a.r.c. resource lists I
Jim Kalb
marked with an "#." As always, additions, comments and reassignments
among categories when called for (I haven't read all this stuff) should
be sent to ka...@aya.yale.edu.
The lists are an accumulation of materials submitted by
alt.revolution.counter participants. Their purpose is to aid the
exploration and study of counterrevolutionary and related thought. They
include materials from a great variety of sources, are not at all
balanced, include material most people find objectionable, and in
general are designed to inform rather than recommend. The descriptions
are also from many sources and usually reflect the views of the
contributor or publication rather than those of the compiler.
Many of the materials will be unobtainable from your local bookstore or
library. Large libraries are likely to have some and are worth
checking. Interlibrary loans are another source. Some items are
available through Amazon.com and other mainstream online sellers, others
through the "Book Stores & Mail Order Services" listed below. The used
book finder at www.bibliofind.com is also quite useful.
Many of these materials are public domain or hopelessly out of print.
Some are available on the web as etexts; those that I know are available
I have marked with an asterisk (*) and can usually be found through my
Traditionalist Conservatism page (http://www.panix.com/~jk/trad.html).
Since scanners and OCR software have become quite cheap and get better
all the time, anyone who wants can make more texts available. Join the
counterrevolution and become an e-publisher!
Due to size, the lists are posted in three parts, two for books and
articles and one for everything else. A single file with the current
version of all lists is at
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~cd431/arc_resources.html
BOOKS & ARTICLES INDEX
Table of Contents:
General
Books
Articles
Other Sources
Christian Society and Counter-Revolution
Catholic Traditionalism
Monarchism
Distributism, Economics
History of the Revolution
History & Biographies.
GENERAL: books
Aristotle. _Ethics_* and _Politics_*.
Aurelius, Marcus. _Meditations_*.
Babbitt, Irving. _Democracy and Leadership_ and _Rousseau and
Romanticism_. An analysis of modern cultural and spiritual
tendencies and proposed remedies.
Burke, Edmund. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_*.
Burnham, James. _The Suicide of the West_ (1965); _The Managerial
Revolution (1941). Antecedents to theory of bureaucratic elites
set forth in the latter book are VilfredoPareto, Gaetano Mosca,
and Robert Michels.
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. A good source for
long-ignored and difficult-to-obtain texts.
Campbell, Francis Stuart [aka Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]. The Menace of
the Herd, or Procrustes at Large. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing,
1943. A very learned and vigorous critique of mass politics from a
European, Catholic perspective.
Confucius. _Analects_.* An example of tradition-based thought at its
best.
Eliot, T.S. _Notes toward the Definition of Culture_.
Gress, David. _From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its
Opponents_ (Free Press, 1988). Argues that Western Civilization is
not the simple story told by neocons and cold warriors, but is a
complex mosaic of Greek, Roman, Christian and Germanic influences.
Schoeck, Helmut. _Envy_ (Liberty Press). An analysis of the driving
force behind much left-wing politics.
Francis, Sam. _Beautiful Losers_. The unfortunate state of American
conservatism.
George Grant. _Lament for a Nation_, _English-Speaking Justice_, and
_Technology and Empire_.
Huxley, Aldous, _Brave New World_. What happens when the transcendent
is stripped out of society.
Kendall, Willmore, _The Conservative Affirmation in America_ (available
from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute); _Willmoore Kendall
Contra Mundum_.
Ibn Khaldun, _Muqaddimah_. The greatest work of the 14th century
Tunisian who invented value-free social science in order to
understand the rise and fall of political societies, in particular
multicultural societies in decline such as his own.
Kirk, Russell, _The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot_.
Lindbom, Tage. _The Tares and the Good Grain_. A comprehensive and
fundamental criticism of modern secularism by a man who was once a
leading intellectual in the Swedish social democratic party. Also
_The Myth of Democracy_.
Locke, John. _Second Treatise of Government_.* Should we follow most
American conservatives and retain Locke because he inspired the
American order or reject him as part of the liberal tradition?
Ludovici, Anthony. _Defense of Aristocracy: A Text Book for Tories_
(1915) London: Constable; _A Defense of Conservatism: A Further
Text-Book for Tories_ (London: Faber and Gwyer, 1921). Also, _The
Specious Origins of Liberalism. London: Britons, 1967. Utterly
refreshing massacre of most liberal nostrums, especially those
relating to equality. Almost every book by this author is worth
reading.
Maistre, Joseph de. _Works_. The most admired French
counterrevolutionary thinker. See his _Considerations on France_,*
_Generative Principles of Political Contitutions_,* and _St.
Petersburg Dialogues_.*
MacIntyre, Alasdair. _After Virtue_ (Notre Dame, 1981). An exploration
of the collapse of moral order in the modern period.
