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State, Movement, People, Part 4

7,776 words

Part 4 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

IV. Leadership and Ethnic Identity as Basic Concepts of National Socialist Law

1. National Socialism does not think abstractly and stereotypically. It is an enemy of every normativist and functionalist concoction. Read more …

Published: July 24, 2017 | Also posted in North American New Right, politics, translations | Tagged bureaucracy, Carl Schmitt, dictatorship, ethnonationalism, leadership, liberalism, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, philosophy of law, political philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

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State, Movement, People, Part 1

Carl Schmitt

5,666 words

Part 1 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

Editor’s Note:

Carl Schmitt published State, Movement, People (Staat, Bewegung, Volk) near the end of 1933. Like many of his most important works, it is short and pithy (less than 25,000 words). Read more …

Published: July 19, 2017 | Also posted in North American New Right, politics, translations | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl Schmitt, law, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

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The Importance of James Bond

Jef Costello

1,031 words

Jef Costello
The Importance of James Bond & Other Essays
Ed. Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017

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Published: June 14, 2017 | Also posted in art, Counter-Currents title, film, literature, men's studies, news item, religion | Tagged Costello book, Counter-Currents title, Jef Costello | Comments closed

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We are All Egoists – and Why That’s a Good Thing

Aedon Cassiel

Artwork by KEKM8

2,690 words

Many of those who end up exploring the political fringe – particularly on the Right – end up obsessed with various forms of what might loosely be called egocentricity. In those of a libertarian bent, this usually expresses itself as an obsession with contrasting honorable “individualism” against slavish “collectivism.” Read more …

Published: January 23, 2017 | Also posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aedon Cassiel, altruism, anarchism, Ayn Rand, egoism, libertarianism, Max Stirner, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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The Enslavement of Philosophy

Pierre Hadot

Francisco Suárez.

668 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is an extract from Pierre Hadot’s excellent Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique? (Paris: Gallimard, 1995, available in English as What is Ancient Philosophy?, pp. 381-84, under the heading “Philosophy as Servant of Theology.” The title is editorial.

Writing his Disputationes Metaphysicae in the last years of the sixteenth century, a work which would exert a considerable influence on many philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the scholastic author Francisco Suárez affirms: