Even When Poor, an Anti-egalitarian Person Admires the Sublime
A young boy admiring the knight. From bygoneamericana. Photo taken by Wayne Miller, USA in 1955. The apex of egalitarianism is to say, “Well, that carriage wheel didn’t have to be that precious. It could well have been just a plain wheel. Why has this pretentious woman [the Queen of Denmark] procured that crystal wheel?” […]
The Rabbit – The legitimacy and perennity of the regime of private property
Banners of TFPs in Europe float on the Danube (Austria) Folha de S. Paulo, April 4 th 1971 (*) by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Of the three principles affirmed in the name TFP – Tradition, Family and Property – only the third, that is, property, is contested with a certain insistence. This disagreement […]
The Hoax of Atheistic Communism
Arianism, semi-Arianism – The Catholic circles imbued with comunist influences
Is earthly life the supreme good of man?
The toads… for how much longer the toads? – “better red than dead”
Filial Confidence in Our Lady: The Starting Point to Have a Lively Devotion to Her
Saint of the Day, May 18, 1964 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira “A Roman and Apostolic Catholic, the author of this text submits himself with filial devotion to the traditional teaching of Holy Church. However, if by an oversight anything is found in it at variance with that teaching, he immediately and categorically rejects […]
Dead or Red? The Great Dilemma of Our Time in the Fatima Perspective
Our Lady at Fatima: Prophecies of Tragedy or Hope for America and the World? was first published in Brazil in 1967 under the title “Simples relato do que se passou em Fatima, quando Nossa Senhora apareceu.” There it has gone through twenty-three printings to date. The book has also had a Portuguese edition. […]
The American TFP on Pacifism
To be a true pacifist, it to be armed. He maintained the peace.
The Mobile Immobility of Chaos
Tradition, Family and Property, May – June, 1993 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira IF ANYTHING is a common denominator in events of public and private life in so many nations nowadays, it is chaos. Chaotic prospects seem to come one right after the other, and, increasingly, things follow the ways of chaos to […]
No Honor Without True and Justice
Folha de S. Paulo, February 4, 1973 “Throwing the Pen on the Floor” Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Some episodes deserve comment, others do not. Still, others are impossible to comment on because their burden of contradiction makes the human vocabulary’s most stinging qualifiers insufficient. This week, some events from this third category have […]
Idealism, Nobility of Soul – Excerpts from the thought of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, I – Idealism: The Happiness Possible on this Earth
‘”Never will a man do out of egoism as much as he would out of idealism”