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Machiavelli & the Conservative Revolution

Dominique Venner

839 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Borne along by the French Spring, the Conservative Revolution is in fashion. One of its most brilliant theorists deserves to be remembered, even if his name has long been maligned. Indeed it is scarcely flattering to be described as “Machiavellesque” if not “Machiavellian.” It can be seen as an aspersion of cynicism and deceit. Read more …

Published: May 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cesare Borgia, Dominique Venner, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, originals, The Prince, translations | Comments closed

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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.

Published: April 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Benito Mussolini, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, fascism, Fascism Viewed from the Right, Italy, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

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

Published: April 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, aristocracy, Aristotle, book reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Collin Cleary, competition, cultural relativism, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, history, Hugo Grotius, humanism, Immanuel Kant, individualism, J. G. Fichte, Marcus Aurelius, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Pico della Mirandola, Plato, political correctness, Protestantism, Ricardo Duchesne, rights, sociology, Stoicism, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Thomas Aquinas, thumos, virtue | Comments closed

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“We are the Real Subalterns”

Manifestazione Casapound e Blocco Studentesco

Casa Pound Student Demonstration

1,344 words

“We are the real subalterns,” I was once told by an activist at CasaPound. His words were astonishing, not only because they so presciently invoke the relationship between CasaPound and the neoliberal Italian state, Read more …

Published: March 7, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-globalization, articles, capitalism, Casa Pound, colonialism, fascism, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, globalization, imperialism, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, subalternity, white activism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Relevance of Philosophy to Political Change

3,523 words

The title of this essay is somewhat misleading, since I am going to argue that philosophy is relevant to all human endeavors, not just politics.[1] Philosophy is not just metapolitical, but meta-everything.[2] But I know you are interested in political change, so that was my hook to get you reading. Furthermore, I will argue that philosophy is more than just relevant to life, but of paramount importance.

Published: December 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, Stoicism, wisdom | Comments closed

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Politicized Science vs. Scientific Politics

Gabriel von Max, “The Vivisectionist,” 1883, detail

2,731 words

It may seem ironic for those who are said to have “far Right views,” but perhaps one of the biggest obstacles in the struggle for the West is the far Right’s obsession with the scientific understanding of human races. It is not so much that scientific knowledge about race is irrelevant to our political purpose (which is the struggle for the West), but, rather, that this science is thought to possess a political utility it does not and will never have.

Published: December 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, biological race differences, egalitarianism, ethics, liberalism, metapolitics, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, science, social psychology, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Why All that Theory?

Plato and Aristotle from Raphael’s “The School of Athens”

4,336 words

There are those who wonder what the point is in discussing abstract theory while we are losing control over our society, in concrete and measurable ways, on multiple fronts, on a daily basis. For them abstract theory is just words, futile and devoid of meaning because their effect cannot be quantified, because their abundance is disproportionate to their physical effects, and because what ultimately counts for them is what transpires in empirical reality.

Published: December 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, ethics, liberalism, metapolitics, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, white dispossession, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Musolliniho nový fašistický člověk

2,593 words

English original here

“Větší účast na moci znamená odlišné vědomí, cítění, odhodlanost a odlišný úhel pohledu.” Friedrich Nietzsche [1]

“Ocel mě poctivě naučila o souladu mezi duší a tělem: zdálo se mi, že slabé emoce mají za následek ochabování svalů, sentimentalita se projevuje ochabnutím žaludku a přecitlivělost má za následek přecitlivělou bledou kůži. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, in Czech, in translation, Italy, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, organicism, physical fitness, reprints, the Arditi, vitalism | Comments closed

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Spiritual Authority & Temporal Power

Alain de Benoist

Jacques-Louis David, “The Coronation of Napoleon,” 1907, detail

8,635 words

Translated by Jon Graham

Three authors considered as outstanding representatives of “traditionalist thought” turned their attention to the same doctrinal question. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Georges Dumézil, Indo-Europeans, Julius Evola, Louis Dumont, monarchy, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism, translations, tripartition | Comments closed

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Georges Sorel

Alain de Benoist

Georges Eugène Sorel (November 2, 1847 in Cherbourg–August 29, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine)

2,012 words

Editor’s Note:

In commemoration of the birth of Georges Sorel on November 2, 1847, we are publishing this anonymous translation of Alain de Benoist’s tribute.

