-Caveat Lector- >>>Anybody hip to any connexion between Spengler (*Decline of the West*) and PJ Buchanan (*Death of the West*)? I don't know of any myself but the titles of each's books are suspiciously similar.
The research and discovery of the selection about Spengler provided below was spawned from a book I'm reading, *The Beast Reawakens*, Martin Lee [ISBN0415925460], in which is described the continuation of the national Socialist movement AFTER the Second Great War. He chronicles how the OSS/CIA - KGB recruited various high level NSDAP and militarily associated leaders into the various governmental apparatuses to conduct the Cold War and beyond. Spengler comes up in relation to a fellow named Francis Yockey, a postwar advocate of various radical right theories. The start of the Cold War was a palying both ends (USA / USSR) by the middle (Germany). A<>E<>R <<< http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415925460/ref=ase_addallbooksearch/1 03-7474648-5594216 > Amazon.com If you thought Nazism died with Hitler, think again. In > The Beast Reawakens, journalist Martin A. Lee traces the > resurgence of fascist ideals from the prominent Nazis who escaped > prosecution following World War II to the present-day incidents of > right-wing violence in Europe and America. One only has to look at > the current situation in the Balkans to see that fascism is alive > and well. Lee begins his troubling account by reminding us of the > many prominent Nazis who, after the war, built new and profitable > lives for themselves fomenting political intrigue, while providing > role models to a new generation of neo-Nazis all around the world. > This underground Nazi culture might have remained out of sight had > it not been for the fall of Communism. In the confusion following > the end of the Cold War, right-wing nationalist movements sprang > up all over Europe, taking root especially deep in formerly > communist areas such as Croatia, Bosnia, and Romania. > > According to Lee, "the Beast" doesn't restrict itself to Eastern > Europe by any means; skinhead violence against immigrants is on > the rise in Germany, while right-wing politicians in France, Italy, > and other western European countries are increasingly finding a > willing audience for their national and racial polemics. And lest > American readers be lulled into a false sense of security, Lee > warns that the United States is hardly immune to this kind of > hateful rhetoric. He warns that many of the militia groups > currently operating today share the same glorified attitude toward > violence, the same irrational hatred of foreigners and ethnic > minorities that mark the worst excesses of fascism in Europe. > --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of > this title. >From http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/index.html }}}>Begin > Oswald Spengler. The Decline of the West. An abridged edition by > Helmut Werner. English abridged edition prepared by Arthur Helps > from the translation by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York: oxford > University Press c199 [1926, 1928, 1932]. xxxx,415, xvix > > Spengler, in his Decline Of The Westmakes two central points > relevant to our concerns: that histories of various cultures--his > principal point of comparison is Classical (Greek)--can be shown to > follow a similar pattern and that all aspects of a culture-- art, > politics, mathematics, science --have related underlying principles > which differ from culture to culture. He reaches conclusions about > the current position of Western culture (in the 1920s) and how one > can best live within it. > > Spengler views cultures as "organic" by which he means that the > follow a life pattern, one he names by analogy to seasons. The > spring of a culture is the time of the origin of its basic > principles, the time of the birth of the religion of that culture. > He believes that all great cultures have behind them a great > religion. A culture acting "in form" (a comparison to athletes who > are at the peak of their form) is in its summer, when all aspects > can be seen as working under the principles at the basis of the > culture, and when great accomplishments are made--the artifacts of > lasting value. > > Our culture, as compared to other cultures, is one of directedness > and will; Spengler refers to it as Faustian. We see our religion > as requiring us to convert others. Our art has a perspective, a > point of view and direction. Our music is directed toward a tonal > center. Our science is about forces and changes. We apply it to > change our world. Our mathematics goes beyond the static geometry > of the Classical world to deal with the calculus of tendencies and > averages. > > All cultures come to a Civilization, an autumn when this breaks > down. Mega-cities are characteristic of this time. Politics is > motivated by money, and move through Imperialism and the Period of > Contending States to Caesarism, a period of despots. Science no > longer reaches certainties. People no longer accept common > principles or goals, they fight all rules from the past. The arts, > rather than working in ways that seem obvious to the artists and > the people, follow fashions with constant changes of style. Later > in this culture after a period of atheism, people turn to a > religious renewal based on the religion developed in the spring of > the culture. > > Spengler sees our culture as having finished its summer in about > 1800--and with Wagner in music. He views developments in all the > arts as evidence of decadence. His advice to those living in the > Civilization phase is to look for the direction of movement and > contribute positively to it--the Civilization will move in the > direction of its Destiny, regardless of our choices. We can choose > to contribute or to have no impact. 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