By James Alexander 0
Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part I: The Critique of Socialism
Pareto is additionally important for us today because he is a towering figure in one of Europe’s most distinguished, and yet widely suppressed, intellectual currents.That broad school of thought includes such diverse figures as Burke, Taine, Dostoyevsky, Burckhardt, Donoso Cortés, Nietzsche, and Spengler and stands in staunch opposition to rationalism, liberalism,...
Read MoreOliver Pendleton in Czech
Oliver Pendleton’s TOQ Online review essay “Volk Music” on Laibach’s Volk and Kunst der Fuge has been translated into Czech. Also, his review essay on Boyd Rice’s Standing in Two Circles, “Uneasy Listening” seems to have been heavily mined for another piece on the same site. Thank you to our Czech readers, and congratulations Dr....
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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 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 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...
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Gabriele D’Annunzio
“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. This warrior bard was to have a crucial impact upon the rise of fascism despite his not always being in...
Read MoreDrieu on the Failure of the Third Reich
The powers threatening our people became hegemonic in May 1945, when the liberal-Communist coalition known as the “United Nations” imposed its dictatorship on defeated Germany.This dictatorship—whose defining characteristic, East and West, is its techno-economic worship of the Jewish Moloch—was subsequently imposed on the rest of Europe and, in the form of globalization,...
Read MoreGeorge Orwell on W. B. Yeats as Occult Fascist
“W. B. Yeats” (1943)by George OrwellOne thing that Marxist criticism has not succeeded in doing is to trace the connection between “tendency” and literary style. The subject-matter and imagery of a book can be explained in sociological terms, but its texture seemingly cannot. Yet some such connection there must be. One knows, for instance, that a Socialist would...
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Standing in Two CirclesThe Collected Works of Boyd RiceEd. Brian M. ClarkWashington, D.C.: Creation Books, 2008Boyd Rice (b. 1956) is a remarkable figure. He is a composer, poet, artist, essayist, photographer, filmmaker, actor, and self-educated scholar of both pop culture and Western esotericism, particularly Grail lore. It is tempting to call Rice a pop culture phenomenon...
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