Troy Southgate, formerly a leading member of the National Revolutionary Movement and currently one of the main exponent of the European New Right, has over the last two decades produced a large number of articles, essays and poems. This book is a selection of the best of these. It presents revolutionary ideas which, while transcending the conventional left-right dichotomy, propagate the abandonment of modern society and its all-pervasive decadence to set up autonomous, anti-establishment communities; it discusses metaphysical and spiritual issues from a Traditionalist and Wodenist perspective; it gives practical advice on the benefits of home schooling; it deals with everything from the struggle of the Revolutionary Conservative movement in WWII Germany to the Islamic Revolution in Iran; and contains a critique of modern life in the form of excellent, and at times humorous, poetry.

Tradition & Revolution also contains Troy Southgate’s famous essay, Militant Imperium: A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of Julius Evola’s ‘Men Among the Ruins’.

All in all, this book will have something of interest to every man of a revolutionary disposition.

“This man is an artist, a poet and a musician, a father and a relentless idealist … Troy Southgate’s work as presented speaks for itself here, but what is extraordinary about it is that it is as complex as it is clear and transparent … As a driving force within the English New Right, Troy Southgate has clearly shown that he is indeed interested in broader alliances between leading men, … not within a purely conservative and outdated Right of yesteryear …, but of the Right understood as the real and contemporary opposition with alternatives to the egalitarian ideas that pervade the current dominating political systems of the world.” – Tord Morsund, from the Introduction.

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Against Democracy and Equality_ by Tomislav Sunic is a study of far-right wing political ideology in Europe. Beginning with a great introduction by Paul Gottfried, the book features a discussion of the ideas of the leading theorists of this very obscure movement, the most predominant of whom are Carl Schmidt, Vilfredo Pareto and Oswald Spengler. These scholars were noteworthy intellectuals of the so-called “conservative revolution” in pre-world war Italy and Germany. Other intellectual inspirations have come from Nietzsche and the pagan-traditionalist philosophies of Julius Evola and Alain de Benoist. Oddly enough, Sunic notes how these radical conservative critics presaged, during the 1920s and 30s, the leftist critiques of materialism and middle-class society that became popular during the 1950s, 60s and 70s by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse. The book concludes with observations about the communist systems of government in Eastern Europe. It is unlikely, in my opinion, that any of the ideas expressed by the “New Right” in Europe will get any type of audience amongst conservatives in America because of the explicitly anti-Christian stance it takes. The New Right believes that Christianity is a corrupt religion because of its explicitly monotheistic theology, a supposed reflection of its Jewish origins and totalitarian tendencies.

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An exploration of the meaning of parliamentarism: what is it? Schmitt defines parliamentarism as debate. Individuals (who have no restrictions on their freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association) debate in parliament and by doing so find the truth together. Schmitt asks if the ideal of parliamentarism is still possible today, in the age where MPs are not free individuals, but bound by party interests. Democracy – which is a form of collectivism – will, in the end, overpower the liberal individualism which is at the heart of parliamentarism.

The authoritative exposition of a German-style corporativism/socialism, which stands in contrast to the ‘English’ model of capitalism. German workers and businessmen work together for the good of the German nation; the German economy is controlled by the State, which in turn is controlled by a nationalist, selfless ‘Prussian’-style élite. This control is exerted without recourse to the Marxist method of nationalisation.

A grandiose, epic book which views the entire history of Western civilisation, right through WWII and the immediate aftermath, using Spengler’s ‘morphological’ theory of history. Yockey considers fascism/national socialism to be the culmination of the Western Idea at this point in Western history; and as such, the defeat of Europe by America and Communist Russia, both of them regimés without a spiritual basis, as a temporary setback. A ground-breaking book, one of the first to document Allied and Soviet atrocities against the Germans, and possibly the first book to deny the Holocaust (before it became officially established).

Evola here applies his Traditionalist-Occultist worldview to modern European politics. He comes up with a new synthesis – a fusion of Traditionalism and neofascism which borrows some ideas from Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. One of the unique things about this book is that Evola opposes the traditional fascist policy of increasing the nation’s number of births: Evola advocates birth control and childlessness in order to combat what he sees as a great problem – over-population – which, he claims, was not affected by the large numbers of fatalities from the Second World War.

The bible of Nutzi ‘Esoteric Hitlerism’. The book is divided up into three parts: the first volume includes biographies of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaton and the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, and an exposition of Traditionalism; the second, a biography of Adolf Hitler. Most people will find Devi’s deification of Hitler – as a reincarnation of Krishna – excessive; still, the book contains nearly all the standard Nutzi myths (e.g., that Hitler made his armies halt before Dunkirk during the invasion of France in 1940, out of sympathy for Germany’s anglo-saxon brother nation, England). If you want to understand George Lincoln Rockwell, Matt Köhl, Bill White and other Nutzis, read this book.

