They are simply part of the permanent flow of opposing forces that shape the history of the world. The confrontations that flow (and have always flowed) from this, are not racist, nor even racial.
Our world was shaped within an extraordinary variety of cultures and races, that could only develop to their ultimate and singular perfection through a necessary segregation. What's to be done, since no one would wish to renounce his own human dignity by acquiescing to racism? What's to be done since, simultaneously, all persons and all nations have the sacred right to preserve their differences and identities, in the name of their own future and their own past? At all levels - global consciousness, governments, societies, and especially every person within himself - the question is asked belatedly what's to be done? Published for the first time in 1973, Camp of the Saints is a novel that anticipates a situation which seems plausible today and foresees a threat that no longer seems unbelievable to anyone it describes the peaceful invasion of France, and then of the West, by a third world burgeoned into multitudes.
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