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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 3
Black Metal and the Return of Völkisch Thought How did völkisch ideas resurface in popular culture? By the 1960s Christianity had entered a phase of decline in the West, following a long period of growing skepticism as well as hostility from political ideologies from both Right and Left. As has been the pattern in the West since the fourth century,[1] the decline of the dominant...
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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 2
Völkisch Thought and the Conservative RevolutionSome of the most fascinating aspects of Black Metal are its parallels with the ideas and sensibilities of the Conservative Revolution and the wider völkisch (populist) movement that swept Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These similarities are so striking that Black Metal may well be considered, if not the...
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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 1
From the viewpoint of racial nationalism, the musical genre known as Black Metal is one of the most significant popular culture phenomena of the last two decades. Yet it has been seldom discussed by politically congenial scholars and commentators. This is surprising, since Black Metal runs counter to the post-World War II trends toward the progressive marginalization, condemnation,...
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White Noise
From Taki’s Magazine, October 19, 2009I was once asked to imagine what the world would look like today had North American settlers snubbed the African slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. We can let our imaginations run wild with speculation, but one thing is certain: had the slave markets in Africa been starved of custom, our Pop music charts would look nothing like...
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“I am Not Racist, but . . .”
from The Occidental Observer, June 7, 2009. . . Effectively combating the anti-White mental poison will require us to mirror our enemy’s tactics through the development of a semiotic strategy our own — not for the enemy’s consumption, but for the emotional benefit of the “respectable” Whites whom the enemy have so thoroughly terrorized. Only then will the positive pay-off...
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Memoirs of a Dissident Student in Postmodern Academia
From The Occidental Observer, April 6, 2009After completing my university education in 1992, I quickly discovered that my degree was not especially useful in the “real world.” It was not until twelve years later, after having founded and grown a successful business, and after having become aware of the cultural pathologies of our times, that I decided that a degree in Cultural...
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Elite and Underclass
By F. Roger Devlin | Jan 9, 2012
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Free to Lose: Jews, Whites, and Libertarianism
By Brenton Sanderson | Nov 25, 2011
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Republican Immigration Fantasies
By Yggdrasil | Nov 10, 2011
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The Forbidden Identity
By Alex Kurtagic | Oct 8, 2011
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White Preservationism is Dead
By Alex Kurtagic | Sep 24, 2011
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Secession is a Bad Idea for Whites
By Baird Peterson | Dec 12, 2010
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The Shape of the Future
By Yggdrasil | Dec 19, 2010
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Inglourious Basterds
By Trevor Lynch | Aug 25, 2009
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Why The Occidental Quarterly Exists
By Yggdrasil | Nov 6, 2010
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Cranks and Credibility
By Matt Parrott | May 4, 2011
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