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  • Scandinavia In the Age of Revolution

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 11:09pm EST

    Is Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Protestantism opposed to racialism and anti-Semitism? Is Protestantism opposed to nationalism and authoritarianism? These questions have drawn my attention lately. We’ve already seen how church and state used to be integrated in Lutheran Europe before the Napoleonic Wars and how Protestants supported the Third Reich. We have also seen how […]

  • The Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 8:27pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Liberalism didn’t exist in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s time. As I explained earlier, Protestantism WAS NOT always liberal. It developed centuries later and then mostly in the context of the religious pluralism of the Anglo and Dutch world. The following excerpt comes from Eric W. Gritsch’s […]

  • South Africa In 1984

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 7th 2019 3:06pm EST

    Liberalism destroyed a promising country:

  • Masters of the Universe

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2019 11:00am EST

    We’re continuing our exploration of neoliberalism this morning. Daniel Stedman Jones is the author of Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics which traces the intellectual origins of neoliberalism in Europe between the World Wars, the political breakthrough that happened in the 1970s during the stagflation crisis that ended embedded […]

  • Southern History Series: Sen. Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth Society

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 2nd 2019 12:43pm EST

    Chris Hayes says that his greatest fear is that someday a demagogue will come along with a draconian anti-immigration policy and offering medicare for all— Douglas Mercer (@douglasmercer33) November 29, 2019 In my view, the Right doesn’t need to reclaim socialism from the Left so much as it needs to embrace economic populism. We need […]

  • Alternate History: What If Britain Became Fascist?

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 1st 2019 4:58pm EST

    Fascism wasn’t simply a German or Italian movement. There were fascist movements in other European countries. German fascism and Italian fascism also differed in a number of ways. What would have happened if Britain had gone fascist and liberalism hadn’t triumphed in World War II? How would our timeline have changed?

  • The Decline and Fall of the Western Liberal Political Class

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 30th 2019 11:50pm EST

    I will be completely honest. My attitude toward democracy has somewhat improved after reading this book because I increasingly see liberalism as the problem that ails the West. We never got the chance to vote on countless things like mass immigration, political correctness, multiculturalism, gay marriage, etc. Those key decisions were all made on behalf […]

  • Code Name Godsend: Historians Discover Fourth Jewish Spy Who Betrayed America To The Soviets

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 29th 2019 1:01am EST

    The other Jewish spies and/or couriers were Ted Hall, David Greenglass, Morris Cohen, Harry Gold and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Klaus Fuchs is notable for being the only spy who wasn’t Jewish. New York Times: “The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of […]

  • Spiked Online: Sacha Baron Cohen Is Wrong About Social Media

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 27th 2019 8:48pm EST

    I didn’t know this. I have always hated and avoided the World War II era. Spiked Online: “The enemies of free speech see ‘Hitler’ as a kind of trump card against calls for unrestricted and unadulterated free speech. The implication is that the Nazis’ rise to power and the Holocaust could have been prevented if […]

  • Should We Apologize For Our History?

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2019 11:07am EST

    @xuriousmusic @westland_will @RichardBSpencer pic.twitter.com/NinMxQ9JKx— MarkBrahmin (@MarkBrahmin) October 20, 2019 Imagine being under the yoke of this thing. pic.twitter.com/EnxYulrK16— Protocols Pete (@ProtocolsPete) November 23, 2019 Should I feel guilty about British colonialism? My people left Britain to come to the American South in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. We conquered the Indians and replaced them […]

  • Southern History Series: Herrenvolk Democracy

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 21st 2019 7:45pm EST

    We’re continuing with the theme tonight of what American Nationalism was like when it was controlled by the South before the War Between the States in the early days of the Democratic Party. The following excerpt comes from William A. Link’s book Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region. “Between the 1820s and the […]

  • Confederate Monument Comes Down In Pittsboro

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 20th 2019 8:38pm EST

    The same people who tell us that it is sacrilege not to care about the Holocaust, which had nothing to do with our people, have no problem tearing down monuments to our dead ancestors. New York Times: “A Confederate monument in the small town of Pittsboro, N.C., was removed early Wednesday from the spot outside […]