Jean Raspail's Imaginary End of Europe

There are many instances when reality imitates art and others when art imitates reality. Such is the case of the French writer Jean Raspail’s book, The Camp of the Saints, which was not received well by the mainstream media of the 1970s nor is it received well by the current mainstream media which decided to ignore its existence, ban it, or classify it as a fringe creation of a conspiracy author. Most recently, Amazon erased the sale of Raspail’s book from its platform.

Raspail was considered a racist and xenophobe and his book a creation for the fringe “white supremacist circles.” The media screed trashed it non-stop even though the book received France’s most important literary awards.

Editions Robert Laffont, the publishing house that owns the original rights to this book, has authorized its most recent translation.

Why in the world would the mass media and globalist controllers deem Raspail’s book a racist malignancy and everyone who reads it a racist? For the simple reason that his fictional book accurately predicted mass migration and its destruction of western civilization.

Jean Raspail’s imaginary characters, hordes of Indian invaders, are not so imaginary in twenty-first century Europe. Raspail wrote his book, The Camp of the Saints, in 1973, half a century before the current mass invasion of Europe and North America began.

Raspail, unlike Orwell and Huxley, does not present the outcomes of a dystopian society but the dystopia as it unfolds step by step as the result of “modern spiritual self-hatred” of western civilization, in this case in France.

The “nihilism of guilt” forces logic-minded scholars to bend over backwards to avoid the left’s reproaches by turning on their friends and joining the ranks of the left in condemning Raspail’s book.

Raspail (1925-2020) loved to travel and often mourned the disappearance of indigenous tribes. He judged New York a “desert” because “we no longer run into an Algonquin.” His two favorite themes across his 40 books and a dozen novels are ‘literary royalism’ and ‘love for places and peoples distant in time and space.’

Raspail’s offense, as perceived by literary critics and the western media, was that he dared to write about the fate of the indigenous people of Europe and whether their fate would be like the peoples who had vanished because of European colonization. He imagined the “end of European and Western civilization” when France is invaded by a horde of immigrants from India.

The media sees his third book, The Camp of the Saints, not as a literary reflection of the death of the West, direct result of the massive immigrant invasion, but as a racist and xenophobic expression of his imagination.

He describes the “myth of the noble savages” who are vulgar in their “crudeness, sexual promiscuity, and repellant hygiene.” The migrants are “materially and culturally destitute” and are looking for a better life, primarily an immediate “deliverance from poverty and from the often-brutal oppression and inequalities of non-Western societies.”

The French government becomes paralyzed as they have no idea what to do with this army of immigrants. Civil society collapses thanks to the do-gooders who withdraw from public life in the face of the invasion. The immigrants’ lives are not improved at all, so they install their own dictator-generals and Brahmins in the French government, imposing the very same society they had fled.

The invaders take over civic functions and French society. Academia describes “mass immigration as morally required and inevitable,” thus eventually causing the death of France and of Europe.

Raspail satirizes the “left-liberal Catholicism” which sees Christ in the invading migrants. Vatican sells its treasures to win the approval of the Third World while turning their backs on their own flock.

The intellectuals, who prepare the way for the immigrants to land safely, are assassinated by the army of migrants after the French army deserts. “The left-wing militias who welcome the migrants are killed or become servants, peasants, and prostitutes.”

The Camp of the Saints brings to life the leftist view that “The First World must be taught to be ashamed of itself, to believe that its death will be its greatest gift to humanity.” The West must submit to the morally superior non-Western “Other.” And the “Others” turn to violence, destruction, and murder of the welcoming locals and of those who objected to their landing on Europe’s shores.