The Scorpion

THE SCORPION is an English language magazine of metapolitics and culture which appears once a year, each issue dealing with a particular subject (e.g., imperialism, ecology, regionalism) from a perspective opposed to modernism and globalism.

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Here are some articles from the current and past issues:

Issue 24

Presumptions of Democracy

• "Democracy We Presume?" by Dominic Campbell. What is it, in theory and practice?
• Reviews:
  • "Only Connect". A review by Dominic Campbell of Critiques Théoriques, by Alain de Benoist.
  • "Behind the Demos". A review by Andrew Webster of The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy, by Nesta Webster.
  • "Paint It Black", a review of Many Shades of Black: Inside Britain's Far Right, by John Bean.

Issue 23

Justice

• "Justice: Who is She?" by Dominic Campbell. Crime and Punishment and the Meaning of Natural Balance.
• Reviews:
  • "Happy Families". A review by Tony Glaister of The Politics of Human Nature, by Thomas Fleming.
  • "Peace of Resistance", a review by Dominic Campbell of Gandhi and Godse A Review and a Critique, by Koenraad Elst.
  • "Traditional Emancipation", a review by Troy Southgate of Man and Woman in Revolt against the Modern World by Baron Julius Evola.
  • "Being at that Time" a review by Paul Shepherd of Martin Heidegger: A Political Life, by Hugo Ott.
  • "Killing the Messenger", a review by Jared Taylor of Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe, by Roger Pearson.
  • "Legendary Feasts", a review by Troy Southgate of Tyr- Myth Culture and Tradition (Volume 1, 2002).

Issue 22

Ecce Homo

• Editorial.
• "Courage Style Aristocracy," by Dominic Campbell. An attempted reckoning with Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Nietzsche's Main Works: A bibliographical sketch.
• "Dynamic Optimism," by Michael Young. Another view of a man who defies neutrality.
• In his own Words: Quotations from Nietzsche's works.
• It happened one Gloomy Night
• Points taken
• On the wall
• Reviews
  • Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson, reviewed by Dominic Campbell.
  • S. M. Stirling's Draka series, reviewed by Paul Charnock.
  • Ward and Larson on evolution, reviewed by Paul Charnock.
  • Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century, by Dr Alexander Jacob, reviewed by Dominic Campbell.
  • Garcia Aguilar on the Chapitas, reviewed by Dominic Hampshire.
  • American History X, reviewed by Dominic Campbell.
• The Grape Vine, by Loki.

Issue 21

The Darwin Inheritance

• Editorial
• "The Darwin Inheritance," by Dominic Campbell. A look at the issues involved in the unending "Darwin Debate."
• "Ludwig Woltmann & German Darwinism," by Alain de Benoist. A look at the life and thought of an early proponent of social Darwinism.
• "'Races do not Exist,'" by Charles Champetier. Scientific responses to a widespread sophism.
• Readers' Symposium
• "On the Wall" -- News Items from around the world.
• Points Taken
• "German Socialism as an Alternative to Marxism", by Dr. Alexander Jacob. The political thought of the "cultural pessimist" Oswald Spengler and the socialist writer Werner Sombart.
• Manifestos
• Reviews
  • "Back to the Future", a review of L’archeofuturisme, by Guillaume Faye.
  • Other reviews cover Civil War Two by Thomas Chittum, The Impulse of Power by Michael W. Kelley, Gabriele D'Annunzio by John Woodhousey, A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Post-war Fascist International by Kevin Coogan, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley.
• "The Grape Vine," by Loki.

Issue 20

The Name of Frailty?

• Editorial
• "In Praise of Fair Women," by Dominic Campbell. A comprehensive and accepted view of the future role of Man and Woman in a future society is essential to anyone who rejects the modern world.
• "The Case of Isaac Newton". Alexander Jacob points to a little known but influential source of philosemitism and egalitarianism in the man who explained the falling apple.
• On the Wall
• Manifestos
• Readers Symposium
• Reviews:
  • "Who's a Genius?", a review by Dominic Campbell of Hitler's Priestess, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.
  • "Right On!", a review by Christian Rogler of Deutschlands Rechte-Ordnungs und Gestaltungsauftrag, by Rolf-Josef Eibicht.
  • "The Man Behind It All", a review by Jim Harraway of Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich, by James Lubinskas
  • "A Page in My Life," a review by Dominic Campbell of The Books in My Life, by Colin Wilson.
  • "Green Leaf", a review by Dominic Campbell of A Mirror of England, an Anthology of the Writings of HJ Massingham, by Dominic Campbell.
• "The Grape Vine", by "Loki."

