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Football players in England resumed their interrupted season in front of empty stands this month. Before the first game, each player, in addition to their name, squad number, and advertising slogans (including the now-sainted NHS or National Health Service symbol), wore the slogan “Black Lives Matter” on the back of their shirts, Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, censorship, ethnomasochism, football, Mark Gullick, North American New Right, optics, originals, white dispossession | 10 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 214
Interview with Tatjana Festerling

Counter-Currents Radio

Tatjana Festerling on the Bulgarian border

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John Morgan and Michael Polignano interview anti-immigration activist Tatjana Festerling to discuss her involvement with the AfD and PEGIDA in Germany, her 2015 candidacy for mayor of Dresden, and her current work in Bulgaria. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Bulgaria, Counter-Currents Radio, Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, demographic transition, Donald Trump, German guilt, John Morgan, mass immigration, Michael Polignano, Muslim immigration, North American New Right, PEGIDA, podcasts, Viktor Orbán | 6 Responses

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Political Propaganda as Seduction

Émile Durand

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Now that the Alt-Right has reached a critical mass and increasingly moving to the real world from the confines of the internet, there emerged the debate about how to present and comport ourselves in this new phase of our growth. After all, the real world is a completely different realm, and holding rallies and public speeches is a drastically different endeavor from posting on the internet, and hence it is important to decide which approach is to be taken. Read more …

Published: November 8, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emile Durand, North American New Right, originals, persuasion, political strategies | 7 Responses

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A Note on the Art of Political Conversion

T. E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme, 1883–1917

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Some day a wonderful book will be written on the art of persuasion, a new sophistic. One may suppose that psychology will ultimately become as complete a science as geometry and mechanics are now. It will be possible then to predict the effect of an argument on a man’s mind as surely as one can now predict the eclipse of the moon. On the basis of this developed science will be built an infallible set of rules for converting a man to any opinion you like. Read more …

Published: December 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elite psychology, elites, free trade, Gustave Le Bon, history, liberalism, North American New Right, propaganda, reprints, rhetoric, social psychology, T. E. Hulme | 8 Responses

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Gustave Le Bon

Alain de Benoist

Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931

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Translations: English, German

Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des foules

“A multidão é sempre intelectualmente inferior ao indivíduo isolado, mas do ponto de vista dos sentimentos e das ações que esses sentimentos provocam, a multidão pode, segundo as circunstâncias, ser melhor ou pior que o indivíduo. Tudo depende da natureza da sugestão à qual a multidão é exposta”.

Gustave Le Bon

Alain de Benoist

Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931

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Die englische Übersetzung von Matthew Peters erschien zum Gedenken an Gustave le Bons Geburtstag (7.5.1841) am 7. Mai 2012 auf Counter-Currents. Das französische Original stammt von Alain de Benoist und erschien in Vu de droite: anthologie critique des idées contemporaines (Paris: Le Labyrinthe, 2001 [1977]), pp. 282–284. Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Osimandia.