Tag Archives: Ancient Greece

Why the Confederacy Matters

James Henry Beard, North Carolina Emigrants: Poor White Folks (1845)

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As of late, a great deal of debate has occurred on the Right concerning whether certain aspects of white-European history possess any relevance to the contemporary white racialist movement or not. For example, many have questioned the merits of the perpetuation of National Socialist ideology in the postmodern “West.” Read more …

Published: September 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, Aristotle, Chad Crowley, Classical civilization, Confederate Monuments, hierarchy, inequality, North American New Right, originals, Plato, The Confederacy | 6 Responses

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Plato, Hitler, & Totalitarianism

Guillaume Durocher

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Today, Western liberals are ambivalent about Plato. On the one hand, liberals claim they are the heirs of Greco-Roman civilization and philosophy Read more …

Published: March 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Aristotle, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Plato, totalitarianism | Comments closed

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The Four Elements of National Identity in Herodotus

Martin Aurelio

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The Western Classical notion of identity comes to us from Herodotus’ Histories, written in the 5th century B.C. It’s from Herodotus that we have the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, told in the broader context of the entire Hellenic world’s successful resistance of the Persian invasion. In order to do that, the Spartans (Dorians) and Athenians (Ionians) had to overcome their differences and join together to defend what was common to both of them as Greeks. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Herodotus, Martin Aurelio, national identity, North American New Right, religion, reprints | Comments closed

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The Ancient Greeks:
Our Fashy Forefathers

Guillaume Durocher

1,707 words

Nigel Rodgers
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Lorenz Books, 2014

“Western civilization” is certainly not fashionable in mainstream academia these days. Nonetheless, the ancient Greek and Roman heritage remains quietly revered in the more thoughtful and earnest circles. Quite simply, virtually all of our social and political organization, to the extent these are thought out, ultimately go back to Greek forms, Read more …

Published: June 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Athens, book reviews, European identity, fascism, Guillaume Durocher, homosexuality, Nigel Rodgers, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, Sparta, The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece | Comments closed

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Thoughts on Debt Repudiation

Greg Johnson

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, “Solon, Legislator of Athens”

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French translation here

In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, money, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, usury | Comments closed

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Natural Rights vs. Human Rights:
A Critique of Alain de Benoist

John Law

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Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Beyond Human Rights, book reviews, cosmopolitanism, David Gress, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, John Law, nationalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political theory, reprints, republicanism, rights, Seyla Benhabib, universalism | Comments closed

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Aristokratia III: Hellas

James J. O'Meara

1,792 words

Aristokratia III: Hellas
Edited by K. Deva
Manticore, 2015

Having previously devoted previous volumes to Nietzsche and to Evola, for its third incarnation, “Hellas,” Aristokratia seemingly pauses to reflect on itself: what are arête, hoi aristoi and aristokratia?

Oswald Spengler & the Faustian Soul of the West, Part 1

Ricardo Duchesne

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Faust im Studierzimmer Georg Friedrich Kersting

Georg Friedrich Kersting, “Faust in his Study”

Part 1 of 2

If I had to choose one word to identify the uniqueness of the West it would be “Faustian.” This is the word Oswald Spengler used to designate the “soul” of the West. He believed that Western civilization was driven by an unusually dynamic and expansive psyche. The “prime-symbol” of this Faustian soul was “pure and limitless space.” This soul had a “tendency towards the infinite,” a tendency most acutely expressed in modern mathematics. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, Charles Murray, exploration, Faustian man, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Human Accomplishment, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Western civilization | Comments closed

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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part 2

Ricardo Duchesne

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Thinkers East and West

Part 1 here

The Presocratic Discovery of Logos

Part 2 of this essay goes beyond the quantitative observation that Presocratic Greece on its own produced more original thinkers than the rest of the Axial world combined, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, Detour and Access, Francois Jullien, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, presocratic philosophy, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | Comments closed

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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

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. . . was the Presocratic discovery of logos.

The idea of an “Axial Age” was a boon to the ideological drive after WWII to envision the history of all cultures as a “collective” undertaking between “connected” peoples. The behavior of Germany during Second War was testimony, apparently, of what happens when an otherwise modern culture refuses to join with the world of cosmopolitanism in defense of its ethnic integrity. Read more …