THE JITTERBUGS AND THE VABANQUESPIELER:

ON YOCKEY'S AMERICA
MICHAEL O'MEARA
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"For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves."
Francis Parker Yockey, 1953
The "Judeo-African cacophony" mesmerizing the jitterbugs on the
dance floors of the Thirties was part of a larger program to debauch
the conservative, Christian rhythms of American life.
Such, at least, was the argument Francis Parker Yockey made in his
first published work, "The Tragedy of Youth" (1939). 1
In this early piece, full of promise and prefiguring aspects of his
later critique of American life, Yockey depicted an America that had
begun to keep step with the intonations and inflections of its Jewish
bandmasters.
But more than making fools of themselves with their un-European
movements in the different arenas of their private life, Americans, he
believed, were acting out the worldview of the alien-minded minority
in control of the country's media.
In this spirit, drinking, smoking, and other bad habits glamorized
by Hollywood became marks of sophistication; sports were fetishized;
and private and public opinion was shaped and reshaped to legitimate machinations of every sort.
At the same time, God was "replaced by lust, the priest by the psychoanalyst, and the hero and heroine by the promiscuous loungelizard and the glittering harlot." 2
For the more intellectually sophisticated, there were countless
books and magazines promoting class war, racial inequality, and antiEuropean (especially anti-German) hatred all designed to destroy
"whatever exclusiveness, national feeling, or racial instincts" that may

Francis Parker Yockey, "The Tragedy of Youth" (1939).

http://home.alphalinks.com.au/~radnat/fpyockey/index.
2 Kerry Bolton (Ed.), Francis Parker Yockey and the ELF Frontfighter (Paraparaumu
Beach, NZ: Renaissance Press, 1998), 1415.
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still have existed in the American people. 3

Along with these cultural subversions, Roosevelt's New Deal the
granddaddy of the present anti-White system was incurring debts
and obligations favoring the left forces, particularly in preparing a future of deception and dissimulation for the mesmerized jitterbugs.
Against this backdrop of cultural distortion, irresponsible state policy, and frenzied agitations favoring causes alien to historic American
affairs, the country's youth, Yockey claimed, were being conditioned
to fight as conscripts in left-wing, Jewish, and Communist causes inimical to their own interest.
*

The Catholic-educated, twenty-two-year-old prodigy of GermanIrish descent already speaking to public meetings of the GermanAmerican Bund (40 percent of whose members were Irish), Pelley's
Silver Shirts, and Father Coughlin's clerico-fascist Social Justice
movement held a view of these developments virtually unique
among American anti-liberals.
Though his view resonated with a number of prominent European
thinkers and was vindicated, in the main, by subsequent events (however wrong he was here and there, and even in a great number of minor things), Yockey has remained a prophet without honor in his native land.
THE TRUE AMERICA
There is a certain ambiguity in Yockey's view of America. On the
one hand he saw it as a colonial offshoot of European civilization and
thus part of its High Culture realm.
On the other, he knew that from the beginning there were problems
with the new land problems that disposed it to being taken over by
alien minorities and even to betraying relations with its closest kindred.
The line between inner disposition and outer subversion is thus
blurred in Yockey but perhaps it was also so with the underlying
reality.

Francis Parker Yockey, The Enemy of Europe, trans. T. Francis (York, SC: Liberty
Bell, 1981 [1953]), 3.
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Basic to Yockey's understanding of America was his belief that at

