Tag Archives: Carl Schmitt

Video of the Day:
Greg Johnson & Fróði Midjord on The Concept of the Political

Video of the Day

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Greg Johnson joined Fróði Midjord on Guide to Kulchur for the first installment of a new series, First Principles, to discuss Carl Schmitt’s classic work The Concept of the Political. The episode is archived on BitChute (video) and Spreaker (audio only). Read more …

Published: July 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Frodi Midjord, Greg Johnson, video of the day | 8 Responses

Remembering Carl Schmitt
(July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.

Published: July 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy | 2 Responses

Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Like many of his books, Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923) is a slender volume packed with explosive ideas.[1] The title of the English translation is somewhat misleading. The German title, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, is more literally rendered The Intellectual-Historical Position of Contemporary Parliamentarism. But the word “crisis” is still appropriate, because parliamentary democracy in Weimar Germany really was in crisis. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, democracy, fascism, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, liberalism, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, myth, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosophy, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 8 Responses

Schmitt, the Man

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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If you search for Carl Schmitt on Counter-Currents, you’ll get a veritable deluge of articles written or inspired by this most eminent of German jurists. From my own humble attempts at applying his friend-enemy distinctions to American race relations, much grander thinkers’ treatments on the deeper aspects of Schmittean thought, Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, cancel culture, commemorations, denazification, deplatforming, education, media, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 280
Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 5th, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy discuss Carl Schmitt’s 1923 book The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the light it throws on the crisis of liberal democracy in the white world today. We also answer questions from listeners. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, liberalism, Marxism, myth, nationalism, Nicholas Jeelvy, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, podcasts, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 3 Responses

When They Fight, They Fight

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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The enemy is not merely any competitor or just any partner of a conflict in general. He is also not the private adversary whom one hates. An enemy exists only when, at least potentially, one fighting collectivity of people confronts a similar collectivity. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, Civil War, friend/enemy dichotomy, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Plato, police, sovereignty | 9 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 273
The Neo-Reaction to Dissident Right Pipeline:
A Conversation with Nicholas Jeelvy, Part 2

René Magritte, Hegel’s Holiday, 1958

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This week Greg Johnson concludes his conversation with Counter-Currents writer Nicholas Jeelvy, answers questions from our Entropy donors, and thanks all recent donors for their support. The podcast concludes with a reading of Scott Weisswald’s “Wisterias.” Read more …

Published: May 8, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged 2020 fundraiser, coronavirus, Counter-Currents Radio, deep state, Greg Johnson, interviews, Mencius Moldbug, Neo-Reaction, Nicholas Jeelvy, NRX, Ottoman Empire, podcasts, Scott Weisswald, sovereignty | 2 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 262
Nostalgia for a Lost Future:
A Conversation with Xurious

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Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Christianity, Counter-Currents Radio, deplatforming, electronic music, elites, futurism, Greg Johnson, hierarchy, interviews, Julius Evola, liberalism, meditation, mysticism, nostalgia, podcasts, Rene Guénon, social media, sovereignty, Traditionalism, vaporwave | 11 Responses

Ben Novak’s Hitler & Abductive Logic

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Ben Novak
Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014

“Search your feelings. You know it to be true.”

Ben Novak’s Hitler and Abductive Logic is one of the most exciting academic books I have ever read, a daring and imaginative synthesis of philosophy, history, biography, and literature. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, conspiracy theories, Dune, Frank Herbert, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Star Wars, superheroes | 9 Responses

Alain de Benoist: O křesťanství

Alain de Benoist

Auguste Migette – Svatý Klement a Graoully (1850). Klement Métský bojuje v římském amfiteátru s (métským drakem) Graoullym. Obraz má symbolizovat vítězství křesťanství nad pohanstvím.

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V roce 2005 poskytl Alain de Benoist rozhovor americkému The Occidental Quarterly, který vyšel pod titulem “European Son: An Interview with Alain de Benoist,” v The Occidental Quarterly, Roč. 5, č. 3 (podzim 2005): str. 7–21. (Mezi březnem a červnem 2018 vyšel na tři části i na našich stránkách: díl první, druhý a třetí.)

