Edmund Blunden
British poet, author and critic (1896-1974)
Francis Parker Yockey
American writer (1917-1960)
Francis Parker Yockey was an American fascist and pan-Europeanist ideologue who wrote the controversial book “Imperium” under the pen name Ulick Varange. He was a known antisemite, supporter of German Nazism, and early Holocaust denier who worked with various far-right groups during his lifetime.
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About the Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockeywas an American fascist and pan-Europeanist ideologue. A lawyer, he is known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange, which called for a neo-Nazi European empire.
Yockey supported far-right causes around the world and remains an influence of white nationalist and neo-fascist movements. Yockey was an antisemite, revered German Nazism, and was an early Holocaust denier. In the 1930s he contacted or worked with the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund. He served in the U.S. Army in 1942-43, and went AWOL to help Nazi spies. After
legal appointments in Detroit in 1944-45, he worked for eleven months on the War Crimes tribunal in Germany before he either resigned or was fired for siding with the Nazis. In London, he worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, and after falling out with Mosley, founded the breakaway European Liberation Front in 1949, leading it until it fizzled around 1954.
During the Cold War, Yockey reportedly worked with Soviet bloc intelligence, and argued for a tactical far-right alliance with the Soviets against what he saw as Jewish-American hegemony. He also briefly wrote anti-Jewish propaganda in Egypt, where he met its president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Yockey remained influential in fascist circles until his suicide in FBI custody in 1960. Yockey’s last visitor in prison was Willis Carto, who became the leading advocate and publisher of his writings.
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Francis Parker Yockey was an American fascist and pan-Europeanist ideologue who wrote the controversial book ,Imperium, under the pen name Ulick Varange. He was a known antisemite, supporter of German Nazism, and early Holocaust denier.
Yockey’s most famous work was his book ,Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics,, which he published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange. The book called for the creation of a neo-Nazi European empire.
Yockey supported various far-right causes around the world and was affiliated with groups like the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund in the 1930s. He also worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement and founded the European Liberation Front in 1949.
Yockey’s political views were consistently far-right and antisemitic throughout his life. He supported German Nazism, was an early Holocaust denier, and even briefly worked with Soviet bloc intelligence, arguing for a tactical alliance between the far-right and the Soviets against what he saw as Jewish-American hegemony.
Yockey remained influential in fascist circles until his suicide in FBI custody in 1960. His last visitor in prison was Willis Carto, who became the leading advocate and publisher of Yockey’s writings.
27 Quotes by Francis Parker Yockey
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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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Politics is activity in relation to power.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)
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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Francis Parker YockeyAmerican writer (1917-1960)