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Where are the right-wing writers?It's a common supposition on both left and right that everyone in the arts is aliberal, lefty, communist, or fellow traveller; at most there's one or twoexceptions writing from a conservative position. Thus, Tony Kushner in OnlyWe Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy has Laura Bush say:

The liberals may have nearly all the poets and painters and everybodyelse but WE have Dostoevsky and he obliterates the wholekitandkaboodle, we have Dostoevsky and so we win.

But is this the full story? For your consideration, I present the following.From libertarians to upper-class high-church snobs, with a smattering of one-nation tories, Nazi sympathisers, and the unprincipled rich, here's a list ofnotable novelists, poets, and a few other literary types of a rightist persuasion.

1. Kingsley Amis - despite early socialism, he moved rightwards throughhis life to become a curmudgeonly conservative

2. Martin Amis - in recent years has followed his father's path, with hisviews on Islam condemned by many left-wingers; also anti-communist, writing books about Stalin

3. Jeffrey Archer - popular novelist and former Conservative Party MP;also convicted perjurer

4. Honor de Balzac - royalist and chronicler of a society in decline5. Hilaire Belloc - the poet and writer, known for his verse for children,

was an admirer of fascism and especially Mussolini; he was a devoutCatholic and has been accused of anti-semitism

6. Saul Bellow - a youthful leftist he moved to the right, was culturallyconservative, opposing political correctness and multiculturalism

7. John Betjeman - a small-c conservative: an admirer of the Englishupper classes, a campaigner to preserve disappearing aspects ofEngland, scornful of mass culture, and a Catholic

8. William Peter Blatty - the Exorcist writer is a donor to the USRepublican party

9. Robert Brasillach - French novelist and journalist who collaboratedwith the Nazis

10. Rupert Brooke - upper-middle-class poet known for his patrioticWorld War One verse, although he also moved in liberal circles

11. John Buchan - the author of the 39 Steps was an MP for the UnionistParty in Scotland (which later merged with the Conservative Party), akeen imperialist, and has been accused of racism

12. Jorge Luis Borges - the Argentinian postmodernist was an admirer ofLatin American dictators, including Pinochet

13. William F. Buckley, Jr - writer, tv presenter, and occasional novelist,a leading intellectual of US Republicanism from the 1960s to the2000s

14. Roy Campbell - South African poet and Catholic, he moved to Spainin the 1930s and supported Franco (unlike most writers who went toSpain); turned against the Bloomsbury group after his wife had anaffair with Vita Sackville-West

15. Orson Scott Card - best known for science fiction novels such as



Ender's Game, he is also a pro-Republican commentator and aMormon

16. Thomas Carlyle - Scottish historian, satirist, and essayist whodistrusted democracy and modernity, and believed nations neededgreat men to lead them, writing an admiring biography of Frederickthe Great

17. Willa Cather - a novelist who was conservative both in aesthetics andpolitics

18. Louis-Ferdinand Cline - the modernist novelist was an anti-semiteand supporter of Vichy France

19. Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand - French royalist and a devoutCatholic

20. GK Chesterton - humorist and Christian apologist, converted toCatholicism; George Orwell accused him of writing "endless tiradesagainst Jews"

21. Agatha Christie - reactionary conservative who portrayed a bygoneEngland, her early books included various racial caricatures

22. Winston Churchill - winner of Nobel prize for literature for his non-fiction, and Conservative prime minister

23. EM Cioran - Romanian philosopher and essayist, a pupil and followerof far-right philosopher Nae Ionescu

24. Tom Clancy - popular spy novelist, has donated large amounts ofmoney to the US Republican party

25. Robin Cook - the thriller writer, not the deceased British Labourpolitician, is a Republican donor

26. James Fenimore Cooper - wrote widely on political matters,influenced by Jefferson, notably supporting the landowners in the NewYork Anti-Rent Wars in the 1840s and 50s

27. Patricia Cornwell - crime writer and Jack the Ripper enthusiast whohas made large donations to the US Republican party, despite being alesbian who has spoken out for equal rights

28. Noel Coward - naturally conservative, author of comedies about theupper middle classes, although he was an agnostic

29. Michael Crichton - climate-change denialist who satirised politicalcorrectness and accused liberal magazine editor Michael Crowley ofbeing a small-dicked paedophile

30. Ian Curteis - British writer whose play about the Falklands war wasallegedly a victim of censorship by the left-wing BBC

31. Robertson Davies - Canadian novelist with old-fashioned literarystyle and reactionary politics

32. Benjamin Disraeli - Conservative prime minister and novelist, thefather of moderate one-nation conservatism

33. Michael Dobbs - conservative politician and prolific novelist, bestknown for Francis Urquhart books

34. John Dos Passos - modernist novelist, initially a communist, hemoved all the way across the political spectrum to become an admirerof Joe McCarthy

35. Feodor Dostoyevsky - a reformer in his youth, he later moved to theright, seeking to defend the traditional Russian spirit

36. Mircea Eliade - Romanian fiction writer and philosopher of religion, afascist in the 1930s

37. TS Eliot - former banker, socially and politically conservative, also



accused of anti-semitism, said: "I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, aclassicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

38. James Ellroy - critically acclaimed crime novelist has expressed right-wing authoritarian viewpoints, e.g. defending the LAPD over theRodney King beating, but elsewhere claims this was justcontroversialist nonsense

39. William Faulkner - although a liberal in his attitudes to race, theSouthern US novelist is generally judged to be overall conservative

40. Julian Fellowes - a writer whose subject is the English upper classes,his Conservative politics are no great surprise, and he's often on listsof celebrity Tory supporters

41. Filli - Italian futurist writer and painter known for his religious art,had links with fascists

42. Frederick Forsyth - the British thriller writer has long been asupporter of the Conservative Party

43. George MacDonald Fraser - the author of the humorous Flashmannovels was a military man and a traditionalist in many areas of life,prominently campaigning against the metric system

44. Robert Frost - American poet of conservative political views whobecame a national treasure and spoke at Kennedy's inauguration; heplayed at being a farmer but earned his money from teaching

45. JW von Goethe - romantic conservative, admired the upper classes,and opposed the numerous revolutions of the late 18th/early 19thcenturies

46. Terry Goodkind - Ayn Rand-influenced sword and sorcery writer withenormous sales

47. Knut Hamsun - Norwegian Nobel laureate (Hunger) and later a Nazisympathiser

48. Robert Heinlein - right-wing libertarian militaristic writer of (mostly)intelligent science fiction

49. Herg - Belgian comic-book writer of conservative politics, accusedof racism and collaborating with the Nazis

50. Michel Houellebecq - anti-political correctness, anti-Islam, anti-women, for his admirers he offers a critique of modern liberalhumanism

51. Ted Hughes - misanthropic violence-loving nature poet who detestedmodern life and became poet laureate and friends with the QueenMother

52. JK Huysmans - in his early life, a writer of Zola-influencedliberalism, he dallied briefly with fin de siecle decadence butconverted to Catholicism and became a conservative

53. PD James - English crime novelist and a Conservative peer in theHouse of Lords

54. Antony Jay - Thatcherite writer of satirical sitcom Yes Minister55. Ernst Jnger - German writer who glorified the military following

World War I and opposed democracy56. Jack Kerouac - the beat novelist moved right in the 1960s, supporting

the Vietnam war, becoming friends with William F Buckley, andreturning to the Catholic faith he was raised in

57. Rudyard Kipling - poet of British patriotism and imperialism,defender of the British soldier

58. Dean Koontz - thriller writer and supporter of US Republican party



59. Philip Larkin - his posthumously-published letters revealed a racist,misogynistic, right-wing private man, while his poetry showed akindlier backward-looking conservatism

60. DH Lawrence - novelist and poet had liberal views early in his lifebut later moved towards fascism

61. CS Lewis - Christian apologist and a moderate conservative, thoughhe avoided political association and refused a CBE from Churchill

62. Wyndham Lewis - influenced by the Futurists, he was briefly asupporter of Hitler, and often anti-semitic

63. Liu Xiaobo - the Chinese writer, poet, and Nobel Peace Prize-winnerwas an admirer of George W Bush and a defender of Americanimperialism who criticised John Kerry for being insufficiently right-wing; also anti-Islam

