There's a lot of talk of post-liberalism but surprisingly not much discussion (as far as I've seen) of Matthew Rose's A World After Liberalism, a really good intellectual genealogy. Reading it now and learning a lot.https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300243116/world-after-liberalism …
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Post-Liberal Right is confusing because it includes a bunch of wildly conflicting traditions (Catholic theocrats, neo-pagans, neo-confederates). But perhaps best understood not as a doctrine but a situation: the right that confronts decolonization & end of global white rule
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Rose writes as an old-fashioned First Things conservative so sees Post-Liberal Right as antithetical to Christianity. I'm not so sure since Trump era has shown how easily some Christian can adopt a identitarian as opposed to doctrinal view of their faith.
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Anyways, A World After Liberalism contains illuminating profiles of Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey, Alain de Benoist, & Samuel Francis. Very helpful if you want to think about Post-Liberal Right in very broad historical terms, with roots in 1920s Germany.
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Francis Parker Yockey is the figure in Rose's book I was least familiar with. A neo-Nazi adventurer, with multiple passports, ties to underground right, who had an Epstein-style jailhouse suicide. And someone who foresaw a post-communist Russia being a potential ally.
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Ernst Junger may have been the most decent of those guys
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Fascinating, & certainly on my reading list. But, at least from your thread, this genealogy requires a supplement, as so many millennials on the hard (or in their preferred self-description: ‘dissident’) Right point to the influence of the French New Right: eg, Identitarianism
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