Tag Archives: Benito Mussolini

Approaching D’Annunzio

Margot Metroland

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Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, if we think of the Great War at all, we surely don’t automatically think of Kipling or d’Annunzio. That is one hurdle in approaching d’Annunzio today. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Artists of the Right, commemorations, Ernest Hemingway, Fiume, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, poetry | Leave a comment

Video of the Day
D’Annunzio in Fiume

Video of the Day

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To commemorate Gabriele D’Annunzio’s birthday, here are a few short vintage films from the brief period when he was the dictator of the city of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia), from September 12, 1919 until the Italian army put down his regime on December 24, 1920.

The first shows D’Annunzio’s army occupying Fiume. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Fiume, Gabriele D'Annunzio, video of the day | Leave a comment

Italy, Mussolini, & Fascism

Emil Cioran

1,468 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: This has been retranslated from a French translation. I have improved the paragraphing. The title is editorial. Source: Emil Cioran, Apologie de la barbarie: Berlin-Bucarest 1932–1941 (Paris: L’Herne, 2015), “L’Italie est-elle une grande puissance ?,” pp. 203-209. Originally published in Vremea, May 31, 1936.

Published: January 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Italian fascism, Italy, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

Uncle Max & the Commie Hunters

Margot Metroland

Maxwell Knight (right) and friends.

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The spymaster’s fascist background is just one of the many obstacles in telling the Maxwell Knight story.

One of the oddest television projects now in development is a forthcoming series about master spy Maxwell Knight, the real-life “M” of MI5. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, espionage, fascism, homosexuality, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, William Joyce, World War II | 8 Responses

Now in Audio Version!
Mussolini, or the Will to Power

Michael Walker

5,082 words / 33:16

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Werner Bräuninger
DUX: Mussolini, oder Der Wille zur Macht
Graz: Ares Verlag, 2018 Read more …

Published: July 20, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, dictatorship, Italian fascism, Italy, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, war | 8 Responses

Ezra Pound’s Jefferson and/or Mussolini

Adam Franz

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Ezra Pound
Jefferson and/or Mussolini
London: Stanley Nott Ltd., 1935

Ezra Pound liked his books charged with meaning. “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand,” he wrote in his Guide to Kulchur, another one of his, shall we say, B-Sides.

Published: December 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Ezra Pound, fascism, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, originals, populism, Thomas Jefferson | 3 Responses

Julius Evola: A Philosopher at War

Gianfranco de Turris

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Translated by G. A. Malvicini

Interviewer: The publishing house Murcia has just released a new book by Gianfranco de Turris: Julius Evola: A Philosopher at War. The subtitle, 1943-1945, should get the attention of readers of the Roman thinker, it being the most mysterious period of his life, of which he spoke the least, with the most gaps from a biographical point of view. Now, at long last, this essay reveals what Evola did during those years: his journeys in Italy and Europe, his stay at Hitler’s Headquarters, Read more …

Published: July 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, interviews, Julius Evola, originals, philosophy, Traditionalism, translations, World War II | 2 Responses

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Jonathan Bowden

Enrico Marchiani, Portrait of Gabriele D’Annunzio in Arditi Uniform

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture in London on January 21, 2012. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available.

Gabriele D’Annunzio had basically two careers, one of which was as a writer and literati and the other was as a politician and a national figure. If you look him up on Wikipedia there’s a strange incident which occurred in 1922 Read more …

Published: November 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aestheticism, articles, fascism, Fiume, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, warrior ethics, World War I | 2 Responses

Italian Fascism

Adriano Romualdi

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Translated by G. A. Malvicini

On March 23, 1919, in Milan, Mussolini founded the “Fasci di combattimento” with a program that was both national and social. The first “Fasci” — made up of veterans, ex-socialists and revolutionary syndicalists — evolved slowly towards radical rightist positions until the end of 1920. From then on, tired of two years of socialist violence which had culminated in the occupation of factories, growing masses of the lower-middle and middle classes began to join “Fascism.” Read more …

Published: November 3, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, Italy, North American New Right, reprints, translations | 3 Responses

Aleister Crowley jako teoretyk polityki

Kerry Bolton

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English original here and here

