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Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics
Part 2: In Defense of Popular Government

Greg Johnson

Raphael's Aristotle from "The School of Athens," fresco, 1510–1511, Apostolic Palace, Vatican

4,933 words

Part 2 of 2

5. The Good Man and the Good Citizen

Having now surveyed Aristotle’s thoughts on the elements and proper aim of politics, we can now examine his arguments for popular government. When I use the phrase “popular government,” it should be borne in mind that Aristotle does not advocate a pure polity, but a mixed regime with a popular element. Read more …

Published: June 22, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics

Greg Johnson

Aristotle, 384–322 BCE, marble portrait bust, Roman copy (2nd century BCE) of a Greek original (c. 325 BCE); in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome

Part 1: 4,099 words

Part 2: 4,933 words

Author’s Note:

The following introduction to Aristotle’s Politics focuses on the issues of freedom and popular government. It is a reworking of a more “academic” text penned in 2001.

Part I: The Aim and Elements of Politics

1. The Necessity of Politics

Aristotle is famous for holding that man is by nature a political animal. But what does this mean? Read more …

Published: June 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

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 , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Rectification of Names:
Guillaume Faye’s Why We Fight

F. Roger Devlin

1,357 words

Guillaume Faye
Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance
London: Arktos Media, 2011

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Published: May 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Democracy:
Representative & Participatory

Alain de Benoist

Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription “Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian,” marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 430 BC

2,180 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Representative democracy—essentially liberal and bourgeois—is the most widespread political regime in the Western world today. Read more …

Published: May 24, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

Nationalism:
Phenomenology & Critique

Alain de Benoist

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869), "Italia and Germania"

2,087 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

There are probably as many theories of nationalism as there are nationalist theories. It is obviously impossible to give an account of them here. We will not take part in the false quarrel over whether nationalism is a pathological exacerbation of patriotism, Read more …

Published: May 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

Human Rights between Ideology & Politics:
Alain de Benoist’s Beyond Human Rights

F. Roger Devlin

2,055 words

Alain de Benoist
Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms
London: Arktos Media, 2011

The work under review is the third by French philosopher Alain de Benoist to be translated into English, and the second translation to be published by Arktos Media. Like its predecessor The Problem of Democracy, it is a short, dense book written to challenge the authority of one of the most pompous god-terms of our age.

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Published: April 11, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

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The Proclamation of London

Francis Parker Yockey

Introduction by Michael O’Meara
Shamley Green: The Palingenesis Project, 2012
140 pages

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Published: February 29, 2012 | Posted in distributed title, North American New Right, philosophy, politics | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

Ideas Matter

Matt Parrott

"The Philosophers" by the anonymous Italian painter of the early 17th century known as the Master of the Judgment of Solomon

1,881 words

The documentary Mugabe and the White African tells the story of a family of Whites trying to cling to their farm in Zimbabwe. The family isn’t racist. They’re anti-racist, claiming (rather credibly) that Robert Mugabe is the real racist. Read more …

Published: February 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Dog & Pony Show of “Democracy”

Andrew Hamilton

Jeff Koons, "Ushering in Banality," 1988

1,480 words

Our age is dominated by self-proclaimed “democratic” elites controlling states that are increasingly self-organizing into a unitary world order likewise styled “democratic.” Read more …

Published: November 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

The New Right & What It Can Offer the Rest of the World

Siryako Akda

2,146 words

The term Nationalism—as it is known outside of the West—is mostly synonymous with the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist sentiments of the 19th and 20th century, Read more …

Published: November 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Ideas Matter:
Greg Johnson & Mike Polignano Speak at the IHR

News Item

374 words

On Saturday, November 12, 2011, Greg Johnson and Mike Polignano of Counter-Currents, along with Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, gave talks at the IHR offices in Orange County, California. Read more …

Published: November 14, 2011 | Posted in news item, North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Revolt Against Civilization

Lothrop Stoddard

Introduction by Kevin MacDonald
Wermod & Wermod, 2011
262 pp

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In this classic 1922 book, Lothrop Stoddard examines the point where egalitarian revolutionary movements — particularly the French Revolution and its ultimate offspring in the 20th century, the Bolshevik revolution — intersect with human biodiversity. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2011 | Posted in distributed title, philosophy, politics, race and ethnic studies | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Макіавеллі як європеєць

Dominique Venner

695 words

English original here

Навіть його власне ім’я повернулось проти нього. І дійсно, навряд чи хто втішатиметься епітетом «макіавеліанський». В уяві одразу вимальовуються тіні підступної та зрадливої жорстокості. Та все ж до написання свого найвідомішого та найскандальнішого твору – «Державець» Макіавеллі привела турбота про його батьківщину – Італію. Read more …

Published: October 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

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 , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Vilfredo Pareto:
The Karl Marx of Fascism

James Alexander

Vilfredo Pareto, 1848–1923

7,009 words

Italian contributions to political and social thought are singularly impressive and, in fact, few nations are as favored with a tradition as long and as rich. One need only mention names such as Dante, Machiavelli, and Vico to appreciate the importance of Italy in this respect. In the twentieth century too, the contributions made by Italians are of great significance. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Greg Johnson

651 words

Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany–where died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Lesson of Carl Schmitt

Guillaume Faye & Robert Steuckers

3,608 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

We met Carl Schmitt in the Westphalian village of Plettenberg, the place of his birth and retirement. For four remarkable hours we conversed with the man who remains unquestionably the greatest political and legal thinker of our time. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

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