Tag Archives: Frankfurt School

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Editor’s note: The following is the transcript of Charles Krafft’s speech at the Inaugural Meeting of the Northwest Forum in Seattle on November 12, 2016. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abstract expressionism, art, Charles Krafft, CIA, Counter-Currents Radio, modern art, podcasts, political correctness, spirit cooking, the arts, The Northwest Forum, transcripts | 6 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 282
More Culture-Jamming with Morgoth

Counter-Currents Radio

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 26th, 2020, Greg Johnson is joined by special guest Morgoth to discuss culture, nostalgia, individualism, music, television, and the End of History. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Christopher Pankhurst, electronic music, Greg Johnson, Hannibal Lecter, hautology, interviews, Joy Division, Laibach, Mark Fisher, Morgoth, New Order, nostalgia, podcasts, progressive rock, television, Thomas Harris | 2 Responses

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Towards a Right-Wing Critical Theory

Coomeraswamy

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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, epistemology, 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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Richard Weaver’s Ideas & Their Consequences

James J. O'Meara

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Richard M. Weaver
Ideas Have Consequences
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948
Expanded edition, with a Foreword by Roger Kimball and an Afterword by Ted J. Smith III, 2013.

The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture …. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Decline of the West, essays, European prehistory, Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, rhetoric, Richard Weaver | 3 Responses

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R. R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods

Quintilian

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R. R. Reno
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2019

Most of the people who come to the Dissident Right do so in spite of the Dissident Right. It is a common experience for those who become red-pilled to discover that the hatred they have experienced from the Establishment for the “sins” of being white or heterosexual or male Read more …

Published: January 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged atomization, Baby Boomers, book reviews, Christianity, F. A. Hayek, Karl Popper, liberalism, Max Horkheimer, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, populism, Quintilian, Theodor Adorno, Transcendence | 27 Responses

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Zaprzeczenie libertarianizmu

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Poniższy tekst to przemówienie, które wygłosiłem na londyńskim forum w dniu 3 października 2015 r. Chciałbym podziękować Jez Turner, London Forum Team i ich wiernym odbiorcom za umożliwienie mi tego.

Postmodernism on the Right:
A Case for Adopting Deconstructing as a Tool

Eumaios

Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School speaking to student protesters in Berlin in 1967.

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One of the realities that must be recognized by the Dissident Right, particularly in the Anglophone world, is that that those modes of thought and analysis broadly encapsulated by terms like postmodernism, critical theory, or the Frankfurt School are not inherently “Left-wing.” Collectively and individually, they are not inherently anything other than a means to an end. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, critical theory, Eumaios, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, science | 29 Responses

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The Co-option of the Left:
Its Fatal Misunderstanding of Marx

Christopher Pankhurst

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It’s obvious to anyone with eyes to see that the contemporary Left is spectacularly alienating its own natural constituency with its increasingly unfocused and incoherent forms of protest. Certainly, they are vocal in denouncing Trump as a fascist, and Brexit as some sort of ur-nationalism, Read more …

Published: February 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged capital, Christopher Pankhurst, identity politics, Karl Marx, North American New Right, originals, the left | 11 Responses

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Lo que los Neocons entendieron bien:
Una reseña de Arguing the World

Greg Johnson

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English original here

El documental de Joseph Dorman, Arguing the World (1998), y el respectivo libro (Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words, 2000) cuentan la historia de cuatro intelectuales judíos de Nueva York. — Daniel Bell (1919–2011), Nathan Glazer (1923), Irving Kristol (1920–2009), y Irving Howe (1920–1993) — quienes tuvieron un impacto tremendo y duradero en ámbitos académicos, decisiones políticas y la cultura en general. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, documentaries, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, metapolitics, movie reviews, Neocons, neoconservatives, New Left, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Trotskyism | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 167
The Northwest Forum
What’s Wrong with the Arts

Charles Krafft

Charles Krafft in his bunker

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Published: November 24, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged abstract expressionism, Charles Krafft, CIA, Counter-Currents Radio, modern art, originals, podcasts, political correctness, the arts, The Northwest Forum | 2 Responses

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What the Neocons Got Right:
A Review of Arguing the World

