A Brief History of the Idea of Progress

Alain de Benoist
(Translated by Greg Johnson)

The idea of progress seems one of theoretical presuppositions of modernity. One can even regard it, not without reason, as the real “religion of Western civilization.” Historically, this idea was formulated earlier than it is generally thought, around 1680, during the quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, in which Terrasson, Charles Perrault, the Abbé of Saint-Pierre, and Fontenelle participated. It was then developed on the initiative of a second generation, including principally Turgot, Condorcet, and Louis Sebastien Mercier. Progress can be defined as a cumulative process in which the most recent stage is always considered preferable and better, i.e., qualitatively superior, to what preceded it. This definition contains a descriptive element (change takes place in a given direction) and an axiological element (this progression is interpreted as an improvement). Thus it refers to change that is oriented (toward the best), necessary (one does not stop progress), and irreversible (no overall return to the past is possible). Improvement being inescapable, it follows that tomorrow will be always better than today.

Derek Turner Reviews Mister for the Quarterly Review

James Stevenson

Derek Turner has reviewed Alex Kurtagic's dystopian novel, Mister, for the Quarterly Review. The Quarterly Review is a British literary, philosophical, and political journal, whose remit is the same as its forbear (1809 - 1967) by the same name.

The content of the Spring 2012 issue includes:

• The state of France Roman Bernard on Marine le Pen
• The West’s overshadowed borderlands Marek Jan Chodakiewicz on the dilemmas facing eastern Europe
• Women’s studies Mike Buchanan reviews Why Britain Hates Men: Exposing Feminism by “Swayne O’Pie”
• War games Frank Ellis reviews Losing Small Wars by Frank Ledwidge
• Down and out in NY – a tale of two cities Mark G. Brennan walks on the wild side of Big Apple journalism Click to read
• The sociobiological roots of religion Matthew A. Roberts reviews The Faith Instinct by Nicholas Wade

The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology - Part 2

Thomas Carlyle

This poor Scandinavian Hero-worship, that whole Norse way of looking at the Universe, and adjusting oneself there, has an indestructible merit for us. A rude childlike way of recognizing the divineness of Nature, the divineness of Man; most rude, yet heartfelt, robust, giantlike; betokening what a giant of a man this child would yet grow to!—It was a truth, and is none. Is it not as the half-dumb stifled voice of the long-buried generations of our own Fathers, calling out of the depths of ages to us, in whose veins their blood still runs: "This then, this is what we made of the world: this is all the image and notion we could form to ourselves of this great mystery of a Life and Universe. Despise it not. You are raised high above it, to large free scope of vision; but you too are not yet at the top. No, your notion too, so much enlarged, is but a partial, imperfect one; that matter is a thing no man will ever, in time or out of time, comprehend; after thousands of years of ever-new expansion, man will find himself but struggling to comprehend again a part of it: the thing is larger shall man, not to be comprehended by him; an Infinite thing!"

The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology - Part 1

Thomas Carlyle

We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did;—on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to give it at present. A large topic; indeed, an illimitable one; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these. Too clearly it is a topic we shall do no justice to in this place!

William Butler Yeats

Kerry Bolton

We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception. I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. FIRST, Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, told his shareholders that they would profit because "the bank hath profit on the interest of all the moneys which it creates out of nothing." What then is this "money" the banker can create out of nothing"? Let us be quite clear. Money is a measured title or claim. That is its basic difference from unmeasured claims, such as a man's right to . . .

What is Money For?

Ezra Pound

We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception. I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. FIRST, Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, told his shareholders that they would profit because "the bank hath profit on the interest of all the moneys which it creates out of nothing." What then is this "money" the banker can create out of nothing"? Let us be quite clear. Money is a measured title or claim. That is its basic difference from unmeasured claims, such as a man's right to . . .

Jonathan Bowden's Apocalypse TV

John Michael McCloughlin

Apocalypse TV was published in August 2007 by the Spinning Top Club. It runs to 239 pages and contains a pencil sketch of the author in the frontispiece or prelims by Michael Woodbridge. It is quite different to the other books which I have reviewed by this author — novels and plays, etc. . . . — by being directly non-fictional in character. Yet, on closer examination, I wonder if the author really thinks this. For, like Nietzsche, I believe that he scorns academic specialization into different, diffuse, finite, and often trivial disciplines. Didn’t Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy virtually finish off philology at a stroke? Also, and more importantly Bowden follows Bill Hopkins here, in that he believes over-specialization led to a corresponding primitivism at the end of the nineteenth century. This was partly a result of wey-faced specialism — an absence of fury — and it led to an expressive interest in . . .

The Code of the Herdsman

Wyndham Lewis

1. Never maltreat your own intelligence with parables. It is a method of herd hypnotism. Do not send yourself to sleep with the rhythm of the passes that you make. = As an example of herd-hypnotism, German literature is so virulently allegorized that the German never knows whether he is a Kangaroo, a Scythian, or his own sweet self. = You however are a herdsman. That is surely Parable enough. 2. Do not admit cleverness, in any form, into your life. Observe the accomplishment of some people’s signatures! It is the herd-touch. 3. Exploit Stupidity. = Introduce a flatness, where it is required into your commerce. Dull your eye as you affix it on a dull face. = Why do you think George Borrow used such idiotic clichés as “The beams of the descending luminary — ?” He was a great writer and knew . . .

The Death of Jonathan Bowden

Alex Kurtagic

I first saw him in London, in April 2008, at one of the bimonthly New Right meetings—a metapolitical forum he’d been chairing for a year. I had never previously attended the meetings and I had never previously heard of Jonathan Bowden. Due to railway network delays, we arrived late. It was a gloomy day. The room was dark, steamy, pre-Victorian, crammed with middle-aged men—serious and angry to the last. As all seats were taken, we took a standing position. Lady Michelle Renouf stood up front, holding some fifty printed pages in her hand, performing an exegesis of the Treaty of Lisbon’s legalese. My gaze wandered around the room. There was a man to the right of the speaker, in a grey suit, seated on a window sill. He was sullen, deep in thought, his eyes slits behind pebble-like spectacles. He had curly brown hair, wild, like a madman. A wooden pendant, with a carved rune, hung around his neck. He struck me as authoritarian. It seemed a storm was brewing inside him.

Wyndham Lewis' Tarr: An Exercise in Right-Wing Psychology

Jonathan Bowden

Wyndham Lewis’ novel Tarr (an anagram of both “art” and “rat”) appeared first in 1915 as the Great War was raging, and it remains one of the great exercises in hard-boiled psychology. Most behaviorist prose tends to be shunted aside into genre fiction such as adventure and perhaps the noir detective novel.  Tarr is unusual in that it represents a fusion of high-grade literary fiction and the sort of psychology which animates the characters in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead — such as Dominique Francon, Howard Roark, and Gail Wynand, for instance. Critics at the time — if not seduced by literary modernism — spoke of a tough-minded work in which the main characters mean to “have their cake and eat it!”

