Tomislav Sunic
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Tomislav Sunić is a Croatia
n-American
writer, translator, professor and a former diplomat. He is best known for his books and writings critical of egalitarianism, biblical monotheism, and liberal political discourse. He serves as one of the Directors of the American Third Position, a political party considered to be favorable to white separatism and critical of immigration.
, Croatia
, in 1953. His father, the Catholic attorney Mirko Sunic (1915–2008), was between 1984–1988 a prisoner of conscience in Communist Yugoslavia (wherefrom he was adopted by Amnesty International and 15 US congressmen in 1985), and was in 1996 author of the book Moji inkriminirani zapisi. He studied French and English Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb
until 1978. From 1980 to 1982 he worked in Algeria as an interpreter for the Yugoslav, Croatian construction company Ingra. He immigrated to the USA where he first received a Master's degree at California State University
, Sacramento
in 1985. He received a doctorate in political science
in 1988 from the University of California, Santa Barbara
. During his graduate studies in America he was lobbying for Croatian political prisoners in ex-Communist Yugoslavia and also wrote for the émigré Croat London-based biweekly Nova Hrvatska and the Madrid-based Croat literary quarterly Hrvatska Revija
(Revista Croata). From 1988 until 1993, he taught at California State University, the University of California
, and Juniata College
in Pennsylvania. From 1993 until 2001, he served in various diplomatic positions with the Croatian government in Zagreb, London, Copenhagen, and Brussels. He has also taught at the Anglo-American College
in Prague and currently resides in Zagreb, where he continues to work as a freelance writer, for example as a contributor on political semiotics and the spirit of communist totalitarianism to the French quarterly Catholica.
, who wrote a preface to Sunic’s book and whose articles Sunic often translates into English.Sunic has widely written, translated and lectured on many authors, novelists and political thinkers who can be called the predecessors of the European New Right (Southern agrarians, Emile Cioran, Ernst Jünger. Louis F. Céline, A. Schopenhauer, Ludwig F. Clauss), and who can be described as antidemocratic, populist, elitist and racialist thinkers The European Nouvelle Droite
, is a name for various forms of conservative, right-wing, or dissident cultural movements and political groupings which emerged in opposition to the liberal and leftist academic milieu of the mid- to late-twentieth century. GRECE was created in January 1968 by forty anti-liberal theoreticians and French academics. Liberal-leftis critics have argued that De Benoist has developed a novel cultural fascism and have depicted the advocates of his school of thought as “literary fascists."
Professor Kevin B. Macdonald
, an evolutionary psychologist at the California State University, Long Beach, a prominent far-right intellectual, who has been characterized as "The Marx of the Anti-Semites", wrote an introduction to Sunic’s book Homo Americanus, a book which deals extensively with the Judeo-Christian mindset and its secular modalities in the USA. The introduction says that he "addresses the modern world of hyper-liberalism, globalist capitalism and the crisis of our inherited Indo-European
civilization." Sunic is critical of Judeo-Christian monotheism to which he attributes the rise of communism and liberalism. He is also critical of post-World War II legislative changes in Europe, favoring non-white immigration and restrictions on freedom of speech. Sunic calls "Christian anti-Semitism” an apostasy and a form of Christian neurosis" [10]
Dr. Sunic has never denied the Holocaust although he has attended and spoken at some conferences organized and attended by historical revisionists. In August 2003, he lectured in German, alongside the far-rightist ex-lawyer Horst Mahler, currently serving a prison sentence in Germany for Holocaust denial, at a conference sponsored by Germany’s nationalist rightwing party, the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD
). He lectured on Carl Schmitt, a prominent German legal scholar, quite influential in National-Socialist Germany. Sunic's articles have been published in a variety of American, French, German and Croatian journals, including the now defunct Journal of Historical Review.
While his controversial perspectives on race and Judeo-Christian monotheism have gained influence (both from supporters on the far-right and critics on the left), he has also spoken and written on a variety of philosophical and religious topics. His articles and letters on Yugoslavia have appeared in a variety of mainstream publications, including Le Monde, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Times, The New York Times, The New York City Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, London's The Evening Standard, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others.
