Why We Fight
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Fighting for the Essence
by Pierre Krebs
Can Life Prevail?
by Pentti Linkola
A Handbook of Traditional Living
by Raido
The Jedi in the Lotus: Star Wars and the Hindu Tradition
by Steven J. Rosen
It Cannot Be Stormed
by Ernst von Salomon
Tradition & Revolution
by Troy Southgate
Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right
by Tomislav Sunic
The Initiate: Journal of Traditional Studies
by David J. Wingfield (ed.)
[1]Guillaume Faye, Nouvelle discours à la nation européenne (Paris: L’Æncre, 1999), p. 213.
[2]Walter Laqueur, The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009).
[3]See Fondation Robert Schuman, ‘L’Union européenne face aux défies de l’extrémisme identitaire’ (12 July 2010), available at Fondation Robert Schuman (www.robert-schuman.eu/question_europe.php?num=qu-177). Also Stéphane François, ‘Réflexions sur le mouvement “identitaire”’ (3 March 2009), available at Fragments sur les Temps Présents (tempspresents.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/reflexions-sur-le-mouvement-identitaire-12/).
[4]Translated as Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (London: Arktos, 2010).
[5]On the links between the Zionist far Right and the European, especially French, nationalist far Right, see Pierre Vial, ‘Grandes manoeuvres juives de séduction à l’égard de l’extrême droite européenne’, in Terre et Peuple 44 (Summer 2010).
[6]See Michael O’Meara, ‘Guillaume Faye and the Jews’ (31 July 2006), available at The Occidental Quarterly Online (www.toqonline.com/blog/guillaume-faye-and-the-jews/); and Michael O’Meara, ‘The New Jewish Question of Guillaume Faye’, in The Occidental Quarterly vol. 7, no. 3 (Fall 2007), also available at The Occidental Quarterly Online (www.toqonline.com/archives/v7n3/7310OMearaFaye.pdf).
[7]See K. R. Bolton, ‘Origins of the Cold War: How Stalin Foiled a “New World Order”’ (31 May 2010), available at Foreign Policy Journal (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/05/31/origins-of-the-cold-war-how-stalin-foild-a-new-world-order/).
[8]‘Alleged’ in the sense that the Americans, Russians, and British, unlike the Germans, waged the war as altar boys — i.e., in a sense that goes beyond all reference to National Socialism. For in the spirit of liberalism’s self-righteous, de-spiritualised Protestant suppositions, it inevitably treats every form of anti-liberal ideology as an inhuman malignity, whose only remedy is extermination. See Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932); Joseph de Maistre, ‘Reflections on Protestantism in Its Relations to Sovereignty’, in Christopher Olaf Blum (ed.), Critics of the Enlightenment (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2004), pp. 133-156; and Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 53-58.
[9]See Guillaume Faye, Archeofuturism, pp. 23-51. Also Robert Steuckers, ‘Les pistes manquées de la “nouvelle droite”: Pour une critique constructive’ (2009), available at Euro-Synergies (euro-synergies.hautetfort.com/archive/2009/08/28/les-pistes-manquees-de-la-nouvelle-droite-pour-une-critique.html).
[10]See Alain de Benoist, ‘Les causes culturelles du changement politique’ (1981) in La Ligue de mire, 1975-1987 (Paris: La Labyrinthe, 1995); and Georges Gondinet, ‘Les ambiguités du “gramscianisme du droite”’ in Totalité: Révolution et Tradition 10 (November 1979).
[11]Pierre Vial, Une terre, un people (Paris: Éds. Terre et Peuple, 2000). The Terre et Peuple website is at terreetpeuple.com.
[12]Sylvain Crépon, ‘Le tournant anti-capitaliste du Front National’ (2006), available at Fragments sur les Temps Présents (tempspresents.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/sylvain-crepon-tournant-anti-capitaliste-du-front-national). Accessed 7 March 2011.
[13]Steuckers’ two websites are Euro-Synergies, at euro-synergies.hautetfort.com/, and Vouloir, at vouloir.hautetfort.com/.
