Translated by Greg Johnson
History does not move like the course of a river, but like the invisible movement of a tide filled with eddies. We see the eddies, not the tide. (more…)
Translated by Greg Johnson
History does not move like the course of a river, but like the invisible movement of a tide filled with eddies. We see the eddies, not the tide. (more…)
Translated by Greg Johnson
Translations: German, Portuguese, Spanish
In 1814, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, Benjamin Constant wrote with relief: “We have arrived at the age of commerce, the age that must necessarily replace that of war, as the age of war necessarily had to precede it.” Naïve Benjamin! He took up the very widespread idea of indefinite progress supporting the advent of peace between men and nations.
Part 2 of 3
Translated by Greg Johnson
The Internal Logic of “Soft Commerce”
Now that “soft commerce” has been globalized since the end of the 20th century, one must grant that it has the advantage of a plasticity and a capacity for survival enjoyed by few regimes up to the present.
Translated by Greg Johnson
Part 1 of 3
Violence is not merely a matter of arms. For half a century, a world system has been imposed, the system of “soft commerce.” Soft as bombs. It dominates peoples under the guise of democracy, breaking down the most sacred customs. This new violence reigns thanks to the drugs of consumption and guilt. It is not, however, without resistance.
855 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Pétain, De Gaulle . . . Let us think for a moment about those personages from a far-off time.
First, what a astonishing destiny for Marshal Pétain! To have risen so high and fallen so low! In the long history of France, other great personages were admired, but surely none was loved more before being denigrated so much. (more…)
Part 2 of 5
Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here
A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS
Nothing is less spontaneous than the revolutionary consciousness. The revolutionary is wholly conscious of the struggle engaged between Nationalism, bearer of the creative and spiritual values of the West, and Materialism under its liberal or Marxist forms. (more…)
2,073 words
Part 1 of 5
Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here
THE FLAWS OF THE NATIONAL OPPOSITION
The action undertaken after the failure of April 1961 [the Generals’ Putsch] has made use of new means. It has mobilized a greater number of partisans and has resolutely pursued a violent and clandestine path. (more…)