heart it was an integral and organic part of Europe.
Whenever he spoke of "the true America," as opposed to the America that had been taken over by the "culture distorters" and become
"the enemy of Europe," it was the America that had originated as a
European colony the America whose "culture" was a branch of Europe's High Culture the America whose people still bore traces of
the noble, heroic, and Gothic character of their European ancestors.
"All colonials," Yockey wrote, "have a certain plane of their being
which is susceptible to the centripetal attraction of the mother-soil."4
For they share a common history with "the parent-organism" and their
life reflects that of "the parent-culture."
The true American, as such, isolates himself from treason against
Europe (in the way French Canadians and South African Boers refused to be conscripted by Washington into what was essentially a
Jewish war against the Third Reich). 5
Deeply rooted in European, especially German, culture, Yockey
alone among American anti-liberals saw that the country's origin tied
its own destiny to that of Europe, and that no matter how many cities
the colony built, no matter how many millions of automobiles it
turned out every season no matter, even, how successful it was in
reducing Europe to rubble and occupying it no matter, it (the colony) would never, not in a thousand years, surpass the achievement
and destiny of its mother-soil and father-culture.
To even think it was philosophically absurd.
*

The America that grew from a small, 17th-century European settlement on the Eastern seaboard faced "a vast hinterland populated
with hostile savages and untouched with any form of civilization."6
Kerry Bolton (Ed.), Varange: The Life and Thought of Francis Parker Yockey, 31-39.
Francis Parker Yockey, "The Proclamation of Europe of the European Liberation
Front" (1949).
http://home.alphalinks.com.au/~radnat/fpyockey/index.
6 Ulick Varange (Francis Parker Yockey), Imperium: The Philosophy of History and
Politics (Costa Mesa: Noontide Press, 1962 [1948]), 445.
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This would be the start of America's abnormal development, for its

frontier represented a confrontation with nature, very unlike the European frontier, which formed a distinct boundary between rival
power-units with contending cultural or religious styles and was thus
a boundary that enhanced the state-idea among Europeans most
brilliantly so in Hohenzollern Prussia. 7
America's European settlers its hardy Scots-Irish pioneers, who
conquered its frontier through "personal will" did so with the hardiness and fearlessness once characteristic of the European race, in its
urge for great distance and conquest but also without the formative
influence of a regnant state.
(No Celt, anyway, could possibly bear the state, for its alien heel
had been kept on his neck for all its history except, of course, for
those English Celts who thought their adopted Germanic language
made them different). 8
But if the absence of the state had enhanced the Americans' admirable sense of "self-reliance, resourcefulness, bravery, and independence," it also dissolved the European idea of the state as the superpersonal expression of the nation's will. 9
AMERICA AND EUROPE'S HIGH CULTURE
Revilo Oliver, whose materialism and rationalism exemplified
Yockey's notion of 19th-century thought, claimed Yockey's premises
were Spengler's conclusions. 10 This was true to a degree, but Oliver
didn't understand that Yockey wasn't an orthodox Spenglerian at all
but rather a radical revisionist who sought to turn Spengler's pessimism into a fresh assertion of ascendant life. 11
Like Spengler, Yockey saw civilizations as spiritual organisms, with
distinct ages or cycles attuned to the growth (to the possibility) of the
inner idea, the "soul," inherent in their culture. The "organism," as
such, takes the human material at its disposal and "impresses it into
its service."
Yockey, Imperium, 323.
Bryan Sykes, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
(New York: Norton, 2006).
9 Yockey, Imperium, 125128, 134.
10 Revilo P. Oliver, The Enemy of Our Enemy (York, SC: Liberty Bell, 1981), 17.
11 This was the basis of Julius Evola's critique of Yockey; see his "Spiritual and
Structural Presuppositions of the European Union" (1951).
http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id54.htm.
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Unlike Spengler, though, Yockey thought there was still a good

