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[[Image:Imperium.png|thumb|250px|Cover of ''Imperium'']]
'''''Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics''''' is a book by the ideologue [[Francis Parker Yockey]] (using the pen name Ulick Varange). Written in [[Brittas Bay]], [[Ireland]], in [[1947]],  ''Imperium'' is described by its author as a [[Oswald Spengler|Spenglerian]] critique of [[materialism]] and [[rationalism]] (and an advocacy of a [[pan-European]] [[fascist]] united [[Europe]]). Yockey declared that he was deeply indebted to Spengler's works including his [[1920]] [[Cultural]] analysis, ''Der Untergang des Abendlandes'' (''[[Decline of the West]]''). 

''Imperium'' was first published in [[Great Britain]] in 1948 and issued in two volumes with a run of one thousand copies for the first volume and two hundred for the second. Two different printers were used.  Westropa Press for the first volume and Brooks and Jones & Dale, London, for the second volume. This discrepancy in the number of copies and the change of printers shows the difficulty in financing the publication of Yockey‘s first work. 

In 1962 ''Imperium'' was first published in America by [[Charles L. Smith]] under the imprint Truth Seeker.<ref>[https://www.stormfront.org/rpo/RIP.htm "The Truth Seeker, R.I.P.", by Professor Revilo P. Oliver (August 1989)]</ref> At the time, Smith was publisher of ''[[The Truth Seeker (publication)|The Truth Seeker]]'', an atheist racial-fascist publication. In 1969 a softcover edition was published by [[Noontide Press]]. The Introduction attributed to [[Willis Carto]] in the Noontide edition was actually penned by Dr. [[Revilo P. Oliver]]. 

A Spanish edition of ''Imperium'' was issued in 1977 by the publishing house [[Ediciones Wotan]]. This firm was closely associated with the Spanish [[National Socialist]] group [[CEDADE]].<ref>''The Beast Reawakens'', by [[Martin A. Lee]], page 186</ref> 

==Quotes from the Book==

* "For the animals, that which appears — matter — is Reality. The world of sensation is the world. But for primitive man, and a fortiori for Culture-man, the world separates out into Appearance and Reality. Everything visible and tangible is felt as a symbol of something higher and unseen. This symbolizing activity is what distinguishes the human soul from the less complicated Life-forms. Man possesses a metaphysical sense as the hall-mark of his humanity. But it is precisely the higher reality, the world of symbols, of meaning and purpose, that Materialism denied in toto. What was it then, but the great attempt to animalize man by equating the world of matter with Reality, and merging him into it?"

* "I set forth here then the two great action-tasks of the Inner Imperative of the West: First, the liquidation of the tyranny of 19th century ideas. This means the complete cleansing of the Western soul from every form of Materialism, from Rationalism, Equality, social chaos, Communism, Bolshevism, liberalism, Leftism of every variety, Money-worship, democracy, finance-capitalism, the domination of Trade, nationalism, parliamentarism, feminism, race-sterility, weak ideals of “happiness” and the like, of every form of class war. Replacing these ideals is the strong and manly Idea of the Age of Absolute Politics: Authority, Discipline, Faith, Responsibility, Duty, Ethical Socialism, Fertility, Order, State, Hierarchy — the creation of the Empire of the West."

* "Mediocrity rises over the horizon of a dying race as its last great ideal; total mediocrity, renunciation of all greatness and distinction of any kind whatever; also mediocrity of the racial blood-stream — anyone can come in now, not only on our terms, for there are no more terms, and there are no racial differences, everything is one, dull, eventless, mediocre. The weakening of the will is not hard put to find an ideology which rationalizes it as 'progress,' everything desirable, the aim of all previous history. The democracy-liberalism complex lies to hand, and it acquires in such times the meaning of Death — of race, nation and Culture. There are no human differences, everyone is equal, men are women, women are men, 'the individual' is everything, Life is a long holiday whose main problem is devising new and more stupid pleasures, there is no God, no State, off with the head of anyone who says there is a mission, who wishes to resurrect Authority. These symptoms, or similar ones, will be found present at the demise of every upper stratum whose will is weakened."

* "The power in Europe to-day is held by two kinds of men: Cultural aliens, and traitors. Can a Civilization die thus? Will two formless powers be able to strangle a Culture, starve and disperse its population? This work is an expression of my belief that they cannot, that the inscrutable force of Destiny will prevail over outer forces as well as against the inner obstacle of the Past. Precisely at the moment when their victory seems full-blown and permanently secured, Europe begins to stir. Widened and chastened by tragedy, defeat, and catastrophe the Western soul is emerging from the ruins, unbroken in its will, and purer in its spiritual unity than ever before. The great dream and aim of Leibnitz, the uniting of all the States of Europe, is closer by virtue of Europe’s defeat, for in that defeat, it perceives its unity. The mission of this generation is the most difficult that has ever faced a Western generation. It must break the terror by which it is held in silence, it must look ahead, it must believe when there is apparently no hope, it must obey even if it means death, it must fight to the end rather than submit. Fortifying it is the knowledge that against the Spirit of Heroism no materialistic force can prevail."

