Julius Evola

Italian philosopher and esotericist (1898-1974)

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Lived 1898–1974, aged 76Italy

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1898–1974
Aged 76

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Updated 2026-06-21

A philosopher who called himself "superfascist," wrote the racial doctrine for Mussolini's Italy, and worked for the SS — then spent three decades paralysed in Rome, still writing, still shaping the post-war radical right from a wheelchair.

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Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born in Rome on 19 May 1898, served as an artillery officer in the First World War, and briefly moved through Dada before abandoning painting in his twenties — he later said he'd considered suicide until a Buddhist text pulled him back. Through the 1920s he built a system he called "magical idealism," blending German philosophy, Eastern mysticism, and the belief that mankind had fallen into the Kali Yuga, a dark age only reversible through aristocratic Tradition: hierarchy, obedience, order, no God. He became the leading architect of Italy's racial laws, worked f…

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Julius Evola

said1958

We cannot ask ourselves whether ‘woman’ is superior or inferior to ‘man’ any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire.

— Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex (1958)

Julius Evola

said1953

The occult war is a battle that is waged imperceptibly by the forces of global subversion, with means and in circumstances ignored by current historiography.

— Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist (1953) [2002 ed.]

Julius Evola

said1953

As a social bond, now one does not find even a faith of the warrior kind, that is, relationships of loyalty and honour.

— p. 34

Julius Evola

said1945

The Americans' "open-mindedness", which is sometimes cited in their favor, is the other side of their interior formlessness. The same goes for their "individualism".

— American "Civilization" (1945) · Excerpts

Julius Evola

said1945

There is a necessary correspondence between the most advanced stages of a historical cycle and the most primitive. America is the final stage of modern Europe.

— "The Young American Nation"

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