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Communism’s hallmark, a command economy, is a failed system. Centrally planning pencil production over five years is ludicrous—even with AI. But the command economy has one use: as a reference point, or thought experiment, for other economic systems. Assuming we had a one-party state ruling the nation as conceived as one factory, one farm, and one office, how would we run things? (more…)
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Robert O. Paxton
The Anatomy of Fascism
New York: Random House, 2003
When it is pointed out to someone on the political Left that socialism and communism have never worked anywhere ever, there is a standard reply; it wasn’t the right kind. Let’s give it one more try, they plead. This time it will work out. Why, then, should we not make the same claim about fascism? Hitler and Mussolini? Woefully incompetent poseurs, one a monomaniac, the other a narcissist. We can then echo our Leftist opponent’s riposte and apply it to fascism. Let’s give it one more try. This time it will work out. (more…)
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Barbara Will
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, & the Vichy Dilemma
New York: Columbia University Press, 2011
Before 2011, I knew precisely five things about Gertrude Stein: she was Jewish; she was a lesbian; and she said that Hitler deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for tossing the Jews out of Germany. There were also two unimpeachable quotes: “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” (you can’t argue with logic like that) and “There’s no there there,” referring to Oakland, California. (more…)
Mark’s Initiation Ritual (Skinheads)
Mark’s Initiation Ritual (Skinheads)
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Part 4 of 7 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Translated by Ondrej Mann
If we study Caesar’s statements, we find that the ancient Romans used the same methods against the tribes they enslaved as the fascists did in our time. Over two millennium, the means have not changed, only the techniques. I do not mean to say, of course, that humanity is the same as it was two thousand years ago, but we undoubtedly find disturbing similarities.
—Miklós Jancsó
Sweat, muscles, gym, “sieg-heil techno,” bodies, bodies, bodies, motto: Boia chi molla. [1] This is how the Italian film Skinheads (1993, dir. Claudio Fragasso) about the “crazy fashion” of skinheads begins. [2] (more…)
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Editor’s Note: March 31st marks the 117th birthday of Robert Brasillach, the French journalist, novelist, film historian, and man of the Right who was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad for “intellectual crimes” he was alleged to have committed as a German collaborator during the Second World War. The translation below is offered as a commemoration, and links to other resources regarding Brasillach’s life and work are at the end.
Robert Brasillach & Notre avant-guerre:
The Pre-Phony War (Part II)
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In our last episode of his memoir Notre avant-guerre, Robert Brasillach told us what it was like in September 1938, when he was suddenly called up for mobilization over the Sudetenland crisis, and found himself, like thousands of others, lost in the haste and confusion. (more…)
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
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Part 6 of 7
Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi
In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain more than 2,600 pages of rare early Bowden. (more…)
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Frédéric Saenen
Léon Degrelle
Paris: Perrin, 2025
Years ago, in the pages of his own publication, Spearhead, John Tyndall, then leader of Britain’s National Front, wrote approvingly that in Europe in the 1930’s “strong men came forward” to restore authority and a sense of purpose to their respective nations. It was a euphemistic but accurate characterization of the nationalist leaders after the Great War who radically opposed both Western parliamentary democracy and Bolshevism and who are loosely classified as fascists. (more…)
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Greg Johnson and David Zsutty welcome Rob Rundo of the Active Club movement and the Will2Rise apparel brand to talk about his life and work. See also Rob’s Substack: https://will2rise.substack.com/
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The following is reprinted from the Will2Rise Substack.
I knocked on the big metal doors of a commercial building on a quiet Roman street. I had no contact name—just an address. It came from some random account I found while going down a European nationalist rabbit hole on social media.
It was around 2013. My first time back in Italy since childhood, since those family visits that left more flavor than memory. I was there with a chick, planning the usual romantic getaway. The Colosseum. Wine. Ruins. But one square on the itinerary was mine. One day, one reason I really came to Rome: CasaPound. (more…)
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Right or Left does not have a chapter on the eighteenth century. Rousseau is mentioned only three times, Diderot and Kant once each. The three references to Rousseau are all predictably negative, linking Rousseau to communist dictatorship and naivety about man in the raw state of nature. An opportunity is missed again, in this case the opportunity to review how right and left view the relation of human societies to biological reality and the natural world and what consequences their views might have in respect of a right or left world view. (more…)
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I regularly take part in online surveys to earn a bit of cash on the side. Now, mostly it’s boring, standard surveys about some new toothpaste or the public image of insurance companies and banks. But ever so often there are political polls (especially before elections, naturally), which I always enjoy, or you learn about new films or new developments on streaming platforms ahead of time. (more…)
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I remember when I was in college, I had a professor who used to place a lot of emphasis on the differences between advertising and propaganda. The old man would explain that the former tended to adapt to the tastes and customs of its target audience, while the latter was far more insidious, even subversive. Not only did it seek to influence its intended audience, but, to a certain extent, it aimed to alter their perceptions and stances on a given issue. In other words, its drive to persuade went beyond trivial matters and had serious consequences for those it was aimed at.
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, the First Duke of Primo de Rivera, the Third Marquis of Estella, GdE was born on this day in 1903. His father was the dictator of Spain, appointed by King Alfonso XIII, from 1923 until 1930. Primo de Rivera was originally a lawyer, but in October 1933 he founded the fascist Spanish Falange movement. (more…)