Published: November 2, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Communism, fascism, Georges Sorel, myth, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, syndicalism, translations, violence | Comments closed

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Mussolini’s New Fascist Man

2,812 words

Czech translation here

“A greater degree of power corresponds to a different consciousness, feeling, desiring, a different perspectival view.” — Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

“The steel faithfully taught me the correspondence between the spirit and the body: thus feeble emotions, it seemed to me, corresponded to flaccid muscles, Read more …

Published: October 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Italy, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, organicism, originals, physical fitness, the Arditi, vitalism | Comments closed

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Video of the Day
Alexander Dugin, “The Eurasian Project & The Fourth Political Theory: Toward a Multi-Polar World”

Video of the Day

time: 1:48:25 / 21 words

Published: September 27, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Communism, European New Right, fascism, globalism, globalization, liberalism, Mark Sleboda, Marxism, National Socialism, The Fourth Political Theory, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

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Remembering Francis Parker Yockey:
September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960

345 words

Francis Parker Yockey was born on this day in 1917 in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

Published: September 18, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Fourth Political Theory

Alexander Dugin

Alexander Dugin
The Fourth Political Theory
London: Arktos Media, 2012
212 pages

only in paperback: $29

About The Fourth Political Theory

All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies Read more …

Published: September 17, 2012 | Posted in distributed title, philosophy, politics | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, Communism, Dugin book, Eurasianism, European New Right, fascism, geopolitics, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, national bolshevism, National Socialism, philosophy, Russia, The Fourth Political Theory | Comments closed

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Unthinking Liberalism:
Alexander Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory

1,895 words

Alexander Dugin
The Fourth Political Theory
London: Arktos, 2012

Arktos recently published what we can only hope will be the first of many more English translations of Alexander Dugin’s work. Read more …

Published: September 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, Alexander Dugin, book reviews, Communism, fascism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, The Fourth Political Theory | Comments closed

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Notes on Populism, Elitism, & Democracy

Demosthenes

2,974 words

German translation here

Is democracy a good system from the perspective of racially-conscious whites?

(1) When both the United States and North Korea describe themselves as democracies, it is safe to conclude that “democracy” means close to everything and next to nothing. Read more …

Published: September 4, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Aristotle, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, populism, the mixed regime, the Papacy, Venice, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Video of the Day
Alexander Dugin: Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, & the Fourth Political Theory

Video of the Day

time: 9:56 / 23 words

Published: August 29, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, Communism, Eurasianism, fascism, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, philosophy, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

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The Transitional Program

Michael O'Meara

4,159 words

Apropos of . . .

Guillaume Faye
Mon Programme: Un programme révolutionnaire ne vise pas à changer les règles du jeu mais à changer de jeu
Chevaigné: Les Éditions du Lore, 2012

Published: August 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, economics, education, European New Right, France, Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara, Mon Programme, North American New Right, originals, the European Union, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The German Conservative
Revolution & its Legacy

Ludwig Klages, 1872–1956

5,632 words

During the years between World War I and the establishment of the Third Reich, the political, economic, and social crises which Germany suddenly experienced as a result of its defeat in the First World War gave rise to a movement known as the “Conservative Revolution,” which is also commonly referred to as the “Conservative Revolutionary Movement,” with its members sometimes called “Revolutionary Conservatives” or even “Neoconservatives.” Read more …

Published: August 14, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, Edgar Julius Jung, Ernst Junger, Ernst Niekisch, fascism, geopolitics, Germany, Hans Zehrer, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Karl Haushofer, Lucian Tudor, Ludwig Klages, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Othmar Spann, philosophy, Stefan George, Werner Sombart | Comments closed

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Rousseau as Conservative:
The Theodicy of Civilization

Nicolas Poussin, “Et in Arcadia Ego,” 1637

4,622 words

In 1762, Immanuel Kant did something unprecedented: he missed his daily walk. He stayed home to read Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s new book Emile, Read more …

Published: June 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Epicureanism, Greg Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, materialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, the problem of evil, theodicy | Comments closed

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