The Third Empire: We Must Have the Strength to Live in Antithesis

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the eighth and final chapter in that English edition.

We live in order to bequeath. The conservative is the man who refuses to believe that the aim of our existence is fulfilled in one short span; the man who believe that our existence only carries on an aim. He sees that one life is not enough to create the things which a man’s mind and a man’s will design. He sees that we as men are born each in a given age, but that we only continue what other men have begun, and that others again take over where we leave off.

Conservative: Conservatism Has Eternity on Its Side

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the seventh chapter in that English edition.

We live in order to bequeath. The conservative is the man who refuses to believe that the aim of our existence is fulfilled in one short span; the man who believe that our existence only carries on an aim. He sees that one life is not enough to create the things which a man’s mind and a man’s will design. He sees that we as men are born each in a given age, but that we only continue what other men have begun, and that others again take over where we leave off.

Reactionary: A Policy May be Reversed: History Cannot

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the sixth chapter in that English edition.

The revolutionary concludes overhastily that the world will now for all time be guided by the political principles which governed him in overthrowing it. The reactionary takes the diametrically opposite line: he seriously considers it possible to delete the Revolution from the page of history as if it had never been. The revolutionary is soon cured of his error. The very day that sees . . .

Proletarian: The Proletarian is Such by His Own Desire

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the fifth chapter in that English edition.

Democracy discloses whether a people knows its own mind or not. After the Ninth of November German democracy was obliged to be of the same mind as our enemies. Such was the fate its own guilt brought down on it. But will the German people continue to wish in the long run what its democracy wishes? Will this democracy be content to remain what it was yesterday . . .

Democrat: Democracy Exists Where People Take a Share in Determining Their Own Fate

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the fourth chapter in that English edition.

Democracy discloses whether a people knows its own mind or not. After the Ninth of November German democracy was obliged to be of the same mind as our enemies. Such was the fate its own guilt brought down on it. But will the German people continue to wish in the long run what its democracy wishes? Will this democracy be content to remain what it was yesterday . . .

Liberalism: Liberalism is the Death of Nations

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the third chapter in that English edition.

A suspicion broods over the country that the nation has suffered betrayal. Not the betrayal of Versailles. That is sufficiently self-evident: the Fourteen Points became the four hundred and forty articles of the Peace Treaty, signed and sealed by the Founder of Peace himself. These other betrayals arose from the abuse of ideals for a selfish end. Our enemies saw that they could not do better . . .

Socialist: Each People Has Its Own Socialism

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the second chapter in that English edition.

The whole error of socialism is latent in one sentence of Karl Marx: "Hence men set themselves only such tasks as they can fulfil." This is untrue. Men set themselves only such tasks as they cannot fulfil. It is their genius who inspired them. It is their daimón who spurs them on. The essence of Utopia is that it is never realized. The essence of Christian hope is that it is never fulfilled. The essence of the millennium is that it lives in prophecy, but never . . .

Revolutionary: Let Us Win the Revolution

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Editor's Note:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Das dritte Reich was first published in English translation in 1934, under the title Germany's Third Empire. The latter reproduced the German text in condensed form. What follows is the first chapter in that English edition.

A war may be lost. The most ill-fated war is never irretrievable. The worst peace is never final. But a Revolution must be won. A revolution occurs once only. It is not a matter which a nation negotiates with other nations. It is the most private, intimate concern of a people, which that people must handle for itself and by itself. According to the direction in which the people voluntarily guides a revolution, its outcome determines that people’s future fate.

The Subterranean Kingdom

Ferdinand Ossendowski

Editor's Note:The following is from Chapter XLVI in Part V (Mystery of Mysteries—The King of the Word) in Ferdinand Ossendowski's Beasts, Men and Gods, a novel describing of his travels during the Russian Civil War and the wars led by Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, the Bloody Baron. (According to Miguel Serrano, Ungern von Sternberg tried to follow the path of the return of the Right-Turning Swastika.) Miguel Serrano mentions Ossendowski a few times in The Golden Thread, once along with Roerich and Guenon in relation to the King of the World.

Interview with Guillaume Faye for Menzo Magazine

Menzo Magazine

The work under review is the third by French philosopher Alain de Benoist to be translated into English, and the second translation to be published by Arktos Media. Like its predecessor The Problem of Democracy, it is a short, dense book written to challenge the authority of one of the most pompous god-terms of our age. The current vogue for “human rights” can be traced back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. Before this famous declaration was issued, explains Benoist, the directors of the United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) undertook a preliminary enquiry:

Human Right's Between Ideology and Politics:Alain de Benoist's Beyond Human Rights

F. Roger Devlin

The work under review is the third by French philosopher Alain de Benoist to be translated into English, and the second translation to be published by Arktos Media. Like its predecessor The Problem of Democracy, it is a short, dense book written to challenge the authority of one of the most pompous god-terms of our age. The current vogue for “human rights” can be traced back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. Before this famous declaration was issued, explains Benoist, the directors of the United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) undertook a preliminary enquiry:

Why Derbyshire Had to Go

Jared Taylor

John Derbyshire has now joined the roster of brilliant journalists who have been fired by publications that call themselves “conservative.” Mr. Derbyshire’s April 5 column for Takimag.com committed the usual crime of pointing out something that is not only true but that everyone knows to be true. He noted that blacks are on average less intelligent than whites, that many of them hate whites, and that when they gather in large numbers they can be dangerous. Mr. Derbyshire’s column was framed as a white parent’s “talk” to his children about the facts of race. Of course, anyone not a tourist from Iceland learns by about age 10 to avoid crowds of blacks, but it is considered “racist” actually to say so. It took National Review two days to fire Mr. Derbyshire—an eternity in the age of the Internet, even if it was Easter weekend—and lefty publications like Atlantic Wire and Huffington Post were yelling for blood long before the ax fell.

Cracking Thick Skulls

Alex Kurtagic

Having had opportunity to observe the author in his natural habitat, and to note his habits and behaviour, I decided it was time finally to tackle his best-known work: the book of Lee. Dating back to 1991, Lee was the first of Perdue’s books to see daylight, though not the first to be written. Not long after publication, a Publisher’s Weekly reviewer wrinkled his nose, and pronounced Perdue ‘a reactionary snob’—an accolade the author has used ever since, without fear or remorse. It seems Perdue always looked forward to being a cantankerous septuagenarian, because in this novel his alter ego, Leland Pefley, Lee, is in fact a cantankerous septuagenarian. Now 73, with menacingly cantilevered black eyebrows, Perdue must be loving every minute of the decade that finally arrived.

Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible - Part II

Alex Kurtagic

Sergei Eisenstein's second installment of his intended film trilogy about Ivan the Terrible began production in 1945. When finished, a year later, Stalin's censors harshly criticised the film on account of its ambivalent depiction of state terrorism. This led to a decision not to release the film, which, in turn, caused production of Part III to cease. Part II tells the story of Ivan's crushing of the boyars, and is remarkable, among other things, for its sudden switch to colour film during the last ten minutes. This was intended to symbolise the transition from good to bad, and is part of the general array of symbols used by Eisenstein to convey meaning or the nature of the main characters, who are likened to various animals.

Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible - Part I

Alex Kurtagic

While spending a few days in Alabama with misanthropic novelist Tito Perdue, the latter insisted I watch Sergei Eisenstein's 1944 film, Ivan the Terrible. This was the most user-friendly of an unrelentingly stern and serious collection of black and white films he had in store, all made for deathly serious men of 40 and above, all in DVD with covers depicting 40-and-above male faces unvaryingly creased with grief, rage, and despair. Made in the Soviet Union during Stalin's rule, Ivan is nevertheless an extraordinary production, as one would expect, albeit incomplete, since only Parts I and II out of an intended trilogy were ever made . . .

Blood of the Nation - Part II: In War

David Starr Jordan

Not long ago I visited the town of Novara, in northern Italy. There, in a wheat-field, the farmers have ploughed up skulls of men till they have piled up a pyramid ten or twelve feet high. Over this pyramid some one has built a canopy to keep off the rain. These were the skulls of young men of Savoy, Sardinia, and Austria,—men of eighteen to thirty-five years of age, without physical blemish so far as may be,—peasants from the farms and workmen from the shops, who met at Novara to kill each other over a matter in which they had very little concern. Should the Prince of Savoy sit on his unstable throne or yield it to some one else, this was the question. It matters not the decision. History doubtless records it, as she does many matters of less moment. But this fact concerns us,—here in thousands they died. . . .

Blood of the Nation - Part I: In Peace

David Starr Jordan

In this paper I shall set forth two propositions: the one self-evident; the other not apparent at first sight, but equally demonstrable. The blood of a nation determines its history. This is the first proposition. The second is, The history of a nation determines its blood. As for the first, no one doubts that the character of men controls their deeds. In the long run and with masses of mankind this must be true, however great the emphasis we may lay on individual initiative or on individual variation. Equally true is it that the present character of a nation is made by its past history. Those who are alive to-day are the resultants of the stream of heredity as modified by the vicissitudes through which the nation has passed. The blood of the nation flows in the veins of those who survive. Those who die without descendants can not color the stream of heredity. It must take its traits from the actual parentage.

Titans are in Town

Tomislav Sunic

There are books that are timely, but there are also books whose time is yet to come. The time has come to urgently read and reread Pierre Krebs’ book Fighting for the Essence, which was first published in the German and French languages in 1997 and 2001, respectively. This excellent English translation, which was made by Dr. Alexander Jacob, has finally seen the light of day. Dr. Pierre Krebs is a Franco-German philosopher and writer who, along with Alain de Benoist, was one of the founders of the think tank which came to be known in the late 1970s under the French acronym ‘GRECE’,[1] the first organisation . . .

Sol Invictus: Encounters Between East and West in the Ancient World

Julius Evola

Franz Altheim’s latest book, recently published [Der unbesiegte Gott: Heidentum und Christentum (The Unconquered God: Heathenism and Christianity) (Hamburg: Rohwolts Deutsche Enzyklopädie, 1957)], should be of special interest to the readers of this review, for it deals with a significant encounter between the ancient civilizations of East and West. It is a study of the political and religious conditions in the late period of the Roman Empire, a period which has not yet been thoroughly studied. It is usually slurred over as the period of Roman decadence, but it was really one of the most interesting periods of ancient history with its violent contrasts of light and shade; there was something demoniac about it; passions and ideas were driven to extremes, exceeding human limits, with every now and again flashes of religious radiance illuminating the most turbid, tragic, and problematic situations.

Marx Contra Marx: A Traditionalist Conservative Critique of The Communist Manifesto

K. R. Bolton

There is much about The Communist Manifesto that is valid from a conservative/traditionalist viewpoint. Marx was a product of the “spirit” of his Age, or zeitgeist. This 19th century zeitgeist remains the same today. Hence, Marx provides an insight into materialism, or what might also be called economic determinism, which has continued as the dominant ethos of the 20th and present centuries. As Oswald Spengler pointed out, Marxism does not seek to transcend the spirit of Capital but to expropriate it. The fundamental worldview of a Marxist and of a corporate globalist CEO is the same. This article examines the Marxist analysis of what is today called “globalization,” but does so from a conservative perspective.

Race and Literature. Why is it Always Liberal?

Jared Taylor

I went through high school without reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I had always heard it was a great, anti-racist classic, so I recently picked it up. It is a great novel. It convincingly brings to life the small-town South, childhood, and the complexity of human relations. Its characters and dialogue are charming, its plot is lively, and it brilliantly weaves together youthful innocence and serious adult themes. To Kill a Mockingbird is also racial propaganda and this, of course, accounts for much of its success. More than . . .

Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Holy Grail

Aleksandr Dugin

Otto Rahn (1904-1938), described as a gifted young author and historian, was one of this century's truly fascinating figures. Prior to his mysterious death, at age 35, he wrote two books about the Cathars of southern France: Kreuzzug gegen den Gral ("Crusade Against the Grail") and Luzifers Hofgesindel ("Lucifer's Court"). Legends continue to surround both his life and tragic death. While his books influenced such authors as Trevor Ravenscroft and Jean-Michel Angebert, they were never translated into English. In the 1982 best selling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Otto Rahn's name appears in a small but intriguing footnote. Otto Rahn believed that he had found the location of the Holy Grail Mountain, the Montsalvat of legend, in the Cathar mountain fortress . . .

The Conservative Revolution Then and Now: Ernst Jünger

Will Fredericks

Early in 1927 the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal made a famous address to students at the University of Munich. He alluded to and deplored the historical separation in German society between the intellectual and political sphere, between “life” and “mind”. He deplored that German writing in the past had functioned in a vacuum and was “not truly representative nor did it establish a tradition” and was symptomatic of a crisis in civilization which had lost contact with life. In response, he referred to the “legions of seekers” throughout the country who were striving for the reestablishment of faith and tradition and whose aim was not freedom but “allegiance”. He concluded: “The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. 

