IMPERIUM

Our momentary situation takes the form of a great battle — a battle which may take more than one war to resolve it, or which may be resolved by a sudden cataclysmic happening, entirely unforeseeable to us now.

The conflict is far-reaching; it affects every sphere of Life. Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men.

The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money;

Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux;

glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights;

Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism;

Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade;

the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism;

the idea of the individual task to the ideal of "happiness";

Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion;

the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism;

Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love;

economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself;

the inner imperative to Rationalism.

But the greatest opposition of all has not yet been named, the conflict which will take up all the others into itself. This is the battle of the Idea of the Unity of the West against the nationalism of the 19th century. Here stand opposed the ideas of Empire and petty-stateism, large-space thinking and political provincialism. Here find themselves opposed the miserable collection of yesterday-patriots and the custodians of the Future. The yesterday-nationalists are nothing but the puppets of the extra-European forces who conquer Europe by dividing it.

IMPERIUM, by Francis Parker Yockey
aka "Ulick Varange"