Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockeywas an American attorney, political philosopher and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This book argues for a culture-based, totalitarian path for the preservation of Western culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
independence spheres economic
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
expression doctrine liberalism
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant
religious dogma periods
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
liberalism rationalism
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
political limits political-theory
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible
war hate mean
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate
world economic outlook
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook
intellectual adrift politician
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary
facts mental-illness fantastic
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
ideas atmosphere youth
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes
relation activity
Politics is activity in relation to power
feelings reason rejects
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
believe reality men
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not understand. Systems like theirs are only historical curiosities to the 20th century, unless they happen to claim to be appropriate descriptions of Reality. Anyone who believes in these antiquated fantasies stamps himself as ludicrous, posthumous, ineffective, and superfluous. No leading men of the coming decades will be Darwinians, Marxians or Freudians.
ideas liberalism critique
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea