Tag: war
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August 15, 2012 Kerry Bolton
Filippo Marinetti
English original here
Filippo Marinetti, 1876-1944, era diferente da maior parte da vanguarda cultura do século XIX. Eles estavam rebelando-se contra o espírito de vários séculos de liberalismo, racionalismo, a ascensão das massas democráticas, o industrialismo, e o domínio da elite financeira. (more…)
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Czech version here
So powerful is the civilizing genius of European man that, for a brief time, we even managed to tame war itself. But not all wars could be civilized, only those between civilized European states. The rules of war did not apply to wars against non-state actors, such as colonial wars against savages, civil wars and revolutions in which the state is up for grabs, and irregular warfare against partisans or guerrillas, (more…)
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Does war make sense?
Many racialists believe our “brothers’ wars” have had catastrophic, even suicidal, demographic consequences, and are dysgenic as well.
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Ed. Arjuna, trans. R. G. Fowler
Translator’s Note:
The French writer Saint-Loup (Marc Augier) embodied the rarest of combinations: excellence in action as well as in reflection. He was a warrior, sportsman, adventurer, and political activist—as well as a novelist, essayist, philosopher, initiate, and myth-maker. (more…)
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“Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.” — P. J. O’Rourke
Andrew Hamilton recently reviewed Lawrence H. Keeley’s anthropological treatise War Before Civilization. Keeley’s book delivers an excellent (and very accessible) debunking of the popular notion that precivilized humans were more pacific than civilized ones. They weren’t. (more…)
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February 29, 2012 Leo Yankevich
Veterans Hospital
Some nights are never-ending hells
for these old veterans in our care.
We do not hand out pills, but shells,
as out of battlefields they stare
from over sixty years ago
on far-off Guam or Guadalcanal.
With trembling hands they try to show
how the bravest or youngest fell.
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Lawrence H. Keeley
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)This slender volume published by Oxford University Press is an invaluable contribution to the historical and anthropological literature. Author Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is an archaeologist specializing in the prehistory of northwestern Europe. (more…)
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December 22, 2011 Kerry Bolton
Filippo Marinetti
Portuguese translation here
Editor’s Note:
This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Filippo Marinetti is chapter 4 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.
Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944, was unlike most of the post-19th century cultural avant-garde. (more…)
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December 11, 2011 Kerry Bolton
La metaphysique de la guerre
Il y a un fond commun à toutes les civilisations basées sur la tradition, remontant à des siècles dans le passé et incluant géographiquement les civilisations nées en Asie, en Europe, et même jusqu’en Amérique centrale et en Amérique du Sud. La base de la civilisation traditionnelle est la création de l’ordre à partir du chaos, comme manifestation cosmique et divine. (more…)
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Translated by Greg Johnson
Current events sometimes offer striking examples of the unforeseen. Last spring, we were all shocked by images of one of the great and powerful looking despondent, his wrists shackled, having suddenly fallen from his perch of impunity. By means of the media, spectators felt that they were following much more than a single news event. (more…)
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July 11, 2011 Carl Schmitt
Total Enemy, Total State, & Total War
Translated by Simona Draghici
Editor’s Note:
The following translation from Carl Schmitt appears online for the first time in commemoration of Schmitt’s birth on July 11, 1888. The translation originally appeared in Carl Schmitt, Four Essays, 1931–1938, ed. and trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1999). (more…)