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Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Like many of his books, Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923) is a slender volume packed with explosive ideas.[1] The title of the English translation is somewhat misleading. The German title, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, is more literally rendered The Intellectual-Historical Position of Contemporary Parliamentarism. But the word “crisis” is still appropriate, because parliamentary democracy in Weimar Germany really was in crisis. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, Carl Schmitt, democracy, fascism, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, liberalism, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, myth, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosophy, syndicalism, violence | 8 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 280
Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

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100 words / 2:03:28

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 5th, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy discuss Carl Schmitt’s 1923 book The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the light it throws on the crisis of liberal democracy in the white world today. We also answer questions from listeners. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, liberalism, Marxism, myth, nationalism, Nicholas Jeelvy, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, podcasts, syndicalism, violence | 3 Responses

Remembering D. H. Lawrence:
September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England and died from tuberculosis on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France, at the age of 44.

The fourth son of a nearly-illiterate coal miner, Lawrence rose by dint of genius and hard work to become an internationally famous, often censored, and sometimes persecuted novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.

Published: September 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, D. H. Lawrence, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

Letter from the Third Reich

Emil Cioran

1,016 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: This article is translated from the French version in Emil Cioran, Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) (Paris: L’Herne, 2015), pp. 67-71. Read more …

Published: April 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, democracy, Emil Cioran, French translations, Germany, Guillaume Durocher, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Third Reich | 7 Responses

Cioran’s On France: Thriving Amidst Decay

Guillaume Durocher

2,942 words

Emil Cioran
De la France
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a strange, vile little book as only Emil Cioran knew how to produce. It was only recently published, in both the original Romanian and in French translation,[1] having been written in 1941 and left to languish for decades in some cardboard box in the Cioran archives. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, decadence, Emil Cioran, France, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, pessimism | 6 Responses

La Cuestión de la Raza en Spengler y su Significado para el Racialismo Contemporáneo

Richard J. Herbert

Michael Kunze, Oswald Spengler

3,440 words

Traducción por A. Garrido. Enlace original aquí

Introducción

Es una tradición en Counter-Currents recordar al gran filósofo de la historia alemán, Oswald Spengler, en el aniversario de su nacimiento, 29 de Mayo. Este año, me gustaría tomarme el tiempo de reflexionar críticamente sobre los puntos de vistas de Spengler sobre la raza dentro de su obra maestra La Decadencia de Occidente (1912-22), y, en particular debatir sobre la importancia que estas ideas sostienen para los racialistas y etno-nacionalistas de los tiempos modernos. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race differences, cultural renewal, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Richard J. Herbert, Richard Wagner, white nationalism | Leave a comment

The Question of Race in Spengler & its Meaning for Contemporary Racialism

Richard J. Herbert

Michael Kunze, Oswald Spengler

3,206 words

Spanish translation here

Introduction

It is a tradition at Counter-Currents to remember the great German philosopher of history, Oswald Spengler, on the anniversary of his birth, the 29th of May. This year, I would like to take the time to critically reflect on Spengler’s views of race within his magnum opus, The Decline of the West (1918–22), and, in particular to discuss the importance these ideas hold for modern day racialists and ethno-nationalists. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race differences, cultural renewal, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Richard J. Herbert, Richard Wagner, white nationalism | 6 Responses

Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 2

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by Lee and Donna Hancock of Part 2 of Greg Johnson’s interview of Mark Dyal, which you can listen to here. Please post any corrections below as comments.

GJ: So Mark, you did your doctoral dissertation on the Ultras. Can you tell me a bit about the basic thesis of the dissertation and the things that you’ve studied, the things that you discovered? Read more …

Published: December 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, fascism, Friedrich Nietsche, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, interviews, Italy, Julius Evola, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, ultras, violence | Comments closed

Remembering D. H. Lawrence:
September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England and died from tuberculosis on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France, at the age of 44. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, D. H. Lawrence, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

The Tyranny of Values, 1967

Carl Schmitt

6,572 words

Trans. Simona Draghici, Romanian translation here

Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

Editor’s Note:

The following text, which was written in 1967, is one of two essays Carl Schmitt published under the title “The Tyranny of Values.” Both were reprinted in Carl Schmitt, Die Tyrannei der Werte (Hamburg: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 1979). The translation is from Carl Schmitt, The Tyranny of Values, ed. and trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1996), which is out of print and very hard to find. If anyone knows the translator, please put me in contact.