Maine, Henry. _Popular Government_.
Marx, Karl. _Works_.* If you want to understand the revolution, you
have to read him.
Molnar, Thomas. _The Counter-Revolution_ (Funk & Wagnalls, 1969). A
general study of counterrevolutionary thought and the reasons for
its pragmatic failure. _Utopia, the Perennial Heresy_ (Sheed and
Ward, 1967). _Authority and its Enemies_ (Arlington House, 1976).
_Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred_ (Eerdmans, 1988). What
happens when the sacred vanishes?
More, Paul Elmer. _Shelburne Essays_ (Phaeton Press, 1967). _The
Essential Paul Elmer More_, ed. Byron C. Lambert (Arlington House,
1972).* Like Irving Babbitt, a New Humanist who emphasized the
"inner check" in opposition to modern expansiveness and an
extraordinary critic who must be read today.
Michels, Robert. _Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the
Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy_; _First Lectures in
Political Sociology_. The formulator of the Iron Law of Oligarchy.
Newman, John Henry. _An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent_* and _An
Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine_*. Classic
discussions of how to combine the particularity of tradition and
the personal an situated with the universality of truth.
Nisbet, Robert, _The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics of Order
and Freedom._ Oxford University Press, 1953. Explores how
individualism and statism have flourished while the primary sources
of human community have grown weaker. _The Present Age_.
indispensible in understanding the triumph of a centralist regime.
_Prejudices_, a "philosophical dictionary." _Conservatism_
(University of Minnesota Press, 1986), a good brief discussion,
more analytical than historical.
Oakeshott, Michael. _Rationalism in Politics_. A consideration of the
issue by the leading post World War II conservative thinker.
Ortega y Gasett, Jose. _Revolt of the Masses_.
Pareto, Vilfredo. _Mind and Society_. Sets forth his theory of the
circulation of elites.
Lord Percy of Newcastle: The Heresy of Democracy. A study in the History
of Government (London, 1954). A conservative criticism of the new
Democracy of 1789 which puts forward the alternative of the Moral
State based on Dualism as opposed to Totalism.
G. Groen van Prinstrerer, _Unbelief and Revolution_. A major work by
the founder of the Anti-Revolutionary Party in the Netherlands.
Plato. _Republic_* and _Laws_*. Among its excellencies the _Republic_
includes (in books viii and ix) a penetrating account of social and
political evolution, from military aristocracy through commercial
oligarchy to democratic consumer society and then to tyranny.
Rousseau, J.-J. _Social Contract_* and other writings.
Ryn, Claes. _The New Jacobinism_. Centralism vs decentralism, and the
need for cultural and social continuity and local control.
Schmitt, Carl. _The_Concept_of_the_Political_. Trans. George Schwab.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. _The Crisis of
Parliamentary Democracy_ (MIT Press 1992), _Political Theology_
(MIT Press 1988), _Political Romanticism_ (MIT Press 1986). Also
see Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, by Paul Gottfried (New
York: Greenwood Press, 1990), _Roman Catholicism and Political
Form_, trans. G. L. Ulmen, Greenwood Press, 1996, and recent
English language articles on Carl Schmitt in TELOS and POLITICAL
THEORY.
Scruton, Roger. _The Philospher on Dover Beach_ (essays), _The Meaning
of Conservatism_ (the first edition is more CR than the second),
_An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culure- and _Sexual
Desire_.
Solzhenitsyn, A. I. (ed.). _From Under the Rubble_. Solzhenitsyn's own
articles in the collection are that very rare thing, intelligent
and illuminating essays on nationalism.
Sorokin, Pitirim A. _The Crisis of Our Age_ (1941). Presents his
cyclical view of history, in which cultures move from ideational
(religious) to sensate (empirical) phases, and his analysis of the
current disintegration of sensate culture.
Spengler, Oswald. _Decline of the West_.
Stephen, James FitzJames. _Liberty, Equality, Fraternity_.
Strauss, Leo. His books, devoted to recovery of classical political
philosophy, provide a useful perspective on the modern situation.
Tainter, Joseph A., _The Collapse Of Complex Societies_. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Provides an anthropological
discussion of the collapse of large civilizations relevant to
decline-of-the-west theories.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. _Democracy in America_.*
Weaver, Richard. _Ideas Have Consequences_.
Wood, James N. Democracy and the Will to Power. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1921. A fascinating book by an unusual thinker. Highly
critical of women's suffrage.
Voegelin, Eric. _The New Science of Politics_.
GENERAL: Articles
Berlin, Isaiah. "Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism", in _The
Crooked Timber of Humanity_. An eminent liberal's account of how
de Maistre fits into his understanding of things.
John Grigg: Nobility & War, _Encounter_ March 1990 Vol. 74 No. 2
An interesting discussion on whether Britain was more or less
moral in the First or the Second World War.
