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Charles Maurras
The Future of the Intelligentsia, and For a French Awakening
Translated with an introduction by Dr. Alexander Jacob
London, Artkos Media Ltd., 2016

Given the seminal influence of Maurras on Rightist thinking, this translation of two of his essays, compiled into a single volume, is a significant contribution to the development of New Right thought especially for Anglophones. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Action Franҫaise, book reviews, Charles Maurras, France, intellectuals, Kerry Bolton, nationalism, North American New Right, organicism, originals, syndicalism, The Future of the Intelligentsia and For a French Awakening, the media | 9 Responses

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Ezra Pound’s Jefferson And/Or Mussolini

Adam Franz

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Ezra Pound
Jefferson And/Or Mussolini
London: Stanley Nott Ltd., 1935

Ezra Pound liked his books charged with meaning. “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand,” he wrote in his Guide to Kulchur, another one of his, shall we say, B-Sides.

Henry Williamson, George Orwell, & the Pigs

Margot Metroland

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Henry Williamson

Today is the birthday of Henry Williamson (Dec. 1, 1895 – Aug. 13, 1977)—ruralist author, war historian, journalist, farmer, and visionary of British fascism.

Two rather incongruous points of Williamson’s life stand out. One is that he achieved fame with what is usually regarded as a children’s book, Tarka the Otter (originally published 1927, with a movie version in 1979).

The other is that he was a friend of Lawrence of Arabia; and that it was on his way back from posting a letter to Williamson that T. E. Lawrence was mysteriously killed in a motorcycle accident. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animals, articles, commemorations, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Henry Williamson, Margot Metroland, nature writing, North American New Right, originals, rural life, Sir Oswald Mosley, T. W. Lawrence | Comments closed

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Now in Audio Version
The Relevance of the Old Right

Greg Johnson

Giacomo Balla, Balbo and the Italian Transatlantic Flyers (Celestial Metallic Airplane), 1931

1,560 words / 10:47

Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”

Spanish translation here

What is the relevance of what I call the Old Right — German National Socialism, Italian Fascism, and related interwar national-populist movements — to White Nationalism today? The question would not even arise, of course, if there were no connection at all. Many White Nationalist ideas are either direct descendants of Old Right ideologies, or they are their cousins, meaning that they share common ancestors, that they are branches of the same ideological tree. Read more …

Published: November 27, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, imperialism, inauthenticity, Italian fascism, LARPing, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, the Jewish question, universal nationalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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La Relevancia de la Vieja Derecha

Greg Johnson

Giacomo Balla, Balbo and the Italian Transatlantic Flyers (Celestial Metallic Airplane) (Balbo e i trasvolatori italiani [Celeste metallico aeroplano]), 1931

Giacomo Balla, Balbo y los Transatlánticos voladores Italianos (Aviones Celestiales Metálicos), 1931

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English original here

¿Cuál es la relevancia de lo que llamo Vieja Derecha –Nacional Socialismo Alemán, Fascismo Italiano, y los movimientos nacional-populistas del período entreguerras- para el Nacionalismo Blanco hoy en día? La pregunta no se plantearía, por supuesto, si no hubiera conexión alguna. Muchas ideas Nacionalistas Blancas son descendientes directos o primos de las ideologías de la Vieja Derecha, esto quiere decir que comparten los mismos ancestros, y que son ramas del mismo árbol ideológico. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, imperialism, in Spanish, in translation, inauthenticity, Italian fascism, LARPing, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universal nationalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Remembering Wyndham Lewis:
November 18, 1882 to March 7, 1957

Greg Johnson

Wyndham Lewis in 1917

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Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis” (French translation here)
Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right“
Jonathan Bowden, “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” (transcript) Read more …

Published: November 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, painting, Percy Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

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Remembering Roy Campbell:
October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

Greg Johnson

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Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the Fascist side have led his works to be consigned to the memory hole. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poems, poetry, Roy Campbell | Comments closed

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Remembering Maurice Bardèche:
October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998

Greg Johnson

635 words

Today is the birthday of Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), the French Neo-Fascist writer. Bardèche was a prolific and highly versatile author of literary, film, and art criticism, history, journalism, and social and political theory. Read more …

Published: October 1, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach | Comments closed

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Biological Youth & Political Youth

Julius Evola

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Translated by G. A. Malvicini

A frequently discussed issue among Right-wing circles is the new generation and its relations with the previous one; “revolutionary” youth in relation to the men and ideas of the Fascist period. Some, in this regard, believe that the same phenomenon is met with here that can be observed more generally: the new generation no longer understands the generation that preceded it, the accelerated pace of events having interposed between the one and the other a mental distance much larger than that which in other times normally would have separated them. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, hedonism, idealism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, translations, youth | Comments closed

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Fascism:
The Great Reconciler

Patrick Le Brun

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Because the definition of fascism is so fleeting and the word itself so abused, academics who are at least a little bit serious about understanding fascism have attempted to make a fascist checklist. The most memorable points are also the most superficial. Fascists share the Myth of a Golden Age, the promise of palingenisis, militaristic symbolism and rhetoric, etc.. However, beneath the surface there is a paradox in fascism that has escaped the bourgeois and Marxist academics: Fascism is the greatest force for reconciliation between the various strands of any society. Read more …