Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) and the spiritual and racial foundations of the nationalist Internationale under the auspices of Moscow

Abstract

Francis Parker Yockey (1917-1960) was an American fascist activist who located his political sympathies in the Stalinist Soviet Union after the collapse of the Axis States. A critical discourse analysis of the works of the American author will provide answers to a number of questions about the relationship between the extreme right with racist connotations and the Soviet Union. The article explains how the Nazi sympathiser transfers his sympathies to communist countries and the arguments he uses to convince other extreme right circles in the US and Europe to his cause. The methodology used to analyse the work of the American fascist is that of the New Historicism. The work of a political activist will be placed in the context of the era, juxtaposed with the activities of other fascist politicians.  According to the American, democratic Anglo-Saxon countries came under the pernicious influence of 'cultural parasites' which would soon lead to their downfall. At the same time, Yockey acknowledged that the anti-Semitic USSR was becoming a state free of the pernicious influence of Jews and embodied heroic ideals close to fascists, Nazis or even traditionalists. In order to save the wider West, it is necessary to unite Europe under the aegis of a conservative, anti-capitalist nationalist regime, which he believes was slowly being born in Moscow.  The article attempts to analyse the American's views as a whole, and juxtaposes his journalism with the writings of authors, politicians and thinkers (e.g. O. Spengler, O. Mosley) who had a particular influence on his work, and from whom he clearly differed.