Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey is back in print, distributed by Invictus Books and is available at an affordable £15 or so from Amazon.I spent about a month reading and analysing Yockey`s first and most important published work. The first part of the book is quite heavy going where Yockey puts forward his analysis of 20th century historical and political outlooks before he moves on to describe and define his theory of Culture Pathology and the Culture Distorter.His discussion of America and its counterproductive and culture distorting role in European and world affairs could have been written yesterday and I had to constantly remind myself that this magnum opus was actually authored in 1948. His insights are so fresh for the time and are just as relevant today as they were in the late 1940s-very little has in fact changed.Yockey`s position on race is quite ambiguous and reminds me a little of Julius Evola`s concept of the race of the spirit.Yockey`s condemnation of vertical racism may be bewildering for some who may gravitate to this book but I would advise those who start to read it to continue to the end. My reading of this great work involved a rollercoaster of emotions but was worth it in the end.This work should be read in conjunction with its sequel, The Enemy of Europe and indeed this later work ideally should be read first to make some of the more difficult concepts in Imperium easier to digest.Those of you who are familiar with and appreciate the writings of Julius Evola will find much that is of familiar spirit in this great work.

Excellent book , the author puts today’s world into perspective. Recommended

Absolutely crucial book to read in order to gain an overview of generally traditional right wing thinking.All the basic tenets are here in seed form and expressed with genuine conviction and eloquence.It does appear to take some effort to appreciate it judging by other reviews. I read it five years ago and got very little from it.Read it again a few months ago and was amazed by it. Perhaps one has to be ready to hear this work. If you are wondering why the Western world is in terminal decline and why we are ensured that the disintegration of all common sense and traditional ideas is 'progress' this book will give you a pretty accurate answer. These are the ideas that are marginalised and dismissed from the political arena. Ideas that have created a cohesive Western civilisation and are now being dismantled before our very eyes.This is the opposition view that has being rendered mute today and we are left with the media/politicians circus, void of substance. The whole book is something very unique as the author claims.Powerful ideas which may yet prove to be the salvation of our civilisation. He was also very prescient regarding the future (i.e today).Highly recommended to anyone who is sick unto death of the cultural malaise of our Western world and seeks an explanation. Make your own mind up whether or not he is correct.There are many great insights contained in this book and it's a shame that the propangandists of Equality have managed to shout down any dissenting voice.

Imperium: Francis Parker YockeyFrancis P Yockey was born in Chicago in 1917. He graduated in law from Notre Dame University in 1941. He joined the US War Department as a war-crimes prosecutor in 1946. He wrote Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics in Brittas Bay, Ireland in 1947, under the pen name Ulick Varange. After a brief collaboration with Oswald Mosley he founded the European Liberation Front. He worked for a time for Colonel Nasser in Egypt. When he returned to the US in 1960 he was interrogated by the FBI and sent to prison in San Francisco charged with passport fraud. He was found dead in his cell and a suicide note was found.I first read Imperium fifty years ago. It convinced me that Liberalism was the root of all evil and that Europe was the font of civilization. As a twenty year old a lot of it went over my head but enough of it stuck to influence the rest of my life.I have just re-read it to see if it had stood the test of time. Yockey’s bitter denunciation of both Russia and America certainly has a Cold War touch about it but in some ways it is timeless. His encyclopaedic knowledge of world history and his deconstruction of liberal democracy are still impressive.He rejected the pseudo-scientific racism of the Nazis in favour of assimilation and stressed the importance of culture but he nevertheless dismissed the Slavs as barbarians and the Jews as rootless cosmopolitans.He divided history into periods marked by the great advances in science, philosophy and economics, and he warned that there is no escape from destiny. In that respect his message is hopeful; despite the “Culture Distortion” of American materialism our future is assured.Younger readers might not be aware of the terrible conditions in post-war Europe. The conquering armies of America and the Soviet Union divided a starving continent between them. It took us twenty years to rebuild our cities, our factories and our railways. And seventy years later we are still divided.According to Yockey mankind has survived seven previous High Cultures and we are now entering the Age of Absolute Politics – the coming of the Imperium. He ends his epic on a positive note:“The West has two centuries and tens of millions of lives of the coming generations to give to the war against the Barbarian and the distorter. It has a will which is not only emerged unbroken from the Second World War, but is now more articulate all over Europe, and is gaining in strength with every year, every decade. Merely material superiority will do them little good in a war whose duration will be measured, if necessary, in centuries. Napoleon knew, and the West still knows, the primacy of the spiritual in warfare. The soil of Europe, rendered sacred by the streams of blood which have made it spiritually fertile for a millennium, will once again stream with blood until the barbarians and distorters have been driven out and the Western banner waves on its home soil from Gibraltar to North Cape, and from the rocky promontories of Galway to the Urals.This is promised, not by human resolves merely, but by a higher Destiny, which cares little whether it is 1950, 2000, or 2050. This Destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service”.Imperium should be read by every serious student of politics, it is available from Amazon in paperback for £12.14.

Plastic cover on front and back of book is lifting off. I respect and care for my books. Never seen this before and I have 1,000 books.You can arrange to see it, collect it or I can post it back.01 Sept 2024. Four weeks later and No Reply. I am 74, thats why I have not sent photos. Will this be POSTED?

I hoped for a work on western thought and European ideas of politics and related philosophy what I got was a superficial political diatribe with bias and far-right rubbish. Ideas were unsupported by anything other than more ideas or tissue thin observations (often biased), lots of musings on expressions of public culture but not will and “strong” leadership. Tommyrot. Awful, ridiculous views on race.

A book for every Jack booted incel’s bookshelf.