Author Archives: Guillaume Durocher

Guillaume Durocher

Between Buddha & Führer:
The Young Cioran on Germany

1,980 words

Emil Cioran
Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a very interesting book released by the superior publishing house L’Herne: a collection of Emil Cioran’s articles published in Romanian newspapers, mostly from before the war. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Buddhism, Emil Cioran, fascism, Guillaume Durocher, National Socialism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Romania, Third Reich | 3 Responses

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Cioran’s On France: Thriving Amidst Decay

Guillaume Durocher

2,942 words

Emil Cioran
De la France
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a strange, vile little book as only Emil Cioran knew how to produce. It was only recently published, in both the original Romanian and in French translation,[1] having been written in 1941 and left to languish for decades in some cardboard box in the Cioran archives. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, decadence, Emil Cioran, France, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, vitalism | 6 Responses

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Partying in Rome:
La Grande Bellezza

Guillaume Durocher

775 words

I am always astounded by how bad the films playing in mainstream cinemas look and, when I occasionally go to see them, I often find that my initial impressions based on the ads or a synopsis were fully justified. So when I enjoy a fairly recent film, it is noteworthy. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, Italy, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Rome | 2 Responses

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An Interview with Erkenbrand:
Awakening Ethnic Consciousness in The Netherlands

Guillaume Durocher

1,835 words

The Dutch identitarian group Erkenbrand will be holding its annual conference on November 3, with a list of speakers including Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, George Hutcheson, and Fróði Midjord. In anticipation of this event, we have interviewed two of Erkenbrand’s organizers below. Tickets to the event may be purchased online here. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Erkenbrand, Guillaume Durocher, interviews, North American New Right, originals, the Netherlands | 3 Responses

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A Guide to Primary Sources on Hitler for Researchers

Guillaume Durocher

1,740 words

There is no disputing Adolf Hitler was of tremendous importance in determining the course of the twentieth century. Thus, whether one believes the German Führer was the most evil man to have ever lived or if one takes a more nuanced perspective, it is important to try to understand him both as a personality and as representing a world-historical phenomenon. Read more …

Published: August 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Guillaume Durocher, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Third Reich | 4 Responses

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Démocrature:
Nazi Concept Welcomed into French Language

Guillaume Durocher

686 words

It’s that time of year. The French dictionaries Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert (don’t ask me why they are called “petit,” they are huge) are adding various neologisms and foreign loanwords to our beloved langue de Céline.

My interest was particularly piqued by the following new entry: Read more …

Published: July 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, democracy, Guillaume Durocher, illiberal democracy, liberal democracy, North American New Right, originals, populism | 6 Responses

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The Ancients on Speaking Rightly

Guillaume Durocher

1,605 words

We are all faced with the challenge of speaking, and living, truths which are felt to be offensive by a great many of our countrymen, not to mention the powers that be. This is not a new problem. By definition, the natural diversity of men means that knowledge of the truth is highly unequally distributed and those who know most about the truth are necessarily a tiny minority. This minority must alone face the prejudices and ignorance of the masses and the violence of the state. Read more …

Published: June 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aristotle, articles, Asatru, Buddhism, cynicism, Guillaume Durocher, honesty, living well, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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The Truth About the Kalergi Plan

Guillaume Durocher

Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

2,079 words

The facts of history are invariably more paradoxical and interesting than the retrospective mythology that comes afterwards. Browsing an excellent collection of Julius Evola’s essays, I came across an astonishing interview which the Baron held with his fellow aristocrat, the long-time “European federalist” Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. Read more …

Published: June 1, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, fascism, Guillaume Durocher, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, pan-Europeanism, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi | 12 Responses

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The Struggle for Life in the Prose Edda

Guillaume Durocher

Friedrich Wilhelm Heine, The Ash Yggdrasil, 1886

1,480 words

Snorri Sturluson
Translated by Jesse L. Byock
The Prose Edda
London: Penguin, 2005

There is always an air of mystery surrounding the most ancient religious texts. The great bulk were gradually developed through oral traditions, passed down, and then evolved from generation to generation. We typically know little or nothing about their authors, whether the Brahmins who composed the Upanishads or the Greeks’ notoriously elusive “Homer.” Read more …

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Germanic tradition, Guillaume Durocher, Norse mythology, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, originals, paganism, Vikings, Yggdrasil | 7 Responses

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Sugimoto Gorō & Soldier-Zen

Guillaume Durocher

2,382 words

Asceticism often has a bad reputation in vitalist circles. The idea of the sexless, passionless, passive, world-rejecting monk seems self-evidently maladaptive, an evolutionary dead end, as Nietzsche and Savitri Devi surmised. Yet the fact is that monks have often been warriors, and the monarchs of ascetic religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism, have often been great conquerors. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, asceticism, Buddhism, bushido, Guillaume Durocher, Japan, North American New Right, originals, Samurai, Second World War, Zen Buddhism | 3 Responses

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Massimo Pigliucci’s Cognitive Dissonance on Illegal Immigration & the Fall of the Roman Empire

Guillaume Durocher

1,359 words

Massimo Pigliucci is an evolutionary biologist and professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. He has played an important role in the popularization of a modern Stoicism in recent years (see his useful collection of materials for practicing Stoicism on his blog).

