Counter-Currents
Remembering Francis Parker Yockey:
September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960
Greg Johnson
465 words
Francis Parker Yockey was born on this day in 1917 in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.
By Yockey himself:
- “America’s Two Political Factions,” here
- “America’s Two Ways of Waging War,” here
- “Culture” (December 1953), here
- “The Destiny of America,” here
- “From the Notebooks,” here
- “The Imperative of Our Age,” here
- “Liberalism,” here
- “The Nature of Politics,” here
- “The Prague Treason Trial,” here
- Selections from Francis Parker Yockey, here
- “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal (Excerpts),” here
- “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal: Knowledge and Skepticism,” here
- “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal: On Money,” here
- “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal” Prussianism and Americanism,” here
- “Twentieth-Century Metaphysics,” here
- “Two Reflections,” here
- “The World in Flames,” here
About Yockey:
- Kerry Bolton, “The Cold War Axis: Soviet Anti-Zionism and the American Right,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Kerry Bolton, “A Contemporary Evaluation of Francis Parker Yockey,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Kerry Bolton, “Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium,” here
- Kerry Bolton, “Early Reactions to Imperium,” here
- Anthony Gannon, “Francis Parker Yockey, 1917–1960: A Remembrance of the Author of Imperium,” here
- Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Six Poems for Francis Parker Yockey, here
- Michael O’Meara, “Boreas Rising: White Nationalism and the Geopolitics of the Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Michael O’Meara, “The Death of Francis Parker Yockey,” here
- Michael O’Meara, “The Jitterbugs and the Vabanquespieler: On Yockey’s America,” here
- Margot Metroland, “Spengler, Yockey, and The Hour of Decision,” here
- Revilo Oliver, “After Fifty Years,” here
- Revilo Oliver, “The Shadow of Empire: Francis Parker Yockey after 20 Years,” here
- Ted Sallis, “The Overman High Culture: The Future of the West,” here (in French, in Portuguese)
- Ted Sallis, “Pan-European Preservationism,” here
- Keith Stimley, Interview with H. Keith Thompson on Francis Parker Yockey, here
Yockey’s magnum opus, Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, is back in print with an Introduction by Dr. Kerry Bolton.
Yockey’s The Enemy of Europe
Yockey’s manifesto, The Proclamation of London: Of the European Liberation Front
Unfortunately, the only existing biography of Yockey is Kevin Coogan’s Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International
Fortunately, Dr. Kerry Bolton is now working on a new biography of Yockey, which promises to be the definitive treatment. We have published a crowd-sourcing appeal for help in tracking down Yockey’s lost writings and related materials. If you can help, please contact me at [email protected].
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At present the nationalist movements in Europe and America are gripped by what Yockey called “petty statism.” But nothing lasts forever and the historical cycle will inevitably deliver European union. Exactly what form it will take we do not know but the predicted fragmentation of the Soviet Union was limited. The Russian states stayed together and the proximity of Russian gas and oil to German industry will form the basis of the new Imperium. Unfortunately Yockey was so far ahead of his time that the rest of the world has still not caught up with him. The division of the world into parishes is not the answer.
The ideal and really, the only hope Europe has is Pan Europeanism through Christianity, and the state must than take on a similar structure to medieval Europe. Of course Russia will need to be included in this. Think, articles of confederation with a monarchical structure, all subservient to God through Christ. This is her only hope, it is either complete restoration as such, or 1984.
For this too come, all petty nationalism and even to an extant white nationalism ( not white realism of course ) must be overcome.
It’s the sod’n Reformation that has a lot to answer for, that set the rot into motion.
So, you’re saying there is no hope for Europe.
RIP Francis Parker Yockey
What a great man! It’s unbelievable that a man who was relatively unknown a few years ago, has risen into prominence. He’s more relevant than ever for those who understand him and the organic theory of history a la Spengler.
Yockey’s great contribution was synthesizing the best thought of the Conservative Revolution of the early 20th Century and creating a comprehensible contemporary political perspective for white nationalists. To think he was an American kind of blows the mind. Obviously, America’s emphasis on the practical influenced his great work.
Talent wins out in the end. Yockey and Louis Ferdinand Celine are still remembered because their work is still relevant and inspiring. This has to be the greatest revenge: To shoot arrows from the grave.
Thank you counter currents for keeping him alive and publishing his works.
September 18th. Francis Parker Yockey Day. Imperium!!!
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