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Re: 'Orientamenti'

Concerning the post-WW2 generation of which is spoken in both
messages, I would like to ask if someone is perhaps able to shed more
light on this group of people?
What activities did they engage in? What were their strategies and
what kind of obstacles did they encounter?

Any information on this subject can be of importance to today's
generation of people who have a sincere interest in Evola's life and
work and find it more than necessary to engage in
counter-revolutionary activities. Without wanting to sound overly
optimistic I would say that knowledge about the nature of the struggle
of past generations would possibly enable us to apply those tactics
that have proven succesful or to avoid repeating certain missteps.


--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "phrasena" <phrasena@...> wrote:
>
> Well, if you want to know the story of Evola's return to his home
> City Rome, the reading of Clemente Graziani's book of rememberances
> would be a good tip. Graziani tells us about a short stay in jail
> together with Gianfranceschi and Rauti, where they discovered
> Evola's books in the prison's library. Immediately after having left
> the cells of the well-known old Maria Coeli prison, they tried to
> meet the Master, who was still cured in Bologne.
>
> The story has deeply enchanted me, when I read him some years ago,
> especially because it is a charming testimony of a genuine youth
> faith, of an actual thirst of wholeness and sincere veneration,
> inviting to direct initiative without any lost of time. A virtue
> that has disappeared among today's youngsters.
>
> But are you sure that it was as late as 1948? I would say that it
> was earlier, after the three had been released as British Prisoners
> of War ? Could you check please ?
>
> --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
> <evola_as_he_is@> wrote:
>
> (...) As is well-known, Evola, following his accident in Vienna in
> April 1945, was treated in Austria, and did not come back to Rome
> before 1948. He settled down there for good only in 1951, after
> having been treated in various hospitals in Bologna. 'Orientamenti'
> was first published in 1950 by the group which had just founded the
> famous review 'Imperium', of which only four issues were published,
> from Eastern to Autumn of that year, and to which Evola contributed
> with 3 articles.
>
> Most of those who founded it were young men in their early twenties,
> who belonged to that "generazione che non ha fatto in tempo a
> perdere la guerra" ("the generation that didn't make it in time to
> lose the war" - F. Gianfranceschi). In post-WW2 occupied Italy, most
> of the editors of 'Imperium' experienced repression and gaol, under
> the pretext that they were supposedly sympathisers of a neo-Fascist
> underground organisation (F.A.R.).
>
> One of them, Pino Rauti, a few months after Evola's death,
> recalled : "Tens and tens of rightist Romans, mainly students, but
> also men who had fought for the R.I.S. (Italian Social Republic.Note
> of the Editor), 'met' Evola through his books, and read them in the
> cells of the Roman prison of Regina Coeli (...) from 1946 to 1950"
> ("Evola : una guida per domani",'Civiltà', II, 8-9, Sept-Dec. 1974).
>
> Giano Accame, along the same lines, recalled :
>
> "Selected by a certain ability to face incomprehension and
> isolation, to withstand conflicts, and having built our habitat (in
> French in the text. Note of the Editor) through endured brawl and
> discrimination, we even ended up divided among ourselves, between
> Gentilians and Evolians(...) Gentilians claimed to represent a
> philosopher assassinated because of his adherence to the Italian
> Social Republic, but whose name was found in all school manuals and
> whose value, though controversed, was universally acknowledged.
> Evolians, on the contrary, huddled up against a thinker whose name
> was generally ignored, who was not spoken of in any book and in any
> paper, who was not established among scholarly culture and among the
> republic of letters, who, save a few exceptions, was never taken
> seriously by Fascism itself, but who had become the almost secret
> heritage of a youthful current of Fascism, the tiny minority of a
> minority, which was besides slightly mocked within the ghetto of the
> vaniquished, even though the expression used to portray them had a
> peculiar beauty : the current of the "sons of the Sun"."
>
> It is to youth, to that youth, which is often referred to
> in 'Orientamenti', that this work was written for. There are 11
> orientations, given for the "fight to be fought, especially to
> youth, so that it takes up the torch and the instructions of those
> who have not fallen, learning from the error of the past and being
> able to discriminate well and reconsidering all that has felt
> yesterday and still feels the effect of contingent situations. It is
> essential not to go down to the level of the adversaries, not to
> only raise mere watchwords, not to insist excessively on what of
> yesterday, even if worth being remembered, does not correspond to
> current and impersonal power-ideas, not to yield to the suggestions
> of a false petty realism, the tare of every 'party'.
>
> It is indeed necessary that our forces act also in the hand-to-hand
> political and controversial fight to build up all the possible room
> in the present situation. But, besides, it is important, it is
> essential, that an élite is formed, which, in a contemplative
> intensity, defines, with intellectual rigour and absolute
> intransigence, the idea according to which it must be united, and
> asserts this idea essentially in the shape of the new man, of the
> man of resistance, of the man standing among the ruins. If he goes
> beyond this period of crisis and illusory order, it is only to this
> man that future will belong. But, even if the destiny that the
> modern world has created for itself, and which now overwhelms it was
> not to be contained, in this premisse inner positions will be
> maintained : in any eventuality what can be done will be done and we
> will belong to that fatherland which no enemy will ever be able to
> occupy nor to destroy".
>
> In other words : Kapitulieren niemals.
>
> And these orientations, needless to say after our readers have been
> enlightened about the context in which 'Orientamenti' was written,
> applied obviously, contrary to what Vandermok wrongly assumed (see
> message 18), to the Italian, to the European, to the Western youth.
>