While some of the renewed interested in Stoicism, like Buddhism, has a somewhat commercial flavor, I for one think this is a very good development. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism | 3 Responses

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Religious Piety in Sparta & Rome

Guillaume Durocher

Augustus as Pontifex Maximus

1,847 words

As (post-)Christian moderns, we are twice handicapped in trying to understand the religions of the ancient pagan states such as Sparta and Rome. Where we tend to think of religious belief as universalistic, other-worldly, monolatrous, and dogmatic, ancient paganism was particularistic, world-embracing, polytheistic (almost ecumenical), and non-dogmatic (but ritualistic). Read more …

Published: January 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, articles, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, paganism | 3 Responses

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Stoic Spiritual Hygiene with Regard to Normies

Guillaume Durocher

1,040 words

Ancient philosophy, as Pierre Hadot has argued, was not merely a set of ideas but meant to include something far more practical: the leading of a good life in the pursuit of truth. Read more …

Published: January 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Epictetus, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Christ-Like Aspects of the Sage According to Epictetus

Guillaume Durocher

1,030 words

I was recently reading the Discourses of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD). These recordings of Epictetus’ teachings are a very fine work: one really feels as though one is in the early Roman Empire, at Epictetus’ school, and the master is speaking to us directly, in a very practical way. Read more …

Published: January 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Epictetus, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964): Or, the Multicultural Dream That Was Rome

Guillaume Durocher

1,071 words

Cultural hygiene is a must. Every day, you must try to consume culture that is educational, that elevates your soul, but also culture which puts you in sync with your society. That is a tough dilemma.

Thus, I am on the lookout for old, good films. Generally speaking, older is better.

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) is an amusing epic, especially if you can enjoy the Sixties kitsch. The film is attractive in that it does try to show some aspects of Roman life which most films ignore: the animal sacrifices for omens, the Roman saluting, the enthusiastic “Hails Caesars.” Read more …

Published: December 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged cosmopolitanism, Guillaume Durocher, Marcus Aurelius, movie reviews, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Rome, Stoicism, the Jewish question | 3 Responses

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Ethno-Statal Speculations

Guillaume Durocher

575 words

Suffrage should be granted to married fathers and mothers with children, who are not social misfits. For these have shown responsibility, have rendered service to the community by perpetuating its lineage, and have a stake in its future.

Perhaps suffrage should be proportional to the number of children raised.

Patriotic Education:
Frederick the Great’s On German Literature

Guillaume Durocher

1,276 words

Frederick the Great
De la littérature allemande, des défauts qu’on peut lui reprocher, quelles en sont les causes, et par quels moyens on peut les corriger (1780), http://friedrich.uni-trier.de/fr/oeuvres/7/103/page/

Frederick the Great is an awkward figure for German patriots in certain respects. Politically, he was in no ways a German nationalist, Read more …

Published: October 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, education, Frederick the Great, Germany, Guillaume Durocher, language, literature, nationalism, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Neither Wrath, Nor Cowardice

Guillaume Durocher

Leonardo da Vinci, Study for the Battle of Anghiari

2,069 words

Anyone who studies the thought and ways of life of our ancestors can only be struck by their manly vigor and toughness. Material comfort and mass miseducation have taken their toll on modern Western man, turning him, with every generation, into a more and more effeminate creature. The ancients knew that without manly courage, political and personal freedom is impossible. One will not take the inevitable risks of living the truth without courage. Read more …

Published: October 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anger, articles, Guillaume Durocher, living well, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, thumos | 13 Responses

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Plato, Hitler, & Totalitarianism

Guillaume Durocher

2,744 words

Today, Western liberals are ambivalent about Plato. On the one hand, liberals claim they are the heirs of Greco-Roman civilization and philosophy Read more …

Published: March 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Ancient Greece, Aristotle, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Plato, totalitarianism | 15 Responses

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The Buddha as Spiritual Lawgiver

Guillaume Durocher

3,870 words

Sayings of the Buddha
Rupert Gethin, translator
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Anyone who wishes to promote certain values is faced with the challenge of how to maintain those values over time: throughout one’s life, from one generation to the next, and across the centuries. A people’s adherence to values is likely to wane over time, overcome by lower drives, such as the desires for material comfort and personal self-indulgence. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged asceticism, Buddhism, family life, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, religion | 19 Responses

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Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part Four

Guillaume Durocher

An East German soldier guards Clausewitz’s grave in the 1980s.

