Main Forms Important forms of cultural Marxism are the collectivization of life and sensibility, mechanization and finally the unleashing of elementary forces. There in certain of its aspect, these tendencies lead to an anarchist liberation of the Self and subjectivity, in other of its forms we see a veritable destruction … Continue reading
Cultural Marxism
There is a social aspect consisting in tendentiously emphasizing all the cases in which ideals are presented as illusory, values as pure convention, institutions as unjust and defective. Corresponding to that, this culture emphasizes the higher right of life, instinct, the irrational, the purely “human” and, in a certain special domain, creates the new superstition of the subconscious, the unconscious, the libido and primigenial eros as the true root of existence and the human person. Continue reading
Fate in the Ancient City
He who does not justly perform his appointed duty may appear as a violator of the whole order of the Universe. ~ Pythagoras In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges begins in the middle of things, at the point when religion had already been established. To get to the beginning … Continue reading
The Interior Lifelessness of the Nordics
This is a section from Il Fascismo visto dalla destra, published by Julius Evola shortly after WWII. As is evident from this paragraph, the process of decay, or progress, depending on your perspective, in the Scandinavian countries, has been going on for quite some time. Obviously, this cannot be attributed … Continue reading
Fabre d’Olivet and the Myth of Blood
In the face of the chaos of modernity, the only salvation is form. ~ Julius Evola, motto to Il mito del sangue Julius Evola regarded his books Il mito del sangue (“The Myth of Blood”) and Sintesi di dottrina della razza as two parts of a single work. The first … Continue reading
A Pest in a Street full of Men
The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Continue reading
What is a Nation
The existence of a nation is a daily plebiscite. ~ Ernest Renan In 1882, the one-time seminarian turned positivist historian, Ernest Renan, delivered his influential lecture “What is a nation”. That the question even arises is a sign of modernity and Renan’s ultimate answer seems far from the answer of … Continue reading
Creative and Heroic Action
I have recently been asked why we are so “one-sided”. Such a thought can arise only in a mind conditioned to think on a single plane, thus interpreting everything polemically, in the manner of a teeter-totter. The Traditional mind, on the other hand, thinks in terms of “transcendence”, which Evola … Continue reading
Bonfire of the Vanities
One cannot possess the virtues, while remaining obsessed with lusts and the “satisfaction of life”. And where there is lawlessness, someone must lay down the law. Continue reading