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Introduction
Left and Right may have played out their usefulness as categories of societal attitudes. However, many still perceive themselves as this or that, as Left or Right…and about this you could say that people aren’t logical, they’re socio-logical. If so, if many Western world people today see themselves as, for instance, right-wingers, let’s take a look at subtypes in this realm.
1. Identitarian
Dress: proper
Reads: Evola, Jünger, Faye, de Benoist, Dugin
Signature saying: “We Nords are active, Olympic, elevated and regal; conversely, the Southern strain is feminine, lunar and passive.”
Description: Identitarians aren’t so very many in sheer numbers, but they might have great influence. With their neologisms and metapolitical activities, they at least serve to confuse the leftist establishment, and that’s a start.
2. Asatru Believer
Dress: homespun frieze
Reads: the Eddas, Rydberg’s Our Fathers’ Godsaga, Guido von List
Signature saying: “Fast move the sons of Mim, and fate is heard in the note of the Gjallarhorn…”
Description: Western world laws related to “conscience and religious freedom” came into being in order to let people become atheists. However, now they enable the blossoming of Islam in the West. And of Asatru.
3. Rigorist
Dress: T-shirt with a crossed-over cross
Reads: Ragnar Redbeard, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sven Hassel
Signature saying: “I drink my coffee black as night and hot as hell.”
Description: There will always be a symbolic “tough guy” out there, and the Rigorist is the right-wing variety of it.
4. She-Wolf
Dress: tight leather outfit
Reads: The Turner Diaries, The Iron Dream
Signature saying. “Fighting is easy, living is hard.”
Description: The anti-pole and absolute counterpart of “Fringe Woman,” number eight on our list. The She-Wolf of the perceived Right flaunts her being, takes her stand openly, partly for the thrill, the rush of energy she gets from quarreling with people in the streets who don’t like her “white and proud” tee.
5. Fiscal Conservative
Dress: suit
Reads: Ayn Rand, mid-to-late-period Heinlein, Robert Nozick
Signature saying: “Hate the state.”
Description: The Fiscal Conservative thinks in debit and credit, arguing that all of society should be run like a company, thus, in his own lingo, he’s a guy being “a penny wise and a pound foolish” since he lacks a grip of the whole of society. “Politics as the art of the possible” is a wisdom rather beyond this guy.
6. Wagner Fan
Dress: beret, silk clothes
Reads: notes and libretti
Signature saying: “Ich bin ein Gesamtkunstwerk.”
Description: Wagner is constantly staged all over the world, although the true Wagner Fan hates all modern productions of his maestro, calling these shows with modern paraphernalia “in-your-face Entzauberung”…however, there are some modern productions honoring the spirit of the work in question, and these the Wagner Fan pore over on YouTube and DVD. And on his CD player, he enjoys the collected works of Wagner, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, 34 CDs; the Wagner Fan will never have any leisure problems…
7. Internet Warrior
Dress: T-shirt, comfort pants
Reads: whatever is on the Net
Signature saying: lol
Description: We all know him, of whatever inclination he may be, but hey, give this right-winger variety of a Keyboard Cowboy some love, some brotherly love…and “let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” I mean, we’re all watching the world with a sneer sometimes; we can all be that unlovable know-it-all.
8. Fringe Woman
Dress: grey as the grey area she inhabits
Reads: Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs, Ayn Rand, C. S. Lewis
Signature saying: “I’m no right-winger, but…”
Description: Like the Internet Warrior, the previous entry on our list, the Fringe Woman isn’t generally loved. But you have to start somewhere…and she might be a symbol of the “silent majority” of today.
9. Fake
Dress: Codreanu T-shirt
Reads: whatever is labelled Right
Signature saying: whatever sounds Right
Description: Watch out, this guy is everywhere…
10. Military Buff
Dress: camouflage pants
Reads: Anthony Beevor, Liddell Hart, Clausewitz
Signature saying: “Movement is life” (Guderian)
Description: The Military Buff might not be expressly right-wing, but he sure isn’t left-wing… he’s interested in all things military, in hierarchies and order, in will-driven activities like combat, and tends to generate a rightist mindset, a responsible-and-authoritarian mindset.
11. Mainstream Trad Guy
Dress: unassuming
Reads: George R. R. Martin, Tolkien,
Signature saying: “Seeing an HBO series with tattooed Vikings is really serious; it will create a resurgence of ancient lifestyle and spirituality, an authentic return to our Nordic roots.”
Description: This is the symbol of the Silent Majority, male variety (the female variety is number eight, Fringe Woman).
12. Actionist
Dress: black pants, grey jacket
Reads: Actionism, Borderline, Castaneda, Bhagavad-Gita, early Heinlein, Dune
Signature saying: “Let’s get going, we can rest on the way, seeking Rest In Action = RIA.”
Description: Like the Identitarian, the Actionist is a rare bird—rara avis—but he does exist; he is the will-driven mindset finally coming into its own again, after a century of propaganda saying that “Will” is an illusion.
13. Vorticist
Dress: stylish
Reads: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman
Signature saying: “I am the Vortex Master, dragging everything into the black hole of Me.”
Description: The Vorticist is the art-loving right-winger. Unlike all others of the right-wing world, he does not—we repeat, not—see photographic realism as the ideal in painting. Familiar with modernist art, the Vorticist appreciates Wyndham Lewis, de Chirico, and Italian Futurism, along with the best of all the rest of art history.
14. Faustian Fanboy
Dress: black suit
Reads: Spengler, Hamlet, Faust, the Eddas
Signature saying: “The Faustian culture isn’t dead; it will last at least until 3573 AD.”
Description: This Faustian Fanboy is sorely needed today; he disagrees with his maestro Spengler in stressing that the West isn’t doomed, it will survive for centuries. Yeah, more than a millennium from now.
Lennart Svensson (1965-) is mostly known for his biography of Ernst Jünger (Ernst Jünger: A Portrait, 2014) and his philosophy of life, Actionism (2017). He has also published novels such as Burning Magnesium (2018) and he’s currently working on new projects, both fact and fiction. He was born in Sweden in 1965, still lives there, and occasionally publishes work in Swedish, too. You can visit his Amazon page here.