Tag Archives: James Burnham

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, a definite woke capitalist.

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As many of you already know, YouTube has recently embarked on a campaign to purge dissident voices from its platform. As expected, the Dissident Right was the hardest hit, with such luminaries as Dr. Patrick Slattery and my fellow contributor here at Counter-Currents, Jared George, losing their channels outright. Many others have had their videos removed or demonetized. It’s all anyone’s been able to talk about on YouTube, and it is a cause for concern. YouTube gives our movement a link directly to Generation Z’s hindbrain. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, censorship, corporations, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Francis, woke capital, YouTube | 13 Responses

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Orwell, Molotov, & the “Crisis of Capitalism”

Margot Metroland

O’Brien (Richard Burton) demonstrates that 2 + 2 doesn’t always equal 4.

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Did the international crises of 1947 and 1948 leave their mark on the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four? I’ve spent a lot of time on this question, and so far as I can tell, the answer is – yes; but only obliquely. And George Orwell may not even have been conscious of the fact.

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 234
Happy Birthday Nineteen Eighty-Four!

Margot Metroland

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June 8th is the 70th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Greg Johnson interviews Margot Metroland on some of Orwell’s sources and influences, the loosely “Trotskyite” political context in which he wrote, and the possibility that he was bumped off by Stalinists. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Communism, Counter-Currents Radio, Cyril Connolly, dystopian fiction, George Orwell, interviews, Margot Metroland, Nineteen Eighty-Four, podcasts | 8 Responses

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Your Nineteen Eighty-Four Sources in Full

Margot Metroland

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Connolly, Burnham, Orwell, & “Corner Table”

“In the torture scenes, he is merely melodramatic: he introduces those rather grotesque machines which used to appear in terror stories for boys.”
—V. S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949

Thomas J. Main’s The Rise of the Alt-Right

Greg Johnson

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Thomas J. Main
The Rise of the Alt-Right
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2018

Thomas Main interviewed me for this book, and I enjoyed our conversation. Main did not represent himself as anything but a critic of White Nationalism, but I found his questions to be stimulating and looked forward to reading the final product. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, censorship, egalitarianism, Greg Johnson, Kevin MacDonald, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Samuel Francis, the alt right, the Alternative Right, Thomas Jefferson, white nationalism | 24 Responses

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Remembering James Burnham

Hubert Collins

James Burnham

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James Burnham died on July 28th, 1987—thirty-one years ago today, and just before the arrival of the current age. Born in a Catholic 1905, he quickly delved into Marxism in his college days. But Kapital couldn’t keep him, and he quit the party in 1940, and the next year wrote his first post-Marxist, and criminally underappreciated book, The Managerial Revolution. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bureaucracy, commemorations, Communism, conservatism, Hubert Collins, liberalism, managerialism, North American New Right, reprints | 5 Responses

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Looking Backward

Samuel Francis

James Burnham (1905-1987)

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A man from Mars visiting the United States at the beginning of 1997 might have thought that the country was wobbling on the brink of political crisis. He would have learned that the White House was occupied by a gentleman immersed in so many scandals that even supermarket tabloids could not keep track of them and that this same gentleman, having been re-elected without a majority of voters behind him, faced a Congress controlled by an opposition party sworn to working a revolution in government. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Chronicles Magazine, elites, North American New Right, reprints, Republican party, Samuel Francis, socialism, The Managerial Revolution | 1 Response

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Liberalism is Suicide; Suicide is Liberalism

Hubert Collins

Anthony Bourdain and his daughter, Ariane, in 2008.

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In his seminal work, Suicide of the West, James Burnham wrote:

Liberalism is the ideology of western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism – the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future – falls into place. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, Hubert Collins, Karl Marx, Mark Fisher, North American New Right, originals, suicide, Yukio Mishima | 4 Responses

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The Gospel According to Goldberg

Margot Metroland

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Jonah Goldberg
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
New York: Crown Forum, 2018

Anyone expecting Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West to be a new meditation on James Burnham’s 1964 classic[1] about the moral degeneracy of liberal democracy is in for a laugh. Having borrowed Burnham’s tasty title, Goldberg goes off in another direction entirely, often inverting Burnham’s argument. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, book reviews, capitalism, free market, John Locke, liberal democracy, Margot Metroland, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals | 17 Responses

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Conspiracy

Samuel Francis

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History, wrote Voltaire, is the sound of silken slippers running up the backstairs and of wooden shoes running down — a remark that implies that the real story of high politics is never what we are able to see but always a tale hidden from public view. Since he lived in an age of despots, enlightened and otherwise, and was on intimate terms with several of them, Voltaire was in a good position to know, and it’s doubtful, if he were alive today in the age of such despots as a Free Press and Open Government, that he would be any more convinced that what he saw was really what was going on inside the dark corridors of power. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Chronicles Magazine, conspiracy theories, Murray Rothbard, North American New Right, reprints, Samuel Francis | 1 Response

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Lawrence Dennis & a “Frontier Thesis” for American Capitalism

Keith Stimely

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Editor’s Note:

Lawrence Dennis (December 25, 1893–August 20, 1977) was one of America’s most original Right-wing critics of liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, and the Cold War. Interestingly enough, he was part black, a fact that was known to his many Right-wing admirers. In commemoration of Dennis’ birthday, and as a Christmas gift to our readers, we are reprinting Keith Stimely’s excellent introduction to his life and ideas. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, banking, capitalism, economics, fascism, isolationism, Keith Stimely, Lawrence Dennis, North American New Right, reprints, the Cold War | 2 Responses

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Three Pillars

Michael O'Meara

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Editor’s Note:

The following text by Michael O’Meara appears in his book Toward the White Republic. Read more …

Published: July 19, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, conservatism, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, reprints, Samuel Francis, white nationalism | 5 Responses

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Sam Francis on the Jewish Question

Edmund Connelly

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“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it ought to be obvious that the dominant powers and authorities in the United States and other Western countries are either indifferent to the accelerating racial and cultural dispossession of the historic peoples of America and Europe or are actually in favor of it.” — Sam Francis Read more …