Mon Apr 9, 2007 8:46 pm

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Hello, Julius Evola wrote in "Orientamenti": "Our true fatherland must be recognized in the idea. Not being of the same land or language, but being of the same...
vandermok@...
fulviomocco Offline Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
8:15 pm

Hello, He did, in this book which has not been translated into English yet and which he often quoted during his trial in Rome in 1951, indeed; and those who...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Mar 30, 2005
9:20 pm

Hello, Let's also bear in mind that the idea of a Fatherland which cannot be occupied by any enemy whatsoever can be found in Jünger's early work, "Der...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Apr 4, 2005
8:37 pm

In the introduction to 'Men Among The Ruins'(p. 104 in the online version), Hansen quotes a paragraph supposedly from 'Revolt Against The Modern World' : "The...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Feb 19, 2007
7:25 pm

In <evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com> evola_as_he_is wrote: (...) ... Or in Latin words (Horace): Si fractus illabitur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae = even if...
vandermok
charltonroad36 Offline Send Email
Feb 20, 2007
8:15 pm

... The view that a race can create itself strikes me as very Hegelian, for the more mainstream Fascist thinkers this might of been an aim, but for Evola I ...
Matthew Gordon
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Feb 22, 2007
8:23 pm

It's not curious, it's fanciful, and, as a result, it should not be taken seriously. ... feeling", but ... constant, ... "race", ... certain "way ... for the ...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Feb 22, 2007
8:41 pm

The work of J. Evola is full of unequivocal statements in stark contrast with that fanciful view on race expressed, along somehow romantico-evolutionist lines,...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Mar 1, 2007
5:53 pm

In <evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com> ... "We do not make any profession of Hegelian faith. We think that we can and must attack many points of the Hegelian...
vandermok
charltonroad36 Offline Send Email
Feb 23, 2007
8:46 pm

Well, if you want to know the story of Evola's return to his home City Rome, the reading of Clemente Graziani's book of rememberances would be a good tip....
phrasena Offline Send Email Feb 26, 2007
3:59 pm

All sources agree : Evola came back to Italy at the end of 1948. The original source is a letter from him to Girolamo Comi, published in 1987 by Fondazione J....
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Feb 26, 2007
4:35 pm

Concerning the post-WW2 generation of which is spoken in both messages, I would like to ask if someone is perhaps able to shed more light on this group of...
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vnvsmvndvs Offline Send Email
Apr 10, 2007
10:08 am

You refer to the post-WW2 Italian 'far-right' generation in particular, then. Evola himself has shed light on that group of people whom he knew personally for...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Apr 12, 2007
5:27 pm

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