64. Mario Vargas Llosa - once a supporter of Castro, he became a free-market centre-right politician, while defending human rights, and ranunsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru

65. Andr Malraux - the novelist, art historian and resistance fighterfought for the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, but in the1960s he served as Charles de Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs

66. Thomas Mann - a supporter of the Kaiser in his youth, he moved in aliberal direction during the Weimar republic

67. FT Marinetti - Italian proto-fascist poet, active as both an artistic andpolitical leader; he split with Mussolini because he felt the Fascistparty was too backward-looking

68. Allan Massie - Scottish conservative historical novelist and journalist69. HL Mencken - satirist who opposed the New Deal and hated Franklin

Roosevelt70. Stephenie Meyer - Mormon vampire novelist of conservative views71. Yukio Mishima - right-wing anti-democratic Japanese novelist and

playwright who attempted a military coup72. Marianne Moore - like many in Pound and Eliot's circles, she was

right-wing, a defender of American capitalism73. Iris Murdoch - a youthful communist and populariser of Sartre, she

seemed to move rightwards, and like Ayn Rand was a fan of strong-willed almost demonic men; her philosophy focused on topics such asmoral virtue; she opposed literary experimentalism, and demandedstriking miners be shot

74. Vladimir Nabokov - a conservative aesthete who fled Stalin's Russia75. VS Naipaul - Indo-Trinidadian Nobel laureate, conservative, accused

of disliking the third world and Muslims76. Flannery O'Connor - Catholic moralist who mocked the godlessness

of modern life in grotesque fiction77. Alexander Pope - conservative satirist78. PJ O'Rourke - satirist of right-wing sympathies79. John Osborne - angry young man who turned into a cantankerous old

man80. Luigi Pirandello - experimental playwright allied himself with

Mussolini, although his supporters claim it was purely from self-interest

81. Ezra Pound - sophisticated and erudite aesthete, accused of beingsympathetic to Mussolini in World War Two and imprisoned

82. Anthony Powell - his Dance to the Music of Time chronicled rich



English bohemians and he was an upper-class conservative83. Marcel Proust - upper-class aesthete, although homosexual, came

from a conservative background; he avoided politics and his politicalposition is contested

84. Ayn Rand - popular philosopher and author of very long novels,known for her defence of entrepreneurs and for championing reasonover emotions

85. John Crowe Ransom - conservative US Southerner, involved with theSouthern Agrarians (backward-looking pro-Confederate grouping) fora time

86. Tim Rice - the lyricist, writer, and TV personality has supported theConservative party for ages; he also does a lot of good work forcharity

87. Walter Scott - Scottish historical novelist of Tory sympathies, activein conservation but condemned by Mark Twain for romanticising warand chivalry; while pro-Jacobite and romantic about Scottish historyhe also defended the union with England

88. Moshe Shamir - Israeli novelist, playwright, and politician, movedfrom early socialism to right-wing Likud and Tehiya parties

89. Alexander Solzhenitsyn - the Soviet dissident had an understandablehatred of communism; on his arrival in the USA he allied himself withthe neo-conservatives who believed the Soviet Union was the gravestthreat to the USA's existence, and called for its destruction

90. Nicholas Sparks - the author of drippy romantic fantasies donated toRepublican senator Elizabeth Dole

91. Gertrude Stein - collaborated with Vichy France; claims that shecalled for Hitler to be given the Nobel Peace Prize were probably ajoke

92. Wallace Stevens - insurance company executive who wrote abtrusemodernist poetry

93. Tom Stoppard - playwright is generally reckoned to be slightly rightof centre despite his human rights work; an anti-communist long-associated with east European dissidents

94. Jonathan Swift - conservative, devout Anglican satirist, convertedfrom Whig to Tory

95. Allen Tate - American agrarian poet, who later became a RomanCatholic and a legendary womaniser

96. Alfred Lord Tennyson - the poet laureate was a traditional Englishgentleman who celebrated military virtue and the chivalrous middleages, but was more liberal on some causes - he refused a baronetcyfrom Disraeli and was agnostic

97. Hunter S Thompson - a libertarian and great believer in gun rights,although he hated most Republicans (despite a grudging respect forNixon)

98. JRR Tolkien - deeply conservative and strongly Catholic throughouthis life, he supported Franco in the Spanish civil war, although hehated Hitler for perverting northern-European myths and traditions

99. John Updike - novelist who wrote about suburbia with a conservativeviewpoint

100. Robert Penn Warren - poet, critic, and novelist (political satire All theKing's Men), who had links with the Southern Agrarians but movedleft and later became a father figure of American liberalism



101. Keith Waterhouse - the author of Billy Liar was a Daily Mailcolumnist for decades until his death

102. Evelyn Waugh - satirist of the British upper classes and author ofBrideshead Revisited, a right-wing Catholic

103. AN Wilson - British novelist, biographer, and newspaper columnistfor the right-wing press, of firmly Conservative views

104. PG Wodehouse - although he satirised British fascism in the 1930s,he did broadcasts from Nazi Germany in World War Two, and hasbeen condemned as a collaborator; certainly a small-c conservative

105. Tom Wolfe - satirist, journalist, and winner of the Literary Review'sBad Sex in Fiction Prize, an admirer of George W Bush and long-time Republican

106. William Wordsworth - a radical in his youth, he became moreconservative as he got older, repudiating his initial support for theFrench Revolution and eventually becoming a member of theestablishment

107. WB Yeats - Irish nationalist and mystic, a Nobel laureate for hispoetry, who became increasingly conservative and eccentric and evenflirted with fascism

Some suggestions from: Sans Everything, Ranker, WP, Bookslut, Iain Dale, BBC,

ChuckerCanuck, Daily Mail, LibraryThing.

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Arthur Seaton April 16, 2010 at 2:04 PM

An interesting list. Wouldn't argue with the great majority of this,though I would strongly contest Hunter S Thompson. While beingpro gun rights may often be seen as a "conservative" position inAmerica, Thompson's libertarianism was firmly of the left-anarchistvariety, as he frequently stated himself. The late Michael Foot madea strong case for Swift being a radical in his way.

Others you could have had - Radclyfe Hall (despite her lesbianismscandalising the establishment, a Tory and a Mussolini sympathiser)John Braine (with Amis and Osborne, another "angry young man"who turned sharply Right) and Samuel Coleridge (went Right withhis friend Worsworth.)

Note also, how a good few of the renegade writers:- Kingsley Amis,Saul Bellow wrote their best work before the Right-turn.

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Anonymous July 21, 2010 at 8:47 PM

Good starting point but you forgot lots of big names (some of thesestarted out on the left and then shifted to the right, while a smallhandul like Didion became more liberal)

Vittorio Alfieri



Jean AnouilhGiuseppe Gioachino BelliGottfried BennGeorges BernanosJorge Luis BorgesElizabeth BowenJohn BraineBasil BuntingAnthony BurgessLewis CarrollCamilo Jos CelaG.K. ChestertonJohn ClarePaul ClaudelJean CocteauJoseph ConradE.E. CummingsGabriele D'AnnunzioGuy DavenportGrazia DeleddaMiguel DelibesThomas De QuinceyJoan DidionDaphne du MaurierLawrence DurrellStefan GeorgeJean GiraudouxGeorge GissingJohann Wolfgang von GoetheNikolai GogolIvan GoncharovJeremias Gotthelf Henry GreenKnut HamsunNathaniel HawthorneGeoffrey HillHugo von HofmannsthalGerard Manley HopkinsZora Neale HurstonEugene IonescoRobinson JeffersHeinrich von KleistKarl KrausGiuseppe di LampedusaAlphonse de LamartineFrancois MauriacCormac McCarthyEduard Mrike NovalisFlann O'BrienJohn O'HaraKatherine Anne PorterJoseph RothCharles PeguyWalker PercyFernando PessoaSimon RavenSaki Robert Louis StevensonSigrid UndsetGuiseppe UngarettiGiovanni VergaAlfred de VignyEdith Wharton



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Anonymous June 28, 2011 at 3:18 PM

Baudelaire

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Anonymous September 5, 2011 at 4:27 AM

A contribution from Italy.