Notas sobre Heidegger e Evola

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Versão em inglês aqui, versão em espanhol aqui

Recentemente, surgiram evidências que provam que Martin Heidegger leu Evola.

Em um artigo intitulado “Ein spirituelles Umsturzprogramm” (“Um programa de revolução espiritual”), publicado no Frankfurter allgemeine Zeitung, em 30 de dezembro de 2015, Tomás Vasek comenta o importante documento descoberto.

Decline of the West, Part 4

Aubrey Beardsley, The Fat Woman (1894)

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Part 4 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)

Darryl Cooper: I want to get into a few other questions. Doing my research for this interview, I didn’t read too deeply into your views on capitalism and liberal democracy, but I got the impression that you’re probably at least as critical of those things as I am, and I’m very critical of both of them. Read more …

Published: July 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged capitalism, conservatism, Darryl Cooper, Decline of the West podcast, economics, Greg Johnson, liberal democracy, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, transcripts | 1 Response

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, originals, political philosophy | 4 Responses

Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 2

Max Weber

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The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Present Age

Not only does Strauss claim that historicism is a healthy reaction to the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern world, in the next section of his essay, he also attributes this bankruptcy to non-historicist causes.

First, Strauss talks about Max Weber’s Learning and Science as Vocation. He specifically objects to Weber’s claim that reason cannot speak about the ultimate aims of life: Read more …

Published: May 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

Mark Sedgwick’s Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

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Mark Sedgwick, ed.
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Mark Sedgwick is an English scholar of Western Esotericism and Islam. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Daniel Friberg, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Jack Donovan, Jared Taylor, Julius Evola, Kevin MacDonald, Martin Heidegger, Mencius Moldbug, metapolitics, neoreaction, New Right, NRX, Oswald Spengler, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Samuel Francis, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 24 Responses

Michael the Brave & the Tide of the Ottoman Wars

Amory Stern

Michael the Brave, savior of Europe?

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The history of Romania as a concrete country is generally assumed to have started with the Romanian, or Danubian, principalities, similarly to how the history of Russia as a concrete country starts with Muscovy. Both of these histories are of late medieval origin, having come into being in the wake of the Mongol invasions of Europe. In both comparable cases, however, the concrete starting point is not the same as the ethnologically related spiritual precursor from which the original states derived their patronage. In the case of Russia, the spiritual precursor was the Kievan Rus’, which was situated in present-day Ukraine. Read more …

Published: February 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Amory Stern, articles, Austria, Bram Stoker, North American New Right, originals, Ottoman Empire, Romania, Transylvania, Turks | 2 Responses

Only a God Can Save Us Now
Butchering Cultured Meat

J. J. Przybylski

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A Perfectly Neutral Auschwitz

I heard the enemy dinner-call. So I walked to UPenn for a talk on Cultured Meat. Having apprenticed in my dad’s butcher shop, I don’t relate to clinically strained beef. I have natural tastes. True flavors.

If, under siege in the Techno-Apocalypse, I was cannibalized by starving pals? The sorry chef would eulogize. Read more …

Published: January 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, higher education, J. J. Przybylski, living well, meat, North American New Right, originals, technology | 4 Responses

What Populism Isn’t

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Jan-Werner Müller
What is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

When a political establishment feels threatened by a growing force like National Populism, Plan A is to defend the establishment and attack its opponents by dispatching middle-brow journalists to sneer and jeer and middle-brow political hacks to construct partisan talking points. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, democracy, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism | 10 Responses

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Published: July 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, originals, political philosophy | 1 Response

Racial Realities

Chad Crowley

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, race isn’t a concept, construct, or any other type of trite postmodern abstraction, but rather a scientifically-proven, biological fact. Read more …

Published: June 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Chad Crowley, evolution, friend/enemy dichotomy, genetics, North American New Right, originals, sovereignty, white nationalism | 5 Responses

