turning-piint-1394703.
- ↑ "Turning Point USA plug anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on Twitter" (in en-US). 2019-04-12. https://spectator.us/turning-point-usa-kalergi-plan/.
Further reading
- Amodeo, Clara (September 28, 2015). "Cos'è il piano Kalergi, la bufala dei migranti che uccideranno gli europei". Linkiesta. https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2015/09/28/cose-il-piano-kalergi-la-bufala-dei-migranti-che-uccideranno-gli-europ/27568/.
- "Che cos'è – o sarebbe – il "Piano Kalergi"". Il Post. January 16, 2018. https://www.ilpost.it/2018/01/16/piano-kalergi/.
- Attanasio, Angelo (October 22, 2018). "Qué es el "plan de Kalergi", la teoría conspirativa que usan los partidos de ultraderecha contra la Unión Europea". BBC Mundo. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-45841641.
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