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Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

Dominique Venner

2,446 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.

Cioran:
Aesthete of Despair

Alain Soral

Emil Cioran

495 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is Alain Soral’s negative assessment of Emil Cioran, as contained in his “dictionary” of aphorisms. While this appraisal is not exactly fair, the text expresses some understandable frustration with the nihilist Cioran and gives one a sense of the oppressive atmosphere, for Right-wingers, of the postwar French literary scene. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aestheticism, Alain Soral, articles, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, Maurice Blanchot, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, pessimism | Comments closed

Christmas at Counter-Currents
Christmas:
Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

398 words

Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism | Comments closed

Christmas at Counter-Currents
Christmas & the Winter Solstice

Sol Invictus crowned with a diadem of sun rays

611 words

Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo

In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes:

Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a remote tradition, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, Christmas, holidays, Julius Evola, North American New Right, paganism, reprints, Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, Traditionalism | Comments closed

Whatever Happens, the Yellow Vests Have Already Won

Alain de Benoist

1,390 words

Interviewed by Yann Vallerie; translated by Greg Johnson

Breizh-info.com: First of all, how do you analyze the events of these recent weekends?

What I find most striking is, first of all, the continuity of the movement. While the government expected the pressure to ease, it has not. It is the fruit of an extraordinary determination, to which is added a surprising maturity. Read more …

Published: December 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emanuel Macron, France, gilets jaunes, interviews, North American New Right, originals, populism, yellow vests | Comments closed

Populism in its Pure Form

Alain de Benoist

1,025 words

Interview by Nicolas Gauthier

Translated by Greg Johnson

Boulevard Voltaire: For about ten days now, France has been living in the era of the yellow vests, and opinions about it are already piling up. Flash in the pan or groundswell? Read more …

Published: December 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emanuel Macron, France, gilets jaunes, interviews, North American New Right, originals, populism, yellow vests | Comments closed

The Aryan Ethos:
Loyalty to One’s Own Nature

2,384 words

Today, more than ever, one must understand that social problems, in their essence, are rooted in problems of ethics and world-view. Anyone who thinks that social problems can be solved through purely technical means, is like a doctor who only wants to treat the patent symptoms of a disease, rather than examining and treating its deep causes. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, caste, class, ethics, guilds, individualism, Julius Evola, loyalty, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, professions, self-actualization, self-construction | Comments closed

Dominique Venner & Death

Jean-Yves Camus

A young Dominique Venner, at a protest against Algerian independence in paratrooper uniform, is on the left.

854 words

The following article was published in French on the Fragments sur les Temps Présents Website on May 23, 2018 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Dominique Venner‘s public suicide. Jean-Yves Camus is a sociologist who specializes in the Right. It was translated by Jason Rogers.

On May 21, 2013, Dominique Venner put an end to his days by putting a gun in his mouth at Notre Dame de Paris. “Suicide by an opponent of marriage equality,” “suicide of an ex-OAS member”[1] . . . that’s how his death was announced. Read more …

Published: May 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, gay marriage, Jean-Yves Camus, North American New Right, originals, suicide, voluntary death | Comments closed

L’Utopie blanche – Vivre entre Blancs, une utopie ?

Greg Johnson

2,019 mots

English original here

Le Nationalisme blanc est-il une utopie ? Read more …

Published: May 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, in French, North American New Right, originals, utopianism, white nationalism | Comments closed

Learning from Auschwitz

1,420 words

Translated from Finis Germania by F. Roger Devlin

What does the teaching of Auschwitz actually consist of? That man, when he finds the opportunity, is capable of the worst? If anyone needs Auschwitz to learn this, let him learn it from Auschwitz. Or that in technological modernity modern technology can be used for mass murder? Read more …

Published: May 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, F. Roger Devlin, German guilt, multiculturalism, North American New Right, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust | Comments closed

Az európai harci szellem

Greg Johnson

Tanulmány két harcos fejéhez. Leonardo da Vinci vázlata az Anghiari csata című falképhez (Szépművészeti Múzeum)

1,613 words

English original here

A szerző megjegyzése

Az alábbi beszédet 2018. április 8-án Helsinkiben az első alkalommal megrendezett Ébredés Konferencián adtam elő. A szervezők arra kértek, hogy az európai harci szellemről beszéljek. Szokás szerint kicsit improvizáltam, és eltértem az előkészített szövegtől. Szeretnék köszönetet mondani a szervezőknek, a találkozó mintegy 200 résztvevőjének, és annak a Counter-Currents olvasónak, akinek az adománya lehetővé tette, hogy a konferenciára utazzak. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Awakening Conference, becsület, bourgeois man, cikkek, Ébredés Konferencia (Awakening Conference), entonacionalizmus, eredeti írások, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, etnocentrizmus, fehér nacionalizmus, férfiasság, Greg Johnson, harcos etika, honor, in Hungarian, jóléti ember, liberalism, liberalizmus, maszkulinitás, nacionalizmus, nationalism, North American New Right, Plato, Platón, thumos, thümosz, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Comments closed

The New Official Religion

The Holocaust memorial in Berlin.

