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The “Revolutionary Vanguard” Trap

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Right-wingers often say they want to create an “elite” revolutionary vanguard.

This would supposedly attract the best and brightest of our society in order to overthrow it. This elite would be smarter, more dedicated, more athletic, and possibly better-looking than the cattle they wish to rule. “We’re attracting quality, not quantity! Elites, not the masses!” is the eternal response to those who doubt this strategy. Read more …

Published: May 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, elitism, National Alliance, North American New Right, originals, radicalism, revolution, rhetoric, Robert Hampton | 17 Responses

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Video of the Day
Vanguardism (in Honor of the 335th Anniversary of the Battle of Vienna)

Video of the Day

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Published: September 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged metapolitics, video of the day | 5 Responses

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Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists

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Jonathan Bowden
Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2016

Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics is a highly original book that contains the transcripts of nine of Jonathan Bowden’s orations: one on vanguardism followed by profiles of Thomas Carlyle, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Charles Maurras, Martin Heidegger, Savitri Devi, Julius Evola, Yukio Mishima, and Maurice Cowling. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, Ancient Greece, book reviews, Charles Maurras, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Jonathan Bowden, Martin Heidegger, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Savitri Devi, Thomas Carlyle, Yukio Mishima | 4 Responses

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Now in Audio Version
Against Right-Wing Sectarianism

2,078 words / 13:49

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It is important for White Nationalists to visualize what victory would look like. There are really two answers to this question. The ultimate answer is our vision of Whitopia, the society we want to create. But before we build Whitopia, we need to achieve a victory over the present political system. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, hegemony, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, the Alt Light, the Alternative Right, white community organizing, white nationalism | 25 Responses

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In Praise of Extremists

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Author’s Note:

This brief talk was given in London on Friday, May 26, 2017 at the first annual Jonathan Bowden Dinner. I want to thank Stead Steadman and the other organizers of the dinner, as well as the nearly 80 people who attended.

I am currently editing a new collection of Jonathan Bowden’s writings called Extremists! Studies in Metapolitics. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Jonathan Bowden, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 6 Responses

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White Nationalism, the Alt Right, & the Alt Light

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There is a lot of confusion about the relationship of White Nationalism, the Alt Right, and the so-called Alt Light.

The “Alt Right” is a vague category that encompasses different tendencies of thought united by their rejection of mainstream conservatism. White Nationalism is one such tendency, and the Alt Light is another.

The Alt Light is defined by civic nationalism as opposed to racial nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civic nationalism, Greg Johnson, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, polarization, the Alt Light, the Alternative Right, white community organizing, white nationalism | 19 Responses

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Porque Ramzpaul está en lo Correcto
(& porque no importa)

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English original here

Ramzpaul está básicamente en lo correcto al quejarse sobre el ala “1488” del Nacionalismo Blanco. Él esta obviamente frustrado con las señalizaciones puritanas y el LARPing[1]. Creo que se equivoca al acusar a los 1488s de ser plantados por el enemigo, aunque algunos probablemente si sean. Pienso, sin embargo, Read more …

Published: June 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1488ers, articles, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, Ramzpaul, vantards, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Why Ramzpaul is Right
(& Why it Doesn’t Matter)

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Spanish translation here

Ramzpaul is basically right in his quarrel with the “1488” wing of White Nationalism. He’s obviously frustrated with purity signaling spirals and LARPing. I believe he’s wrong to accuse 1488ers of being enemy plants, although some of them probably are. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1488ers, articles, Greg Johnson, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, Ramzpaul, vantards, white nationalism | 81 Responses

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Stand Your Ground:
Milo, the Alt-Right, & Mainstream Attention

Donald Thoresen

2,386 words

It is hard not to like Milo Yiannopoulos. Watching him is like watching Firing Line if it were being hosted by Noël Coward. He is unquestionably a witty, bright-eyed, and charming individual. Politically, he inhabits the intellectual space in which White Nationalism and conservatism sometimes overlap. That is to say, he is a vocal opponent of feminism in its most flawed manifestations, opposes Muslim immigration, supports Donald Trump, and so on. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1488ers, Alt-Right, articles, Donald Thoresen, mainstreaming, Milo Yiannopoulos, North American New Right, originals, the Alternative Right, vantards | 5 Responses

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Четыре непреложных принципа белого национализма

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Европейцы образуют отдельную расу – белую. То есть быть французом, немцем, шведом или греком значит также быть белым. Значит, ни одна разновидность гражданского, языкового, культурного или религиозного национализма не достаточна для защиты европейских народов. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Liddell, Greg Johnson, in Russian, in translation, mainstreaming, North American New Right, populism, reprints, vantards, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Vanguardism:
Hope for the Future

Jonathan Bowden

8,619 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s London Forum lecture in London on December 3, 2011. I want to thank Michèle Renouf and Jez Turner for making the recording available. Read more …