Jules-Amede Barbey d'AurevillyRiccardo BacchelliAntonio BaldiniRen BarjavelMaurice BarrsHenry Beam PiperJacinto BenaventeSem BenelliGiuseppe Berto Antoine Blondin Lon BloyPaul BourgetRay Bradbury (Republican and Bush fan)Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan creator)Dino Buzzati (Italian small-c conservative)

Rino CammilleriLuigi CapuanaVincenzo CardarelliJohn Dickson CarrRaymond ChandlerGiuseppe ConteEugenio CortiJames Gould Cozzens

Roald DahlMichel DonSalvatore Di GiacomoArthur Conan DoylePierre Drieu La Rochelle

Ramon Fernandez (French-Mexican author)Henry Fielding (Tory)Gustave FlaubertJohn Gould FletcherIan FlemingVince FlynnMichael F. FlynnAntonio FogazzaroTheodor FontaneHenry FurstCarlo Emilio Gadda (conservative-liberal and anti-fascit)Garet GarretJohn GayFausto GianfranceschiWilliam GiffordJean GionoNicolas Gomez DavilaNikolaj Gogol Franz GrillparzerGrimm brothers



Giovanni Guareschi

Fitz-Greene HalleckCarl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (the swedish D'Annunzio)Mary Higgins ClarkVintila HoriaA. E. HousmanT. E. Hulme

Henrik Ibsen Washington Irving

and more...

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More...

L. Frank Baum (author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",Republican and women's suffrage advocate)

Henry James (is often considered a conservative)Johannes V. JensenSamuel Johnson (XVIII century)Hanns Johst (nazi poet laureate)Marcel JouhandeauFriedrich Georg Jnger (poet and essayist, Ernst's brother)

Yasunari Kawabata (japanese Nobel prize in 1968)Ludwig KlagesAndrew KlavanErnst Kriek

Raphael A.LaffertyF.R. Leavis (British literary critic) Nikolaj LeskvEduard Limonov (national-bolshevik)Brad LinaweaverJohn Lukacs (historian)Andrew N. Lytle

Ramiro de MaetzuCurzio Malaparte (interested in communism only at the end of hislife)W.H. MallockDavid Mamet (previously liberal)Paolo Mantegazza (writer and moderate right-wing MP)Alessandro Manzoni (liberal-conservative and catholic author, oneof the most important authors in the italian literature)Charles MaurrasMichel-Georges MicberthFrdric MistralGabriela MistralEugenio Montale (liberal-conservative poet, Nobel laureate in 1975)Robert de Montesquieu-FezensacHenry de MontherlantVincenzo MontiPaul MorandLes A. Murray (australian poet)

Orsola NemiRoger Nimier



Larry Niven Giacomo Noventa

Patrick O'BrianBarna OcchiniAlfredo Oriani

Jacob Paludan (danish novelist)Alfredo PanziniGiovanni PapiniJos Maria PemanJacques PerretHenrik Pontoppidan (danish novelist; Nobel prize in 1917)Jerry PournelleSully Proudhomme

and more...

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And more...

Jane AustenMatthew ArnoldMassimo d'AzeglioCarlo AlianelloPoul AndersonLudwig von Arnim

Ann RadcliffeJean Raspail Franois RichardMary R. RinehartFrederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo

Ernst von SalomonRafael Sanchez MazasDorothy L. SayersCarlo SgorlonHenryk Sienkiewicz (Nobel prize in 1905)Daniel SilvaGeorges SimenonRobert SoutheyMickey SpillaneAlessandro Spina

William Makepeace ThackerayLudwig TieckFederigo TozziAnthony Trollope

Miguel de Unamuno

Paul ValryJack VanceS.S. Van DineJean de La VarendeTuri VasileGuido da VeronaPeter Viereck

Joseph A. Wambaugh



Morris L. West (australian novelist)Jozef WeyssenhofJuan Rodolfo Wilcock (in his late life he shifted to the conservativeright)Charles W.S. Williams (monarchist, member of the Inklings)Louis de WohlGiacomo ZanellaValentino Zeichen

I'm sure I missed a lot of names, but these are enough.

Bye bye from Italy.

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Ford Madox Ford; August von Kotzebue; Joseph von Eichendorff;Tommaso Landolfi; Aldo Palazzeschi;H.P. Lovecraft; MargaretOliphant; Sheridan Le Fanu; Charles Maturin; Arthur Machen;Jacques Laurent; John Gibson Lockhart; James Hogg (XIX cent.scottish poet); Martin Mosebach; Ernst Wiechert; Jos MariaSanchez-Silva; Mario de Sa Carneiro; Afonso Lopes Vieira; FranzWerfel; Alexander Lernet-Holenia; George Mackay Brown; EdwardBulwer-Lytton; Francisco Umbral (in the last years of his life);Elinor Glyn; Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau; Mark Helprin.

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Anonymous September 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM

No one has mentioned Nietzsche, Schopenhauer or Kierkegaardamong prominent right-leaning philosophers?

There was also a considerable Spanish literary right during the 20thcentury: Ernesto Gimenez Caballero, Gerardo Diego, Azorin,Dionisio Ridruejo, Vicente Risco, Luis Rosales, Manuel Machado,Ramn Gmez de la Serna, Jos Mara Gironella, Dmaso Alonso,Leopoldo Panero, Josep Pla, etc. Ramn Mara del Valle-Inclnduring his early Carlist phase as well.And Leopoldo Lugones over in Argentina.

Others that haven't been mentioned: Charlotte Bronte, Jules Verne,Henry Adams, Zygmunt Krasinski, Saunders Lewis, AugusteVilliers de l'Isle-Adam, Botho Strau, Adalbert Stifter, GiosueCarducci, Ardengo Soffici, Massimo Bontempelli, Lucien Rebatet,Erich Edwin Dwinger, Heimito von Doderer, David Jones, MaxBeerbohm, Isak Dinesen, Ivan Bunin, H.L. Mencken, Albert JayNock, Alphonse Daudet, Leon Daudet, Bertrand de Jouvenel, JacobBurckhardt, George Santayana, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Max Jacob,Enrico Corradini, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Benedetto Croce (right-liberal), Jose Ortega y Gasset (right-liberal),

Graham Greene was also conservative during his early years as well,when he wrote much of his best-known work, such as The Powerand the Glory.

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Also worth noting that a number of great composers were right-leaning: Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky,Schoenberg, Webern, Sibelius, etc.



In painting/architecture, there's also right-leaning titans like Degas,Dali, Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Edward Hopper, Balthus, Emil Nolde.Many talented Italian painters likewise cooperated with the Fascistregime which patronized them: Sironi, Carr, Morandi, Balla,Prampolini, Severini, Rho, Terragni, Depero, De Renzi, Maccari,even De Chirico got along fine with the regime.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacques Chardonne, Alphonse deChteaubriant, Henri Braud, Pedro Muoz Seca, Blas de Otero,Jos Zorrilla, Luis Felipe Vivanco.

Also some filmmakers like Carl Dreyer, John Ford, Howard Hawks,Leo McCarey, Jean-Pierre Melville, Paul Morrissey, MichaelPowell, Eric Rohmer, and Whit Stillman

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For more historical/political work, don't forget Hippolyte Taine,Justus Mser, Vilfredo Pareto, Martin Heidegger, Thierry Maulnier,Jos Antonio Maravall, Ramn de Campoamor, LeonardoCastellani, Jaime Balmes, Eugeni dOrs, Frdric le Play, JacquesBainville, Philip Rieff, early Jacques Maritain, Hugh Kenner, ArnoldGehlen, Othmar Spann, Max Hildebert Boehm, Joseph de Maistre,Louis de Bonald, Orestes Brownson, Paul Lautaud, Gustave LeBon, Konstantin Leontiev, Juan Donoso Cortes, Ren de La Tour duPin, Stanley Jaki, Friedrich Hielscher, Pierre Duhem, Antoine Blancde Saint-Bonnet, Denis de Rougemont, Philippe Aris, GaetanoMosca, Ernest Hello, Constantin Noica, Cyriel Verschaeve, PetreTutea, Max Scheler, Carl Schmitt, Edgar Julius Jung, Carl Jung,Armin Mohler, Louis Rougier, Franois Guizot, Gustave Thibon,Gerhard Ritter, Robert Michels, Marshall McLuhan, and LeszekKolakowski. Among others.

