Kalergi Plan

The Kalergi Plan, sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy,[1] is a far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theory. The theory claims that Austrian-Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, creator of the Paneuropean Union, concocted a plot to mix and replace white Europeans with other races via immigration.[2] The conspiracy theory is most often associated with European groups and parties, but it has also spread to North American politics.[3]

Memes promoting the conspiracy theory often incorporate misrepresentations of Kalergi's writings, such as the false claim he stated that Jews shall rule over Europe.[4][5] The conspiracy theory stems from a section of Kalergi's 1925 book Praktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism") in which he predicted the rise of a mixed race of the future with "Eurasian-Negroid" features, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians.[1]

Origins

The conspiracy theory stems from a section of Kalergi's 1925 book Praktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism"), in which he predicted that a mixed race of the future would arise: "The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes[a] will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals."[1][6] Modern far-right individuals seek to draw relationships between contemporary European policy-making and this quote.[1]

Austrian neo-Nazi writer Gerd Honsik wrote about the subject in his book Kalergi Plan (2005).[7]

The conspiracy theory

According to Hope not Hate, an anti-racism advocacy group, it is a version of the racist white genocide conspiracy theory.[8]

The independent Italian newspaper Linkiesta investigated the conspiracy theory and described it as a hoax which is comparable to the fabricated antisemitic document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[9] The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Kalergi plan as a distinctly European way of pushing the white genocide conspiracy theory on the continent, with white nationalists quoting Coudenhove-Kalergi's writings out of context in order to assert that the European Union's immigration policies were insidious plots that were hatched decades ago in order to destroy white people.[10] The theory alleges that Coudenhove-Kalergi intended to influence Europe's policies on immigration in order to create a "populace devoid of identity" which would then supposedly be ruled by a Jewish elite.[11]

Memes promoting the conspiracy theory often incorporate misreadings of Kalergi's writing, such as the false claim that Jews shall rule over Europe.[4][5]

Recent history

In 2019, the right-wing nonprofit organization Turning Point USA posted a photograph on Twitter in which a person was holding a beach ball that featured text promoting this conspiracy theory. The tweet was deleted soon after.[2][12]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kalergi uses the German word Kasten, which means "castes" and not "social classes".

References

  1. ^ a b c d Gaston, Sophia (November 2018). "Out of the Shadows: Conspiracy Thinking on Immigration" (PDF). Henry Jackson Society.
  2. ^ a b "Organization Candace Owens Represents Shares, Then Deletes, Photo Promoting White Genocide Conspiracy Days After Her Testimony". Newsweek. 12 April 2019. Believers in the Kalergi plan think that Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austrian politician in the early 1900s, constructed a plan to destroy white people in Europe by encouraging immigration
  3. ^ "Qué es el "plan de Kalergi", la teoría conspirativa que usan los partidos de ultraderecha contra la Unión Europea" [What is the "Kalergi plan", the conspiracy theory used by the extreme right parties against the European Union] (in Spanish). BBC Mundo. October 22, 2018. It is the conspiracy theory known as "Kalergi's plan", which, for just over a decade, has been circulated among the members of several European nationalist and far-right parties
  4. ^ a b Tvauri, Tinatin (2022-05-13). ""The Kalergi Plan" - A Conspiracy Theory On The Plan About The Elimination Of The White Race". Myth Detector. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  5. ^ a b Romero, Luiz (24 January 2022). "No, there is no 'Kalergi plan' to replace Europeans". PolitiFact. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  6. ^ Coudenhove-Kalergi, R. N. (1925). Praktischer Idealismus (in German). Vienna-Leipzig: Paneuropa-Verlag. pp. 22–23. Der Mensch der fernen Zukunft wird Mischling sein. Die heutigen Rassen und Kasten werden der zunehmenden Überwindung von Raum, Zeit und Vorurteil zum Opfer fallen. Die eurasisch-negroide Zukunftsrasse, äusserlich dem altägyptischen ähnlich, wird die Vielfalt der Völker durch eine Vielfalt der Persönlichkeiten ersetzen
  7. ^ "Che cos'è – o sarebbe – il "Piano Kalergi"" [What is - or would be - the "Kalergi Plan"] (in Italian). Il Post. January 16, 2018.
  8. ^ "EXPOSED: For Britain and the "White Genocide" Conspiracy Theory". Hope not hate. 29 August 2022. The so-called "Kalergi plan" is an increasingly popular strain of the white genocide conspiracy theory, which alleges that there is a deliberate plan to undermine European white society by a campaign of mass immigration, integration and miscegenation conducted by sinister (and often Jewish) elites..
  9. ^ "Cos'è il piano Kalergi, la bufala dei migranti che uccideranno gli europei" [What is the Kalergi plan, the hoax about migrants killing Europeans] (in Italian). Linkiesta. September 28, 2015.
  10. ^ "Day of the trope: White nationalist memes thrive on Reddit's r/The_Donald". Southern Poverty Law Center. 19 April 2019. With respect to Europe, the mythology of the "Kalergi plan" plays a similar role in constructing the "white genocide" narrative. Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was an Austrian noble and early advocate of European integration. White nationalists mine his writings for evidence that the European Union is the culmination of a nefarious "plan" for white genocide put into motion decades ago.
  11. ^ "EXPOSED: For Britain and the "White Genocide" Conspiracy Theory". Hope not Hate. 18 April 2019. racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories have since developed that allege that Coudenhove-Kalergi devised a long-term scheme to undermine the white race by encouraging immigration into Europe, creating a populous devoid of identity who would supposedly be easily ruled by Jewish overlords.
  12. ^ "Turning Point USA plug anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on Twitter". Spectator USA. 2019-04-12. Archived from the original on 2020-07-26. Retrieved 2020-12-05.

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