The Great War of Continents - Part 2

Aleksandr Dugin

Hitler’s aggression against the USSR was the great eurasian catastrophe. After the terrible fratricidal war between two geopolitically, spiritually and metaphysically close, related peoples, between two anti-atlantist oriented regimes, Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany, USSR victory was actually equivalent to a strategic defeat - since all historical experience demonstrates that Germany can never be reconciled with a defeat, so that the winner already by its victory fastens the knot of a new forthcoming conflict, sowing seeds of forthcoming war. Besides, Yalta caused Stalin to solidarize with the Allies, that is with those powers which have always been the worst enemies of Eurasia. Stalin, perfectly understanding the laws of geopolitics and having already made his eurasist choice, could not fail to understand it. 

The Great War of Continents - Part I

Aleksandr Dugin

The patterns of “conspiracy” are extremely miscellaneous. In this sphere the greatest popularity indoubtedly goes to the concept of the “Judaic-Masonic” conspiracy, so spread today in the most different circles. Basically, this theory deserves the most severe study, and we should recognize that we have no complete and serious scientific analysis of this theme, despite of hundreds and thousand works both “exposing” this conspiracy, and “substantiating” its non-existence. But in the present work we shall prove a completely diverse conspirologic pattern, based on a system of coordinates distinct from the “Judaic-Masonic” versions. We shall try in general to describe the planetary “conspiracy” of two opposite “occult” forces, whose secret opposition and the invisible fight predetermined the logics of world history. These forces, in our opinion, are first of all characterized neither by national specificity nor by belonging to a secret organization of Masonic or para-Masonic kind, but because of a radical divergence in their geopolitical attitudes. As to the explanation of the final “secret” of these opposing forces, we are inclined to see it in the difference between two alternative and mutually excluding geopolitical projects, which stand aside of national, political, ideological and religious differences, people of the most contradictory opinions and beliefs uniting into one single group. Our conspirologic pattern is the pattern of “geopolitical conspiracy”.

The History of a Swedish Farmer's Lineage Seen from a Race-Biological Standpoint

Herman Lundborg

A commonweal consists, as is known, not only of individuals, but also of households and families. These combined constitute a people. A constant family-tie engenders the safest foundation for a "culture" State. It is in the interest of every well-organized community to preserve, and further strengthen such a social principle, which has shown itself to be beneficial from times immemorial. For this purpose, we must acquire a thorough knowledge of a large number of kinsmen, during several generations. We must confess that very much is needed, before we have reached this goal. Thither we shall arrive sooner or later, however.

Freud's Follies: Psychoanalysis as a Religion, Cult, and Political Movement

Kevin MacDonald

We begin to grasp that the deviser of psychoanalysis was at bottom a visionary but endlessly calculating artist, engaged in casting himself as the hero of a multivolume fictional opus that is part epic, part detective story, and part satire on human self-interestedess and animality. This scientifically deflating realization . . . is what the Freudian community needs to challenge if it can. (Frederick Crews, The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute, pp. 12-13.) Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been denounced as a pseudoscience. By the early 1960's philosophers of science such as Michael Polanyi, Karl Popper, Ernst Nagel and Sidney Hook had noted the self-authenticating nature of psychoanalytic assertions. More recently, highly critical accounts of psychoanalysis from Henri Ellenberger (1970), Frank Sulloway (1992/1979), Adolph Grünbaum (1984), Frank Cioffi (1969, 1970, 1972), and, most recently, Malcolm Macmillan (1991) have appeared.

Opening Pandora's Box: An Elitist Defence of Modernism

Jonathan Bowden

I would like to take this opportunity to respond to various postings which have been placed on the website ‘Stormfront’ in recent weeks. I would like to thank those people who have been supportive of my efforts – including ‘glasgow bnp’, ‘fraser’ and ‘Dux90’, who was kind enough to describe the work as “excellent”.ther correspondents have been less charitable however. These include ‘Son Of Britain’, ‘Byzantium Endures’ (probably named after a novel by Michael Moorcock) and ‘brummie76’ among others. Now I’m not responding to their comments directly – primarily because most of them are semi-literate and scatological in tone. These persons are also hiding under false names. Their identities are known to me though by virtue of my status and links with the American owners of the Stormfront website. (Byzantium Endures, for example, is an Irish Republican and National Socialist who has been on the site for many years).

Elite and Underclass

F. Roger Devlin

At 416 pages, Coming Apart is Charles Murray’s most substantial offering since 2003’s Human Accomplishment. It continues a theme familiar to readers of The Bell Curve: increasing American social stratification. Murray focuses on whites because otherwise the social trends he describes might lazily be explained away as effects of demographic change; he demonstrates that the trends are almost wholly unaffected by race or immigration. As he notes, a constant focus on how racial minorities ‘lag’ whites serves to distract attention from important changes in the benchmark population itself. The author begins with a description of American life on the eve of the Kennedy assassination, highlighting everything which would shock the younger generation: just three TV channels; no Thai restaurants; ‘coffee’ meant Maxwell House. If you missed a movie when it was in the theaters, you would not get to see it at all.

Against the Armies of the Night:
The Aurora Movements

Michael O'Meara

The single greatest force shaping our age is unquestionably globalization. Based on the transnationalization of American capital and the worldwide imposition of American market relations combined with new technologies, globalization has not only reshaped the world's national economies, it's provoked a dizzying array of oppositional movements, on the right and the left, that, despite their divergent ideologies and goals, seek to defend native or traditional identities from the market's ethnocidal effects. In the vast literature on globalization and its various antiglobalist movements, Charles Lindholm's and José Pedro Zúquete's The Struggle for the World (Stanford University Press, 2010) is the first to look beyond the specific political designations of these different antiglobalist tendencies to emphasize the common redemptive, identitarian, and populist character they share.

Eugenic Education for Women and Girls - Part 2

Alice Ravenhill

But, because the recent trend and resultant stress of industrial and social progress have contributed to foster the modern girl's disinclination to assume the cares of maternity or to wear the yoke of domestic drudgery, because for the moment her sense of personal responsibility towards the race is enfeebled, and her eyes are blinded to her ignorance of the claims and needs of infancy, she will not be coerced into shaping a different course of conduct by compulsory and premature specialisation in the domestic arts, or by assigning to them undue prominence in her curriculum. Time for her own individual development must be accorded her, her reason must be appealed to, her interest must be excited, and her own wishes as well as those of her parents must be considered. This last point especially cannot be overlooked, for there are still parents who attach more value to preparation for earning a livelihood than for qualifying . . .

Eugenic Education for Women and Girls - Part 1

Alice Ravenhill

It is doubtless the complexity of social problems which so often deters those who deplore their results from a pains-taking study of their contributory factors. Many streams of influence, social, economic, and industrial, for instance, have combined to flood the country with that wave of parental inefficiency which constitutes one of the most serious problems of to-day; but no sustained effort has yet been made to trace these to their sources, so that their force continues to be perverted to ends detrimental instead of profitable to the community. Encouragement, however, is found in the practical outcome of the attention attracted by the publication of statistics demonstrating the wastage of child life, in consequence of the unduly high rate of infant mortality and other preventable causes, and by the growing realisation among the thoughtful that fundamental measures must be taken to stem the unsatisfactory currents of thought and action which make for the limitation of families among one section of society and for their reckless multiplication in another.

