Tag Archives: Communism

Jerry Rubin’s Do It!

Beau Albrecht

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Jerry Rubin
Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970

Much to my surprise, Jerry Rubin has exceeded my expectations. To some, he was the voice of a generation. To others, he’s a symbol of everything that went wrong with some of the Boomers, and in particular the faults of the hippy-dippy counterculture. Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, anti-capitalism, articles, Beau Albrecht, book reviews, drugs, hippies, hypocrisy, infighting, Jerry Rubin, Jews in America, Jews in literature, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, radicalism, the Jewish question, the left, yippies | 12 Responses

Stolypin vs. Bogrov:
Themes of Ethnonationalism in Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914

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The white man stood tall and proud. He was handsome and confident, and was well-dressed in his white summer-weight frock coat. Regal, although not quite the Tsar. As Prime Minister, he was the next best thing. Despite this, Pyotr Stolypin had remarkable little security around him when he attended a play at the Kyiv Opera House on September 14th, 1911. His relationship with the Tsar had soured a bit recently due to his insistence that the local governments of the western provinces (called zemstvos) be dominated by the Russian people and not the influential Polish landowners. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, August 1914, Bolshevik Revolution, book reviews, identity, Jews in Russia, Mordecai Bogrov, North American New Right, originals, Pyotr Stolypin, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

March 1917 in June 2020

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A recurring theme in Book 1 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917 — or Node III of his vast Red Wheel opus — is “this could have been prevented.” Of course, this refers to the first successful socialist revolution in Russia, which took place in March 1917 (or in February, according to the Julian Calendar). In March 1917, Solzhenitsyn offers a wealth of perspective on the fateful events in Petrograd which led to the abdication of the Tsar and the monarchy’s ultimate replacement with the Provisional Government. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, authority, Black Lives Matter, Blacks in America, Bolshevik Revolution, book reviews, Donald Trump, fake news, Jews in America, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, police, revolution, riots, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 12 Responses

Our Boy Bezmenov:
Soviet Subversion Strategies in America

Beau Albrecht

Yuri Bezmenov during his interview with Edward Griffin.

4,870 words

A long campaign of demoralization leads to destabilization. Then some crisis conveniently emerges, which, upon close examination, appears aimed at bringing about a Leftist overthrow. Does that seem familiar? Since the public has been through two largely manufactured crises in the first half of 2020, maybe it even sounds like it’s been ripped from the headlines! Actually, all this is much older than one might expect. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1960s, articles, Beau Albrecht, cultural Marxism, espionage, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, psychological warfare, Russia, spying, subversion, the Cold War, the Weimar Republic | 14 Responses

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin in Zürich

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In 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn excised the several Lenin chapters from his massive and unfinished Red Wheel epic and compiled them into one volume entitled Lenin in Zürich. At the time, only one of these chapters had been published — in Knot I of the Red Wheel, known as August 1914 — while the remaining chapters would still have to languish in the author’s desk drawer for decades before appearing as part of The Red Wheel proper (November 1916 and March 1917, specifically). Read more …

Published: May 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, socialism, sociopathy, Spencer J. Quinn, Switzerland, Vladimir Lenin | 11 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 272
The Bernie Bro Question

Have I gotta deal for you!

152 words / 16:53, 21:12, 18:31

“The Bernie Bro Question, Part 1: Exit Stage Left“

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“The Bernie Bro Question, Part 2: Rebels Without a Candidate” Read more …

Published: May 6, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged 2020 Democratic primaries, 2020 presidential election, Alternative Left, Andrew Anglin, Anna Khachiyan, articles, Bernie Bros, Bernie Sanders, Chapo Trap House, class politics, Counter-Currents Radio, cultural Marxism, dirtbag left, entryism, identity politics, Joe Biden, left-right alliance, Marxism, materialism, Mencius Moldbug, Mike Enoch, national bolshevism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, red-brown alliance, Richard Spencer, socialism, The Right Stuff, Travis LeBlanc | 6 Responses

The Bernie Bro Question, Part 2:
Rebels Without a Candidate

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Some in the Dissident Right have pined for and predicted a mass defection from the materialist Left to the Dissident Right.

