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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
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. (more…)
Thomas Ernest Hulme, 1883–1917
Thomas Ernest Hulme, 1883–1917
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Some day a wonderful book will be written on the art of persuasion, a new sophistic. One may suppose that psychology will ultimately become as complete a science as geometry and mechanics are now. It will be possible then to predict the effect of an argument on a man’s mind as surely as one can now predict the eclipse of the moon. On the basis of this developed science will be built an infallible set of rules for converting a man to any opinion you like. (more…)
Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931
Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931
1,488 words
Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des foules
“A multidão é sempre intelectualmente inferior ao indivíduo isolado, mas do ponto de vista dos sentimentos e das ações que esses sentimentos provocam, a multidão pode, segundo as circunstâncias, ser melhor ou pior que o indivíduo. Tudo depende da natureza da sugestão à qual a multidão é exposta”.
Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931
Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931
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Die englische Übersetzung von Matthew Peters erschien zum Gedenken an Gustave le Bons Geburtstag (7.5.1841) am 7. Mai 2012 auf Counter-Currents. Das französische Original stammt von Alain de Benoist und erschien in Vu de droite: anthologie critique des idées contemporaines (Paris: Le Labyrinthe, 2001 [1977]), pp. 282–284. Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Osimandia.
Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931
Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931
1,758 words
Translated by Matthew Peters
Translations: German, Portuguese
Editor’s Note:
We are publishing this translation in commemoration of Gustave Le Bon’s birth, on May 7, 1841.