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And Julien Freund, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Angel Ganivet, andHans Freyer.

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Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Gaskell, Richard Sheridan, MurielSpark, Gottlob Frege, Andre Chenier, Edgar Allan Poe, MarcelinoMenndez y Pelayo, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, mile Keller,Dietrich von Hildebrand, Josef Pieper, Robert Nisbet, WilhelmRopke, Franois Coppe, Ignacio Agusti, Martin Walser, AbelBonnard, Saint-Loup, Jos Maria de Pereda, Jules Lemaitre, GnterEich, Charles Nodier.

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Moderate conservatives: Ernest Renan and Guillaume Apollinaire.

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Some more Fascist intellectuals: Giovanni Gentile, GioacchinoVolpe, Sergio Panunzio, A.O. Olivetti, Ugo Spirito, Alfredo Rocco...

In Germany, Werner Sombart was one of the theoreticians of "right-wing socialism."

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Oswald Spengler too.

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John Henry Newman, Brooks Adams, Malcolm Muggeridge,Nicolas Berdyaev, Vladimir Volkoff, Manuel Tamayo y Baus,arguably Tocqueville, later Schlegel, early Maurice Blanchot.

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I think the topic is about writers, anyway, among the movie directorsthere is a huge hole named David Lynch, while Blas de Otero was aleftist, Richard Sheridan a whig (but today probably we wouldconsider the XVIII century whigs as moderate right-wing, becausethey were for free-market and mostly against revolutionary ideas)and Adriano Olivetti was an irregular thinker.

I add the Dutch poet Willem Bilderdijk,the spaniards GustavoAdolfo Bcquer, and Francisco Navarro Villoslada, the RomanianPetre uea, Radu Gyr, Mircea Vulcanescu, Mihail Sebastian, theRussian Nikolaj Gumilv, Andrej Belyj, Michail Bulgakov,Ferdinand Ossendowski and Boris Pasternak.

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Alexander Pushkin too. Contrary to the legend built around him, hewas never more than a Constitutional Monarchist even during hismost "radical" period. He became more conservative after theDecembrist revolt.

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Isaac da Costa, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Abraham Capadose.

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In addition to Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, Hegel wasalso a conservative of sorts.

Wasn't Charles Ives rather conservative as well? He was aninsurance executive after all.

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Three of the most famous Impressionist painters were anti-dreyfusard, anti-semitic and reactionary: Degas, Czanne andRenoir.

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We've forgotten Bruce Chatwin and Richard Aldington, theaustralian 1973 Nobel prize winning Patrick White (who supportedthe conservative Liberal Party of Australia at least until the mid70's), the contemporary american historical novelist Elena MariaVidal, Barbara Cartland, one of the everytime bestsellers, and the"italian Ibsen" Enrico Annibale Butti, neglected in Italy.

Beyond every suspicion Latin America is a "reservoir" forconservative authors: let's consider the brazilian novelists NlsonRodrigues, Octavio de Faria, Cornlio Penna, Lcio Cardoso andGustavo Coro, the 'National Poet of Uruguay' Juan Zorrilla de SanMartn, Constancio C. Vigil and the colombian poet and politicianGuillermo Valencia.

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Pio Baroja: Spanish Nietzschean who opposed democracy,socialism, communism as well as Christianity. Also compiled anantisemitic book entitled Comunistas, Judos y demas ralea(Communists, Jews and other riff-raff).

Andre Gide: opposed socialism and sympathized with monarchismand the Action Francaise during the WW1 decade. Briefly flirtedwith Communism during the 1930s (which, unsurprisingly, getsmost of the attention from critics) but traveled to the USSR andcame back disillusioned. Published a book detailing the horrors ofthe Soviet Union which lead him being attacked and isolated by theleft. Initially welcome the "discipline" brought by the Germansduring the Occupation but gradually drifted towards a mutedresistance.

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Antoine de RivarolRamn Prez de Ayala (right-of-center liberal, supported Franco)Pierre Boutang

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The today forgotten rural poet Jos Mara Gabriel y Galn was avery conservative and Catholic spanish man.

Romania has a great tradition of right-wing writers, dramatists,critics and poets - who often were political thinkers and activists too-, not only during the period of the Iron Guard, but also in the XIXend the early XX century. Just consider Ion Luca Caragiale, MihaiEminescu, Ion Creang, Titu Maiorescu, Duiliu Zamfirescu amongthe authors involved with the literary society "Junimea" and themagazine "Smntorul".

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Mary Butts: overlooked British Modernist.

Adam Mller: conservative theorist and literary critic. Friends withpeople like Kleist.

Among filmmakers, Stanley Kubrick seemed to become moreconservative after moving to Britain.

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Werner BergengruenHans CarossaOtto FlakeRudolf HagelstangeReinhold SchneiderGertrud von Le FortJosef Weinheber

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Rudolf G. BindingJohannes BobrowskiArnolt BronnenHerbert EisenreichHanns Heinz EwersRudolf HenzFritz Hochwlder

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Akira Kurosawa was often considered a "reactionary" in Japanduring his time, but I don't know if he was comfortable with thatlabel. Some of his films do have a pronounced reactionary elementto them (Kagemusha).

David Lean was called the "consummate Tory director" by AndreBazin and was probably conservative in his personal life as well.

Andrzej Wajda's film Danton has clear counter-revolutionarysentiments. He has also made a film about the Katy massacre. I'mnot sure what his personal politics are.



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Kurosawa was a socialist in his youth but that might have waned byhis later years when he made Kagemusha.

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Emilio De Marchi - novelist, in 1898 wrote an essay about hisconservative ideas

Federico De Roberto - nationalist and pessimistic conservative, hepraised the rise of fascism

Francesco Mastriani - italian XIX century dramatist and popularauthor, first reactionary, then a compassionate conservative, not asocialist as his so-called "socialist trilogy" could lead to think

Salvatore Satta - Catholic, anti-fascist conservative, has been awriter and a jurist

Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo - sicilian dramatist, was fascistuntil the end, including the period of the RSI (Italian SocialRepublic)

Alberto Savinio - pen name of Andrea De Chirico, was the brotherof the famous painter Giorgio De Chirico, in his youth (WWI) hasbeen an aristocratic and anti-democratic nationalist, in the 30'stepidly espoused Fascism, until 1939, then turned to classicalliberalism with a strong streak of Europeanism

Guelfo Civinini - writer, famous for the "La Fanciulla del West"libretto, adhered to Fascism, but didn't agree with the race laws andthe Pact of Steel (1939)

Franco Alfano - composer, he supported Fascism

Gian Francesco Malipiero - italian composer, had a turbulentrelationship with Fascism

Giacomo Puccini - he has been an early supporter of Fascism, butsubstantially disinterested in politics

Alfredo Casella - one of the staunchest Fascism's supporters amongthe italian composers of that period

Ildebrando Pizzetti - composer, in 1925 subscribed the 'Manifesto ofthe Fascist Intellectuals'

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Consider also the 88 writers who signed the nazi "Gelbnis treuesterGefolgschaft" in 1933.Here's the Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel%C3%B6bnis_treuester_Gefolgschaf

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Anonymous October 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM

Here is a good bibliography of French Royalists:

http://www.mmisi.org/ma/39_03/beum.pdf

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Most of these have already been mentioned above, but here's a list ofSpaniards who supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_of_the_Spanish_Civil_W

* Ramiro de Maeztu, assassinated* Jos Mara Gironella* Dionisio Ridruejo* Ernesto Gimnez Caballero* Jos Mara Pemn* Gerardo Diego* Pedro Muoz Seca, assassinated* Josep Pla* Rafael Snchez Mazas* Juan March Ordinas* Pedro Lan Entralgo* Wenceslao Fernndez Flrez* Luis Rosales* Ramn Gmez de la Serna* Salvador Dal* Juan de la Cierva* Gonzalo Torrente Ballester* Jos Antonio Maravall* lvaro Cunqueiro* Ramn Serrano Ser* Po Baroja* Azorn* Leopoldo Panero* Ernesto Halffter* Concha Espina* Ramn Prez de Ayala* Eduardo Marquina* Pedro Sainz Rodrguez* Eugeni d'Ors* Jos Ortega y Gasset* Jacinto Benavente* Miguel Delibes* Camilo Jos Cela* Manuel Machado* Miguel de Unamuno, publicly recanted but privately stillsupported a Nationalist victory

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Anonymous October 7, 2011 at 12:29 PM

The prominent Spanish poet and critic Dmaso Alonso alsosupported Franco.

