The American TFP

Living Tableaux-Explosions

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira December 14, 2016March 13, 1981

A friend recently arrived from Paris told me he had seen a unique play. The plot was not taken from literary fiction, but from a phase in the history of France. Scenes from the frantic, filthy and bloody debacle of the Terror were represented on the stage with the most rigorously authentic … Read more

Convergence and Psychological Warfare

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira December 7, 2016February 12, 1981

I am writing on Tuesday morning. Today’s papers in Brazil and the world are reporting still another change of nuance in the overall picture of the situation in Poland. The success of the various strike movements has forced the Communist Party there to sweep out the Premier. In view of the liberalizing … Read more

Conscientize, Conscientize

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira December 7, 2016November 17, 1980

“An extremely rare ‘Social Revolution’ is being carried out in the United States,” affirmed El Mercurio (8-25-80), the newspaper with the largest circulation in the Chilean capital, on publishing a news dispatch coming from Los Angeles, California. The dispatch gives a profound explanation to the phenomenon which so roundly contradicted the predictions … Read more

BACK TO THE TOWER OF BABEL?

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira October 19, 2022August 12, 1980

In my last article, I analyzed an aspect of the reaction of the Brazilian public to the personality of John Paul II. This widespread reaction went like immense vibrations through large masses in all sectors of public opinion. In a tumultuous movement of joy, men of the left, the center, and the … Read more

The Lullaby Revel Didn’t Mention

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira December 7, 2016February 8, 1980

The well-known Parisian weekly L’Express recently published an article by Jean François Revel entitled “La fin des berceuses,” that is, “The End of Lullabies.” The dictator Tito appears on the cover in a photograph one could call surrealistic, but which in fact, is magnificently realistic, thoroughly revealing his sinister face, physiognomy and … Read more

The Iranian Game

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira February 13, 2019November 28, 1979

No one writes or speaks about the obvious. It jumps right out at you. It imposes itself like a hard fact. It needs no descriptions or commentaries. An acute observer discerns a reality (a person, a situation, a thing) at the very moment it rises on the faraway horizon. An ordinary observer … Read more

At Mrs. Edeltrudes’

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira December 7, 2016October 10, 1978

The French Revolution numbers among her antiquated enthusiasms. Lafayette, Mirabeau, Danton, Marat, Robespierre—she jumbles them all in the same feverish admiration. She still rants against the bloodthirsty rage of Louis XVI and the bacchanalia of Marie Antoinette. She is sure that when the Bastille was taken, it was found to be crammed … Read more

Indian Tribalism: The Communist-Missionary Ideal for Brazil in the Twenty-First Century

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira July 31, 2025November 30, 1977

Available in other e-forms here Contents: Introduction PART I – The Traditional Catholic Concept of the Missions 1. Concept of the Mission 2. The Highest End of the Mission: Essentially Religious – the Glory of God and Eternal Happiness 3. Effects of the Mission in Temporal Life 4. The Mission and the Indians 5. An Impossible Solution … Read more

The Nothing That May Result In Everything

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira December 7, 2016November 11, 1976

The precise evaluation of the importance of an event can only rarely be achieved by the employing of just one criterion. Much more than this is normally required. In fact, it behooves one to consider all of the criteria applicable to the case, in order to be able to arrange them immediately … Read more

What Exactly Is an Anti-Communist?

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira September 6, 2019January 15, 1976

What exactly is an anti-communist? This is a question which appears to be so simple of resolution as to border on being foolish. However, there are different ways in which it may be answered. If we consider only the two most common responses to it being given nowadays, we should see that … Read more