New Right vs. Old Right Kindle Edition

Are you searching for the secret to awakening racial solidarity among white people?

Unfortunately, there is no quick fix or well-defined route, but there are things to look for, and it is these things that Greg Johnson wishes to show us in New Right vs Old Right. With direct and thorough prose, Johnson shows us the pitfalls vs the positive steps we can take in our quest to advance the New Right's cause in North America.

Along the way you'll learn about meta-politics and the need for white hegemony to frame both sides of political discussion--and just who has hegemony now. Also introduced is the concept of a white civil religion and how it would bring white people together.

A professor of philosophy, Johnson frequently alludes to ancient Greek political structures in order to shed light on the present and create a vision of the future. He is both serious and realistic about doing what is best for white people as he keeps an intelligent, long run strategy in view.

In addition to presenting theories and concepts, Johnson gives advice on how to deal with practical concerns of being a New Right devotee today. These include everything from how to convert more people to the cause, to the question of whether to go public with one's views. Especially important is advice on dealing with the anti-white calumny that we'd start a holocaust if we had power.

My practical advice on reading this book is to skip around and read what interests you the most. After a while of doing this I became hooked, and now that I've finished the book, I actually miss it and am re-reading it.

While I don't necessarily agree with all his positions and emphases, Johnson is my fellow co-religionist in the new white civil religion. He is a fellow intellectual observer who stands against bourgeois man and all his short-run materialistic ways.

I recommend it for anyone who's searching and for anyone who wants to get a few steps closer.

Greg Johnson writes about highly controversial, indeed heretical ideas in a disarmingly rational and moderate, yet unapologetic tone that is persuasive, mentally liberating, and infectious (some would say "virulent"). Johnson is quite learned but also lucid and compulsively readable. In addition to the title essay, in which he sets out his vision of a post-totalitarian far Right, the outstanding essays here are "Metapolitics and Occult Warfare" which deals with Rene Guenon's and Julius Evola's take on the mechanisms of political change, encompassing what today are called "conspiracy theories"; "Reflections on Carl Schmitt's THE CONCEPT OF THE POLITICAL," which is a masterful and concise reading of Schmitt's most influential book; "The Moral Factor," which is a critique of political cynicism and bourgeois politics based on Plato's tripartite soul in THE REPUBLIC," and "Notes on Populism, Elitism, and Democracy," which employs Aristotle to argue for a vision of society that is both hierarchical and organic, i.e., in which inequality is justified only by its service to the common good. Johnson's discussions of contemporary political trends are as on-target as these more heady essays. A compilation of essays ranging in length from 3 to 16 pages, this book combines a tone of high intellectual rigor and moral seriousness with a sparkling, accessible, often witty writing style. This is a book that I will read again with pleasure and profit.

This book changed the way I think about politics. The format of the book--a compilation of articles that can be read either as standalone works or as one coherent argument--makes it extremely easy to pick up. I started with the chapter titles that caught my attention the most ("Metapolitics and Occult Warfare," "Secret Agents," "Learning from the Left" etc.), but once I started, I couldn't put it down. From this collection of works, a coherent vision clearly emerges; Johnson's project is to define a post-totalitarian vision of the far right. His insights are fresh and inspired. I read every article in under a week, and am looking forward to more from Johnson.

In this collection of 32 lucid and concise essays, Greg Johnson prepares the intellectual groundwork of a North American version of the metapolitics of the European New Right associated with such thinkers as Alain de Benoist and Guillaume Faye. Johnson agrees with the European New Right's emphasis on metapolitics, but he differs in the emphasis he places on biological race as a dimension of European identity and also on his frank discussion of the Jewish question. Johnson deals with the nature and necessity of metapolitics or cultural warfare, explains the key concept of "hegemony," and discusses the moral foundations of the New Right and the psychology of conversion. He weighs in on such "Disputed Questions" as Holocaust revisionism, "The Burden of Hitler," the role of women, and the degree of white culpability in our decline. He sets forth his vision of a networked metapolitical movement and rejects various "Distractions and Dead Ends." Johnson's goal is the same as the fascists and National Socialists: a restoration of a traditional hierarchical and organic society under the conditions of modernity, but he rejects their totalitarianism, terrorism, and imperialism in favor of building a hegemonic racial consciousness. In truth, this is a Right-wing version of contemporary liberal "soft totalitarianism." Greg Johnson has a doctorate in philosophy, but don't let that scare you. His writing reminds me of such first-rate popularizers as Alan Watts and Bryan Magee. He makes judicious and illuminating use of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, William James, Rene Guenon, and Julius Evola. This is the most intellectually exciting book that I have read since Guillaume Faye's ARCHEOFUTURISM. Highly recommended.