[14]Guglielmo Ferrero, Words to the Deaf: A Historian Contemplates his Age (New York: Putnam, 1926), p. 116.
[15]Faye did ten years of Graeco-Latin studies with the Jesuits, who educated the children of the high Parisian bourgeoisie.
[16]A literary example of this can be found in Joyce’s modernist master work, Ulysses, which retells the founding story of European man, utilising ‘mythopoeic imagery, structural features, formal principles, and linguistic resources’ taken from the earliest Greek and Irish myths. See Maria Tymoczko, The Irish Ulysses (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), p. 1.
[17]Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, p. 28.
[18]See Michael O’Meara, ‘Europe’s Enemy: Islam or America?’, in The Occidental Quarterly vol. 5, no. 3 (Fall 2005). Available at The Occidental Quarterly Online (toqonline.com/archives/v5n3/53-mo-faye.pdf).
[19]Alexandre Del Valle, Islam et États-Unis: Une alliance contre Europe (Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme, 1997).
[20]See Bat Ye’or, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005); also Guillaume Faye, La Colonisation de l’Europe: Discours vrai sur l’immigration et l’Islam (Paris: L’Æncre, 2000).
[21]Serge Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet (Salisbury: Regina Orthodox Press, 2007).
[22]See Alain de Benoist, Europe, Tiers monde, même combat (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1986); more recently, ‘Interview mit Alain de Benoist’ in Hier & Jetzt 15 (14 July 2010). Cf. Martin Lichtmesz, ‘Alain de Benoist unter Muslimen und Mauertaniern’ (27 July 2010), available at Sezession im Netz (www.sezession.de/17988/alain-de-benoist-unter-muslimen-und-mauretaniern.html).
[23] Bereft of a historical project and nostalgic for the good old days of the Popular Front, the Left (it still calls itself this!) continues to see Adolf Hitler lurking in the GRECE’s shadow, but the establishment (which has realised much of the Left’s historic project) is increasingly less critical of it. Jean-Yves Camus, in ‘La Nouvelle droite: Bilan provisoire d’une école de pensée’, La Pensée 345 (January-March 2006), now certifies it as ‘system friendly’.
[24]On Benoist’s ethnopluralist rejection of identitarianism, see Michael O’Meara, ‘The Faye-Benoist Debate on Multiculturalism’ (11 May 2004), available at La Nueva Derecha (foster.20megsfree.com/468.htm); Michael O’Meara, ‘Benoist’s Pluriversum: An Ethnonationalist Critique’ in The Occidental Quarterly vol. 5, no. 3 (Fall 2005), available at The Occidental Quarterly Online (www.toqonline.com/archives/v5n3/53-mo-pluriversum.pdf); and Michael O’Meara, ‘Community of Destiny or Community of Tribes?’ in Ab Aeterno 2 (March 2010), available at Counter-Currents (www.counter-currents.com/2010/08/community-of-destiny-or-community-of-tribes/).
[25]See Javier Esparza, ‘Le pari de la post-modernité’ (1986); Claudio Risé, ‘La postmodernité est une revolution conservatrice!’ (1997); and Robert Steuckers, ‘La genèse de la postmodernité’ (1989), all available at Vouloir (vouloir.hautetfort.com/archive/2011/02/10/pm.html).
[26]Martin Wolf, ‘The Rescue of Bear Stearns Marks Liberalisation’s Limit’, Financial Times, 26 March 2008 (available at www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8ced5202-fa94-11dc-aa46-000077b07658.html).
[27]Alan Greenspan, ‘An Update on Economic Conditions in the United States’, available at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/1998/19980610.htm).
[28]See Ted Sallis, ‘The Overman High Culture: Future of the West’ (21 October 2010), available at Counter-Currents (www.counter-currents.com/author/tsallis/); Charles Lindholm and José Pedro Zúquete, The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010); and Michael O’Meara, ‘Against the Armies of the Night: The Aurora Movements’ (21 June 2010), available at Counter-Currents (www.counter-currents.com/2010/07/against-the-armies-of-the-night/).