Stunning 2012 Edition
of Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race
Now Available for Pre-Order

James Stevenson

Out in March via our non-fiction imprint, The Palingenesis Project, is the new 2012 edition of Madison Grant's classic text, The Passing of the Great Race. The Passing of the Great Race is one of the most prominent racially oriented books of all times, written by the most influencial American conservationist that ever lived. Historically, topically, and geographically, Grant's magnum opus covers a vast amount of ground, broadly tracing the racial history of Europeans from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on the need to preserve the northern European type and generally improve the race—for Grant was, logically, a proponent of eugenics. Generally well received at the time in both the popular and scholarly press and going through four editions and multiple reprints . . .

Physical Factors in Race Survival

C. G. Campbell

The first and ever-present problem of a race is whether it is increasing or diminishing in its ability to meet and overcome the obstacles to its survival. The future of a race is dependent upon the increase or decrease in this human quality. In considering the augmentation of survival value by improvement in racial quality, many have been inclined to stress the improvement in in tellectual quality as the prime desideratum. There can be no question of its great desirability and value, but it needs to be recognized that there are other factors that . . .

The Development of Eugenics

Charles B. Davenport

It is a privilege and an honor to occupy the place on this platform occupied at the last Congress by my friend Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. It is an honor to succeed more remotely that grand old man of Eugenics, whom distance and extreme age are keeping from us, — Leonard Darwin. He has a message for us which he sends through the voice of the biologico-statistician of his country, R. A. Fisher. We rejoice that so many from abroad have been able to come, even at great sacrifice, financially. They have come from England, the Scandinavian Countries, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland. From the Americas we welcome Canada, Cuba and representatives of ther countries of Pan America. From the United States the representation is good; some have come as far as those who crossed the ocean to articipate in the activities of this Congress.

A Sociological Classic of North American Society

Northern Light

"For example, Stoddard cites findings that 1000 Harvard graduates would have 50 descendants in 200 years while 1000 Rumanians living in Boston would have 100 000 descendants over the same span" (page xix).Excellently introduced and put into context by professor Kevin MacDonald (well-known author of his widely prised magnum opus (The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements), this 1922 sociological treatise on the biological ("racial", in the discourse of the pre-DNA 1920's) decline of the European-descended nations is finally available in a luxurious edition updated with footnotes and a current-day citation-system. Lothrop Stoddard was once a man widely known in US discourse on society, culture and the foundations of this, being part of the founding wasp elites that once made up the elite of the US (and the United Kingdom, obviously). As can be read in both the aforementioned book by Dr. MacDonald he was once a popular lecturer . . .

Liberal Utopia, A.D. 2022

Leslie H. Higgins

To say this book surpassed my expectations is not enough. When Mister came in the mail (you won't find this doozy in Barnes & Noble), I was immediately impressed by the sturdy, attractive binding. A tiny press, Iron Sky Publishing matches the big boys at Everyman's Library, right down to the satin bookmarker, and features cover art by Kurtagic himself. Given said grim cover, I was wholly surprised by Mister's demurely outrageous humor. From page one, including the Introduction by Tomislav Sunic (Kurtagic's European New Right partner-in-crime), who notes that this dystopian tome, while set eleven years in the future as I type, could have well been set in the 1990s, the novel constantly invites the reader to share a deep laugh over the pathetically familiar world its protagonist traverses. Mister is the funniest thing I've read since A Confederacy of Dunces (including Infinite Jest). The unboarding from Mister's British Airways flight to Madrid . . .

The Right to be Well Born

Franklin B. Kirkbride

A group of public-spirited people were lately discussing feeble-mindedness and the causes of a certain prevailing reluctance to face the issue squarely. "The trouble with the problem of the feeble-minded," said Joseph H. Choate, "is that there are so many of us." Perhaps there may be even more of "us" than Mr. Choate suspects! For this is not a question of one generation, but of our children and our children's children. It took philanthropy a long time to emerge from the merely "relief" stage. Slowly we are taking the next step. Our "comprehensive plan" concerns itself with more than the individual life—we have begun to care for posterity, no matter how little posterity may have done for us. With this outlook even statistics of degeneracy become less depressing, for we recognize in them the basis of relief, prevention, and constructive effort.

Race Mixture in the Roman Empire - Part 2

Tenney Frank

Fortunately the columbaria of several Roman households provide a fairly reliable record regarding the prevalence of marriage among city slaves. In CIL, VI. 2, some 4500 brief inscriptions are given, mainly from the rude funeral urns of slaves and poor freedmen of the first century of the empire. About one-third of these are from the columbaria of the Livii, Drusi, Marcelli, Statilii, and Volusii, aristocratic households where, presumably, service would be as exacting as anywhere, discipline as strict, and concern for profits from the birth of uernae as inconsiderable as anywhere. Furthcrmore; these inscriptions date from a time when slaves were plentiful and the dearth of captives generally assumed for a later day cannot be posited. Nevertheless, I believe that anyone, who will studiously compare the record of offspring in this group of . . .

Race Mixture in the Roman Empire - Part 1

Tenney Frank

There is one surprise that the historian usually experiences upon his first visit to Rome. It may be at the Galleria Lapidaria of the Vatican or at the Lateran Museum, but, if not elsewhere, it can hardly escape him upon his first walk up the Appian Way. As he stops to decipher the names upon the old tombs that line the road, hoping to chance upon one familiar to him from his Cicero or Livy, he finds praenomen and nomen promising enough, but the cognomina all seem awry. L. Lucretius Pamphilus, A. Aemilius Alexa, M. Clodius Philostorgus do not smack of freshman Latin. And he will not readily find in the Roman writers now extant an answer to the questions that these inscriptions invariably raise. Do these names imply that the Roman stock was completely changed after Cicero's day, and was the satirist recording a fact when he wailed that the Tiber had captured the waters of the Syrian Orontes? If so, are these foreigners ordinary immigrants, or did Rome become a nation of ex-slaves and their offspring?

Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims

Sir Francis Galton

Eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race ; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage. The improvement   of the inborn qualities, or stock, of some  one   human population, will alone be  discussed here. What is meant by improvement? What   by the syllable Eu in Eugenics, whose   English equivalent is good? There is  considerable difference between  goodness in the   several qualities and  in that of the character   as a whole.  The character depends largely on   the  proportion between qualities whose balance  may be much influenced by education. We   must therefore leave morals as far as possible out of the discussion, not entangling  ourselves   with the almost hopeless  difficulties they raise   as to whether  a character as a whole is good or bad.  Moreover, the goodness or badness of  character is not absolute, but relative to    the current form of civilisation. A fable will   best explain what is meant. Let the scene be   the Zoological Gardens in the quiet hours  of the night, and suppose that, as in old fables, the animals . . .