Issue 19

For an New Education

• Editorial
• "For a New Education", by Dominic Campbell.
• "The Neo-conservative Reich of Edgar Julius Jung", by Alexander Jacob.
• Manifestos
• On the Wall
• Readers Symposium
• Reviews:
  • "Who's a Genius", a review by Mark Ashton of Schockley on Eugenics and Race, by Roger Pearson.
  • Review by Mark Ashton of The Social Meaning of Modern Biology from Social Darwinism to Sociobiology, by Howard Kaye.
  • "A Deeper Shade of Green", a review by Dominic Campbell of Environmentalism and Political Theory, by Robyn Eckersley.
  • "Where do you come from? Where do you go?", a review by Peter White of The Thirteenth Tribe, by Arthur Koestler.
  • "Do you Remember me?", a review by Jim Harraway of Diaries, by Alan Clark, and Storm Command, by General Peter de la Billiere.
  • "Teaching by Numbers", a review by Robin Waterfield of The Great Triad, by Rene Guenon.
  • "How right is right?", a review by Dominic Campbell of Enoch Powell: A Biography, by Robert Shepard.
• "The Grape Vine", by "Loki."

Issue 18

The Power and the Glory

• "The Power and the Glory", Dominic Campbell on the nature of power.
• "Carl Schmitt and Democracy", Paul Gottfried on the German antiliberal thinker.
• "Dry and Brown Greens", review of a book on the connection between ecological thought and the far right.
• "Space Invaders", review of Peter Brimelow's Alien Nation.
• "The Greening of the West", review of Qathafi's Green Book.
• "Erkenne Dich Selbst", review of Richard Wagner and the Antisemitic Imagination, by Marc A. Weiner.
• "Empire Invisible", short notice of renewed availability of in German of Evola's The Mystery of the Grail.
• "Bed Time Book of Famous Beasts", review of Fascism in the Oxford Readers series.
• "Cross Purposes", review of Alan Morrison's The Serpent and the Cross: Religious Corruption in an Evil Age.
• "Corsets and Old Hat", review of Volk, Nation, der Westen und die Neue Rechte by Mark Terkessidis.
• "Animal Farm", review of Die McDonaldisierung der Gesellschaft by George Ritzer.
• "Siege Mentality", review of Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason by George Ritzer.
• "Canonballs", review of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages.
• "Life after West", review of Alain de Benoist's Europe, Tiers Monde Meme Combat.

Issue 17

To Dream of Empires

• "Dream of Empires", Dominic Campbell on the nature of empires and imperialism.
• "The Grapevine", a column by "Loki", with his own reflections on Empire.
• "The Peoples of Europe: Corsica", by Giuse Centophani.
• "Capital Culture", an account of Northern European aesthetics in the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
• "Tradition in Revolt", Karl Richter's review of Revolt against the Modern World, the major work of Julius Evola.
• "European Blues", a review-essay on The Making of the Old Southern Sound, Bluegrass Blues, by Robert Cantwell.
• "A Hell of a Journey", a review of A Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Fawn Brodie.
• "War Games", a review of Churchill's War, by David Irving.
• "Eclectics in Perspective", a review of the publications Perspectives and Fourth World Review.
• "See no Evil", a review of Spoken in Darkness by Ann E. Imbrie.
• "Peaceful German Empire?", a review of Friedensmacht Deutschland, Plaedoyer fuer einen neuen Patriotismus, by Alfred Mechtersheimer.
• "Murder, He Said", a review of Who Murdered my Father, Rudolph Hess, by Ruediger Hess.
• "Just an Ordinary Muse", a review of two volumes of collected poems and letters by Philip Larkin.
• "You will be Harmonised!", a review of Merrie England-2000 by Colin Jordan.
• "Out of Order", reviews of Hunter and A Candidate for the Order.
• "Loquacious to Effect", a review of two poetry books.
• "The Right Set", a review of the journals of Anthony Powell.
• "Prayer before Birth?", a review of God, a self-published book by "Prometheus".
• "Bayreuth Revisited", a review of Richard Wagner: Visionen, Werk, Weltanschaung, Deutung by Professor Karl Richter.
• "Romantic Reich", a review of the music of Frank Rennicke.
• Letters from readers.

Issue 15

The State?

• "The State", by Dominic Campbell.
• "Between the Gods and the Titans", Alain de Benoist's review of the life and achievement of Ernst Juenger, part I (Issue 15) and part II (Issue 17).

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Issue and Theme                   Price (pounds/shillings)

1 The Problem of Racism                     2
2 Nihilism and the Modern Town              5*
3 Nihilism and the Cultural Alternative     5*
4 What is Nationalism?                      5*
5 Where have the Heroes Gone?               5*
6 The Islands of the Blest                  2
7 In Search of America                      1 10/-
8 The Romantic Vision                       1 10/-
9 When Europe Awakes                        5*
10 Against all Totalitarianisms             3
11 Ecology: the Growing Dilemma             2 10/-
12 For the Europe of a Hundred Flags        2
13 In the Midst of Life                     2
14 The Two Faces of Socialism               3
15 The State?                               3
16 Aquarius                                 4
17 To Dream of Empires                      3
18 The Power and the Glory                  3
19 For a New Education                      3
20 The Name of Frailty?                     5
21 The Darwin Inheritance                   5 10/-
22 Ecce Homo                                6
23 Justice: Who is She?			    6

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• Colin Jordan, Merrie England (reviewed in Issue 17) - 1 pound 10, or $2.40.
• Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics - 4 pounds or $6.40.
• "Prometheus", Eugenics Manifesto, 1 pound 10 or $2.40.
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