Monthly Archives: December 2014

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On the whole, 2014 was a good year for White Nationalism, European ethnonationalism, and allied trends. Of course, we New Rightists are subtle dialecticians, for whom better is always better, but worse is better sometimes too.

Better is Always Better

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Parrott on Conferences

Ted Sallis

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I would like to respond to Parrott’s essay, answering Greg Johnson’s original piece about “White Nationalist conferences.” Two points to begin with.

First, with respect to the actual debate, I agree with Johnson as regards the situation today; Read more …

Published: December 31, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American Renaissance, articles, conferences, Greg Johnson, Jared Taylor, Matt Parrott, North American New Right, reprints, Ted Sallis, the conference circuit, white community organizing, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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O morální vážnosti

Greg Johnson

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English original here

“This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
—
„Tohle není žádná párty, tohle není žádná diskotéka
Žádný prostor na to, dělat hlouposti“

—Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

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Archäofuturistische Fiktion
Frank Herberts Dune

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Wenn Science-Fiction typischerweise „progressiv“ und Fantasy-Literatur „rückwärtsgewandt“ ist, dann brauchen wir eine dritte Kategorie für die sechs Dune-Bücher von Frank Herbert (1920-1986) – gar nicht zu reden von George Lucas’ sechs Star Wars-Filmen –, die futuristische Sci-Fi-Elemente mit den archaischen Werten und magischen Welten der Fantasy verbinden.

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The Bourgeoisie, Protestantism, & The Protocols:
The Anti-Democratic Thought of Erik, Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn & Barone Giulio Cesare Evola

Alexander Jacob

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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Two books published in the early 1950s by two European aristocrats merit careful study by every contemporary European conservative since they express the authentic reactions of authentic noblemen to the revolutionary changes that Europe has for long suffered under the yoke of democracy and totalitarianism. These are Erik, Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time (1952) and Barone Giulio Cesare Evola’s Gli Uomini e le rovine (Men Among the Ruins) (1953). Read more …

Published: December 31, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexander Jacob, aristocracy, articles, Calvinism, Catholicism, democracy, equality, fascism, Julius Evola, liberalism, liberty, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, the bourgeoisie, the Jewish question, the Männerbund, Traditionalism | 3 Responses

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A Brief Rejoinder to Matt Parrott

Greg Johnson

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I chose the image of the Scarecrow, because I think that Matt has set up several straw men in his reply.

Baking a Bigger Pie

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I’m Going to AmRen:
In Defense of the National Conference Model

Matt Parrott

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Greg Johnson’s recent article, “Rethinking the White Nationalist Conference,” accurately concludes that the political climate has changed dramatically in the past couple decades of AmRen’s existence. It also summarizes many of the complaints about the conference I’ve heard over the years, all but one of which are true, but beside the point. It’s definitely time to step back and ask ourselves how we should adapt ourselves to the radically altered political landscape, and how that flagship of White Identity, the annual American Renaissance conference, fits in with that. Read more …

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What Do Identitarians Want? Part 2

Bain Dewitt

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Identitarians are against:

Democracy

“In the light of history it will ever be regarded as a curious and temporary aberration of the human mind that great nations should elect a government to do a job and should then elect an opposition to stop them doing it. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Bain Dewitt, decentralization, democracy, European identity, identitarianism, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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Remembering Rudyard Kipling:
December 30, 1865 to January 18, 1936

Greg Johnson

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’”
William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013”

Published: December 30, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, originals, poems, poetry, Rudyard Kipling | 5 Responses

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Comment naquit le Dieu Tout-puissant: Le Pharaon Akhenaton inventa l’idée. Apprenez pourquoi son peuple le détruisit.