The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, the Indo-Europeans, and the Modern Hegelian Concept of Collective Freedom

Ricardo Duchesne

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Part 1 of 4

Libertarian freedoms are not incompatible with a strong commitment to in-group white identity politics. On the contrary, Europeans can preserve their attachment to individual liberties only by living inside nations with a strong sense of collective ancestry in opposition to mass immigration. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agonism, articles, collectivism, G. W. F. Hegel, individualism, Indo-Europeans, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, thumos | 7 Responses

Superhrdinové, suverenita a stát ve státě

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Poněkud zkrácenou verzi následujícího textu jsem přednesl na druhém setkání New York Forum 16. července 2016. Rád bych tímto poděkoval týmu NY Forum i všem přítomným. Read more …

Published: March 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Batman, deep state, in Czech, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, sovereignty, superheroes, the Jewish question, vigilantism | Leave a comment

Politický voják:
Teorie partyzána Carla Schmitta

Hermann Löns, Der Werwolf (dřevoryt Hans Pape)

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Civilizující génius evropského člověka byl tak mocný, že se mu na čas podařilo zkrotit dokonce i válku samotnou. Ne každou válku lze ale vybojovat civilizovaně – jen ty mezi civilizovanými evropskými státy. Pravidla svazující válku se nevztahovala na války proti nestátním subjektům, jako v případě koloniálních válek proti divochům, občanské války a revoluce, v nichž se ocitá v sázce samotný stát, či nepravidelná válka proti partyzánům a guerillám, kterým se zabývá Schmittovo dílko Teorie partyzána (1962). 1] Read more …

Published: January 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, guerrilla warfare, in Czech, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, reprints, terrorism, Vladimir Lenin, war, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 194
Kerry Bolton on Francis Parker Yockey at 100

Kerry Bolton

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Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Michael Polignano reconvene for a new weekly Counter-Currents Radio podcast. This week, we talk to Kerry Bolton, the author of the forthcoming definitive biography of Francis Parker Yockey, about his research into Yockey’s life, work, and influence. Read more …

Published: September 15, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, interviews, John Morgan, Keith Stimely, Kerry Bolton, Michael Polignano, Oswald Spengler, podcasts | 9 Responses

The Geopolitics of Jason Jorjani

James J. O'Meara

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Jason Reza Jorjani
World State of Emergency
London: Arktos Media, 2017

Dr. Yen Lo: ”You must try, Comrade Zilkov, to cultivate a sense of humor. There’s nothing like a good laugh now and then to lighten the burdens of the day. [To Raymond] Tell me, Raymond, do you remember murdering Mavole and Lembeck?”[1]

If Dr. Jason Jorjani were an inanimate object, he would be an exploding cigar; Read more …

Published: August 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, geopolitics, globalism, James J. O'Meara, Jason Jorjani, North American New Right, originals, technology | 12 Responses

State, Movement, People, Part 4

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Part 4 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

IV. Leadership and Ethnic Identity as Basic Concepts of National Socialist Law

1. National Socialism does not think abstractly and stereotypically. It is an enemy of every normativist and functionalist concoction. Read more …

Published: July 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bureaucracy, dictatorship, ethnonationalism, leadership, liberalism, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, philosophy of law, political philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | 1 Response

State, Movement, People, Part 3

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Part 3 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

III. The Binary State Construction of Liberal Democracy and the German State of the Civil Service

1. The new triadic state structure of the twentieth century has long superseded the binary statal constitutional schema of the liberal democracy of the nineteenth century. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bureaucracy, G. W. F. Hegel, liberalism, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, political philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

State, Movement, People, Part 2

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Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

Part 2 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

II. The Triadic Structure of the Political Unity

1. The political unity of the present-day state is a three-part summation of state, movement, and people. It is radically different from the liberal-democratic state schema that has come to us from the nineteenth century, and not only with respect to its ideological presuppositions and its general principles, but also in the essential structural and organizational lines of the concrete edifice of the state. Read more …

Published: July 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged law, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations | Leave a comment

State, Movement, People, Part 1