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Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Revolution and Counter-Revolution I IntraText Edition CT Copyright EuloTech 2007 - See also: Credits

IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. Help: Overview - Text & search - Lists - Concordances - Glossary - For easier reading... - Table of Contents - See also: Index of footnotes Statistics and graphs (Occurrences: 45963. Words: 6668) FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Part I The Revolution CHAPTER I: The Crisis of Contemporary Man CHAPTER II: The Crisis of Western and Christian Man CHAPTER III: Characteristics of This Crisis 1. IT IS UNIVERSAL 2. IT IS ONE 3. IT IS TOTAL 4. IT IS DOMINANT 5. IT IS PROCESSIVE A. The Decay of the Middle Ages B. The Pseudo-Reformation and the Renaissance C. The French Revolution D. Communism E. Monarchy, Republic, and Religion F. Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and Dictatorship CHAPTER IV: The Metamorphoses of the Revolutionary Process CHAPTER V: The Three Depths of the Revolution: In the Tendencies, in the Ideas, and in the Facts 1. THE REVOLUTION IN THE TENDENCIES 2. THE REVOLUTION IN THE IDEAS 3. THE REVOLUTION IN THE FACTS 4. OBSERVATIONS A. The Depths of the Revolution Are Not Identical to Chronological Stages B. The Differentiation of the Three Depths of the Revolution C. The Revolutionary Process Is Not Irrepressible CHAPTER VI: The March of the Revolution 1. THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE REVOLUTION A. The Revolution and the Disordered Tendencies B. The Paroxysms of the Revolution Are Fully Present in Its Seeds C. The Revolution Aggravates Its Own Causes 2. THE APPARENT INTERVALS OF THE REVOLUTION 3. THE MARCH FROM REFINEMENT TO REFINEMENT 4. THE HARMONIC SPEEDS OF THE REVOLUTION A. The Rapid March B. The Slow March C. How These Speeds Harmonize 5. OBJECTIONS REFUTED A. Slow-speed Revolutionaries and "Semi-counterrevolutionaries" B. Protestant Monarchies and Catholic Republics C. Protestant Austerity D. The Single Front of the Revolution 6. THE AGENTS OF THE REVOLUTION: FREEMASONRY AND OTHER SECRET FORCES CHAPTER VII: The Essence of the Revolution 1. THE REVOLUTION PAR EXCELLENCE A. Meaning of the Word Revolution B. Bloody and Unbloody Revolution C. The Amplitude of the Revolution D. The Revolution Par Excellence E. The Destruction of the Order Par Excellence 2. REVOLUTION AND LEGITIMACY A. Legitimacy Par Excellence B. Catholic Culture and Civilization C. The Sacral Character of Catholic Civilization D. Culture and Civilization Par Excellence E. Illegitimacy Par Excellence 3. PRIDE AND SENSUALITY AND THE METAPHYSICAL VALUES OF THE REVOLUTION A. Pride and Egalitarianism B. Sensuality and Liberalism CHAPTER VIII: The Intelligence, the Will, and the Sensibility in the Determination of Human Acts 1. FALLEN NATURE, GRACE, AND FREE WILL 2. THE GERM OF THE REVOLUTION 3. REVOLUTION AND BAD FAITH CHAPTER IX: The "Semi-counterrevolutionary" Is Also a Son of the Revolution CHAPTER X: Culture, Arts, and Ambiences in the Revolution 1. CULTURE 2. ARTS 3. AMBIENCES 4. THE HISTORICAL ROLE OE THE ARTS AND AMBIENCES IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS CHAPTER XI: The Revolution on Sin and Redemption, and the Revolutionary Utopia 1. THE REVOLUTION DENIES SIN AND THE REDEMPTION 2. HISTORICAL EXEMPLIFICATION: THE DENIAL OF SIN IN LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM A. The Immaculate Conception of the Individual B. The Immaculate Conception of the Masses and the State 3. REDEMPTION BY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE REVOLUTIONARY UTOPIA CHAPTER XII: The Pacifist and Antimilitarist Character of the Revolution 1. SCIENCE WILL BRING AN END TO WAR, THE MILITARY, AND POLICE 2. THE DOCTRINAL INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE REVOLUTION AND THE UNIFORM 3. THE TEMPERAMENT OF THE REVOLUTION IS CONTRARY TO THE MILITARY LIFE Part II The Counter Revolution CHAPTER I: The Counter-Revolution Is a Reaction 1. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION: A SPECIFIC AND DIRECT FIGHT AGAINST THE REVOLUTION 2. THE NOBILITY OF THIS REACTION 3. A REACTION TURNED AGAINST PRESENT-DAY ADVERSARIES 4. THE MODERNITY AND INTEGRITY OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION CHAPTER II: Reaction and Historical Immobility 1. WHAT IS TO BE RESTORED 2. WHAT IS TO BE INNOVATED CHAPTER III: The Counter-Revolution and the Craving After Novelties 1. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS TRADITIONALIST A. Reason B. The Smoking Wick C. False Traditionalism 2. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS CONSERVATIVE 3. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS AN ESSENTIAL CONDITION FOR AUTHENTIC PROGRESS CHAPTER IV: What Is a Counter-Revolutionary? 