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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Using Politics to Segregate the Sexes,” where he asks whether men and women being pulled apart by being artificially divided into Left and Right. (more…)
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It seems like a million years ago that men and women would have sex and start popping out babies without ever thinking about politics.
Nowadays, men and women hardly talk to one another because politics gets in the way.
If you’ve been unlucky enough to find yourself anywhere near a computer over the past ten years, you’ve seen headline after headline announcing that politics are cockblocking men and women from getting together and getting it on: (more…)
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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 $66,365.84 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) But first, Mark Gullick explains why your support is so crucial given what we are up against today. (more…)
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Part 2 of 3 (Introduction Part I here, Introduction Part III here)
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Now, for liberalism, man — far from being constituted as such by his bonds with others — must be thought of as an individual unbound by any constitutive form of belonging; i.e., outside any cultural or socio-historical context. (more…)
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Part 1 of 3 (Introduction Part II here)
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
When liberalism is said to be the dominant ideology of our time, there are always those who protest by citing, for example, the amount of public expenditures or the level of taxation in our country. But this is looking at the problem through the wrong end of the telescope. A liberal society is not exactly the same thing as a liberal economy. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Being White, Despite “Left’ and ‘Right’,” on why standing up for yourself as a white person doesn’t — and shouldn’t — necessarily have anything to do with embracing entire ideologies that are classified as either “Left” or “Right.” See below. (more…)
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Speaking as a white man, I have no problem with being a white man.
What I don’t understand is how this automatically makes me a member of the political “Right.” (more…)
Courtesy of Stonetoss
Courtesy of Stonetoss
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So here are two questions:
The second question answers itself — yes — since people use these terms all the time and don’t seem to have difficulty being understood. Few, it seems, are asking for basic definitions when writers and thinkers expound upon Right and Left. (more…)
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Introduction here, Chapter 8 here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
The ecologist Fabrice Nicolino, a member of Charlie Hebdo’s editorial board (he was seriously wounded in the Kouachi brothers’ attack in January 2015), declares:
I am nostalgic for a time when people had a place, when men and women were strongly bound. I am nostalgic for a time when rural civilization was not the garbage it is today, a monstrosity that stuffs people with pesticides. (more…)
A photo from the Christmas truce of 1914.
A photo from the Christmas truce of 1914.
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FUNDRAISER ALERT: From now until the New Year, I am offering my dubious skills as a karaoke songbird to help Counter-Currents reach its goal. For $100 per ditty, I am willing to post a video of myself performing a song of your choice, provided I feel I can do the song justice. Let’s not go nuts, though — I’m not going to learn, rehearse, and sing an entire side of “Tales of Topographic Oceans” by Yes. Last year, at the request of Gaddius Maximus, I sang “I’ve Always Been Crazy” by Waylon Jennings. (more…)
Jean-Claude Michéa
Jean-Claude Michéa
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Introduction here, Chapter 5 Part 1 here, Chapter 6 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
No doubt we should have expected this. The views developed by Jean-Claude Michéa were not slow to earn him many critiques, mostly directed at two of his books, Orpheus’s Complex and Mysteries of the Left. (more…)
Jean-Claude Michéa
Jean-Claude Michéa
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Introduction here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
In January 1905, the regulations of the French Section of the Workers’ International, the Socialist Party of the time, still indicated that it was a “class party whose goal was to socialize the means of production and exchange, i.e. to transform capitalist society into a collectivist or Communist society, and that its means to this end was the economic and political organization of the proletariat.” Of course, no “socialist” party would dare say this today. Socialists have mutated into social-democrats and, increasingly, into social-liberals. (more…)
