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Robinson Crusoe & the Rise of the West

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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur ^[1], Professor Ricardo Duchesne joins Fróði Midjord to discuss Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Topics in this two-hour conversation include:

• The rise of the novel
• The greater variety of personalities in Western culture
• Marxist interpretation of Robinson Crusoe as the prototype capitalist persona
• The history and nature of Western individualism
• Protestant introspection

• The coexistence of individualism and ideological totalitarianism in Scandinavia
• The claim that Crusoe “upholds the racist ideology of white supremacy”
• The Darwinian character of Jack London’s Call of the Wild
• Current Western effeminacy
• The Darwinian struggle for existence,
• The forging of collective identities based on the uniquely free consciousness of Whites.

The episode is archived on BitChute ^[2] (video) and Spreaker ^[3] (audio only). Guide to Kulchur streams live on YouTube ^[4] and DLive ^[5] every Tuesday and most Sundays. Two episodes per month are devoted to First Principles, focusing on books that are central to understanding a Right-wing worldview.

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