Recently I ordered several books by Julius Evola off of Amazon and have spent the last week or so reading his works voraciously. I have acquired the following: Revolt Against the Modern World, Men Among The Ruins, Ride the Tiger and Metaphysics of War. Currently I have finished the first two and am in the process of reading Ride the Tiger. I read up on Evola beforehand and have not been disappointed. Verbose and complicated he may be, once you get to understand his ideas, they make an awful lot of sense. I think that in away he is a more systematic, "scientific" (in the sense of solid historical analysis rather than speculation) version of Nietzsche (infamous for his hatred of philosophical "systems"). The doctrine of regression of the castes parallels Marxist historiography which preaches an unending progression from primitive communism to slave societies to feudalism to capitalism through to Marxist communism. This philosophy of "progress" is rooted entirely in a false and misguided materialistic framework, an inversion of Hegel's doctrine of the "world-spirit". Evola does away with the absurd belief that it is mechanical socio-economic processes alone that determine history. Instead he paints a picture of a constant *spiritual* regression and degeneration which is related to the highest, *spiritual* element of mankind, and not merely a superficial and materialistic one. Whereas ancient societies were marked by sacred kings mediating between heaven and earth, the passage of time brought about a regression and desacralisation which resulted in this order being displaced first by the usurpation of the priestly caste, then the usurpation of the warrior aristocracy, then the usurpation of the merchant caste or the bourgeoisie (the spiritual order which currently rules our world through the degenerate ideology of neoliberalism and democracy), leading inexorably (or so it would seem) to communism, or a society in which the slave caste has risen up and seized control of society. The Cold War was a fight between two spiritual world-views of the same coin - Marxism and liberal capitalism. The collapse of Marxist communism has filled the liberal capitalist world with hubris and has caused it to overreach itself in the arrogant belief that it marks the only true and worthy world-system. A levelling and a uniformity is being pushed onto every nation in order to bring it into conformity with the corrupt aristocracy of finance. The cycle of degeneracy can only be broken if heroic individuals with a warrior spirit band together and fight against the onslaught of modernity and its destructive impulses.
Evola should be considered the anti-Marx. He is the Karl Marx of the Right. Just as an entire historiography has been dedicated to the propagation of the teachings of Karl Marx in centres of higher learning worldwide, so an entire branch of historiography dedicated to the propagation of Evolan teachings should be brought into existence so as to disseminate the ideas of this truly radical thinker throughout what passes for the "free" world, so that those that can see through the decadence, the lies and the cowardice of this modern age will be equipped with the knowledge and the courage that they need so desperately to fight against this deceitful and corrupt universe that surrounds us. Evola is a thinker that should fill every young soul with excitement and the yearning to revolt against the demonic and disreputable forces which keep the Western world in chains. His books are among the most dangerous a youthful, free spirit can ever read. His books are, to put it one way, delightfully *evil*. In reading them, one gets a sense that one is breaking an unwritten law, and reading something illegal and forbidden, something which, if the powers of this world knew its true nature, would never permit anyone to read.