Against Nihilism: Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity
With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898 – 1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the...
Read MoreClubland:
And Why Your Kids Must Avoid It
Having been involved in Nightclub security for nearly twenty years, and with firsthand experience in the seedier side of club life, I believe parents and teenagers need informing on certain matters.The nightclubs of today are not like the ones parents frequented back in the 1970s, when they were aspiring teenagers full of excitement and joy. Today they are a complete...
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On the Secret of Degeneration
Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher...
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Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part III: The Theory of Elites
Circulation of the ElitesApart from his analyses of residues and derivations, Pareto is notable among sociologists for the theory known as “the circulation of the elites.” Let us remember that Pareto considered society a system in equilibrium, where processes of change tend to set in motion forces that work to restore and maintain social balance.Pareto asserts that...
Read MoreKeyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour of Decision (1934)
Snapshots Of The Continent Entre Deux Guerres: Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour Of Decision (1934)from The Brussels Journal, August 18, 2009[. . .]The Hour of Decision, like everything that Spengler authored, is a rich mine of observation and insight, difficult to summarize, mainly because it communicates so thoroughly with the monumental Decline, to which it...
Read MoreBy Alex Kurtagic 1
They Don’t Make Them Like they Used To
From The Occidental Observer, August 6, 2009On occasion of my 39th birthday, my wife organized a holiday in the Lake District in Cumbria, in the North East of England. While there we visited England’s Pencil Museum, where we learnt much about the invention and manufacture of the pencil, a tool that spawned a huge industry in the region during the Victorian era. One of the...
Read MoreNietzsche on Conservatism
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 43 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.43. Whispered to the conservatives. — What was not known formerly, what is known, or might be known, today: a reversion, a return in any sense or degree is simply not possible. We physiologists know that. Yet all priests...
Read MoreNietzsche on Freedom
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 38 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols. A discussion question: How might Nietzsche be used to explain why America’s founding generation and the presidents drawn from it were greater than every subsequent generation brought up under the system they...
Read MoreNietzsche’s Critique of Modernity
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.39. Critique of modernity. — Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we...
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...
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Elite and Underclass
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The Forbidden Identity
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White Preservationism is Dead
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