Published: November 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elitism, Jonathan Bowden, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 3 Responses

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Avant-gardisme, « avant-tardisme », et « majoritisme »

Hermann Anton Stilke, Joan of Arc, 1843

Hermann Anton Stilke, Jeanne d’Arc, 1843

2,502 words

English original here

L’éternel débat entre les « avant-gardistes » [vanguardists] nationalistes blancs et les « majoritistes » [mainstreamers] fait à nouveau rage sur Alternative Right et dans The Daily Stormer. Je pense que la discussion serait clarifiée en introduisant une troisième catégorie : « avant-tardisme » [vantardism], qui est une combinaison de « vanguard » et de « retard » et qui désigne les formes stupides et contre-productives d’avant-gardisme – Read more …

Published: October 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Liddell, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, populism, vantards, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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After the Deluge:
A Post-National Future for the White Race

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Assume the White Man has lost. What next?

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Published: September 7, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Corneliu Codreanu, Iron Guard, non-white immigration, North American New Right, refugee crisis, reprints, Ted Sallis, white dispossession, white nationalism | 13 Responses

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For My Legionaries

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Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
For My Legionaries
Introduction by Kerry Bolton; Historical Overview by Lucian Tudor; with new appendices and photographs.
London: Black House Publishing, 2015

I’d like to make some comments on Codreanu’s For My Legionaries, now available in a new edition, with added background information and new photos. Read more …

Published: August 31, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Corneliu Codreanu, fascism, Iron Guard, mainstreaming, North American New Right, reprints, Ted Sallis | 3 Responses

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Moving the Movement Football

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Decades of unending failure from both ends of the spectrum.

I am not much interested in sports, especially Negro-dominated American football, which features simian behemoths colliding on a field in front of cheering crowds of inebriated jock-sniffing White fans. Read more …

Published: August 27, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, mainstreaming, North American New Right, reprints, Ted Sallis, white nationalism | 11 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 128
Interview with Martin Webster, Part 2

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Martin Webster on the march in 1980

Martin Webster on the march in 1980

50:29 / 192 words

Part 2 of 2

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Published: May 18, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged British National Party, Counter-Currents Radio, interviews, John Tyndall, mainstreaming, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Webster, National Front (UK), Nick Griffin, non-white immigration, Pink Floyd, podcasts, white nationalism | 3 Responses

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El hombre más inteligente en la habitación

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Recientemente he tenido una epifanía de cómo los Nacionalistas Blancos podrían hacer un mejor trabajo creando un movimiento vanguardista genuino. El Vanguardismo, al cual nunca me canso de señalar, es y siempre debe ser una estrategia elitista. La historia está hecha por las elites. Los blancos, sin embargo, son dominados por una elite judía y plutocrática que, a lo mejor, es indiferente al futuro de nuestra raza Read more …

Published: April 24, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Greg Johnson, honesty, in Spanish, in translation, intelligence, magnanimity, mainstreaming, narcissism, National Alliance, North American New Right, occult warfare, originals, the bourgeoisie, William Pierce | Leave a comment

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The Mud or the Stars?

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Carl Milles sculptures, Lidingo Island, Stockholm

The Racial Law of Sociopolitical Thermodynamics

The Left has an easier time of things than the Right, given that the Left’s objectives run alongside the flow of increasing entropy, while the Right’s objectives run in the opposite direction. This underlying fundamental difference explains why attempts at “mainstreaming” and “working within the system” are doomed to ultimate failure, Read more …

Published: April 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural rebirth, decadence, decline, mainstreaming, North American New Right, reprints, Ted Sallis, white nationalism | 17 Responses

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The Smartest Guy in the Room

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I recently had an epiphany about how White Nationalists might do a better job of creating a genuine vanguardist movement. Vanguardism, as I never tire of pointing out, is and must always be an elitist strategy. History is made by elites. Whites, however, are ruled by a Jewish and plutocratic elite that is at best indifferent to the future of our race and is at worst intentionally supporting policies that are leading to our simple biological extinction. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Greg Johnson, hierarchy, honesty, intelligence, Johnson on populism, magnanimity, mainstreaming, narcissism, National Alliance, North American New Right, occult warfare, originals, the bourgeoisie, William Pierce | 53 Responses

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Vantard Strategies

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marvin

Attack!