[29] Herwig Birg, in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, no. 20 (2
003).
[30] Dr. Krebs wrote this Foreword in 2006.
[31] Herwig Birg, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 1 April 2006.
[32]Neue Kultur, or ‘New Culture’, is a term used to describe the various New Right movements throughout Europe. –Ed.
[33] Italian: ‘fury of the French’. This term was first applied to the French by the Italians during the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, which was fought in northern Italy, to describe the power of French infantry attacks.–Ed.
[34] An expression coined by Julius Evola in a book of the same name to describe the problems faced by an individual who attempts to resist the norms and values of the modern world while simultaneously being forced to live in it.–Ed.
[35] Guillaume Faye, Avant-Guerre: Chronique d’un cataclysme annoncé (Paris: Editions de l’Aencre, 2002), p. 9.
[36] Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was a French philosopher who is widely regarded as the most important of the postmodernist philosophers. His work has had an enormous impact on philosophy and literary theory since the 1970s. His work led to the technique of ‘deconstruction’, by which it is held that no text or idea can be reduced to a single meaning, but rather that every text can be interpreted in many different, and contradictory, ways, thus denying that an authoritative meaning can be claimed any text.–Ed.
[37]Bernhard Kummer (1897-1962) was a scholar of Old Norse language, culture and religion. He was active within the National Socialist Party both before and during the Third Reich and was a supporter of the German Faith Movement.–Ed.
[38] Bernhard Kummer, Anfang und Ende des faustischen Jahrtausends (Leipzig: Klein, 1934).
[39]The German edition of Why We Fight (Wofür wir kämpfen) was published by Dr. Krebs’ Thule-Seminar as the second volume of their Polemos series. The first volume was Pierre Krebs, Im Kampf um das Wesen (Horn: Weecke, 1997).–Ed.
[40]Classical Greek: ‘story’.–Ed.
[41] Classical Greek: ‘nation’, in the sense of an ethnic community.–Ed.
[42] Classical Greek: ‘clan’.–Ed.
[43] Faye defines this term in the dictionary.–Ed.
[44]From a presidential campaign interview given on 14 December 1965.
[45]In May 1968, a series of strikes by radical Left-wing student groups in Paris were joined by a strike of the majority of the French work-force, shutting down France and nearly bringing down the government of Charles de Gaulle. Although the strikes ended in failure and had evaporated by July, they are still seen as the decisive moment when traditional French society was forced to give way to the more liberal attitude that has come to define France in subsequent years.
[46]Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was a prominent French anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist who studied social dynamics, and he opposed neo-liberalism and globalisation. He was also the foremost Marxist academic in France in his day.
[47]Daniel Cohn-Bendit (b. 1945) is a leader of the French Green Party and has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994. He first came to prominence during the May 1968 student demonstrations in Paris.
[48]José Bové (b. 1953) politician who has been an activist in agricultural causes such as organic farming, and has also opposed globalisation and Israel’s occupation of Palestine. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.
[49]Jules Renard (1864-1910) was a French writer whose journals were well-known. This passage comes from The Journal of Jules Renard (New York: George Braziller, 1964), p. 117.
[50]Julius Evola (1898-1974) was the most important Italian member of the traditionalist school, which is to say that he opposed modernity in favour of an approach to life consistent with the teachings of the ancient sacred texts. His most important book, available in English, is Revolt Against the Modern World.
[51]René Guénon (1886-1951) was a French writer who founded what has come to be known as the traditionalist school of religious thought. Traditionalism calls for a rejection of the modern world and its philosophies in favour of a return to the spirituality and ways of living of the past (Guénon himself ended up living as a Sufi Muslim in Cairo). He outlines his attitude toward modernity in The Crisis of the Modern World, which is available in English.
[52]Raymond Abellio (1907-1986) was the pen name of Georges Soulès, a French writer on mysticism. He worked for the Vichy government of occupied France and was the secretary general of the Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire, a French fascist party. After the war, he attempted to unite the forces of the far Left and Right in order to create a Eurasian Empire that would stretch from the Atlantic to Japan.
