Comments on: Enter the Don Felix Sarda y Salvany: Liberalism is a Sin

By: Mark Citadel

Mark Citadel — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:41:03 +0000

Going to have to check out Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Whenever the left describes someone as “one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century”, you know they’re bound to have some gems.

By: Mark Citadel

Mark Citadel — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:52:37 +0000

Great find! A hidden Joseph De Maistre. As has been pointed out, a theonomist who saw through the lies of modernity and secularism and saw the catastrophes they would bring upon Western civilization.

De Maistre, Sarda, Codreanu, Evola.

I am sure there are many more for those willing to plunge into the tomes of historical wisdom written quietly after the horrors of the French Revolution spread over the world.

Sarda’s zealotry for the faith, his courageous defense of all its elements that were under critique from anti-clerical movements and compromisers is beyond admirable. We would do well to follow his example.

By: Mark Citadel

Mark Citadel — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:44:51 +0000

In total agreement with you there, IA. As I have pointed out in my own latest article, the nest move for Reactionaries as the world gets ever more bleak economically and geopolitically will be formation of militant Christian associations within states to begin laying the groundwork for opportunistic coups against localities. We essentially need a new Legion of the Archangel Michael. Not only is this necessary for seeing off the corpse ideology of Modernity, but ensuring our lands do not fall into the hands of the foreign heathens (Moslems)

By: Mark Yuray

Mark Yuray — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:26:15 +0000

Poorly, yes.

By: Man for all seasons

Man for all seasons — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:33:50 +0000

Were you raised as a Catholic?

By: Mark Yuray

Mark Yuray — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:05:11 +0000

Indeed, the deep impression left on me upon reading the book was not the result of any particular new insight the Don provided to me, but rather the constant recognizing of my own NRx thoughts rephrased in the words of a 19th century Catholic firebrand. The stunning fact is not that I looked into the book and saw a wondrous new world, but that I looked into the book and saw it was a mirror. For all intents and purposes, Salvany was a sort of neoreactionary theonomist, and the Catholic Church put its full weight behind him just over a century ago. How much has changed in a century.

By: Man for all seasons

Man for all seasons — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:02:54 +0000

Cosmic harmony, that sounds very Confucian.

By: Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:10:58 +0000

I have to disagree somewhat regarding the various forms of government. Monarchy is not just a material organization, but a spiritual and sacramental institution. It’s symbolism and cosmic harmony is impossible under other systems.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:45:46 +0000

I read this book a couple years back on the recommendation of some ultramontanist Catholics I knew in real life. I admit it didn’t make too big an impression on me, perhaps because I was already red-pilled. But having tasted snippets again, it seems Fr. Salvany was another of these ignored prophets who, like Carlyle, are both eerily prescient and, perhaps because of this, almost entirely ignored.

By: Man for all seasons

Man for all seasons — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:21:49 +0000

Thank you for this. The main reactionary, traditionalist and Catholic thinkers in 19th Century Spain were J. Donoso Cortés, J. Balmes and M. Menéndez Pelayo. I had not heard before about Felix Sardá. By the way, it's too bad that Donoso Cortés died at 43. He shifted towards traditionalism late in his life. Hence, he didn't have time to write as much as he could have written, had he lived longer. Donoso Cortés is really hardcore for liberals. You may be interested also in the writings of Nicolás Gómez Dávila, a 20th century Colombian reactionary thinker of european descent, educated in Paris. I'd bet you know him already.