Actuality | Non-fiction

Economic sanctions? Wars under false names
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Of Alain de Benoist
Economic sanctions? Wars under false names
Source: Barbadillo
Alain de Benoist, as soon as a country poses a problem, we are now talking about "international sanctions", which are increasingly similar to American sanctions. But what exactly is the meaning and legitimacy of this sanctions policy?
“The policy of sanctions is not a policy. It is a form of warfare that uses only “peaceful” means to blur the line between war and peace. Just like the block, whose sanctions constitute the modern form, this war is similar to maritime warfare, still favored by the thalassocratic powers – England once, the United States today – which is also a trade or economic war: the “war on trade”, formerly known as the “race war”. It's a "total" war, not only because it rejects the classic distinction between combatants and non-combatants, but also because it is more often based on a “right” theory of war, which equates the enemy to a criminal or delinquent. Read More

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The future of Sovereignty
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The future of SovereigntyA RELIABLE OPINION TO REFLECT ON
Of Roberto Siconolfi
Source: Heretically
The entire political-ideological movement linked to the sovereignist/populist alignment moves in a context and in a series of precise directions. Continuing along this path new questions arise, on crucial choices which can be responded to either with the dry alternative or with the affirmation of a plural ideological-political wave which despite having a very distinct central axis, contains “different” if not even “contrasting” options. As for the context,starting from the most obvious aspect, we must take note of the definitive drying up of the left political area but more precisely of Marxism. The death of Domenico Losurdo embodies a symbolic end of all "intellectually honest" Marxism with which it is still worth dealing and with which one can also find points of convergence for very concrete political battles. The same can be said for certain political subjectivities, representatives of that area. However, we must realize that Marxism is completely finished, and not for reasons of who knows what historical significance. It has reached its lowest point, the “0” of its descending parable.
The new era, the new millennium, the possibility of looking with a broad historical perspective must bring, and already brings, for those who haven't noticed, to the affirmation or rather the "return" of completely different principles and values ​​that would be more appropriate to define as "spiritual". The inconsistency and "desolation" of the "materialist" and "economist" proposal of Marxism is very little in comparison and is no longer even felt. It is no coincidence that these war remnants of intellectuals, various groups and small groups, they no longer know what to do with the current phase. The worst of them bark fascist and racist, the best present us with the usual pappardelle about socialist revolutions, with the "economy at the center of everything" and the "class struggle" as the engine of historical changes. (…) Read More

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Identity and sovereignty? They are inseparable notions
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Of Alain de Benoist
Identity and sovereignty? They are inseparable notions
Source: Barbadillo
Signor Alain de Benoist, in some environments, we tend to oppose two notions that everyone talks about today: identity and sovereignty. Nel Front National, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen would have represented the first, in opposition to Florian Philippot, which above all defends the second. Such opposition seems legitimate to her?
“Interviewed a few weeks ago by Causer magazine, Marine Le Pen said: "My project is intrinsically patriotic because it defends the sovereignty and identity of France in the same movement. When you forget one of the two, and the bar". So, we don't cheat. Because they should see themselves in the identity and sovereignty of opposing ideas, when they are complementary? Sovereignty without identity is but an empty shell, identity without sovereignty has every possibility of transforming into ectoplasm. So you don't need to separate them. One and the other, Furthermore, they are part of freedom. To be sovereign is to be free to decide your own policy. Preserving one's identity implies, for a people, to be able to freely decide the conditions of one's own social reproduction".
While identity is a necessarily vague concept, sovereignty is no longer easy to define?
“Less than it seems. The “one and indivisible” sovereignty recalled by Jean Bodin in The Six Books of the Republic (1576) it has little to do with sovereignty based on subsidiarity and the principle of sufficient competence, of which Althusius speaks in 1603 in his Politica methodice digesta. Bodin's approach is eminently modern. It implies the nation-state and the disappearance of the distinction that was previously made between power (power) and the authority or dignity of power (authority). Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Fake News and induced truths
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Of Enrica Perucchietti
Fake News and induced truths
Source: Italicum
Interview with Enrica Perucchietti, author of the book “Fake News”, Arianna Publishing 2018, edited by Luigi Tedeschi

  1. According to the thoughts of Walter Lippmann, our perception of reality is conditioned by images, concepts, moral values ​​not directly acquired, but transmitted to us by others. Therefore, the narration of facts is necessarily subjective, a representation of reality formed through stereotypes, assumed as interpretative canons of reality itself. In the fluidity of today's telematic communication, therefore, new stereotypes replace old forms of manipulation of reality. It is therefore necessary to conclude that the perception of reality is always mediated by the uninterrupted succession of cultural stereotypes over time, every truth arises from selective parameters of interpretation of reality itself. In this case the post-virtual truths of media technology, they do not end up being equated with the metaphysical conceptions of philosophical knowledge and/or with the transcendent truths of religious faiths?

The risk exists. Yet the truth is one, with its infinite nuances, beyond the stereotypes or cultural archetypes that each of us has inherited or been indoctrinated into. I agree with the philosopher Alain De Benoist according to which the intent of post-truth would be to discredit the truth by presenting it as a "great story" which can no longer be believed precisely because everyone has constructed their own subjective truth. It would be the triumph of relativism: everything becomes “relative”, virtual and therefore chaotic. At this point of collective disorientation, Power guarantees the existence of its own truth through the supervisory action of the mainstream media and the laws introduced to guarantee order. That is, we want each of us to be increasingly wary of the news we can find on the web even if it is documented and true and, more generally, of alternative information to make exclusive reference to "certified" news.: we must only rely on what the Party says and has decided for everyone. The others will be conspiracy theorists, webeti and well poisoners. Read More

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L'ideologia dell'Identico
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Of Alain de Benoist
The ideology of the Identical
Source: The Rebel newspaper
What should we rebel against nowadays?? Faced with the rise of single thought, faced with the swelling of an extraordinary wave of what we do not hesitate to call planetary conformism, in the face of the various pathologies that afflict our societies, in the face of the various threats that weigh on them and that darken their future, you are spoiled for choice. However, it seems to me that most of these phenomena that we try to oppose have a common cause. That is, it seems to me that these phenomena reveal themselves as consequences of a very specific ideology, secular and multifaceted, which I propose to call “the ideology of the Identical”. The ideology of the Identical is an ideology that develops starting from what is common in all men. More precisely, it develops by taking into account only what men have in common and interpreting it as the Identical, and that means, in other words, that such an ideology can only aspire to leveling out. The Ideology of the Identical often refers to equality, but to a purely abstract equality: in the absence of a precise criterion that allows it to be concretely determined, equality is nothing else, Indeed, than a different name of the Identical. The ideology of the Identical therefore considers universal equality between men as an equality in itself, disconnected from any element of concreteness that would allow it to be ascertained. It is an ideology allergic to everything that specifies and characterizes singularity, which interprets every distinction as potentially derogatory, which considers contingent differences, transitory, inessential or secondary. Its driving force is the idea of ​​Unico, which is what the Other cannot tolerate, and intends to reduce everything to unity: One God, unique civilization, unique thought. […] Read More

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