This speech was givern at a New Right meeting in central London on 16th January 2005.
The MSI leader, Almirante, once memorably described Evola as “our Marcuse, only better.” But “anti-Marcuse” would have been more apt, because whilst Evola, like Marcuse, diagnoses modern man as “One-dimensional,” he does not seek to replace him with new illusions: instead of Utopia, he offers Tradition. Read more…
1. REVOLUTION – COUNTERREVOLUTION – TRADITION
In the opening chapter of his work, Evola can be forgiven for appearing to sound like a typical Catholic fundamentalist. According to the Baron, socio-political subversion (eversio) was introduced into Europe for the first time with the 1789 and 1848 revolutions. Read more…
Now, with “Men Among the Ruins,” the political Evola also enters the ruinous cultural landscape of America. The esoteric scene is already able to access the magistral “Introduction to Magic” (and with striking success, so we hear). Now comes the dynamite of Evola’s world view, packed in the warning colors of black and red. Happily it appears not from a marginalized publisher of the radical right, nor (unsurprisingly) from an academic publisher, but from an esoteric publishing house that is respectable (if somewhat New Age oriented), and Jewish owned. We mention this because it gives it a certain reassurance, which might delay the explosion. Another safety-mechanism, as Joscelyn Godwin aptly remarks in his Foreword, is the hundred-page introduction to Evola’s political thought by H. T. Hansen.The placement of a thinker in his historical and biographical context naturally relativizes the ideas that he advocates–however apodictically he may have expressed them. Read more…