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A quick mention for some italian thinkers who somehow can beconsidered rightists, from centre to far-right: the literary or art criticsAlfredo Mezio, Rodolfo Quadrelli, Vittorio Cian, Mario Praz, UgoOjetti, Emanuele Samek Lodovici, Luca Beatrice, Vittorio Sgarbi,Corrado Ricci, Geno Pampaloni, the historians Rosario Romeo,Gioacchino Volpe, Marina Valensise and the libertarian GiordanoBruno Guerri, the essayists Marcello Veneziani and Giano Accame,the 'free' editor Vanni Scheiwiller, the scholar of oriental culturesGiuseppe Tucci, the conservative-liberal political scientists FilippoBurzio and Panfilo Gentile, the egyptologist Boris de Rachewiltz,the classicists Goffredo Coppola (who was executed with Mussoliniin 1945) and Ettore Paratore, the archaeologists Massimo Pallottino,Pericle Ducati and Biagio Pace, the movie directors Franco Zeffirelliand Gualtiero Jacopetti, the educators Augusto Alfani and ErnestoCodignola, the musician and musicologist Bruno Barilli, theconductor and composer Gino Marinuzzi, the composer PietroMascagni, the historian of religion Raffaele Pettazzoni, themathematician Salvatore Pincherle, the founder of endocrinologyNicola Pende, the inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the hub of thefascist culture, Giuseppe Bottai, and popular writers like LucianoZuccoli, Guido Milanesi, Alessandro De Stefani, Lucio d'Ambra,Ernesto Murolo, Ferdinando Martini, Fausto Maria Martini, VittorioG. Rossi, Luigi Barzini senior.

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Pietrangelo Buttafuoco novelist, essayist and journalist, self-describing as a filo-islamic fascist

Andrea G. Pinketts anti-conformist thriller author and journalist,he started his career writing on right-wing magazines and neverdenied to be a rightist

Alessandro Bonsanti he was a liberal-conservative novelist andpolitician for the PRI

Nantas Salvalaggio- conservative novelist and journalist

Giordano Tedoldi, Domenico Di Tullio and Gabriele Marconi arewriters close to the social right positions.

Massimiliano Parente and Davide Brullo are two contemporaryhighbrow writers who contribute to right-wing newspapers: the firstcan be considered a libertarian, the second, who is also a poet, seemsto be a 'romantic conservative'.

Ennio Flaiano, the writer mostly famous for his work with Fellini,was an irregular intellectual, a moderate liberal, often considered ananarcho-conservative liberal.

The philosopher Nicola Abbagnano and the novelist Piero Chiara(who was a freemason) held some offices for the anti-fascist, centre-right leaning PLI Italian Liberal Party.

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Julius Evola philosopher and esotericist



Adriano Tilgher anti-fascist liberal-conservative philosopher

Armando Plebe a marxist philosopher until the 70s, when shiftedto the harsh right, he's been a MP for MSI and DemocraziaNazionale

Anacleto Verrecchia anarcho-conservative philosopher

Vittorio Mathieu philosopher and moderate right-wing politician

Stefano Zecchi aesthetic philosopher, he supports Berlusconi'scentre-right

Augusto Del Noce Catholic philosopher

Quirino Principe traditionalist conservative musicologist

Piero Buscaroli far right-wing musicologist

Armando Torno moderate conservative philosopher and journalist

Andrea Emo very original nihilistic philosopher, he developed aunique thinking (not in politics only); was an aristocrat, supportedFascism, being disillusioned, and after the WWII, in 1953, stood forthe parliament with the right-wing party MSI, without being elected

Giuseppe Rensi philosopher, he moved from socialistic anddemocratic ideas to conservative, filo-fascistic positions, then,eventually, he became an anti-fascist in a curious reactionary way

Ugo Spirito actualist philosopher, he was in favour of integralcorporatism, so he's been considered as a left-wing fascist

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The great Rumanian writer Mateiu Caragiale, son of Ion LucaCaragiale, was also an aristocratic conservative.

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Auguste Rodin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were both Anti-Dreyfusards in addition to Degas, Czanne, Renoir, Valry, JulesVerne, and others. Toulouse-Lautrec also contributed illustrations toantisemitic journals. I don't know much about their politics beyondthat.

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The great French director Robert Bresson was a conservativeCatholic.

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Gunnar Gunnarsson, one of the greatest Icelandic authors from thelast century, was a highly conservative man and even leaned towards



Nazism during the 1930s. He had his home raided by Allied troopsafter WWII because it was believed Hitler had escaped and washiding there.

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French author Sibylle Aime Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquettide Mirabeau, known under the pseudonym GYP, was a prominentanti-Dreyfusard and right-wing anarchist.

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Anonymous November 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM

Florent Schmitt, considered one of the greatest composers during hislifetime, has seen his star wane since his death for his ardent supportof Fascism.

Many of the great conductors of that era -- Victor de Sabata, Herbertvon Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwngler, Willem Mengelberg -- werelikewise implicated to some extent through their Fascist or Naziconnections. Same for the composers Hans Pfitzner, Carl Off, GeirrTveitt, and the musical theorist Heinrich Schenker.

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Among the composers let me remember the francoist Joaqun Turina.

The famous italian violinist Uto Ughi is also a rightist.

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Anonymous November 5, 2011 at 7:35 AM

France:

Augustin-Louis Cauchy (famous mathematician, royalist in politics)A.D.G. (Alain Fournier, far-right hardboiled novelist)Marcel Aym Klber HaedensDaniel HalvyRoland LaudenbachRgine Pernoud (medievalist)Alain-Grard Slama (essayist)

Germany:

Carl Friedrich Gauss(mathematician and scientist)Annette von Droste-HlshoffDetlev von LiliencronErnst BertramRudolf BorchardtGustav FalkeFouquFriedrich Klopstock Christian Krner Christoph WielandGerd Gaiser



Felix Jacoby (classicist and philologist)Niklas Luhmann (sociologist)Rudolf PechelJosef Pieper (philosopher)Curt von Westernhagen

UK, USA and Canada:

the three Bront sisters, not Charlotte onlyFreya StarkAuberon Waugh (son of Evelyn, he's been a writer and a journalisttoo) Saunders Lewis (Welsh poet, writer and political activist)Andy McNab

Clive Cussler, Dale Brown, Brad Thor, Nelson DeMille, W.E.B.Griffin, Robin Cook and Stephen Coonts (thriller USA authors)Willard QuineRalph Adams Crams (USA architect)Andrew Wyeth (USA painter)

Robertson Davies (Canadian writer)Hugh Kenner (Canadian literary critic)Kenneth Minogue (Australian political scientist)

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Italy:

Arrigo Boito (in his mature age)Riccardo CarafaGirolamo Comi (hermetic poet)Arturo Onofri (metaphysician poet)Giovanni Comisso Bruno CorraMarcello GallianRoberto Gervaso (journalist and essayist)Guglielmo Giannini (Italian movie director, screenplayer, journalistand right/populist liberal politician) Francesco Meriano (futuristic poet and writer)Volt (futuristic writer and journalist)Ada Negri (poet)Michele Federico Sciacca, Balbino Giuliano, Francesco Orestano(philosophers)Guido Manacorda (the germanist and philologist, not the marxistliterary critic Giuliano)

