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A French Jacobin

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

1. Introduction: Transcendental Idealism as Political Radicalism

In part one of this essay, I covered J. G. Fichte’s moral philosophy, as set out in his 1798 work The System of Ethics. In the present installment, which is largely self-contained, I shall cover his social and political philosophy, chiefly as expounded in The Foundations of Natural Right. Here we will find many ways in which Fichte lays the groundwork for contemporary Leftism, including a surprising anticipation of what Gen Z calls “real Communism.” (more…)

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Pox Populi did a solo Telegram stream last week on Greg Johnson’s essay “Against Imperialism,” reading it aloud and then chatting with listeners about ethnonationalism versus imperialism. It is now available for download and online listening. It is also available on YouTube, below. (more…)

You can pre-order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here.

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One of the fundamental divisions in the White Nationalist movement is between ethnonationalists and imperialists. Ethnonationalists want a world in which every distinct people has the right to a sovereign homeland. Imperialists want a single white racial state. Wilmot Robertson makes the case for ethnonationalism in his book The Ethnostate, whereas Francis Parker Yockey presents the case for imperialism in Imperium. Other advocates of imperialism include Sir Oswald Mosley, Jean Thiriart, and Guillaume Faye.

The division between imperialists and ethnonationalists is often overlooked. (more…)

The Varangian Guard of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

Just as it would be vain to oppose to abstract equality a similarly abstract inequality, it would in my opinion be mistaken to try to oppose nationalism or ethnocentrism to the ideology of Sameness. (more…)

Santi di Tito, Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, ca. 1550.

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Gregory Hood was host Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and they discussed James Burnham and Machiavellianism, the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, and answered YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now ready for download and online listening. (more…)

You can buy Greg Johnson’s White Identity Politics here.

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On the latest episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson read and discussed his essay “Three Pillars of White Identity Politics” (see below) and, of course, answered YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:00:00 Three Pillars of White Identity Politics
00:08:00 Peaceful separation of nations
00:10:00 Where do rights come from? (more…)

A French dragoon harassing a Huguenot.

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The Third Amendment is, unsurprisingly, the least litigated out of all Constitutional amendments. Its effect on Constitutional law is almost nonexistent. While everyone may be glad that “no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law,“ it probably would not have been an issue (more…)

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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Read more on Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism here, here, and here.

The right of peoples to self-determination is one of the basic norms of contemporary international law. (more…)

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Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. (more…)

Albrecht Dürer, hombres salvajes de los paneles del Retrato de Oswald Krell, 1499

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Nota del Traductor:

“Might is Right” se conoce generalmente como “la ley del más fuerte”, pero por una cuestión de concordancia traducimos “como fuerza y derecho”.

Un lector me preguntó mis pensamientos sobre la relación entre la fuerza y el derecho. (Dicho sea de paso, yo soy feliz de responder cuestiones filosóficas).

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Albrecht Dürer, wild men from the side panels of the Portrait of Oswald Krell, 1499

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A reader has asked me for my thoughts on the relationship between might and rights. (By the way, I am happy to entertain philosophical questions.)

What are rights? Rights are principles defining political freedoms and obligations. If rights are political, what makes rights “natural” as opposed to conventional? What makes rights natural is an argument deriving them from human nature. Thus natural rights are socially instituted, protected, and enforced freedoms and obligations that are rationally grounded in nature, (more…)

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

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Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

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Alain de Benoist
Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms
London: Arktos Media, 2011

The work under review is the third by French philosopher Alain de Benoist to be translated into English, and the second translation to be published by Arktos Media. Like its predecessor The Problem of Democracy, it is a short, dense book written to challenge the authority of one of the most pompous god-terms of our age.

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