Dr. Sunic spoke at the French Senate on 15 January 2007, during a conference entitled "Nationalismes et religions dans les Balkans occidentaux" (Nationalisms and Religions in the Western Balkans), sponsored by the Fondation Robert Schuman. The topic of his talk was "Facteur nationaliste et facteur religieux dans les tensions actuelles" ("The Nationalist and Religious Factor in the Present Tensions"). Other speakers included Michel Barnier (former French Minister of Foreign Affairs), General David Leakey (former Commander of EUFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina), Doris Pack (President of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with countries of South-Eastern Europe), and Nicolas Petrovich Njegosh (Prince of Montenegro).
Sunić also spoke at the March 2007 Los Angeles meeting of the Institute for Historical Review
. The topic of Dr Sunić's speech was the semantic distortions surrounding the expression "hate speech". Dr Sunic traced the lexical manipulations embedded in the German, and French criminal code. His main argument was that the “liberal system, by using 'soft narratives' and 'sentimental normative locutions,' is no less dangerous than the violence and vulgarity of communist double-speak. It is less transparent and therefore it better deceives the masses.”
His recent conference tour was with Dr Kevin MacDonald in June 2011, in Sweden, where they both talked about the topic “Individualism and Nationalism in the Modern Multicultural Society”.He spoke at the "Forgotten Genocide" International Conference, held in St. Louis Community College, on the topic of "The Fate of the Danube Germans in Yugoslavia in the Wake of WWII"..In July 2011, Sunic was a guest speaker in Knin, Croatia, at the summer school of the Flemish separatist, rightwing, parliamentary party, Vlaams Belang, where he lectured on the parallels between Belgium and ex-Yugoslavia. Sunic is a frequent guest of expatriate German and Croat communities in North America, Australia and Europe, where he talks about Communist genocides and mass killings of ethnic German and Croat civilians in ex-Yugoslavia and in East Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
He went back to Sweden in August 2011, and made a speech at the "Identitär Idé III" (Identité Idea III), about "Culture and race", where he talked about the future of Europe. He mentioned that he thinks that the European nationalists are too anti-, and not insufficiently pro. For example: he stated that European nationalists are more "Anti-Islam, anti-Islam, anti-Islam!" than they are "Pro-ourselves!". They should focus more on their own legends, culture, history, language, race, et cetera instead of ranting on Islam and their culture and race et cetera.
The show, since re-named The Sunic Journal, airs on Tuesdays at 9 PM, US Eastern Time
.
Croatia
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n-American
United States
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writer, translator, professor and a former diplomat. He is best known for his books and writings critical of egalitarianism, biblical monotheism, and liberal political discourse. He serves as one of the Directors of the American Third Position, a political party considered to be favorable to white separatism and critical of immigration.
Biography
Dr. Sunic was born in ZagrebZagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
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, in 1953. His father, the Catholic attorney Mirko Sunic (1915–2008), was between 1984–1988 a prisoner of conscience in Communist Yugoslavia (wherefrom he was adopted by Amnesty International and 15 US congressmen in 1985), and was in 1996 author of the book Moji inkriminirani zapisi. He studied French and English Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb
University of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...
until 1978. From 1980 to 1982 he worked in Algeria as an interpreter for the Yugoslav, Croatian construction company Ingra. He immigrated to the USA where he first received a Master's degree at California State University
California State University
The California State University is a public university system in the state of California. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the...
, Sacramento
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in 1985. He received a doctorate in political science
Political science
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in 1988 from the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
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. During his graduate studies in America he was lobbying for Croatian political prisoners in ex-Communist Yugoslavia and also wrote for the émigré Croat London-based biweekly Nova Hrvatska and the Madrid-based Croat literary quarterly Hrvatska Revija
Hrvatska revija
Hrvatska revija is a Croatian quarterly published by Matica hrvatska based in Zagreb.The magazine's original run lasted between 1928 and 1945 when it was published by MH and during which it became a renowned literary and cultural magazine...