1. IN ACTUALITY 2. IN POTENTIALITY CHAPTER V: The Counter-Revolution's Tactics 1. IN RELATION TO THE ACTUAL COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY A. Individual Action B. Combined Action 2. IN RELATION TO THE POTENTIAL COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY 3. IN RELATION TO THE REVOLUTIONARY A. The Counter-Revolutionary Initiative B. The Revolutionary Counteroffensive 4. ELITES AND MASSES IN THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS CHAPTER VI: The Counter-Revolution's Means of Action 1. A PREFERENCE FOR GREAT MEANS OF ACTION 2. THE USE OF MODEST MEANS: THEIR EFFICACY CHAPTER VII: Obstacles to the Counter-Revolution 1. PITFALLS TO BE AVOIDED AMONG COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES 2. SLOGANS OF THE REVOLUTION A. "The Counter-Revolution Is Out of Date" B. "The Counter-Revolution Is Negativistic" C. "The Counter-Revolutionary Is Argumentative" 3. WRONG ATTITUDES IN FACE OF THE REVOLUTION'S SLOGANS A. Ignoring Revolutionary Slogans B. Eliminating the Polemical Aspects of Counter-Revolutionary Action CHAPTER VIII: The Processive Character of the Counter-Revolution, and the Counter-Revolutionary "Shock" 1. THERE IS A COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS 2. TYPICAL ASPECTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS A. In the Rapid March B. In the Slow March 3. HOW TO DESTROY THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS A. The Many Ways of the Holy Ghost B. Nothing Should Be Hidden C. The "Shock" of the Great Conversions D. The Likelihood of This Shock in Our Days E. Showing the Whole Face of the Revolution F. Pointing Out the Metaphysical Aspects of the Counter-Revolution G. The Two stages of the Counter-Revolution CHAPTER IX: The Driving Force of the Counter-Revolution 1. VIRTUE AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION 2. SUPERNATURAL LIFE AND COUNTER-REVOLION 3. THE INVINCIBILITY OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION CHAPTER X The Counter-Revolution, Sin, and the Redemption 1. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION SHOULD REVIVE THE NOTION OF GOOD AND EVIL 2. HOW TO REVIVE THE NOTION OF GOOD AND EVIL CHAPTER XI The Counter-Revolution and Temporal Society 1. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS A. Works of Charity, Social Service, Associations of Employers, Workers, and So Forth B. The Struggle Against Communism 2. CHRISTENDOM AND THE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 3. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND NATIONALISM 4. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND MILITARISM CHAPTER XII: The Church and the Counter-Revolution 2. THE CHURCH HAS THE GREATEST INTEREST IN CRUSHING THE REVOLUTION 3. THE CHURCH IS A FUNDAMENTALLY COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY FORCE 4. THE CHURCH IS THE GREATEST COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY FORCE 5. THE CHURCH IS THE SOUL OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION 6. THE IDEAL OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS TO EXALT THE CHURCH 7. IN A WAY, THE PURVIEW OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS BROADER 8. WHETHER EVERY CATHOLIC SHOULD BE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY A. The Implicit Counter-Revolutionary B. The Modernity of a Counter-Revolutionary Explicitness C. The Explicit Counter-Revolutionary D. Counter-Revolutionary Action That Does Not Constitute an Apostolate 9. CATHOLIC ACTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION 10. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND NON-CATHOLICS Part III Revolution and Counter-Revolution Twenty Years After CHAPTER I: The Revolution: A Process in Continual Transformation 1. REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND THE TFPs: TWENTY YEARS OF ACTION AND COMBAT 2. IN A WORLD IN CONTINUOUS AND RAPID TRANSFORMATION, IS REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION STILL CURRENT? THE ANSWER IS AFFIRMATIVE CHAPTER II: The Apogee and Crisis of the Third Revolution 1. THE APOGEE OF THE THIRD REVOLUTION A. On the Road to Its Apogee, the Third Revolution Studiously Avoided Total and Useless Adventures B. Adventure in This Revolution's Next Stages? 2. UNANTICIPATED OBSTACLES TO THE THIRD REVOLUTION'S USE OF CLASSIC METHODS A. The Decline of Persuasive Power B. The Decline in the Capacity of Leadership C. Objection: The Communist Successes in Italy and France 3. METAMORPHOSED HATRED AND VIOLENCE GENERATE TOTAL REVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE A. The Two Great Goals of Revolutionary Psychological Warfare B. Total Revolutionary Psychological Warfare: A Result of the Third Revolution's Apogee 4. THE THIRD REVOLUTION'S PSYCHOLOGICAL OFFENSIVE WITHIN THE CHURCH A. The Second Vatican Council C. Reactions Based on Revolution and Counter-Revolution D. The Usefulness of the Action of the TFPs and Like Organizations Inspired by Revolution 5. AN ASSESSMENT OF TWENTY YEARS OF THE THIRD REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO THE CRITERIA OF REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION CHAPTER III: The Aborning Fourth Revolution 1. THE FOURTH REVOLUTION FORETOLD BY THE AUTHORS OF THE THIRD REVOLUTION 2. THE FOURTH REVOLUTION AND TRIBALISM: AN EVENTUALITY? A. The Fourth Revolution and the Preternatural B. Structuralisin and Pre-tribal Tendencies C. An Unpretentious Contribution D. The Opposition of the Banal E. Ecclesiastical Tribalism and Pentecostalism 3. THE DUTY OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES IN FACE OF THE ABORNING FOURTH REVOLUTION CONCLUSION POSTFACE G. Card. Pizzardo Credits Printed source Originally published as “Revolução e Contra-Revolução”, in “Catolicismo”, April 1959 (Parts I and II) and January 1977 (Part III) Source of the electronic transcription Luci sull’Est - Via Castellini, 13/7 – 00197 Roma - e-mail: luci-rm@iol.it ETML tagging EuloTech Publication details Third English Edition Copyright © 1993 The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) First English edition 1974. Second English edition 1980 The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) P.O. Box 1868 York, PA 17405 ISBN 1-877905-27-5 Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 93-073496

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