Monthly Archives: May 2011

What is Racism?

William Pierce

2,945 words

Today let’s talk about racism and related matters. There’s hardly a subject the average White person is more uptight about, hardly a subject that makes him more uncomfortable. Fifty or 60 years ago people were really uptight about sex. Very few people could talk about it honestly and openly and comfortably. It embarrassed them. Read more …

Published: May 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

A Mexican Lesson for Americans:
An Excerpt from José Vasconcelos, A Brief History of Mexico

José Vasconcelos

Father Miguel Hidalgo leading the multi-racial Mexican populace in rebellion against Spain (Mural by Juan O'Gorman)

946 words

Translated by César Tort

Translator’s Note:

The following excerpt is taken from the chapter on “Independence” in A Brief History of Mexico Read more …

Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

Anonymous

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

1,254 words

The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military service was expected, so in 1773 he joined the king’s musketeers. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Bonald’s Economic Thought

F. Roger Devlin

Jean-François Millet, "Spring," 1868–1873

2,224 words

The French Age of Enlightenment witnessed and celebrated an economic revolution: the rapid growth of speculation and a money economy, and a corresponding diminution in the importance of landed wealth. Bonald believed that the change had been brought about by the practice of usury. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Herder’s Theory of the Volksgeist

Andrew Hamilton

3,502 words

German philosopher and critic Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) developed the concept of romantic or organic nationalism, a form of ethnic nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy from historic cultural or hereditary groups. The underlying assumption is that every ethnicity should be politically distinct. Herder’s ideas on the subject were expressed in his theory of the Volksgeist. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Alex Kurtagić reviews Hold Back This Day at The Occidental Observer

News Item

Scribe receiving divine inspiration, 12th century, artist unknown

54 words

Alex Kurtagić has posted a glowing review of Ward Kendall’s Hold Back This Day at The Occidental Observer. Read it here. Hold Back This Day has just been reissued by Counter-Currents in a handsome new edition. Thank you, Alex Kurtagić.

Published: May 20, 2011 | Posted in news item, North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

François Mitterrand & the French Mystery

Dominique Venner

924 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

In the center of all the questions raised by the sinuous and contradictory path of François Mitterrand is the famous photograph of the interview granted to a young unknown, the future socialist president of the Republic, by Marshall Philippe Pétain in Vichy, on October 15th, 1942. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

American “Civilization”

Julius Evola

2,388 words

The recently-deceased [in 1945] John Dewey was applauded by the American press as the most representative figure of American civilization. This is quite right. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Remembering Julius Evola:
May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974

Greg Johnson

422 words

Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on this day in 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Otto Strasser’s “New Europe,” Part 2

Kerry Bolton

3,078 words

Part 2 of 2

“Elements of European Peace”

As with Mosley, Thiriart, and Yockey in their own manners, Strasser sought a new European accord that would eliminate fratricidal wars. Read more …

Published: May 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Gustav Mahler: Death & Resurrection

Greg Johnson

1,909 words

One hundred years ago today, on May 18, 1911, Gustav Mahler died in Vienna. Born on July 7, 1860, Mahler is one of the great composers of the late Romantic era, along with such figures as Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).

Mahler is also the only Jewish composer among the first rank of European classical composers. Read more …

Published: May 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Recent Website Problem Identified & Resolved

Michael Polignano

170 words

Our web host recently experienced an “SQL injection” attack, and Counter-Currents was one of hundreds of affected sites. The attack added a malicious script to the end of all the posts on our site, that redirects Internet Explorer users to a bogus antivirus site that gives the illusion of a “scan” running and finding multiple vulnerabilities, then recommends users purchase bogus antivirus software. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2011 | Posted in news item | Tagged , | Comments closed

Otto Strasser’s “New Europe,” Part 1

Kerry Bolton

Otto Strasser

3,873 words

Part 1 of 2

Czech translation here

“But all his life and works show that here is a good German who is a good European.” — Douglas Reed.[1]

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Published: May 17, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Courage of Jodie Foster

Andrew Hamilton

Jodie Foster & Mel Gibson

967 words

American actress-director-producer Jodie Foster has come under fire for not throwing her friend, Academy Award-winning actor-director Mel Gibson, under the bus. The two have known each other since they met on the set of Maverick (1994).

Gibson has been systematically hounded and maligned since he made the Christian motion picture The Passion of the Christ (2004). Read more …

Published: May 16, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Jesus & the ADL

Irmin Vinson

1,110 words

Are Jews today responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus two thousand years ago? An ABC News poll indicated that fewer than one in ten Americans believe that they are. Were Jews two thousand years ago responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus? Read more …

Published: May 16, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Gibson, Jesus, & the Jews

Irmin Vinson

982 words

Gibson Capitulates

Mel Gibson is passionately angry at critics of his upcoming film about the death of Jesus Christ.

In remarks quoted in the New Yorker magazine, he denied “The Passion” is anti-Semitic and accused some of those leading the chorus against the film of being “anti-Christian.” Gibson said he personally has been the target of “vehement anti-Christian sentiment.” Read more …

Published: May 16, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Archeofuturism:
European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age

Guillaume Faye

Translated by Sergio Knipe
Foreword by Michael O’Meara
Artkos Media, 2010
250 pages
paperback: $25

Guillaume Faye was one of the leading advocates of the French New Right in the 1970s and ’80s. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2011 | Posted in distributed title, philosophy, politics, translations | Tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

Die Psychopathologie des Judentums

Hervé Ryssen

3,350 words

English version here

Übersetzung von Deep Roots Read more …

Published: May 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Jared Taylor’s White Identity

Greg Johnson

1,906 words

Jared Taylor
White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Oakton, Va.: New Century Books, 2011

Reading through Jared Taylor’s splendid new book White Identity, I found myself thinking again and again of Allan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. Read more …

Published: May 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Christopher Donovan on Heavy Metal

Christopher Donovan

705 words

Implicit whiteness, with pyrotechnics: Or, the night white people took over Washington, DC

The other night I saw AC/DC at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.  Read more …

Published: May 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

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