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Re-Reading Rousseau

Alain de Benoist

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, "Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" (1712–1778), pastel on paper, 1753

10,607 words

Translated by Greg Johnson*

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is a rather curious case in the history of ideas. After two centuries, he is still the object of truly passionate opinions (you either love him or you hate him), and few authors have given rise to as many contradictory interpretations. He is commonly seen as an inspiration for the French Revolution, but also as an influence on German nationalism. Read more …

Published: June 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, democracy, egalitarianism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, the Englightenment, translations | Comments closed

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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 | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, individualism, 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 | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, individualism, 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 | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, individualism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism | Comments closed

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Critique of Liberal Ideology

Alain de Benoist

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697

8,580 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

In “Critique of Liberal Ideology,” Alain de Benoist uses the term “liberalism” in the broad European sense of the term that applies not just to American liberalism but also to American libertarianism and mainstream conservatism, insofar as all three share a common history and common premises. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, Alain de Benoist, articles, capitalism, Christianity, F. A. Hayek, individualism, Louis Dumont, Marcel Gauchet, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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New in Stock!
Revolution from Above

London: Arktos, 2011
270 pages

only in paperback: $27

In Revolution from Above, Dr. Kerry Bolton demonstrates that the supposed rivalry between Marxist-inspired movements and capitalism has always been an illusion. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2012 | Posted in distributed title, philosophy, politics | Also tagged banking, Bolton book, Communism, conspiracy, decadence, democracy, distributed title, George Soros, Joseph Stalin, Kerry Bolton, Leon Trotsky, oligarchy, philosophy, Plato, politics, the 60s counter-culture, the CIA, the family, the Jewish question, the New Left | Comments closed

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The White Supremacist Protocols

1,139 words

While driving to work one dark and stormy night, I saw something shiny and reflective in a ditch. Curious about what it was, I pulled over and walked up to investigate it. It was a wealthy White bicyclist in one of those skin-tight bicycling outfits lying motionless–having failed in his endeavor to “share the road.” Read more …

Published: December 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, articles, globalism, globalization, Matt Parrot, miscegenation, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, race-mixing, satire, status competition, the liberal mind, white dispossession | Comments closed

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The Gilmore Girls Occupy Wall Street

James J. O'Meara

Correlation of forces

4,988 words

“These ladies were so much of the place and the place so much of themselves that from the first of their being revealed to me I felt that nothing else at Brookbridge much mattered. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, college towns, conservatism, Edmund Connelly, James Howard Kunstler, James J. O'Meara, Neo-Rural Liberals, North American New Right, Occupy Wall Street, originals, populism, The Gilmore Girls, the Jewish question, the Tea Party | Comments closed

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Шість постулатів фашистівського соціалізму

Maurice Bardèche

721 words

English original here

Від редакції: дана стаття жодним чином не становить для нас якоїсь програмової цінності, проте містить об’єктивний виклад фактичного стану справ з економічними перетвореннями в країнах, де в міжвоєнні роки провадився фашистівський суспільний експеримент. Read more …

Published: October 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged capitalism, commercial society, fascism, in translation, in Ukrainian, Maurice Bardèche, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, socialism | Comments closed

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Jean Seberg:
Eine weiße Liberale wird geschaffen

Jean Seberg als Jeanne d’Arc in „Die heilige Johanna“

4,736 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots.

English original here

Am 20. Januar 2009 wurde der erste schwarze Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten in sein Amt vereidigt. Read more …

Published: August 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Hollywood, in German, in translation, Jean Seberg, miscegenation, movie reviews, North American New Right, race-mixing, reprints, Sam Davidson, the Jewish question, white ethnomasochism, white guilt | Comments closed

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The Doctrine of Fascism

Benito Mussolini

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

6,739 words

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, Benito Mussolini, commemorations, democracy, elitism, fascism, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

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The Fraud of Miss Jean Brodie

James J. O'Meara

2,556 words

Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel
London: Penguin Books, 1965 (1st ed. 1961)

“Brodie, of course, is a follower of Hitler, Franco and Mussolini […] In that context it doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to see the elite ‘crème de la crème‘ as an SS in miniature with Miss Brodie as its Duce or Führer.” — Alan Taylor, “Little Miss Imperfect, Sunday Herald, January 12, 2003.

Published: April 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, fascism, James J. O'Meara, Muriel Spark, North American New Right, reprints, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Comments closed

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Jean Seberg:
The Making of a White Liberal

Jean Seberg as Joan of Arc in "Saint Joan"

4,642 words

German translation here

On January 20, 2009 the first black President of the United States was sworn into office. The man stumbled over the words of his inauguration oath and grinned. President Obama had been voted into office by 43% of the white electorate.

Published: March 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Hollywood, Jean Seberg, miscegenation, movie reviews, North American New Right, race-mixing, reprints, Sam Davidson, the Jewish question, white ethnomasochism, white guilt | Comments closed

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Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

2,158 words

“Why can’t we all get along?”–Rodney King

Carl Schmitt’s short book The Concept of the Political (1932) is one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy.

The aim of The Concept of the Political is the defense of politics from utopian aspirations to abolish politics. Anti-political utopianism includes all forms of liberalism as well as international socialism, global capitalism, anarchism, and pacifism: in short, all social philosophies that aim at a universal order in which conflict is abolished.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Aristotle, articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, on Schmitt, originals, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, thumos, universalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Culture of Critique & the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

Michael O'Meara

3,201 words

Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988

La politique, c’est le destin. — Napoleon

Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, Reinhart Koselleck, reprints, the Enlightenment | Comments closed

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Could Liberalism be a Bad Mental Habit?

2,141 words

America and Europe are both separating like oil and water. One side is more conservative than the other, the other side more liberal than conservative.

Unfortunately for both, the terms “liberal” and “conservative” have gotten so muddled that most people are confused as to which side they’re on. But if we track the two historically, it’s easy to see which is which. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brett Stevens, egalitarianism, North American New Right, political psychology, reprints | Comments closed

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On Liberty

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People," 1830

2,051 words

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Published: December 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, communitarianism, libertarianism, liberty, North American New Right, philosophy, politics, reprints, William Pierce | Comments closed

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Juan Donoso Cortés

Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas, 1809–1853

1,308 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Along with Count Joseph de Maistre and Viscount Louis de Bonald, Juan Donoso Cortés, the Marquis of Valdegamas, is part of the triad of the great counter-revolutionary thinkers of the 19th century whose message is still relevant today. In Italy, those aspects of Donoso Cortés’ teachings that are most important in our eyes are hardly known.

Published: December 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Carl Schmitt, dictatorship, hierarchy, Joseph de Maistre, Juan Donoso Cortés, Julius Evola, Louis de Bonald, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Liberalism is the Death of Nations

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

440 words

Editor’s Note:

The following extract is taken from Germany’s Third Empire, the condensed English translation, published in 1934, of Moeller van den Bruck’s famous 1922 book, Das Dritte Reich.

Published: November 13, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Atrhur Moeller van den Bruck, book excerpts, nationalism, North American New Right, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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Liberalism

Francis Parker Yockey

4,627 words

I.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

The “Enlightenment” period of Western history which . . . set in after the Counter-Reformation laid more and more stress on intellect, reason and logic as it developed. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Carl Schmitt, emasculation, feminism, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Imperium, modernity, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, politics, rationalism, war | Comments closed

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