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Posted on 04/16/2026 11:03:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
... 1973, Jean Raspail, who died aged 94 in 2020, published his dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints, for which he is now mostly remembered (certainly outside of France,... ). The Camp of the Saints is a book that refuses to lie down, so to speak, despite attempts to render it invisible or make it go away.
The plot is simple. A huge armada of rotting hulks, bearing a million impoverished and half-starved Bengalis desperate to reach Europe, which they suppose to be a land flowing with milk and honey, sets out from Calcutta and eventually reaches the south coast of France. The local population flees before this invasion, no official efforts having been made to repel it. French society collapses; the success of the armada spells the downfall of Europe, and the whole of the West, as a civilization.
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Raspail’s flawed novel is an illustration of an elementary political principle. For a liberal democracy to work, there must be a demos; for there to be a demos, there must be something more in common among them than living geographically cheek-by-jowl (without at the same time demanding an absolute uniformity). To import huge numbers of people who do not share, and indeed are resistant to sharing, the minimum that holds a demos together is inimical to liberal democracy.
In this most important sense Jean Raspail was visionary, even if he did not correctly identify the source of the greatest threat. Perhaps the most revealing thing in the book is his account, in the essay that precedes the novel, of how prominent political figures either ignored or repudiated The Camp of the Saints in public, but agreed with it in private....
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Excerpt from Summary
"Raspail was visionary about the civilizational threat of unchecked migration and the self-destructive role of elites, but he underestimated the specific challenges of Muslim immigration (he used Hindu Bengalis in the story; Dalrymple argues Muslim groups have proven harder to integrate due to religious evangelization and social pressures against dissent). The novel correctly shows that liberal democracy requires a coherent demos (a people with shared elements beyond mere geography), which mass importation of culturally resistant groups can undermine."
I would have also said neutered Frenchmen.
I was going to mention (for the umpteenth time) what a shame it is that the translation is so awful. Then I read the full review at CRB and saw this: “This is a new and excellent translation by Ethan Rundell of the 2011 edition of Raspail’s novel, published by Vauban Books.” Hallelujah!
Donn’t fight on the beaches; just nuke em.
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You don’t have to fight on the beaches, or anywhere else.
At least not yet.
Instead starve the invaders out. No benefits. No welfare. Just a one-way ticket back home.
Oh, yes. And ruthlessly guard your borders.
Good to have all beaches open so Johnny on Jesse Watters can interview all those young women wearing string bikinis.🏖️🏄
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