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), samozwańcza „Wielka Bestia 666” stał się postacią na trwale obecną zarówno w środowiskach okultystycznych jak i we współczesnej kulturze popularnej. Jedni wychwalają go jako filozofa, maga i proroka. Przez innych jest potępiany jako zdeprawowany egomaniak. W większości wypadków postrzega się go przez pryzmat jego ekscentrycznych, nierzadko szokujących zachowań. Read more …

Published: August 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, aristocracy, articles, corporatism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D’Annunzio, in Polish, in translation, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

Езра Паунд

Kerry Bolton

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English original here

Бележка на редактора:

Като възпоменание по повод смъртта на Езра Паунд на 1^-ви ноември, 1972 г., ние публикуваме глава 7 от “Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence“ на Кери Болтън, публикувана от Counter-Currents.

“Роб е този, който чака някой друг да го освободи.”—Езра Паунд[1] Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, in Bulgarian, in translation, Kerry Bolton, money, North American New Right, originals, poetry, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics, usury | Leave a comment

Mussolini & Racism, Part 4
Racism & Other “Horrors”

Tullio Crali. prima che si apra il paracadute, 1939. Casa Cavazzini, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Udine.

Tullio Crali, Before the Parachute Opens, 1939.

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I will take a recent episode of a personal nature as a starting point for the clarification of certain ideas. This clarification might be useful to those who, within the Right, are not only concerned with problems related to the more contingent forms of political struggle. The episode is the following. In Rome, an organisation of the MSI [Movimento Sociale Italiano][1] was planning to dedicate a conference to the ideas that I defend. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race, fascism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, Traditionalism, translations | 3 Responses

Mussolini & Racism, Part 3
Blood & Spirit

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After Mussolini considered the arguments presented in my previous articles, I told him that his approval of my formulation of racial issues would be help me in initiatives that I had already begun abroad under my own responsibility. For a long time I was in contact with certain German circles, having been invited to give lectures and presentations, and racial issues were among the topics I had discussed.

Published: July 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, translations | 3 Responses

Mussolini & Racism, Part 2
The Myth of the New Italy

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Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Flying over the Coliseum in a Spiral (Spiraling), 1930

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While race is typically considered a fixed, naturalistic and fatal given, in my book [Synthesis of the Doctrine of Race] I argued a dynamic conception: new races can be formed, while other races may mutate or disappear as a result of internal, spiritual factors, or what I called the “internal race.” As an example, I pointed to the Jewish type, which isn’t derived from an original pure race, but was molded by a millennial tradition; Read more …

Published: July 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Traditionalism, translations | 1 Response

Mussolini & Racism

Renato Bertelli, Profilo continuo di Benito Mussolini

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In September of 1941 I was summoned to Palazzo Venezia. I did not imagine that Mussolini himself wanted to speak to me. [Alessandro] Pavolini led me to him and was present during our conversation. Mussolini told me that he had read my work Sintesi di dottrina della razza [Synthesis of the Doctrine of Race], Read more …

Published: July 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Traditionalism, translations | 10 Responses

Габриеле Д’Анунцио

Kerry Bolton

Кери Болтън

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English original here

“Ние, творците, сме смаяни наблюдатели на извечни стремежи, само когато те помагат на нашия вид да бъде издигнат до съдбата си.” — Габриеле Д’Анунцио[1] Read more …

Published: June 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, Fiume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D’Annunzio, in Bulgarian, in translation, Italy, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

A Vida tem sempre razão:
Futurismo & o Homem em Revolta

Mark Dyal

Ivo Pannaggi, Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), 1922.

3,864 words

English original here

“Nós não somos apenas mais revolucionários que vocês, estamos além de sua revolução” – F. T. Marinetti

“Vocês tem que saber que o sangue não possui valor ou esplendor a não ser que tenha sido liberado da prisão das artérias pelo ferro ou fogo” – F. T. Marinetti Read more …

Published: April 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, in Portuguese, in translation, Italy, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

Life is Always Right:
Futurism & Man in Revolt

Mark Dyal

Ivo Pannaggi, “Speeding Train” (Treno in corsa), 1922.