1,643 words

Translated from Finis Germania by F. Roger Devlin

At regular intervals, the practiced television viewer can watch a presentation that runs approximately as follows: The Federal President delivers a historical sermon before the assembled parliamentarians in which he conjures up the spirits of the undead and announces a truth which everybody knows and all believe in. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged F. Roger Devlin, German guilt, Germany, holocaust as religion, North American New Right, originals, Philipp Jenninger, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust | Comments closed

The Eternal Nazi

Charles Krafft, The Cross Wasn’t Heavy

1,165 words

Translated from Finis Germania by F. Roger Devlin

There are still myths and there are still taboos. Nudity and sexual practices of all sorts are no longer among them, any more than good old-fashioned blasphemy. The Christian God, for example, can be abused at pleasure without the slightest consequences. One taboo, however, remains immoveable: anti-Semitism. Read more …

Published: May 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, F. Roger Devlin, German guilt, Germany, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust, the Jewish question | Comments closed

Excerpts from Finis Germania

1,212 words

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

Translator’s Note:

Finis Germania is a very different book from the carefully referenced scholarly works which established Sieferle’s academic reputation. It is a collection of brief personal meditations on what the Germans call Vergangenheitsbewältigung: “overcoming (or coping with) the past,” Read more …

Published: May 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, F. Roger Devlin, Finis Germania, German guilt, Germany, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust | Comments closed

Folk & Horror

Timo Hännikäinen

2,731 words

Editor’s Note:

The following essay is a chapter from Timo Hännikäinen’s new book Medusan kasvot. Kirjoituksia kauhusta (The Face of Medusa: Writings on Horror).

The term “folk horror” usually refers to those British horror movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s influenced by folklore and often set in rural areas in past centuries. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, folk horror, horror, human sacrifice, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, paganism, The Blood on Satan's Claw, The Wicker Man, Timo Hännikäinen, Witchfinder General | Comments closed

Příliš velká výhra? Zamyšlení nad výsledky voleb v Maďarsku

John Morgan

1,119 slov

English original here

Navzdory předpovědím o opozici povzbuzené vysokou volební účastí, jíž se v nedělních volbách mělo podařit snížit parlamentní převahu strany Fidesz Viktora Orbána, se po sečtení více než 98% hlasů zatím výsledky příliš neliší od minulých voleb v roce 2014. Read more …

Published: April 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Hungarian election, articles, European Union, Fidesz, Gábor Vona, George Soros, Hungary, in Czech, Jobbik, John Morgan, migrant crisis, North American New Right, reprints, Viktor Orbán | Comments closed

Fier ou coupable d’être blanc

Michael Polignano

Fidus, Lichtgebet, 1894

1,606 mots

English original here; Slovak translation here

Aujourd’hui, aux Etats-Unis comme dans la plupart des pays du Monde blanc, on dit au petit enfant blanc, à peine en âge de comprendre le langage, qu’il doit se sentir coupable des crimes de ses ancêtres. Coupable d’avoir découvert, conquis, mis en esclavage et tué des non-Blancs à travers le monde…quitte à ce qu’il se perdre en chemin. Coupable, non de ses propres crimes, mais de crimes commis par d’autres personnes de la même race que lui. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, ethomasochism, in French, Michael Polignano, North American New Right, reprints, white guilt, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

Georges Sorel

Alain de Benoist

Georges Sorel

1,639 slov

English version here

U příležitosti 170. narozenin Georgese Sorela (2. listopadu 1847) přinášíme tento překlad pocty Sorelovi z pera Alaina de Benoista.

Přestože násilí nutně zůstává na pořadu dne vždy, 50. výročí úmrtí Georgese Sorela by prošlo takřka bez povšimnutí, kdyby nakladatelství Éditions Marcel Rivière nepřipadlo na myšlenku vydat znovu jeho Réflexions sur la violence [Úvahy o násilí] (Paris: Éditions Marcel Rivière, 1973). Read more …

Published: March 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Communism, fascism, Georges Sorel, in Czech, myth, North American New Right, reprints, syndicalism, violence | Comments closed

The Mirror of the Jewish Soul:
Otto Weininger on the Jewish Question

2,894 words

Otto Weininger

One of the most interesting, and yet least known, profiles of the Jewish soul was sketched several years before the First World War by Otto Weininger. Its importance lies in its superiority over the stereotyped formulas of the majority of militant anti-Semites, and in its effort to define the Jewish problem in universal and spiritual terms, prior to being a national, social, or even strictly racial one. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, female psychology, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Otto Weininger, Sex and Character, the Jewish question | Comments closed

Fašistický sen, část 3

Maurice Bardèche

999 slov

Při příležitosti výročí úmrtí Maurice Bardècheho přinášíme závěrečný díl třídílné minisérie, první část naleznete zde, druhou zde.

English translation here

Účelem fašistického státu je formovat lidi podle určitého modelu. Na rozdíl od demokratických států se ty fašistické nezdráhají učit také morálku. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, education, fascism, in Czech, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, reprints, warrior ethics, What is Fascism? | Comments closed

Fašistický sen, část 2

Maurice Bardèche

Arno Breker – Fackelträger (1940)

1,059 slov

English translation here

Druhý díl ze třídílné minisérie, první část naleznete zde, závěrečnou třetí tady.

Fašismus v protikladu k tomu demokratickému předkládá svůj vlastní alternativní obraz člověka i pojetí svobody, od onoho velebeného demokratického velice odlišné.

Demokracie svobodu nijak neomezuje, snad kromě zákazu škodit ostatním. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, democracy, fascism, freedom, in Czech, liberalism, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, reprints, Second World War, What is Fascism?, World War II | Comments closed

Fašistický sen, část 1

Maurice Bardèche

Maurice Bardèche (1907-1998)

1,398 slov

English translation here

Druhý díl naleznete zde, třetí závěrečný tady.

Diktatura je věcná. Římané, když se jejich vlast ocitla v ohrožení, pozastavovali působení republikánských svobod. Stejně tak Konvent. Režim „vlasti v nebezpečí“ je režim autoritářský, nastolený ve vážných případech (Ernstfall) k zachování nezávislosti a k záchraně země vůbec. Read more …

Published: March 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, fascism, in Czech, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, reprints, Second World War, What is Fascism?, World War II | Comments closed

Antiglobalizace tehdy a dnes

Martin Aurelio

Black bloc v Praze v roce 2000.

1,335 slov

English original here

V 90. letech a prvních letech nového století se nacházelo antiglobalizační hnutí pevně na levici. Dnes, když tuto úlohu převzala pravice, bude zajímavé pozorovat, jak velká část levice udělá čelem vzad a také jestli se pravici podaří uspět tam, kde levice opakovaně selhala. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-globalization, articles, Black Bloc, Donald Trump, free trade, globalization, in Czech, Martin Aurelio, North American New Right, reprints | Comments closed

O nacionálně politických výchovných ústavech „Napola“

Za hlavní úkol si školy Napola kladly výchovu člověka „v národního socialistu, zdatného tělem i duší pro službu národu a státu“.

1,043 slov

English version here

Považujeme za vhodné zabývat se na tomto místě několika novými německými iniciativami, vytvořenými s úmyslem převzít jistým politickým způsobem úkoly „kvalitativní“ výchovy, které byly v předchozí éře svěřeny několika málo soukromým institucím. Začneme nástinem tzv. „Napol.“ Read more …

Published: March 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, education, elitism, in Czech, Julius Evola, leadership, Napolas, National Socialism, Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten, North American New Right, reprints, the Männerbund | Comments closed

Plato’s Spiritual Exercises

Pierre Hadot

1,764 words

Translator’s Note: The following is drawn from Pierre Hadot, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique? (Paris: Gallimard, 1995), pp. 107-114. The footnotes have been simplified. The quotes of Plato have generally been drawn from Plato, Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997). The title is editorial.

In his Seventh Letter, Plato states that if one does not adopt this [philosophical] way of life, then life is not worth living, and that is why one must immediately decide to follow this “path,” this “marvelous path.” This way of life incidentally requires a considerable effort, which must be renewed each day. Read more …

Published: January 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, Pierre Hadot, Plato, What is Ancient Philosophy | Comments closed

Proč „bělošský“ nacionalismus?

Greg Johnson

Edward Wadsworth, Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, 1919

1,059 slov

English original here

Proč se nazývám bělošským nacionalistou? Jako Američanovi evropského původu mi v prvé řadě záleží na přežití mé rasy – jak na americkém kontinentu, tak i ve zbytku světa. Ve všech bělošských zemích dnes umírá více bělochů, než se jich rodí a naše lidi nahrazují velice plodní Neevropané. Nedojde-li ke zvratu tohoto vývoje, naše rasa fyzicky vyhyne. Jak už jsem ukázal jinde, nejlepší cestou k naší záchraně je vytvoření homogenních bělošských zemí s politikou na podporu porodnosti a aplikací eugeniky. Read more …

Published: January 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, in Czech, North American New Right, reprints, white nationalism | Comments closed

Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe

If I Were 18 Today

11,651 words

Translated by Alexander Jacob

The following is the text of a speech delivered on June 1, 1967 at the University of Marburg.[1]

Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (1906-83) was the youngest son of Prince Georg of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Marie-Anne of Saxe-Altenburg. Appalled at the quick abdications of the German princes during the German Revolution of 1918-19, Read more …

Published: January 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right, translations | Also tagged anti-white propaganda, articles, communist propaganda, cultural decline, culture war, denazification, German aristocracy, German identity, Imperial Germany, indoctrination, international capitalism, Jewish materialism, National Socialist Germany, North American New Right, originals, Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe, speeches, Weimar Republic | Comments closed

Judaism in the Ancient World