CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION, REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD
All revolutions are doctrinal. For it stands to common
sense that you cannot upset all existing things, unless you believe in
something outside them, something positive and divine.
— G.K. Chesterton
REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD
A thinking person must come to the conclusion to
reject the current system in its entirety. This national crisis makes a total
change necessary. The European and worldwide crisis can only be resolvable
through a radical political transformation.
What the world needs is in some ways a revival of the past. This past may be
called "mythical" in the sense that it is not the past of official
history but what the myths tell us of former ages. We emphasize the revision of
conventional history to create a true view of the past, which has been
destroyed by various developments under the name of progess.
The nations of the modern world are largely governed by political parties. A
study of this fact will reveal that a political party is, by definition, a body
which represents part of the nation, rather than the whole of the nation. Thus,
in a typical "democracy" we have parties which represent different
interests. The party principal promotes the division within the population to
the detriment of the National Interest, the common good and the freedom of the
individual. To the idea of division based upon class, religion or status, we
counterpoise the idea of national unity. An unity
based upon the need to seek the temporal and spiritual welfare of every
citizen; upon the notion that true unity is a consequence of an all embracing
justice; upon the recognition of a nation as a community of communities. A
political party necessarily promotes conflict and hatred; we reject these
nihilistic tendencies and seek the promotion of co-operation, love of family
and community and a sense of honour, tradition and
common cause.
Basically, one can say it is best to avoid dramatic social and political change
but the current situation and the revolutions
The Wesern nations need to regain the heroic spirit
of this lost past through radical social, cultural and moral transformations. The
necessary changes cannot be brought about by tinkering within the System, or by
relying on the System's own institutions. They can only spring from a
Counter-Revolution. This revolution must begin in the hearts and minds of
individuals, then spread by example to involve whole
communities in alternative structures. Once we cease to depend on the old
State, it can be swept aside. This means to create a new type of total culture
in which values, politics, art, social norms, and economic activity are all
part of a single organic national community. This changes
must attempt to transform society in order to overcome perceived sources of
national weakness. There is hardly one healthy part of the nation's existing
political and social life to be retained. Since a change cannot be made by
evolutionary development, we therefore try to bring about revolutionary change.
In this way and in this sense we are revolutionary and opposed to conservatism
as the strive to maintain the present state and avoid
dramatic social and political change. The decadence of our society is such that
we can only be a revolutionary movement with its objective nothing but a total
and complete transformation of our society and its life principal.
Modern liberal-capitalist society cannot be "reformed". Between the soul destroying materialism of this system, with its
attendant curses of mass unemployment, drug addiction, sexual deviancy, and
spiritual and cultural degeneration, and the New Social Order sought for the
good of our People, there is an unbridgeable gap. The crisis will end and a new
age will begin that restores the people to a sense of belonging, purpose, and
greatness. We need to take drastic action against our nation's
"inner" enemies. The end result of this conservative revolution will
be the emergence of a new man and new woman. This new man and new woman will be
fully developed human beings, uncontaminated by selfish desires for individual
rights and self-expression and devoted only to an existence as part of the
renewed nation's destiny. The worst Age, the current Age of Iron would then
necessarily be followed by a new Golden Age. Though for the time being one
cannot hope to bring about the dawn of a New Golden Age he still has the choice
to fight the demons in himself and within society to form distinguished
individuals and a state of order. "I don't believe that philosophy
taken in its narrow theoretical meaning, is able to
influence politics. It has to be turned into ideology or universal vision of
the world. Such an example was given by Enlightenment, Marxist dialectic
materialism and by certain philosophical ideas, which were included in the
concept of German national socialism." (Julius
Evola, excerpt from an interview)
The “differentiated person” feels like an outsider in this society and feels
no moral obligation toward society’s request that he joins what he regards as
an absurd system. Such a person can understand not only those who live
outside society’s parameters, but even those who are set against such (a)
society, or better, this society. (Julius Evola, Cavalcare la tigre, p.
179.)
”Again, we can see that the
various facets of the contemporary social and political chaos are interrelated
and that it is impossible to effectively contrast them other than by returning
to the origins. To go back to the origins means, plain and simple, to
reject everything that, in every domain, whether social, political and
economic, is connected to the “immortal principles” of 1789 in the guise of
libertarian, individualistic and egalitarian thought, and to oppose to it
a hierarchical view. It is only in the context of such a view that the
value and freedom of man as a person are not mere words or pretexts for a work
of destruction and subversion.” (Julius Evola,
Gli uomini e le rovine, Rome: Edizioni Settimo Sigillo, 1990, p. 64.)