deal of life left in Western culture. It was vital, thus, that the culture
remain true to itself.
Though the "true America" was an offshoot of Europe's High Culture, it nevertheless lacked significant cultural articulation and an indigenous culture class, having, as a colony, but shallow roots in its
mother soil. Without a sense of mission, of inner necessity, or cultural
autonomy, America was totally dependent on Europe's culture.
In time this dependence meant that the 19th-century ideas of rationalism and materialism, shorn now of all faith and instinct, would not
only dominate Americans in ways they never dominated Europeans,
they would leave them increasingly indifferent to Europe's destiny,
making them spiritually defenseless before the ethnocidal dangers intrinsic to their cultureless enterprise.
* * *
This was especially the case once liberal modernity roared onto the
scene, turning rationalism and materialism into the rule of money.
And money, Yockey held, was the enemy of authority, being private,
individualistic, and, ultimately, irresponsible. 12
Here again America, offshoot of liberal England, differed from Europe. For a High Culture relegates the productive and reproductive
aspects of life the economic aspects (however vital they may be to
survival) to the lowest order of existence. 13
The American, as such, was preeminently a "capitalist" motivated by the will to accumulate, prosper, and demonstrate his individual salvation a Calvinist rather than a Pietist a Viking rather
than a knight subject to a pirate's instinct rather than the knight's
service to Destiny and Duty. 14
There was, as a consequence, no aristocratic and priestly estates in
America to serve as the culture's guardian, only economic forces
oriented to the animal aspect of existence.
The Faustian will to power characteristic of Europe's High Culture
Yockey, Imperium, 345.
Imperium, 43.
14 Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, trans. D. O. White.
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/P%20Soc
/Prussianism.Socialism.htm.
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was thereby translated into a soulless mechanization, whose technical

fixation on immediate phenomena made it oblivious to higher realities.
Their enchantment with technical progress and the capitalist ethic
of quantification would eventually lead Americans (these colonials) to
see Europeans as inferior especially after their flying fortresses incinerated much of the continent's millennial heritage.
America's lack of independent thought and its economic orientation to comfort and pleasure ("the pursuit of happiness") also meant
that it was inclined to feminine principles and indifferent to virile exploits or metaphysical perspectives.
The propositional principles used to justify the colony's separation
from Britain and the notion that the new nation was based on a scrap
of paper (the Constitution), which was to guarantee "the rule of reason, humanity, justice and all the rest" were just further examples
of its caricature of the European "nation-idea."
The country, relatedly, was bereft of true politics, knowing only the
business of partisan haggling. 15
"The empty, smiling face, the uniform mind, the senseless chasing
after noise, movement, and sensation, the obsession with money, the
rejection of all spiritual standards of attainment" such was the
world of Yockey's jitterbugs. 16
Politically and culturally, this made America an enterprise without
great possibility, evident in the fact that the American people never
acquired a true sense of nationhood or statehood that the country
lacked both a ruling class and a culture stratum and that, from the
beginning, it subordinated spiritual principles to materialist ones
thereby preparing the way for the money-masters, whose alienness
would go unrecognized and whose parasitism would facilitate their
ascension into the inner circles of America's plutocratic power elite.
America's primitiveness was especially evident in the fact that the
Negro constituted a sort of paradigm for the country as a whole.
Pleasure-seeking, child-like, and incapable of tragedy, the Negro,
like the American, exemplified "natural man" incapable of abstraction, without a virile sense of history or honor, with no art and no will
to destiny, fixated almost solely on happiness, comfort, or status. The
life of such a feminine-matriarchal people became, accordingly, one of
15 Yockey,
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routine and technicization, oriented to the lowest common denominator.

