Tag Archives: individualism

Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

8,561 words

Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

The Little Things

John Wilkinson

Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943.

1,995 words

I think it is safe to assume that most Counter-Currents readers are familiar with the phrase “death by 1000 cuts,” which is an expression translated into English from the protracted Chinese torture process known as lingchi. In political-speak, its close cousin is the analogy of the slow boiling frog. Dissidents on our side of the great divide have an intuitive understanding that we’ve come to our current impasse through subtle but profound changes in policy and attitudes that our political enemies call “progress.” Read more …

Published: July 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, consumerism, discipline, family, John Wilkinson, modernity, North American New Right, originals | 26 Responses

We’re the Bad Guys?

Winston E. Bakewell

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

2,173 words

The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, amoralism, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, ideology, leftism, liberalism, lying, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, virtue signaling, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

Are We Really Heading To A Civil War?

Robert Hampton

1,522 words

Morris V. de Camp pondered the prospects of Civil War 2.0 in the pages of Counter-Currents this week, comparing our current situation to the tumultuous 1860s. While we’re experiencing high levels of social rancor, there’s little chance it will turn into another Civil War.

Here’s why a civil war is not likely to occur anytime soon. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, cancel culture, Civil War, identity, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, white identity | 38 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

1,582 words

Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, reputation, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology | 5 Responses

Placemaking

Winston E. Bakewell

1,494 words

What makes a place? Perhaps the best definition is simply where one feels they can linger. A “place” is a location that can be both a destination and a path. When we consider places, they invariably have a few attributes that make stopping there or passing through there a memorable experience. The opposite of a “place,” as it where, Read more …

Published: July 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, consumerism, globalization, homogeneity, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, urbanism, white dispossession, Winston E. Bakewell | 7 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.

5,142 words

The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, altruism, articles, civic nationalism, egalitarianism, empathy, German Idealism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, negative liberty, North American New Right, positive liberty, Quakers, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Romanticism, structuralism, the Self | Leave a comment

In Defense of Racist Liberalism

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,876 words

Give me racist liberalism, or give me death!

— Patrick Henry, probably.

To be in the Dissident Right is to be part of an informal initiatic society. There are various levels of being with it — there’s always another redpill to take. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, aristocratic individualism, articles, atheism, Christianity, egalitarianism, equality, Gnosticism, liberalism, libertarianism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, religion, thumos | 42 Responses

James Kalb’s Against Inclusiveness

Beau Albrecht

5,222 words

James Kalb
Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
Tacoma: Angelico Press, 2013

Behold! We the Netizens in the days of yore, after Al Gore hath wrought the Internet, ventured forth with the might of our 56K modems. Yon Information Superhighway was then yet a realm of unbounded freedom, long ere Woke Capital unleashed its tyranny. It was in these bold times that I came upon the writings of the sage Jim Kalb. Read more …

Published: May 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, book reviews, Christianity, cultural Marxism, deconstructivism, egalitarianism, managerialism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, prejudice, racism, social cohesion | 5 Responses

Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
Part Two: The Sacred

Michael Walker

4,445 words

Why does Scruton not examine the role of Melot in Death-Devoted Heart more closely?

Tristan und Isolde echoes themes from Romeo and Juliet and Othello, so it is unlikely that Wagner did not have both plays in mind when he composed his opera. The Othello theme is especially clear in the regrets expressed by King Marke that he could not clearly see, just as Othello could not clearly see. Melot, like Iago, faces death if he cannot make good the claim of adultery; Read more …

Published: May 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, collectivism, eros, Immanuel Kant, love, Michael Walker, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, religion, Richard Wagner, Roger Scruton, romance, Romanticism, Romeo and Juliet, sex | 1 Response

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Hail the Catholic Church!

1,658 words

Since the beginning of his academic career in the early 1980s, Kevin MacDonald has been wondering why only in the West “wealthy, powerful men” have not sought “to control ever-larger numbers of women”. Evolutionary biology teaches that male reproductive success benefits greatly from the acquisition of multiple mates. In all societies, except those in which harsh ecological conditions limit the amount of surplus the society can generate, “it is expected that males with wealth and power” will employ their surpluses to “secure as many mates as possible.” This is Evolutionary Biology 101. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocratic individualism, articles, collectivism, incest, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, marriage, monogamy, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Catholic church, the church | 3 Responses

Mask of the Red Chinese Death!

John Wilkinson

913 words

Three weeks ago, soon after the first “shelter in place” orders were being handed down by governors throughout the nation, I made a decision to start wearing some kind of “mask” when in public or around others. Read more …

Published: April 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, collectivism, coronavirus, COVID-19, incompetence, John Wilkinson, North American New Right, originals, selfishness | 6 Responses

The Fine Art of Automotive Repair

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,086 words

Say you’re trying to fix a vehicle. You pop open the hood and find that someone threw a wrench in the gears, the relay is worn, and the battery needs replacing. How do you then fix the vehicle? Well, you remove the wrench from the gears, replace the relay and the battery and then check for additional damage (you never know with cars). Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, liberalism, materialism, monarchism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Platonism, religion, society | 6 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Kinship Cut-Off

William Dobson, Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfield, 1645.

