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Missing Citations in Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium
Greg Johnson
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Whenever possible, the new Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium provides citations for all quotes as well as explanatory notes for unfamiliar terms and references. (The other volumes in the set, The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey and The Enemy of Europe, are already available.) Unfortunately, six have eluded us. Anyone who can provide the missing information will receive a copy of the paperback edition of Imperium and thanks in the acknowledgements (if so desired).
1. In the section on “The War-Politics Symbiosis”:
“. . . during the war [WWII] a member of the English Parliament was able to announce that apparently England was a dependency of America.” Who said this?
2. In the section on “Democracy”:
“The ultimate in this direction was reached by an American writer who branded higher chemistry, physics, technics, and mathematics as ‘undemocratic,’ because they were the possession of a few, and were thus tending to create some sort of aristocracy.” Who?
3. In the section on “Subjective Meaning of Race”:
“The Tsar [Nicholas II] resisted pleas to leave while there was time with ‘My people will not hurt me.’” Source?
4. In the section on “Culture-Distortion Arising from Parasitic Activity”:
“Cromwell brought them [the Jews] back to England when he decided there was ‘not enough money in the land.’” What is the source of this quote?
5. In the section on “World-Outlook”:
Music is seldom heard in America, having been replaced by the cultureless drum-beating of the Negro. As an American “musicologist” put it: “Jazz rhythm, taken from wild tribes, is at the same time refined and elementary and corresponds to the disposition of our modern soul. It incites us without pause, like the primitive drum-beating of the prayer dancer. But it does not stop there. It must at the same time take account of the excitability of the modern psyche. We thirst for quickly exciting, constantly changing, stimuli. Music has an excellent, time-honored means of excitation, syncopation.” Who is the author and what is the source of this quote?
6. In the section on “The Terror”:
“In the attempt at transvaluation of values, an official of the American Forces, himself not a member of the Western Civilization [probably a Jew], went so far as to say officially that if Bismarck were alive, he would be ‘tried’ as a criminal by the American forces.” Who is this?
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Item 4. HG Wells. There is an article and several letters in Nature magazine titled ‘The Man of Science as Aristocrat’, including a letter by Wells himself. See Issue 147 (1941). There are also references to Wells’ book “Babes in the Darkling Wood” (1940), which may be the basis for his 1941 article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/147465a0
https://www.nature.com/articles/147545a0
https://www.nature.com/articles/147610a0
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1303171h.html
I’d say John Dewey, as he was American and he had “democratic” educational theories along these lines. I’m expanding upon that and some other answers via email.
Thanks, but Yockey does specify that it is an American writer.
True, but remember, Yockey made quite a number of slips like that in his work.
Because he was a writer, but not an academical scholar, and he wrote his books mostly without using of archives and big university libraries, and also long before any Internet search machines like Google and MSN. He had many factual errors, as. Prof. Oliver noted, specifically when FPY forgot about the Thirty-Years war in Germany.
Found one! Or No. 2 to be exact.
The third page down in the link below informs me:
“In 1907, in the pages of Le Mouvement Socialiste, Edouard Berth —a supporter of revolutionary syndicalism and follower of the philosophy of George Sorel— emphatically greeted the death ‘of this fantastic, prodigious being who had such a colossal place in history’ — the state (quoted in Schmitt, 1972, p. 123). This diagnosis was shared by many scholars at the time.”
http://www.softpowerjournal.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SOFT-POWER-18-1.pdf
Good catch! Also, you found another instance of Yockey plagiarizing Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political. Knew I had seen that quote before, which is one reason I found it so frustrating that I could not remember where.
Please email me at [email protected]. We will send you a copy of the book and include some sort of acknowledgment.
6. “The Tsar [Nicholas II] resisted pleas to leave while there was time with ‘My people will not hurt me.’” Source?
Have never heard these words in such formulation. Something like this was said, but not by Nicholas II, however by Nicholas I, and not about the Russians, but about the English, during his visit to the UK, when he said, that these people (Englishmen) would not harm me, that’s why he walked through London and suburbs practically without bodyguards.
Yockey is surely paraphrasing a lot, not surprising cosidering he was working from memory, so being precise with sources for quotes is problemnatic.
As per comments made to Greg, I still think A H M Ramsay is the most likely source for the English MP, who still wrote to parliament while imprisoned. While an MP he was certainly notable as an opponent of war against Germany.
Berth was among a significant number of French and Italian syndicalists rejecting or revising Marxism; such as Panunzio in Italy and Valois in France. The Italian Nationalist Association which predated Fascism by a decade, adopted syndicalism as the means of transcending class conflict; likewise with Action Francais. Cercle Proudhon was also a product of this trend, in France.
In regard to Yockey’s plagiarism of Schmitt, I suggest that since Yockey tended to cite his sources, his failure to do so with Schmitt might have been for the latter’s protection, as he was liable to denazification: Schmitt’s library included Imperium.
I suggest H G Wells can be rueld out, as Yockey would be unlikely to think of him as an “American” writer; my first thoughts were that Yockey was referring to Dewey; certainly well known in Yockey’s days as the leading US “progressive educational” therorist.
Point 8: as suggested to Greg, I think Yockey is paraphrasing, as Menaaseh ben Israel in his plea to Cromwell for the readmittance of the Jews was based on how good Jews would be for England as merchants with their global commercial networks.
Yockey borrowed parts from Egon Friedell‘s „Cultural History of the Modern Age“ (I found a whole verbatim paragraph, there surely is more), and from J.F.C. Fuller‘s essay „Das Problem Europa“, which to my knowledge was only published in German, never in English language.
Can you provide me with details, please?
Thanks
Shot you an email with some leads 🙂
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