Fascists call him a visionary, an intellectual and a leader. Nah, he was just a fascist.

Guillaume Faye, the neo-Fascist whose Islamophobic and racist writings and organizing made him an inspiration to fellow hatemongers like Richard Spencer and Nathan Damingo died after a long illness at the age of 69.

Faye’s death was expected as evidenced by a December American Renaissance article titled “Guillaume Faye is Dying”. “I won’t beat around the bush. Guillaume Faye has a serious illness,” French White nationalist Daniel Conversano wrote. He is not any better than he appears in his last public appearance…and he will not get better. But the old pirate is a fighter and is trying to hold on as long as possible.” Faye is reported by right wing sources to have died on either March 6 or 7.

A former member of the French Nationalist Research and Study for European Civilization (GRECE}, Faye was a part of that organization’s splinter in 1986, but withdrew from politics one year later. He returned to politics in 1998 after writing some essays about culture and religion, and in 2000, restarted publication of his old journal 2000, J’ai Tout Compris! (I Understood Everything!) where he predicted an abolition of European societies due to massive immigration, and a total war between the West and the Islamic world. To that end, he became one of the ideological inspirations of the French nativist “movement” Bloc Identitaire, which seeks to  preserve and promote White culture at the expense of others. His books have been published by the neo-Fascist publishing house Arktos.

He had been a regular speaker at White nationalist conferences, particularly the American Renaissance conferences starting in 2006. At that particular conference, White supremacist David Duke asked him a question implying Jews were the enemy of civilization and if they should be “cleaned out” of it, a troupe that prompted Jewish White nationalist Michael Hart to walk out of the room calling Duke a “fucking Nazi and a disgrace to this meeting”.  Faye responded by suggesting that while it is hard, sometimes illegal, to speak ill of Jewish people, there are those that he considered “Jewish in the mind” that they can confront, such as the Roman Catholic Church. “The very cause is the Jewish mentality and the human rights mentality and to a certain Christianism, but we must be very prudent in saying this sort of thing,” he said.

Later, while answering another question he said, “The best thing is not to speak about the Jews. They don’t exist. For me, they are like Eskimo.” Faye is again quoted at a conference in 2007 saying, “Given that Jews are very influential in the media, it would be interesting for the identity circles to make alliances with them to oppose Islamization and immigration.”

Faye spoke again at the American Renaissance conference in 2012, as well as the 2015 National Policy Institute conference.