"The actual western «civilization» is awaiting
for a substantial revolution without which it is destined, sooner or later, to
collapse. It has realized the most complete perversion of every rational order
of things. Kingdom of subjects, gold, car, number, in it there no way to breath
any more, neither liberty, nor light. The West has lost the meaning of command
and obey. It has lost the meaning of the action and
Contemplation. It has lost the meaning of hierarchy, of spiritual power, of man-gods.
It doesn't know the nature anymore. This not for the western man, a living body
made of symbols, of Gods and rituals, a splendid cosmos, in which man moves
freely, as «a kingdom in a kingdom». It has decayed in an opaque and fatal
appearance, of which the profane sciences try to ignore the mystery with small
laws and small hypotheses instead. The west doesn't know the Wisdom anymore: it
doesn't know the stately silence of the dominators of itself anymore, the calm
illuminated of the Clairvoyants, the superb «solar» reality of those people in
which the Idea made himself blood, life and power. To the Wisdom have taken
over the rhetoric of the «philosophy» and of the «culture», the teachers'
kingdom, the journalists', the sportsmen', the scheme, the programs, the proclamation. To it have taken over the sentimental
contamination, religious, humanitarian, and the race of the
"speakers" who get excited and run, intoxicated, while exalting the
«to become» and the «practice», because the silence and the contemplation
frighten them. The west doesn't know the meaning of State anymore. The
state-value, 1'Imperium as synthesis of spirituality and royalty as street to
the «upper-world», as it was known to the great ancient civilizations, from
China to Egypt, from Persia to Rome and to the Sacred Roman Empire of the
German Nation, has been submerged in the bourgeois poverty of a trust of slaves
and merchants. What the war is, the one war wanted in oneself as a superior
value both to win and to lose as that sacred way of spiritual realization for
which the celestial centre of Wotan, the Walhalla, is
privilege of the fallen heroes on the battleground; for this reason in Islam
the «holy war», jihad, is synonymous of «God's way»; for this reason in Aryan
India the warrior appears beside the ascetics and in the classical ancient
world the "mors triumphalis"
is interpreted as victory on the death. What such a war is, they don't know,
these formidable «activists» of Europe, that don't know more warriors but only
soldiers, and that a little war has been enough to terrorize them and make them
revert in the rhetoric of the humanitarianism, of the pacifism and of the
sentimentalism. Europe has lost simplicity, has lost the centrality,
This and the claimed result of the superstition of the «Progress», away from
the imperial power of Rome, from the Doric Hellas, from all the other exemplary
forms of the great primordial Aryan civilizations.
And the circle closes more and more around the few that are still able to feel
the great disgust and the great revolt." (JULIUS
EVOLA, Pagan Imperialism, Lipsia 1933)
It is true to say that people cannot stage a revolution without leadership,
just as the leadership cannot fulfill a revolution without the people's forces.
The leadership and the people are in fact, two sides of the same coin.
"Our momentary situation takes the form of a great battle--a battle
which may take more than one war to resolve it, or which may be resolved by a
sudden cataclysmic happening, entirely unforeseeable to us now. On the surface
of history it is the unforeseen that happens. The most human beings can do is
to be prepared inwardly." (Francis Parker Yockey )
ESCHATOLOGY, DAJJAL AND IMAM MAHDI
The signs are unmistakable on the not too distant
horizon of the apocalyptic events summarized by the name of the
"Antichrist" (Dajjal) and the appearance of
the Savior (Jesus [a.s.], Imam Mahdi
[a.s.], Kalki, Maitreya). We must recognize the times in which we are
living. It does not follow that we know the hour of judgment, for no one can
know that. On the contrary, there are also indications of the possibility of a
"global Intifada" which would shake off the
approaching menace and thus delay the hour for several decades, or centuries. Now,
what is the Dajjal, the Antichrist? In one sense,
certainly, he will be a man, the highest ruler of the counter-hierarchy, a
negative Chakravartin, who will rule the new world
order of Mammon in person. But primarily he is nothing other than the
resistance of the ego, of materialistic cravings, against the new irruption of
eternity into time which will end this dark age and
begin a new cycle.