Wilmoore Kendall. "The People of Athens vs Socrates Revisited"; "The
Two Majorities" (_Midwest Journal of Political Science_, Nov. 1960,
pp. 317-345); "John Locke Revisited" (_Intercollegiate Review_,
Jan.-Feb. 1966 pp. 217-234); "The People versus Socrates
Revisited" _Modern Age_ (Winter 58-59, pp. 98-111).
GENERAL: Other Sources
_Guide to the American Right_, compiled by Laird Wilcox (Editorial
Research Service, PO Box 2047, Olath, KS 66061). $24.95.
A directory (updated annually) of over 3,300 anti-communist,
conservative, patriotic, tax protest, pro-family, libertarian,
ethnic (white) nationalist and other "right-wing" organizations,
publishers, book dealers, newsletters, and journals in the United
States and Canada. Listings are coded to indicate special areas of
interest and serials are cross-indexed with sponsoring
organizations. Includes a bibliography of over 540 books on the
American "right-wing".
_The Right Guide: A Guide to Right-of-Center Organizations_. (1997)
Describes itself as "the most complete source of information on the
organizations and publications that make up the conservative, free
market, and traditional values movement." Lists over 3400 groups,
of which over 830 are profiled in depth. Available from Economics
America, Inc., 612 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, or by
calling (800) 878-6141. $49.95, including UPS shipping.
Louis Filler: A Dictionary of American Conservatism (Citadel Press,
Secaucus, NJ, 1988). Not quite as complete a guide as the blurb
claims, but still a useful reference for mainstream American
conservatism (especially for non-Americans). The coverage is
varied and not just limited to America - there is an article on
Belloc (but not on Distributism).
Ciaran o Maolain: The Radical Right: A World Directory (A Keesing's
Reference Publication, Longman Group, UK, 1987). Somewhat dated,
this work is a directory of groups and organisations considered by
the author to be right-wing, ranging from Anti-Communist to
Monarchist to White Supremacist to Mainstream right-wing political
parties. The author is fairly obviously biased against these
groups. The information provided for the various groups included
is often out-of-date and incomplete (even when such information
would be reasonably easy to find) but a new edition is said to be
on the way.
CHRISTIAN SOCIETY AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
James Aho: _The Politics of Righteousness_ (1990, University of
Washington Press)
Hugh Akins: Christian Order and the Modern World
Aquinas, Thomas. _Works_, especially his political writings.
Alan J. Barron: _The Death of Eve_
The effects of "women's liberation" on Western society.
Attacks the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination Against Women and "equal opportunities".
Hilaire Belloc: Europe and the Faith. What made Europe? The
significance of Christendom.
Hilaire Belloc: The Great Heresies. Explaination of 5 heresies
including Islam and how they effected Christendom.*
Hilaire Belloc: _The Jews_
An examination of the causes of friction between Gentile and
Jew.
Hilaire Belloc: How the Reformation Happened. Spiritual, military,
financial and political backgrounds.
Hilaire Belloc: Survivals and New Arrivals. Who attacks Christianity
and what we must do to rebuild it.*
L. Brent Bozell: _Mustard Seeds_ (Trinity Communications).
Emil Brunner: _Christiantiy and Civilization_.
Hedrickus Berkof: _Christ the Meaning of History_.
G.K. Chesterton: What's Wrong with the World? (1910)*
Discusses the family, imperialism, feminism, education.*
Corneliu Codreanu: For My Legionaries.
The story of the Iron Guard in Romania as told by its leader.
Many are still inspired by this book.
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: Revolution and Counter Revolution
An inspired analysis of the forms that the Revolution has taken
and an examination of valid Counter Revolutionary responses.
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: What does Self-Managing Socialism mean for
Communism - A Barrier? Or a Bridgehead? Crusade for a Christian
Civilization Vol 12 No 3 Apr-Jun 1982).
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: Unperceived Idelological Transshipment and
Dialogue (also > Crusade for a Christian Civilization Vol 12 No. 2,
Oct-Dec 1982 originally Port. Baldeaco Ideologica Inadvertida e
Dialogo)
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: Indian Tribalism, the Communist-Missionary
Ideal for Brazil in the Twent-First Century (also > Crusade for a
Christian Civilization Vol. 10 No. 4 / Vol. 11 No. 1 (joint
publication)
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: Agrarian Reform - A Question of Conscience
Shows how socialist agrarian reform offends against Catholic
doctrine.
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: In Defense of Catholic Action
An attack on the infiltration of progressive ideology with the
Catholic Church.
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: What does Self-managing Socialism Mean for
Communism - A Barrier or a Bridgehead? > (1) Crusade for a
Christian Civilization Vol 12 No 3 April-June 1992; (2) The
Washington Post 9 Dec., 1981; (3) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
9 Dec., 1981
Examines the implications of the policy of self-managing
socialism in France.
