# The Enemy of Europe

The Enemy of Europe (German: Der Feind Europas) is a 1953 book by the Spenglerian philosopher Francis Parker Yockey. It was described as a sequel to Yockey's first book, Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics. The claimed enemy of Europe in the title was the United States.
The book is largely a summary of the second part of Imperium, primarily published as a manual in foreign policy for the German Socialist Reich Party. The manuscript was seized by the German foreign intelligence group Bundesnachrichtendienst Abteilung K-16 and allegedly burnt; a few copies escaped the destruction. It was not listed as having a publisher in 1953, although Yockey's personal correspondence mentioned the German printer Karl-Heinz Heubaum. It was bought by George Dietz's Liberty Bell Publications in 1981.

## Summary

In the book, Yockey distinguished between military and political victory. Politics, he argued, are nothing but a struggle for power, thus a military victory might not involve real, political victory, the increase of power. Yockey argued that in the word wars, the Western Allies, even though they emerged victorious in the military sense, actually lost politically: Britain and France saw their possessions in Asia, India and Africa begin to disintegrate, much of the Central Europe was relinquished to Russia, America eventually abandoned most of its winnings like China and Japan. Seeing the world wars as a cultural struggle between the West and "the Outer World", Yockey claimed that the wars' conclusions saw the West in geopolitical retreat around the globe. He argued that Britain and France should have sided with Germany instead allying with America, and also they should have assisted Germany in its war against the Soviet Union.
Much of the considerations in the books are based on Yockey's conclusion in Imperium that in the Second World War, Europe was defeated and occupied by "extra-European forces": America and Russia. Both Britain and France, while victorious in a military sense, emerged defeated politically and subservient to the United States. While Yockey saw America as a Western nation, he considered it to be a culturally distorted one. Seeing the Europe being in the age of "cultural crisis" since 1750, exemplified by the rise of materialistic and rationalistic spirit, he considered America as being created in this age literally based on these foundations. Thus, America was founded on Liberal Democracy, which Yockey called "rationalism in politics", and America's very foundations were corrupt. Even more importantly, for Yockey America was corrupted by foreign influences. He attributed the foreign distortion to the foreign soil of North America, and the Jewish influence, which Yockey considered America to be the most suspectible to due to its already corrupt foundations. He considered Americans to be primarily concerned with peace, comfort, and security, writing that American soul finds expression of its vital impetus through technics and economy, incapable of realizing high ideas through political struggle.
Yockey saw Russia as a distinct culture from the West. He described it as barbarian, in a sense of being a soul full of virility and longing. As Yockey argued that every high culture initially emerges from barbarism, he claimed that Russia would be possibly engendering a new high culture in the future. Yockey argued that because the Varangian tribes infiltrated Russia and formed the ruling class, Russia was for centuries aligned with the West, although the pro-Westernism of the elite was alien and destructive to the soul of "True Russia". Yockey claimed that "True Russia" aligned with the Jews to overthrow pro-Western Romanovs in the Bolshevik Revolution, which reoriented Russia against the West. However, the contradictions between the Jewish elements and "True Russia" ultimately led to the "True Russia" prevailing, as evidenced by the Stalin's anti-Jewish policy. Yockey actually attributed this to the virility of Russian barbarian soul, which could not be subdued. Thus, "True Russia", with its religious way of experiencing things and revolutionary pathos, overthrew Jewish power structures from within, without even destroying them, but instead appropriating the Soviet structures and ideology.
For Europe, Yockey argued that unification was the only possible way to go, calling anything else "grotesque anachronism" since he considered the 20th century to be witnessing the emergence of the global politics in which whole world is politically active. According to Yockey, in modern politics, only Great Powers with a large geographic basis can participate, not tiny islands situated close to the Continent. Due to such massive political mobilization of the entire world, including hinterlands, sea-powers can no longer be as effective as previously, giving their way to the land-powers. Thus, Yockey considered the Great Britain's stand-alone position in the global affairs to be less advantageous, and anachronistic.
Yockey argued that the Russia and the United States were the only remaining major rivals since the European defeat and predicted the Third World War. He anticipated the resurgence of Russian imperialism, which would open possibility for Europeans for gaining freedom from the rule of USA since Europe would be able to threaten USA by the prospect of siding with Russia, which would cause it to grant more and more autonomy to Europe. Yockey claimed that the American rule of Europe was possible only because a part of European population, which he called the "inner enemy of Europe", was attracted to the "American ideology", as America was still Western in culture, albeit distorted and thus harmful. On the other hand, Russia did not seek to reform the Western society along the Marxist lines, because nothing in the Russia corresponded to Marxist schema. Yockey considered "actual Russian forms" to be permeated with the religious mysticism of Third Rome and pan-Slavic nationalism, thus "the true religion of the Russian is not Marxism, but Russia". Yockey considered Russian forms to be alien and repulsive to all parts of European population (including the "inner enemy"), thus Russia could only unite Europe, but not divide it like America. According to Yockey, America was corrupting Europe both spiritually and materially, while Russia could corrupt Europe materially, but spiritually, Europe would always prevail over Russia according to Yockey. This was part of his reasoning why he considered siding with Russia for Europe to be more beneficial in this hypothetical confrontation. Yockey predicted Russian victory over America, considering that America would either abandon Europe in case of Russian invasion because of American isolationism and incompetence of American leadership, or engage and lose the war to Russia, which would occupy Europe, either introducing repressive policy, causing series of revolts and eventual absorption of the barbarian into the body of Western high culture, or a "clever regime" - granting the Europe sufficient autonomy within its empire, resulting in a "Europe-Russia Symbiosis", new Imperium.

## Influences

Yockey's biographer Kevin Coogan wrote that Yockey's proposed "Europe-Russia Symbiosis" was an example of Eurasianism, favored by Oswald Spengler, who influenced Yockey.
Yockey's call for a tactical alliance with the Soviet Union failed to convince many of his contemporaries, but may have influenced some American fascists including the National Renaissance Party.
Revilo P. Oliver wrote a criticism to the book titled The Enemy of Our Enemies, also included in a later book titled The Enemy of Europe/The Enemy of Our Enemies.
The book was popular among German nationalists and neutralists. The former Wehrmacht officer and Adolf Hitler's bodyguard Otto Ernst Remer recommended the work to associates.