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Francis Parker Yockey: The Theory of the Culture Soul
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Francis Parker Yockey

The Theory of the Culture Soul

Bill White
June 13, 2000

"There were others of course. Jamal, the beret-wearing anarchist from Cambridge who wanted to spend hours with me at the Wilson Center arguing about Limonov's National-Bolsheviks Party, which he'd read and archived over the net. Or Ash, a sharp-faced skinhead with intensely paranoid eyes who told me that while he'd always been on the far left, he was starting to gravitate towards a position of both radical left and right. "The more I looked at things, the more I realized that a certain group of people, and I don't want to say who, kept appearing at the center of all of the exploitation," Ash told me. "But if I say who this certain group is, you'll call me a right-winger." "

-- From this month's coverage of the WTO riots by the eXile

When I picked up my copy of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report today, I skimmed the titles and said to myself, "How kind of them. They've finally put out an issue that isn't attacking someone I know or making patently false claims." Then I read the issue. My mistake.

Once the SPLC starts telling a lie, they don't seem to be able to give it up. Issue after issue, lie after lie, story after story, they have to repeat their "anti-hate" fairy tales. Unless you're a Nazi-wanna-be that completely crashes and burns (aka Andrew Greenbaum), the SPLC will constantly resurrect your name as a kind of minor Hitler-demon and an object of hate for the tolerant ever more. Even Greenbaum gets a sideways mention in this issue, in the part on "Hate on Campus" or whatever. [ http://www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?refname=/intelligenceproject/ip-4n1.html ] I'm not going to touch that article, or point out that most hate crimes and "bias incidents", on campus or off, are committed by black folk against white folk. That's another story. Instead, I want to pick on another article.

[ http://www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?refname=/intelligenceproject/ip-4n4.html ]

This issue they again go after my friend and comrade Michael Moynihan, who is a musician in Oregon and very involved in Asatru and the old culture of medieval and pre-medieval Europe. Mike makes Eurocentric music, with occasional overtones of fascist or far-right movements that have evoked ancient European tradition, and gets called all kinds of names for doing it. He's not a "Nazi" or a "racist", and 99% of what's been written about him has been absolutely untrue. To include him in this issue, they mention that, at one point in time, he may have produced an album with a song in it that may or may not have been inspired by Francis Parker Yockey. It's a "link and ties" routine of the vaguest sort. But to most people, they say "who is Francis Parker Yockey." That's what I want to get into, because the SPLC's reporting on him is real, real bad.

Francis Parker Yockey wrote a book, entitled Imperium, that is a truly excellent piece of literature, and one of the few major works of philosophy that has been written in modern times. His book is an extension of the historical-cultural work of Oswald Spengler, and is perhaps one of the most "pure" expositions on National Socialist theory ever written. I do not agree with all of his book, but the perspective from which he writes is a valuable one, and the culture-organism-analysis he applies is a technique that is worthy of further study.

Apparently Martin Lee, author of the SPLC "report", read only the crib notes to Yockey's book. I don't blame him for doing it, the book is both long (almost six hundred pages), and very deep. It comes from a perspective that is truly revolutionary, and applies a type of analysis not taught to the brainwashed dolts who study in our colleges. Because of this, the book was probably pretty far beyond Mr Lee's limited analytical abilities.

Yockey's book, Imperium, published by Noontide Press, is also very rare, so maybe Mr Lee couldn't obtain a copy. [Since the time this article was published, Noontide Press has reprinted Imperium and it is now much more readily available.]

I have the 1991 edition, you may be able to get a 1962 edition, but its all the same. If I could lay my hands on an original 1940-whatever hard cover edition, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

If you're into banned books, this book is banned, it is rare, and it is dangerous, and what is in it is nothing like what the SPLC says.

For those who are unfamiliar, Oswald Spengler wrote a book entitled "The Decline of the West." In that book, he argues that cultures are organic. Just like you and I are organic, and we live, and pass through stages of life, and then die. Spengler argued that cultures themselves are organic, and that they have life-cycles, similar to human life cycles, and that parallels can be drawn between all cultures and the social, economic, political and cultural stages they go through. Further Spengler argued that most human beings do not live in a state of culture, but rather in a state of barbarism. Just like most matter is inert, not part of a willful being, and moved only by natural processes and not by reason and will, Spengler argued that most human material is inert, and not infused with any sort of higher culture, and is only moved by material necessity and physical law.

Spengler said that there had only ever been about seven cultures. There was the Classical culture, of Rome and Greece. There was the Chinese culture. There was the Islamic culture. There was the culture of the Aztecs and Meso-America. There was the culture of Ancient Egypt. There was the culture of India. And there was the Western culture. Each of these cultures went through periods in history. Each was defined by a uniqueness that expressed itself in each phase. For Spengler, the Classical culture was defined by "body" and "finiteness". The Classical man viewed each unique thing as a thing in itself, whole and complete. This contrasts to the Western view, where each thing is composed of a few base elements that are essentially the same. For Spengler, these different cultures gave a different flavor to their art and their society at different periods, but each period had a definite characteristic that defined it as a period. So, while you and I may look different when we are old, both of us are "old".

Spengler believed that when a culture has spent its creative potential, it settles down, stops creating artistically and culturally, and decays. During the first stage of this decay, and the last stage of its greatness, it uses its cultural superiority to take over the known world. Having thus spent its energy taking over the world, it then begins to break down and collapse due to overextension, and eventually ends, leaving its people back in a state of barbarity.

• Francis Parker Yockey (continued) — Mjolnir / Hezbollah, Sun Sep 8 22:14