Sam Francis

Column: 'Principalities and Powers' at Chronicles magazine. Disciple of James Burnham. Tribute account. Keeping the memory alive.

[Sam Francis @MidAmRad]

Some men are just ahead of their time. @ColumbiaBugle @michellemalkin

[Sam Francis @MidAmRad]

The point of right-wing populism is to make use of entirely legitimate nonelite resentments against an incumbent elite to discredit and eventually to dislodge the elite—and to create a new elite.

[Sam Francis @MidAmRad]

The point of right-wing populism is not to let the people rule where elites rule now, which is what left-wing populism purports to do.

[Sam Francis @MidAmRad]

The doctrine of equality is unimportant, no one save perhaps Pol Pot and Ben Wattenberg believes in it, and no one, least of all those who profess it most loudly, is seriously motivated by it.… The real meaning of the doctrine of equality is that it serves as a political weapon.

[Ghost of James Burnham @Suicideofthewes]

Equality is a Political Weapon

[William Estes @WilliamE1863]

"...trying to win non-whites, especially by abandoning issues important to white voters, is the road to political suicide."
-Sam Francis

[Ryan Matthew Neuhaus @RyanMNeuhaus]

For decades our government, both Republican and Democrat, has undermined the rule of law and redefined the enforcement of immigration law through the "worst of the worst" framing.

This framing emphasizes a punishment reserved primarily for foreigners who commit violent offenses against the American people after they arrive.

Once that became the premise, every illegal alien who wasn't a murderer or gang member became someone the government and special interest groups have argued should stay.

The "worst of the worst" framing is foundational to those who want to give amnesty to millions of foreigners who should not be here. We should reject it.

[Ghost of James Burnham @Suicideofthewes]

There is lots to learn from Sam Francis

[William Estes @WilliamE1863]

"When a family loses its land to a multinational conglomerate, it loses more than a business; it loses its history, its continuity, and its liberty. Capitalism without local roots is just another form of uprooting."
-Samuel T Francis

[William Estes @WilliamE1863]

"The same rootless multinational corporations that destroy our manufacturing towns also poison our rivers and clear-cut our forests, because they have no love for the specific places they exploit."
-Samuel Francis

[William Estes @WilliamE1863]

"On the family farm or in the small rural town, the family is an economic and social unit that works together to survive. Urban industrialism shatters this, scattering family members to the winds to serve separate corporate masters."
-Samuel Francis

[Chronicles Magazine @ChroniclesMag]

Paleoconservatism Rising

Paleoconservatism offers young right-wingers an intellectual framework that is both traditional and radical, conservative and subversive.

Micaiah Brindle writes for the June issue of Chronicles: https://t.co/fz0m7IMVBb

[Chronicles Magazine @ChroniclesMag]

Conservatives: Know Your Burnham

James Burnham’s theory of managerialism is a foundation that conservatives should build upon while also repairing any cracks in that foundation.

Daniel McCarthy (@ToryAnarchist) writes for the June issue of Chronicles: https://t.co/nFTdwSqSl6

[Sam Francis @MidAmRad]

@smithpatrick08 "No one loves punching right like a Principled Conservative," and Burnham understood why.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

It’s another case of conservative intellectuals having such a lack of self-confidence that they have to frame their ideas in leftist terms, like “diversity.”

If you adopt your enemy’s frame, you will never escape it—and you will lose.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The reality is that the “beautiful losers” approach is a self-serving lie, and in most cases, these “true conservatives” do not maintain their “moral and intellectual purity,” but, in fact, have compromised it away and need to signal against those who have not in order to rationalize their own moral and intellectual cowardice.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Actually it’s not healthy to believe that you must be a “loser” in order to maintain your moral and intellectual integrity. That’s a defect, not a virtue. We need warriors and scholars, who work together toward the same ends.

[Chronicles Magazine @ChroniclesMag]

"The strategy of the right should be to enhance the polarization of Middle Americans from the incumbent regime, not to build coalitions with the regime’s defenders and beneficiaries."
https://t.co/yM5MrL7OxJ

[Sam Francis @MidAmRad]

"The mainstream of those who today are pleased to call themselves conservatives has come to accept at least the premises and often the full-blown agenda of the left."
--'Beautiful Losers,' From the May 1991 issue of @ChroniclesMag
https://t.co/rry491oa3B

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The reality is that the “beautiful losers” approach is a self-serving lie, and in most cases, these “true conservatives” do not maintain their “moral and intellectual purity,” but, in fact, have compromised it away and need to signal against those who have not in order to rationalize their own moral and intellectual cowardice.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

@christopherrufo Are 60 years of continuous losses in the institutions and culture wars not enough for these people?

[Nathan Pinkoski @NPinkoski]

Zero to hero