Many white supremacists turn to antiquity in order to convey the seriousness of this supposed threat: for example, when Germany decided in 2015 to admit refugees that had been stranded in Hungary, Tim Murray in The Occidental Observer wrote that “Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints nightmare has come to pass” and warned of the “conquest or extinction of his tribe, and the destruction of a legacy that reaches back to ancient Athens.” White supremacists invoke Greco-Roman antiquity because they believe their readers will understand what it meansīy the time a third edition of The Camp of Saints was published in 1985, Raspail was apparently ready to make this connection as well.
The original 1973 edition of The Camp of the Saints featured only a recusatio in place of a preface: “I had wanted to write a lengthy preface…but what good would it do? …we need only glance at the awesome population figures predicted for the year 2000…: seven billion people, only nine hundred million of whom will be white.” And indeed, this is all that was needed to signal the author’s engagement with the most common theme of white supremacy, the threat of “extinction” that white people supposedly face in the contemporary world. Cover of the 1977 British edition of “The Camp of the Saints”
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