Of course, people have been talking about a theoretical Bernie Bro-to-Dissident Right pipeline since at least 2016, if not earlier. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alternative Left, Anna Khachiyan, articles, Bernie Sanders, class politics, dirtbag left, identity politics, left-right alliance, Marxism, materialism, Mencius Moldbug, national bolshevism, North American New Right, originals, red-brown alliance, socialism, Travis LeBlanc | 15 Responses

The Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto

Yukio Mishima

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Translated by Riki Rei

Translator’s note: Mishima penned this essay titled Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto in early 1969, almost two years before his suicide, at the peak of leftist protests, demonstrations, and riots, which were sweeping not just across Japan, but throughout the entire Western world. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged essays, in English, Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, Traditionalism, translations, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

Treason Uncloaked:
Jordan & Stokes’ From Major Jordan’s Diaries

Beau Albrecht

2,886 words

George Racey Jordan & Richard L. Stokes
From Major Jordan’s Diaries
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1952

Increasing numbers of the public realize the government doesn’t always work the way their civics classes taught. A government is only as good as the politicians and bureaucrats running it. There’s been much discussion about topics such as the Deep State, the globalist oligarchy, Read more …

Published: March 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, Soviet Union, World War II | 6 Responses

Cultural Marxist vs. Material Marxist, Part 3:
Could Bernie Split the American Left?

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The ideal 2020 election scenario is for Bernie Sanders to lose the Democratic primary race, and for it to be black people’s fault. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, Bernie Bros, Bernie Sanders, cultural Marxism, leftism, Marxism, materialism, North American New Right, originals, populism, socialism, Travis LeBlanc | 19 Responses

Cultural Marxist vs. Material Marxist, Part 2:
Is Capitalism the Real Racist?

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There are reasons why the neoliberal establishment hates Bernie Sanders so much, and it’s not just because he’s a threat to their donors’ stock portfolios. Class-based material Marxism — once a pillar of Leftist thought — is not only incompatible with but also heretical to the neoliberal worldview and agenda. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bernie Sanders, capital, capitalism, cultural Marxism, Karl Marx, Marxism, materialism, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, racism, socialism, Travis LeBlanc | 11 Responses

Nazis vs. Commies

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A couple weeks ago, an Ace of Spades co-blogger called OregonMuse wrote something profound on Ace’s Sunday Morning Book Thread. His statement has meaning beyond its literal interpretation and resonates through much of our political discourse on the Right. Here’s what he said:

The world is not going to be set right until people realize that, as bad as nazis are, commies are actually worse. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatives, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, the Jewish question | 25 Responses

On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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And all of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs.
–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, BBC speech, March 24, 1976

In the summer of 1975, the recently-exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered three speeches in the United States: two to labor organizations and one to Congress. The following year, he was interviewed by the BBC and then delivered a speech over British radio. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anti-Communism, articles, Cold War, North American New Right, originals, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the left | 7 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 252
The Siege of Scandza

Counter-Currents Radio

100 words / 57:58

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Greg Johnson and Frodi Midjord talk about their experiences inside and outside antifa siege of the Scandza Forum in Copenhagen on October 12, 2019.
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Published: October 19, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged antifa, Counter-Currents Radio, podcasts, Scandza Forum, terrorism | 24 Responses

Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part II:
What Orwell Can Still Teach Us

Collin Cleary

2,995 words

Part 2 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

3. The Denial of Reality and the Control of Language

Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part II:
What Orwell Can Still Teach Us

Collin Cleary

6,674 words

Part 1 (Part 2 here)

1. Introduction

Everyone thinks he knows what’s in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Is there really anything left to say? It’s as if George Orwell’s masterpiece has been sucked dry. At least, that’s what I thought until I recently reread it, for the first time in over thirty years. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, articles, book reviews, Collin Cleary, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, North American New Right, originals, thoughtcrime, totalitarianism | 36 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 234
Happy Birthday Nineteen Eighty-Four!

65 words / 52:55

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June 8th is the 70th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Greg Johnson interviews Margot Metroland on some of Orwell’s sources and influences, the loosely “Trotskyite” political context in which he wrote, and the possibility that he was bumped off by Stalinists. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Cyril Connolly, dystopian fiction, George Orwell, interviews, James Burnham, Margot Metroland, Nineteen Eighty-Four, podcasts | 8 Responses

Your Nineteen Eighty-Four Sources in Full

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Connolly, Burnham, Orwell, & “Corner Table”

“In the torture scenes, he is merely melodramatic: he introduces those rather grotesque machines which used to appear in terror stories for boys.”
—V. S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949

Misreading Animal Farm

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If you’re seeing a lot of Nineteen Eighty-Four editions showing up in bookstores these days, it’s because 2019 marks the seventieth anniversary of the novel’s publication. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, articles, book reviews, George Orwell, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, propaganda, Soviet Union | 11 Responses

Herding Cats:
Individualism & Dystopia in Lao She’s Cat Country

Buttercup Dew

2,498 words

“When I was little, this was a large village. And that was not too many years ago; now, there’s not so much as a single shadow. The destruction of an entire people can come about very easily!”[1]

Lao She’s Cat Country is one of the finest pieces of literature I’ve read. Written in 1932 in the long shadow of the Bolshevik Revolution and foreshadowing the Maoist terror that would wrack China, Read more …

Published: April 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buttercup Dew, China, corruption, drugs, dystopian fiction, individualism, North American New Right, originals, satire, science fiction | 2 Responses

The Controversy of Zion

Sandy Wolfe-Murray

Douglas Reed

3,575 words

The long-awaited prosperity promised by the Industrial Revolution finally arrived with the Edwardian Age of productive leisure. But, alas, it was not to be for long. The freedom it granted was fleeting. Today, as the fabled American middle class fades like the morning dew, those who are running just to stand still, as the Red Queen prophesied, are the lucky ones.