Spain:

Salvador Bermudez de Castro (the XIX century poet)

Portugal:

Luis de Almeida Braga Jos Pequito RebeloAntnio SardinhaJos Hiplito RaposoMiguel Esteves Cardoso (living monarchist novelist and journalist) Raul LealAlberto MonsarazRamalho OrtigoSanta-Rita Pintor (futurist writer and painter)



Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (painter)

West and North Europe:

Gerd Honsik (Austrian contemporary poet and Holocaust denier)Konrad Lorenz (Austrian ethologist, 1973 Nobel Prize inPhysiology)Josef Weinheber (austrian poet, novelist and essayist)Friedrich Torberg (jewish austrian writer)Willem de Clerq (Dutch manager and poet)Carel Gerretson (Dutch historian, politician and, as GeertenGossaert, poet)Andreas Kinneging (Dutch philosopher)Wies Moens (Flemish poet and literary historian)Rolf Jacobsen (Norwegian modernist poet, liberal until the thirties,during the WW II became a member of the nazi Nasjonal Samling) Emil Nolde (danish painter)

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Russia:

Sergey Aksakov (father), Ivan and Konstantin Aksakov (Sergey'ssons)Apollon Grigoriev (Russian XIX century poet and literary critic)Nikolaj Strachov (philosopher and scholar)Fyodor Tyutchev (one of the three great russian romantic poets)

East Europe (except Hungary):

Mile Budak (Croatian novelist and politician)Jan ep (Catholic Czech writer and translator)Jakub Deml (Czech Catholic priest and novelist)Jaroslav Durych (Czech writer)Viktor Dyk (ultraconservative and fascist Czech poet)Panait Cerna (Romanian poet, philosopher, literary critic andtranslator)Eugen Lovinescu (Romanian writer and academic)Alexandru Vlahu (romanian writer and main editor of theconservative magazine Smntorul)Alois Jirsek (Czech writer)Jan Zahradnek (czech Catholic poet) Vclav Ren (czech poet and dramatist)Jovan Koseski (Slovene lawyer and poet)Lovro Toman (slovene poet)Milo Crnjanski (serbian novelist, socialist when young)Petar Njego (serbian-montenegrin XIX century prince and bishop,mostly famous as a poet)Stevan Sremac (serbain writer)Antanas Maceina (lithuanian philosopher)Bronys Raila (lithuanian poet)Karl Ristikivi (estonian historical novelist)

Latin America:

Gustavo Barroso (Brazilian far-right writer and politician)

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Drago Kalaji was a far-right wing serbian painter, writer andessayist.

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Hungary:

Gza Fja (some consider him as a right-wing populist, some aleftist)Ferenc Herczeg Gyula KrdySndor Mrai (anti-fascist and anti-communist conservative)Dezs SzabLrinc SzabMria Szab (1888 1982; back-to-the-soil conservativenovelist)Albert Wass (hungarian anti-semitic novelist from Transylvania)Jzsef Erdlyi Jnos Kodolnyi (writer, he was a leftist until the 30s, when shiftedto a third way, right-wing, not fascist thinking)Jzsef Nyr (writer, priest and politician, he went into exile in1944)Ccile TormayMikls SurnyiJnos Horvth and Pl Gyulai (conservative literary critics)Jen Rkosi (journalist, publicist and writer)Gyula Somogyvry (military novelist and right-wing politician)Bla Menczer (historian and journalist, he moved from revolutionarysocialism to counterrevolutionary conservatism)Pter Bndek (born in 1968, he's a conservative politicalphilosopher)

Lzsl Nmeth (the position of this novelist was more intricate, hewaved between right and left populism, inspired by the thought ofOswald Spengler)

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Few know that Edgar Allan Poe was aristocratic in politics.Charles A. Coulombe considers him as a "romantic conservative",like Poe's friend Washington Irving.The outstandind critic Van Wyck Brooks has written: > (quoted from Milton Meltzer, EdgarAllan Poe: a Biography, Twenty-first Century Books, 2003, page35).

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Alain De Benoist -- Nouvelle Droite theorist.



Olavo de Carvalho -- Brazilian conservative philosopher

Georges Dumzil -- French linguist and monarchist.

Henri Massis -- monarchist literary critic and essayist.

Rainer Maria Rilke -- praised Mussolini during the 1920s and calledfor a return to order.

Helmut Schelsky -- conservative sociologist.

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More French right-wingers:

Ren Benjamin

Jean Cau

Jacques Benoist-Mchin

Louis Pauwels

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Steve Sailer November 21, 2011 at 1:34 AM

Excellent list and comments.

You should add Edmund Burke, who was one of the greatestrhetoricians in the history of politics.

I see Samuel Johnson's name in the comments, but he definitelyshould be in the list.

Minor note: Updike was a Democrat by party affiliation, but anoutspokenly conservative one.

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Regarding the conservative bona fides of Zora Neale Hurston, theoutstanding African-American woman writer of the 20th Century, Idocumented them in National Review in 1995 in a review of hercollected works by the Library of America:

http://www.isteve.com/zora.htm

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Another interesting list would by right-wing gays. It would belengthy.

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Among screenwriters / television writers, certainly Mike Judge,creator of King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-Head, Office Space, andIdiocracy.

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Nabokov was a faithful subscriber to Buckley's "National Review."

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Anonymous December 8, 2011 at 8:45 PM

Some more conservative philosophers: Theodor Haecker, NicolaiHartmann, George Usctescu

Also the poets Horia Stamatu, Aron Cotru and Konrad Wei.

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Some conservative Russian philosophers: Vassily Rozanov, PitirimSorokin, Nikolay Strakhov

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The pro-Fascist French adventurer and writer Henry de Monfreid.

Also the Catholic writer Henry Bordeaux.

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The Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov is a Slavophile,nationalist, and supporter of Putin.

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Anonymous December 20, 2011 at 1:10 AM

Another great French rightist author: Jacques de Lacretelle.

Among filmmakers, Raoul Walsh was also conservative.

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Poet and Historian Robert Conquest.Film-maker Elia Kazan (who "named names" at the McCarthyenquiries).Author Pascal Bruckner.Czech playwright and politician Vaclav Havel.Philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand. And what about Roald Dahl? Wasn't he right-leaning?W.H. Auden started as a communist, then became a conservative



Anglican.You may as well include entire art and literature fashions andmovements as well, e.g the Parnassians, Symbolists, decadents anddandies. Then there's the Futurists, Wyndham-Lewis's Vorticists, thebest of the British Movement Poets. Also many late-Romanticcomposers of the 19th. century were ethnic-nationalists.

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In a documentary, interviewed by John Sylvester, the painter FrancisBacon declared himself as "on the Right".

Also the Australian painter Albert Tucker and Catholic anti-communist poet Douglas McAuley.

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Anonymous December 26, 2011 at 12:08 AM

John Ruskin declared himself a Tory in the mold of Walter Scott.

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The Swede Ornulf Tigerstedt was a fascist sympathizer.

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Anonymous January 2, 2012 at 4:07 AM

The Swedish-speaking Finn poet Bertel Gripenberg also was afascist upholder like Tigerstedt.The french hard-boiled novelist, surrealist in his youth, Lo Maletmoved from anarchism to arabophobia in the old age.At last I list Mario Morasso, a pre-futuristic essayist, theorist of the'egoarchia', and Juan Vzquez de Mella, a traditionalist conservativespanish writer and politician at the turn of the eighteenth andnineteenth century.

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Anonymous January 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM

The underrated Falangist writer Agustn de Fox.

The linguist and National Socialist sympathizer Jan de Vries.

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Anonymous January 10, 2012 at 11:38 AM

Don't forget the right-wing Brechtian filmmaker Hans-JrgenSyberberg.

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It's a long list. Here's a couple more Australians who qualify as



creative writers on the Right: Clive James and Barry Humphries.

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The contemporary Spanish novelist Antonio Burgos is aconservative and writes for ABC.

