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Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. He composed his first two, Victory Celebrations and Prisoners, while a zek in the Soviet Gulag Read more …

Published: August 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, conservatism, corruption, dissidence, gulags, honor, identity, ideology, Jews in literature, life, love, loyalty, North American New Right, originals, play reviews, plays, radicalism, romance, Russia, Russian literature, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, truth | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 267
Network

Greg Johnson

145 words / 60:58

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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, Read more …

Published: April 3, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, capitalism, Counter-Currents Radio, cynicism, desire, end of history, globalization, Greg Johnson, morality, movie reviews, Network, Paddy Chayevsky, Patrick Buchanan, Plato, podcasts, popular culture, populism, reason, Ross Perot, Ted Kaczynski, thumos | 5 Responses

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Arab Spring Through the Looking Glass:
A Polemic Essay

M. A. Meretvuo

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Protesters march on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in downtown Tunis, 14 Jan 2011

One spark can ignite the whole world, or at least one part of it. It was December 17, 2010, when a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi pushed his handcart down to the market in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Police approached him and accused him of violating regulations he hadn’t. They demanded money, and when he had none, they humiliated him and took his vegetable scales. Bouazizi went to the town office to complain, but was refused. Read more …

Published: February 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Egypt, Islam, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, protests, Syria | 1 Response

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A Winning Ethos

Greg Johnson

Franz von Stuck, “The Spirit of Victory”

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Author’s Note:

This text is based on a talk I gave at the Victoria Forum on July 28th. I want to thank my hosts and everyone who attended for a wonderful weekend.

The White Nationalist movement is more like a subculture than a political party. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elitism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, populism, punching right, self-sacrifice, white community organizing, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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Marxism vs. National Socialism:
The Struggle Between Race & Internationalism

Asklepios

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“The conflict which is going on regarding the true view of man and the world will be brought to an issue rather by men of the prophetic type than by dogmatists and philosophers.”
–Heinrich Weinel, 1903[1]

Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler describes what he calls a world-concept, or Weltanschauung. In its usual sense, the word basically means worldview, but when Hitler uses the term it means an all-encompassing social, philosophical, and political idea that has become politically organized. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Asklepios, Communism, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, political organizing | 7 Responses

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Biological Youth & Political Youth

Julius Evola

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Translated by G. A. Malvicini

A frequently discussed issue among Right-wing circles is the new generation and its relations with the previous one; “revolutionary” youth in relation to the men and ideas of the Fascist period. Some, in this regard, believe that the same phenomenon is met with here that can be observed more generally: the new generation no longer understands the generation that preceded it, the accelerated pace of events having interposed between the one and the other a mental distance much larger than that which in other times normally would have separated them. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, hedonism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, translations, youth | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 89
The Pursuit of Happiness
Self-Actualization, Part 1

Greg Johnson

47:13 / 139 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” dealing with different conceptions of the good life. Read more …

Published: February 5, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristotle, Counter-Currents Radio, ethics, evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, living well, Michel de Montaigne, nihilism, philosophy, podcasts, self-actualization, The Pursuit of Happiness | 4 Responses

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D. H. Lawrence on Idealism & Evil

Derek Hawthorne

B. J. O. Nordfeldt, “D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates”

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The Origin of Evil

D. H. Lawrence believed in the reality of evil, but he believed that its source lay in the human soul. “Abstraction is the only evil,” he wrote.[1] By abstraction he does not refer to the process of making generalizations or forming concepts. Instead, he means the tendency of human beings to abstract themselves from feeling, from intuition, from nature, and from the present. Abstraction is fundamentally evil, for Lawrence, because it makes most of humanity’s crimes possible. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buddhism, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, evil, modernity, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, vitalism, Zen | 9 Responses

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D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Idealism

Derek Hawthorne

3,603 words

The Nature of Mind

“We are now in the last stages of idealism,” Lawrence writes in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, and he goes on to claim that psychoanalysis is conducting us through those last stages.[1] Furthermore, he also tells us that idealism is “the one besetting sin of the human race.”[2] What does Lawrence mean by idealism, and why is he so opposed to it?

D. H. Lawrence on Herman Melville’s Typee & Omoo

D. H. Lawrence

4,893 words

“We can’t go back. We can’t go back to the savages: not a stride. We can be in sympathy with them. We can take a great curve in their direction, onwards. But we cannot turn the current of our life backwards, back towards their soft warm twilight and uncreate mud. Not for a moment. If we do it for a moment, it makes us sick.

A Call for a Spiritual Elite
Conservatism or Radicalism?

William Pierce

Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael's "The School of Athens," 1510–1511

3,765 words

The following text is a transcript of the talk given by Attack! editor Dr. William Pierce at the weekly meeting of the National Alliance on January 16, 1977.

Conservative and right-wing political groups are concerned with a number of problems these days: forced school busing, taxes, gun control, street crime, inflation. They oppose these things in various ways: through public demonstrations; through propaganda efforts with leaflets, magazines, or newspapers; Read more …

Published: January 1, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, conservatism, cosmotheism, North American New Right, radicalism, reprints, transhumanism, white nationalism, William Pierce | 23 Responses

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The Doctrine of Higher Forms

Sir Oswald Mosley

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Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union of government with science; the power of government to act rapidly and decisively, subject to parliamentary control; the effective leadership of government to solve the economic problem by use of the wage-price mechanism at the two key-points of the modern industrial world; and a clearly defined purpose for a movement of humanity to ever higher forms.