Tag Archives: the French Revolution

Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.

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The monumental significance of the fall of Saint-Domingue, the crown jewel of the French colonial empire, and its ensuant descent into the African savagery of Haiti cannot be overstated. The terrible birth of Haiti as a mangled, stillborn phoenix from a river of white blood Read more …

Published: October 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred N. Hunt, articles, colonialism, France, Giles Corey, H. D. de Saint-Maurice, Haiti, Jeremy D. Popkin, Leonora Sansay, Lothrop Stoddard, Makandal, Michel-Etienne Descourtilz, North American New Right, originals, post-colonialism, revolution, Saint-Domingue, San Domingo, Sir Spenser St. John, slave revolt, slavery, the Enlightenment, the French Empire, Toussaint Louverture, violence, white genocide | 23 Responses

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Hendrik de Man, The Right, & Ethical Socialism

Kerry Bolton

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“Socialism” is intrinsic to the “Right.” When journalists and academics refer in one breath to “liberalism, neoliberalism, and the Right-wing,” that attests to their ignorance, not to the accuracy of any such bastardization. Even at its most basic level of understanding, it seems to have been forgotten that in Britain there were Tories and Whigs in opposition. Now, Toryism has become so detached from its origins Read more …

Published: October 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfredo Rocco, articles, Christopher Lasch, conservatism, corporatism, economics, Enrico Corradini, fascism, Fascist Italy, free trade, Friedrich List, Giambattista Vico, guilds, Henrik de Man, heroism, Joseph de Maistre, Julius Evola, Karl Marx, Kerry Bolton, liberalism, mercantilism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Otto Strasser, philosophy, scientific socialism, socialism, spirit, syndicalism, the bourgeoisie, the Enlightenment, Thomas Carlyle, Traditionalism, Werner Sombart, World War I | 7 Responses

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Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part I: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, & the Joy of Collaboration

James J. O'Meara

Gertrude Stein.

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Barbara Will
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Gender and Culture Series)
New York City: Columbia University Press, 2011

The joy of the body, the most honorable and fecund joy of all, reign[s] in America.

— Bernard Faÿ Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, anti-modernism, anti-Semitism, articles, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, Catholicism, collaborationism, fascism, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, language, literature, modernism, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, revolution, the Jewish question, Vichy France | 2 Responses

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents.

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:

“Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce.”
“Bonald’s Economic Thought.”
“Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility.” Read more …

Published: October 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:

“Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce.”
“Bonald’s Economic Thought.”
“Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility.” Read more …

Published: October 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Thomas Carlyle:
The Sage of Chelsea

Jonathan Bowden

James MacNeill Whistler, Thomas Carlyle

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture on Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), which was delivered at the 15th meeting of the New Right in London on July 5, 2008. You can listen to the lecture below or watch it on YouTube here. Please post any corrections below as comments. Read more …

Published: November 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, articles, history, Jonathan Bowden, Negro slavery, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Protestantism, satire, Thomas Carlyle | 2 Responses

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

145 words

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:

“Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce.”
“Bonald’s Economic Thought.”
“Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility.” Read more …

Published: October 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Now in Stock!
Proofs of a Conspiracy

John Robison

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John Robison
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Edited with an Introduction by Alex Kurtagić
Abergele: The Palingenesis Project, 2014
530 pages

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

145 words

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:

“Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce.”
“Bonald’s Economic Thought.”
“Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility.” Read more …

Published: October 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Subversion, The Musical:
Les Misérables (2012)

Gregory Hood

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“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.” — Julius Evola, Read more …

Published: January 3, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Gregory Hood, liberalism, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Victor Hugo | 17 Responses

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

145 words

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

145 words

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

Anonymous

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military service was expected, so in 1773 he joined the king’s musketeers. Read more …