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Anonymous February 13, 2012 at 9:20 AM

The German conservative essayist Gerhard Nebel (friend of ErnstJnger).

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Anonymous March 6, 2012 at 3:13 AM

The reaganian political scientist James Quinn Wilson, formerly ademocrat, who is dead few days ago.

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Anonymous March 10, 2012 at 4:49 PM

Pierre-Simon BallancheFustel de CoulangesHugues RebellJean des ValliresRobert PouletPaul SrantLouis SalleronRaymond RuyerJules MonnerotDominique de RouxRaoul GirardetMichel Mourlet

Friedrich Carl von SavignyLeopold von Ranke

Manuel GlvezHugo Wast

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Renaud CamusAndr FraigneauPierre GripariValery LarbaudFlicien MarceauMichel MohrtHenry MontaiguPhilippe MurayFranois Nourissier Jean SvilliaPol Vandromme

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The TV author and producer (Carnivl, Spartacus: Blood and Sand)Daniel Knauf came out as a conservative in a tweet on AndrewBreibart's death.

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American faux conservatives sure pale in comparison to theirEuropean counterparts.

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Louis Veuillot, the great Catholic ultramontanist.

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Jean de FabrguesJean-Pierre Maxence

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Amity Shaes

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Please don't bother listing poseurs like Amity Schlaes.

Some noteworthy Spanish conservative writers:

Pedro Antonio de AlarcnFernn CaballeroLuis ColomaArmando Palacio ValdsJuan Valera y Alcal-Galiano

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Albert de MunPierre LasserreLouis DimierJean ParvulescoJean Mabire

Georg QuabbeHans BognerAugust WinnigGnter RohrmoserGerd-Klaus KaltenbrunnerGnter Maschke



Karlheinz Weimann

Carlo Costamagna

Eugenio MontesGonzalo Fernndez de la Mora

Nikolai Karamzin

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Dominique Venner

Lev TikhomirovIvan Ilyin

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Georges Valois shifted from royalist to fascist to a sort of libertariancorporatism.

Another Hungarian right-wing populist author was ron Tamsi.

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Anonymous April 1, 2012 at 11:19 PM

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Anonymous April 2, 2012 at 12:42 AM

Some more fascista theorists:

Agostino LanzilloCamillo PellizziBerto Ricci

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Marcel De Corte, Belgian philosopher

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Raymond Abellio

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Ricardo Rojas, the conservative Argentine nationalist.

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The contemporary Catholic traditionalist writer Juan Manuel dePrada.

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The Spanish philosopher Antonio Tovar.

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The Catalan poet Joan Maragall.

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Joan Estelrich was also a conservative Catalan writer and supporterof Franco during the Civil War.

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Antonio Aparisi Guijarro was an influential Carlist thinker.

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A great semi-forgotten Catholic novelist from Spain: Ricardo Leny Romn

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Pierre Gaxotte, the monarchist historian.

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Anonymous May 7, 2012 at 11:56 AM

Thomas MolnarRoger ScrutonKarl Ludwig von Haller



Konstantin Pobedonostsev

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Anonymous May 8, 2012 at 4:47 PM

Denis Tillinac and Jean d'Ormesson are two contemporary Frenchwriters that vote for the conservatives.

Also to be mentioned is the traditionalist Ren Gunon.

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Jos Luis Arrese, one of the main theoreticians of Spanish nationalsyndicalism.

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Nicomedes Pastor Daz

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Franz Xaver von Baader, the Catholic philosopher and mystic.

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The Catalan novelist Lorenzo Villalonga supported Franco and hasbeen unjustly ignored as a result.

Some others:

Edgar NevilleJulio CambaEnrique Jardiel PoncelaMiguel Mihura

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Giovanni Boine, a proto-fascist poet and essayist.

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Anonymous June 3, 2012 at 12:57 AM

Petre P. CarpIoan C. FilittiVasile PogorAlexandru D. Xenopol

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Ioan Slavici

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George CobucNicolae IorgaAlexandru Vlahu

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I really love the " oh, and they hated Jews" remarks in thedescriptions of some of the luminaries in your list. Really, take sometime to compile a list of notable left-wing artists from the 19th &early 20th century, and see if you don't uncover some anti-Semites.

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Anonymous August 6, 2012 at 2:43 AM

Miguel Serrano, chilean diplomat, esotericist and writer

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I see racialist losers have stumbled upon this place. Can't wait forsomeone to mention Savitri Devi. Oops, well there it is.

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What definition of Conservative is the standard for this site?

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A writer, an artist or a thinker in general (man or woman) whodescribes himself (herself) as a conservative, writes on conservativesnewspapers and magazines, runs for elections for a conservativeparty.Then there are reactionaries, fascists, conservative-liberals, centre-rightists ecc.

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Anonymous August 29, 2012 at 4:52 PM

"What definition of Conservative is the standard for this site?"

In general, not the American one.

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Great effort, but let down by conforming with the nonsense that theNSDAP or Italian fascists were of the right. They had socialistprogrammes, were formed by socialists, described themselves bysocialists, implemented progressive obsessions of the precedingdecades and were actively supported by western socialists (asopposed to the lesser of two evil support they got from someconservatives as a bulwark against bolshevism).

Meanwhile, they were anti-conservative, anti-capitalist, anti-clerical, anti-individual and pro collectivism. They fought sectarianwars with other leftists for the same audience (Hitler explicitly saysas much).

These movements used race and nation rather than class as themeans for establishing the them and us dynamic upon which appliedsocialism always depends - that is their only novelty and departure.

Finally, today's democratic left wing programme owes far more toMussolini than Lenin (say).

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Looks like we have an Ameritard in the last comment. You mightwant to read some of the names above so that you'll realize thatmany right-wingers prior to WWII were anti-capitalist and anti-individualist, capitalism and individualism being key elements ofclassical liberalism, which they opposed in addition to the radicalleft. There are right-wing forms of socialism which have little to dowith Marxist socialism, and fascism fits within the former tradition.And many European conservatives did enthusiastically supportfascist regimes.

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Not american; read your own comment without prejudice. What youare described are strands of left wing thought. Try and find a preWW2 designation of Italian fascism as right wing.

What are right wing forms of socialism? What defines them as rightwing? You are putting your emphasis in the wrong place. Anydefinition that puts fascism on the far right puts Rand, Freidman,Hayek, Von Mises on the far left. Does that make sense? I think not.

Fascism was an evolution of radical socialism evolved by radicalsocialists, a formally nationalist version distinguished from formallyinternationalist but in practice often highly nationalist rivals. It'sdevelopments around a corporatist model have bequeathed more totoday's centre left than Marxim Leninism has.

The intellectual somersaults required to put fascism on the left are soimprobable they could surely only happen in the context they do;sectarian argument.

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Here is Mussolini himself:



"Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe thatthis is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', aFascist century." -- The Doctrine of Fascism

Retard, I suggest you read the works of Enrico Corradini, AlfredoOriani, Giuseppe Bottai, Charles Maurras, Maurice Barres, ArthurMoeller van den Bruck, Oswald Spengler, and Othmar Spann amongothers if you want to find out what right-wing forms of socialismlook like. Nor was this a unique development. The European righthas traditionally been hostile to capitalism. You might want to checkout what right-wingers like Louis de Bonald, Antoine de Rivarol,Adam Mller, Frdric le Play, Albert de Mun, Ren de La Tour duPin, Ramiro de Maeztu, among many others, had to say about yourprecious capitalism. All of these people were considered on the rightduring their lifetimes. You don't have a fucking clue.

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Also worth pointing out that von Mises, Hayek, and Friedman allopenly identified themselves as *classical liberals*. Odd examplesof right-wingers. Classical liberalism might pass for the "right" inthe Anglophone world, but anyone who knows a little history knowsthat often wasn't the case in continental Europe prior to WWII.