(Revista Croata). From 1988 until 1993, he taught at California State University, the University of California
University of California
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, and Juniata College
Juniata College
Juniata College is a private liberal arts college located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. It is named after the Juniata River — one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River. In 1876 it became the first college founded by the Church of the Brethren and has been co-educational since...
in Pennsylvania. From 1993 until 2001, he served in various diplomatic positions with the Croatian government in Zagreb, London, Copenhagen, and Brussels. He has also taught at the Anglo-American College
Anglo-American College
Anglo-American University is an English-language university in Prague.Anglo-American University , founded in 1990, is the oldest private institution of higher education in the Czech Republic....
in Prague and currently resides in Zagreb, where he continues to work as a freelance writer, for example as a contributor on political semiotics and the spirit of communist totalitarianism to the French quarterly Catholica.
Views
Dr. Sunic's books and views can be describe as being in the style of the GRECE, a school of thought by Alain de BenoistAlain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist is a French academic, philosopher, a founder of the Nouvelle Droite and head of the French think tank GRECE. Benoist is a critic of liberalism, free markets and egalitarianism.-Biography:...
, who wrote a preface to Sunic’s book and whose articles Sunic often translates into English.Sunic has widely written, translated and lectured on many authors, novelists and political thinkers who can be called the predecessors of the European New Right (Southern agrarians, Emile Cioran, Ernst Jünger. Louis F. Céline, A. Schopenhauer, Ludwig F. Clauss), and who can be described as antidemocratic, populist, elitist and racialist thinkers The European Nouvelle Droite
Nouvelle Droite
Nouvelle Droite is a school of political thought founded largely on the works of Alain de Benoist and GRECE .-Etymology and history:...
, is a name for various forms of conservative, right-wing, or dissident cultural movements and political groupings which emerged in opposition to the liberal and leftist academic milieu of the mid- to late-twentieth century. GRECE was created in January 1968 by forty anti-liberal theoreticians and French academics. Liberal-leftis critics have argued that De Benoist has developed a novel cultural fascism and have depicted the advocates of his school of thought as “literary fascists."
Professor Kevin B. Macdonald
Kevin B. MacDonald
Kevin B. MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of Judaism as being a "group evolutionary strategy."...
, an evolutionary psychologist at the California State University, Long Beach, a prominent far-right intellectual, who has been characterized as "The Marx of the Anti-Semites", wrote an introduction to Sunic’s book Homo Americanus, a book which deals extensively with the Judeo-Christian mindset and its secular modalities in the USA. The introduction says that he "addresses the modern world of hyper-liberalism, globalist capitalism and the crisis of our inherited Indo-European
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia and also historically predominant in Anatolia...
civilization." Sunic is critical of Judeo-Christian monotheism to which he attributes the rise of communism and liberalism. He is also critical of post-World War II legislative changes in Europe, favoring non-white immigration and restrictions on freedom of speech. Sunic calls "Christian anti-Semitism” an apostasy and a form of Christian neurosis" [10]
Dr. Sunic has never denied the Holocaust although he has attended and spoken at some conferences organized and attended by historical revisionists. In August 2003, he lectured in German, alongside the far-rightist ex-lawyer Horst Mahler, currently serving a prison sentence in Germany for Holocaust denial, at a conference sponsored by Germany’s nationalist rightwing party, the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD
National Democratic Party of Germany
The National Democratic Party of Germany – The People's Union , is a far right German nationalist party. It was founded in 1964 a successor to the German Reich Party . Party statements self-identify as Germany's "only significant patriotic force"...
). He lectured on Carl Schmitt, a prominent German legal scholar, quite influential in National-Socialist Germany. Sunic's articles have been published in a variety of American, French, German and Croatian journals, including the now defunct Journal of Historical Review.
