Category: Left and Right

Left? Right? What are we doing?

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For a French Awakening

by Charles Maurras Arktos Journal Apr 20, 2024 In honor of Charles Maurras’ birthday today, we are publishing the following excerpt from Chapter 1 of For a French Awakening by Charles Maurras (Arktos, 2016). How will France awaken? To what extent have we been right in accepting this […]

Carl Schmitt, Acclamation and The State

Luke Collison Historical materialism 2019: In the 1930s Schmitt, amongst others, attempted to sever the self-evident synonymity between ‘democracy’ and ‘liberal parliamentarism’ (specifically, the procedural form of the individual secret ballot). Against parliamentarism, Schmitt advanced a ‘substantive’ theory of the people and a correlated conception of democratic participation […]

Vanguardism for the Right: Part 1

by Christopher Jolliffe Christopher Jolliffe Apr 12, 2024 Christopher Jolliffe examines the challenges facing modern conservative movements in the West, highlighting the strategic dominance of leftist ideologies across cultural and institutional arenas. There was a time when every schoolboy knew the story of the Battle of Arnhem, where […]

Why the Left Should Reject Heidegger’s Thought. Part One: The Question of Being. By: Colin Bodayle

Midwestern Marx Institute Heideggerian thought is everywhere. A list of thinkers influenced by Heidegger reads like a “who’s who” of famous twentieth century philosophers. Foucault said: “For me, Heidegger has always been the essential philosopher.”[1] Derrida once called Heidegger “the great unavoidable thinker of the century.”[2] Sartre conceived […]

Why Limits Liberate

By James Orr Konstantin Kisin Mar 18, 2024 This is the third and final piece in a debate between Dr James Orr and Professor Stephen Hicks. This article is a response to the previous piece Stephen wrote in which he argued that “Liberalism Solves Everything” which can be […]

Three Kinds of Socialism

I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss a working schema I have for classifying the socialist left. I see broadly three kinds of Socialist left: (1) Libertarian Socialist (US labor movement, anarchism etc.); (2) Synthetic or Trostksy cultural left and (3) Stalinist or Hydrolic Empire Left. […]

Guy Debord’s Perspective on Stalinism

by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Feb 28, 2024 Dmitry Moiseev examines Guy Debord’s critique of how Stalin purportedly betrayed Marxist principles and Lenin’s revolution. The critiques of Soviet power in the twentieth century by ideological Marxists were often significantly sharper than those offered by right-wing thinkers. Traditionalists and […]

The Philosophy of Italian Fascism

Arktos Journal Feb 19, 2024 AVAILABLE NOW FROM ARKTOS The Philosophy of Italian Fascism: Formation & Evolution, by Dmitry Moiseev Italian Fascism: its era has passed, yet its intellectual underpinnings remain a subject of intense scholarly debate. In his groundbreaking monograph, Russian scholar Dmitry Moiseev delves into the […]

Tucker Carlson and MAGA Communism

by Alexander Dugin Arktos Journal Feb 10, 2024 Alexander Dugin discusses Tucker Carlson’s visit to Russia, highlighting its political implications for patriotic American conservatives and leftists alike in their unified challenge against globalist liberalism. To highlight once more: Tucker Carlson is not merely a journalist or a nonconformist […]

Guillaume Faye on Radical Thought

by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Feb 2, 2024 Dmitry Moiseev discusses Guillaume Faye’s exploration of radical thought, which can reshape ideological landscapes. In his seminal work Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (1998), the French philosopher Guillaume Faye (1949-2019) posits that radical thought is a thought aimed […]

Why Does Capitalism Now Prefer the Left?

VK Telegram Mail.Ru Odnoklassniki Blogger LiveJournal Email Print Share Political philosophy Europe Italy 22.01.2024 Diego Fusaro The old bourgeois capitalism, in the dialectical phase, preferred the culture of the Right, with its nationalism, its disciplinary authoritarianism, its patriarchy, its alliance with the altar and its values, at that […]

The Right Time to Reclaim the Earth

by J. W. van der Vogelweide Arktos Journal Jan 21, 2024 J. W. van der Vogelweide explores the right’s traditional ecological values and critiques modernity’s impact on nature, advocating a deep ecological understanding and the preservation of European heritage amidst global environmental and demographic shifts. Throughout history, the […]

Why I Left Progressivism

Libertarian author and podcaster Keith Knight discusses his book Domestic Imperialism: 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism. (Ep. 2436 ) Sponsors: Monetary Metals: https://monetary-metals.com/woods Persist SEO: https://ineedseo.help Book Discussed: Domestic Imperialism: 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism https://a.co/d/cP92Aie Guest’s Podcast: Don’t Tread on Anyone @KeithKnightDontTreadonAnyone@KeithKnightDontTreadonAnyone Guest’s Twitter: @an_capitalist

The Road to Autocracy

By Joel Kotkin December 28, 2023/in Politics, The Economy Ernst Nolte’s Three Faces of Fascism examined the three devastating ideologies that led to the undermining of European democracy in the 1930s. Today, democratic life is also under threat – and there are also three basic forms that this […]

Steven Pinker vs John Mearsheimer debate the enlightenment | Part 1 & 2 of FULL DEBATE

#JohnMearsheimer #TheEnlightenment #StevenPinker John Mearsheimer and Steven Pinker go head to head on Enlightement ideals. Watch the full debate at https://iai.tv/video/the-enlightenmen… The Enlightenment advocated reason, science, democracy, and universal human rights as a grounding for human morality and social organization. In the quarter millennium since, to what extent […]

How Did Marxism Become Marxism?

WEB VERSION December 18, 2023 Bookworms and Fieldworkers Before there was Marxism, there was just Marx and Engels and a scattering of activists, conspiracists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals committed to a shared cause. How did a set of ideas transform into a global movement and political tradition? How did, […]

Benedetto Croce: Anti-Egalitarian

by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Dec 13, 2023 Dmitry Moiseev discusses Benedetto Croce, whose radical rejection of egalitarianism marks a major deviation from mainstream political thought influenced by the French Enlightenment. Neo-Hegelian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) is often regarded as the most influential Italian liberal of the twentieth […]

Yukio Mishima: Action and Art

Chōkōdō Shujin Dec 9, 2023 Chōkōdō Shujin examines the tension between personal artistic drive and national characteristics, as exemplified by Yukio Mishima’s life and work, which epitomized the spirit of ancient Japan and the pursuit of beauty in creative expression and deeds. It is quite plausible that an […]

The Phonies Will Be Revealed

by Kenneth Schmidt Arktos Journal Nov 28, 2023 Kenneth Schmidt discusses the current political shift toward national-conservative governments and the challenges they face in maintaining their agendas. Back in the nineties, I was giving speeches and writing articles claiming that nationalism, in some form, would become a major […]