Latin American revolutions are often bloody affairs. Images of Che Guevara-type guerrillas backed by Soviet military hardware and overthrowing corrupt regimes are the stuff of outdated and maudlin Marxist mythology. Such images are old hat. South of the border, something new is emerging. Today’s guerrillas are on the Internet. They are armed … Read more
The steady stream of photos of a smiling Elian Gonzalez reunited with his father could well foster the impression of a happy ending to the sad story of this young Cuban refugee. Were one naive enough to believe this, one might well conclude that the entire matter was a tempest in a … Read more
Originally published as Revolução e Contra-Revolução, in Catolicismo, April 1959 (Parts I and II) and January 1977 (Part III) First Digital Edition Copyright © 2000 The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). All rights reserved. First printed English edition 1974. Second printed English edition 1980. Third printed English … Read more
If anything characterizes our times, it is a sense of pervading chaos. In every field of human endeavor, the windstorms of change are fast altering the ways we live. Contemporary man is no longer anchored in certainties and thus has lost sight of who he is, where he comes from and where … Read more
I am a convinced Thomist. The aspect of philosophy that most attracts me is the philosophy of history. In view of this I find the connection between the two kinds of activity to which I have dedicated my life: study and action. I have exercised the latter in a very defined field, … Read more
Is Sodomy No Longer a Sin? An Urgent Appeal to Our Ecclesiastical Authorities. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure (Gen. 13:13). I. False Science, True Evil A Standard of Sin In our dark days, homosexuality, a shameful vice ever abhorred … Read more
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Distinguished Apostle, Ardent and Intrepid Polemist The unexpected news of the death of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira has moved us to ponder some chapters of his life and to reflect that the more intense the evils of an epoch, the more exceptional are the figures Divine Providence … Read more
The momentous summit of the chief executives of the American states — with the well-merited exclusion of the Cuban — is an opportune occasion for the Societies for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) in the Americas to convey their convictions, apprehensions, and hopes in regards to our hemisphere and … Read more
Table of Contents Introduction Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira I. The Center and the Right in the Face of French Socialism: Optimistic Illusion, Scope of the Defeat, and the Crossroads 1. The Illusion 2. A Look at the Real SP 3. The Great Factor in the Rise of Socialism in France: Abstention Prevails … Read more
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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