Greg Johnson

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Spanish translation here

Joseph Dorman’s documentary Arguing the World (1998) and its companion book (Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words, 2000) tells the story of four New York Jewish intellectuals — Daniel Bell (1919–2011), Nathan Glazer (b. 1923), Irving Kristol (1920–2009), and Irving Howe (1920–1993) — who went on to have a tremendous and enduring impact not just on academia, but on political policy and the culture at large. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged documentaries, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, movie reviews, Neocons, neoconservatives, New Left, North American New Right, originals, the 1960s counter-culture, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Trotskyism | 3 Responses

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All Bark, No Bite:
Michael Walsh on the Frankfurt School

Spencer J. Quinn

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Michael Walsh
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
New York: Encounter Books, 2015

I had high hopes for Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: a mini-history of the Frankfurt School and its pernicious effects on Western Civilization. This is a story that definitely needs to be told, even if the horse we’re beating has been dying for a while now. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, conservatives, cuckservatives, neo-conservatism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Spencer Quinn, the Jewish question | 10 Responses

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Frankfurt School Revisionism

Jonathan Bowden

Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism, released on February 16, 2012. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Vanguard! And welcome back, Jonathan Bowden, Read more …

Published: June 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged classical music, cultural criticism, cultural Marxism, elitism, Herbert Marcuse, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Richard Spencer, Richard Wagner, the 1960s counter-culture, Theodor Adorno | 1 Response

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Roger Scruton’s Fools, Frauds & Firebrands

Theo Sonnenheim

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Roger Scruton
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
New York: Bloomsbury, 2015

The recently published Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton is a revised and updated version of a book he wrote three decades ago. In the Introduction, he recalls how the previous publication was received with pure horror: Read more …

Published: January 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Marxism, New Left, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, Roger Scruton, Slavoj Žižek, the left | 5 Responses

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Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 3

John Law

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Part 3 of 4

The Power of Reason

The European New Right (ENR) agrees with Pareto, Spengler, and Schmitt that the West took a wrong turn in the eighteenth century by advocating a program for the enlightenment of the human mind Read more …

Published: December 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, critical theory, European New Right, G. W. F. Hegel, John Law, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reason, reprints, the Enlightenment, Vilfredo Pareto | 1 Response

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Vyvrátenie libertarianizmu

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Libertarianizmus je politika individualizmu. Individualizmus je rovnako metafyzická, ako i morálna pozícia. Metafyzický individualizmus je téza, že existujú iba konkrétni ľudia. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, collectivism, Greg Johnson, in Slovak, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

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La Refutación del Libertarianismo

Greg Johnson

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Traducido por Francisco Albanese; English original here

Nota del autor:

El siguiente texto es la charla que dicté en el London Forum el 3 de Octubre, 2015. Deseo agradecer a Jez Turner, al equipo del London Forum, y a su fiel audiencia por hacer esta charla posible. Read more …

Published: November 12, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, collectivism, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

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Experimenter

Claus Brinker

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In 1961, the Jewish psychologist Stanley Milgram began conducting his now renowned experiment on obedience to authority. The experiment included two test subjects, the Teacher and the Learner. The Teacher was instructed to give the Learner information and then test the Learner’s recall of the information by asking questions. Every time the Learner answered a question incorrectly, the Teacher was required to give an electric shock to the Learner, increasing the voltage after every incorrect answer. Read more …

Published: November 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Claus Brinker, conformism, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 10 Responses

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La réfutation du libertarisme

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Note de l’auteur :

Le texte suivant est le discours que j’ai prononcé au London Forum le 3 octobre 2015. Je souhaite remercier Jez Turner, l’équipe du London Forum, et leur fidèle public pour avoir rendu ce discours possible.
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Published: November 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, collectivism, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

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Du refus du libertarianisme

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Note de l’auteur:

Le texte qui suit est une allocution que j’ai donnée au London Forum le 3 Octobre 2015. Je souhaite remercier Jez Turner, l’équipe du London Forum ainsi que leur fidèle publique qui ont rendu possible cette rencontre. Read more …

Published: October 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, collectivism, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

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Libertarisme omvergeworpen

Greg Johnson

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Vertaald door Otharus; English original here

Noot van de auteur:

Dit is de voordracht die ik hield bij “the London Forum” op 3 oktober 2015. Ik wil Jez Turner, zijn team en hun trouwe publiek bedanken voor het mogelijk maken deze voordracht. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, collectivism, Greg Johnson, in Dutch, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

