Tag Archives: Benito Mussolini

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

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Editor’s Note:

Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. In honor of his birthday, I am reprinting his essay “The Doctrine of Fascism,” which I find to be a lucid and profound statement of revolutionary anti-liberalism. Mussolini has much to contribute to the project of a North American New Right, and by his next birthday, I hope this website will better reflect that fact. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, democracy, elitism, fascism, liberalism, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

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Vilfredo Pareto:
The Karl Marx of Fascism

James Alexander

Vilfredo Pareto, 1848–1923

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Italian contributions to political and social thought are singularly impressive and, in fact, few nations are as favored with a tradition as long and as rich. One need only mention names such as Dante, Machiavelli, and Vico to appreciate the importance of Italy in this respect. In the twentieth century too, the contributions made by Italians are of great significance. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elitism, fascism, James Alexander, Marxism, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, socialism, sociology, Vilfredo Pareto | Comments closed

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W. B. Yeats

Kerry Bolton

William Butler Yeats, 1865–1939

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Editor’s Note:

To commemorate the birthday of William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865–January 28, 1939), we are publishing this expanded version of Kerry Bolton’s essay on Yeats, which forms chapter five of his book Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocarcy, book excerpts, commemorations, fascism, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Oswald Spengler, poems, poetry, Traditionalism, W. B. Yeats | Comments closed

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Ezra Pound

Kerry Bolton

Ezra Pound, drawn by Wyndham Lewis

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Ezra Pound, heralded as the “founding father of modern English literature” yet denied honors during his life, was born in a frontier town in Idaho in 1885, the son of an assistant assayer and the grandson of a Congressman.

He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and in 1906 was awarded his MA degree. He had already started work on his magnum opus, The Cantos. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, Kerry Bolton, money, North American New Right, on Pound, poetry, reprints, Social Credit, usury | Comments closed

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Filippo Marinetti

Kerry Bolton

Prampolini's portrait of Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944

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Filippo Marinetti is unlike most of the post-nineteenth Century cultural avant-garde who were rebelling against the spirit of several centuries of liberalism, rationalism, the rise of the democratic mass, industrialism, and the rule of the moneyed elite. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Filippo Marinetti, Friedrich Nietzsche, futurism, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Georges Sorel, Kerry Bolton, Laibach, nationalism, war | Comments closed

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Mark Antliff’s Avant-Garde Fascism

Ted Sallis

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Mark Antliff
Avant-Garde Fascism:
The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007

Aleister Crowley as Political Theorist, Part 2

Kerry Bolton

Aleister Crowley, 1875–1947

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Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here.

The Thelemic State

The form of Thelemic government is vaguely outlined in Liber Legis, suggesting the type of corporatism: “Let it be the state of manyhood bound and loathing: thou has no right but to do what thou will.”[1] Contrary to the anarchistic or nihilistic interpretation often given Thelema’s “do what thou wilt,” Crowley defined the Thelemic state as a free association for the common good. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, aristocracy, articles, corporatism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Cola di Rienzi & the Politics of Proto-Fascism:
Ronald F. Musto’s Apocalypse in Rome

Ted Sallis

Statue of Cola di Rienzi by Girolamo Masini, erected in 1877 near the Campidoglio, where he was killed

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Ronald F. Musto
Apocalypse in Rome:
Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

A young Italian nationalist leads his followers on a march through Rome, seizing power from corrupt elites to establish a palingenetic regime. Declaring himself Tribune, his ultimate aim is to recreate the power and glory of Ancient Rome. However, a conspiracy of his enemies topples him from power, and he is imprisoned. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Apocalypse in Rome, book reviews, Catholicism, Cola di Rienzi, Cola di Rienzo, elites, fascism, Italy, nationalism, reprints, Ronald F. Musto, Ted Sallis | Comments closed

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

Kerry Bolton

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“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”

– Gabriele d’Annunzio, 1863–1938

Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, fascism, Fiume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, Kerry Bolton, literature, reprints | Comments closed

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