Counter-Currents
Editor’s Update
Fundraiser Update, Our White Wednesday Sale, the Counter-Currents Book Club, Millenniyule 2024, & the Decameron Film Festival
Greg Johnson
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1. Fundraiser & Matching Grant Update
This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thanks to our generous donors, we are at $190,708.76. We also have a $10,000 matching grant, so NOW IS THE TIME to make your help go twice as far. Don’t just wish us luck, make some luck by making your donation today. Full information on how to help is below.
2. The Counter-Currents Book Club
This month, we will have two episodes of the Counter-Currents Book Club.
- On Saturday, December 7th, Greg Johnson will be joined by Jared Taylor, Angelo Plume, and Endeavour to discuss Jean Raspail’s classic The Camp of the Saints. Be sure to tune in. (Read Greg Johnson’s essay on The Camp of the Saints here.)
- On Saturday, December 21st, Greg Johnson and F. Roger Devlin will be discussing Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism, now out in English translation. You can order Against Liberalism here or, for faster delivery in the US, at Amazon.com.
Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central European Time on:
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio
- DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents
- Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
3. Our White Wednesday Sale Ends on Saturday
We are offering 20% off our entire stock, including new titles.
Use the code “WHITEXMAS24” at checkout.
Featured New Titles for 2024:
- Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market by Alain de Benoist
In Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market, Alain de Benoist shows the inadequacy of liberalism’s philosophical premises: individualism, self-interest, progressivism, human rights, capitalism, market values, and “economic man.” He shows that liberalism in practice is incompatible with genuine diversity and with democratic, communitarian, and conservative values. He suggests that society can have a market without being a market. It turns out that the best society is one in which not everything is up for sale.
- Being & The Birds or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) by Derek Hawthorne
Philosopher and film critic Derek Hawthorne draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to illuminate Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic The Birds, about a series of savage and inexplicable bird attacks on Bodega Bay, a sleepy California fishing village. Hawthorne argues that The Birds depicts a Heideggerian “event” (Ereignis): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Modern men believe we are masters of our own destiny. Heidegger calls this “humanism” and rejects it completely. The Birds is an anti-humanist film. In the space of one weekend, all pretensions to the understanding and mastery of nature are shattered, and man is reduced to helplessness in the face of unfathomable mystery.
- Imperium: The Philosophy of History & Politics by Francis Parker Yockey
In mid-1947, the authoritarian Right was at its absolute nadir, crushed in the pincers of liberal democracy and communism. But Francis Parker Yockey dreamed of its rebirth. First, the Right needed a Das Kapital, then a Communist Manifesto, then a militant political party. Thus Yockey withdrew to Brittas Bay, Ireland, one of the few places in Europe untouched by the most destructive war in history. There, in a blaze of inspiration, he wrote Imperium.
Drawing upon the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Carl Schmitt, Imperium offers a philosophy of history, culture, and politics, as well as a synoptic overview of the Second World War and the post-war world. Yockey argues that the destiny of Western Civilization will be realized only by the creation of a pan-European imperial order.
Although Imperium was reviled by many on the Right for its Spenglerian rejection of biological race, it was praised by such figures as Julius Evola and Revilo P. Oliver and has exercised a profound influence on the imperialist strand of the post-war European Right, including such figures as Jean Thiriart and Guillaume Faye.
The month of December is our busiest time of the year, so please take advantage of this opportunity to get your picks in now so you can rest and enjoy the things that matter most: family, friends, and traditions.
4. Derek Hawthorne on the Decameron Film Festival
Counter-Currents’ own Derek Hawthorne will be Frodi Mijord’s guest on the Decameron Film Festival on Sunday, December 8 at 1 pm Eastern, 7 pm CET. He will be discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, the subject of his Counter-Currents book Being and the Birds. For more details, click here.
5. Millenniyule 2024
Millennial Woes’ Christmas Tradition, Millenniyule, is just around the corner. Millenniyule is a marathon of livestream interviews with the people in our cultural and political scene from whom you want to hear, both veterans and promising newcomers. I will be on Millinniyule on an auspicious day: Friday, December 13th. Check out Millennial Woes’ website. The complete schedule should be posted in the near future.
6. How to Help Counter-Currents
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You can explore all your donation options on our Donate page.
Remember: those who fight for a better world live in it today.
Thank you again for your loyal readership and generous support.
Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
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1 comment
As the Man says in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables:
“And then what are you prepared to do?”
There’s a passage somewhere in Camp of the Saints where one of the characters comments about how back in the good old days the police would finish off radicals in the back of a van, and when the French Paras took out the enemies of the Republic in Algeria. Let us also observe that in World War II the Allies fire bombed cities from Tokyo to Dresden (the latter containing, by the way, numerous refugees).
In the 21st century Western governments cannot even turn around invader boats, much less defend their own cities, children and monuments with armed force. It goes back in part to a failure of will to power without which all external resistance is in vain.
But this failure is also due to the dominance of hostile elites in Western countries. After all, if the elites were to drop the globalism and instead fund pro-white organizations, crank up anti-replacement media, and give the migrants the boot, the third world invasion would be ended posthaste.
Well, since the elites are not up to snuff on this task, the dissidents can lead the way. The Counter-Currents review on The Untouchables (April 11, 2012) has some ideas along these lines.
“Here commenceth the lesson.”
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