THE CULTURE OF DISTORTION
Given their shallow culture and lack of tradition, Americans were
particularly susceptible to the anti-cultural corrosions that came with
19th-century rationalism and materialism.
This also made them an easy mark for the "culture-alien," for a
world governed by money was a world indifferent to a man's qualities. 17
Foremost among the culture-aliens were, of course, the Jews: product of Spengler's "Magian" culture, foreign to Europe's spirit, and bent
on revenge.
Americans, characteristically, didn't recognize the Jews' otherness,
even though he was of a different "Culture-Nation-Race." Even before
the War of Independence, they treated the Jew the same as a European
this Jew who was shunned, ghettoized, and seen as an evil in Europe.18
In traditionless, rationalist, money-worshipping America, the Jew,
as culture and nature dictated, would become a force for "culturepathology."
Notions of "culture-parasitism" and "culture-retardation" are familiar forms of culture pathology and largely self-explanatory. The notion of "culture-distortion," though somewhat analogous to Spengler's
"pseudomorphorsis," 19 is entirely Yockey's and plays a leading role in
his understanding of America's 20th-century experience in antiEuropeanism.
"Culture-distortion," he explains, "is the condition in which outer
life-forms are warping the culture from its true life-path." 20 The culture-distorter, as such, assumes control of the host organism, introducing alien elements into it that squander its energies on things unrelated or opposed to its development. Culture-distortion consequently
ends up mutilating the culture-organism, turning it away from its
growth, its destiny.
Yockey, "The Proclamation of London."
Francis Parker Yockey, "The Destiny of Europe" (1955).
http://home.alphalinks.com.au/~radnat/fpyockey/index.
19 Pseudomorphosis refers to an older culture being so deeply ingrained in a land
that a young culture cannot find its own form and full expression of itself.
20 Yockey, Imperium, 404.
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Beginning in the 1880s, the Jews (these inassimilable aliens rejected