Lopsided money distribution was one of the factors which encouraged C. H. Douglas to devise the yet-to-be implemented Social Credit Dividend, which was to be based on the inheritance of natural resources and inventions from previous generations. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, H. G. Wells, Israel, Jewish subversion, North American New Right, originals, Sandy Wolfe-Murray, Zionism | Leave a comment

The Social Justice Warrior as Nascent Totalitarian

Charles Augustine

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Memetic discourse is historically unique, but there is a striking similarity between Social Justice Warrior (SJW) discourse and the totalitarian discourse of past eras. Political rhetoric in totalitarian societies is narrow and circular; everything that is said is just a reiteration of what’s already been said. Any original or nuanced thought in a totalitarian society is crushed or weeded out. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, SJWs, totalitarianism | 6 Responses

Communism & Globalism

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957.

1,128 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is a translation from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 389-391. The title is editorial.

When I began to write these Memoirs in 2016, I decided to divide them into two volumes covering equal periods of forty-four years, the first going from my birth to that of the Front National, the second telling the history of the Front National as I had experienced it. Read more …

Published: December 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cold War, France, French translations, Front National, Guillaume Durocher, Jean-Marie Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

Father Coughlin, Ralph Ingersoll, & the War Against Social Justice

Father Coughlin

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The public career of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin during the 1930s and early ‘40s is massively documented. Newsreels, publications, speeches, and broadcast recordings are all at your fingertips online. Yet the historical significance of this Canadian-American prelate (1891-1979) is maddeningly elusive. You may have read that he was an immensely popular but controversial “radio priest” with a decidedly populist-nationalist bent, or that he published a weekly magazine called Social Justice (1936-1942), Read more …

Published: November 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Father Charles Coughlin, Francis Parker Yockey, George Sylvester Viereck, Lawrence Dennis, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, Saul Alinsky, Time magazine, Whittaker Chambers | 6 Responses

1848–1948: Years of Decision

Francis Parker Yockey

Sir Oswald Mosley, 1949

1,317 words

Earlier this year, Counter-Currents put out a request for the text of the following essay, given that the original copy which we had was incomplete due to having been partially eaten by rats. Fortunately, we were able to locate the complete text, and it is reproduced below, as it will be in our upcoming Yockey anthology, The World in Flames. The Preface is by Dr. Kerry Bolton. — John Morgan

Brotherhood

Francis Parker Yockey

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Of the many long-lost texts by Francis Parker Yockey that will be included in our upcoming anthology of Yockey’s shorter writings, The World in Flames, one is a four-part essay entitled “Brotherhood.” Kerry Bolton and I had to search far and wide to find a complete copy of the text, as we announced during our search earlier this year, but find it we finally did, and we offer it here as a prelude to our patient readers who have been awaiting the finalized volume. The Preface is by Dr. Bolton. — John Morgan Read more …

Published: September 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, constitutionalism, democracy, Francis Parker Yockey, Jews, Jews in America, Joseph Stalin, liberalism, National Renaissance Party, North American New Right, originals, the US Constitution, universalism | 1 Response

Marxism vs. National Socialism:
The Struggle Between Race & Internationalism

Asklepios

4,071 words

“The conflict which is going on regarding the true view of man and the world will be brought to an issue rather by men of the prophetic type than by dogmatists and philosophers.”
–Heinrich Weinel, 1903[1]

Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler describes what he calls a world-concept, or Weltanschauung. In its usual sense, the word basically means worldview, but when Hitler uses the term it means an all-encompassing social, philosophical, and political idea that has become politically organized. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Asklepios, idealism, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, political organizing | 7 Responses

Remembering James Burnham

Hubert Collins

James Burnham

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James Burnham died on July 28th, 1987—thirty-one years ago today, and just before the arrival of the current age. Born in a Catholic 1905, he quickly delved into Marxism in his college days. But Kapital couldn’t keep him, and he quit the party in 1940, and the next year wrote his first post-Marxist, and criminally underappreciated book, The Managerial Revolution. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bureaucracy, commemorations, conservatism, Hubert Collins, James Burnham, liberalism, managerialism, North American New Right, reprints | 5 Responses