Counter-Currents
Tag: Georges Sorel
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September 30, 2013 Leonid Savin
Mito, Utopia e a Realidade do Pluriverso
Kris Kurski, “Imminent Utopia”
Kris Kurski, “Imminent Utopia”
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English original here
De modo a traçar os contornos futuros do espaço geográfico global dentro das perspectivas da luta revolucionária e da ideologia política nós devemos começar com uma clara estrutura metodológica.
Minha tese é bastante simples e é baseada em uma proposição de Georges Sorel sobre a dicotomia entre formações sociais e políticas. Ele dividiu estas em dois tipos: (more…)
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Kris Kurski, “Imminent Utopia”
Kris Kurski, “Imminent Utopia”
905 words
Portuguese translation here
Georges Sorel divided social and political formations into two types: (1) those which had a myth as the basis for their ideology, and (2) those which appealed to utopian ideas. The first category he attributed to revolutionary socialism, where the true revolutionary myths are not descriptions of phenomena, but the expression of human will. (more…)
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Georges Eugène Sorel (November 2, 1847 in Cherbourg–August 29, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine)
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Dr. Mark Dyal is an American scholar and writer. He has an M.A. in black studies and a Ph.D. in anthropology. (more…)
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Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938
Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938
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Part 1 of 2
The First World War brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been developing for centuries: money overwhelmed tradition, as Spengler would have put it[1] (or, to resort to the language of Marx, the bourgeoisie supplanted the aristocracy).[2] Industrialization accentuated the process of commercialization, with its concomitant urbanization and the disruption of organic bonds and social cohesion. This has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition.
It was—and is—a problem of the primacy of Capital. (more…)
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August 15, 2012 Kerry Bolton
Filippo Marinetti
4,727 wordsEnglish original here
Filippo Marinetti, 1876-1944, era diferente da maior parte da vanguarda cultura do século XIX. Eles estavam rebelando-se contra o espírito de vários séculos de liberalismo, racionalismo, a ascensão das massas democráticas, o industrialismo, e o domínio da elite financeira. (more…)
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5,098 wordsEditor’s Note:
The following text by Michael O’Meara is the title essay of his book Toward the White Republic.
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!”
—Sir Walter Scott (more…) -
December 22, 2011 Kerry Bolton
Filippo Marinetti
5,493 wordsPortuguese translation here
Editor’s Note:
This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Filippo Marinetti is chapter 4 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.
Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944, was unlike most of the post-19th century cultural avant-garde. (more…)
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Prampolini's portrait of Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944
Prampolini's portrait of Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944
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Filippo Marinetti is unlike most of the post-nineteenth Century cultural avant-garde who were rebelling against the spirit of several centuries of liberalism, rationalism, the rise of the democratic mass, industrialism, and the rule of the moneyed elite. (more…)
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3,437 wordsMark Antliff
Avant-Garde Fascism:
The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007
