America's Decline: The Education of a Conservative

by Revilo P. Oliver

Originally a conservative, Professor Revilo Oliver became an intellectual leader of racialists with a trenchant pen and large following. This collection of popular essays - primarily from 1955-1966, when the postwar struggle for America's soul was at its highest - shows that the conservative cause was inherently not only a lost cause but an unworthy one.

Genres: Politics

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

American professor of Classical philology, Spanish, and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who wrote and polemicized extensively for White Nationalist causes and was a fervent Holocaust denier.

He blamed Pearl Harbor on "diseased and part Jewish monster called Roosevelt" (who wasn't Jewish at all).

Oliver also briefly received national notoriety in the 1960s when he claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assasination was a part of a Communist conspiracy against the USA.

A pseudonym used by Revilo was Ralph Perier for The Jews Love Christianity and Religion and Race.

Reviews

[Vagabond of Letters, DLitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

9/10.

This book would be approaching the Platonic form of political writing if Oliver didn't have such a 'reprobate mind' when it comes to Christianity. Whoever called Dawkins et al. the new atheists was quite wrong: Oliver was a more caustic 'new atheist' 60 years earlier and with better justification. As far as he sees it, Christianity progressively destroys the West as a vehicle of Judaic subversion and sklavenmoral the more it becomes 'primitive' and 'biblical' (in his view: Zionist, egalitarian, lefty, communist, love-thy-refugee, feminist, pacifist) and abandons the Germanic 'accretions' which made it so culture-generative, muscular, and life affirming in the middle ages. Thus he hates it passionately, because he believes it a solemn threat to our shared love of Nation.

If only Oliver could have been given to understand that egalitarianism was the original sin, and remains the archetypal sin!

[Arthur Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

Despite Professor Oliver's off putting militant anti-Christianity permeating his writing, this book is an astonishing must-read for any American patriot to understand our present situation and how we arrived here.

[Eric Komar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I estimate I spent about two hundred hours [200] reading, re-reading, and copying, into my vade mecum, choice excerpts of Dr. Oliver's...for lack of a better term (a labile memory betrays) pronunciamento. The man was a patriot. And he was a man—not some epicine Urning. His patriotic word with Liberty Bell Magazine (a National Socialist publication with a Conservative veneer), too, is worth close study.

Revilo. I am grateful to have met you.

[Tommy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Documents the intellectual development and gyrations of a consistent pea brained anti-communist conservative with selections from his book reviews and essays published in such prestigious journals as National Review and American Opinion. You see herein a pompous brain being progressively melted down... whereas the other buttboys mentioned herein have theirs covertly subsidized perhaps by the international communist conspiracy being carried out by Moscow, the Fabian Society and the Council on Foreign Relations? Many tropes seem to remain the same on the right, even the Judeocentric interpretation of history... it just gets inverted every now and again into a positive or negative fact.