Christopher Dawson: _Christianity in East and West_, _Progress and
Religion_, _Religion and the Rise of Western Culture_, _Religion
and the Modern State_.
Homer Duncan: _Secular Humanism_. On Anti-Christian secular education.
T. S. Eliot: _Idea of a Christian Society_. A long essay or short book
discussing concept and general form.
Rev. Denis Fahey: The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World (3rd ed.
1939, rpd Omni Publications, Hawthorne California, 1987)
An extremely important book for all concerned with restoring
the Social Reign of Christus Rex (Christ the King).
Rev. Denis Fahey: The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the
Jewish Nation.
Rev. Denis Fahey: The Social Rights of Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ the
King
Rev. Denis Fahey: The Kingship of Christ According to the Principles of
St Thomas Aquinas
Grady: Abortion - _Yes or No?_ Pro-life booklet which sets out the case
against abortion.
Solange Hertz: The Start Spangled Heresy - Americanism (Veritas
Press, Santa Monica, CA)
Traces the source of many ills such as democratism,
revolutionary liberalism and religious pluralism in the
contemporary Church to the influence of the heresy of
Americanism (that the liberal and democractic assumptions of the
USA should be applied to the Church) on the Second Vatican Council.
James Hitchcock: Years of Crisis. Collected Essays, 1970-1983
(Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1985)
Discusses many topics affecting Christianity in general and
Catholicism in particular in an increasing secular modern
America.
Douglas Jerrold: The Necessity of Freedom. Notes on Christianity and
Politics (London, 1939)
Concerns the restoration of Christian authority and freedom
against the ideas of 1789.
James B. Jordan, The Bible and the Nations (Biblical Horizons, P. O. Box
132011, Tyler, Texas 75713, USA, 1988). A Calvinist theology of
nationhood. Also see "The Bible and the Nations," by Jean-Marc
Berthoud http://www.kuyper.org/jmarc02.html, a Calvinist, anti-
political universalism treatise: "The Bible clearly knows nothing
of the modern (and ancient) idea of a universal society made up of
atomistic individuals organically unrelated to one another and
constituting an undifferentiated and anarchic international
community.... What then is the biblical theology of the nations?"
C.S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man
McIlhenny, Chuck and Donna and York, Frank. _When The Wicked Seize A
City_ (Huntington House, 1993). McIlhenny's Presbyterian church
fires its homosexual organist and gets fire-bombed by zealots.
Malcolm Muggeridge: _Great Liberal Deathwish_
Oden, Thomas. _Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements_ (Abingdon, 1995);
_Two Worlds: Notes on the Death of Modernity in America & Russia_
(InterVarsity Press, 1992); _Systematic Theology_ (3 vol; _The
Living God_, _The Word of Life_, _Life in The Spirit_; all Harper).
Methodist theologian Oden is the father of Paleo-Orthodoxy. He
rejected trendy modernism and calls for a return to Scripture and
the church fathers.
Muncy, Mitchell, ed. _The End of Democracy?: The Judicial Usurpation
of Politics: The Celebrated First Things Debate with Arguments Pro
and Con and "The Anatomy of a Controversy" by Richard John Neuhaus.
(Spence Publishing 1997) This book chronicles the spat that split
First Things from the neoconservates.
Stephen Perks: _The Christian Philosophy of Education Explained_. C.
Van Til's ideas applied to Education
Stephen Perks: _Christianity and Law: An Enquiry into the Influence of
Christianity on the Developement of English Common Law_.
Rev. Praniatis: The Talmud Unmasked.
An examination of the Talmud and its anti-Christian basis.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy:
_I Am an Impure Thinker_. Essays introducing Rosenstock-Huessy's
thought. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is a specimen of the
rationalistic ideal. In fact, however, God continually presents us
with new challenges, and the true man is open to the future,
responsive to what God sets before him, and willing to be changed.
Thus, the true man's thinking is "impure."
_Speech and Reality_. Rosenstock-Huessy's view of language. God is
the Word, and man, as the image of God, "is" language. The study of
how language works is the study of how people live and interact
with one another, the world, and God. The impure thinker realizes
that God speaks first, and we respond.
_The Origin of Speech_. A slightly more advanced and systematic
exploration of speech and reality.
_Out of Revolution_. This is Rosenstock-Huessy's big, 800-page book
on the history of Western civilization.
_The Christian Future; or, The Modern Mind Outrun_. Rosenstock-
Huessy realized in 1920 that Western Civilization is over. The
future belongs to Christianity. God has a plan for history, a plan
that makes sense and that is going to succeed.
_Planetary Service_. Rosenstock-Huessy took seriously the gospel's
call to live for others in service. This book is on how to organize
service in your local community, and how not to do it.