Dealing with the Holocaust

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Polish translation here

Author’s Note:

This essay simply argues that Holocaust revisionism does not perform as advertised for the purposes of advancing White Nationalism. It was originally published at The Occidental Observer on July 20, 2012, where it proved my adage that “All of life is an IQ test.” Aside from the addition of section headings, it is reprinted without alteration here and in my book New Right vs. Old Right, available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle and Nook Ebook formats. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, ethnomasochism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Jonathan Bowden, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, revisionism, the holocaust, the Jewish question, transvaluation, white guilt, white nationalism | 45 Responses

Life is Always Right:
Futurism & Man in Revolt

Ivo Pannaggi, “Speeding Train” (Treno in corsa), 1922.

4,542 words

Portuguese translation here

“We are not only more revolutionary than you, but we are beyond your revolution.” – F. T. Marinetti[1]

“You must know that blood has no value or splendor unless it has been freed from the prison of the arteries by iron or fire.” – F. T. Marinetti[2] Read more …

Published: March 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Italy, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

D. H. Lawrence on the Metaphysics of Life

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1. Life and the “Creative Mystery”

Lawrence believes that the chief thing modern science simply cannot explain is life itself. And he regards life as an irreducible, and ultimately inexplicable, primary. Read more …

Published: September 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, self-actualization | 2 Responses

Remembering D. H. Lawrence:
September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England and died from tuberculosis on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France, at the age of 44. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, D. H. Lawrence, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Reductionism

Tobias Stranover, “Peacock, Peahen and Poultry in a Landscape,” 1684

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In his essay “Why the Novel Matters,” Lawrence writes, “To the scientist, I am dead. He puts under the microscope a dead bit of me, and calls it me. He takes me to pieces, and says first one piece, and then another piece, is me.”[1] This is unfortunate because, as Lawrence never tires of repeating, “life, and life only, is the clue to the universe.”[2]

Published: September 11, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biology, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, reductionism, sex | 6 Responses

D. H. Lawrence’s Phallic Traditionalism

Sacred phalluses, Delos, Greece

4,361 words

Sex and Religion

D. H. Lawrence argues that through the sex act, individuals participate in some kind of mysterious power running through nature. But does this momentary experience have any kind of long-term effect on them? Lawrence directly addresses this question. When the sex act is over, he writes, “The two individuals are separate again. But are they as they were before? Is the air the same after a thunderstorm as before? No. The air is as it were new, fresh, tingling with newness. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, North American New Right, originals, pornography, promiscuity, sexuality, Tantrism | 10 Responses

D. H. Lawrence on Idealism & Evil

B. J. O. Nordfeldt, “D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates”

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The Origin of Evil

D. H. Lawrence believed in the reality of evil, but he believed that its source lay in the human soul. “Abstraction is the only evil,” he wrote.[1] By abstraction he does not refer to the process of making generalizations or forming concepts. Instead, he means the tendency of human beings to abstract themselves from feeling, from intuition, from nature, and from the present. Abstraction is fundamentally evil, for Lawrence, because it makes most of humanity’s crimes possible. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buddhism, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, evil, idealism, modernity, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Zen | 9 Responses

D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Idealism

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The Nature of Mind

“We are now in the last stages of idealism,” Lawrence writes in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, and he goes on to claim that psychoanalysis is conducting us through those last stages.[1] Furthermore, he also tells us that idealism is “the one besetting sin of the human race.”[2] What does Lawrence mean by idealism, and why is he so opposed to it?