4,542 words

Portuguese translation here

“We are not only more revolutionary than you, but we are beyond your revolution.” – F. T. Marinetti[1]

“You must know that blood has no value or splendor unless it has been freed from the prison of the arteries by iron or fire.” – F. T. Marinetti[2] Read more …

Published: March 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Italy, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, vitalism | 6 Responses

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Introductions

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April 1935, anno XIII, finally a foreword

The body of this ms. was written and left my hands in February 1933. 40 publishers have refused it. No typescript of mine has been read by so many people or brought me a more interesting correspondence. It is here printed verbatim, unaltered. I had not seen the ms. from the time it left Rapallo till it returned here with the galley proof. It is printed as record of what I saw in February 1933. The September preface (1933) indicated a flutter of hope, that has grown steadily more fluttery and less hopeful. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book excerpts, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H. L. Mencken, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, Thomas Jefferson | 1 Response

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 5

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XXVII
Paideuma

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 4

Ezra Pound painted by Wyndham Lewis

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XXIII
Resistance

JEFFERSON writing to Adams (or vice versa) noted that before their time hardly anyone had bothered to think about political organization or the organization of government. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, Andrew Jackson, banking, book excerpts, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, populism, reprints, slavery, Social Credit, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson | Leave a comment

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 3

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XIV
Why Italy?

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 2

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VII

TAKING it by and large the Russian revolution seems to me fairly simple by comparison. If I am wrong it is probably because I haven’t been ten years in Russia.

At any rate, as I see it, the Russian revolution is the end of the Marxian cycle, Read more …

Published: October 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book excerpts, censorship, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 1

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Editor’s Note:

The end of October is one of my favorite times of the year, and not just because Halloween falls on the 31st. On the 30th, we celebrate the birthday of Ezra Pound, poet and prophet of a just social and economic system, and on November 1st, we commemorate his death. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book excerpts, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Thomas Jefferson | 5 Responses

Now In Stock!
Fascism Viewed from the Right

Trans. with Introduction by E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos Media, 2013
126 pages

paperback: $19

Read F. Roger Devlin’s review here

In this book, Julius Evola analyses the Fascist movement of Italy, which he himself had experienced first-hand, often as a vocal critic, throughout its entire history from 1922 until 1945. Read more …

Published: October 21, 2013 | Posted in Legacy Book Product, North American New Right | Also tagged distributed title, Evola book, fascism, Julius Evola, philosophy, political philosophy, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

Yukio Mishima, Yojuro Yasuda και Φασισμός

Romano Vulpitta

4,633 words

English original here and here

Μετάφραση: Lohengrin

Ο Romano Vulpitta (γεννηθείς το 1939) είναι Ιταλός πρώην διπλωμάτης και μελετητής ενός Ιαπωνικής λογοτεχνίας. Γεννήθηκε στην Ρώμη και απεφοίτησε από την Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου ενός Ρώμης. Εισήχθη στο Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών ενός Ιταλίας το 1964. Υπήρξε καθηγητής Σύγχρονης Ιαπωνικής Λογοτεχνίας στην Νάπολη από το 1972 έως το 1975. Read more …

Published: August 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, Gabriele D'Annunzio, in Greek, in translation, Italy, Japan, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Romano Vulpitta, Yojuro Yasuda, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

Fascism as Anti-Modernism
Julius Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right

F. Roger Devlin

1,865 words

Julius Evola
Fascism Viewed from the Right
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola’s reckoning with Italian Fascism is among his later works, first published in 1964, and reprinted with additional notes in 1970. This is the first English translation, produced for Arktos by classicist E. Christian Kopff.

Published: April 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, fascism, Italy, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Traditionalism | Comments closed

Jukio Mišima, Jojūrō Jasuda a fašismus, část II.

Romano Vulpitta

1,853 words

English original here

6) Mišimova literatura akce

Pojďme se nyní zaměřit na styčné body Mišimovy literatury a fašismu z literárního úhlu pohledu. Pokud bychom chtěli popsat Mišimovu tvorbu jedním slovem, dozajista bychom užili termínu literatura “akce.” Zejména jeho pozdní práce se vyznačují silnými aktivistickými tendencemi. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, in Czech, in translation, Italy, Japan, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Romano Vulpitta, Yojuro Yasuda, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment