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14,711 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Greg Johnson’s interview with Laura Raim on the Alternative Right. To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Read more …

Published: September 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged civic nationalism, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, elitism, ethnic nationalism, Frank Herbert, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Laura Raim, metapolitics, National Socialism, Neo-Reaction, North American New Right, NRX, organicism, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, republicanism, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, thumos, time preferences, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right

Greg Johnson

1:54:07 / 302 words

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Uwagi o populizmie, elitaryzmie i demokracji

Greg Johnson

Demosthenes

2,638 words

English original here

Czy demokracja jest dobrym systemem z perspektywy rasowo świadomych białych ludzi?

1. Jeśli zarówno Stany Zjednoczone i Korea Północna określają się mianem demokracji, można bezpiecznie stwierdzić, że „demokracja” oznacza prawie wszystko i praktycznie nic. Read more …

Published: September 9, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Aristotle, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, in Polish, in translation, monarchy, North American New Right, political philosophy, populism, the Papacy, Venice, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Notes sur le populisme, l’élitisme, et la démocratie

Greg Johnson

Démosthène

3,250 words

English original here

La démocratie est-elle un bon système du point de vue des Blancs racialement conscients ?

(1) Quand les Etats-Unis et la Corée du Nord se décrivent tous deux comme des démocraties, il est sain de conclure que « démocratie » signifie proche de tout et de rien. En ce qui me concerne, je définirai la démocratie comme l’idée que le pouvoir de prendre des décisions politiques doit résider dans les « nombreux ». Read more …

Published: October 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Aristotle, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, monarchy, North American New Right, political philosophy political philosophy, populism, the Papacy, Venice, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Notes on Liberal Democracy & its Alternative

John Gordon

2,981 words

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

The political regime under which much of the world labours (and the entire Western world) is called “Liberal Democracy.” Francis Fukuyama has praised the ever widening expansion of this regime over the globe as “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and [it consists in] the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”[1] The source of Fukuyama’s thesis, the Russian Hegelian Marxist, Alexandre Kojève, called this End State the “universal and homogeneous state”: it is the ultimate goal of both Liberalism and Communism. Read more …

Published: January 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Aristotle, articles, Carl Schmitt, democracy, Francis Fukuyama, John Gordon, Leo Strauss, liberalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political theory, reprints | Comments closed

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Anmerkungen zu Populismus, Elitismus und Demokratie

Greg Johnson

Demosthenes

2,917 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here

Ist die Demokratie aus der Sicht rassebewußter Weißer ein gutes System?

1) Wenn sowohl die Vereinigten Staaten als auch Nordkorea sich als Demokratien beschreiben, kann man mit Sicherheit schlußfolgern, daß „Demokratie“ nahezu alles und nahezu nichts bedeutet. Read more …

Published: November 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Aristotle, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, in German, in translation, monarchy, North American New Right, political philosophy political philosophy, populism, the Papacy, Venice, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Notes on Populism, Elitism, & Democracy

Greg Johnson

Demosthenes

2,972 words

Translations: French, German, Polish

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, Johnson on populism, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism, the Papacy, Venice, white nationalism | Comments closed

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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 Aristotle, articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy | Comments closed

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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 …