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Michael O’Meara

Michael O’Meara, Ph.D., studied social theory at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and modern European history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe (Bloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004).

Race, Culture, and Anarchy

“The classic thing white students say when you ask them to talk about who they are is, ‘I don’t have a culture.’”
- University sociologist
A culture is the achievement of a particular blood line.
As such, “culture wars” may be seen as ultimately blood wars between competing conceptions of race and identity.
The culture war in the university [...]

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Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Note: The following short synthesis of Schmitt’s classic essay The Concept of the Political stems, in part, from a recent discussion with the Bay Area Nationalist Book Club.
However it is posed, the question of the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.
The political, though, is not to be confused with “politics” [...]

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Race as Destiny

Author’s Note: The following excerpt is from a longer, footnoted article titled “Freedom’s Racial Imperative: A Heideggerian Argument for the Self-Assertion of Peoples of European Descent” that appeared in the fall 2006 issue of The Occidental Quarterly. Minor changes have been made for the sake of this format. Thanks to Dave Cooper for the idea.
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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 3 (Conclusion)

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935
Emmanuel Faye
Trans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom Rockmore
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
Read Part 1 here.
Read Part 2 here.
Three.
Race and State
From the above, the reader might conclude that Faye’s Heidegger is a wreck of a book.  And, in large part, it [...]

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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 2

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935
Emmanuel Faye
Trans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom Rockmore
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
Read Part 1 here.
Two.
Faye’s Argument
Heidegger’s seminars of 1933 and 1934, in Emmanuel Faye’s view, expose the “fiction” that separates Heidegger’s philosophy from his politics. For these seminars reveal a [...]

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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 1

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935
Emmanuel Faye
Trans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom Rockmore
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
National Socialism was defeated on the field of battle, but it wasn’t defeated in the realm of thought.
Indeed, it’s undefeatable there because the only thing its enemies can do [...]

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The Psychopathology of Judaism

Psychanalyse de judaïsme
Hervé Ryssen
Levallois: Éds. Baskerville, 2006
“The Psychoanalysis of Judaism” is Hervé Ryssen’s second book on the Jews.
For Ryssen, who rejects neither the ethnoracial nor the religious designation of Jews, it is their mentality that most distinguishes them from other peoples.
To understand this mentality, his first book, Les Espérances planétariennes (2005), looked at the “planetary [...]

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The Cold War on Whites, Part 4

Lyndon B. Johnson proved to be the most ardent proponent of racial equality to occupy the White House. He put civil rights at the top of his domestic agenda and went out of way to cultivate relationships with mainstream civil rights leaders.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both [...]

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The Cold War on Whites, Part 3

The two administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower would be qualitatively less sympathetic to civil rights than was Truman’s.
Nevertheless, the logic of Cold War civil rights had already taken hold of the government, propelling it ever closer toward the racial chaos we know today.
Though no racist, Eisenhower wasn’t keen on civil rights. Under his administration, blacks [...]

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The Cold War on Whites, Part 2

However phony, the conflicts and tensions of the Cold War were very real — for the “war” was turned into a titanic ideological battle between Communism and liberalism over which system would shape the coming postwar order.
In this struggle, racial equality and civil rights inevitably became an integral facet of the larger ideological struggle.
This was [...]

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