from Juan Domingo Perón, Perónist Doctrine. Edited by the Perónist Party. (Buenos Aires, 1952) What is Perónism? Speech of 20 August, 1948 In Congress a few days ago, some of our legislators have asked what Perónismis. Perónism is humanism in action; Perónism is a new political doctrine, which rejects all the ills of the politics [...]
Posts Tagged ‘History and Metahistory’
Juan Domingo Perón – Fenómeno (Lindon Ratliff)
Juan Domingo Perón was what Latin Americans often like to call a Fenómeno. We might translate that best in English as a “paradox”. He was a soldier who became the boss and idol of a trade union movement that had a long history of opposition to the armed forces and to militarism in general. He [...]
Italian Fascism: An Interpretation (James B. Whisker)
When the Grand Council of Fascism on 25 July 1943 removed Benito Mussolini from his position as head of government, fascism ended in Italy. Its ending was as surprising as its beginning, when, on 28 October 1922, some 300,000 Blackshirts under Mussolini’s command seized the Italian state. The events between those dates can be chronicled. [...]
March on Fiume (Hakim Bey)
Excerpted from Hakim Bey’s T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism “To die is not enough.” — D’Annunzio When pressed about his political allegiance, Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) refused to commit himself. “My undertaking may seem rash and alien to my art and style of life,” he wrote to his publisher, “but… people must [...]
The Legionary Movement in Romania (Alexander E. Ronnett and Faust Bradescu)
It is the authors’ observation that most people make the mistake of not considering socio-political phenomena in their natural context in order to discover the legitimate causes, the true sense of their development, and especially their importance in the environment which fostered them. Carried away by the passion of political convictions or by the hope [...]
The controversy of the occult Reich (John Roemer)
One hundred years after Adolf Hitler’s birth near Linz in Austria on April 20 1889, and decades after his malign empire metastasized in Bavaria in Bavaria, the Hitler phenomenon remains to mainstream historians largely inexplicable, or at least unexplained. The man and his awful work seem to stand outside history looking in. Perhaps our human [...]
The European volunteer movement in World War II (Richard Landwehr)
They called themselves the “assault generation” and they had largely been born in the years during and after World War I. Coming from every nation of Europe, they had risen up against the twin hydra of communism and big capitalism and banded together under one flag for a common cause. Fully a million of them [...]
The Secret of Japan’s Strength (Albrecht Fürst von Urach)
Das Geheimnis japanischer Kraft (Berlin 1943). Introduction The rise of Japan to a world power during the past 80 years is the greatest miracle in world history. The mighty empires of antiquity, the major political institutions of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, all needed centuries to [...]
The History of the Knights Templar (Charles G. Addison)
This article is extracted from the Introduction to the recently reprinted 1852 book The History of the Knights Templar, by Charles G. Addison. The Knights Templar have been associated with all sorts of incredible activities including: having the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, a secret fleet that sailed the oceans, and an awe-inspiring [...]
Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen
The Bloodless Crusader “The mediaeval way of thinking differed fundamentally from ours as solely ideas alone were real, facts and things only in so far as they participated in the reality of ideas.” – Heinz Gotze, Castel del Monte Frederick II (1194-1250) was a king who fought his entire life against the Roman church. He [...]
