Some consider the postwar American philosopher Francis Parker Yockey a fascist. He’s more nuanced than that, but let’s just say you won’t see him on many Ivy League seminar reading lists. He believed the wrong side won the Second World War, and that European civilization had been defeated by an alliance of communist Asiatic hordes from the East (the Soviets) enabled globalist neoliberal mass industry from the West (America).
Yockey also said he wanted the Soviet Union to win the Cold War against the United States. How could this be so?
Seeing Europe as being defeated in either case, he was comparing the occupations imposed by the two sides. In the latter half of the 20th Century, as the totalizing ideological power of Stalin’s Soviet Union gave way to a bloated bureaucratic state only capable of ruling by brute force, Yockey saw the Russians as an occupying force destined for the dustbin of history, from which it would be easier for Europe to recover. Like when Spain was conquered by the Moors or when Russia itself was ruled by the Mongols, the native culture would survive the barbarian subjugation and emerge on the other side with its essence still intact.
The liberalism of modern America, on the other hand, he saw as far more pernicious in the long term. It would use less bullets and torture chambers to impose its will, but its own totalizing ethos of egalitarianism and cultural parasitism would erode the social bedrock of not just Europe but the entire world. It would uproot the planet from history, or kill it for the effort.
Barbarian conquest was easier to overthrow, and at least some of the Russians saw themselves as, if not exactly Europeans, then spiritually aligned with them against the throngs of humanity to the south and east that had threatened to swallow Europe for thousands of years. The European nations had fought each other for eons, sure, but they had found their collective spirit when it mattered most. They defeated the Moors in Spain, drove the Mongols from Russia and, in perhaps their darkest hour, stopped the seemingly invincible Ottoman Turks at the gates of Vienna with the majesty of the largest cavalry charge in world history. Egalitarian liberalism, should it take hold, would make such alignment impossible. The spirit would be dissolved. The gates, both literal and psychological, would be opened. The ensuing flood would end the civilization.
And so Yockey wanted the Soviet Union to win the Cold War, yet he knew it could not, and so he believed Europe as it had existed for thousands of years would be destroyed. This would happen in no small part because elements within its ruling structure, allied with the emerging colossus of the American Empire, would rather see Europe destroyed than let it transition to the phase that was bound to follow its centuries-long liberalization — the Return of Authority. The Americans would help clear the board of threats that emerged from within the ancient cultures of the continent, stamping out nationalist movements via soft power and leaving the Europeans open to the flood.
Whatever mean names one might call him, the next century threatens to bear out the darkest of Yockey’s fears.
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