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Drieu October 23, 2012 at 8:35 PM

As the person who posted most of the non-Italian anonymous postsabove, now might be a good time to collate the names into a singlelist. I know I probably missed a bunch, but this is a start. Sortedaccording to language:

French:Raymond AbellioGuillaume ApollinairePhilippe ArisMarc AugierMarcel AymJacques BainvillePierre-Simon BallancheHonor de BalzacJules Barbey d'AurevillyMaurice BardcheMaurice BarrsCharles BaudelaireRen BenjaminAlain de BenoistJacques Benoist-MchinHenri BraudGeorges BernanosAntoine Blanc de Saint-BonnetAntoine BlondinLon BloyLouis de BonaldAbel BonnardPaul BourgetPierre BoutangRobert Brasillach



Renaud CamusJean CauLouis-Ferdinand ClineJacques ChardonneFranois-Ren de ChateaubriandAlphonse de ChteaubriantPaul ClaudelJean CocteauLon DaudetMarcel De CorteMichel DonPaul DrouldeLouis DimierPierre Drieu La RochelleGeorges DumzilJean de FabrguesAndr FraigneauJulien FreundDenis Fustel de CoulangesPierre GaxotteJean GionoRaoul GirardetJean GiraudouxArthur de GobineauPierre GripariRen GunonKlber HaedensDaniel HalvyErnest HelloMichel HouellebecqJoris-Karl HuysmansMax JacobMarcel JouhandeauBertrand de Jouvenelmile KellerJacques de LacretellePierre LasserreRen de La Tour du PinJacques LaurentJean de La VarendeGustave Le BonJules LematreFrdric Le PlayJean MabireJoseph de MaistreFlicien MarceauJacques MaritainHenri MassisThierry MaulnierFranois MauriacCharles MaurrasJean-Pierre MaxenceMichel-Georges MicberthFrdric MistralJules MonnerotHenry de MontherlantPaul MorandMichel MourletAlbert de MunRoger NimierCharles NodierFranois NourissierJean d'OrmessonJean ParvulescoLouis Pauwels



Charles PguyJacques PerretFranois PerrouxRobert PouletJean RaspailLucien RebatetHugues RebellErnest RenanFranois RichardAntoine de RivarolLouis RougierDominique de RouxLouis SalleronPaul SrantJean SvilliaAlain-Grard SlamaHippolyte TaineGustave ThibonDenis TillinacAlexis de TocquevilleGeorges Vacher de LapougePaul ValryJean des ValliresGeorges ValoisPol VandrommeDominique VennerJules VerneLouis VeuillotAlfred de VignyAuguste Villiers de L'Isle-AdamVladimir Volkoff

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Rob Davies May 2, 2013 at 12:16 PM

A worthy addition to your interesting list would be: HenryWilliamson, author of the prize-winning classic Tarka the Otter - aFascist, supporter of Hitler and member of Sir Oswald Mosley'sBritish Union of Fascists before the war.

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I love this site...probably not for the reason it was created, butnevertheless it helped me a lot. I was looking for some authors thatdo not include their liberal/progressive/communist propaganda intheir writing and now I have a place to start.

I don't agree with the name-calling and downright idiotic blurbs, butif the lefties hate them, those are the ones I'm going to read. Thanks!

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You are a leftist provocateur, aren't you?

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bein' an anti-semite or facist or misogynist or racist or nihilist HASNOTHING TO DO with catholicism or conservatism, you all --marons

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kind of breathtaking ignorance - consider NAZI leftists("NA"tionalso"ZI"alismus - got it?) - Marx followers, for yearsStalin-buddies, enemies of the family, human life/dignity, religion,private property with "god"-Leader as a right-wing role models.....and putting them to the same sack with all those other goodmen.... -the stupidity, clearly, has no limits

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Anonymous August 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM

Alexander Dugin: Russian Political Theorist and advisor to putinBill Hopkins: An 'angry young man

American old right

Albert Jay Nock, Rose Wilder Lane, Garet Garrett,Raymond Moley,and Walter LippmannRobert Frost, Zora Neale Hurston, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos,Frank Chodorov, Isabel Paterson, Ayn Rand, Louis Bromfield,Leonard Read, Francis Neilson, Felix Morley,

Southern Agrarians, notably Frank Lawrence Owsley, John CroweRansom, Donald Davidson and William Faulkner.

H.P Lovcraft

Robert E Howard

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Iain Robb March 29, 2015 at 4:02 PM

All of those associated with fascist sympathies above were stringentanti-capitalists. Fascism was a socialist ideology with only minimalfree market pretensions. Ezra Pound was a classic example of this.But it is indeed true that Left Wing poetry is only in the ascendencynow because of Left monopoly of the industry and its consequentnepotistic bias and agenda of antimeritocracy and affirmative action.Most Left Wing poets are terrible. They pretty much always havebeen.

Frank Herbert belongs on the list as well, and Robert Heinlein if no-one's mentioned him. Both were non socialist libertarians.

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A note about Leszek Kolakowski and Andrzej Wajda from Poland.They are anti-communist but definitely not right-wingers. They aresocial-liberals or liberal left although Kolakowski has great respectfor Christianity.

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If living in the modern age, Dante Alighieri and WilliamShakespeare would belong here. Shakespeare was a royalist, andDante opposed the conjunction of church and state on grounds thatmodern social theorists would consider anti-collectivist. Hisreligious models were surprisingly libertarian. I think it wasAugustine who said that 'sin committed in the name of learningabout morality is not a sin.' Something like that anyway. In otherwords, morality is worthless if people only act according to themandates of the State.

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Actually, in emendation of the latter point, it was Thomas Aquinaswho said that, though I don't remember the exact point, who asidefrom that made such points as, "Man cannot live without joy;therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessarythat he become addicted to carnal pleasures", and also "Because ofthe diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts arevirtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, whilethe same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them" andmade other arguments in favour of artistic meritocracy. In otherwords genuine liberalism has never been a product of statist anti-democracies, and a number of people believed now to have beenLeft leaning on account of the false equation of the Left withliberality have actually been centrists or centre Right.

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Some people of culture from Poland (modern times):

- Boguslaw Wolniewicz (philosopher, translator of Wittgenstein'sworks)- Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz (expert in Romanticism and poet)- Wojciech Cejrowski (traveller and writer)- Rafal Ziemkiewicz (sci-fi writer and journalist)- Marcin Wolski (sci-fi writer)- Bronislaw Wildstein (journalist and writer)- Ryszard Legutko (philosopher, translator of Plato)- Szczepan Twardoch (for some time, writer)- Jakub Kijuc (comic book writer and artist)- Tadek (patriotic rap singer)- Ptaku (nationalist rap singer)- Pawel Kukiz (musician and singer)- Kazik Staszewski (musician and singer)

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and some big names from Polish history:

- Zygmunt Krasinski (poet)- Henryk Sienkiewicz (writer, Nobel Prize)- Ignacy Jan Paderewski (composer)- Roman Dmowski (father of Polish nationalism, diplomatist andwriter)- Ferdynand Ossendowski (traveler, writer)- Zofia Kossak (catholic writer)- Stefan Kisielewski (writer)- Jozef Mackiewicz (writer)- Jan Stachniuk (the only Polish ideologist of pagan nationalism)- Stanislaw Szukalski (artist)

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from today's Italy:

- Gianfranco de Turris (philosopher and fantasy writer, traditionalistfrom so-called "Tolkienic Right")

from USA:

- Harold Covington (writer, white nationalist - white separatist)- Gregory Kay (writer, Southern nationalist)- Matthew Bracken (writer)- Mark Goodwin (Christian writer)

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Iain Robb April 1, 2015 at 2:34 AM

Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Philip K Dick.

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The Polish list needs a supplement:

- Feliks Koneczny (philosopher, historian, theorist of civilization)- Marek Hasko (writer, a communist in the beginning, then devotedanti-communist, wanted to join American army to fight in theVietnam war)- Zbigniew Herbert (poet)- Adolf Nowaczynski (writer)- Adam Wielomski (political science)- Jacek Bartyzel (political science)- Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (political science)- Andrzej Zybertowicz (sociologist)- Waldemar Lysiak (writer, historian)- Mieczyslaw Albert Krapiec (Catholic philosopher, tomist)

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Someone also suggested:

- Pawe Wodkowic (15th Century, philosopher and theorist of law)

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