Arnold Van Ruler, Calvinist trinitarianism and theocentric politics:
essays toward a public theology.
Rousas J. Rushdoony: _The Foundations of Social Order_ (Presbyterian
and Reformed, 1968); _The Institutes of Biblical Law_ (Philipsburg:
The Craig Press, 1973); _Law and Society_ (Vallecito, California:
Ross House Books, 1982); _Law and Liberty_ (The Craig Press, 1971);
_Salvation and Godly Rule_ (Ross House Books, 1983); _The Roots of
Reconstruction_ (Ross House Books, 1991). Rushdoony is the father
of Christian Reconstruction.
Klass Schilder. _Christ and Culture_.
ed Avril Smith: The Voice of Christian Affirmation
Thirteen talks given at conferences of the Christian Affirmation
Campaign 1974-1986. (Christian Heritage Publications, Worthing, 1987)
Includes talks by Michael Davies, Hamish Fraser, Rev. Arthur Lewis,
Ray Honeyford, Prof Dr Peter Beyerhaus, Edmund Ball, Rev Francis Moss,
John Braine, Rev Maurice cartledge, John Gouriet, Ian Thompson
on a variety of subjects.
Chard Powers Smith: _Yankees and God_ (Hermitage, 1954). An
idiosyncratic account of the progress of the Revolution (he does
not phrase it that way) among the New England Puritans and their
heirs.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Rebuilding Russia (1990)
How Russia can be reconstructed.
Henry Van Til. _The Calvinist Concept of Culture_.
Tradition, Family & Property: Half a Century of Epic Anti-Communism (New
York, 1981). The history of the founding of the TFPs and their
campaigns for a Christian society.
Marion Michael Walsh: The New Christendom. How We will Build It
Marion Michael Walsh: A Manual of Christian Social-Political Action
Frederick Wilhelmson: _Christianity and Political Phiosophy_ (Athens,
1978).
Douglas Wilson: _Recovering The Lost Tools Of Learning_ (Crossway).
This book, based on an essay by Dorothy L. Sayers, is the
foundation behind the classical Christian school movement.
The Christian Law Institute Position Papers, Releases and Reports
CATHOLIC TRADITIONALISM
M. Carre: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle. How the Communists entered
seminaries to destroy the Church.
GK Chesterton: Orthodoxy*
An explanation of Chesteron's belief in Christianity.
Piers Compton: The Broken Cross
Masonic infiltration within the Vatican. Some of the claims made
in this book should be treated with care.
Rama P. Coomaraswamy: The Destruction of the Christian Tradition
(Perennial Books, London, 1981). A short history of the appalling
debacle that has befallen the Roman Catholic Church form the time of
Vatican II.
Michael Davies: Apologia pro Marcel Lefebvre
Part I 1905-1976 (The Angelus Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1979)
Part II 1977-1979 (The Angelus Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1983)
A detailed 'blow-by-blow' account of the dispute between the
former traditionalist Archbishop and the Vatican.
Michael Davies: An Open Letter to a Bishop on the
Development of the Roman Rite (Chulmleigh,Devon, 1980)
Michael Davies: A Privilege of the Ordained (The Angelus
Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1982)
Michael Davies: The Goldfish Bowl: The Church Since
Vatican II (The Angelus Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1985)
Michael Davies: St Athanasius. Defender of the Faith
(The Angelus Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1985)
Michael Davies: The Legal Status of the Tridentine Mass
(The Angelus Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1982)
Michael Davies: The Catechetical Revolution. Blessing or
Disaster (The Antony Roper Memorial Lecture, 1984)
Michael Davies: Archbishop Lefebvre and Religious
Liberty (Augustine Publishing Co, Chulmleigh, Devon, 1980)
The above 7 booklets by Michael Davies deal with the
contemporary crisis in the Church in the wake of Vatican 2 and
related matters.
Michael Davies: The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty
(Neumann Press, Long Prairie, Minnesota)
Examines how the traditional teaching of the Church on religious
liberty was distorted at the Second vatican Council under the
influence of Americanism amongst others.
Marcel Lefebvre: A Bishop Speaks
Marcel Lefebvre: An Open Letter to Confused Catholics
(tr The Society of St Pius X - Great Britain, Angelus
Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1987)
Marcel Lefebvre: They Have Uncrowned Him. From
Liberalism to Apostasy. The Conciliar Tragedy (tr
Reverend Father Gregory Post, Angelus Press, Dickinson, Texas, 1988)
Fr. Francis Marsden: _Weaving a Web of Confusion_ (Parents' Concern,
16 St Mary Court, Faversham, Kent ME13 8AZ, 2.50 pounds).
A booklet examining the failure of current religious syllabi to
actually teach the Catholic faith in favour of false religions.
