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Prussians & Englishmen, Part 3

Oswald Spengler

5,639 words

Part One, Part Two

17.

This brings us to the political aspects of the English-Prussian antithesis. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, individualism, liberalism, Napoleon, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, party politics, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism, war | Comments closed

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Prussians & Englishmen, Part 2

Oswald Spengler

4,216 words

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

First installment here

In order to overcome man’s inborn lethargy, the Prussian socialist ethic maintains that the chief aim of life is not happiness. Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism, utilitarianism | Comments closed

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Prussians & Englishmen

Oswald Spengler

4,018 words

Editor’s Note:

The following is a selection from chapter 3, “Prussians and Englishmen,” of Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism, Read more …

Published: May 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism | Comments closed

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Nietzsche & His Century

Oswald Spengler

5,404 words

An address delivered on October 15, 1924, Nietzsche’s eightieth birthday, at the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar

Looking back at the nineteenth century and letting its great men pass before the mind’s eye, we can observe an amazing thing about the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche, something that was hardly noticeable in his own time. Read more …

Published: August 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reprints, Romanticism, translations, Wolfgang Goethe | Comments closed

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Pessimism?

Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936

6,158 words

My book (The Decline of the West, Vol. I.) has met with widespread misunderstandings. In a sense, that is almost an inevitable concomitant of any novel approach which arrives at new conclusions. Such a reaction is all the more to be expected when the conclusions reached, or even the perspectives and methodology that led to them, present a serious challenge to the prevailing mood of an age. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right, Uncategorized | Tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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The Colored World Revolution, Part 2

Oswald Spengler

3,597 words

From The Hour of Decision (1933)
Part 2 of 2. Click here for Part 1.

This general Colored Revolution over the whole earth marches under the disguise of very varied tendencies: national, economic, social. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, decadence, dysgenics, Oswald Spengler, race, reprints, The Hour of Decision, white dispossession | Comments closed

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The Colored World-Revolution, Part 1

Oswald Spengler

The French Revolution comes to Haiti

3,667 words

From The Hour of Decision (1933)

The Western Civilization of this century is threatened, not by one, but by two world revolutions of major dimensions. In both their real compass, their profundity, and their workings have so far escaped recognition. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, Oswald Spengler, reprints, The Hour of Decision, white dispossession | Comments closed

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Is World Peace Possible?

Oswald Spengler

473 words

A cabled reply to an American poll

First published in Cosmopolitan, January, 1936

The question whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. Read more …