Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817
Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817
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Follows “Goethe’s Prometheus”
Hier sitz ich, forme Menschen
Nach meinem Bilde,
Ein Geschlecht, das mir gleich sei,
Zu leiden, zu weinen,
Zu genießen und zu freuen sich,
Und dein nicht zu achten,
Wie ich! (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
Resident Bidet has said on at least two occasions that you need planes and tanks to fight the government. These remarks didn’t age so well; the Commander-in-Cheat had his ass handed to him by cave-dwelling Afghan zealots with room-temperature IQs. For the most part, they were armed with AK-47s manufactured back when disco was still a thing. (more…)
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Sebastian and Paul from Antelope Hill Publishing were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed their company, its mission, their publishing process, movement publishing in general, and the QAnon phenomenon, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He [Rousseau] had nothing new, but he set everything on fire. — Madame de Staël
Starting from unlimited freedom I arrive at unlimited despotism. — Shigalev, in Dostoevsky’s The Devils
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, not Karl Marx is the real father and inspiration for the theater of the absurd that is today’s Left. Rousseau’s “Man is born free, everywhere he is in chains” is the original formulation of the adolescent anarchist rally-cry, “Rage against the machine!” (more…)
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Receive a free copy of Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates by donating $120 or more today!
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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $71,665.56, or 24% of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) Today we are announcing a one-week bonus for donating $120 or more (in other words, paywall and up): Aside from all the usual paywall perks, all donors who give at least this amount or more will also receive a paperback copy of Greg Johnson’s latest book, The Trial of Socrates. And now, Stephen Paul Foster offers a few words on why Counter-Currents needs your support. (more…)
YMMV. Courtesy of Stonetoss
YMMV. Courtesy of Stonetoss
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Marx 101
Here we get John Galt’s speech — albeit of a very different type — in miniature. (more…)
Levicová politika jako dobrovolná komodifikace lidské identity – zcela v souladu se zájmy kapitálu.
Levicová politika jako dobrovolná komodifikace lidské identity – zcela v souladu se zájmy kapitálu.
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English original here
Snad jedině slepec by si nevšiml, jak se současná levice svými stále nesmyslnějšími a nesrozumitelnými formami protestu odcizuje vlastním potenciálním voličům takřka spektakulárně. Jistě, halasně odsuzují Trumpa coby fašistu a Brexit jako projev jakéhosi ur-nacionalismu, ale jakou se doopravdy pokoušejí předložit alternativu? (more…)
James Burnham
James Burnham
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In The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom,[1] James Burnham sets forth a Machiavellian method for interpreting political texts. (Methods of interpretation are also known as “hermeneutic” methods.) Burnham distinguishes between the “formal” and the “real” meanings of texts. The formal meaning of a text is “what it explicitly states when taken at face value” (p. 8). The formal meaning also expresses, albeit in an indirect and disguised manner, “what may be called the real meaning” (p. 8). (more…)
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
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Part 1 of 2
The first significant anti-Communist victory in the Cold War’s early years did not involve any soldiers. In a century filled with warfare, the two principal contenders in this fight were men who were just too young to have served in the military during the First World War and yet too old to have served in the tragic and disastrous Second World War. (more…)
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Ian Kershaw
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
New York: Penguin Press, 2022
This book caught my eye when it came out a few months ago because its format reminded me of Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right, which I reviewed here some seasons back. That is to say, a collection of short critical biographies of a dozen or so worthies, assembled together on a common theme. (more…)
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
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Introduction here, Chapter 11 Part 1 here, Chapter 11 Part 3 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
“The Empire is constructing a biopolitical order because production has become biopolitical,” states Antonion Negri.[i] That means that the emergence of the Empire as a paradigm of biopower is indissociable from the appearance of a new form of production, viz. “immaterial” labor, which is defined by Hardt and Negri as “labor which produces a non-material good such as a service, a cultural product, knowledge, or communication” (more…)
Barricade of the Communard National Guard, Paris, March 18, 1871.
Barricade of the Communard National Guard, Paris, March 18, 1871.
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Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Introduction here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here, Chapter 10 Part 1 here
The Revolution of 1789 was itself above all a liberal and bourgeois revolution — even “ultra-liberal,” as the very liberal Gaspard Koenig affirms, not failing to celebrate this. (more…)