My recent article “Vanguardism, Vantardism, and Mainstreaming” was directed primarily at mainstreamers. My goal in distinguishing between genuine vanguardists and “vantards” was to force the mainstreamers to focus on the substance of the vanguardist position, which I think is entirely defensible, rather than on the non-productive strategies of the vantards, Read more …

Published: October 15, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Linder, Andrew Anglin, articles, Colin Liddell, Greg Johnson, holocaust revisionism, Johnson on populism, mainstreaming, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Ramzpaul, the holocaust, vantards, white nationalism | 55 Responses

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Vanguardism, Vantardism, & Mainstreaming

Hermann Anton Stilke, Joan of Arc, 1843

Hermann Anton Stilke, Joan of Arc, 1843

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Translations: French, Russian (excerpt)

The perennial debate between White Nationalist “vanguardists” and “mainstreamers” is raging again at Alternative Right and The Daily Stormer. I think the discussion would be clarified by introducing a third category: “vantardism,” which is a combination of “vanguard” and “retard” and refers to stupid, counter-productive forms of vanguardism — Read more …

Published: October 9, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Anglin, articles, Colin Liddell, Greg Johnson, Johnson on populism, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, populism, the Jewish question, vantards, white nationalism | 78 Responses

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Against Mainstreaming

In a country where Israel is widely unpopular in the political mainstream, the Sweden Democrats cleverly co-opt themselves in search of what? Credibility?

In a country where Israel is widely unpopular in the political mainstream, the Sweden Democrats cleverly co-opt themselves in search of what? Credibility?

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Some in the “movement” – including some “movement intellectuals” – are championing the concept of “mainstreaming” and cite France’s Front National (FN) as a sterling example of this paradigm. After all, as these “movement” think tankers report, the FN, it seems, is these days saying it doesn’t matter if the French become a minority of the population of France.

Published: September 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, mainstreaming, National Front, North American New Right, reprints, Ted Sallis | 15 Responses

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Yhdistä itsesi ääriainekseen

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

680 words

Suomentanut Jukka Hakola

English original here

On olemassa katkeamispiste – jotkut saavuttavat sen myöhemmin kuin toiset – jonka jälkeen yksilöä ohjaava moraalinen kompassi tekee aidon pesäeron valtavirran yhteiskunnallisiin normeihin. Suhteeni statukseen ja arvostukseen on aikaa sitten vapautunut noista normeista, ja tänään vaikutan pienessä ja kieltämättä vaikutusvallattomassa yhteisössä, joka koostuu heimo- ja traditionalistiveljistä. Read more …

Published: November 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in Finnish, in translation, mainstreaming, Matt Parrott, North American New Right, reprints, solidarity, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Link Yourself to White Nationalism

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

772 words

Finnish translation here

There’s a snapping point–some arrive at it later than others–beyond which one’s compass of esteem is truly decoupled from popular societal norms. My own sense of status and respect has long since broken free from that orbit, now revolving around the admittedly small and powerless world of tribal and traditional comrades.

While it once required an act of social courage to stand for our identity and interests, I now embrace the denunciations and attacks as badges of honor. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, mainstreaming, Matt Parrott, North American New Right, reprints, solidarity, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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The Stark Truth
Robert Stark Interviews Ramzpaul

Counter-Currents Radio

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Robert Stark interviews popular video satirist Ramzpaul. Read more …

Published: November 9, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, dysgenics, eugenics, immigration, mainstreaming, miscegenation, podcasts, racial purism, Ramzpaul, Robert Stark, sexuality, The Stark Truth, white nationalism | 5 Responses

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Avant-garde, esthétique, révolution

Eugène Delacroix, « La Liberté Guidant le peuple », 1839

3,357 words

English original here

J’ai critiqué à diverses occasions la tendance parmi un sous-groupe de nationalistes raciaux à s’autoriser des fantaisies révolutionnaires improbables : Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, Alex Kurtagic, articles, in French, in translation, mainstreamers, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, revolution, rhetoric, social psychology, utopianism | Leave a comment

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Vanguard, Aesthetics, Revolution

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People," 1839

3,377 words

German translation here

I have on various occasions criticized the tendency among a subset of racial nationalists to indulge in improbable revolutionary fantasies, where the liberal system collapses, Read more …

Published: May 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, Alex Kurtagic, articles, mainstreamers, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, revolution, rhetoric, social psychology, utopianism, white nationalism | 20 Responses

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Schlimmer ist besser

Johann Heinrich Fuseli, "The Nightmare,"

1,309 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here, French translation here

Es klingt wie Neusprech. Weiße Nationalisten und andere Radikale pfeffern ihre politischen Diskussionen oft mit dem Satz „Schlimmer ist besser.“ Aber was meinen sie? Read more …

Published: October 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, in German, in translation, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Le mieux, c’est le pire

Johann Heinrich Fuseli, "The Nightmare,"

1,499 words

English original here, German translation here

Cela sonne comme de la Novlangue. Les Nationalistes Blancs et d’autres radicaux pimentent souvent leurs discussions politiques avec la phrase : « Le mieux, c’est le pire ». Mais que veulent-ils dire par-là ? Read more …

Published: October 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Worse is Better

Johann Heinrich Fuseli, "The Nightmare," 1781

1,274 words

Translations: French, German

It sounds like Newspeak. White Nationalists and other radicals often pepper their political discussions with the sentence “Worse is better.” But what do they mean? Read more …

Published: July 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 22 Responses

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