Troy Southgate - Tradition and Revolution

This work is dedicated to my family, friends and all those who have provided me with sound advice, constructive criticism and good comradeship across three decades of political and literary activity. This anthology is especially dedicated to Mariella Shearer.

I would also like to dedicate this second edition to:

Dniel goston (Hungary), David Aldridge, Archonis (America), Gonzalo Baez (Chile), Letty Baldacchino (Malta), Josh Barnhill (America), Alexander Baron, Rupert Bell, Clive Bignell, Kerry Bolton (New Zealand), Steve Bolton, Maxim Borozenec (Denmark), Christian Bouchet (France), Jonothon Boulter, Jonathan Bowden, Richard Paul Brass, Brecht (Belgium), Hans Cany (France), Danae Caradja (Greece), Kristian Carter, Kelly Cavey, Alisdair Clarke R.I.P., Dave Copping, Justin Cowgill (America), Greg Cumming (Ulster), Darksphere (Denmark), Adrian Davies, Greg Dejaeger (Belgium), Detrimony (Australia), Jesse Deutsch (America), Chris Donnellan (America), Steven Dotson (America), Alexander Dugin (Russia), Xavier Everaert (Belgium), Ean Frick (America), Flvio Gonalves (Portugal), Peter Georgacarakos (America), Luke Goaman-Dodson, Matthew Gordon, Professor Roger Griffin, Marco Grosso (Italy), Anthony Hancock, Chris Haywood, Hamasson, Jeff Harrison, Scott Harrison (Australia), Welf Herfurth (Australia), Thomas Herriot, Ian Holloway, Brian Hoostal (America), Richard Hunt, Ian Huyett (America), Wulf Ingessunu, Sean Jobst (America), Greg Johnson (America), M. Raphael Johnson (America), Jemma Anne Kee (Australia), Joseph Kerrick (America), Josef Klumb (Germany), Maury Knutson (America), Mikulas Kolya (America), Alex Kurtagic, Dawn Kurtagic, Richard Levy, Norman Lowell (Malta), Kate Lujan (America), Michael Lujan (America), Butow Maler (Germany), Richard Miller, Justin Mitchell, Davide Moiso, Vadge Moore (America), Kai Murros (Finland), Peter Myers (Australia), Adam Nardell, Nicolas Nowak (France), Steve Nuttall, James OMeara (America), Marcel P. (Germany), Chris Pankhurst, Sasha Papovic (Serbia), Phlegethon (Germany), Dennis R. Plummer (Germany), James Pond, Keith Preston (America), J.D. Pryce (America), Michele Renouf, Steve Rohan, Marcel Rter (Holland), Dr. James Saleam (Australia), Karissa Shaw (America), Robert Sheffield, Paul Shepherd, Grzegorz Siedlecki (Poland), Adel Souto (America), Dean Speakman, Jon St. Francis, Robert Steuckers (Belgium), Brett Stevens (America), Andrea Strasser (Germany), Wayne John Sturgeon, Ksenia Sunic (Croatia), Tomislav Sunic (Croatia), Matthew Tait, Robert N. Taylor (America), Jaroslaw Tomasiewicz (Poland), Peter Tpfer (Germany), Gwendolyn Toynton (New Zealand), Tom Tremayne, Dan Trepanier (Canada), Jasper Umbongo (America), Neil Vince, Allan W., Cornelius M. Waldner (Germany), Michael Walker (Germany), Matthew Ward (America), Wes Wayne (Canada), Nils Wegner (Germany), Adrian White, Snowwy, Jason Wilcock, Jeremy Wilcox (America), David E. Williams (America), Thomas Wiloch (America), Michael Woodbridge, David Yates, Andrew Yeoman (America), Damon Zacharias (Greece) and last but certainly not least, my close friend Dino Zakarya.

I am also greatly indebted to my friend and comrade, Tord Morsund (Norway), for conducting the Autonom interview, to Miron Fyodorov (Russia), Dan Ghetu (Romania), Thomasz Lewicki (Poland) and Milan Spinka (Czech Republic) for their interviews, and finally to Patrick Boch, Jacob Christiansen and John Morgan for working so very hard on the manuscript and for kindly agreeing to assemble this collection for both present and future generations.

May you all live long, healthy and fulfilling lives.

Troy Southgate,

January 2010

Troy Southgate & the Evolving Face of the True Right

by John B. Morgan

ITS difficult for me to remember when I first learned about Troy Southgate, since it was long ago and his name is so pervasive in the circles in which Ive traveled. With the evolution of previously ghettoised subcultures into international phenomena during the 1990s and 2000s with the aid of the Internet, and Troys skillful use of it from its earliest days to spread his message, I doubt that there is anyone who has been engaged with radical politics, the true Right (as Evola defined it) or traditionalism in the West during the past twenty-five years who isnt familiar with his name, whether it be to praise or curse him. As such, to study the evolution of Troys ideas is to witness the evolution of the true Right over the past three decades.

Although I cant recall our first exchange, Im certain it was on the (still active as of this writing but seldom used these days) Yahoo-based Evola group during the late 1990s. At the time, I was trying to learn more about nationalist movements, which I had studied as historical movements but about which I knew little in the present day. I learned two things very quickly. As one finds on such forums, the vast majority of postings come from either the enthusiastic but ill-informed, or else those who simply try to provoke a negative reaction from the others. Troy was a welcome exception, and it often seemed that I could just read his posts and ignore most of the others. Here was someone who clearly knew what he was talking about, not just intellectually but also in terms of experience. His practical knowledge kept him firmly rooted in reality, rather than simply dreaming up imaginary armies, empires and imperiums, as some are wont to do. And in a rare phenomenon for radical politics, Troy does not have a hint of pretension about him, not posturing himself as some kind of bermensch, but as an ordinary if talented man, and always willing to admit his own limitations.