While his controversial perspectives on race and Judeo-Christian monotheism have gained influence (both from supporters on the far-right and critics on the left), he has also spoken and written on a variety of philosophical and religious topics. His articles and letters on Yugoslavia have appeared in a variety of mainstream publications, including Le Monde, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Times, The New York Times, The New York City Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, London's The Evening Standard, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others.
Speaking appearances
Sunic has accepted a number of invitations to speak before radical conservatives, white nationalist academics and individuals suspected of anti-semitism. For example, Sunic spoke at the 2002 and 2003 'Eurofest' events, sponsored by the Sacramento chapter of National Alliance. There he gave a speech from "Turkish Onslaught to Europe to Communist Disaster, "which was critical of non-European immigration.Dr. Sunic spoke at the French Senate on 15 January 2007, during a conference entitled "Nationalismes et religions dans les Balkans occidentaux" (Nationalisms and Religions in the Western Balkans), sponsored by the Fondation Robert Schuman. The topic of his talk was "Facteur nationaliste et facteur religieux dans les tensions actuelles" ("The Nationalist and Religious Factor in the Present Tensions"). Other speakers included Michel Barnier (former French Minister of Foreign Affairs), General David Leakey (former Commander of EUFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina), Doris Pack (President of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with countries of South-Eastern Europe), and Nicolas Petrovich Njegosh (Prince of Montenegro).
Sunić also spoke at the March 2007 Los Angeles meeting of the Institute for Historical Review
Institute for Historical Review
The Institute for Historical Review , founded in 1978, is an American organization that describes itself as a "public-interest educational, research and publishing center dedicated to promoting greater public awareness of history." Critics have accused it of being an antisemitic "pseudo-scholarly...
. The topic of Dr Sunić's speech was the semantic distortions surrounding the expression "hate speech". Dr Sunic traced the lexical manipulations embedded in the German, and French criminal code. His main argument was that the “liberal system, by using 'soft narratives' and 'sentimental normative locutions,' is no less dangerous than the violence and vulgarity of communist double-speak. It is less transparent and therefore it better deceives the masses.”
His recent conference tour was with Dr Kevin MacDonald in June 2011, in Sweden, where they both talked about the topic “Individualism and Nationalism in the Modern Multicultural Society”.He spoke at the "Forgotten Genocide" International Conference, held in St. Louis Community College, on the topic of "The Fate of the Danube Germans in Yugoslavia in the Wake of WWII"..In July 2011, Sunic was a guest speaker in Knin, Croatia, at the summer school of the Flemish separatist, rightwing, parliamentary party, Vlaams Belang, where he lectured on the parallels between Belgium and ex-Yugoslavia. Sunic is a frequent guest of expatriate German and Croat communities in North America, Australia and Europe, where he talks about Communist genocides and mass killings of ethnic German and Croat civilians in ex-Yugoslavia and in East Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
He went back to Sweden in August 2011, and made a speech at the "Identitär Idé III" (Identité Idea III), about "Culture and race", where he talked about the future of Europe. He mentioned that he thinks that the European nationalists are too anti-, and not insufficiently pro. For example: he stated that European nationalists are more "Anti-Islam, anti-Islam, anti-Islam!" than they are "Pro-ourselves!". They should focus more on their own legends, culture, history, language, race, et cetera instead of ranting on Islam and their culture and race et cetera.
Radio programme
In June 2009, Dr Sunić began broadcasting a radio show with the Voice of Reason Broadcast Network. His inaugural broadcast of The New Nationalist Perspective was on June 2. Topics addressed by him include race, culture, nationalism, and politics.The show, since re-named The Sunic Journal, airs on Tuesdays at 9 PM, US Eastern Time
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.
Books
- Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right (1990)
- Titoism and Dissidence (1995)
- Američka Ideologija
- Cool Croatia
- Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age (March 2007)
- Postmortem Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity (Collected Essays) (February 2010)
- La Croatie: un pays par défaut? (June 2010)
- Homo americanus; Rejeton de l’ère postmoderne (2010)
- Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right (1990, 2002, 2011)