by Europe's High Culture) began their invasion of America. By 1905,
they were already a power, evident in fact that the United States, for
the first time in its history, severed diplomatic relations with Russia
because of the anti-Jewish pogroms that had followed the RussoJapanese War.
* * *
Through its financial acumen and early control of media (the press,
movies, radio), and in alliance with the native forces of decadence and
degeneration, Jewish power grew at an unprecedented rate.
In a country where "mass-thinking, mass-ideals, and mass-living
prevails," Jewish propaganda effortlessly reshaped the American consciousness, herding the jitterbugs onto the dance floor of their worldconquering schemes. Stories about German sadism or Orson Wells'
Mars invasion were peddled with similar success, just as "the ethical
syphilis of Hollywood and the spiritual leprosy of New York" infiltrated the larger cultural body.
In 1933, the same year as the European Revolution, the Jews acquired outright political control of the United States something that
a thousand years of effort had failed to achieve in Europe.
From this point forward, "the formation of the Jewish-American
Symbiosis begins." 21
Swarming into Washington, Jews and their "sub-American" contractors started disseminating the Jewish world view and "bringing
under control every factor of public expression." 22
All who resisted were to be purged or ostracized.
Gradually, as its racial instincts were worn down by the distorters,
it assumed "a Jewish countenance" in its relations with the rest of the
world and with itself. 23
For Yockey, Franklin Roosevelt, "the monster . . . who made of his
life a study in infamy," was a creature of the Jews, just as his leftist
New Deal was bent on Judaizing American government and society,
Yockey, The Enemy of Europe, 23.
Parker Yockey, "The World in Flames: An Estimate of the World Situation" (1961).
http://home.alphalinks.com.au/~radnat/fpyockey/index.
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promoting, as it did, principles of tolerance and universal brotherhood, which left Americans completely defenseless before the alien
interlopers.
The prescient Yockey here might be criticized for confusing Jewish
supremacy with the increasing Judaification of American society
(which Matthew Arnold had warned of in the 1860s), for Jewish power in America was arguably not consolidated until the late 1960s. 24
The fact that Roosevelt had begun, in October 1937, to maneuver
the United States into the coming world war and that this war would
be a war of political annihilation i.e., the sort of war fought between racially and culturally alien, rather then related peoples sharing
the same civilization was further evidence, in Yockey's eyes, of Jewish hegemony and the Jews' genocidal hatred of Europe.
Despite a certain exaggeration of the Jews' place in the government,
Yockey was nearly alone in seeing the United States as an antiEuropean power influenced by the Jews' vengeful intent to suppress
Europe's destiny.
Unlike other American anti-liberals, anti-Semitism for him soon,
logically, evolved into anti-Americanism.
THE ENEMY OF EUROPE
As long as America was ruled by men of European stock, it remained "a European colony." 25 But the America "distorted by the
Revolution of 1933" (a revolution carried out by the allegedly Jewishdominated New Deal), was now lost to Europe.
America's Judaizied anti-Europeanism became especially evident in
the Second World War and in its subsequent occupation of Europe.
If America had possessed a proper ruling class, a tradition, and a
genuine state, it would have earlier stayed out of the First World War,
which was a defeat not just for Germany, but for all Europe and
thus, ultimately, a defeat for the true America.
Under its new Jewish-American regime, Washington after 1933 was
instrumental in inciting the Second World War, which it would wage
as if the enemy weren't human. 26
Instead of being the great moral crusade against the absolute evil of
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1960 [1869]).
25 Yockey The Enemy of Europe, 3.
26 Dirk Bavendamm, Roosevelts Krieg: Amerikanische Politik und Strategie 19371945
(Munich: Herbig, 1993).
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fascism, the war in actuality would serve as the decisive first step toward the New World Order.
In this spirit, American bombers (supported by their British vassals) reduced every German city to a heap of rubble, intentionally targeting heavily populated working-class residences that is, "homes
and families"; cities in France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Austria and
even in Eastern Europe were also bombed, adding further hundreds
of thousands of civilian casualties to US "kills"; American fighterpilots similarly sought out civilians to machine-gun and terrorize; vast
stores of equipment and armaments, often denied to American troops,
were supplied to Soviet Russia to defend the Communist state and
encourage its penetration into the heart of Europe; and throughout
this most barbaric and punitive war in the White man's history, the
Washington regime talked incessantly of the enemy's "war crimes"
and its "inhumanity." 27
Yockey blamed America's dishonorable conduct of the war on the
culture-distorters, whose "motivation derived from the deep and total
organic irreconcilability between a High Culture and a parasitic organism" (though I suspect that non-Jewish liberals, given their tendency to dehumanize the enemy, were no less responsible). 28
Even after the guns were silenced, America's "ghastly dishonor"
continued.
With the Red Army occupying Eastern Europe and the US Army
occupying Western Europe, the looting, raping, pillaging and ethnic cleansing began.
The Soviets plundered everything, including dismantled German
factories; the greatest mass rape in Western history occurred in what
became "East Germany"; and 16 million East-European Germans were
forced to abandon lands and homes they had inhabited for centuries,
2 million of whom (mainly the very old and the very young) perished
in the process.
With greater discrimination, the Americans raided German patent
offices, steeling their superior technology; they rounded up their
rocket scientists, confiscated the libraries they hadn't burned, and
made off with priceless art works. German women, most on the verge
Jrg Friedrich, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany 19401945, trans. A. Brown
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2006); Maximilian Czesant, Europa im Bomben-Krieg 19391945 (Gras: Stocken, 1998).
28 Yockey, Imperium, 219, 545.
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of starvation, were not subject to mass rape (except by Black American

