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Radical Coup: A Case for Reaction
From the Foreword by Hans-Hermann
Gabb provides detailed analyses of many issues currently hotly debated both in and outside of libertarian circles all across the Western world, and assesses their role and impetus in the process of social change. Thus, the reader will find many valuable, historically informed insights regarding the issues of “free” (mass) immigration vs. controlled borders, multiculturalism vs. cultural homogeneity, secession vs. centralization, of left-libertarianism and the new, Alternative Right, and of Christian and Islamic culture.
Most importantly especially for libertarians and, as I should confess, much in line with what I have tried to accomplish for quite some time with my own writings, in reaction to the diagnosed disease—the Radical Coup—Gabb proposes a detailed, equally radical cure—his Case for Reaction—that envisions a programmatic alignment of traditional conservatism and libertarianism with the common goal of restoring a bourgeois society as the highest achievement of Western civilization.
This book is an update of Gabb’s Cultural Revolution, Culture War, first published in 2007 to general acclaim by conservatives, libertarians, nationalists and anarchists. This is the book that introduced the concepts of Cultural Marxism and Frankfurt School subversion to the English Right, single-handedly, and within a few weeks, transforming the language of analysis and action on the British political right.
The present volume contains the whole original text of Cultural Revolution, Culture War, but now includes a set of further examinations that extend and adapt the analysis, plus an Introduction that summarises Gabb’s analysis of what has happened in England and of the steps that need to be taken if English Civilisation is to be restored to health.
Briefly put, his central thesis is that the British ruling class has, since at least 1997, turned itself into a totalitarian conspiracy, at war both with liberty and with tradition. It fights this war through the conventional means of state power and state propaganda, but also through its achievement of cultural hegemony. Controlling a single plot line of Eastenders is more important than a thousand editorials in The Guardian. Gabb advances this argument by taking the insights of the neo-Marxists—for example, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, and others, and turning these on an Establishment that is now founded on them.
Turning from diagnosis to cure, the only response for non-leftists is to settle their differences, and then to seize control of the State and to shut most of it down. The present ruling class all sucks from the nipple of the State. Stop the flow of milk, and the ruling class will collapse. Once this is done, Gabb sets out a challenging agenda of libertarian minimal statism—for all the usual libertarian reasons, but also because that is the only option at present for conservatives and the various kinds of nationalist.
This book is key to any understanding of rightist discourse in modern England. It is a must-read for activists of all persuasions, for political scientists who want to understand “the Right” as seen by one of its insiders, and for anyone who wants to understand the world in order to change it.
Gabb provides detailed analyses of many issues currently hotly debated both in and outside of libertarian circles all across the Western world, and assesses their role and impetus in the process of social change. Thus, the reader will find many valuable, historically informed insights regarding the issues of “free” (mass) immigration vs. controlled borders, multiculturalism vs. cultural homogeneity, secession vs. centralization, of left-libertarianism and the new, Alternative Right, and of Christian and Islamic culture.
Most importantly especially for libertarians and, as I should confess, much in line with what I have tried to accomplish for quite some time with my own writings, in reaction to the diagnosed disease—the Radical Coup—Gabb proposes a detailed, equally radical cure—his Case for Reaction—that envisions a programmatic alignment of traditional conservatism and libertarianism with the common goal of restoring a bourgeois society as the highest achievement of Western civilization.
This book is an update of Gabb’s Cultural Revolution, Culture War, first published in 2007 to general acclaim by conservatives, libertarians, nationalists and anarchists. This is the book that introduced the concepts of Cultural Marxism and Frankfurt School subversion to the English Right, single-handedly, and within a few weeks, transforming the language of analysis and action on the British political right.
The present volume contains the whole original text of Cultural Revolution, Culture War, but now includes a set of further examinations that extend and adapt the analysis, plus an Introduction that summarises Gabb’s analysis of what has happened in England and of the steps that need to be taken if English Civilisation is to be restored to health.
Briefly put, his central thesis is that the British ruling class has, since at least 1997, turned itself into a totalitarian conspiracy, at war both with liberty and with tradition. It fights this war through the conventional means of state power and state propaganda, but also through its achievement of cultural hegemony. Controlling a single plot line of Eastenders is more important than a thousand editorials in The Guardian. Gabb advances this argument by taking the insights of the neo-Marxists—for example, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, and others, and turning these on an Establishment that is now founded on them.
Turning from diagnosis to cure, the only response for non-leftists is to settle their differences, and then to seize control of the State and to shut most of it down. The present ruling class all sucks from the nipple of the State. Stop the flow of milk, and the ruling class will collapse. Once this is done, Gabb sets out a challenging agenda of libertarian minimal statism—for all the usual libertarian reasons, but also because that is the only option at present for conservatives and the various kinds of nationalist.
This book is key to any understanding of rightist discourse in modern England. It is a must-read for activists of all persuasions, for political scientists who want to understand “the Right” as seen by one of its insiders, and for anyone who wants to understand the world in order to change it.
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Published June 14, 2018
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About the author
Sean Gabb
70 books34 followersSean Gabb is the author of twenty books and around five hundred essays.
Under the name Richard Blake, he has written six historical novels for Hodder & Stoughton. These have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese and Indonesian.
Under his own name, he has written four novels. His other books are mainly about libertarian politics.
He is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, a human rights and educational charity based in the United Kingdom.
He also teaches. His main experience has been in higher education. More recently, though, he has discovered a talent for teaching Latin to primary school children. This is a talent he intends to develop.
He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
Under the name Richard Blake, he has written six historical novels for Hodder & Stoughton. These have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese and Indonesian.
Under his own name, he has written four novels. His other books are mainly about libertarian politics.
He is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, a human rights and educational charity based in the United Kingdom.
He also teaches. His main experience has been in higher education. More recently, though, he has discovered a talent for teaching Latin to primary school children. This is a talent he intends to develop.
He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
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July 8, 2020
An update or follow up to his 'How the Conservatives Lost Britain and How To Get It Back'. Gabb outlines the malaise that has gripped Britain and presents a solution.
He explains how the 'Conservatives' have been taken over by neo-Marxist ideas. He takes apart the modern 'copes'. His villains are what he calls the 'Enemy Class' which has replaced the traditional class struggles in Britain. He explains who they are and what can be done to combat them.
Every libertarian and conservative should read this book, a know a good number have.
He explains how the 'Conservatives' have been taken over by neo-Marxist ideas. He takes apart the modern 'copes'. His villains are what he calls the 'Enemy Class' which has replaced the traditional class struggles in Britain. He explains who they are and what can be done to combat them.
Every libertarian and conservative should read this book, a know a good number have.
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