Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago today in Leipzig in the kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right’s Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, which will continue through the end of May with articles by Collin Cleary, Christopher Pankhurst, and others. (more…)
Month: May 2013
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May 22, 2013 Plato
Socrates on Wisdom from Plato’s Euthydemus
Editor’s Note:
The following text is an excerpt from Plato’s dialogue Eythydemus translated by Benjamin Jowett. Here Socrates seeks to convince Cleinias, the son of Axiochus, who is something of a “dumb jock,” and thus a tough sell, that wisdom is of paramount importance to the good life and that philosophy, as the love of wisdom, is thus the noblest of pursuits. (more…)
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May 21, 2013 Dominique Venner
Le ragioni di una morte volontaria
English version here
Sono sano nel corpo e nella mente, e sono pieno di amore per mia moglie e i miei figli. Amo la vita e non mi aspetto nulla nell’aldilà, se non la perpetuazione della mia razza e del mio pensiero. Tuttavia, al calare della mia vita, di fronte a immensi pericoli per la mia patria francese ed europea, sento il dovere di agire finché ne ho ancora la forza. Credo che sia necessario sacrificare me stesso per rompere il torpore che ci affligge. (more…)
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May 21, 2013 Dominique Venner
As Razões para uma Morte Voluntária
English version here
Eu estou sadio em mente e corpo, e estou repleto de amor por minha esposa e filhos. Eu amo a vida e não espero nada além, senão a perpetuação de minha raça e minha mente. Porém, no entardecer de minha vida, me deparando com imensos perigos para minha pátria francesa e europeia, eu sinto o dever de agir enquanto eu ainda tenho forças. Eu creio ser necessário me sacrificar para romper a letargia que nos empesteia. (more…)
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English version here
Estoy saludable en cuerpo y mente, y lleno de amor por mi esposa e hijos. Amo la vida y no espero nada más allá, si no perpetuar mi raza e ideas. Sin embargo, en el ocaso de mi vida, encarando enormes peligros a mi patria francesa y europea, siento el deber de actuar mientras aún tengo fuerzas. Creo que es necesario sacrificarme para romper con el letargo que nos azota. (more…)
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Translated by Greg Johnson
Translations: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
I am healthy in body and mind, and I am filled with love for my wife and children. I love life and expect nothing beyond, if not the perpetuation of my race and my mind. (more…)
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Translated by Greg Johnson
French original; translations: Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish
Editor’s Note:
On May 21, 2013, French author Dominique Venner, whose writings have featured prominently at Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, placed a sealed envelope on the altar, and shot himself in the head.
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May 21, 2013 Dominique Venner
La Protesta del 26 de Mayo & Heidegger
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English translation, French original
El 21 de Mayo de 2013, el autor francés Dominique Vennner, cuyos escritos han tenido un lugar destacado en Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entró a la Catedral de Notre Dame en París, dejó un sobre sellado en el altar y se disparó en la cabeza. (more…)
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2,427 words
It heaves and groans. It shimmies and clicks. One holds one’s breath during the best parts, hoping it will not malfunction and ruin the whole evening. One fears for the performers, halfway expecting it to devour them.
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4,743 words
Not symphonic music, but rather the shattering roar of cannon announced the birth of Richard Wagner on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig. The German kingdom of Saxony had been overrun by the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte as he made a last-ditch effort to reassert dominance over Europe.[1]
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Karl Marx reserved a special place of contempt for those he termed “reactionists.” These comprised the alliance that was forming around his time among all classes of people, high-born and low, who aimed to return to a pre-capitalist society. These were the remnants of artisans, aristocrats, landowners, and pastors, who had seen the ravages of industrialism and money-ethics then unfolding. (more…)
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May 20, 2013 Leo Yankevich
Godfather
He’ll part this world with feathers on his feet,
the ton of five & dime cement no longer heavy,
his battered brow resembling morning wheat
as sunup blesses rusty Dodge and Chevy.And hipsters coming out saloon and church
will mark a glimmer of unworldly light
when for a second he climbs walls to perch
by Jesus, having left for good the night.