Francis Parker Yockey - Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

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Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 June 16, 1960), a lawyer and former war-crimes prosecutor, who soon began agitating against AlliedH occupation of Germany, as well as the biased procedures of the Nuremberg tribunal. Eventually, he was fired for "abandonment of position" in November 1946. He was one of the most enigmatic figures inside the far right in both Europe and America. Without notes, Yockey wrote his first book, Imperium , in Brittas BayH, Ireland over the winter and early spring of 1948. Yockey was continuously pursued by the FBI for over a decade, which he avoided by adopting numerous aliases. He was finally arrested in 1960 after returning to the United States from abroad, as his suitcase was sent to the wrong airport. When the authorities opened it to determine whose suitcase it was, they discovered several of Yockey's falsified passports and birth certificates. When this was reported to the federal government, the FBI tracked him down in Oakland, California and arrested him. Shortly after his capture, he was found dead in his jail cell. An autopsy showed that the 43-year old mystery man had swallowed a cyanide capsule. The question still remains, murdered or suicide?

Perspective 15
The Two Aspects of History 29
The Relativity of History 33
The Meaning of Facts 37
The Demise of the Linear View of History 41 The Structure of History 49
Pessimism 57
The Civilization-Crisis 69
Darwinism 77
Marxism 89
Freudianism 99
The Scientific-Technical World-Outlook 107 The Imperative of Our Age 119

Introduction 129
The Nature of Politics 133
The War-Politics Symbiosis 143
The Laws of Totality and Sovereignty 157 The Pluralistic State 161
The Law of Constancy of Inter-Organismic Power 165
The Law of Constancy of Intra-Organismic Power 167
The Political Pluriverse 171
League of Nations 175
The Inner Aspect of the Law of Sovereignty 179 Political Organisms and War 187
The Law of Political Plenum 193
The Law of Protection and Obedience 197 Internationale 201
The Two Political Anthropologies 207
Liberalism 211
Democracy 227
Communism 233
Association and Dissociation of Forms of Thought and Action 237

Introduction 247
The Articulation of a Culture 251
Tradition and Genius 261
Genius 265
Genius and the Age of Absolute Politics 271 Race, People, Nation, State 275
Subjective Meaning of Race 293
Horizontal Race v. Vertical Race 301 Race and Policy 305
People 317
Nation 327
Nation and History 333
Nation and Rationalism 337
Nation in the 20th Century 347
State 353

Culture Pathology 365
Culture Parasitism 371
Culture Distortion 397
Culture Retardation as a Form of Culture Distortion 405
Culture Distortion Arising from Parasitic Activity 411

Introduction 435
The Origins of America 437
The American Ideology 441
The War of Secession 1861-1865 449
The American Practice of Government 455 The History of American Imperialism 463 American Imperialism in the Age of Annihilation Wars 473
The American Revolution of 1933 483
World-Outlook 493
The Negro in America 503
Culture-Retardation in America 509
Propaganda 515
The Conduct of American Foreign Affairs from 1933 525
The Future of America 539

The Political World 551 The First World War 555 The Second World War 561 Russia 569
Japan 579
America 583
The Terror 589
The Abyss 601
Imperium 605

This book is different from other books. First of all, it is only in form a book at all. In reality, it is a part of the life of action . It is a turning-point in European history, a late turning-point, but a real one. There is nothing original in the content of this book, the book itself only is original. The craze for originality is a manifestation of decadence, and the decadence of Europe is the ascendancy of the Barbarian.

This is the first of a line of works the political literature of Europe. Heretofore all political works on the imperative side have been addressed to one nation of Europe alone. Among other things, this book marks the end of Rationalism. It does not bring it about not books but only the advance of History can accomplish anything of that sort it merely rings its funeral knell. Thus the imperative side of Life returns to its pristine Source, the will-to-power. Henceforth there will be no discussion of action in terms of abstract thought.

This is addressed to all Europe, and in particular to the culture-bearing stratum of Europe. It summons Europe to a world-historical struggle of two centuries duration. Europe will partake in this struggle either as a participant, or as the booty for marauding powers from without. If it is to act , and not merely to suffer in this series of gigantic wars, it must be integrated, and there is only one way this can occur. The Western Culture is suffering from disease, and the prolongation of this disease is the prolonging of Chinese conditions in Europe.

The word Europe changes its meaning: from now on it means the Western Civilization, the organic unity which created as phases of its life the nation-ideas of Spain, Italy, France, England and Germany. These former nations are all dead; the era of political nationalism has passed. This has not happened through logical necessity, but through the organic advance of the History of the West. It is this organic necessity which is the source of our imperative, and of the integration of Europe. The significance of the organic is that its alternatives are either to do the necessary or to sicken and die.

The present chaos 1948 is directly traceable to the attempt to prevent the integration of Europe. As a result, Europe is in a swamp, and extraEuropean forces dispose of former European nations as their colonies. In this book are the precise, organic foundations of the Western soul, and in particular, its Imperative at this present stage. Either Europe will become totally integrated, or it will pass entirely out of history, its peoples will be dispersed, its efforts and brains will be at the disposal forever of extra-European forces. This is shown herein, not by abstract formulae and intellectualized theories, but organically and historically. The conclusions therefore are not arbitrary, not a subject for choosing or rejecting, but absolutely compelling to minds which wish to take part in affairs. The real author is the Spirit of the Age, and its commands do not admit of gumentation, and sanction is the crushing might of History, bringing defeat, humiliation, death, and chaos.

I condemn here at the outset the miserable plans of retarded souls to unite Europe as an economic area for purposes of exploitation by and defense of the Imperialism of extra-European forces. The integration of Europe is not a subject for plans , but for expression. It needs but to be recognized, and the perpetuation of nineteenth century economic thinking is entirely incapable here. Not trade and banking, not importing and exporting, but Heroism alone can liberate that integrated soul of Europe which lies under the financial trickery of retarders, the petty-stateism of partypoliticians, and the occupying armies of extra-European forces.