Vico identifies three customs of all nations: religion, marriage, funerals, which are reinforced by religious practices. Otherwise, the world would return to a brutish state and again become a wilderness. Continue reading
Category Archives: Counterrevolution
La Revolution Devore Ses Enfants
What we’ve got on our throne is a collective demon or elemental force, generated by centuries of passions and muddled thought. Satan is a man of Law, and wouldn’t dream of having dinner with revolutionaries. He’d rather joust with a man of the Right. Continue reading
The Christian Social Order & Pythagoras
Christopher Ferrara gives a very basic, but nonetheless interesting tour of Western civilization here. I hadn’t heard of Werner Jaeger, but I’ve ordered his three volume set. One sentence really springs to mind: “The State was the atmosphere within which the soul breathed”. This was the common link or identical … Continue reading
The Apples of the Hesperides – Hercules’ Eleventh Labor
With the ancients, we affirm that no man consciously would will Evil. Which is why it is the duty of every man of Order to subdue himself, that when he creates, he may create according to the whole Eye of Light, perceiving the Logos not through a glass darkly, but almost face-to-face. Continue reading
The Principles of Well-bred Men
Julius Evola famously said, in denying he was a fascist, that his principles were those that “every well-bred man considered healthy, sane, and normal prior to the French revolution.” It is time, now, to investigate, describe, and defend those principles. There are two phases in the recovery of Tradition, i.e., … Continue reading
The Russian Turn
Alexander Dugin has pointed out that Russia has had no Enlightenment. In the context of this survival & ancient adversarial relationship towards the West, Nicholas Berdyaev is worth quoting in full (he is analyzing the Westernizer Trubetskoi): In this world there is no mystical translucency. But after his devastating of … Continue reading
The Frankfurt School
It seems, judging from the among of attention it gets, that the Frankfurt school is better known, at least in name, among those on the “right” than those on the left who are allegedly influenced by its doctrines. Its founders were Horkheimer and Adorno, two basically unreadable authors. Then there … Continue reading
Are You a Counterrevolutionary?
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre My principles are only those that prior to the French revolution, every well born person considered healthy and normal. ~ Julius Evola At a time when the right is … Continue reading