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Louis de Bonald

137 words

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

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The Leopard

Trevor Lynch

3,594 words

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, film reviews, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian aristocracy, Italy, Luchino Visconti, monarchy, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Risorgimento, The Leopard, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Multimodal Ethics

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,482 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

5,530 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Ricardo Duchesne

The Mask of Agamemnon

4,700 words

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 | Comments closed

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Work Stinks

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,720 words

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 | Comments closed

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Starship Troopers

Trevor Lynch

2,086 words

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 | Comments closed

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Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

Dominique Venner

2,446 words

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.

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, bushido, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Durocher, Japan, kamikaze, kendo, meditation, Samurai, suicide, translations, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima, Zen | Comments closed

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Grégoire Canlorbe Interviews Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor and Grégoire Canlorbe
— Paris, September 2018

3,298 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald

137 words

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 | Comments closed

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On the Jewish Question

Anthony M. Ludovici

1,592 words

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.”

Published: April 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony M. Ludovici, articles, book excerpts, Jewish materialism, materialism, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

137 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, 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 | Comments closed

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A “Castle of the Order”

Julius Evola

At Ordensburg Sonthofen

1,535 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Guillaume Durocher

2,074 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Guillaume Durocher

Alexis de Tocqueville

2,545 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Guillaume Durocher

2,544 words

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 | Comments closed

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Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals

Jonathan Bowden

7,538 words

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 | Comments closed

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Vydejte se, zachraňte svět

Greg Johnson

1,079 words

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 | Comments closed

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Mishima: Una vida en cuatro capítulos

Trevor Lynch

3,918 words

English original here

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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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Ernest Renan on the Bourgeoisie

Ernest Renan

1,793 words

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 | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

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 | Comments closed

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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 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 | Comments closed

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Aleister Crowley jako teoretyk polityki

Kerry Bolton

4,640 words

English original here and here

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), samozwańcza „Wielka Bestia 666” stał się postacią na trwale obecną zarówno w środowiskach okultystycznych jak i we współczesnej kulturze popularnej. Jedni wychwalają go jako filozofa, maga i proroka. Przez innych jest potępiany jako zdeprawowany egomaniak. W większości wypadków postrzega się go przez pryzmat jego ekscentrycznych, nierzadko szokujących zachowań. Read more …

Published: August 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, Benito Mussolini, corporatism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D’Annunzio, in Polish, in translation, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Ayn Rand, Before Capitalism

Greg Johnson

5,078 words

Editor’s Note:

This essay was written in 2000 and published online at a long-defunct website. It contains some good ideas and good writing, so I believe it deserves to live again.

“The capitalistic world is low, unprincipled and corrupt.”

—Ayn Rand, Journals of Ayn Rand

Published: July 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, capitalism, Greg Johnson, Hollywood, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Marxism, mass man, mass society, North American New Right, philosophy, Pola Negri, reprints, The Fountainhead | Comments closed

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Ayn Rand & Ortega y Gasset

Greg Johnson

6,280 words

Editor’s Note:

This essay was written in 2000 and published online at a long-defunct website. It is really a sketch of a more detailed research project that somebody else might wish to carry out. Even as such, I think it deserves a new lease on life. I do not regret a single hour spent reading Ortega.

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Agótate a ti mismo, salva al mundo

Greg Johnson

1,469 words

Traducción por A. Garrido

Enlace original aquí

Algún momento en 2003, estaba cansado y pensando en dejar el trabajo en un proyecto relacionado con el movimiento. Eran las 2:30 a.m., y no había estado durmiendo bien por un tiempo. Pero entonces una pregunta se me ocurrió: “¿Para qué te estás guardando?” ¿Realmente necesito mi sueño reparador? Read more …

Published: May 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, morality, North American New Right, originals, parasitism, philosophy, Plato, the bourgeoisie, thumos, warrior ethics, white dispossession | 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?

Published: May 12, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ancient Greece, book reviews, Colin Liddell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gwendolyn von Taunton, Hellenism, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, V | Comments closed

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Spend Yourself, Save the World

Greg Johnson

1,440 words

Translations: Czech, Spanish

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Sometime in 2003, I was feeling tired and thinking of knocking off work on a movement-related project. It was 2:30 a.m., and I had not been sleeping well for a while. But then a question occurred to me: “What are you saving yourself for?” Read more …

Published: May 8, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, morality, North American New Right, originals, parasitism, philosophy, Plato, the bourgeoisie, thumos, warrior ethics, white dispossession | Comments closed

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El hombre más inteligente en la habitación

Greg Johnson

2,234 words

English original here

Recientemente he tenido una epifanía de cómo los Nacionalistas Blancos podrían hacer un mejor trabajo creando un movimiento vanguardista genuino. El Vanguardismo, al cual nunca me canso de señalar, es y siempre debe ser una estrategia elitista. La historia está hecha por las elites. Los blancos, sin embargo, son dominados por una elite judía y plutocrática que, a lo mejor, es indiferente al futuro de nuestra raza Read more …