Obviously the preparation for the Antichrist has been helped along by the fact
that a majority of mankind is concerned only with material things and with an
ever-increasing quantity with the loss of all quality, and furthermore,
deflected from any inwardness through the demon of the mass-media, pornography,
and drug consumption. In this spiritually poisoned atmosphere, a vague need for
salvation and liberation is felt: the "New Age" points in that
direction, with Satanism and parts of Theosophy as its conscious aspect, and a
great number of adherents of the great religions (charismatics,
ecumenists, etc.) as its unconscious. The "Antichrist" will appear in
the guise of a savior and preach one of these current parodies of the
traditional teachings. His appearance presumes several things: a globalized civilization with the capacity for direct
technical communication, which has clearly been present for several years; an
almost complete disappearance of past moral assumptions, the so-called
"change of values" or, better, "collapse of values"; the
dulling of the heart through the incessant flooding with violent and sexual
images, which no one can escape even when rejecting this perversion. The latter
blocks any "intelligence of the heart," which alone allows one to
distinguish the Antichrist from the true Savior, as both apparently promise the same for the masses. This applies outside the
Islamic lands, since
The decision must be made today to slay the Antichrist in the great Jihad in
one's own breast, so as to be able to face him in the outer world. The first is
the spiritual duty and the legitimate initiation, which is to be accomplished
today, and not an aesthetic gathering of the fairest spiritual blossoms that
former ages have brought forth. And last of all is the "political"
task that remains: not to quarrel about ruling systems or over Left and Right,
but to oppose the "great Satan"! The coming of the personified Dajjal can be stopped, if one can succeed in breaking the
grip of mankind's enemy on the globe. An economic collapse at the "right"
moment may be part of the plan of the New World Order, but the world-usurer's
system could also collapse at the "wrong" moment, bringing the
mega-machine to a halt. But this does not lie in our hands. Other uncertainties
include natural catastrophes, not least a pole-shift, which is always connected
with the restitution of the Golden Age and the primordial, Hyperborean
Tradition, and which strangely enough is even predicted for the not too distant
future by materialistic science.
We are not very optimistic that the course of events will change much, in view
of the principle that the world of outer appearances is merely the projected
soul-condition of mankind. The concrete deserts are inside us; unbridled
desires preconditioned the deluge of advertising; long before the dissolution
of states, the soul-hierarchy was destroyed within us. What appears as an
obstacle may in the last resort bring about the intended result (but also vice
versa). He who thinks that, given the depressing state of the world, he can
only save his own soul will certainly not save it, because he obviously clings
so much to his ego that he will die with it. As approaching the hour of death,
the life of the beyond already enters the dying person, so that a happiness,
inexplicable in medical terms, often comes shortly before the final crisis, the
conscious witnesses of the last hours are blessed with the reflection of the
new Golden Age of the next human cycle. Evola speaks
of this, when he closes his Revolt against the Modern World with these
reassuring words: "although the Kali Yuga is an age of great destruction,
those who live during it and manage to remain standing may achieve fruits that
were not easily achieved by men living in other ages."
CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION
"If God does not exist, everything is
permitted." (Fedor Dostoevsky)
The famous critical diagnosis of Friedrich Nietzsche that "God is
dead" and his concomitant insight into the devaluation of all values in
the name of enlightenment reason together with the experiences of the first
world war have especially led german intellectuals to
question and challenge the political heritage of the French Revolution and the
intellectual heritage of a self-destructive enlightenment reason, as they
perceived it. Against these two mutually reinforcing paradigms of political and
cultural modernity these intellectuals then tried to reestablish a way of
thinking that is premised on regaining firm ground for social, cultural and
political development in transsubjective and transhistorical powers such as God, tradition or a
mythological notion of nature.
It is necessary to be clear as to the significance of these ideological
traditions. They embrace in fact some of the most significant theorists of
European politics: Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt,
Ernst Junger, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Ernst Niekisch, Friedrich Hielscher and Otto Strasser of
Germany and a veritable host of publicists of inter-war
These thinkers have been categorized by the German New Right theorist Armin Mohler as part of the broad
‘Conservative Revolution’ in 1920’s/1930’s
In the context of
This line of thought has not only inspired a great number of German
intellectuals in the post-war era, including famous authors such as Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann and Carl Schmitt, but also strongly
influenced for example the work of Ernst Forsthoff,
Arnold Gehlen and Helmut Schelsky.