Radical Traditionalism

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Radical Traditionalism is the name given by the Tyr journal to a series of fundamental points that form an ideology. The journal states that Radical Traditionalism seeks to revive pre-modern values of "the Indo-European Tradition"[citation needed] concerning the spiritual aspects of life. In contrast to modern culture, which they see as marked by materialism, mechanization and urbanism, radical traditionalists promote traditional and local culture and folklore, respectful treatment of the earth and animals, and small-scale organization of society (distributism, localism).

The term "Radical Traditionalism" as used by the Tyr journal originates in the early 1970s in the privately published "Radical Traditionalist Papers", contributed to by John F. Michell in the 1980s. The term is revived in the 2000s in the context of the radical anti-modernist occultism of Julius Evola by Michael Moynihan and Joscelyn Godwin adding the subtitle Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist to their reprint of Evola's 1953 Men Among Ruins and titling their 2005 edition of Michell's The Oldie column as Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist.

[edit] Tyr journal

The journal Tyr was founded in 2002 by editors Joshua Buckley, Collin Cleary and Michael Moynihan.

The editorial preface of Tyr, vol. 1 enumerates the following "radical traditionalist" ideals:

  1. Resacralization of the world versus materialism.
  2. Natural social hierarchy versus an artificial hierarchy based on wealth.
  3. The tribal community versus the nation-state.
  4. Stewardship of the earth versus the "maximization of resources."
  5. A harmonious relationship between men and women versus the "war between the sexes."
  6. Handicraft and artisanship versus industrial mass-production.

[edit] References

  • Buckley, Joshua, Collin Cleary and Michael Moynihan. TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition. Ultra Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0-9720292-0-6.
  • Howard Glennerster, James Midgley, The Radical Right and the Welfare State: An International Assessment, 1991, ISBN 0389209767

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