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TheKalergi Plan, sometimes called theCoudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy,[1] is afar-right,antisemitic andwhite genocide conspiracy theory.[2][3] The theory claims that Austrian-Japanese politicianRichard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, creator of thePaneuropean Union, concocted a plot to mix and replacewhite Europeans with other races viaimmigration.[4] Theconspiracy theory is most often associated with European groups and parties, but it has also spread to North American politics.[5]
Memes promoting the conspiracy theory often incorporate misrepresentations of Kalergi's writings, such as the false claim he stated thatJews shallrule over Europe.[6][7]The conspiracy theory stems from a section of Kalergi's 1925 bookPraktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism") in which he predicted the rise of a mixedrace of the future with "Eurasian-Negroid" features, similar in its appearance to theAncient Egyptians.[1]
The conspiracy theory stems from a section of Kalergi's 1925 bookPraktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism"), in which he predicted that a mixedrace 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 theAncient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals."[1][8] Modern far-right individuals seek to draw relationships between contemporary European policy-making and this quote.[1]
Austrianneo-Nazi writerGerd Honsik wrote about the subject in his bookKalergi Plan (2005).[9]
The independent Italian newspaperLinkiesta investigated the conspiracy theory and described it as a hoax which is comparable to the fabricated antisemitic documentThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[10] TheSouthern Poverty Law Center describes the Kalergi plan as a distinctly European way of pushing thewhite genocide conspiracy theory on the continent, withwhite nationalists quoting Coudenhove-Kalergi's writings out of context in order to assert that theEuropean Union's immigration policies were insidious plots that were hatched decades ago in order to destroy white people.[11]Hope not Hate, an anti-racism advocacy group, has described it as a racist conspiracy theory which 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.[12]
Memes promoting the conspiracy theory often incorporate misreadings of Kalergi's writing, such as the false claim that Jews shall rule over Europe.[6][7]
In 2019, the right-wing nonprofit organizationTurning Point USA posted a photograph onTwitter in which a person was holding abeach ball that featured text promoting this conspiracy theory. The tweet was deleted soon after.[4][13]
large groups of people being radicalised daily and hourly, by far-right and neo-Nazi propaganda and a ubiquitous belief in wild conspiracy theories such as the Kalergi Plan.
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
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
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. Dieeurasisch-negroide Zukunftsrasse, äusserlich dem altägyptischen ähnlich, wird die Vielfalt der Völker durch eine Vielfalt der Persönlichkeiten ersetzen
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.
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.