John Kaminski

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Une dame adorable nommée Savitri Devi écrivit une série de livres charmants sur celui qu’elle pensait être le plus grand homme que le monde ait connu : Akhenaton, le fameux pharaon hérétique de l’ancienne Egypte, qui introduisit le concept de monothéisme dans le monde. Mais Akhenaton laissa son empire s’effriter et mourir, et disparut dans la poussière en laissant cet unique accomplissement conceptuel indéracinable pour que son nom reste vivant pendant trois mille ans – l’invention du dieu unique au-dessus de tout. Read more …

Published: December 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, in French, in translation, originals, Savitri Devi | Leave a comment

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Rethinking the White Nationalist Conference

Greg Johnson

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When American Renaissance had its first conference in 1994, the American media were dominated by the big three television networks, magazines and newspapers were primarily printed, and the internet was still in its infancy. Read more …

Published: December 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American Renaissance, articles, conferences, Greg Johnson, Jared Taylor, National Policy Institute, North American New Right, originals, the conference circuit, white community organizing, white nationalism | 25 Responses

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What Do Identitarians Want?

Bain Dewitt

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Part 1 of 2

As Britons, European-Americans, or native Europeans, we are all instinctively aware that something is deeply wrong with our society. However, the language used to describe this problem is kept within the extremely narrow confines of mainstream conservatism.

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Dennis Fetcho Interviews Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my interview on Dennis Fetcho’s Inside the Eye, which you can listen to here. I want to thank Dennis for having me on and V.S. for his transcription.

Dennis Fetcho: Coming up now, we have Dr. Greg Johnson. Read more …

Published: December 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Dennis Fetcho, Greg Johnson, Inside the Eye, interviews, metapolitics, non-white emigration, North American New Right, the Jewish question, white dispossession, white extinction, white grandiosity, white guilt, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Etika zachování rasy:
Frank Salter a jeho kniha On Genetic Interests

Michael Polignano

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English original here

Recenze knihy Franka Saltera: On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration, 2nd ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007

Dle hlavní teze knihy Franka Saltera On Genetic Interests veškeré živé organismy chrání své „genetické zájmy“ – Read more …

Published: December 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, book reviews, ethnic genetic interests, eugenics, Frank Salter, immigration, in Czech, in translation, Michael Polignano, North American New Right, reprints, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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How Traditional Catholics are Taking Back the Visual Culture of France, Part 2: A Tactical Guide

Patrick Le Brun

Piss Christ – Destroyed by Men of Avignon

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Introduction

Part 1 of this article explained how the line between the domain of the religion and culture of Europe and the degenerate art of our invaders has been dramatically crossed after years of stability. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Catholicism, France, modern art, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Le Brun, Paul McCarthy, Performance Criticism | 5 Responses

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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 | Tagged Ancient Greece, articles, China, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, presocratic philosophy, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | 3 Responses

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Jan Assmann’s Critique of the Axial Age

Greg Johnson

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Translations: French, Spanish

In his new book, From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014), Egyptologist Jan Assmann argues that philosopher Karl Jaspers’ concept of the Axial Age is “not a theory but a scientific myth” (p. 94).

According to Jaspers, the centuries between 800 and 200 BCE are a turning point in world history. During this Axial Age, Biblical monotheism and Zoroastrianism emerged in the Near East; Read more …

Published: December 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ancient Egypt, articles, globalization, Greg Johnson, history, Jan Assmann, Karl Jaspers, literacy, North American New Right, originals, the Assmann seminar | 2 Responses

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Merry Christmas!

Greg Johnson

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I want to wish Counter-Currents’ writers, readers, donors, and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Greg Johnson
Editor

Published: December 25, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Christmas, news item | 2 Responses

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Lawrence Dennis & a “Frontier Thesis” for American Capitalism

Keith Stimely

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Editor’s Note:

Lawrence Dennis (December 25, 1893–August 20, 1977) was one of America’s most original Right-wing critics of liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, and the Cold War. Interestingly enough, he was part black, a fact that was known to his many Right-wing admirers. In commemoration of Dennis’ birthday, and as a Christmas gift to our readers, we are reprinting Keith Stimely’s excellent introduction to his life and ideas. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged America, articles, banking, capitalism, economics, fascism, isolationism, James Burnham, Keith Stimely, Lawrence Dennis, North American New Right, reprints, the Cold War | 2 Responses

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God jul, otrogna!