and French African troops), but their favors could be had for a halfdozen eggs, some cigarettes, or a few chocolate bars.
If this wasn't enough, the culture-distorters (whose "fury had been
heightened by the European Revolution of 1933") 29 and their American accomplices introduced large-scale starvation, abused POWs (several million of whom died as a consequence), hunted down anyone
who failed to bow to the new conquerors, and imposed laws with ex
post facto application. 30
Adding insult to injury, the "American world-clown and the sadistic Jew" then proceeded to "re-educate" Europeans in the arts of antifascism, mammon-worship, and democracy (i.e., "the corruptibility of
the government by private wealth").
Yockey considered the war a categorical defeat for the "true America" that was European and a total victory for the Jews over Western
Civilization.
* * *
Since the end of the Second World War, the two sides of the Atlantic have ceased to share the same inner experience of feeling, for that
war was a war against Europe and all who supported it, Yockey believed, were traitors inner enemies of their own culture. 31
Reduced to "a beggar colony of America," Europe's pre-1945 elites
were then replaced by "Michel elements" (liberal philistines embodying "the sum of European weaknesses"), who could be trusted to do
the Jews' bidding.
In the name of democracy, press rights and free speech were abrogated; political parties were henceforth required to obtain licenses;
any expression of nationalism was criminalized, just as all anti-liberal
Yockey, Imperium, 574.
Giles MacDonogh, After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation
(New York: Basic Books, 2007); James Bacque, Other Losses: An Investigation into the
Mass Death of German POWs after World War Two, 2nd.ed. (Boston: Little Brown and
Co., 1999); James Bacque, Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied
Occupation (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 2007); Ralph F. Keeling, Gruesome Harvest:
The Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany (York, SC: Liberty Bell, 2004);
Alfred M. De Zayas, A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
31 Yockey, The Enemy of Europe, 47.
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formations were suppressed.

America-Jewry hoped, in this way, to disintegrate Europe, suppress
her will to power, and deprive her of a sense of destiny.
In no meaningful political sense did Europe, in fact, continue to exist after 1945, thanks almost entirely to America-Jewry, this monstrous
entity with the Jewish head and the American body. 32
America-Jewry's anti-European vengeance was especially evident
in comparison to its generous treatment of defeated Japan.
Indeed, soon the entire non-White world was made to know that
the United States had destroyed Europe and that the colored outerrevolt, encouraged by the distorters, was ready, at last, to triumph
over its former White masters.
More than Soviet Communism, Yockey argued that Jewishcontrolled America had become the "enemy of Europe." 33
At the same time, Jewish-controlled America became the enemy of
Yockey's "true America," for the Jewish idea of America as a land of
immigrants, of creedal propositions, and universal brotherhood
now stripped the country of any "national-spiritual significance" it
may have once had, doing so, ultimately, for "the enslavement of the
world by big business." 34
Every European-American loyal to his ancestral homeland loyal
to his inmost being had thus to be disloyal to what America had
become, even as he struggled to return it to Europe.
THE AMERICAN VABANQUESPIELER
The 19th-century Age of Materialism and Rationalism, which
shaped America's cultureless civilization and opened the way to the
culture-distorters had, Yockey believed, come to an end with the First
World War, and a new age was struggling to succeed it based on
the same sources that had brought about the European Revolution of
1933.
If not for America-Jewry's Old Testament war on Europe, GermanPrussian Ethical Socialism (in rejection of liberalism's individualistic
reign of quantity) would have inspired a New Age of Authority, Discipline, and Faith, bringing the whole world under Europe's influence.
Yockey, Imperium, 192193; The Enemy of Europe, 59.
Bolton, "Yockey and Russia: Lessons for the Present and Future from the
Author of Imperium," forthcoming.
34 Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, 23.
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Instead, the very opposite occurred. 35

Though the America of the culture-distorters emerged victorious
from the war, it did not change the fact that America (this apotheosis
of 19th-century rationalism and materialism) still represented the past
and the past, Yockey held, could never defeat the future still latent
in Europe's High Culture.
Indeed, the barbarian victory of America's 19th-century capitalism
over the Germans' Ethical Socialism has already spread chaos and
disorder throughout Western Civilization, heightening the imperative,
thus, for a revolutionary transformation. 36
*

