Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 16, 1960) was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a culture-based, totalitarian path for the preservation of Western culture. Yockey was one of a handful of neo-Nazi esoteric writers during the post-World War II era.

Yockey was active with many far right causes around the world and remains one of the seminal influences in many extremist right political and racial / nationalist movements. Although he was a devotee of Oswald Spengler (who was critical of the Nazis), Yockey was a passionate proponent of the most severe criticism of Jews, and expressed a reverence for German National Socialism, and a general affinity for fascist causes. Yockey contacted or worked with the Nazi aligned German-American Bund and the National German-American Alliance. After the defeat of the Axis in the Second World War, Yockey became even more active in neo-Fascist causes. As Russia switched to supporting the Arabs against Israel, Yockey believed an alliance between Soviet Communism and the extreme Right could (and should) be advanced to weaken the strategic position of the United States, which he believed was controlled by Zionist Jews. Yockey also met Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and wrote anti-Zionist propaganda on behalf of the Egyptian government, seeing Arab nationalism as another ally to challenge "the Jewish-American power." While in prison for falsified passports, he was visited by the American Rightist Willis Carto. Carto became the chief advocate and publisher of Yockey's largely neo-Nazi ideals, and remains a central figure in the extreme right movement in the United States through his institutions such as the American Free Press and Barnes Review and promotion of controversial presidential candidates such as David Duke.