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Towards a Right-Wing Critical Theory

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Amid the social turmoil of the late 1960s, the German Communist student Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as the preferred strategy of ensuring the victory of global Marxist revolution. The success of this initiative is no more prominent in the West than in today’s academia, where Frankfurt School Read more …

Published: July 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, colonialism, conservatism, critical theory, deconstructivism, East vs. West, epistemology, Frankfurt School, globalism, imperialism, Imperium, Julius Evola, materialism, modernism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 18 Responses

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Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism

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

Published: November 12, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, book reviews, capitalism, equality, French New Right, globalism, human rights, individualism, liberalism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, the individual | 16 Responses

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Pinkera Brzydzą Biali Nacjonaliści

Ricardo Duchesne

4,611 words

English original here

Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
New York: Viking, 2018

Wraz z publikacją “Enlightenment Now” (Oświecenie Teraz) Steven Pinker zdecydowanie ustanowił się jako główny intelektualista publiczny w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Read more …

Published: November 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, cosmopolitanism, diversity, ethnonationalism, European identity, identitarianism, in Polish, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Ricardo Duchesne, social capital, Steven Pinker, trust, universalism | Leave a comment

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Our Marx, Only Better:
Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism

Giambattista Vico

5,481 words

Author’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily edited it, rewriting it in places. I want to thank Jez Turner and The London Forum team for a memorable event.

Today I’m going to talk about a topic that’s somewhat esoteric. Read more …

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Darwinism, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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Victorian Respectability

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“On the surface, Bram Stoker was a pillar of late Victorian respectability. . . . But just below the surface, he had something on his mind.”

The preceding sentences are from Christopher Frayling’s BBC documentary on Stoker’s Dracula, which was broadcast on A&E in 1996.

In a more recent television documentary on M. R. James, Read more …

Published: June 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bram Stoker, freedom, Irmin Vinson, M. R. James, North American New Right, originals, sex, Sigmund Freud | 5 Responses

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Steven Pinker’s Anti-Enlightenment Attack on White Identitarians

Ricardo Duchesne

5,422 words

Polish version here

Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
New York: Viking, 2018

Pinker “Loathes” White Identitarians

With the publication of Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker has decisively established himself as the foremost public intellectual in the United States. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, cosmopolitanism, diversity, ethnonationalism, European identity, identitarianism, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Ricardo Duchesne, social capital, Steven Pinker, trust, universalism | 23 Responses

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Subliminal Influences

2,924 words

Translated by G. A. Malvicini

We have already had the occasion to point to the illusoriness of the claim that modern man, in general, has achieved an autonomy and self-consciousness he previously lacked. This illusion can in part be explained by the fact that attention today is primarily directed towards external conditions, to the disappearance of certain material limits to the freedom of the individual — Read more …

Published: May 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged advertising, articles, Catholicism, Christianity, democracy, feminism, freedom, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy of history, political correctness, propaganda, social mobility, the family, translations, Vatican II | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 147
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Conquest of Nature: Ayn Rand

67:53 / 223 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” Read more …

Published: February 24, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Counter-Currents Radio, Epicureanism, Greg Johnson, living well, modernity, philosophy, podcasts, science, space exploration, technology, The Pursuit of Happiness | 3 Responses

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Karl Jaspers, l’Age Axial, et une Histoire Commune pour l’humanité

Ricardo Duchesne

Karl Jaspers, 1883–1969

Karl Jaspers, 1883–1969

3,106 words

English original here

Du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux années 1960 et 1970, les livres de l’Histoire Mondiale reconnaissaient les divers accomplissements de toutes les civilisations dans le monde, mais la plupart des auteurs et des enseignants prenaient comme allant de soi le fait que les Européens méritaient plus d’attention en particulier au vu de leur influence incontestable Read more …

Published: January 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, Hannah Arendt, in French, in translation, Karl Jaspers, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, political correctness, Ricardo Duchesne, the Axial Age, universalism, Western civilization | Leave a comment

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Orientaciones

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English translation here

Nota del Traductor:

Hace 35 años leímos por primera vez “Orientamenti” en versión italiana, cuando nuestro dominio sobre esta lengua era todavía mínimo, publicada por el Centro Studi Ordine Nuovo(1). Read more …

Published: January 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, Communism, cyclical history, decline, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, hierarchy, in Spanish, in translation, Italy, Julius Evola, Marxism, materialism, metapolitics, National Socialism, nationalism, North American New Right, organicism, originals, philosophy of history, religion, the bourgeoisie, totalitarianism, Traditionalism, warrior ethics, World War II | Leave a comment

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Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, & a Common History for Humanity

Ricardo Duchesne

Karl Jaspers, 1883–1969

Karl Jaspers, 1883–1969

2,847 words

French translation here

From the nineteenth century through the 1960s and ’70s, World History books did recognize the varying accomplishments of all civilizations in the world, but most authors and teachers took for granted the fact that Europeans deserved more attention particularly in view of their irrefutable influence on the rest of the world after their discovery of the Americas, development of modern science and global spread of modern technology.