Malachi Martin: _Windswept House_. A novel of the Vatican in which
most influential cardinals want to make the Chuch a susidiary of
the NWO and the inner circle are outright satanists. If you can't
figure out immediately who a particular character is modelled on do
a web search for a list.
Count Leon de Poncins: Judaism and the Vatican
Describes the eternal conflict between Judaism and Christianity
and how the 2nd Vatican Council was affected.
Count Leon de Poncins: Freemasonry and the Vatican
The secret Freemasonic attacks on the Church.
MONARCHISM
Fr. Michael Azkoul: _Sacred Monarchy and the modern secular state_.
Robert Beum: "Ultra-Royalism Revisited: An Annotated Bibliography with
a Preface," _Modern Age_, v. 39, no. 3, pp. 290-316 (Summer 1997).
A "must" for all seriously interested in the Right.
Warren Carrol: _The Cross and the Guillotine_
Plinio Correa de Oliveira: Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in
the Allocutions of Pius XII
Yves Dupont: More about the Great Monarch (Tenet Books, Hawthorne,
Australia)
John Farthing: Freedom wears a Crown (Toronto, 1957)
A presentation of the constitutional power and significance
of the British Crown. A study of constitutional monarchy.
Marquis de la Franquerie: Le Caractere Sacre et Divin de la Royaute en
France (Editions de Chire, Vouille, 1978)
Marquis de la Franquerie: Louis XVI le Roi Martyr (Editions Resiac,
Montsurs, 1974)
Solange Hertz: The Strange Spirit of '76 (Big Rock Papers, 1975)
Solange Hertz: The Thought of His Heart (Big Rock Papers, 1975)
Solange Hertz: Louis XVI, Royal Martyr and Victim (Big Rock Papers, 1979)
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: _Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our
Time_ Christendom Press: Front Royal, VA 1992. (A reprint of the
1952 original with a preface by Russell Kirk)
Constantin Pobedonostsev: _Reflections of a Russian Statesman_.
DISTRIBUTISM, ECONOMICS
Hilaire Belloc: The Alternative
An reprinted article originally from _St George's Review_ which
explains that socialism is no alternative to capitalism and that
puts the case for distributism.
Hilaire Belloc: The Crisis of Civilisation. What's wrong with society
-- usury, competition, money and slavery.
Hilaire Belloc: Economics For Helen.
Re-published by the St George Educational Trust. Economics and the
myths that surround it.
Hilaire Belloc: Restoration of Property (1936)
An essay [78pp] which argues against both Communism and Capitalism.
Hilaire Belloc: The Servile State (1912)
An attack on socialism and statism.
H. Belloc and C. Chesterton: The Party System. Re-published by the St
George Educational Trust. How the Westminster system is corrupt and
impossible to change from within.
Carlos Patricio del Campo: _Is Brazil Sliding Toward the Extreme Left?_
How left-wing policies threaten to ruin the properity of
Brazil.
G.K. Chesterton: The Outline of Sanity
Classic Distributist work. Argues for the wide-spread ownership
of property as the economic way forward which will preserve
the individual and family.
Rev. Cleary: The Church & Usury
The history of the opposition of the Church to usury.
Cobbett: Cottage Economy
The alternative to the concentration of economic wealth and
power in the hands of a few - small businesses and a return to
honesty and craftsmanship.
Rev. Charles Coughlin: Money - Questions and Answers
Father Coughlin, the famous "radio priest" answers questions on
money.
Rev. Denis Fahey: Workingmen's Guilds of the Middle Ages
Rev. Denis Fahey: _Money Manipulation and Social Order_
Rev. Denis Fahey: _The Church and Farming_
Olive & Jan Grubiak: The Guernsey Experiment.
A booklet [25pp] on how Guernsey freed itself from usury
and high taxation.
Aidan MacKay: Hilaire Belloc and his Critics
Available from the GK Chesterton Study Centre - vide list of
organisations. An introduction to Hilaire Belloc and
Distributism in booklet form [26pp].
Aidan MacKay: The Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton
A short introduction [15pp] to Chesterton and his Distributist
ideals.
A. Penty: The Guild Alternative
Re-published by the St George Educational Trust. Shows how the
modern world can benefit from the Guild System and its just and
fixed prices.
Wilhelm Roepke. _Humane Economy: Social Framework of the Free Market_,
and _The Social Crisis of Our Time_. Unlike most classical
liberals, Roepke was a devout Christian who agreed with
Distributists that the bigness characterizing capitalist economies
was detrimental to freedom and Christian values. On the other
hand, he believed an unfettered market provided the best basis on
which to safeguard this freedom. The books are a resource for
people who are willing to accept Distributism's critique of modern
society but who can't buy into the "Third Way."
E.F. Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
The anti-social effects of big business and the need for small
family properties.