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The Refutation of Libertarianism

Greg Johnson

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Translations: Dutch, French 1, French 2, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

Author’s Note:

The following text is the talk I delivered at the London Forum on October 3, 2015. I wish to thank Jez Turner, the London Forum team, and their faithful audience for making this talk possible.
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Published: October 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, collectivism, Greg Johnson, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | 42 Responses

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Beyond Left & Right:
Wolfgang Streeck’s Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Donald Thoresen

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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
New York: Verso, 2014

As anyone who regularly reads Leftist academic literature can attest, often hidden within it is a sense of loss, an implicit — perhaps subconscious — desire for particular values and ethical norms deemed to have been lost since the Industrial Revolution. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, capitalism, Donald Thoresen, economics, globalization, Marxism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Ezra Pound on Endless Trial

Alex Fontana

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Robert Casillo
The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound
Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1988.

Robert Casillo’s The Genealogy of Demons is unique in Pound studies because the explicit purpose of it is to give critical insight into Pound’s anti-Semitism, and it accomplishes this by way of multiple techniques, which it must employ, because Pound’s anti-Semitism is prismatic. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Fontana, Argentina, book reviews, C. G. Jung, collectivism, Ezra Pound, fascism, individualism, North American New Right, originals, Sigmund Freud, Social Credit, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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Speaking Freely

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V.S. of the question and answer session following Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “T. S. Eliot” at the 34th New Right Meeting in London on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Read more …

Published: September 8, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged deconstruction, Herbert Marcuse, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, literary criticism, literature, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Protestantism, T. S. Eliot, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno | 1 Response

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Forgetting Max Horkheimer:
February 14, 1895 to July 7, 1973

Alex Kurtagić

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Max Horkheimer died 41 years ago today. Director of the Institute of Social Research from 1930 till 1953, Horkheimer was a leader of the Frankfurt School, a group that became identified with Critical Theory, a wholly speculative concoction blending Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis.

“Politically Incorrect”

Andrew Hamilton

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I recently caught the December 3, 2012 rerun of the popular syndicated TV quiz show Jeopardy! hosted by Canadian-born half-Ukrainian/half-French Alex Trebek. In the Final Jeopardy round the question (technically, the answer) in the category “Phrase Origins” was: “This 2-word adjective for ‘going against accepted speech or conduct’ Read more …

Published: December 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, Communism, North American New Right, originals, Paul Gottfried, political correctness | 12 Responses

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Psychopathology of the Left:
Some Preliminary Notes

Kerry Bolton

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Editor’s Note:

The following essay was later incorporated into Kerry Bolton’s The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement, available from Black House Publishing.

The ‘Right’ of the political dichotomy, including even social and moral values that have traditionally been regarded – until recently – as normative, has for approximately eighty years, been the subject of analysis not just politically and sociologically, but psychologically. Read more …

Published: November 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ab Aeterno, articles, Bolshevik Revolution, criminology, Ezra Pound, Francis Parker Yockey, French Revolution, Gustave Le Bon, Kerry Bolton, Lothrop Stoddard, North American New Right, psychology, reprints, the left, Theodor Adorno | 6 Responses

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The Stark Truth
Robert Stark Interviews Paul Gottfried on the Frankfurt School

Counter-Currents Radio

46:42 / 148 words

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Robert Stark interviews Professor Paul Gottfried. Topics discussed include:

His recent speech at the Identitarian Ideas conference in Sweden
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Published: August 12, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged capitalism, Counter-Currents Radio, cultural Marxism, immigration, interviews, neo-conservatism, Paul Gottfried, podcasts, Republicans, Robert Stark, The Stark Truth | Leave a comment

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Identity vs. Globalism in Stockholm:
The 2013 “Identitarian Ideas” Conference

John Morgan

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No American of European descent who sets foot on the sacred soil of Europe can help but feel a powerful connection back to his European heritage, no matter how far in the past it might be, nor can any such person who is not deluded escape the feeling of urgency that grips those who experience first-hand the death spiral in which this continent is currently locked. Such have been my feelings over the past several weeks, after I arrived for the first time on the European continent, specifically in Sweden. Read more …