René Guénon was born on November 15, 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right. (For a sense of my differences with Guénon, see my lecture on “Vico and the New Right.”)
Tag: Greg Johnson
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I walked up the escalator, placed my card on the scanner, and walked through the barrier.
“Follow the piano music,” he had texted me. I saw Justin waiting several meters away. We made eye contact and kind of stared at each other for a moment. (more…)
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The 2018 US elections were actually very good for Donald Trump. As of this writing, the Republicans gained 3 seats in the Senate and lost 28 in the House of Representatives. (more…)
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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
October was a very good month for Counter-Currents. We added 71 pieces to our webzine and more than 30 pieces to our YouTube channel. I also appeared on three YouTube shows and gave two lectures and an interview in Kyiv. But most of my attention was focused on promoting The White Nationalist Manifesto. (more…)
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“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound
One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a “Right Wing extremist” by today’s standards.
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Here we go again. It happens now with depressing regularity: a white man who is alarmed at white ethnic displacement goes to a place of worship used by non-whites and starts shooting. (more…)
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In the past, people used to blame the gods or the fates for their misfortunes. These days, they like to blame their parents.
- “My parents were sedentary and fat, and their bad example is why I grew up sedentary and fat.”
- “My father was always uptight. And now I’m uptight and can’t enjoy life.”
- “Growing up with a mother who drank, it was natural that I would take to drink as well.”
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Matt Hale
The Racial Loyalist Manifesto
CreateSpace, 2016Greg Johnson’s White Nationalist Manifesto (2018) is a big hit. It remains in the top ranks of the Political Philosophy category at Amazon. According to the publisher, it is selling “like gangbusters.” After reading this book, I decided to take a look at Matt Hale’s work with a similar name, The Racial Loyalist Manifesto, to see how the two books compare. (more…)
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Czech version here
Part 2 of 4; Part 1 here
Author’s Note:
This is the second installment of the opening essay of a forthcoming anthology called The Alternative Right.
3. Brand Wars & Polarization
From the summer of 2015 to the fall of 2016, the Alt Right was winning debates and changing minds. (more…)
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October 16, 2018 Greg Johnson
Video of the Day
Greg Johnson on Hard Power vs. Soft Power54 words / 2:20
Greg Johnson speaks on the distinction between hard and soft power in politics, and how Rightists need to stop imagining their enemy as totalitarian Leftist figures like Stalin and instead understand the many more subtle ways that today’s Leftists have of bending society to their will. Extracted from an Authoritarian States livestream from January 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4zdmMKWN8
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Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online.
Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the North American New Right because of his contributions to the philosophy of history, culture, and religion. (more…)