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Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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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:

“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

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | 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

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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 | Comments closed

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Vydejte se, zachraňte svět

Greg Johnson

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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 | Comments closed

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Mishima: Una vida en cuatro capítulos

Trevor Lynch

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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

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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 …