Some time ago, I had on this forum a rather tense
exchange of ideas with R. Berkeley about the word
'racism'. Here is a precise definition by Evola of a
balanced usefulness of racism today :
"Race, blood, hereditary purity of blood are mere
'matter'. Civilisation in the true sense, that is to
say traditional civilisation, rises only when a force
of the superior order, supernatural and no longer
natural, acts on that matter..."
If racism is not necessary in a traditional culture, however, at sunset of a civilisation, in the modernity, it is inevitable, because:
exchange of ideas with R. Berkeley about the word
'racism'. Here is a precise definition by Evola of a
balanced usefulness of racism today :
"Race, blood, hereditary purity of blood are mere
'matter'. Civilisation in the true sense, that is to
say traditional civilisation, rises only when a force
of the superior order, supernatural and no longer
natural, acts on that matter..."
If racism is not necessary in a traditional culture, however, at sunset of a civilisation, in the modernity, it is inevitable, because:
"... The only forces on which we can still count are
those of a blood which still bears atavistically,
through race and instinct, the echo and the imprint of
the superior element which has left it : and it is
only in this respect that the 'racist' thesis of the
defence of the purity of blood can be justified - if
not to hinder, at least to delay the fatal outcome of
the process of degeneration."
(from 'Revolt against the Modern world' by J. E.).
those of a blood which still bears atavistically,
through race and instinct, the echo and the imprint of
the superior element which has left it : and it is
only in this respect that the 'racist' thesis of the
defence of the purity of blood can be justified - if
not to hinder, at least to delay the fatal outcome of
the process of degeneration."
(from 'Revolt against the Modern world' by J. E.).