The Philosopher
Francis Parker Yockey
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- American
- Schools:
- Nazism
- Branchs:
- Fascism, Neo-Spenglerianism, White nationalism, Neo-fascism
- Period:
- Cold War
The synopsis
Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 17, 1960) was an American fascist writer best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange, which called for a neo-Nazi European empire. Yockey supported far-right causes around the world and remains an influence on white nationalist and neo-fascist movements. Yockey was an antisemite, a reverent proponent of German Nazism, and an early Holocaust denier. In the 1930s, he contacted and worked with the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund. He served in the U.S. Army in 1942–43, and went AWOL to help Nazi spies. After legal appointments in Detroit during 1944 and 1945, he worked for 11 months on the War Crimes Tribunal in Germany before he either resigned or was fired for secretly and subversively siding with the Nazis. In London, he worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, and, after falling out with Mosley, founded the breakaway European Liberation Front in 1949, leading it until it fizzled, around 1954. During the Cold War, Yockey reportedly worked with Soviet bloc intelligence, and argued for a tactical far-right alliance with the Soviets against what he saw as Jewish-American hegemony. He also briefly wrote anti-Jewish propaganda in Egypt, where he met its then president, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Yockey remained influential in fascist circles until his suicide in FBI custody in 1960. His last visitor in prison was Willis Carto, who fervently picked up the baton, becoming the leading advocate and publisher of Yockey's writings.
The works
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
The Proclamation of London
The quotes
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.