Tag: fascism

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. For more on Céline, see the following works on this website: (more…)

Theodore Roosevelt, a President who successfully used state power for positive ends.

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Recently, Martinez Politics, whose commentary I usually enjoy, assumed a strong stance against fascism. Here are a few snippets from his Telegram posts on this topic:

Same end goal: “everything in the State, nothing outside the State” aka Communism.

Fascism says the State is supreme and you cannot rebuke it. There’s no reason to believe that only means specific states that you selectively choose to be loyal to, but all States. . . . But the people touting this Supreme Statist ideology don’t apply any of these standards consistently, but selectively/tactically, because they don’t actually believe in these principles at all. (more…)

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Jonathan Bowden
ed. by Alex Kurtagić
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London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016

To commemorate the late Jonathan Bowden on what would have been his 61st birthday, Greg Johnson provided a thoughtful tribute essay, accompanied by a comprehensive aggregation of links to articles, speech transcripts, reviews, and more. Although so many of us never had the privilege of meeting him or attending his speeches in person, Bowden nonetheless remains an inspiration. (more…)

Thomas Mann: breakthrough Black [sic] author?

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
Translated and with an introduction by Damion Searls
New York: Liveright, 2023

“It is really curious that a life of playing games and dreaming can — if only you go on with it long enough — lead to your being treated like royalty.” — Thomas Mann, author of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

“What a royal gift the imagination is, and what pleasure it affords us!” — Felix Krull, confidence man (more…)

Richard Mikuláš hrabě Coudenhove-Kalergi

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English original here

Historická fakta obvykle bývají podstatně paradoxnější a zajímavější, než následně o nich vytvořené mýty. Při čtení vynikající sbírky esejí Julia Evoly jsem narazil na fascinující baronův rozhovor s jiným aristokratem a dlouholetým propagátorem „evropského federalismu“, hrabětem Richardem von Coudenhove-Kalergi. (more…)

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Though I am certainly no Emil Cioran scholar, I can write about him from the point of view of having been impacted by him. Would-be Cioran enthusiasts beware, for his influence is not necessarily a bright one; after all, his ideas belong to a school of thought known as philosophical pessimism. Though I am sure he would hate it, I am going to attempt to extract some positivity from his writings.

I am focused much more on the past than the future. (more…)

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Emil Cioran
Apologie de la barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

Špičkové nakladatelství L’Herne v roce 2015 vydalo velice zajímavý titul: sborník článků Emila Ciorana, otištěných před válkou v rumunských novinách. Cioran, později slavný aforista, byl i v době před spojeneckým vítězstvím bystrým pozorovatelem, kousavým kulturním kritikem a politickým analytikem. (more…)

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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.

To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site: (more…)

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Equilibrium is a 2002 science fiction film that was poorly received and underviewed, largely seen as an also-ran to 1999’s The Matrix, which set the tone and style of cyberpunk thrillers to follow. Equilibrium is unjustly forgotten, a sleeper non-hit that deserves revisiting; a thoughtful and condensed statement on huge volumes of preceding dystopian literature and cinema.

Equilibrium plays to the strength of film as a medium in its ability to succinctly put salient points into character narratives that otherwise require full-length novels and academic treatises. (more…)

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Three years ago I did a semi-humorous, shaggy-dog piece about Pinocchio and the Fascisti (“Pinocchio: The Face of Fascism“). Its jumping-off point was talking about several Pinocchio films in the works, particularly a long-awaited stop-motion animation feature directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson. (more…)

Ron Jones

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In the faraway year of 1967, a unique social experiment took place in Cubberley High of Palo Alto, California. It was devised by Ron Jones, an innovative history teacher who had graduated from Stanford a few years prior. This classroom exercise spilled over into the rest of the school — to some degree, at least. It sometimes gets compared in retrospect to infamous studies in brutality such as the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. (more…)

Oswald Mosley v roce 1962

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English original here, French version here, German version here

Nebyli jsme jednotní, a proto jsme byli porobeni. Tak zní tragický epitaf dvou válečných generací. Jen tato slova a nic víc by měla ozdobit hrob evropského mládí. Takový byl osud mé generace v roce 1914 a taková byla i zkáza nové generace mladých vojáků v roce 1939. Mládí Evropy prolévalo krev svých bratří a hyeny tohoto světa blahobytně tloustly. Všichni, kdo bojovali, se octli v postavení porobených, bez ohledu na svou národní příslušnost. Vítězi se totiž stali jedině ti, kdo nebojovali, ale pouze shrábli zisky. (more…)