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Remembering Francis Parker Yockey: September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960
Greg Johnson
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Francis Parker Yockey was born 105 years ago today, September 18, 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.
Published by Counter-Currents:
We will also be publishing a new edition of Yockey’s Imperium to complete this three-volume set of Yockey’s Collected Writings. You can find out more about Imperium here.
By Yockey himself:
- “America’s Two Political Factions,” here
- “America’s Two Ways of Waging War,” here
- “Brotherhood,” here
- “Culture” (December 1953), here
- “The Destiny of America,” here
- “1848–1948: Years of Decision,” here
- “From the Notebooks,” here
- “The Imperative of Our Age,” here
- “Liberalism,” here
- “The Nature of Politics,” here
- “Nothing New Under the Sun: A Letter from Francis Parker Yockey,” 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:
- Maurice Bardèche on Francis Parker Yockey, here
- 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, “Early Reactions to Imperium,” here
- Kerry Bolton, “Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium,” here
- Kerry Bolton, “Frederick Weiss & Francis Parker Yockey,” here
- Kerry Bolton, “Introduction to Yockey’s The Enemy of Europe,” here
- Kerry Bolton, “Reading Marx Right: A ‘Reactionist’ Interpretation of The Communist Manifesto,” here
- Kerry Bolton, “Remembering H. Keith Thompson,” here
- Podcast, “Kerry Bolton on Francis Parker Yockey at 100,” here
- Peter Bradley, “Wilmot Robertson on Francis Parker Yockey,” here
- Julius Evola, “Über die Geistigen und Strukturellen Voraussetzungen der Europäischen Einheit,” here
- Anthony Gannon, “Francis Parker Yockey, 1917–1960: A Remembrance of the Author of Imperium,” here
- Robert Hampton, “A Critic Takes the Dissident Right Seriously,” here
- Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Six Poems for Francis Parker Yockey, here
- Greg Johnson, “Charles Krafft’s Francis Parker Yockey Commemorative Plates,” here
- Margot Metroland, “Remembering H. Keith Thompson: He Told the Truth, Mainly,” here
- Margot Metroland, “Revilo P. Oliver and Francis Parker Yockey,” here
- Margot Metroland, “Spengler, Yockey, and The Hour of Decision,” here (in Croatian, in Czech)
- 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
- 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
- Fenek Solère, “Enigmatic to the End,” here
- Keith Stimley, Interview with H. Keith Thompson on Francis Parker Yockey, here
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6 comments
I suppose that if Yockey were alive today he would be a radical Putinist. For him Comrade Stalin was good guy and “fighter against Zionism”.
Yockey is a fascinating figure, though his anti-Americanism, Thirld-Worldism and support of the Soviet Union is off-putting. He was driven by deep antisemitism, which ultimately made him allies with the enemies of Europe and Europeans.
That is always a little strange for me. There were hundreds of defectors from the Soviet Union to the West: military and intelligence officers, civil officials and diplomats, journalists, writers and artists, politicians and merchants and just various private persons. They informed Western intelligence services, they wrote books and gave lectures.
During the WW2 and after it hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens of all ethnic groups flew to the West and stayed there (many were betrayed by Anglo-Americans, but much more escaped and stayed in Europe, the US, Australia and other states). Everybody could easily get TRUE information about Stalin´s paradise. Simply from books. For example, Kravchenko´s I CHOSE FREEDOM or Klimov´s BERLINER KREML were big hits. But the West closed its eyes or looked in another direction.
I can understand why the Leftists were “blind”, Stalin was one of “theirs”. But what good could the Rightists or Nationalists, like Yockey, see in Stalin´s system? Has Yockey really thought that the internal conflicts among Communist thugs, like the “hanging of 11 Jews in Prague” made Stalin and Co. good guys? That this “hanging” someway excuses the mass murders of ALL ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and in the Far East (Chinese, Koreans, Uyghurs, Tibetans etc. – because without Stalin there were no Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung), done by Communists. Or all those victims does not cost anything, if, oh! – the Great Stalin hung some Communist Jews because of internal Communist disputes?
There were hundreds of defectors from Nazi Germany given support to promote anti-nazi propaganda by the Western system, throughout history defectors have received assistance by their host nation to spread propaganda, so what does it matter there were Soviet defectors?
Yockey, if you have actually read him, credits Stalin with putting a stop to the planned world government after WW2, this and the killing of the Jewish traitors, singalled to him that Stalin and the USSR was opposed to a worse system embodied by a Jewish controlled West. Europeans could, if need be, easily enough fight off the Soviets militarily after a time of occupation but culturally-spiritually American occupation was far more dangerous to Europeans as it poisoned them, making them unable to resist.
You can disagree with Yockeys perspective, but you have to understand it to see his pragmatic attitude with the USSR. Also the murders by communists isn’t really relevant in Yockey’s context, you might as well be an anti-white whining about slavery, colonialism, holocaust as some argument against why we can’t have white countries.
Also the murders by communists isn’t really relevant in Yockey’s context
Yes, here I agree, because for him as for almost all another Westerners, the victims of the Communism, in Russia, in other “Soviet republics”, in Asia and in “Eastern Europe” were all merely Untermenschen.
Europeans could, if need be, easily enough fight off the Soviets militarily.
Easily? They were militarily occupied till 1989, and all trying to drive off Soviets, on the peaceful or militant way, were failures. But it did not matter, because they were even Untermenschen.
we can’t have white countries
But of course you can´t. Because you want that somebody other, like Attila, Cingizkagan in ancient times or Stalin much later comes and “liberate” you. And the Westerners would drink whiskey, use drugs and make homo-sex, just idly staying and looking at.
In the future, Yockey’s ideas will be mainstream. He was just too far ahead of his time.
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