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expired books or extracts from books on Rightist politics or fiscal or conspiracy
theories, though Bolton has an extensive number of his own titles in the catalogue.
Subjects include syndicalist and Social Credit monetary theory, transnationalist
conspiracy theory (Freemasons, the Illuminati, the International Jew, the U.N.,
Banking cabals etc.), classic Conservative and Nationalist authors like Francis
Yockey, Julius Evola, Oswald Spengler, Otto Strasser, Oswald Mosley etc., anti-
Zionism, anti Semitism and even a section on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(one of which are written by Bolton), and so on.
The titles sold reflect the effort Bolton is now making to distance himself from
neo-Nazism per se, and an increasing identification with Traditionalism
(understood as a quasi-fascist Conservatism) and the New Right. In the foreword
to Nazism? An Answer to the Smear-Mongers Bolton explains that the purpose of
the booklet is to “briefly examine the fundamental elements of National Socialism
(Nazism) and neo-Nazism, and show that the New Right comes from a different
political tradition” and cites some areas in which National Socialism and New
Rightism differ, specifically in the area of racial theory 292 . In short, Bolton is
critical of the “Hitlerite doctrine” which divided Europeans into superior and
inferior races 293 . While such a division not only weakened European culture and
set neighbours who should have been allies against each other, it was also too
reductionist in that “history is reduced to ONE factor, that of RACE” 294 . Rather
than simply being an issue of race, Bolton quoted Oswald Spengler in saying that
it was more an issue of civilisation. All civilisations are the result of “a complex
interplay of factors…and like all living organisms, [civilisations have] cycles of
birth, youth, maturity, senility and death” 295 . Civilisations are also connected to
the land, and thus the people are people of the land; races are the “spiritual and
cultural entities [that have] formed over a long periods…and rooted to a particular
http://www.freewebs.com/renaissancepress/thecatalogue.htm (accessed 10 March 2007), also see
appendix 3; New Right Books at http://www.geocities.com/newright_nz/NewRightBooks.htm
(accessed 10 March 2008)
292 Kerry Bolton, Nazism? An Answer to the Smear-Mongers (Paraparaumu: Spectrum, 2005), p.3
293 Ibid., p.4
294 Ibid., p.4
295 Ibid.,p.4
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