Controversy, The Camp of the Saints is, in my opinion, not a racist book. Foreign described herein are sometimes abruptly, but never M. Raspail establishes racial hierarchy; at most, he noted cultural differences, through Mr. Calguès, he does not feel ready to accept.
What is criticized here with caustic and premonition, it is the cowardice of our elite, our politicians in general, who never know what to do, what decision to take, and who meet in committees ... The reflection Left takes for his grade also with his ideas of universality, living together etc.
Do not think that this says that novel attacks only the elite, it also attacks the lambda French citizen who elects remember, incompetent politicians! The silliness of the French couple in front of their TV means deserves slaps; people no longer think they are wallowing, and harebrained by the small screen that broadcasts post-May 68 continuous ideological conformist; soldiers, meanwhile, represent the evolution of Western society, who can (will) break down. Thus, twenty thousand men go to Provence, and they are five or six to resist in a village they have strengthened, the others having fled because as helpless - not physically, morally, psychologically, "philosophically" speaking - shoot.
In conclusion, a novel that one is surprised it was written in 1973, which more than foreigners, critical evolution of Western society: continual repentance, Third World conformism, cowardice, Newspeak (the way the The author describes foreign surprise you, because we are prisoners of this sanitized language) maintained and even intellectual laziness in my opinion instigated by the consumer society. To read!