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In the center of the pic is Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, just in case you can't tell.

Thread for discussion of KR literature.

For those of you who don't know, the KR was an attempt to synthesize unflinching realism with opposition to materialism. It drew inspiration on the former from such sources as Machiavelli and Hobbes. The first man to attempt this synthesis was Joseph de Maistre (who cites Machiavelli, Hobbes and Hume among his realist influences in "The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions"). Maitre's philosophy could be said to rest on two points. 1. Might makes right. 2. God is Almighty.

Nietzsche also attempted a synthesis between extreme realism and anti-materialism, which lead to him exerting a tremendous influence on the KR

The KR proper was an interwar movement which included figures such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Jünger. It had its own paramilitary, the Freikorps

Today the KR is admired and studied by the paleoconservative movement. Paul Gottfried, for example, is an important American scholar of Carl Schmitt, and himself strongly identifies with the KR