* "The West has something to devote to the contest that neither the Barbarian nor the parasite has: the force of the mightiest superpersonal Destiny that has ever appeared on this earth-ball. This superpersonal Idea has such tremendous force that no number of scaffold-trials or massacres, no heaps of starved or pyramids of skulls, can touch it."

* "Napoleon knew, and the West still knows, the primacy of the spiritual in warfare. The soil of Europe, rendered sacred by the streams of blood which have made it spiritually fertile for a millennium, will once again stream with blood until the barbarians and distorters have been driven out and the Western banner waves on its home soil from Gibraltar to North Cape, and from the rocky promontories of Galway to the Urals. This is promised, not by human resolves merely, but by a higher Destiny, which cares little whether it is 1950, 2000, or 2050. This Destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service."

==Author’s code==
Yockey told his wife and sister he coded his work so there would be no doubt as to its authorship. On pages 480-1 at the start of each successive paragraph the first letters spell FYOCKEY. The same code is repeated on pages 498-9. In 1971 [[Terrence D. Oaks]],  of Los Angeles with the help an amateur cryptographer discovered the code appearing in two places of the text.<ref>'"Code Cracked", ''Washington Observer Newsletter'', Number 135, March 15, 1972</ref>

==Contents==

===The 20th Century  Historical Outlook===

:Perspective
:The Two Aspects of [[History]]
:The Relativity of History
:The Meaning of Facts
:The Demise of the Linear View of History
:The Structure of History
:[[Pessimism]]
:The [[Civilization]]-Crisis
:[[Darwinism]]
:[[Marxism]]
:[[Freudianism]]
:The [[Scientific]]-[[Technical]] World-Outlook
:The Imperative of Our Age

===The 20th Century Political Outlook===

:Introduction
:The Nature of [[Politics]]
:The War-Politics Symbiosis
:The Laws of [[Totality]] and [[Sovereignty]]
:The [[Pluralism (political philosophy)|Pluralistic]] State
:The Law of Constancy of Inter-Organismic Power
:The Law of Constancy of Intra-Organismic Power
:The Political Pluraverse
:[[League of Nations]]
:The Inner Aspect of the Law of Sovereignty
:Political Organisms and [[War]]
:The Law of  Political Plenum
:The Law of Protection and Obedience
:Internationale
:The Two Political Anthropologies
:[[Liberalism]]
:[[Democracy]]
:[[Communism]]
:Association and Dissociation of Forms of Thought and Action

===Cultural Vitalism===

====(A) Culture Health====

:Introduction
:The Articulation of a Culture
:[[Tradition]] and [[Genius]]
:Genius
:Genius and the Age of [[Absolutism|Absolute Politics]]
:[[Race (classification of human beings)|Race]], People, Nation, State
:Subjective Meaning of Race
:Horizontal Race v. Vertical Race
:Race and Policy
:People
:Nation
:Nation and History
:Nation and Rationalism
:Nation in the 20th Century
:State

===Cultural Vitalism===

====(B) Culture Pathology====

:[[Culture Pathology]]
:[[Culture Parasitism]]
:[[Culture Distortion]]
:Culture Retardation as a Form of Culture Distortion
:Culture Distortion Arising from Parasitic Activity

===America===

:Introduction
:The Origins of America
:The American Ideology
:The War of Secession 1861-1865
:The American Practice of Government
:The History of [[American Imperialism]]
:American Imperialism in the Age of Annihilation Wars
:The American Revolution of 1933
:World-Outlook
:The Negro in America
:Culture-Retardation in America
:[[Propaganda]]
:The Conduct of American Foreign Affairs from 1933
:The Future of America

===The World Situation===

:The Political World
:[[World War I|The First World War]]
:[[World War II|The Second World War]]
:[[Russia]]
:[[Japan]]
:America
:The Terror
:The Abyss
:Imperium
:Index

==Notes==
<small>{{Reflist|2}}</small>

==See also==
* ''[[The Proclamation of London]]''
* ''[[The Enemy of Europe]]''
* [[European Liberation Front]]
* ''[[Which Way Western Man?]]''
* [[Lineage of American fascist organizations and individuals]]

==External links==
* [http://www.librarything.com/work/322381/editions/ List of editions of ''Imperium'']
* [http://www.colchestercollection.com/titles/chunk/I/imperium/title-page.html Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics] by Francis Parker Yockey. A free ebook, available in HTML, PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats
* [http://willisacartolibrary.com/2017/04/24/introduction-to-imperium/ Introduction to ''Imperium''] Attributed to [[Willis Carto]] but actually written by [[Revilo Oliver]]
*[http://willisacartolibrary.com/2017/06/08/francis-parker-yockey-a-remembrance-of-the-author/ Anthony Gannon's first meeting with F. P. Yockey]

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