1,921 words

Have you spent countless hours searching for the origins of individualism in the philosophical treatises of the Western Canon? Reading Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition may make you think this was wasted time: the origins of individualism lie in the pedestrian world of family life. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, liberalism, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Scandinavia, socialism, Sweden | 6 Responses

How Coronavirus Will Change the World

1,682 words

Coronavirus is going to change the world. I just hope that I live to see it, along with the people I care about.

I call the Coronavirus the “Globalvirus,” because globalism is the underlying condition that made it all possible.

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

2,069 words

The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, aristocratic individualism, articles, evolutionary psychology, hunter gatherers, Indo-Europeans, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 13 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Aristocratic Individualism

3,588 words

In Part 1 of my detailed examination of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (2019) I covered MacDonald’s argument in chapter one that Europe’s founding peoples consisted of three population groups: Read more …

Published: February 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book reviews, citizenship, ethnicity, Greece, history, Italy, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 15 Responses

Fear & Gunowning in Richmond Virginia

Robert Hampton

1,345 words

Thousands of gun owners rallied in Richmond, Virginia on Martin Luther King Day to protest the state’s new gun laws.

This rally was one of the largest right-wing demonstrations in recent memory and effectively communicated citizen dissent against gun control. Nothing violent happened, bad optics were at a minimum (but goofy optics were aplenty), and conservative media lionized the demonstrators. Liberal journalists embarrassed themselves with their desire to portray the protests as a neo-Nazi revolt. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, gun control, guns, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, white identity | 18 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 256
Remembering Roger Scruton + Reader Questions

Counter-Currents Radio

206 words / 73:53

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Greg Johnson talks to Rich Houck about the importance of the English conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, who died on January 12, 2020. Then they answer reader questions about how to persuade normies and hostiles of White Nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged architecture, conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, irony, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, podcasts, racial divorce, Richard Houck, Roger Scruton, sincerity, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

Winter & the European Soul

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 (Detail)

1,878 words

If you’re milling around Counter-Currents, you’re probably savvy to the notion that human beings are biological creatures, that we are shaped and molded by our environment’s ruthless Darwinian pressures into our present form. To think this way is heresy in the contemporary West. To consider the possibility that man is subject to the laws of nature offends the prideful sensibilities of our Gnostic and Luciferian elites. To think of oneself as a thread in the great tapestry of being offends the petty individualism of the modern Westerners. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, Christmas, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, white identity, winter | 18 Responses

Video of the Day
Kevin MacDonald at The Scandza Forum

Video of the Day

26 words / 1:09:24

Kevin MacDonald introduces the ideas behind his latest book, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, in his talk at the recent Scandza Forum conference in Oslo. Read more …

Published: November 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, Scandza Forum, video of the day, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism

Michael Walker

7,429 words

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Alain de Benoist
Contre le libéralisme: La Société n’est pas un Marché
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2019

Zaprzeczenie libertarianizmu

1,023 words

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.

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition

Morris V. de Camp

3,107 words

Kevin B. MacDonald
Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future
Self-published, 2019

Kevin B. MacDonald is famous – or notorious, depending on who you ask – for examining the Jewish ethnic group from a genetic, Darwinian, and cultural perspective. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, European history, evolutionary psychology, hunter gatherers, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, liberalism, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the Indo-Europeans | 5 Responses

It’s Time to Wage “War” on Protein Wisdom

Spencer J. Quinn

2,135 words

Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom hates identity politics. He would like to wage war against it; stamp it out, as it were. The problem, however, is that the weapons he would like to use in this war only point in one direction: against whites. He pretends otherwise, but he’s easy enough to see through.

Published: August 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white double standards, articles, economics, identity politics, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | 5 Responses

Answering Normie Questions, Part 4:
Outliers & Averages

1,532 words

Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)

Greg Johnson: So are there more questions on your list?

JM: A random white person doesn’t care about me in any meaningful way. Read more …

Published: August 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnostates, Greg Johnson, immigration, Karl Thorburn, NoMoreDogma, North American New Right, originals, transcripts | 1 Response

What Capitalism Has Left to Say

Michael Walker

4,996 words / 32:13

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Charles Robin
La gauche du capital: libéralisme culturel et idéologie du Marché
Paris: Krisis, 2014

Answering Sargon of Akkad

Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad

7,582 words

The following is a transcript of a conversation that took place between Greg Johnson and Millennial Woes in January 2018. The original audio is here. We would like to thank S. C. for the transcript.

The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV