Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 161
Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right
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On August 22, I was interviewed about the Alternative Right by French Marxist writer Laura Raim, who was doing research for an article. As with all interviews, I made a reference copy. I think this interview turned out well, so I am making it available. The topics we covered include:
- The origins of the Alternative Right
- The Alt Right and paleoconservatism
- The Alt Right and post-libertarianism
- The Alt Right and White Nationalism (“The Alt Right Means White Nationalism . . . or Nothing at All [6]“)
- Jews and the Alt Right
- Allies of Color
- Ethnonationalism vs. alienation
- “The Slow Cleanse [7]” as a path to the ethnostate
- The Alt Right and National Socialism
- William Pierce (“Remembering William Pierce [8]“)
- “New Right vs. the Old Right [9]”
- Left-wing oligarchy
- “The End of Globalization [10]”
- The Neo-Reactionaries
- Frank Herbert’s Dune (“Archeofuturist Fiction: Frank Herbert’s Dune [11]“)
- The politics of time horizons
- Technological utopianism
- Richard Spencer and “Grandiose Nationalism [12]”
- “Notes on Populism, Elitism, and Democracy [13]”
- Classical republicanism
- The mixed regime (“Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics [14]“)
- The will of the people
- Rousseau and Plato on the general will (“Forced to be Free: The Case for Paternalism [15]“)
- Why the Neo-Reactionaries have not had much influence on the Alt Right
- Modernity, traditionalism, and the nation state
- Liberty and equality are not more important than justice, identity, and order
- The organic state and the common good
- The Trump campaign
- Civic vs. ethnic nationalism
- Artificial vs. organic civic unity
- Why I am not a Marxist
- Historical Idealism vs. Historical Materialism
- Hegel and thumos
- Peter Sloterdijk on thumos
- Carl Schmitt, thumos, and the political (“Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political [16]“)
- Georges Bataille’s philosophy of culture