Published: December 17, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Marxism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, political correctness, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Axial Age, universalism, Western civilization | 5 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 94
Vico & the New Right

54:49 / 99 words

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This is my lecture “Giambattista Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” delivered at the London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, cyclical history, Darwinism, duty, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, podcasts, religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism, warrior ethics | 5 Responses

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“We Are at the End of Something”:
The American Renaissance Interview

Alain de Benoist

3,715 words

American Renaissance: You have said that modernity is the enemy of identity. Could you explain this idea further?

Alain de Benoist: When one considers modernity, one must consider two meanings of the word. The first is known to everyone: It is the changes of life that come with more material wealth. But modernity is also the product of an ideology that appeared in the 17th and 18th century with the Enlightenment. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, American Renaissance, capitalism, empire, European New Right, feminism, France, globalization, identity, interviews, localism, modernity, North American New Right, philosophy, philosophy of history, racism, reprints, Switzerland, the United States, white nationalism | 33 Responses

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Evola & Spengler

Robert Steuckers

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English version here

“Překládal jsem z němčiny na žádost vydavatele Longanesiho… rozsáhlé a oslavované dílo Oswalda Spenglera Zánik Západu. Poskytlo mi to příležitost v úvodu specifikovat význam i hranice tohoto díla, jež si svého času vydobylo světovou slávu.” Těmito slovy uvádí Julius Evola ve své knize Pouť rumělky (str. 177) řadu kritických odstavců ke Spenglerovi.

Published: March 7, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Ludwig Klages, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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A Brief History of the Idea of Progress

Alain de Benoist

John Gast, “Manifest Destiny,” 1872

3,641 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

The idea of progress seems one of theoretical presuppositions of modernity. One can even regard it, not without reason, as the real “religion of Western civilization.” Read more …

Published: May 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Christianity, Johnson translation, North American New Right, philosophy of history, reprints, translations | 7 Responses

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D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 4

Derek Hawthorne

2,470 words

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Gudrun Brangwen, the Modern Woman

Gerald Crich is only one half of Lawrence’s portrait of the “modern individual.” The other half is Gudrun Brangwen. Of course, Birkin and Ursula are modern individuals, though in a different sense. The latter couple are both seeking some fulfilling way to live in, or in spite of, the modern world. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropocentrism, anti-modernism, articles, book reviews, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, ecology, Ernst Junger, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hawthorne-Women in Love, literature, Martin Heidegger, misanthropy, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, philosophy, technology, vitalism, Women in Love | Leave a comment

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D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 3

Derek Hawthorne

2,541 words

Part 3 of 4. Click here for all four parts.

Interestingly, perhaps the clearest parallels to Gerald Crich’s philosophy of life, and Lawrence’s treatment of it, are two thinkers Lawrence knew nothing about when he wrote Women in Love: Oswald Spengler and Ernst Jünger, both of whom were strongly influenced by Nietzsche.

Spengler: Faustian Man and Technology

Published: January 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, book reviews, cyclical history, D. H. Lawrence, decadence, degeneration, Derek Hawthorne, ecology, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Hawthorne-Women in Love, literature, Martin Heidegger, misanthropy, modernity, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, technology, the unconscious, vitalism, Women in Love | Leave a comment

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Alexis Carrel:
A Commemoration, Part 1

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Alexis Carrel, 1873–1944

Part 1 of 3

[M]en cannot follow modern civilization along its present course, because they are degenerating. They have been fascinated by the beauty of the sciences of inert matter. They have not understood that their body and consciousness are subjected to natural laws, more obscure than, but as inexorable as, the laws of the sidereal world. Neither have they understood that they cannot transgress these laws without being punished.

Published: November 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis Carrel, articles, Charles Lindbergh, commemorations, decadence, decline, degeneration, diet, Kerry Bolton, medicine, North American New Right, originals, technology | 3 Responses

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Mark Antliff’s Avant-Garde Fascism

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Mark Antliff
Avant-Garde Fascism:
The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007

Published: October 2, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alex Kurtagic, anti-Semitism, archaeofuturism, art, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, Corneliu Codreanu, fascism, futurism, Georges Sorel, Iron Guard, Italian fascism, Italian futurism, myth, National Socialism, technology, Ted Sallis, urban life | 3 Responses

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Evola & Spengler

Robert Steuckers

Julius Evola

1,040 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

“I translated from German, at the request of the publisher Longanesi . . . Oswald Spengler’s vast and celebrated work The Decline of the West. That gave me the opportunity to specify, in an introduction, the meaning and the limits of this work which, in its time, had been world-famous.” Read more …

Published: September 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Johnson translation, Julius Evola, Ludwig Klages, North American New Right, on Evola, on Spengler, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

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Nietzsche on Conservatism

Friedrich Nietzsche

180 words

Czech translation of this post: here

Editor’s Note:

The following is section no. 43 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.

Published: July 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, conservatism, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, philosophy of history, translations | 2 Responses

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