Traditionalism, Youth Music Subcultures, & White Nationalist Metapolitics
In his new article, “Apoliteic music: Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial and ‘metapolitical fascism’” (Patterns of Prejudice 43, no. 5, December 2009, pp. 431-57), Anton Shekhovtsov suggests that there are two types of radical right-wing music that are cultural reflections of the two different political strategies that fascism was forced to adopt in the...
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French Visions for a New Europe
Raymond Abellio claimed that the Flemish occultist S. U. Zanne (pseudonym of Auguste Van de Kerckhove) was amongst the greatest initiates of our time. But hardly anyone knows who he is. Some have placed Abellio in the same category — though he too is a great unknown for most. And those that have looked at Abellio, have largely concluded that he was a fascist politician, who...
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Uncharted 2:
A Game of Action, Adventure, & Endogamy
On October 13, 2009, Sony Computer Entertainment released Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the Playstation 3 video gaming console. It was received warmly by nearly every video game critic in the US, having won numerous awards including “Best PS3 Action Game” and given a nearly perfect rating across the board. Adam Sessler of G4 (a video gaming news channel) even claimed it is the...
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American Secondary Schoolers
Radical Traditionalists like me believe, or should I say, know, that civilizations are organic entities that are born, grow, climax, decay, and then die. Though few are willing to admit it, this fact holds true for the United States as well. Like every empire that has come before it, “the land of milk and honey” will ultimately collapse following a series of internal and...
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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...
Read MoreTraditionalism and the French “New Right”
For those who read French… A new paper on Traditionalism and the French “New Right:” Stéphane François, “Contre le monde moderne: la Nouvelle Droite et la ‘Tradition’” (Religioscope, études et analyses n° 21, July 2009).François traces the Traditionalist current within the French New Right (notably, the GRECE of Alain de Benoist) from...
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Troy Southgate’s Tradition and Revolution
Tradition and Revolution:The Collected Writings of Troy SouthgateTroy SouthgateAarhus, Denmark: Integral Tradition Publishing, 2007Troy Southgate is a musician, writer, and political activist who is well-known in rightist circles in the UK and Europe, but not in the United States. Tradition and Revolution brings together interviews, musings, poetry, stories, fictionalized diary...
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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Digitally Dueling with Chaos:
The Educational Value of Role-Playing Games
In today’s world, cell phones, pagers, iPods, computers, video games, and the like are as common a part of life as food and sleep. For the most part, these things are a distraction, and in case of video games, an outright form of escapism comparable to drug addiction.Today’s youth are especially preoccupied with video games, spending countless hours on Xbox Live or the World of...
Read MoreE. Christian Kopff Defends America’s Genuine Right-Wing Tradition
“Is America Unconservative?”from Taki’s Magazine, June 2, 2009In a contribution to Takimag from last summer, Austin Bramwell asked “Why are movement conservative intellectuals so obsessed with refuting positions (e.g., that the United States is an inherently “liberal” regime) that nobody has actually believed in fifty years?” Those few, we band of...
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