All Yockey's written works (several of which are works of genius)

all his tireless efforts to rally the defeated and demoralized antiliberal vanguard for the coming struggle against America-Jewry his
alliance with and clandestine service to Slavic Communism in its Cold
War against America's Jewified liberalism everything about this
extraordinary man whose entire existence was devoted to the realization of Europe's destiny makes him, in my mind, an exemplar of what
Ernst Jnger called the Vabanquespieler.
"A player of dangerous games," "an adventurer willing to stake all
on the throw of the dice," a hero forged in storms of steel, a nature
with the grandeur of a medieval knight 37 Yockey the Vabanquespieler
stood as an affront to the entire postwar era, heralding a coming global war between Europe and anti-Europe between the White men of
the West and America's Jewish culture-distorters.
After a half year in the magical west of old Ireland, writing his
magnum opus, Yockey the Vabanquespieler set out to "build a new panEuropean fascist superpower," by rallying the scattered remnants of
Europe's defeated elites to a new assertion of her destiny somewhat
in the way 7th- and 8th-century Irish monks had tried to keep the
lights of the old civilization from going out on the continental main-

35 Yockey,

The Enemy of Europe, 19.

Yockey, The Enemy of Europe, 30. Cf., Jean Parvulesco, Dans la fort de Fontainebleau (Paris: Alexipharmaque, 2007).
37 Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist
International (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1999), 148149. (Coogan misspells the word
as "Vanbanquespieler").
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land. 38
Rejecting the "petty stateism" of the interwar movements and accounting for their mistakes, Yockey founded the European Liberation
Front, whose revolutionary-nationalist principles particularly in its
anti-Americanism and pro-Sovietism were first rejected by England's pro-American Union Movement; then by continental Hitlerworshippers, who preferred a strictly racialist to a Europeanculturalist orientation; and, finally, by American anti-liberals still
stuck in the 19th-century world of rationalism and materialism.
Yockey's ELF nevertheless disseminated ideas, especially relevant
to our age of American decline and perplexity, that have since found
their way into the most advanced sections of Europe's anti-liberal
right: Evident in Jean Thiriart's Euronationalism, in the panEuropeanism and anti-Americanism of Alain de Benoist's Nouvelle
Droite, in the Russo-Europeanism of Alexander Dugin's Eurasianism,
and in national-revolutionary tendencies too numerous to name. 39
Only in America, lacking an indigenous anti-liberal tradition and
an organic bond to Europe's living tradition, are his revolutionary and
never-more-pertinent ideas still ignored. 40
*

For the Vabanquespieler, the creation of a new European order (in

the form of a continental imperium stretching "from Galway to the
Urals") would entail a great, heroic undertaking, as the White men of
the West in allegiance to a new transcendent idea rallied to
overthrow an exhausted, putrefied, but nearly insurmountable Jewish-American system.
The Last Men of America's consumer paradise may think that the
barbarians and the distorters had tamed the forces of history and
quieted the demands of destiny, but the American apostate knew better. He also knew that Americans could do better.
Kevin Coogan, "Lost Imperium: The European Liberation Front (194954)," Patterns in Prejudice, 36(3) (2002, 923).
39 Francis Parker Yockey, Le prophte de l'Imperium (Paris: Avatar ds., 2004), p.
15.
40 One sign this may, perhaps, be changing is the brilliant piece by Ted Sallis,
"The Overman High Culture: Future of the West" (April 5, 2010), The Occidental
Quarterly Online.
http://www.toqonline.com/2010/04/the-overman-high-culture/
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"The beating of the [American] people into a thing of mass-ideals,

mass-thinking, mass-conduct, mass-living, was a distortion . . . of the
American's [European] soul. Europe and America constituted a single
spiritual unit whose life-aim was to actualize their common destiny." 41
The coming Age of Absolute Politics, he prophesied, would again
"summon forth the latent heroism of the American people."
Thus inspired, the Vabanquespieler stood against the Jewishdominated, liberal-capitalist, anti-European Mammon System that
had become America.
*

In anticipating the next cycle of Western Destiny, Yockey's life

work has bequeathed to European Americans a legacy affirming that
"the old Gothic religious idea" is still latent in them and that the 21st
century will be an age of European peace and order, if they are willing
to fight for it.
The "American ideology" may therefore have no future, but "the
soul of the American people," born of Europe, has. 42

41

Yockey, Imperium, 550551.

Imperium, 551.

42 Yockey,