1,982 words

Part 4 of 4 (Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here)

Conclusion: Freedom or Death

After his death, Clausewitz had a public destiny rare for generals, let alone theorists. He was not only enthusiastically celebrated in the Third Reich, a regime firmly dedicated to many of the Prussian virtues, but, for better and for worse, his words proved to be of foundational importance for Hitler and his own life’s work. Read more …

Published: March 10, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Second World War, strategy, Third Reich, war | 2 Responses

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Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part Three

Guillaume Durocher

Allegedly the last photo ever taken of Hitler, in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery, April 1945.

3,368 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part One here; Part Two here)

Hitler & the Bekenntnis: A Mantra of Resistance & Renewal

Perhaps more significant still than Hitler’s use of the Formule, is his citing of Clausewitz to assert the ethical validity of resistance at any price, even doomed resistance. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Second World War, strategy, Third Reich, war | Leave a comment

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Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part Two

Guillaume Durocher

3,960 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part One here)

Clausewitz in the Third Reich I: A National Hero

Clausewitz’s presence in this period of German history cannot be reduced to Hitler. As a Prussian patriot and the preeminent theorist of modern war, Clausewitz was unsurprisingly enthusiastically celebrated in the Third Reich. Read more …

Published: March 8, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Second World War, strategy, Third Reich, war | 3 Responses

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Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part One

Guillaume Durocher

Young Clausewitz.

4,080 words

Part 1 of 4

All intellectuals dream that their ideas will not be confined to the dead letters of books accumulating dust on library shelves, but should possess the world. An underexplored but highly fertile field in this respect is the influence of the great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz upon the German dictator and warlord Adolf Hitler. This is an extremely controversial issue. Clausewitz is the preeminent military theorist, rivaled in fame only by the ancient Chinese sage Sun Tzu. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Second World War, strategy, Third Reich, war | 9 Responses

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On the Rise & Decline of War in the Modern Era

Guillaume Durocher

908 words

The modern era is characterized by the steady, at times exponential, growth in the material power of human societies in mastering their world. This has paradoxical consequences in the field of war. The most obvious is an exponential increase in warring states’ means of destruction: Read more …

Published: March 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, war | 3 Responses

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Просвещенный абсолютизм:
Принципы законотворчества Фридриха Великого, часть 2

Guillaume Durocher

2,457 words

English original here

Умеренность & гуманность

Хотя монарх и обладает властью, но подобно отцу, он должен эту власть заслужить. Фридрих беспристрастно отмечает, что Попликола, один из основателей Римской республики узаконил тираноубийство. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, in Russian, in translation, justice, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Prussia, Sparta | Leave a comment

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Просвещенный абсолютизм:
Принципы законотворчества Фридриха Великого

Guillaume Durocher

2,521 words

English original here

Возможно, самая впечатляющая западная традиция государственного строительства, по крайней мере в Новое время, принадлежит Пруссии. Разумеется, либерально-демократическая традиция, начатая Соединенными Штатами и Францией крепка, и она недаром сегодня господствует в нашем мире. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, in Russian, in translation, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Prussia, Sparta | Leave a comment

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Shaun of the Dead

Guillaume Durocher

848 words

The British have a knack for comedy. Speaking English and being comfortable with American culture, they are well-placed to fully participate in the emerging “Anglo-global” Weltkultur. By this, and their natural unpretentiousness, they have neither the wounded amour-propre of the French nor, often, the commercial crassness and/or uncultured piety of the Americans. Unlike the Frenchman, the successful Briton can triumph in Anglo-American cultural scene in a wholly décomplexé fashion. Read more …

Published: December 6, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Guillaume Durocher, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, zombies | 6 Responses

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The Willful State:
Frederick the Great’s Report on the Prussian Government

Guillaume Durocher

Julius Schrader, Frederick the Great after the Battle of Kolin

5,086 words

Frederick the Great
Exposé du gouvernement prussien, des principes sur lesquels il roule, avec quelques réflexions politiques
Berlin, 1775-1776[1]

One often encounters people who have no faith in the ability of a small nation to achieve anything worthwhile.[2] Yet one typically does not have the luxury of choice. One may prefer to live in a large and populous country, but in any event one must work with what one has. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Foreign Policy, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Prussia | 3 Responses

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Enlightened Patriarchy:
Frederick the Great’s Principles of Lawmaking, Part 2

Guillaume Durocher

2,925 words

Part 2 of 2; Russian translation here

Moderation & Humaneness

The sovereign has authority but, as with the father, this must be deserved. Frederick notes dispassionately that Publicola, one of the founders of the Roman Republic, had legalized tyrannicide. The laws must be fair and appropriate to the nation concerned, Read more …