Metaphysics of Power by Julius Evola

Author:Julius Evola [Evola, Julius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics, Philosophy
ISBN: 9781914208096
Google: JM00zgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 57374469
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd
Published: 2021-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

3. The Meaning and Function of Monarchy

The book of K. Loewenstein offers to its reader a vision of the whole of the various forms of monarchy and of the possibilities which, according to this author, remain to a monarchical regime in the current epoch. Monarchy, as has been seen, is here not taken in the literal sense of the term (the governance of one alone, power concentrated in a single man), but rather is understood rightly in its traditional and most current sense, which is to say with reference to a King.

Loewenstein’s conclusions are rather pessimistic. If it is to exist in our days, monarchy must resign itself to being a shadow of what it once was. It could be conceived only in a democratic framework and, more precisely, in the form of a constitutional parliamentary monarchy. Apart from England, which constitutes a case all its own, the model offered by the monarchs of the smaller States of northern and western Europe — Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg — is that which one must keep before one’s eyes.

In the analysis of the scope of the various arguments adopted in favour of the monarchical regime, Loewenstein has sought to be objective, though he does not always succeed in this. A clear aversion to every principle of true authority is visible in his work, while an insufficient emphasis is placed on factors of an ethical or immaterial character. Now, we believe that if we are constrained to conceive of monarchy only in the aforementioned empty and democratic forms — which is moreover possible only because we are dealing here with small and marginal States, such as have not yet been sucked into the dynamism of the great forces of the epoch — we may as well give up the game as lost.

It must be recognised, on the other hand, that pessimistic conclusions regarding monarchy appear in large part justified, if one hypothesises the situation of the present world and holds that it is irreversible and destined to carry on indefinitely. This situation is defined by a general materialism, by the prevalence of base interests, by the egalitarian error, by the regime of the masses, by technocracy and by the so-called ‘consumer civilisation’. And the signs of a profound crisis in this world of well-being with its fictitious order begin even now to multiply. Various forms of revolt are already perceptible, for which reason the possibility cannot be excluded that we will arrive at a state of tension or a breaking point, and that, especially when faced with certain possible limit situations, tomorrow might come to reawaken various forms of sensibility, and reactions might emerge which are similar to those which might arise in an organism when it is mortally menaced in its deepest being.

The appearance of this new climate would be the decisive element, also as regards the problem of monarchy. In our opinion, this problem should be posited in the following terms: What meaning could monarchy have, if such a change in climate arises, and in what form

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