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Oswald Spengler believed that European Civilization could have one last act. Through "soul discipline" a new force could rise up to overthrow money-power and establish a great--but by no means perfect--order. In this lecture Gregory Conte draws on Decline of the West and Hour of Decision to explain Spengler's thinking on the rise and coming fall of the Western financial overclass.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler lays out quite clearly the principles of how to organize politically in the face of tough opposition. He also explains the importance of culture for bringing together workers and professionals. Gregory Conte and William continue their in-depth discussion of Mein Kampf, Book 1, Chapter 12. Happy 4/20. This episode is a sequel to Episode 26. However, either episode can be liste...

Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West offered a radical new interpretation of history. Published at the end of WWI, Spengler attacks the conventional notions of how history should be written and studied. He posits that history should not be viewed as a world-wide series of developments leading to the present moment, but instead that there have been 8 great cultures, each lasting about 1000 ye...

Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is the greatest political treatise of all time. Everyone knows Hitler's opinions on race, Jewish power, and international finance. But what are we supposed to do about it? Greg Conte and William bring you an in-depth discussion of Mein Kampf, Book 1, Chapter 12. Hitler's electrifying thesis: The working class is the key to taking your country back and endin...

From the mists of ancient Denmark comes this tale of terror and heroism. Beowulf is the story of a Geatish hero who slays three powerful monsters in his life-long quest for fame and honor. Most literature--comic or tragic--tries to be subtle, thought-provoking, emotional. Beowulf is raw awesomeness. It is one of the few books that every young man ought to read and know. Greg Conte and Romanized Vi...

Romania lies at the edge of two great civilizations: Western-European and Slavic-Russian. For 300 years, it was a bastion against another: the Islamic. Through it all, Romanians, Hungarians and German settlers (Siebenburger Saxons) fought Europe's common enemies, and--often enough--each other. In the 19th and 20th centuries, yet another element came into play: the political ideologies of Comm...

Christmas... the best day to talk about politics with your real community. No matter how you figure it: A popular mass movement is the only way to overthrow the Jewish overlordship of America and Europe. By no other means will the political condition of Whites be bettered. Greg Conte and William pull apart every idiotic "strategy": infiltration, hoarding-money, pet-issue organizing--you...

For four centuries, Indonesia--the world's largest archipelago--was ruled by the Dutch. Who knew? Famed as a source of cash crops like nutmeg, coffee, indigo, and sugar, the Dutch East Indies was the jewel of the Dutch Empire. Greg Conte and William discuss the strange and exotic chapter in colonial history. Books mentioned: Bernard Vlekke, The Story of the Dutch East Indies Roger Crowley, Th...

Prussian Socialism Episode 22 The German Settlement of Transylvania [featuring Jazzhands] You have heard of America’s Wild West… but what about Europe’s Wild East? In the 1100s, several hundred Western Europeans came to Transylvania at the invitation of the Hungarian king, Geza II. Their mission: to secure the Carpathian Mountains against the attacks of the horse-archer peoples of the Eurasian Ste...

In November of 1918, a leftist cabal overthrew Kaiser William II and sued for peace with their country’s enemies. These traitors agreed to withdraw German troops from all enemy land and to surrender her fleet. In so doing, they stripped Germany of all her bargaining power. It is not surprise that, in the ensuing peace-conference, Germany was made a slave of International Money-Power. This is not a...

Review of Ariel Toaff book "Pasque di Sangue" and discussion of other Jewish themes in European folklore.

Everyone knows about the Crusades in the Holy Land. But what about the Crusades in the Baltic? For 300 years, the Teutonic Order waged war across the Baltic, Poland and even Russia to bring Christianity to the last Pagan peoples in Europe. The Order was founded in Acre in 1190. After a brief stay in Transylvania, it found its calling in the swampy forests on the north-eastern edge of civilization....