Revolution from Above

Alex Kurtagic

The popular imagination conceives Marxism and capitalism as opposing forces, imagining that—obviously—Marxists want the capitalists’ money and capitalists do not want Marxists to take it from them. Kerry Bolton’s Revolution from Above disproves this notion. As it turns out, and as many readers probably already know, the Marxist revolutions in the East succeeded in many places thanks to the ample funds supplied to them—consciously and voluntarily—by finance-capitalists in the West. With access to all the money they could wish for and more, the finance-capitalists in Bolton’s narrative were, and are, primarily motivated by a desire for power, and their ultimate aim was not even more money per se, but the enduring ability to shape the world to their convenience, which translates into a collectivised planet of producers and consumers.

How the British Constructed a New Woman's Movement

Amanda Bradley

“Feminine fascism” is a phrase that Julie V. Gottlieb uses to describe the forward-thinking, yet traditionally influenced, ideology embraced by Britain’s fascists. Their objective was not a return to the past, to a time when women were solely mothers and homemakers. Instead, the fascists in England combined traditional roles with the advances made in women’s suffrage and the workplace, and added a fascist bent of discipline and integrity.Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement is a chronological account of fascism in Britain, starting in 1923 with the country’s first fascist group, the British Fascisti, founded by Rotha Lintorn-Orman, a woman. The BF remained the predominant fascist organization until Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BU) was established in 1932. Feminine Fascism discusses the role . . .

Francis Parker Yockey's
The Proclamation of London is Now in Stock

James Stevenson

Our memorial hardcover edition of Francis Parker Yockey's The Proclamation of London is now in stock. Written in London in 1949, The Proclamation of London is the American philosopher's manifesto for his then newly formed group, the European Liberation Front. As such, it represents a distillation of his magisterial 600-page opus, Imperium. The Proclamation appeared initially as a pamphlet, but has never, until now, been available in a durable, library-grade format. The present memorial edition comes with a major introductory essay (51 pages) by Dr. Michael O'Meara, along with Dr. Kerry Bolton the world's foremost Yockeyist. It also comes fully annotated, with an index, section illustrations, and cover artwork by Alex Kurtagic. We would like to thank . . .

The Tragic Life of a Spenglerian Visionary

Theodore O'Keefe

The American writer Francis Parker Yockey has long enjoyed cult status on the authoritarian fringe of the American far right.  That the first serious attempt at a study of his life and influence, Kevin Coogan’s Dreamer of the Day, is the work of a left-anarchist is less surprising considering that Yockey’s thought and activity often defied left-right conventions.  Coogan has researched this book extensively and intensively, ferreting out numerous elusive facts and long-forgotten rumors about his subject.  The merit of Dreamer of the Day, however, is weakened by a division of emphasis signaled in its subtitle, Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International.

The Influence of H. P. Lovecraft on Occultism

Kerry Bolton

The adoption and adaptation of a theme from Lovecraft’s horror stories, that of the Cthulhu Mythos, is no less plausible than any other occult system or doctrine of magic. Magic is based on the irrational, on the intuitive, the unseen – literally that which is ‘occult’ or hidden, being summoned forth for individual or communal purposes by circumventing the causal relationships of the material universe. Rituals, charms, spells, and incantations are used to produce the willed result, based around two principles, according to Frazer: ‘first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed’. Frazer calls these principles, the ‘Law of Similarity’ and the ‘Law of Contact or Contagion’ respectively.(1)

The Effect of Race Intermingling

Charles B. Davenport

The problem of the effects of race intermingling may well interest us of America, when a single state, like New York, of 9,ooo,ooo inhabitants contains 840,ooo Russians and Finns, 720,000 Italians, 1,ooo,ooo Germans, 880,ooo Irish, 470,000 Austro-Hungarians, 310,000 of Great Britain, 125,000 Canadians (largely French), and 9o,ooo Scandinavians. All figures include those born abroad or born of two foreign-born parents. Nearly two thirds of the population of New York State is foreign-born or of foreign or mixed parentage. Even in a state like Connecticut it is doubtful if 2 per cent. of the population are of pure Anglo-Saxon stock for six generations of ancestors in all lines. Clearly a mixture of European races is going on in America on a colossal scale.

The Man of Mystery Who Seeks the Secret of Life

The World Magazine

Editor's Note:The following article, originally published in The World Magazine in 1907, describes the work of American biologist Prof. Charles Davenport, a Harvard professor of zoology and one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement, who was director of the Cold Spring Laboratory, where he was at the time researching heredity. (Three years later he would go on to found the Eugenics Records Office, with funding from Mary Harriman, the Rockefeller family, and the Carnegie Institution.) This shows how eugenics was popularised in the United States during the early part of the 20th century. Seeing an article like this published in a mainstream magazine seems inconceivable today. However, back then the idea of improving the human race, enhancing its intellect and capacity for the good, was considered a moral obligation, while the idea of inflicting on the unborn a lifetime of deformity, disability, and disease cruel and inhumane. Scientists like Charles Davenport saw themselves as leading the next stage in human evolution—a massively important enterprise.

The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

Michael O'Meara

Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system. It cast new light not just on the past it re-presented, but on the present, whose own light informed its re-presentation. This was especially the case with the potentially cataclysmic standoff between American liberalism and Russian Communism and the perspective it gave to Koselleck’s study of the Enlightenment origins of the Modern World. How was it, he asked, that these two Cold War super-powers seemed bent on turning Europe, especially Germany, into a nuclear wasteland? The answer, he suspected, had something to do with the moralizing Utopianism of 18th-century rationalism, whose heritage ideologically animated each hegemon.

Lothrop Stoddard: Christian Europe
May Have to Fight the Moslem World

Providence News

Editor's Note: The following article was published by Providence News (Rhode Island) on 31 March 1922. The piece quotes Lothrop Stoddard as he provides his analysis of Europe's relationship with the Islamic world and its future prospects in the contest for power. Stoddard's timing was wrong, but his basic prophecy has proven correct. His suggestion of how to deal with Islam is nuanced. He was right in that Western influence would exacerbate fanaticism—this has proven correct in as much as we understand Western influence in the Muslim world as mediated and determined by Zionism, which is how the Muslims see it in terms of power politics. His policy recommendations were perhaps a bit naive. On the other hand, there is no question that Zionism has hardened Muslim attitudes, and that in 1922 there was no Israel to contend with, though things were already moving in that direction.