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Det var ungefär tjugo år sedan jag först noterade att hälsningen ”god jul” (Merry Christmas) började bytas ut mot det mer intetsägande, neutrala ”god helg”.

Published: December 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Christmas, Greg Johnson, Hanukkah, holidays, in Swedish, in translation, Kwanzaa, reprints, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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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 …

Published: December 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ancient Greece, articles, China, history, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, political correctness, presocratics, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | 1 Response

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How Traditional Catholics Are Taking Back the Visual Culture of France, Part 1

Patrick Le Brun

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Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog at Versailles, Property of François Pinault

For most of my lifetime, the visual culture of France was not in dispute. It is not like in the United States, where nativity scenes were only recently ripped from the public square. Perhaps there was not a mutually accepted border, but for decades there has been a kind of line of control between all that was rooted in our culture and traditions and all garbage of the culture distorters. Read more …

Published: December 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Catholicism, France, François Mitterrand, Freemasonry, homosexuality, modern art, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Le Brun | 1 Response

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism, truth | 2 Responses

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Kerry Bolton’s Perón & Perónism

Eugène Montsalvat

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Kerry Bolton
Perón and Perónism
London: Black House Publishing, 2014

Perón and Perónism is an excellent resource on the political thought of Argentina’s three-time president Juan Domingo Perón. It places him firmly among the elite ranks of Third Position thinkers. His doctrine of Justicalism and his geopolitical agenda of resistance to both American and Soviet domination of Latin America have demonstrated enduring relevance. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, capitalism, feminism, Hugo Chavez, Juan Peron, Kerry Bolton, Muammar el-Qaddafi, North American New Right, originals, populism, syndicalism, Third Way economics | 8 Responses

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Remembering Filippo Marinetti:
December 22, 1876 to December 2, 1944

Greg Johnson

Prampolini’s portrait of Filippo Marinetti, 1876-1944

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Those on the Right who believe that modern art is always “decadent” need to come to grips with Italian Futurism. In commemoration of the birthday of Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism and one of the prophets of Fascism, I would like to draw your attention to several writings on this website.

First, there is Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” of 1909.

Published: December 22, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, articles, commemorations, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Greg Johnson, modern art, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

Trevor Lynch

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In his remake of King Kong, Peter Jackson dragged out the big ape’s death so long it felt like a lifetime. At the time, it merely seemed like a lapse of taste. In hindsight, it seems like the beginning of a whole new career characterized by megalomania, greed, one-upmanship, self-indulgence, and bad taste. It was just the first symptom of the dragon sickness that has now consumed him.

The Battle of Five Armies begins with Smaug giving Laketown the Dresden treatment, Read more …

Published: December 19, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Peter Jackson, Trevor Lynch | 18 Responses

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Shakespeare

Jonathan Bowden

Tintoretto, Tarquin and Lucretia, circa 1580

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by Lee and Donna Hancock of Jonathan Bowden’s talk on William Shakespeare, which you can listen to with dramatic examples here. Please post any corrections below as comments.

We’re here today to talk about William Shakespeare, Read more …

Published: December 19, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, drama, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, William Shakespeare | 2 Responses

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“Burn this bitch down!”
Ferguson, Garner, & the End of Gentrification

Greg Johnson

“Burn this bitch down!”

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German translation here

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“One law for the lion and the ox is oppression.”–William Blake

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Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, & a Common History for Humanity

Ricardo Duchesne

Karl Jaspers, 1883–1969

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French translation here

From the nineteenth century through the 1960s and ’70s, World History books did recognize the varying accomplishments of all civilizations in the world, but most authors and teachers took for granted the fact that Europeans deserved more attention particularly in view of their irrefutable influence on the rest of the world after their discovery of the Americas, development of modern science and global spread of modern technology.

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From Crypto-Currency to Anarcho-Capitalism

Christopher Pankhurst

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Dominic Frisby
Life After the State: Why We Don’t Need Government
Unbound, 2013

Dominic Frisby
Bitcoin: The Future Of Money?
Unbound, 2014

Within traditional, mainstream politics the assumption is that free trade is the preferred tool of the Right, and the state the preferred tool of the Left. Read more …