Read Evola to undertstand Benoist, a concept that apparently the editors of Telos did not appreciate.
Or maybe they did.
:-)
-Chip
>
> jc: "I've actually read Evola (for a senior project on the Grail), but am
> afraid I have no idea how he factors into this. If anything, it seems to
> me that he would have found the eugenicism of outfits like AR
> distastefully materialistic, if not potentially egalitarian. Care to
> enlighten?"
>
> fm: I've read his "Revolt Against the Modern World." And it's true that
> Evola would probably have seen the American Renaissance's positions as
> egalitarian. Evola is more concerned with preservation of the racial
> caste system and in particular the preservation of the warrior caste of
> which he believed he came from rather than anything as vulgar as a
> national racial identity. By the time the question has come down to a
> national racial identity or even a concept like "the white race" the
> battle at least for Evola has already been lost. Still, that did not stop
> Evola from lecturing in the service of both Italian and German fascism.
> And his ideas have been appropriated by the French New Right into, as you
> put it, a more egalitarian vision of racial preservation which I believe
> groups like the American Renaissance subscribe to. I'd love to read
> Evola's book on The Grail and even more so his book on Tibetan Buddhism.
>
> jc: "And what's the ongoing zio-nazi debate? I may have missed that one."
>
> You can start here if you're interested:
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner1223.html
>
> As I said, I bowed out a long time ago. Not from the from the Palestine
> Solidarity Movement but from this particular debate.
>
> fm
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