by albion » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:15 am
Stop me if I'm veering way off-topic but I thought I'd post a few more links on Evola.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>There's a lot of speculation about Evola and his alleged involvement in a post-war international movement of "black fascism" centred in Italy. Whether there is anything to that, I don't know,<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I've been reading about that, and I think there's something to it. What exactly, is hard to say. Evola was acquitted of inciting neofascist terrorism in 1951. There were rumors of magick. His direct involvement is questionable, but imo likely. His greater influence was as a sort of 'godfather' and ideological hero of the occultist far right. He died in 1974 but his memory lingers on. From a contemporary article about the 1980 "Gladio" bombing in Bologna:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Although the precise structure of Third Position and the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei continues to elude everyone's grasp, two things are nonetheless clear: first, that they represent a radicalization, at the tactical level, of the political philosophy of the legal neofascist party, the Italian Social Movement (MSI); and, secondly, that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>this common political philosophy is still inspired by one of the most original and intellectually eccentric of fascist thinkers, the late Julius Evola (1898-1974).</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>[...]<br><br>To read Evola is to take a trip through a weird and fascinating jungle of ancient mythologies, pseudo-ethnology, and transcendental mysticism that is enough to make any southern California consciousness-tripper feel quite at home. And the amazing fact is that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>MSI deputies and Third Position militants take this mythical metaphysics utterly seriously as the basis for their political or terroristic actions.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Without reading Evola you can no more understand why MSI Deputy Pino Rauti votes the way he does than you could comprehend Toni Negri's actions without knowing Karl Marx. Neither, without understanding Evola, could you understand the ideological tension within Eurofascism between the advocates of de Benoist's New Right and the followers of what is called Traditionalism.<br><br>[...]<br><br>Buttressing his "metaphysics" is a cyclical theory of history modeled on the Four Ages of Hindu mythology. Here we find the theoretical justification for violence, and perhaps terrorism, as a necessary means for destroying the modern and utterly decadent world (represented equally by America and Russia) which has sacrificed the Sacred to the material, the principle of Empire to that of democracy, the caste system to a social chaos where "men may go wherever they want," and spiritual racism to a pseudo-freedom of "the slave emancipated and the pariah glorified." <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In no other contemporary thinker of whom I'm aware is the rejection of history and the modern world so absolute and so virulent.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Italy: Terror on the Right<br>New York Review of Books<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/7178">www.nybooks.com/articles/7178</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>William H. Kennedy's summary is typically muddled, but passable:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> Revolting Julius Evola and the Blood Axis Fascists<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.geocities.com/luclablaw/revolting_julius_evola_and_the_b.htm">www.geocities.com/luclabl..._the_b.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>As to the other speculation, Dave Emory has a summary of some of Kevin Coogan's hypotheses about Evola's WW2 and postwar activities in <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I believe that Evola’s Vienna project was intimately linked to the development of what I will call ‘the Order,’ a new kind of Knights Templar designed to successfully function sub-rosa. Well before the end of World War II, the intelligence and financial networks of the Third Reich were hard at work preparing underground networks to survive the coming Allied occupation. Escape lines to South America and the Middle East were organized. Bank accounts were created in Switzerland and other neutral nations to finance the underground with plunder the Nazis had looted from occupied Europe. But how was this secret empire to be managed, except by a virtually invisible ‘government in exile’?â€