For a Positive Critique

Before becoming disillusioned with political militancy and

retiring to a quiet rural life where he wrote the majority of his

historical and metapolitical texts, Dominique Venner was heavily

involved in the fight for French Algeria, both during and after the

war. While serving a prison term for his involvement with the

dissident paramilitary group, the Organisation armée

secrète (OAS), he sought to write a text that

would synthesize the vast domain of right-wing thought into a

coherent political doctrine, a right-wing manifesto in the same vein

as Vladmir Lenin's What is to be Done?

For a Positive Critique is the fruit of that labor, and it

sowed the seeds for his future metapolitical endeavors with

Europe-Action, GRECE, and ILIADE.