Tag: universalism

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936

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NOTE: This 14 June marks the 90th anniversary of the death of the great Anglo-Catholic conservative writer G. K. Chesterton in 1936. The following essay has been written for planned inclusion in a future as-yet untitled academic anthology of pieces on the subject of Chesterton and war, and deals with the subject of the main motivation GKC thought all true soldiers should have for fighting in the first place—love of one’s own homeland and people.

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Patriotism is just saying your country is the best because you happen to have been born there.”
G.B. Shaw

G. K. Chesterton is far better appreciated today as an essayist than as a novelist, but his first effort in this particular literary medium, 1904’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill, was really little more than an essay reshaped into basic narrative form. (more…)

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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English original here, Estonian, French, Spanish

Część 7 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 4, Rozdział 6)

„Czy możemy się po prostu dogadać?” – Rodney King

Krótka książka Carla Schmitta Pojęcie polityczności (1932) jest jednym z najważniejszych dzieł dwudziestowiecznej filozofii politycznej[1].

Głównym celem Pojęcia polityczności jest obrona polityki przed utopijnymi próbami jej porzucenia. Anty-polityczny utopizm zawiera wszystkie formy liberalizmu, jak również międzynarodowego socjalizmu, globalnego kapitalizmu, anarchizmu oraz pacyfizmu: w skrócie – wszystkie polityczne filozofie, których celem jest uniwersalny porządek, w którym porzucono wszelki konflikt. (more…)

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Atheism and agnosticism are associated with Leftist, anti-white politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. As discussed in my previous Counter-Currents article, “Christian Nationalism Has Made Me Agnostic,” much of the white Western world,  including countries such as France, the Czech Republic, and Australia, is becoming irreligious. (more…)

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English original here, Estonian translation here, French translation here, Polish translation here, Capítulo 6 aquí

Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 4 aquí

“¿Podemos llevarnos todos bien?” — Rodney King

El librito de Carl Schmitt El concepto de lo Político (1932) es uno de los trabajos más importantes de la filosofía política del siglo XX.[1]

El objetivo de El concepto de lo Político es la defensa de la política contra las aspiraciones utópicas a favor de abolir la política. (more…)

Francis Fukuyama heralded a return to a Western-centered universal conception of history — but one which sees universal liberalism as its endpoint.

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Part 7 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 6 here)

We have no standards to judge what are “good” and “bad” forms of being a human, since there are no subjects existing outside the contingencies of historical time and power relationships. All we can do is engage in “discourse analysis” so as to uncover existing hierarchies by analyzing the fields of knowledge through which they are legitimated. We can engage in questioning how we came to be the “humans” we think we are, such as how we came to think that we have natural rights to life, liberty, and happiness, but such a questioning can only show us how our current way of being human is historically contingent and thus changeable. (more…)

Anton von Werner, The Proclamation of the German Empire (1885). The rise of the German Empire coincided with the rise of German historicism. Both presented a new challenge to British and French world domination.

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Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here)

German Historicism: The Defeated Alternative to Liberal Progressivism

Peter Watson’s comprehensive book of over 900 pages, The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, The Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century (2010), demonstrates that from 1750 to the 1930s Germany was the dominant intellectual force in Western civilization. (more…)

Thomas Achord

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A year or two ago, I received a large, unsolicited, and apparently self-published book in the mail: Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, edited by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow. Neither name was familiar to me. Since my available reading time is somewhat constrained, I did no more than leaf through it at first. But I kept it on my shelf because the idea of “an anthology in natural relations” sounded worthwhile. (more…)

Saint MLK

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Beau Albrecht has been an online commentator since 2016. He began contributing to Counter-Currents in 2020, and recently published his hundredth article there. He lives in part of America’s “Flyover Country” well known for hot, dry summers and scenic topography. (more…)

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Introduction here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here, Chapter 7 here

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

In the eighteenth century, in order to put a definitive end to the wars of religion, liberalism attempted to “pacify” society politically and ideologically. (more…)

Zednářský univerzalismus v pojetí Jeana Delvillea

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English original here

Následující esej původně byla závěrečnou částí recenze Collina Clearyho na knihu Ricarda Duchesneho The Uniqueness of Western Civilization. Protože je v ní ale obsaženo příliš velice důležitých postřehů, než aby zůstaly „zastrčené“ na konci velice rozsáhlé knižní recenze, upravil jsem ji tak, aby fungovala i jako samostatný útvar – Greg Johnson.

Dokonce i ve většině moderních Zápaďanů – ano, i u našich politicky dokonale korektních akademiků – se dosud skrývá jakýsi míhavý záblesk starobylé, indoevropské thymotické přirozenosti. (more…)

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

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

The history of modernity can be understood at least in part as a gigantic process of uniformization. Induced by philosophico-moral or political universalism and the diffusion of techniques for the modeling of behavior more effective than those of the most centralized dictatorships, it has expressed itself in the West by the gradual eradication of differentiated ways of life, (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…)

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here)

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

The Ideology of Sameness

“I think the entire history of the world and of societies can be fully interpreted according to two great principles,” writes the sociologist Paul Yonnet, “viz., that of equalization and that of differentiation (or the tendency to similarity and the tendency to deviation), between which relations of re-equilibration, of compensation (true, false, symbolic, or real) or consolation, are constantly being formed.”[1] (more…)