BY DANIEL JUPP It’s easy to see how tyranny depends on forgetting. As tyranny grows, people forget that their political opposition are human beings. Tyrants classify certain groups as innately evil, and these groups, whether convenient scapegoats or actual rivals, are then a legitimate target for any kind of mistreatment. The sad truth is that whilst we were reminded constantly that right wing nationalism was … Continue reading The Radical Lure of Doing Good
BY ANDREW MOODY Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast, dictated nearly forty years after preparatory school at the Plymouth Brethren: “I had been the butt of every bully in school. My whole life seemed at times to be one slimy subterfuge to cozen death.” While perusing the National Portrait Gallery some years back, I noted Crowley’s magical portrait (it did not represent his image but worked … Continue reading Crowley Demystified
BY BEN IRVINE (Following on from PART ONE) For Hitler, racism and nationalism were equivalent: ‘To us state and race are one’, he asserted. In other words, antisemitism was the link between the ‘National’ and the ‘Socialism’ parts of National Socialism. To Hitler, racist nationalism was racist socialism, and vice versa. Alas, this proved to be a powerful electoral combination. In the early 1930s, a … Continue reading Was Hitler a Socialist? II
