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Excerpt from William Gayley Simpsonâ€™s, â€œWhich Way Western Man?â€ (1978)

Kevin MacDonald •ï¿½September 3, 2024

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Editorâ€™s note: An interesting, heterodox take on the typical mainstream narrative of post-World War II Soviet anti-Semitism. This is Appendix 4 of Which Way Western Man (1978). Previously on TOO: Robert S. Griffinâ€™s â€œWilliam Gayley Simpson on Christianity and the West.â€ Griffin gives a an account of Simpsonâ€™s life and his relationship with William Pierce.... Read More

Modern Political Dissent Versus Judicial Demonization

Tom Sunic •ï¿½August 10, 2024

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One good thing about the judiciary in former communist Europe was that no one, including party apparatchiks, believed its fraudulent language. This was the main reason the system collapsed. Court proceedings against political dissidents â€“ officially dubbed â€œhostile elementsâ€ or â€œWestern-sponsored fascist infiltratorsâ€ â€“ were make-believe travesties where prosecutors projected their real Self into their... Read More

Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein, alias Maxim Litvinov

The Litvinov School

On Who Betrayed Whom in 1938

Morgan Jones •ï¿½May 29, 2024

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Our last article described some of the activities of the Focus and the early stages of their project to supplant British foreign policy with their own: regime change in Germany by threats or by war. Here we examine the collaborative efforts of the Focus and the Soviet Union toward that aim in 1938. Collective security... Read More

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The Collapse of the American Empire, Part I: Demographics

Eric Striker •ï¿½February 19, 2024

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As much as neo-conservative/Zionist ideologues like Robert Kagan write about the exceptional inevitability of the American world order, there is a general sinking feeling among the people of the United States that this country does not have a future. Is this impression justified? Students of imperial decline can examine historical observations and parallels to decide.... Read More

General-Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR

American Pravda: The Rise of the BRICS and the Fall of the USSA? •ï¿½25m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½September 4, 2023

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For Americans such as myself who came of age during the 1970s or early 1980s, the Soviet Union always carried the whiff of a decaying ideological empire, ruled by a decrepit political leadership class that had long since lost the trust of its own people. Such was my opinion at the time, and nothing I... Read More

Alexander Dugin and the Origins of the 'Red-Brown Alliance' Myth

Max Parry •ï¿½March 28, 2023

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It was a surprising admission when The New York Times reported in October that U.S. intelligence agencies finally acknowledged the assassination of Darya Dugina was authorized by the Ukrainian government. The unexpected confession came more than a month after a car bomb killed the 29-year old journalist and daughter of Russian political theorist Aleksandr Dugin... Read More

The Radical and Conservative Spirit of Communism

Illusion of Western Liberalism & Problem of Self-Degradation â€” Historical Communism vs Current Western Compulsory...

Jung-Freud •ï¿½January 12, 2023

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Communism is both radical and conservative in spirit, hardly surprising as it's a deeply moralistic ideology that developed in reaction to the revolutionary upheavals of capitalism. Remember that Karl Marx himself recognized capitalism as the most transformative system developed by mankind. It was most extreme and 'radical' in changing all forms of human relations and... Read More

How Poland Won the War On Christmasâ€”One Carol at a Time

Tom Piatak •ï¿½January 3, 2023

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Above, Piatak Family Christmases Past. See earlier, by Peter Brimelow: The Singing Revolution vs. Open Borders Libertarianism Like many Americans, one of my responses to the increasing rootlessness and anomie of modern life has been to take up genealogy as a hobby. Before the Ellis Island manifests were transcribed and made readily available to the... Read More

Even if GOP Can Draw More 'Latinos' from the Democratic Party to Win Elections, Problem Is All Politicians Must Swim in th...

Jung-Freud •ï¿½November 19, 2022

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But if the GOP wants to survive, it better figure out Realpolitik real fast. A key point: Making the Democrats the black party requires understanding how much Hispanics disdain and in some cases dislike blacks, and why remaining in the party does not serve Hispanic interests. The Democrat coalition is a hodgepodge of loud, non-white,... Read More

Solzhenitsyn for Todayâ€™s World

F. Roger Devlin •ï¿½September 15, 2021

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Spencer J. Quinn Solzhenitsyn & the Right Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill The widespread perception of Solzhenitsyn as a figure inseparable from the vanished world of the Cold War has become an obstacle to appreciation of his works. To some extent, an earlier generation of his Western admirers contributed to this misunderstanding: e.g., many Cold War... Read More

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in February 1974. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: He Would be Canceled in Todayâ€™s America

John Wear •ï¿½April 1, 2021

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was one of the greatest literary and political figures of the 20th Century. For the first 25 years of his life, Solzhenitsyn was an ardent supporter of Vladimir Leninâ€™s Soviet Revolution. In fact, by 1938 Solzhenitsynâ€™s enthusiasm for Communism had grown to the point of obsession. As a youth, Solzhenitsyn even... Read More

America Repeats Russian Follies

Israel Shamir •ï¿½October 23, 2020

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Russians are amazed by the waves of madness washing over the United States. The recent riots, looting, destruction of memorials, hardball election politics and rumours of impending civil war do not fit the US image in Russian eyes. A Latin American country, say, Colombia or Guatemala, perhaps, but not the United States. The country they... Read More

The EU Is Rewriting WWII History to Demonize Russia

Max Parry •ï¿½October 22, 2019

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Last month, on the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, the European Parliament voted on a resolution entitled â€œOn the Importance of European Remembrance for the Future of Europe.â€ The adopted document: For 75 years, we have been told that the war started on September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, even... Read More

Aleksandr Solzhenitsynâ€™s Relevance Today

International â€œReading Solzhenitsynâ€ Conference in Lyndon, Vermont, September 7-8, 2018

Vladislav Krasnov •ï¿½December 17, 2018

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No, Solzhenitsyn did not imagine himself as a god. He is another kind of artist, the one, he says, who â€œrecognizes above himself a higher power and joyfully works as a humble apprentice under Godâ€™s heaven, though graver and more demanding still is his responsibility for all he writes or paintsâ€”and for the souls which... Read More

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Defending the Bolsheviks and Soviet Communism

Israel Shamir •ï¿½October 2, 2018

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This is a discussion of some issues raised in a previous article by Ron Unz: â€œI was given a full access to all archives, I learned everything there is about Stalinâ€™s

Is Communism Really Dead?

The Saker •ï¿½October 12, 2017

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the longest experiment in Communism in recent history. Many saw this event as the proof that Communism (or Marxism-Leninism, I use these interchangeably here) was not a viable ideology. After all, if in Russia Communism was formally ended in 1991, the Chinese quietly... Read More

A Crooked Mile

Israel Shamir •ï¿½August 24, 2016

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The â€œcrooked mileâ€ from the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile etc) is Fleet Street, which is well known to London journalists. So I was told when I joined the BBC at Bush House, at the very end of Fleet Street. Not only is the street... Read More

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