By Alex Kurtagic 24
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...
Read MoreYou are in Control
There’s a great article in Time magazine by Amanda Ripley (I wrote a review of her great book, The Unthinkable in the City Journal) on one of the most under covered security lessons of 9/11: that an aware citizenry can defend itself. It ends with this telling para which depicts the government reasserting its authority to prop up its legitimacy:After the passengers...
Read MoreTraditionalism, 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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Discovering Implicit White Communities, Part 2
From The Occidental Observer, November 14, 2009In “Discovering Implicit White Communities,” Part 1, we reviewed Kevin MacDonald’s article, “Psychology and White Ethnocentrism,” in which he presents the evidence from psychologists for the existence of a struggle in each European American, between our innate preference towards people like us and the need to conform...
Read MoreHeavy Metal, European Culture, & the Alternative Right
Taki’s Magazine has been running some interesting articles on the connections between Heavy Metal music, European culture, and the alternative right.The discussion began with Alex Kurtagic’s “White Noise” (October 19, 2009), which we have already linked on this site.Followups include:R. J. Stove, “That’s Professor Ozzy Osbourne to You!”...
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Discovering Implicit White Communities, Part 1
From The Occidental Observer, November 13, 2009During the 29 August 2009 episode of James Edwards’ The Political Cesspool radio program, his co-host that evening, Winston Smith, asked Dr. Greg Johnson, editor of The Occidental Quarterly, the following question: “Do our people really not understand that race is everything or do we understand and choose, en masse, to ignore and...
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What Will It Take?
From The Occidental Observer, August 30, 2009Many ask themselves, What will it take for White people to finally react and take decisive and effective action to change the status quo? How much worse does it need to get before they finally decide that they have had enough of this politically correct anti-White nonsense?It is a good question.And sadly, my answers will induce deep...
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Bay Area National Anarchists:
An Interview with Andrew Yeoman, Part 2
TOQ Online: Is there a religious or spiritual dimension to National Anarchism, or is it a purely political form of association?Andrew Yeoman: At its heart National Anarchism is a purely political framework, but any group or religious movement can adopt it to advance the aim of establishing an autonomous region or community. Religion has a special importance for National Anarchism...
Read MoreDecentralizing the Decentralist Movement
For three years in a row, between 2006 and 2008, a North American secessionist convention was held where delegates from actual secessionist organizations and interested observers gathered to discuss the possibility of decentralizing the United States into smaller political units. Thus far, it does not appear there will be another convention for 2009. I suspect this is for the...
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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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