An interesting review of Gary Lachman’s new book Politics and the Occult: The Left, The Right, and the Radically Unseen. The review emphasizes C. G. Jung and the Nazi angle:
Jung’s encounter with Nazism is a red herring. Whether he was inclined toward Nazism or not (and I don’t think he was), like Schwaller de Lubicz, Jung was in many ways a “man of the right.” Like René Guénon, he had little love for the modern world. He built his famous tower, Bollingen, on the shores of Lake Zurich so he could escape from modern banality and immerse himself in older, mythic forms of consciousness. He was notoriously disparaging of modern culture and saw works like James Joyce’s Ulysses and Picasso’s paintings as indications of a psychic deterioration
Dan Books Jung, Politics
The Sovereign Individual vs. The Mass Man
Christ was not so much the ‘suffering servant’ but the anarchic Royal man for others.
Karl Barth
Contemporary anarchist discourse largely centres on a reactionary synthesis of politically-correct liberalism and leftist socialism. Even if one hears the mantra of ‘post-leftism’ (in the Bob Black sense of the word) voiced by leftists in Britain, the usual liberal left-socialist presuppositions are usually always there if you care to dig beneath the surface (see the Unabomber Manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, and particularly the chapter entitled The Mass Psychology of Leftism). Read more…
Jim Green Rising press Anarchy, Politics, Religion
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…
Jim Green Books Catholicism, Europe, Evola, Marxism, Metaphysics, Nature, Politics