Showing posts with label Caesarism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caesarism. Show all posts

IS A NEW CAESAR NEEDED?

Andy Nowicki considers the costs and benefits of embracing "Caesarism," in the light of contemporary circumstances, wherein an entrenched and degenerate elite appear to be committing systematic depredations against the innocent with impunity.

WHY LIBERALS ARE THE REAL FAUSTIANS


In the discourse of the True Right, one does not have to look hard for the influence of the German philosopher-historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) and his two-volume tome Decline of the West. Even where we do not hear the name, this influence betrays itself in the use of terms like ‘Faustian Man’ and ‘Caesarism’, as well as in the general tendency to contrast a lost organic ‘Culture’ with a soulless and materialistic ‘Civilisation’. But while these conceptual rays of enlightenment are widely appreciated, few of us muster the determination to squint for long at the darker core of Spengler’s theory, because its notorious pessimism and fatalism might annihilate our entire project for European resurgence.