Ab Aeterno

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Ab Aeterno is the peer reviewed quarterly journal of the Academy of Social and Political Research.

The first issue of Ab Aeterno was published in November 2009, and it is intended to publish quarterly thereafter.

The editor of Ab Aeterno is Dr Dimitris Michalopoulos of Athens. The publisher is Kerry Bolton.

The first issue contains the following articles:

• The New Right in Australia, Jim Saleam

• "Absolute Evil": reflections on the political reality in Italy, Jose Maria Ingrassia.

• Positive Christianity and the Russian Campaign: Rosenberg vs. Chamberlain. Dimitris Michalopoulos.

• Multiculturalism as a process of globalisation, Kerry Bolton

• The Eurasian Idea, Alexander Dugin.

• Why Music? A look at art and propagandsa. Elizabeth Whitcombe.

• Nomos as Decision: Carl Schmitt, Francesco Boco.

• Political Hegemony or Cultural Hegemony? Tomislav Sunic.

Subscriptions

A four issue subscription to Ab Aeterno is :

40 Euros, 35 GBP, $US 60, $A70, $NZ80.

Subscriptions payable to: Ab Aeterno P O Box 1627 Paraparaumu Beach 5252 New Zealand

Delayed publication of the articles, not however including the extensive footnotes and references of the print edition of Ab Aeterno can be accessed at the online edition at:

http://ab-aeterno.yolasite.com/ [1]

Introductory Message

From Issue no. 1, November 2009

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Every one of us is today like the above Gospel sons. We ask our countries, our societies, our friends for “bread and fishes” and we receive stones and serpents instead. Why? Because we believed that after the collapse of Communism – even though nobody was punished for the crimes of applied Marxism- the post-Cold War World would usher in a really Brave New world, in which global peace and justice would reign over exhausted humanity; a humanity so many times bathed in blood. The reasonable corollary would have been that Marxism and its poisonous fruits would be henceforth fit only for the dustbin of history.

But what has emerged is quite the contrary. For the ideologues who had ravaged Eastern Europe were but the counterparts of those who have long controlled “The West”; and they have emerged as the oligarchs who have substituted their corrupt private control for the previous state regimentation, until already, after only a few decades of the “free market”, Eastern Europeans are looking with nostalgia back at the old Soviet regimes in comparison to what is being endured by them now under the name of “democracy”. So what we now have in the place of a divided world of Eastern and Western blocs, is a far worse scenario of plutocratic hegemony over much of the world, with those few reticent nations and cultures, such as Serbia, Iran, Iraq threatened and bombed into submission when the enticements of “Western” consumerism and usurious loans have not worked to secure obedience; with a Russia after the brief, corrupt Yeltsin interregnum struggling to regain her place in the world rather than become yet one more vassal state to Mammon.

Truth to tell, it is a nightmare. For the plutocrats and oligarchs hidden in the inner rooms of the international kitchens prepare dishes of corruption and misappropriation for a humanity craving for dignity and prosperity; for our Nations and our History are insulted; for we are isolated and persecuted; for we realize that there can be no fully Human future for our children under the post-Cold War globalist regime.

And the Christian Churches remain silent and apathetic… We do not have illusions. We do not think, in other words, that this Journal, aiming to reflect the eternal principles that guided humankind in its evolution from the caves and forests of Prehistory to the Acropolis, to the Gothic Churches and the literary, artistic and melodic masterpieces of History, can change the situation. We regard, nonetheless, this new Dark Age as an interregnum in the long process of History’s cycles of rise and fall… and rise…. Is it possible, therefore, in this present state for the mass of bewildered humanity and its misleaders to believe our arguments? Not at all! For men listen to reason very rarely. But we hope that we can pave the way and, subsequently, open the door to a salutary Change-to-come. We know that we live and die at a juncture of History that is the End as the prelude for the New. Our struggle, then, is for the future generations. We want to secure for them the right to exist, and subsequently to live decently in a better world.

These are the reasons for the creation of our Academy and the publication of this Journal. And if some of our readers recollect, thanks to Ab Aeterno, those eternal principles of Mankind and Nature that have fallen into oblivion, we shall be glad. For our mission will be fulfilled…

Dimitris Michalopoulos, Kerry R Bolton, Jim Saleam, José Maria Ingrassia