Tag Archives: aristocracy

High & Low

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Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime (1910–1998). High and Low (1963) is one of the best of these films, along with Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, and Ikiru. Read more …

Published: July 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, articles, capitalism, class conflict, feudal Japan, feudalism, High and Low, honor, Japan, Japanese movies, justice, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Trevor Lynch, virtue | 5 Responses

In Defense of Racist Liberalism

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Give me racist liberalism, or give me death!

— Patrick Henry, probably.

To be in the Dissident Right is to be part of an informal initiatic society. There are various levels of being with it — there’s always another redpill to take. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocratic individualism, articles, atheism, Christianity, egalitarianism, equality, Gnosticism, individualism, liberalism, libertarianism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, racist liberalism, religion, thumos | 42 Responses

The WASP in the Wilderness

William de Vere

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Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the Right still exerted some influence, and when ancestral traditions of dignity and civic responsibility were still in force among the old families. It was a time when anxieties about the rising power of the underclass and the preservation of America’s political, cultural, and natural heritage were paramount. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American heritage, articles, conservationism, ecology, environmentalism, North American New Right, originals, subversion, Theodore Roosevelt, urbanization, WASPs, wilderness, William de Vere | 8 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Aristocratic Individualism

Ricardo Duchesne

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In Part 1 of my detailed examination of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (2019) I covered MacDonald’s argument in chapter one that Europe’s founding peoples consisted of three population groups: Read more …

Published: February 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, citizenship, ethnicity, Greece, Greek city-states, history, individualism, Italy, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, kinship groups, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Roman Empire | 15 Responses

Proč se tu setkáváme:
úvahy nad všeobecným vzděláváním

Hendrick ter Brugghen, Heraclitus, 1628

2,226 slov

English original here

Poznámka autora: Následuje text části přednášky z 15. srpna 1996 z kurzu pro dospělé v Atlantě, který jsem vedl během svého doktorského studia. Celá přednáška byla podstatně delší a mluvil jsem při ní mj. o Rousseauovi, Kantovi, Schillerovi nebo Hegelovi.

Proč jsme se tu dnes večer sešli? Read more …

Published: November 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bourgeois man, consumerism, education, Egalitarismus, Filosofie, freedom, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, Greg Johnson, Hérakleitos, in Czech, Konzervatismus, Konzumerismus, liberal education, Liberalismus, luxury, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, political correctness, Řecko, slavery, Sókratés | Leave a comment

Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Louis de Bonald

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents.

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | Leave a comment

The Leopard

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Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval, which is the heraldic animal of the princes of Salina in Sicily). Visconti’s film is a remarkably faithful adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The Leopard became the best-selling Italian novel of all time, carrying off many critical laurels as well. Read more …

Published: August 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian aristocracy, Italy, Luchino Visconti, monarchy, movie reviews, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Risorgimento, The Leopard, Trevor Lynch | 5 Responses

Multimodal Ethics

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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There’s no love lost between me and Jordan Peterson. I have contempt for him and his kind that I don’t really feel for outright enemies of the Dissident Right. He is a deceiver and a speaker of half-truths who doesn’t even have the decency or chutzpah to craft a lurid lie. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alpha males, articles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, incels, Jordan Peterson, losers, masculinity, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, nobility, North American New Right, originals, snobbery, Vox Day | 19 Responses

The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

Definition of “Axial thought”

The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, anti-white propaganda, Aristotle, articles, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, Mycenae, North American New Right, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part III

Ricardo Duchesne

The Mask of Agamemnon

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

Rituals in simple mythic cultures

According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and cultural practices in those activities we define as “play” and “ritual,” because these activities are performed when humans are in a “relaxed” state away from evolutionary pressures. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kalapalo, Mycenae, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 2 Responses

Work Stinks

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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There are several boomer-tier jokes going around the internet, and most of them predate it, about voter turnout at different times of day in the US. Something about Democrats getting an early lead but then losing it when Republicans get off from work and vote. It’s supposed to be a dig at Democrats for being unemployed, welfare leeches, or working for the government. It’s a clever dig if you value working, which I suppose a part of the population should. But here at Counter-Currents, we value honesty and truth, no matter how ugly, and we take a massive sledgehammer to pretty lies, no matter how useful. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, leisure, liberal arts, neets, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, the work ethic, warrior ethics, work | 30 Responses

Starship Troopers

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Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959) marked his transition from writing juvenile pulp science fiction to serious novels of ideas, in this case setting forth a highly reactionary and militarist political philosophy. Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film of Starship Troopers takes quite a few liberties with Heinlein’s plot but manages to capture its spirit and communicate its key ideas. Read more …

Published: April 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, militarism, movie reviews, North American New Right, Paul Verhoeven, reprints, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, Starship Troopers, Trevor Lynch | 9 Responses

Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

Dominique Venner

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.

Grégoire Canlorbe Interviews Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor and Grégoire Canlorbe
— Paris, September 2018

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Samuel Jared Taylor is a Japan-born American white advocate. He is the founder and editor of the online magazine American Renaissance. Taylor is also the president of American Renaissance’s parent organization, New Century Foundation.

Grégoire Canlorbe: With the benefit of hindsight, what was the Golden Age of race relations in the USA? May it have been segregation? Read more …

Published: October 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blacks in America, C. G. Jung, Calvinism, caste, colonialism, Donald Trump, Grégoire Canlorbe, imperialism, interviews, Japan, Jared Taylor, North American New Right, originals, Russia, Samurai, segregation, The Confederacy | 16 Responses

Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Louis de Bonald

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | 1 Response

On the Jewish Question

Anthony M. Ludovici

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is excerpted from the forthcoming Counter-Currents publication of Anthony M. Ludovici, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, ch. 8, “My Life Work.” The title is Editorial. The notes by John V. Day are marked “Ed.”

Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:

“Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce.”
“Bonald’s Economic Thought.”
“Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility.” Read more …

Published: October 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | Leave a comment

A “Castle of the Order”

Julius Evola

At Ordensburg Sonthofen

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Trans. anonymous

Krössinsee (Pomerania), August 1939

In a kind of immense field opening up in the dense and unbroken mass of the Nordic forest, against the backdrop of the metallic colors of two large lakes, under a sky made particularly lofty by this constant horizontality and straightness, which, so to speak, constitutes the style of this Pomeranian landscape, stands a group of buildings. They are a singular mixture of the primordial, the archaic, and the modern. Read more …

Published: August 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, education, elitism, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, Ordensburgen, originals, translations | 13 Responses

The Eternal Anglo:
Tocqueville’s Prophetic History of the United States, Part 3

Guillaume Durocher

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Part 3 of 3

The American Empire: Triumph & Expansion of the Federal State

The story of America is also one of the steady fall of Jeffersonian democracy and the rise of Hamiltonian plutocracy, with an all-powerful federal government in symbiosis with a ruling oligarchy. This was not a given however, because the Republic created by the Constitution was actually a regime of divided sovereignty. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American character, American conformism, articles, capitalism, democracy, freedom of speech, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, political correctness, sovereignty, United States | 1 Response

The Eternal Anglo:
Tocqueville’s Prophetic History of the United States, Part 2

Guillaume Durocher

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Part 2 of 3

The American Nightmare: A Stifling Middlebrow Dictatorship of Political Correctness

The talents of Anglo-Americans and the material wealth of North America predestined that nation for great power. But power is nothing, or worse, without wisdom. This raises the question: What is the character of the American? Read more …

Published: July 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American character, American conformism, articles, capitalism, democracy, freedom of speech, Guillaume Durocher, lawyers, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, political correctness, Protestantism, social pricing, United States | 3 Responses

The Eternal Anglo:
Tocqueville’s Prophetic History of the United States, Part 1

Guillaume Durocher

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Part 1 of 3

An important project for the Alternative Right is the reclaiming of the ethno-nationalist and inegalitarian strands in Western thinking. This is often fairly easy to do: almost everything written before the 1960s was in some way or another politically-incorrect by the standards of today. I have previously attempted to do this regarding aristocratic, racial, and nationalist thought in Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic study, Democracy in America.[1] Read more …

Published: July 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American character, American conformism, articles, capitalism, democracy, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, United States | 5 Responses

Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about Nietzche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone! Welcome again to Vanguard and welcome as well, Jonathan Bowden! Read more …

Published: June 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, interviews, Islam, Jonathan Bowden, morality, neo-paganism, North American New Right, On the Genealogy of Morals, originals, paganism, philosophy, Richard Spencer, slave morality, the Jewish question, warrior ethics | Leave a comment

Vydejte se, zachraňte svět

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English original here

Někdy v roce 2003 jsem se cítil velice unavený a uvažoval, že nechám práce na jednom projektu spojeném s hnutím a trochu se vyspím. Bylo půl třetí ráno a moc jsem toho poslední dobou nenaspal. Pak mě ale napadlo: „Na co se vlastně šetříš?“ Potřeboval jsem spánek, abych si zachoval svou krásu? Všechno, co ušetříme, stejně musíme vydat, jelikož smrt nikomu nic nenechává. Tím, že se budeme šetřit, svět nezachráníme – toho dosáhneme jedině tím, že se vydáme. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, in Czech, in translation, morality, North American New Right, parasitism, philosophy, Plato, reprints, the bourgeoisie, thumos, warrior ethics, white dispossession | Leave a comment

Mishima: Una vida en cuatro capítulos

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Suceden cosas similares en los Estados Unidos: un marginado, ratón de biblioteca, de derechas, comienza a practicar levantamiento de pesas y artes marciales, forma una milicia privada, y sueña con derrocar al gobierno; luego, acaba muriendo en un enfrentamiento espectacular, suicida y en apariencia sin sentido contra el Estado. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commercial society, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Spanish, in translation, Japan, literature, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Paul Schrader, Traditionalism, transvaluation, Trevor Lynch, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | 1 Response

Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 4

John Law

3,285 words

George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909

Part 4 of 4

The Battle to the Death for Pure Honor

Tomislav Sunic writes:

In the eyes of the New Right, unlike continental Europeans, Anglo-Saxon peoples fail to perceive the importance of organic community Read more …

Published: December 30, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, collectivism, European New Right, G. W. F. Hegel, heroism, individualism, Indo-Europeans, John Law, Nordic man, North American New Right, Protestantism, reprints, Scandinavia, warrior ethics, WASPs | 3 Responses

Ernest Renan on the Bourgeoisie

Ernest Renan

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Translated by Charles Jansen

Translator’s Note:

Ernest Renan (1823–1892) is famous for his 1882 essay Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? (What is a Nation?), in which he upholds the idea that a nation is founded upon a social contract or a voluntary association of individuals rather than ties of blood or a common history. His statement that “a nation is a plebiscite of each day” has been a pillar of French civic education for decades. Read more …

Published: November 25, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, bourgeois man, Ernest Renan, France, North American New Right, translations | 2 Responses

Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

145 words

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:

“Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce.”
“Bonald’s Economic Thought.”
“Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility.” Read more …

Published: October 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | Leave a comment

Uwagi o populizmie, elitaryzmie i demokracji

Demosthenes

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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 Aristotle, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, in Polish, in translation, monarchy, North American New Right, political philosophy, populism, the mixed regime, the Papacy, Venice, white nationalism | Leave a comment