Published: August 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, idealism, Immanuel Kant, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

Marxism & Satanism

Jonathan Bowden

1,320 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The Following is an excerpt from Blood, written between April and May 1992. Read more …

Published: March 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Christianity, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Satanism | 6 Responses

Musolliniho nový fašistický člověk

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English original here

“Větší účast na moci znamená odlišné vědomí, cítění, odhodlanost a odlišný úhel pohledu.” Friedrich Nietzsche [1]

“Ocel mě poctivě naučila o souladu mezi duší a tělem: zdálo se mi, že slabé emoce mají za následek ochabování svalů, sentimentalita se projevuje ochabnutím žaludku a přecitlivělost má za následek přecitlivělou bledou kůži. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, in Czech, in translation, Italy, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, organicism, physical fitness, political philosophy, reprints | Leave a comment

Mussolini’s New Fascist Man

2,812 words

Czech translation here

“A greater degree of power corresponds to a different consciousness, feeling, desiring, a different perspectival view.” — Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

“The steel faithfully taught me the correspondence between the spirit and the body: thus feeble emotions, it seemed to me, corresponded to flaccid muscles, Read more …

Published: October 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Italy, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, organicism, originals, physical fitness, political philosophy | 17 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 23
Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 2

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67:57 / 150 words

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Dr. Mark Dyal is an American scholar and writer. He has an M.A. in black studies and a Ph.D. in anthropology. Read more …

Published: September 28, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, fascism, Friedrich Nietsche, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, Italy, Julius Evola, Mark Dyal, podcasts, ultras, violence | 26 Responses

Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

Ludwig Fahrenkrog, “The Holy Fire”

1,311 words

Part 2 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Paganism of Hamsun and Lawrence

If Hamsun and Lawrence carry out their desire to return to a natural ontology by rejecting rationalist intellectualism, this also implies an in-depth contestation of the Christian message. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johnson translation, Knut Hamsun, literature, Martin Heidegger, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, The Rainbow, translations | 3 Responses

Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

Knut Hamsun

2,378 words

Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Hungarian philologist Akos Doma, educated in Germany and the United States, has published a work of literary interpretation comparing the works of Knut Hamsun and D. H. Lawrence: Read more …

Published: July 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Schiller, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johnson translation, Knut Hamsun, literature, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, The Rainbow, translations | 1 Response

A Música do Futuro

Christopher Pankhurst

Arno Breker, "Orpheus and Eurydice"

2,833 words

English original here

Um interregnum é um tempo de máxima possibilidade. Aprumados como estamos entre o fim da velha cultura europeia e a possibilidade de uma nova e renascida cultura europeia é útil refletir um pouco sobre a direção que nossa nova cultura deve tomar. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Metal, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, cultural renewal, decadence, in Portuguese, in translation, industrial music, music, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, popular music, reprints | Leave a comment

Musique du futur

Christopher Pankhurst

Arno Breker : « Orphée et Eurydice »

3,096 words

English original here

Un interrègne est une époque de possibilité ultime. Positionnés comme nous le sommes entre la fin de l’ancienne culture européenne et la possibilité d’une nouvelle culture européenne renaissante, il est utile de réfléchir quelque peu à la direction que notre nouvelle culture devrait prendre. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Metal, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, cultural renewal, decadence, in French, in translation, industrial music, music, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, popular music | Leave a comment

Music of the Future

Christopher Pankhurst

Arno Breker, “Orpheus and Eurydice”

2,958 words

Translations: French, Portuguese

An interregnum is a time of ultimate possibility. Poised as we are between the end of the old European culture and the possibility of a new, reborn, European culture it is useful to give some thought to the direction that our new culture should take. Read more …

Published: November 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Metal, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, cultural renewal, decadence, industrial music, music, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, popular music | 11 Responses

The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror), Part 4

Jonathan Bowden

915 words

Part 4 of 4

In our final installment we will examine the end of this novel and its denouement. The Heart of Ahriman—the foundation to resist Xaltotun’s magick—has been obtained by Conan after numerous adventures. This means that the Aquilonians do not need to fear his necromancy as they begin their final rebellion against the Nemedians—prior to expelling them from the kingdom for good. Read more …

Published: October 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged barbarism, book reviews, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Conqueror, Jonathan Bowden, literature, political pessimism, racialism, Robert E. Howard, the critique of civilization, The Hour of the Dragon | Leave a comment