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National Socialism as Anti-Modernism?
Julius Evola’s Notes on the Third Reich

F. Roger Devlin

2,205 words

Julius Evola
Notes on the Third Reich
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola wrote this short assessment of Hitlerian National Socialism as a follow up to Fascism Viewed from the Right. The basic thrust of the study is that National Socialism is significantly inferior to its Italian cousin from a traditionalist perspective, Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, F. Roger Devlin, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, Notes on the Third Reich, originals, Third Reich, Traditionalism | Comments closed

R. H. S. Stolfi’s
Hitler: Beyond Evil & Tyranny, Part 2

2,753 words

Part 2 of 2

R. H. S. Stolfi
Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011

Russell Stolfi deals with a number of episodes in Hitler’s life that are adduced as evidence of evil. Stolfi argues that some of these acts are not evil at all. He others that others were necessary or mitigated evils. Read more …

Published: May 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Greg Johnson, Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, R. H. S. Stolfi, the holocaust, World War II | Comments closed

R. H. S. Stolfi’s
Hitler: Beyond Evil & Tyranny, Part 1

5,340 words

Parts 1 and 2

R. H. S. Stolfi
Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011

“No man is a hero to his valet, not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.” — G. W. F. Hegel

“When ZOG and all its monkey men come a gunnin’ for me, I will build myself a fortress of my Hitler biographies.” – David E. Williams, “Wotan Rains on a Plutocrat Parade” Read more …

Published: May 7, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Greg Johnson, Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, R. H. S. Stolfi, World War II | Comments closed

Viktor Suvorov’s Icebreaker

National Vanguard

450 words

Viktor Suvorov
Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?
Translated from the Russian by Thomas B. Beattie
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990

Western Europe, Fall 1941: The Red Army sweeps on from Germany and France toward Italy and Spain. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Joseph Stalin, National Vanguard, North American New Right, reprints, Viktor Suvorov, World War II | Comments closed

Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 3:
Capitalism & Schizophrenia

Mark Dyal

5,738 words

“There are things which do not disturb thought and those which force us to think. The first are objects of recognition: thought and all its faculties may be fully employed therein, thought may busy itself thereby, but such employment and such activity have nothing to do with thinking. Read more …

Published: April 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus, articles, capitalism, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, psychology | Comments closed

Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium

Kerry Bolton

767 words

Francis Parker Yockey
Imperium
Edited by Alex Kurtagić
Foreword by Kerry Bolton
Afterword by Julius Evola
Abergele, UK: The Palingenesis Project, 2013

This is not so much a review of Imperium, a book that is likely to be familiar to most readers here, as it is an assessment of this new edition by Alex Kurtagić. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged cyclical history, Francis Parker Yockey, Imperium, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, orignals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history | Comments closed

Die Nordwest-Romane von H. A. Covington

Michael O'Meara

3,023 words

Übersetzt von Auziwandilaz

English original here

„Laßt jene, die leben wollen, kämpfen – doch jene, die in dieser Welt des ewigen Kampfes nicht kämpfen wollen, verdienen es nicht zu leben.“ A.H.

H. A. Covingtons Nordwestroman-Quartett – Hill oft the Ravens (2003), A Distant Thunder (2004), A Mighty Fortress (2005) und The Brigade (2008) – stellt heute die am besten ausgearbeitete und maßgeblichste Darstellung des weißen Separatismus in englischer Sprache dar. Read more …

Published: April 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Harold Covington, in German, in translation, literature, Michael O'Meara, myth, North American New Right, originals, secession, the Northwest Quartet, white nationalism | Comments closed

Yoga, Immortality, & Freedom

Julius Evola

4,488 words

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 6, no. 3 (1955): 224–30. This is chapter 9 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, forthcoming from Counter-Currents in the summer of 2013.

Yoga, may well he said to be that portion of the heritage of Indian wisdom—nay, of the wisdom of the East as a whole—that is most familiar to Western Europeans and to Americans. Read more …

Published: April 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Julius Evola, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, reprints, Tantrism, yoga, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom | Comments closed

Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord

4,085 words

Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000

Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (just Wagner and Philosophy in the UK) combines two of my favorite subjects into an informative, stimulating, and highly readable book. Creativity and critical reflection are two very different activities, and excellence in one is seldom accompanied by excellence in the other. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bryan Magee, classical music, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Ludwig Feuerbach, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, philosophy, Richard Wagner, socialism, the Jewish question, The Ring of the Nibelung, The Tristan Chord, Tristan and Isolde, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

An American Dissident’s Voice

Andrew Hamilton

1,699 words

William L. Pierce
American Dissident Voices
Ed. Shane Webster
Melbourne, Australia: Politically Incorrect Press, 2011

This is a 1,666 page PDF file containing 290 transcribed American Dissident Voices (ADV) radio broadcasts—essentially spoken essays—by William L. Pierce Read more …

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Dissident Voices, Andrew Hamilton, Kevin Alfred Strom, North American New Right, originals, William Pierce | Comments closed

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 5
The Decline & Rebirth of the West

4,071 words

Part 5 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011 Read more …

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, capitalism, Collin Cleary, democracy, G. W. F. Hegel, history, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Thomas Hobbes, thumos | Comments closed

Fascism as Anti-Modernism
Julius Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right

F. Roger Devlin

1,865 words

Julius Evola
Fascism Viewed from the Right
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola’s reckoning with Italian Fascism is among his later works, first published in 1964, and reprinted with additional notes in 1970. This is the first English translation, produced for Arktos by classicist E. Christian Kopff.

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 4
The Construction of the Western Self

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition

G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831

4,986 words

Part 3 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition

Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 2

3,686 words

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

5. What about the East?

The revisionists’ favorite non-Western people seems to be the Chinese. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, China, Collin Cleary, cultural relativism, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, history, Marvin Harris, Marxism, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, political correctness, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, thumos, William McNeill | Comments closed

Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

4,940 words

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

1. Introduction: A Book for Our Times

Every few years I discover a book that is truly great. One that forces me to think in new ways about things familiar, teaches me things I never knew, and inspires in me scores of new ideas and insights. Such a book is Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Read more …

Published: April 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, Collin Cleary, cultural relativism, history, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Richardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization | Comments closed

Stalin: The Enduring Legacy

1,420 words

Kerry Bolton
Stalin: The Enduring Legacy
London: Black House Publishing, 2012

At the beginning of 1989, I thought that “Russia” (the USSR) was an evil empire, a totalitarian system built on repression and propaganda and bent on global domination. I also thought that the United States was the principal impediment to Soviet world domination, the bulwark of freedom. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Cold War, Communism, Greg Johnson, Joseph Stalin, Kerry Bolton, Leon Trotsky, Moscow Trials, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, Stalin: The Enduring Legacy, the Jewish question | Comments closed

Guillaume Faye & the Battle of Europe

1,279 words

Michael O’Meara
Guillaume Faye and the Battle of Europe
London: Arktos, 2013

Guillaume Faye is a brilliant and prolific French social and political philosopher and polemicist who is one of the leading lights of the French New Right. Faye’s reputation as a visionary and iconoclast created a global interest in his writings long before they became available in translation. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Guillaume Faye and the Battle of Europe, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed