This week on The Orthodox Nationalist, Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson deals with what he calls “the most significant event in world history since the fall of the USSR” — the rise of the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Collectively called New Russia, this is the highly industrialized region of Ukraine that took…
Matthew Raphael Johnson Johnstown, PA Ukrainian nationalism has been one of the most heartbreaking failures of recent decades. Twice, Ukrainian nationalist have been fooled into believing the west was their champion. In 2004 and again in 2014, western financed violence and riots brought in governments that were nothing more than collection agencies for western capital.…
After many, many requests, Matthew Raphael Johnson has finally done a podcast on the Iron Guard, the political vehicle for the ideas of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899-1938) in interwar Romania. Primarily, it is about the ideology of the movement and its policies during the brief reign of the “Legionary Government” in 1940. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/29/items/TON100416/TON%20100416.mp3 Romania presents special…
Sven Longshanks is joined by Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson to talk about the recent outcome of the spiritual trial that was convened against him by his former synod. The Church hierarchy had accused him of not showing enough respect to obscure heresies that were not even accepted by the general Church at the time, as…
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson contrasts the nationalist philosophy of Martin Heidegger with the unnatural oppression that is Marxism. Socialism is not the domain of Marxism and it is not even a very good example of the school. Capital is a revolutionary force and always has been. https://ia801503.us.archive.org/8/items/TON082316/TON%20082316.mp3 Martin Heidegger is not accessible to the average…
“Hell is an Eternal Platitude” was a memorable line from the great poet Feodor Sologub. As one of the Symbolists, his mission was to expose the absurdity of modern life and the mass society it created. It pours contempt on conventional morals and urban, alienated ideas that serve the debased elite only. Valery Bryusov is…
A trial has been set by a faction of the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas. The defendant is Matthew Raphael Johnson, suddenly deemed too far right for this tiny synod’s image. The promoter of this purge is Bishop Joseph (Royer) of Canada, a new bishop received into the church just two years ago. Up…
In the 1990s, the “voice of Russian nationalism” was Vladimir Zhirinovsky. I was not the first to notice that his antics and incoherence was working in favor of Yeltsin. His real name is Edelstein. The consummate showman, he would appear whenever Yeltsin was in trouble or the opposition against him in the west grew. He would…
St. Valentin Sventsitsky (killed 1928, pictured below) and Andrei of Ufa (killed 1937), were both New Martyrs for Christian Nationalism and Anarchism in the USSR. They come from a long tradition of what can be called “National-Anarchism.” They were unique in Russia in that they were right-wing clergy that saw the revolution as an opportunity;…
Matthew Raphael Johnson Johnstown, PA I. The Reformation, whether in England or Germany, is a well traveled topic. The impact of both movements have been immense and global in scope. This paper will deal with the beginning (and causes) of the reformation in England, including the infamous declaration of “independence” by Henry VIII, the most…