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Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938

5,352 words

Part 1 of 2

World War I brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been proceeding for centuries, when, in the Spenglerian sense, Money overwhelmed Tradition,[1] or, to resort even to Karl Marx, the bourgeoisie supplanted the aristocracy.[2] Industrialization accentuated the process of commercialization, with its concomitant urbanization and the disruption of organic bonds and social cohesion, which has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition. Read more …

Published: September 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, Charles Maurras, Christianity, classicism, conservatism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Georges Sorel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kerry Bolton, literary criticism, literature, modernism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, poetry, Romanticism, Social Credit, socialism, syndicalism, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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The Aryan Christian Religion & Politics of Richard Wagner

Alexander Jacob

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“I am the most German being. I am the German spirit.”[1] — Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) is today universally celebrated as the consummate exponent of nineteenth century German opera, whose developed Romantic idiom helped to usher in the musical innovations of Modernism in the early twentieth century. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Jacob, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, Christianity, classical music, Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, opera, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, religion, Richard Wagner, the Aryans, the Jewish question, vegetarianism | Comments closed

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Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk:
New Zealand Poet, “Polish King,” & “Good European”
Part III

Kerry Bolton

Potocki in Wellington, New Zealand, 1984

3,102 words

Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here. Part 2 here.

Post-War Fascism

Directly after the war Potocki was defiantly not only pro-fascist but also expressed overtly pro-Nazi sympathies. His 1945 Christmas card To Men of Goodwill, 1945, had the “X” of “Xmas” printed as a swastika, and included a six verse poem including the words “to save his life, our William Joyce.” Read more …

Published: August 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Count Potocki de Montalk, fascism, Kerry Bolton, National Socialism, New Zealand, originals, poetry, Poland | Comments closed

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Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk:
New Zealand Poet, “Polish King,” & “Good European”
Part II

Kerry Bolton

Potocki and Franco, London, circa. 1939

2,608 words

Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here.

Right Review

Potocki returned to England in 1935. The outbreak of the Civil War in Spain in 1936 polarized the intelligentsia and literati. Some, such as Potocki and in particular Roy Campbell,[1] identified with the rebel cause. In 1936, with funds from Aldous Huxley and Brian Guinness, Potocki bought a printing press, and began publishing his long-running literary and political journal, Right Review. Read more …