The most comprehensive, and expansive, book on Evola’s ‘Radical Traditionalism’. Going one better than Yockey, Evola looks at the ancient Hindu, Chinese, Babylonian and Classical civilisation in the light of his theory. His method is to discover metaphysical truths through a scholarly examination of the world’s myths and religious texts, which, he believes, contain hidden esoteric meanings. Not as practical as ‘Men among the ruins’, and very pessimistic, it is still a must-read. Evola’s masterwork.

Perhaps the best account of German National Socialism in practice ever written. The book details the life of workers and businessmen under German National Socialism. The fascist economies were based on graft, and creating jobs, for fascism’s followers – the lower middle-class. In order to stave off Marxism, German business made a deal with the devil – fascism – which proved to be just as socialistic, and just as tyrannical. By the standards of today’s free-market economies, the German National Socialist economic measures – including death penalties for people carrying foreign currency – are draconian and truly ‘fascist’. The members of the NSDAP are depicted as parasites – or vampires – who are intent on sucking the German economy dry. Thoroughly negative, but blessedly free of manufactured Soviet and Allied atrocity stories which mar other accounts of life under National Socialism. Also, it shatters the myth, promulgated by the Left, that National Socialism was somehow a ‘right-wing’, ‘pro-capitalist’ ideology.

Along with Arthur R. Butz’ ‘The hoax of the twentieth century’, one of greatest Holocaust revisionist books ever written. Only two books on Holocaust demography have ever been written – Sanning’s, and a book of essays by German academics attacking Sanning. He tackles, here, the perennial question asked of Holocaust deniers: ‘If the Jews of Europe weren’t exterminated, where did they all go?’. Sanning’s answer is that Polish and East European Jewry were part of the group of 15 million Soviets deported to Siberia by Josef Stalin before and during the outbreak of war with Germany. The book also tackles the question of the millions of Soviet wartime civilian casualties, blamed, by Stalinists and liberal democrats, on the Germans. The Germans come across as fairly benign occupiers of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: which is in contradiction to other accounts (even from pro-German writers who blame German occupation policy on their lack of support among the occupied Soviet peoples).

One of the few books on WWII military history worth reading. The author believes in the Holocaust, and is an incorrigible philo-Semite. But, on the whole, he is a revisionist in tackling military matters, arguing eloquently to shatter myth after myth. One of the many interesting theses is that the Soviet Union won the war in the East only because of the 13 million tonnes of Allied Lend Lease aid; that, and Germany’s withdrawal of troops and resources to counter the Allied invasions of Italy and France. Germany lost the war, overall, because of the lack of mechanisation of its army – Germany invaded Russia with more horses than trucks – and their failure to produce sufficient quantities of truck, plane and tank parts. In turn, this failure was due to the ideology of National Socialism – which discouraged industrialisation and American-style mass production techniques.

Anderson’s book is the most authoritative on Che, exploring all aspects of his life, from his childhood and teenage years in Argentina, his wanderings as a young man through South America. Anderson is sympathetic to Che’s cause, but does not pull any punches in describing atrocities committed by Che and the Castro regimé. Interestingly, the book argues that Castro’s revolution in Cuba succeeded mainly because Castro concealed his communist beliefs from the US for so long, thereby winning the support of the US government and media.

One of the many good books chronicling the life and times of Pol Pot, Cambodia’s Babeuf. It could be sub-titled, ‘Communism ad absurdum’. One of the most interesting parts of the book is the description of Pol Pot’s post-1979 career in the jungles of Thailand, where he still managed to recruit, and maintain, a large following of dedicated communist followers – despite the public revelation of the scale and horror of the Khmer Rouge atrocities.

the three great tyrants of the 20th century–Hitler, Stalin, and Mao–the West generally knows the least about the latter. What we do know is that he was every bit as genocidal in his policies as either of the other two great villains of the age. In fact, in purely statistical terms, Mao might have been responsible for the deaths of more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. However, Philip Short’s immense but immensely readable and impressively researched biography of the man goes far deeper than this. Yes, he acknowledges, Mao was a tyrant, but then China always has been run by tyrants; it never has had a tradition of democracy. And Mao was also an idealist: the deaths of millions was, as he saw it, the price that his country had to pay for being dragged from a state of medieval servitude–perpetually on the brink of famine–to that of a modern, industrialized, self-sufficient nation, in the space of a single lifetime. Short also humanizes Mao, and shows a man who had a profound and sincere interest in Chinese philosophy and poetry, and a surprisingly sharp sense of humor. None of this can exonerate Mao from the charge of inhumanity on an epic scale. But it does make for a much more rounded and complex portrait of the figure who, as the 21st century unfolds, might be shown to have had more influence on world history than either Hitler or Stalin.

