Comments on John Robb’s “Tribes!” and “Containing Chaos”
Editor’s Note: Through the WordPress “trackback” function, I just discovered “Tanstaafl’s” Age of Treason blog, which is a treasure trove of highly intelligent analysis going back to 2005. The following discussion of my recent posts from John Robb is good enough to steal.Via John Robb on Tribalism at The Occidental Quarterly I followed a link to...
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Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis is credited with being the founder of the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Nonetheless, he is seldom spoken of in the same breath as his contemporaries, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and others. Lewis was one of the number of cultural figures who rejected the bourgeois liberalism and democracy of the nineteenth century that...
Read MoreKnut Hamsun: Saved by Stalin?
Editor’s Note: The following article is from Euro-Synergies, July 12, 2009. It is my translation of Robert Steuckers’ translation of a June 24, 2009 item from the Flemish ’t Pallierterke website. I have altered the title and section headings.In 2009, we mark the 150th birthday of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). The Norwegian novelist, born Knut Pedersen, is, along with...
Read MoreJulius Evola on Tradition and the Right
(La Vera Destra)
Men Among the Ruins:Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalistby Julius EvolaRochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2002Baron Julius Evola (1899-1974) was an important Italian intellectual, although he despised the term. As poet and painter, he was the major Italian representative of Dadaism (1916-1922). Later he became the leading Italian exponent of the intellectually rigorous...
Read MoreContaining Chaos
From World Politics Review, July 7, 2009In 1946, George Kennan keyed the famous “Long Telegram,” which identified the Soviet Union as an enemy of the United States. In 1947, the original telegram was reworked and published in Foreign Policy magazine as “The Sources of Soviet Conduct.” Together, these documents formed the codex for the U.S. Cold War strategy...
Read MorePreparing for America’s Collapse:
Lessons from the Soviet Union
“US, SU: Same Scenario?”Reinventing Collapse:The Soviet Example and American Prospectsby Dimitry OrlovGabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publications, 2008 “A time of crisis is a great opportunity.”–Barack Hussein ObamaDespairing of my people’s passivity, I have often thought that the collapse of the United States might be the one thing to turn...
Read MoreThe Tragic Life of a Spenglerian Visionary
Dreamer of the Day:Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist Internationalby Kevin CooganBrooklyn: Autonomedia, 1999The 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...
Read MoreJohn Robb on Tribalism
Editor’s Note: The following discussion of tribalism is from John Robb’s blog Global Guerrillas, which is a treasure trove of information and analysis on the weaknesses and dissolution of globalism and the present American political-economic system, as well as on ways in which individuals and groups might (1) hasten the system’s demise and (2) begin practicing...
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Kevin MacDonald on Joe McCarthy and the Jews
“Joe McCarthy and the Jews”from The Occidental Observer, July 12, 2009Beginning in the 19th century, liberal/leftist politics has been a hallmark of the Jewish community in America and elsewhere. The attraction of Jews to the success of the Bolshevik Revolution was an entirely mainstream among large numbers of Jews in America and led to one of several anti-Jewish...
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Paul Gottfried’s Terrestrial Railroad Journey
Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and TeachersPaul E. GottfriedWilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009Dr. Paul Gottfried, currently Raffensburger Professor of Humanities at unpretentious Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, is a naturally ambitious man whose plans for academic eminence and influence with the mighty did not come to fruition. The book’s...
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