FTR#598—Interview with Kevin Coogan about Francis Parker Yockey--(Two 30-minute segments)
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recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) Revisiting Kevin Coogan,
author of Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey
and the Postwar Fascist International, this program sets forth some
of the fundamentals of Kevin’s weighty and formidable book. Although not well
known, even after his death, Francis Parker Yockey exerted a profound
ideological influence on the course of postwar fascism. A Nazi agent before,
during and after World War II, Yockey is best known for his signature piece Imperium. Advocating a globally-dominant,
Pan-European fascism, Yockey’s book prescribes this state of affairs as the
solution to Oswald Spengler’s thesis of The Decline
of the West, which foresaw the disintegration of Western
civilization. Seeing the United States as the greatest threat to civilized
society, Yockey advocated that fascists of “the Imperium” ally with some
strange bedfellows in order to reverse the course of history. Yockey believed
it necessary for fascists to work with political and ethnic elements usually
seen as antithetical to fascism, such as the former USSR, the People’s Republic
of China, Castro’s Cuba, Third World countries and African-American
separatists. Much of the program highlights various individuals and movements
within the poswar fascist international that manifest elements of Yockey’s
philosophy.
Program Highlights Include: Discussion of the Third
Position, a form of fascism with much in common with some of the tenets of Imperium; Discussion of Francois Genoud [a key
Nazi operative who paved the way for forging alliances between Arab nationalist
and Islamist movements and Nazism]; analysis of the National Renaissance
Party—an American fascist party that forged liaisons with black separatists;
Yockey’s enthusiasm for Stalin’s anti-Semitic policies. Be sure to listen to the other interviews with Mr.Coogan
about “Dreamer of the Day,” available on the WFMU website.
1.
Presenting an overview of his book Dreamer of
the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International,
this interview with Kevin Coogan will [hopefully] spur enterprising listeners
to read this vitally important and remarkable volume. Cited by Mr. Emory as one
of the most important books ever written about fascism, “Dreamer . . .”
illuminates the landscape of contemporary international fascism, revealing
political alliances that will surprise those with a more limited, conventional
view of fascism. To learn more about this pivotal document, check out Mr.
Emory’s numerous interviews with, and programs about, Mr. Coogan’s work.
2.
A Chicago native, Yockey hated America, American culture and
Jews, and saw a Europe united under fascism—an “Imperium”--as the only
alternative to the “Decline of the West” [the title of the magnum opus of
Oswald Spengler, a major influence on Yockey.] Having spied for Nazi Germany
and participated in the Axis Fifth Column movement in this country, Yockey was
shaken by the defeat of the Third Reich. Continuing his efforts on behalf of
fascism, Yockey devoted the postwar years to working with what Mr. Coogan calls
a “postwar fascist international.” Eventually, Yockey was arrested in the
United States and committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule in prison.
3.
In the aftermath of World War II, Yockey crafted his
signature document, a formidable tome titled Imperium, which he
published under the pseudonym “Ullick Varange.” Hating America and despairing
of anything useful coming out of the U.S., Yockey felt that renascent European
fascists should make common cause with elements in the Third World, the former
USSR, the People’s Republic of China and Cuba in order to defeat the United
States and “International Jewry.” The various publishing outlets of the fascist
Liberty Lobby have published Imperium.
4.
A key point of discussion concerns the
Bandung conference in Indonesia in 1955. Convened with an eye to charting a
course for former colonial territories that had achieved their independence,
the conference formalized the concept of ‘non-aligned” nations, charting an
independent foreign policy between the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. Yockey saw
Europe in the post World War II period as being, in essence, a colonial
territory occupied by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In this contest, he
felt that allying with the Third World offered the possibility of a European
rebirth.
5.
One of the primary elements of Yockey’s ideology was that
the United States was the greatest evil on earth and that the Soviets
(particularly under Stalin) were preferable to the Yanks. Driven by his
virulent anti-Semitism, Yockey’s world view saw Stalin’s Prague trials of Jews
in the early ‘50’s as an indication that the Soviets offered a viable ally for
the fascists of the “Imperium.” Mr. Coogan points out that Yockey’s views were
influenced by traditional German “Ostpolitik” and geo-politics, which saw
Russia as a necessary ally of an expansionist Germany, providing the Fatherland
with valuable raw materials.
6.
Yockey was also significantly influenced by elements within
the Waffen SS who rejected the traditional “Aryan Supremacy” of Himmler in
favor of a more pragmatic pan-Europeanism. Better suited to Germany’s projected
role as master of occupied Europe, this pan-Europeanism was adopted by Yockey
as a key element of his concept of the “Imperium.”
7.
Yockey’s ideas were realized, to a certain extent, by the
remarkable career of Francois Genoud. Genoud was one of the most important
activists in the postwar fascist international, executing operations on behalf
of the Third Reich and its residua that echo to the present. [Genoud died in
1996, but his name crops up in a number of contexts in connection with the events
of 9/11.] Most of Kevin Coogan’s appendix on Genoud is reproduced in FTR#453. Genoud was
particularly active in forming political alliances between Nazism and the Arab
and Muslim worlds.
8.
The discussion highlights the tactic pursued by some
fascist groups of allying with African-American separatists in order to bring
down the existing social order. In particular, Kevin discusses the National
Renaissance Party, headed up by James Madole and advised by Fred Weiss. [The
later was a German-American who worked as part of the Nazi Fifth Column in
American before, during and after the Second World War. Weiss was very close to
Yockey.]
9.
A political milieu with much in common with Yockey’s
philosophy is the fascist Third Position. Incorporating elements of the far
left and the far right into a [functionally] unified political front, the Third
Position rejected the notion of allying either with Marxist socialism or free
market capitalism. In addition, the Third Position also advocates ideological
alliance with Third World peoples, such as the Iran of the Ayatollahs and black
separatists such as the Nation of Islam. For more about the Third Position, see
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documentary filmmakers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The
First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Relationship Between Fascism and Religion.” To
learn more about this, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YPCdFu7OE.
In addition, there will soon be a documentary about Mr. Emory, titled “The
Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit: http://www.theantifascist.com/.