The best book on Shining Path, by a Peruvian journalist who grounds his work in Peruvian politics, culture and history. Guzmán’s Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) undertook a Maoist guerilla campaign, owing more to Pol Pot than Castro, which convulsed Peru and threw it in to disarray: conventional South American counter-insurgency tactics, developed for use against a Che Guevera-style brand of communist insurgency.

First off, this is not a book for the illiterate person. You need to read Tomislav Sunic – “Against Democracy & Equality” first, and if possible a few general overviews of history and philosophy, otherwise this will be a very slow read for you. That being said, this is a work of genius. The general broadness of O’Meara’s understanding of our European predicament is amazing, and so is his knowledge about the so-called “New Right”. Although the main part of the book deals with the French representatives of this “think-tank”, namely; GRECE, and O’Meara being somewhat of a Francophile, he has included quite a lot about the “Conservative Revolution” crowd, Traditionalism, the radical “Right” and the way all of these intertwine, both in history and in our contemporary Europe.

The book chronicles in two quite demanding chapters how Nietzsche and Heidegger has influenced the “New Right’s” metapolitics and philosophy, and the ideas of Guénon about the “reign of Quantity” that has desacralized and dumbed down Europe to the level we see today. If you spend a little time with these chapters, you’re in for quite a reward. The same more or less goes for the entire book, as O’Meara has a wealth of wisdom and knowledge to share with us. He has even included a bit of the critique many on the so-called radical “Right” has levelled against GRECE, namely their complete rejection of Christianity, and the tendency from some of the “New Right’s” representatives to sell out to Zionist interests, just when it counts the most.

That being said, this is a work of genius, and for sure one of the most piercing books I’ve read. The only slightly “annoying” issue about the book (for some people) is it’s excessively small fonts, but for most people it shouldn’t be a problem at all. This book should be required reading for anyone on the so-called “Right”, Traditionalist, the radical “Right” and basically anyone with an interest in Europe, for good or evil. This book is decidedly one of my favourites in the political/philosophical vein.

Stencil Pirates is the most comprehensive book dedicated to the street art of the stencil. The book contains an exhaustive collection of close to 1000 photographs from around the globe. The photos show work by hundreds of different artists, exposing the width and breadth of stencil graffiti, from political to abstract and purely aesthetic, from tagging to public announcements. Stencil Pirates offers in-depth writings on the complex history of stencil graffiti, its political context, and how stencils fit into the larger pantheon of street expression. It discusses stenciling as a way for political movements to resist and mark territory, whether as part of gentrification struggles in New York and San Francisco or as part of the general uprising in Argentina over the past couple years.

Stencil artists are the printmakers of the urban landscape, dropping art on sidewalks, walls, park benches, bus stops, store windows, etc. By far the most accessible form of printmaking, stencil artists simply need a piece of cardboard, a knife, a can of spray paint and something to express. Stenciling is a form of expression that boldly reclaims public space by inserting political or metaphysical messages into corporate landscapes.

Think art has lost its edge? Witness the art of England’s Banksy and reconsider.

His message: that if the powerful and wealthy get to force-feed consumerist propaganda to citizens via giant billboards… then citizens have the right to reply in kind. To that end he’s trekked around the world throwing up politically pointed, often funny, always eye-popping street art wherever he damn well pleases: On sidewalks, on train trestles, on the West Bank wall between Israel and Palestine, in monkey cages at the zoo, in the world’s great museums (unbeknownst to the curators, of course), and on farm animals (yes, ON them).

“Wall and Piece” is a “best of” overview of Banksy’s career, and impresses on a lot of levels. There’s the skill and variety of Banksy’s techniques (stencils, illustrations, paintings, screenprints and sculptures are all on display). There’s the caustic wit of his writing (expressed here in almost epigrammatic blurbs about art and politics). And there’s his genius as a prankster. Example: Not content merely to graffitti a blank wall in Westminster, Banksy instead throws up an official-looking “This Wall Is A Designated Graffitti Area” stencil (complete with a “royal” crest swiped off a pack of cigarettes)… and watches others do the work for him.

For those yearning for art that’s active… that excites and inspires instead of merely placating… this is the book of the year. One warning: it sits on your coffee table like a social land mine. Guests come over, crack it open, and it obliterates conversation for a while as they get sucked in. Completely Addictive. Highly recommended.