Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:29:01 -0700
Subject: AUT: Negri and Evola?
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>


<URL: http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/empire.htm >
Hmm, neo-fascist "New Age" Traditionalist, Third Positionist, Julius Evola 
and Negri?
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/ata.htm
"After the Third Age:Eschatological Elements of Postwar International 
Fascism."

Presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Center for Millennial 
Studies Boston University, November 2 to 4, 2002

> ...Esoteric fascism is not the cause of all the world's troubles, but its 
> agenda is much with us. Consider antiglobalist anarchism, as represented 
> by Hardt & Negri's book "Empire." 29 Negri's analysis of modern history 
> follows Evola's point by point, even when it makes no sense, as in the 
> assertion that America is the first country whose political system wholly 
> excludes the transcendent. 30 Modern anarchism embraces the Traditional 
> prediction that capitalism will be brought down by a post-modern 
> multitude, not by economic forces.

I don't want to dwell on Islamicist ideology; I don't know that much about 
it. Still, we should note that recent Islamicist terrorists quote Evola 
with facility. 31

Then there is pan-Europeanism. Esoteric fascists generally supported 
European solidarity, provided it was anti-American. This take on the 
subject is no longer confined to heavy-metal enthusiasts. There was, maybe 
there still is, an annual colloquium called the Politica Hermetica, 32 
hosted by the School for Applied Advanced Studies at the Sorbonne. It deals 
largely with Evola and Guénon, and not particularly critically. The old New 
Right even has a postmodern version of Tradition in the thought of Alain de 
Benoist. 33 This sort of thing is too esoteric to find a wide audience, but 
it does leak into elite opinion.

Finally, there are the new, progressive forms of anti-Zionism, made 
possible by the internationalization of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. 
After nearly seventy years of propaganda, America and the Jews are finally 
linked as joint targets of progressive opinion throughout the West. Francis 
Parker Yockey would have been so pleased. 
http://www.autonomedia.org/dreameroftheday2.html

28 Thomas Sheehan, "Myth and Violence: The Fascism of Julius Evola and 
Alain de Benoist," Social Research 48: 45-73 Spring 1981 29 Empire by 
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Harvard University Press, 2000. Reviewed 
here, <URL: http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/empire.htm >

30 I am scarcely the first person to notice the parallels between Negri and 
Evola. See Sheehan, op. cit.

-- 
Michael Pugliese

"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening 
to each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding 
that we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and 
shouted at each other, as if we were in a madhouse."
-Tolstoy 



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