Recorded December 2020.
Robert Stark talks to Martin Lichtmesz about his new German language book Ethnopluralismus: Kritik und Verteidigung about the political concept of ethnopluralism. Martin Lichtmesz is an Austrian journalist and translator based in Vienna, and you can read his articles at Sezession.
Topics:
The need to put forth a clear definition of ethnopluralismInfluence of the concept on the European New RightHow the concept was coined in the 70s by Germany sociologist Henning Eichberg but goes back further to romantic philosopher Johann Gottfried HerderEichberg’s sympathies with anti-colonial struggles from a German perspectiveA rejection of monolithic universalist values and embracing of uniquenessDefining the nation state, concept of Self-determination, and difficulties of drawing exact borders to respect national populationsThe original version of Multiculturalism in Canada and degree to which it overlaps with ethnopluralismThe failure of the Left to preserve diversity and feasibility of maintaining a version of multiculturalism where all can take partClaude Lévi-Strauss’ The Sad Tropics and Jean Raspail’s La Hache Des Steppes about lost tribesOrania, the Afrikaner enclave in South AfricaThe recent terrorist attack in Vienna