Miguel Serrano, 1994 Interview by K. R. Bolton

K. R. Bolton
(Revised and corrected by Alex Kurtagic)

The following interview was conducted by K. R. Bolton with Miguel Serrano in 1994. This is available on the internet for the first time, having only ever been published at that time in a small, privately circulated newsletter. A writer of literature, Serrano communicated his ideas via symbols and metaphors, which he had woven idiosyncratically into a sprawling mytho-history, or metanarrative, that drew from new and old concepts and various mythological and esoteric traditions. Strict rationalists and those unfamiliar with Serrano's work will find his worldview perplexing, to say the least. And certainly, writers like Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke have had a hard time getting their heads around it, focusing on superficial appearance rather than deeper meaning. The fact is that behind the rich symbology and figures of speech, there is a profound philosophical outlook and spiritual quest, an alternative—ultimately pagan—way of conceptualising our world and our day-to-day reality. In this interview he discusses ideas from the later part of his work, as gives his opinion on the modern situation, as he saw it in the mid 1990s.

Interview with Dr. Kerry Bolton - Part 2

Alex Kurtagic

My first contact with Kerry Bolton occurred on the back of my first article for The Occidental Observer, 'Memoirs of a Dissident Student in Post-Modern Academia', where I recounted my experiences in postgraduate school. At the time, and as we will see in the interview, Dr. Bolton was having a few unpleasant experiences of his own, so it is easy to see now why my piece resonated with him. A fellow at the Academy of Social and Political Research and of the Centre of Independent Studies, an extraordinarily prolific essayist and writer, publisher of the journal Ab Aeterno, and a contributor to publications such as Alternative Right, The Occidental Quarterly, Counter-Currents, and the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies among others, Dr. Bolton is the author of Thinkers of the Right and, more recently, Revolution from Above, which was published by Arktos last year. He holds two doctorates: one in Theology and another in Historical Theology, while his writing deals with geopolitics, history, revolutions, conspiracy, religion, the occult, and Freemasonry. In this interview we explore Dr. Bolton's career, learn about his experiences in academia and the media, and get a sense of the man behind the legend. Continued from yesterday.

Interview with Dr. Kerry Bolton - Part 1

Alex Kurtagic

My first contact with Kerry Bolton occurred on the back of my first article for The Occidental Observer, 'Memoirs of a Dissident Student in Post-Modern Academia', where I recounted my experiences in postgraduate school. At the time, and as we will see in the interview, Dr. Bolton was having a few unpleasant experiences of his own, so it is easy to see now why my piece resonated with him. A fellow at the Academy of Social and Political Research and of the Centre of Independent Studies, an extraordinarily prolific essayist and writer, publisher of the journal Ab Aeterno, and a contributor to publications such as Alternative Right, The Occidental Quarterly, Counter-Currents, and the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies among others, Dr. Bolton is the author of Thinkers of the Right and, more recently, Revolution from Above, which was published by Arktos last year. He holds two doctorates: one in Theology and another in Historical Theology, while his writing deals with geopolitics, history, revolutions, conspiracy, religion, the occult, and Freemasonry. In this interview we explore Dr. Bolton's career, learn about his experiences in academia and the media, and get a sense of the man behind the legend. Because of the length of this interview, we are posting it in two parts.

A Forgotten Thinker on Nation States vs. Empire

Paul Gottfried

There is a subject that generally seems to be “no go” among academe: a critical attitude towards Trotsky and a less than slanderous attitude towards his nemesis, Stalin. Submission of papers on the subject is more likely to elicit responses of the type one would expect from outraged Trotskyite diehards than those of a scholarly critique. However, the battle between Trotsky and Stalin is not just one of theoretical interest, as it laid the foundations for outlooks on Russia and strategies in regard to the Cold War. The legacy continues to shape the present era, even after the implosion of the USSR. The following paper is intended to consider the Stalinist allegations against Trotsky et al in the context of history, and how that history continues to unfold.

The Moscow Trials in Historical Context

Kerry Bolton

There is a subject that generally seems to be “no go” among academe: a critical attitude towards Trotsky and a less than slanderous attitude towards his nemesis, Stalin. Submission of papers on the subject is more likely to elicit responses of the type one would expect from outraged Trotskyite diehards than those of a scholarly critique. However, the battle between Trotsky and Stalin is not just one of theoretical interest, as it laid the foundations for outlooks on Russia and strategies in regard to the Cold War. The legacy continues to shape the present era, even after the implosion of the USSR. The following paper is intended to consider the Stalinist allegations against Trotsky et al in the context of history, and how that history continues to unfold.

Klansmen, Irishmen, and Nativists: The Origins of Racial Nationalism in America

Michael O'Meara

The heterogeneity of America’s European population has always posed a challenge to its national identity. Only late in the 19th century was this identity extended to European immigrants assimilated in its Anglo-Protestant values and, in the 20th century, to Catholics, whose Church (the “Whore of Babylon”) had learned to accommodate the Protestant contours of American life (or what John Murray Cuddihy called its
“civil religion”). From this ethnogenesis, the original Anglo-Protestant identity of the American people gradually evolved into a more inclusively European Christian identity, though one closely tied to its Anglo-Protestant antecedents. Based on this heritage, racial nationalists today define America as a European nation and designate its anti-White elites as their principal enemy.

The Soul's Compass Points South: Interview with Miguel Serrano - Part 2

Francisco Vejar
(Translated by Alex Kurtagic)

In 1938 you published an anthology titled, El Verdadero Cuento en Chile [The True Short Story in Chile], where Juan Emar was published for the first time and where, in addition, you developed in the preface a very curious theme—I am referring to the impact the Andean mountain range has on Chileans.

It was because by then we were already getting together to dream about the mountain giants that were inside the mountain, because this had been a country inhabited by giants. The mountain is sacred. Back then the mountain could be seen at all hours. It was a marvel. The view of the Andean Mountain Range that Santiago enjoys is not enjoyed in any other part of Chile. Only in Austria have I seen something similar. It was . . .

The Soul's Compass Points South: Interview with Miguel Serrano - Part 1

Francisco Vejar
(Translated by Alex Kurtagic)

We are not the first ones to observe that Miguel Serrano’s country scrimps him deserved awards—he, an author published by prestigious British and American publishing houses, and published even in Farsi and Japanese translation. It’s not long since another of his works, C.G. Jung and Herman Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships, has come out in French (Geneva: Georg Editeur, 1991) and it is in the Belgian magazine Vouloir that essayist Bruno Dietsch reserves the following comment for the Chilean writer: Nemo propheta a acceptus est in patria (Ciudad de los Césares, No. 39, Year 1991). To this we must add that . . .

Pessimism?

