The Camp of the Saints
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Camp of the Saints
| Author | Jean Raspail |
|---|---|
| Published | 1973 |
| Pages | 316 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A 1973 French novel about a fleet of migrants arriving on the Côte d’Azur and the collapse of European will to refuse them — a notoriously racist book, cited approvingly for fifty years by the far right, and kept here as a primary source for understanding that lineage of argument, not as a recommendation. |
Where I heard about it
- Unknown — saved as a link to a full-text scan on the Internet Archive, sometime in 2024–2026.
About this edition
It is a notoriously racist book — dehumanising in its language about its own subjects — and its approving citation by the European and American far right is the reason it keeps surfacing in political coverage. In Ideological Family Tree terms it is the ancestor you read in order to recognise its descendants.
Connections
- Ideological Family Tree — the portfolio idea this belongs to, and the only reason to read it: it is an ancestor text for a live political argument.
- Immigration — the subject the book is invoked about.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.