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Thread ID: 20281 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-09-18
2005-09-18 17:40 | User Profile
I finally managed to read Imperium and want to say it was a thought provoking book. I don't think there is any other political philosophy book quite like it. Not that I agree with everything Yockey says, especially the Spenglerian theory that cultures are higher organic forms with individual life spans (I don't see the Chinese higher culture as being dead, not by a long shot). It is tragic that his life ended violently and prematurely. If you don't have time to read the entire work, pick it up and flip two thirds through and begin from the chapter [I]Culture Distortion [/I] (Yockey calls Jews "culture distorters") and read through to the book's end. You won't be disappointed.
2005-09-25 11:57 | User Profile
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I read Imperium years ago. After seeing your post I went and dug up some of my notes. Here's a few of them:
Comparing Jews to a parasite in the human body Yockey wrote "A parasite is a life-form which lives in or on the body of another life-form at its expense. It involves thus the directing of part of the energy of the host into a direction alien to its interests. This is quite inevitable: If the energy of an organism is being spent for something other than its own development, it is being wasted. Parasitism is inevitably harmful to the host...The harm increases in proportion to the growth and spreading of the parasite."
And this "Anti-Semitism is precisely analogous in culture pathology to the formation of anti-bodies in the blood stream in human pathology. In both cases, the organism is resisting the alien life."
And finally "The issues of war and peace, life and death is decided for America by Jews. Politicians who hold power, hold it in deference to Jews...To oppose them, dare no public man or woman...America has been given a Semitic countenance."
I found it a good read;a sometimes hard read (At least for me), but well worth reading.
Source: Imperium, Ulick Varange (Francis P. Yockey), 1962, P. 391 & 553, Noontide Press.
2005-10-08 17:30 | User Profile
What a difference 150 years makes. There is very little in Yockey that isn't already in Thomas Carlyle. Read especially his Past and Present. Yockey's prose is not so finely crafted. Some food for thought though: Carlyle is still around, even in our so-called universities, because of his proto-socialist leanings. Every section of Past and Present ends with a Masonic fight song. Yockey's work, which says pretty much the same things, is so proscribed that it gets pulled from the internet periodically and you have to hunt down Imperium103.pdf using Google. I suspect we will wait a long time for Gutenberg's version of Imperium, whereas here is Past and Present
2005-10-08 18:33 | User Profile
Yockey was certainly on the same page with Hitler also.
"The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged last century, by Pasteur and Koch...How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus?" ~Adolf Hitler~
Source: Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin, Alexandra Richie, 1998, P.986, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
2005-10-09 00:24 | User Profile
Interesting feedback on Yockey.
[I]Dreamer of the Day[/I], by Kevin Coogan, which I'm presently reading, is an excellent biography of Yockey and his times.