Oswald Spengler

My book [The Decline of the West, Vol. I.] has met with widespread misunderstandings. In a sense, that is almost an inevitable concomitant of any novel approach which arrives at new conclusions. Such a reaction is all the more to be expected when the conclusions reached, or even the perspectives and methodology that led to them, present a serious challenge to the prevailing mood of an age. When such a book chances to become fashionable, the misunderstandings will multiply. For then people are confronted suddenly by a complex of ideas which they should actually not have attempted to digest until after years of preparatory reading. With my own book there is the added difficulty that only the negative side of the picture has hitherto reached the public. Most critics have neglected to observe that this first volume represents only a fragment from which, as I was soon to realize, it is not easy to form conclusions about what is to follow. The forthcoming second volume will round out the "Morphology of World History," thus bringing to a close my examination of at least one aspect of the problem. Attentive readers will have noticed that I touched briefly on a second aspect, the ethical question, in my essay Prussianism and Socialism.

Happy New Year 2012

Alex Kurtagic

Happy New Year 2012! We would like to thank all of those who supported Wermod and Wermod in 2011, and give a very special thank you to those who contributed to the Miguel Serrano translation project, be it economically or through book donations. There exciting new titles lined up for publication in the coming twelve months, including The Golden Thread by the aforementioned author. We are doing well financially and are looking forward to seeing our plans and projects for the year realised and raising the bar even higher with our forthcoming editions.

Herder's Theory of the Volksgeist

Andrew Hamilton

German philosopher and critic Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) developed the concept of romantic or organic nationalism, a form of ethnic nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy from historic cultural or hereditary groups. The underlying assumption is that every ethnicity should be politically distinct. Herder’s ideas on the subject were expressed in his theory of the Volksgeist. A medical student at the University of Königsberg in East Prussia in the 1760s, Herder quickly abandoned medicine for theology and philosophy, which brought him into contact with philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of his professors. To encourage Herder, his favorite pupil, Kant waived the fees customarily paid for attendance at his lectures, allowed the student to read some of his unpublished manuscripts, and introduced him to the writings of Montesquieu, Hume, and Rousseau.

A Brief Introduction to the Nordic Imperium School

Vibeke Østergaard

I hesitated writing this principally as a result of time constrains but to a lesser extent because only two other lansmen seem to be on this list and the material will likely seem remote to the Americans and Englishmen on the list. I have received a great number requests to compose such an introduction from members and others that follow this list and I do feel that the school deserves some attention from Eurocentric advocates in general which in the end caused me give the matter cursory attention. I have purposely avoided raising the matter of the esoteric/mystic writings many of the authors because I do not wish to offend the non Heathen majority on this list and I feel that ideological issues can be dealt with adequately without raising the matter. I also chose not to deal with the matter of proponents of the school being active in the Legionary Movement as others have covered the matter far better then I can.

Václav Havel: The Enemy Within

K. R. Bolton

An inner enemy is more dangerous than an outer one, because while he seems to belong, he is actually a kind of alien. An inner enemy is dangerous in two respects: first because of his own activity, and second, because of his usefulness to the outer enemy. . . . After the War, the American occupation of Europe and the despoliation of Europe were made possible only by the Michel-stratum,[1] which hired itself out to the enemy to establish vassal-governments, churchill-regimes, in every province of Europe. During this period between the Second and Third World Wars,[2] the Michel as an American agent is more dangerous than he would otherwise be himself. The reason for this is the advance of History since the 19th century has rendered his whole world-outlook completely useless to him, even for purposes of sabotage, while to the Americans it is still useful as a means of control over Europe. Thus the Culture-diseases of Culture-retardation remains in the body of Europe only because of the American occupation. — Francis Parker Yockey[3]

Quest for the Opulent West

Tomislav Sunic

Catching up with the West is the big dream of all post-communist countries in Eastern Europe. This dream transpires through imported liberal slogans such as "transition," "integration" and "market democracy" aired daily on all local TV and radio wavelengths. This rhetorical switch from former socialist command economy to capitalist market economy appears to East European leaders far more palatable than the necessity of removing their own ossified past. In fact, proponents of globalism and their institutional transmission belts, such as the IMF and WTO had never given the green light for the Eastern European masses to forcefully remove communist officials from power. With the choice between local nationalists and local ex-communists, the global plutocrats have opted for the latter. In reality though . . .

Tito Perdue's The Node

Alex Kurtagic

Tito Perdue is best known for Lee, a 1991 novel about a misanthropic septuagenarian at war with the modern world. The novel introduced Lee Pefley, Perdue’s presumed alter ego, who has since appeared in other novels, at different ages and even after death (as in Fields of Asphodel). The Node, his most recently published novel, now out on Nine-Banded Books, is a blend of literary and dystopian science fiction, and features what might be Lee’s grandson. The action unfolds in a ridiculous mid-twenty-first-century America that is the outcome of generations of caucophobia, political correctness, degeneration, and dysgenics. It is an America where Caucasians (‘Cauks’) have been reduced to a dispossessed and legally disenfranchised minority, where pederasty is considered normal, where New York . . .

European Unity: The Spiritual Prerequisite

Julius Evola

The first political step in forging a united Europe would be the withdrawal of all European governments from the United Nations, a hypocritical organisation if there ever was. The ground for a European initiative must be carefully prepared; but the problems of concrete political tactics fall outside the scope of this essay. Here we can only point to what we believe must be the form and the spiritual and doctrinal basis of united Europe. 'Federalist' and 'associative' . . .

The Homogenization of Global Consciousness:
Media, Telecommunications, and Culture

Jerry Mander

One of the main goals of economic globalization is that every place on earth should be more or less like every other place. Whether it's the US, Europe, or once-distant places like Asia, Africa, or South America, all countries are meant to develop the same way. The same franchise fast food, the same films and music, the same jeans, shoes, and cars, the same urban landscapes, the same personal, cultural, and spiritual values. Monoculture. If you've traveled a lot, you've seen that this is rampantly happening already. Such a model serves the marketing and efficiency needs of the huge global corporations that the system is designed to benefit. Whether cultural, political, or biological, diversity is a direct threat to the efficiency goals of global corporations, which operate on a scale that requires, as far as possible, similar appeals in every market in the world.

Whites as Kulaks

Stephen Webster

Carrying Capacity and Quality of Life

Garrett Hardin

Oswald Spengler

Alfred Rosenberg
(Translated by Hadding Scott)

Consuming the '60s Revolutions

Mark Wegierski

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Radbod

Zinoviev's "Homo Sovieticus":
Communism as Social Entropy

Tomislav Sunic

Why Greens Should be Politically Incorrect

Aidan Rankin

The Black Book of Communism

Dwight D. Murphey

From Nihilism to Tradition

Michael O'Meara