Without going so far, it is true that any Vedic treatise on religious
law and social duties was primarily concerned with the regulation of
the two highest castes, the brâhmanas and the kshatriyas.
In 'Avvento del "Quinto Stato"?'? ('The coming of the 'Fifth
Estate'?'), Evola, after having recalled that the development shown
by history is that of an involution of the type of civilisation and
of prevailing interests from one to the other of the planes which
defined the functional classes of traditional society, wonders
whether that process of involution stops at the 'Fourth Estate',
whether there may be symptoms of the emergence of a 'Fifth Estate',
on the basis of a book published in the Interwar Years by H. Berl,
called, precisely, 'Die Heraufkunft des fünften Standes', in which
American gangsterism and some 'demonic' aspects of Bolshevism are
considered as symptoms of the emergence of that 'Fifth Estate'.
According to Evola, that 'Fifth Estate' does not have any equivalent
in traditional hierarchy ; it can only be connected with a sort of
substratum, with the shapeless, wild, and almost subhuman element
which was checked in traditional orders, in which it was maintained
in the latent state". That ties up with a footnote of 'Sintesi di
dottrina della razza' about Lothrop Stoddard's 'The Revolt against
Civilisation', in which the revolutionary movements of modern times
are interpreted from a racial standpoint and the emphasis is laid on
the fact that their biological substratum was a "sub-humanity".
Is it be tantamount to identifying the representatives of the 'Fifth
Estate' with the pariahs of Vedic society and those who had "neither
hearth nor home" in ancient Rome?
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@l...>
wrote:
>
> From the viewpoint of the superior castes, probably the differences
between the third and the fourth ones were irrelevant. A possibility
of a fifth caste is also considered by Evola, in the Age of the Wolf.
> Dugin is son of his environment. He quotes the metropolitan Russian
legend of the return to life of Yuri Gagarin (as a new King Arthur
with Excalibur in hand?) ironically or with a bit of faith? I do not
know for sure.
>