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Charles Le Brun, The Suicide of Cato of Utica, 1646.

3,354 words

So, in fact, this is not a humiliating defeat at all, but a rare species of victory.

— Cato the Younger, blackpiller.

In this amazing modern world that we’ve built for ourselves, the shower is the only place we’re not surrounded by electronics, at least for now. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, blackpills, conspiracy theories, depression, ideology, Joe Biden, losers, neoreaction, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political organizing, QAnon, redpills, spirit, the Jewish question, truth, winners | 51 Responses

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Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff
(January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)

Collin Cleary

Mr. Gurdjieff

7,589 words

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of the Russian Empire (it is now in Armenia and is called Gyumri). Read more …

Published: January 13, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, being, Bodhidharma, Buddhism, Collin Cleary, David Hume, esotericism, George Gurdjieff, knowing, mechanicality, metaphysics, modernity, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, René Descartes, subjectivity, technology, the ego, the Self, wakefulness | 13 Responses

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The Mere Thought of Racism

Hewitt E. Moore

1,273 words

For the better part of the last 60 years, social engineers have been conducting a rigorous sociopolitical campaign in which they have attempted to merge biology with ideology. More precisely, they’ve conducted a successful experiment that has amalgamated the tangible traits of race with the abstract ideological concepts of –isms. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-racism, articles, health, Hewitt E. Moore, ideology, mental health, microaggressions, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, progressivism, psychology, science, scientism | 11 Responses

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The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology

William de Vere

Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake in the Morning, 1823.

3,918 words

Among those on the Right who address man’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, one finds a variety of approaches. There are the anthropocentric conservationists, who promote the “wise use” or prudent management of natural resources for future generations. There are the Social Darwinist varieties, Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agape, articles, Christianity, constructivism, ecology, emanationism, environmentalism, German Idealism, hierarchy, industrialization, integral ecology, knowledge, metaphysics, modernity, monism, nature, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, panentheism, philosophy, Platonism, postmodernism, primordial metaphysics, Sophia perennis, Traditionalism, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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Towards a Right-Wing Critical Theory

Coomeraswamy

2,503 words

Amid the social turmoil of the late 1960s, the German Communist student Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as the preferred strategy of ensuring the victory of global Marxist revolution. The success of this initiative is no more prominent in the West than in today’s academia, where Frankfurt School Read more …

Published: July 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, colonialism, conservatism, critical theory, deconstructivism, East vs. West, Frankfurt School, globalism, imperialism, Imperium, Julius Evola, materialism, modernism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, progress., Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 18 Responses

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Scientific Truth, Scientific Pragmatism, & Human History

Eumaios

4,585 words

An important question for those on the Dissident Right to ask is how humans ought to relate to nature; both their own “human nature” as well as the “outside” world. Depending on one’s religious beliefs, this might be the most important question there is. History seems to indicate two conventional approaches to this question. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, Eumaios, ideology, Marxism, Mencius Moldbug, metaphysics, Morgoth, North American New Right, ontology, originals, philosophy, pragmatism, Romanticism, science, teleology, the left, the Right, truth, Vox Day | 6 Responses

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The Metaphysics of Indo-European Tripartition, Part 4
Tripartition in Human Thought & Language

Collin Cleary

Arjuna

1,289 words

Part 4 of 6

1. Universal, Particular, and Individual

Before we turn to the level of the purely ideal and transcendent, our highest level of abstraction, I will speak briefly about how tripartition displays itself in the way in which we attempt to embody the ideal in thought and language.

First of all, there are three fundamental types of noun: the universal, the particular, and the singular. Read more …

Published: April 9, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Thoughts Personal & Superpersonal
Knowledge & Skepticism

Francis Parker Yockey

Rembrandt, “Two Philosophers in Conversation,” 1628

701 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is an excerpt from a collection of unpublished notes entitled “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal,” transcribed by Kerry Bolton. The title of the selection is mine.

The three forms of knowledge as the three forms of Causality-Principle.

Superstition—remote causality;
Religion—divine causality;
Science—profane causality.

Epistemologia e a Nova Direita

Mark Dyal

Gabriel von Max, “Reading Monkey,” circa 1900

4,806 words

English original here

“Se constrói-se uma ilusão enquanto tal, a vontade – se ela quer continuar a existir – deve construir uma nova” – Nietzsche

Após examinar as duas resenhas da American Renaissance postadas no Counter-Currentes em 1 de agosto de 2012 eu não pude deixar de sentir como eu sempre sentia quando eu também era parte da academia americana. Read more …

Published: August 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, in Portuguese, in translation, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints | Leave a comment

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Epistemology & the New Right

Mark Dyal

Gabriel von Max, “Reading Monkey,” circa 1900

5,363 words

Portuguese translation here

“If one construes a delusion as such, the will — if it wants to continue to exist — must create a new one.” — Nietzsche[1]

After perusing the two American Renaissance review essays posted to Counter-Currents on August 1, 2012, I couldn’t help feeling as I always did when I too was part of the American academy. Read more …