[53]In the context of modern European politics, the conflict between notions of sovereignty and federalism is about the degree to which the various European nations should rule themselves independently, versus how much they should be subject to the authority of the European Union.
[54]Latin: ‘seed’ or ‘germ’.
[55]Marianne, symbolising Liberty and Reason, appears on the emblem of France, therefore Faye is referring to the sewers of France.
[56]‘The cause of peoples’ is a slogan coined by Alain de Benoist’s GRECE, by which it is meant that the cause of the New Right should be to preserve the unique ethnocultural identity of all groups, not only that of the Europeans. Faye has written an essay on the subject entitled ‘Cause of Peoples’ for Terre et Peuple which has been translated by the Guillaume Faye Archive, available at guillaumefayearchive.wordpress.com/2007/07/07/the-cause-of-the-peoples/.
[57]I.e., immigrant youth.-Tr.
[58]North African Arabs and sub-Saharan Negroes.-Tr.
[59]Laurent Joffrin (b. 1952) was the editor of the Left-wing daily Libération. He left this position in March 2011.
[60]Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) is considered by many to have been one of the greatest French authors of the Twentieth century. He was also an unapologetic racist and anti-Semite. He outlines the idea that ‘tom-tom’ culture will infiltrate the West in his book Trifles for a Massacre (1937), which is available in English translation at the VHO Web site (www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres6/CELINEtrif.pdf), and has also been published by Les Editions de La Reconquête in Paraguay in 2010. ‘Tom-tom’ is slang for African-style drumming.
[61]This is the Franco-Prussian War, which was fought in 1870-71 between France and several of the German states under the leadership of Prussia. The German victory in the war led to the collapse of the Second French Empire and the unification of the German states into one nation for the first time.
[62]Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was a prominent French philosopher. Initially sympathetic to the ideals of German philosophy, his views changed drastically following the French defeat in 1871. His opposition to the German concept of nationalism was outlined in his 1882 essay, ‘What is a Nation?’, in which he contrasted the idea of the nation as a ‘daily referendum’ rather than being the product of a shared cultural, historical and linguistic heritage. The essay is available through The Cooper Union Web site at www.cooper.edu/humanities/core/hss3/e_renan.html.
[63]The Pleven Law was passed by the French Parliament in July 1972, making it illegal to incite racial hatred either through speech or writing, or to use language that is perceived as racially defamatory.
[64]The Gayssot Act, which was enacted by the French Parliament in July 1990, makes it illegal to deny or question the severity of the Holocaust.
[65]This term was first coined by French sociologist Michel Crozier in a 1970 book, translated as The Stalled Society (New York: Viking Press, 1973). He used it to describe France’s tendency to have too much bureaucracy which stifles social change, leading to problems that can only be resolved in times of crisis.
[66]Exclusion, in the contemporary French context, means those who are entirely divorced from the labour market and mainstream society, particularly, but not limited to, those of the unemployed whose social benefits have expired.
[67]The Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, or Freedom Party of Austria, is a Right-wing party which was pr
aised by some on the Right and denounced by many for its alleged Far Right sympathies. The FPÖ is still in existence although many of its members split off to form a new party, the Austrian People’s Party, in 2005.
[68]Ubu Roi is a well-known play by Alfred Jarry written in 1896, and which is regarded as one of the primary precursors of the Theatre of the Absurd. Ubu, the main character, is depicted as the culmination of all of the flaws of modern man, being selfish, cruel, vulgar and dishonest, and manages to become King by murdering his predecessor.
[69]Decisionism, or Dezisionismus in the original German, was a term first coined by the German legal scholar Carl Schmitt. According to Schmitt, the validity of a particular moral or legal precept has nothing to do with its specific nature, but only depends on the authority from which it was issued.
[70]Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) was a French politician and philosopher who opposed capitalism and did not believe in state ownership of property, instead believing that property should belong to workers’ groups.