Prussian Socialism Episode 19: Goethe’s Faust, Part 2 “Faust Part 2” is the ultimate expression of the European cultural idea. In this vast, 7000-line poem, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lays out his mature worldview. There is hardly a topic that Goethe does not deal with: metaphysics, ethics, economics, politics, poetics, even geology. While “Faust Part 1” mostly sticks to the traditional Faust-stor...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was one of the greatest and most versatile poets of all time, a rival to Dante, Shakespeare and Vergil. His masterpiece is the philosophical epic Faust, which he worked on for over 50 years. In the traditional Faust-story, Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for 24 years of sin and fun. In Goethe’s re-telling, Mephistopheles is bound until Faus...

Who was Germany's greatest WWII general? According to Field Marschall Erich von Manstein, it was himself. In his 1955 classic Lost Victories, Manstein argues that if Hitler had only listened to him more, Germany could have won the war. He might have had a point. In 1940, Manstein masterminded the invasion of France through the Ardennes. In early 1943, he ingeniously fought off a series of tit...

In 202 BC, the Roman Republic was at its height. It had beaten Carthage its most dangerous rival in the Western Mediterranean and was now free to go on a career of expansion and exploitation. In the following 50 years it conquered Greece, much of Spain and north Africa. The Romans got filthy rich. But in the next 70 years it began to break down, a victim of its own success. The Patricians became g...

A petty Italian city-state went on to conquer Italy and dominate the Mediterranean. At first a town of little consequence, Rome was forced to become a regional power after it was humiliated by invading Gauls in 390 BC. After consolidating its power in Italy, Rome came into conflict with the great sea-empire of Carthage, with whom it fought two titanic wars from 264-202 BC. Rome won, but just barel...

Napoleon humiliated Prussia at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, reducing Berlin to a French vassal. But after Napoleon's defeat in Russia, the German states rose up against their master. But it was not easy. The Emperor returned to Germany with a new army to beat down the Prussians, Russians and Austrians, and to keep hold of his continent-spanning empire. Greg Conte and Warren...

Prussian Socialism Episode 13: Guderian and the Blitzkrieg. It's August 1941, do you drive on Moscow or the Ukraine? Take Moscow, and Germany deals a huge blow to Soviet moral and cripples the USSR’s logistical system. Take Ukraine, and Germany captures hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and secures the breadbasket of Europe. Of course, history can only play out one way. Hitler ordered a...

Prussian Socialism Episode 12: Frederick the Great, the Autiste King Over the course of nearly 50 years, Frederick II (1712-86) made Prussia from a minor German state into a European power to rival Austria, France and Russia. After snatching the rich region of Silesia from Austria, Frederick embarked on a series of legal and administrative reforms that made Prussia into the world's most enlig...

In The Prince, Machiavelli stresses that a leader ought to study war. He also discusses the many uses and dangers in maintaining and employing soldiers. Warren Balogh and Greg Conte argue about the implications of Machiavelli's thinking. What is the proper way to study war? Can too much study of war be bad?

Prussian Socialism Episode 10, featuring Warren Balogh Machiavelli: Love, Fear and Hate Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is famous for his realist political outlook. In his book The Prince, he went so far as to argue that a ruler would be better off being feared than loved. Machiavelli is often thought of as an advocate for ruthlessness and trickery. But is the reputation deserv...

Prussian Socialism episode 9 Mesopotamian Civilization. Two thousand five hundred years before the age of Classical Greece, the ancient Mesopotamians invented writing. For three millennia, they built up and maintained the world’s first great culture. But after that, its memory vanished for two thousand years, only to be preserved in a few vague Biblical and classical retellings. But in the 19th ce...

The Nibelungenlied is a medieval German story of heroism and bloody revenge. An epic poem written down about 1200 AD, it tells the tale of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild and her long-plotted retribution for the murder of her husband, the hero Siegfried. In this lecture, Greg Conte overviews the characters and the plot, and then compares the Nibelungenlied to other epic poems, such as the Iliad...

Prussian Socialism Episode 7: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi: The Evil Mischling. The half-Japanese aristocrat, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, is notorious as a promoter of race-mixing and globalism. But was that all there is to the man? Was Kalergi just a foaming-at-the-mouth defender of multiculturalism and Jewish power? Greg Conte and William discuss the life and writings of this now nearly forg...