E.F. Schumacher: A Guide for the Perplexed
E. Soddy: Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Reality
A study of money and credit.
Gary North: Salvation Through Inflation: The Economics of Social
Credit. Tyler, TX; Institute For Christian Economics, 1993.
A comparison of Austrian economics and social credit theory.
HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION
Norman Cohn: _The Pursuit of the Millennium_. Like _The Socialist
Phenomenon_, (below) exposes the perennial attraction and tendency
toward fanaticism of millennarian and utopian schemes and how such
ideologies produced destructive revolutionary movements.
Robert Conquest: _The Great Terror_ (mass murder in 1930s Russia) and
_Harvest of Sorrow_ (an account of the Ukraine famine which killed
millions).
William Gayley Simpson: _Which Way Western Man?_ (1978). A lengthy
historical discussion involving religion, anthropology, race,
communism, the money power, the New World Order, various
philosophies east and west.
D. Manifold: Karl Marx - True or False Prophet?
A critical analysis of the life of Karl Marx and his part in the
Revolution.
Igor Shafarevich: _The Socialist Phenomenon_.
Nesta H. Webster: The French Revolution
The causes and effects of the French Revolution - corrects many
misunderstandings.
Nesta H. Webster: The Socialist Network (London, 1926)
The links between socialist organisations and people.
Probably somehat dated to be of more than historical use.
Nesta H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1924, rpd
Christian Book Club of America, 197?)
An account of masonic and other subversive movements from the
Middle Ages to the early Twentieth Century.
Nesta H. Webster: World Revolution. The Plot against Civilization
(London, 1921)
Details the links between the Illuminati, the French
Revolution and their modern ideological descendants.
Nesta H. Webster: Surrender of an Empire (3rd edition, 1931)
Details the attacks launched against the British Empire in
order to bring abouts its downfall as a stumbling block to
Communist expansion.
HISTORY & BIOGRAPHIES
Books by counterrevolutionaries, about counterrevolutionaries and
studies of the Revolution and Counterrevolution in action.
Carlos de Arce: _Los Generales de Franco_ (Barcelona, 1984)
An account of the generals who fought on the Nationalist side
during the Spanish Crusade.
D. Bacu: _The Anti-Humans_
The story of the Romanians who had followed Cornelie Codreanu
after the Bolseheviks took power.
David Baker: _Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British
Fascism_.
Hilaire Belloc: _Cramner_ and _James II_. Accounts of two pivotal
figures that differ from those written by the winners.
Luis Bolin: _Spain - The Vital Years_ (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967)
The account of the author's participation in the Spanish
Crusade (a.k.a. Spanish Civil War) including his part in aiding
Franco at the start of the war.
Salvador Borrego: _Puzzling Neighbours - A Historical Guide to
Understanding Modern Mexico_
An account of how Masonic forces have attacked and weakened
Mexico.
Whittaker Chambers: _Witness_. The best written work on American
Communism.
G.K. Chesterton: _Autobiography_
Corneliu Codreanu: _Nest Leaders Manual_
Organisational handbook of the Iron Guard.
Corneliu Codreanu: _Circulars & Manifestoes_
It records the victories and defeats, bitterness and pain, hopes
and joys, but always the moral brilliance and the honour of the
man who led the Legion.
Barbara Cole: _The Elite - The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air
Service_.
The story of this crack anti-terrorist unit during the Rhodesian
struggle against Communism.
Martin Conway: _Collaboration in Belgium - Leon Degrelle and the Rexist
Movement_ (Yale, 1993).
Jay P. Corrins: _GK Chesterton & Hilaire Belloc. The Battle Against
Modernity_ (Ohio, 1981)
Ian Crowther: _ G.K. Chesterton_ (Thinkers of Our Time, The Claridge Press,
London, 1991)
An introduction to Chesterton and his philosophy concentrating
on his Christian worldview and its relevance today.
Leon Daudet (son of Alphonse Daudet). _The Stupid XIXth Century_.
Considered one of the greatest counter-revolutionary tracts ever
written, skewering liberalism, scientism, and "progressive"
thinking of all stripes.
Donald Day: _Onward Christian Soldiers_
A correspondent for The Chicago Tribune in Europe, Day reports
on the Bolshevik subversion in the Baltic states before and
during the Second World War.
Degrelle: _Persiste et Signe. Interviews recueilles pour la
television francaise par Jean-Michel Charlier_ (Editions Jean
Picollec, Paris, 1985).
In a series of interviews, Leon Degrelle details his youth, his
activities as the leader of Rex in Belgium, his struggle during
the war and his subsequent exile in Spain.
Leon Degrelle: _Campaign in Russia_
A more detailed account of Degrelle's campaigns in Russia as a
political soldier.
