Francis Parker Yockey

{{Nazism|1}}'''Francis Parker Yockey''' {{lived|1917|1960}}, alias '''Ulick Varange''', was an [[American]] [[Nazi]] sympathizer best known for his post-[[World War II]] activities in European extreme-right politics.  His 1948 book ''Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics'', dedicated to "the [[bullshit|hero]] of the [[World War II|Second World War]]" ([[Adolf Hitler]]), was a seminal influence on the post-war [[Fascism| neo-fascist]] movement. His advocated red-brown alliance was a forerunner to the contemporary [[National Bolshevism]] ideology.

Yockey borrowed his ideas about the flow of history from [[Oswald Spengler]], author of the 1918 book ''Decline of the West'', which posited that cultures and nations [[Historical determinism|operate in a cyclical pattern]] in which they are born, reach their height, decline, and eventually die. However, while Spengler was opposed to Nazi-style fascism<ref group=note>Spengler was vehemently anti-[[democratic]] and a German [[Nationalist]] associated with the Interwar period "{{wpl|Conservative Revolution}}" (that got eclipsed by the Nazis).</ref>, seeing the "age of Caesarism" as the final death rattle of the declining Western civilization,  Yockey viewed it as the West's potential salvation from the forces that would kill it, advocating the unification of [[Europe]] within an [[authoritarian]] or [[fascist]] form of government (also a position taken by [[Oswald Mosley]] in the post-war years). Likewise, while Spengler saw the Jewish people as part of Western civilization and viewed the Nazis' [[anti-Semitism]] as a case of cutting off one's nose to spite their face, Yockey saw the Jews as representing a fundamentally different culture from the Europeans, one that had been [[International Jewish conspiracy|corrupting it from within]] and spreading the "pathologies" of [[liberalism]], [[democracy]], and [[socialism]].

Unlike most of the postwar far right, during the [[Cold War]], he advocated that neo-fascists align with the [[Soviet Union]] rather than with [[conservative]]s in the [[United States]], viewing the USSR as a pure white nation with a totalitarian political system that had been purged of [[Jewish]] influence by [[Josef Stalin]].  The United States, by contrast, he saw as racially impure and weak due to "culture distortion", his [[code word]] for Jewish influence he uses throughout the book, and a far greater threat to the survival of European civilization. He also saw the [[Arab nationalism|Arab nationalist]] movement as a potential ally of the European far-right due to their shared anti-[[Zionism]]. He helped write propaganda for Egyptian president [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].

Yockey had little influence on the U.S. far-right or neo-Nazis at the time. [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] of the American Nazi Party spurned him, viewing him as a "neo-Strasserite" in his calls for an alliance between the far-right and the far-left. The chief exception was [[Willis Carto]], one of the last people to meet Yockey before his [[suicide]] in 1960.  He was more influential in Europe, where his ideas became part of the leftish-leaning wing of European neo-fascism, [[third positionism]].

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==External links==
* [http://www.constantinereport.com/francis-parker-yockeys-imperium-the-philosophy-of-history-and-politics/ A more in-depth review] of the book's contents.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv_RLFy7UEc The Fascist Ulysses - Last Spenglerian - Francis Parker Yockey (TNO)] by Pomen, ''YouTube''

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