Leon Degrelle: _Letter to the Pope on his Visit to Auschwitz_
Leon Degrelle: _Hitler - Born at Versailles_.
Traces the causes and results of the First World War in the
shaping of the 20th century.
F.C.C Egerton: _Salazar. Rebuilder of Portugal_ (London, 1943)
A description of the Portugese state and its ruler Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar.
Mike Hoare: _Congo Mercenary_ (London, 1967)
An account of the campaign against the communist rebellion in
the Congo (shortly after the UN suppression of Katanga) by 'Mad
Mike', the leader of the mercenaries.
Michael Ffinch: _G.K. Chesterton. A Biography_ (London, 1986)
W. Foss & C. Gerahty: _The Spanish Arena_ (Catholic Book Club, London)
A contemporary account of the Spanish Crusade.
L. Fry: _Waters Flowing Eastward_
Eye-witness account of the Bolshevik Revolution and its causes.
Hale, William Bayard. The Story of a Style. New York: B.W. Huebsch,
1920. A very amusing and insightful lampoon of the premiere 20th
c. American liberal: Woodrow Wilson. The author reveals how
Wilson's pompous, adjective-laden speech indicates a mind filled
with cliches and fairy tales.
Solange Hertz: _Dicovering Cristabal Colon_ (Supplement to Apropos No 12)
Seeking the real Christopher Columbus amongst the lies and
detractions of his enemies.
David Irving: _Uprising! - One Nations Nightmare: Hungary 1956_
The story of the revolt of the Hunagrian people against
the Communist regime.
Siegfried Kappe-Hardenberg: _Ein Mythos wird Zerstoert - Der Spanische
Buergerkrieg, Guernica, und di Antideutsche Propaganda_
A refutation of the myth of Guernica as portrayed by the Red
propaganda campaign.
Michael Kenny S.J.: _No God Next Door - Red Rule in Mexico and Our
Responsibility_ (Wm. J. Hirten Co, 1935; rpd C.S.G. & Associates
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
First published in 1935, this book has been recently reissued.
It describes the sufferings of the Cristeros inflicted by the
Masonic-Socialist alliance (with American backing).
Jesus Salas Larrazabal: _Guernica_ (Libros de Historia 22, Ediciones Rialp,
Madrid, 1987)
Examines the myth of Guernica from a neutral viewpoint and
concludes that the actual facts of the bombing raid bear no
relation to what was later reported outside the local area in a
world-wide propaganda campaign.
Father Arthur Lewis: _Christian Terror_
Details communist terrorist atrocities during the Rhodesian
bush war and the financial backing given to the perpetrators by
the World Council of Churches.
John Lukacs, _The End of the Twentieth Century_. Lukacs argues that the
two world wars, fought over nationalism, were the watershed events
of the twentieth century and that Adolph Hitler, rather than Lenin
or Mao, was the most radical revolutionary of the century.
Hon. Mrs Maxwell-Scott: _Garcia Moren~o, the Regenerator of Ecuador_
Geoffrey Moss (Major Geoffrey McNeil-Moss): _The Epic of the Alcazar_.
A History of the Siege of the Toledo Alcazar, 1936 (London,
1937)
A day-by-day account of this famous siege during the Spanish
Crusade.
Eustace Mullins: _Ezra Pound - This Difficult Individual_
An insight into 'the most difficult years of this difficult
individual'.
Ezra Pound (ed DD Paige): _Selected Letters 1907-1941P
Ezra Pound: _Selected Prose 1909-1965_
A selection of Pounds political and literary writings. Includes
_ABC of Economic_, _Murder by Capital_, _National Culture -
A Manifesto_ and commentaries on Eliot, Buchan and others.
Ronnett, Alexander E., M.D. _Romanian_Nationalism:_The_Legionary_
_Movement_. Trans. Vasile C. Barsan, Ph.D. Chicago: Loyola
University Press, 1974. [A history of the Legion of the
Archangel Michael. Ronnett, _ne'_ Rachmistriuc, is a Legionary
who escaped to Chicago.]
Tolstoy: _Victims of Yalta_.
How anti-Communist fighters were repatriated by the British
after the war to face torture and death.
Maisie Ward: _Gilbert Keith Chesterton_ (London, 1944)
The official authorised biography.
E. Waugh: _Robbery under Law - the Mexican Object-Lesson_ (Catholic
Book Club, London, 1940)
A sketch of Mexico during the 1930's detailing the attacks on
private property and the Church.
Robert Wilson: _Last Days of the Romanovs_ (first 1920; updated ed, ?)
An investigation by a journalist into the murder of Czar
Nicholas and his family. With a modern introduction and
appendix by Ivor Benson.
--
Jim Kalb (ka...@aya.yale.edu and http://www.counterrevolution.net)
"Rem tene; verba sequentur" -- Cato