Description
By Oswald Spengler. The Year of Decision, 1933 (Jahre der Entscheidung, 1933) is Oswald Spengler’s final completed work — a meditation on the crisis of modern civilization.
Written at a moment of global upheaval, the book distills the themes that made Spengler famous in The Decline of the West: the rise and fall of cultures, the exhaustion of liberal democracy, the dangers of technological domination—and of the ultimate danger to Western Civilization—that of being overrun by the Third World.
Spengler surveys the political and cultural landscape of his time, weighing the forces of money, mass movements, and global power against the possibilities of leadership and renewal. His analysis of “the German question” is inseparable from his broader concern with the fate of the West, which he portrays as standing at a threshold between decline and destiny.
Though written in the shadow of 1933, The Year of Decision continues to provoke and unsettle. It is not a prophecy in the narrow sense, but a call to recognize the gravity of history’s racial turning points.
For readers today, it remains a haunting reminder that White civilization soon faces its own hour of decision.
“No one could have longed more for the national revolution of this year than I did. I hated the sordid revolution of 1918 from the very first day, as the betrayal of the weaker part of our people against the strong, unspent ones who had risen up in 1914 because they could and wanted to have a future. Everything I have written about politics since then has been aimed against the powers that, with the help of our enemies, had entrenched themselves upon the mountain of our misery and misfortune in order to make this future impossible. Every line was meant to contribute to their downfall, and I hope it did.”
“Does any man of the white races today truly see what is happening all around the globe—grasp the magnitude of the danger that hangs over this mass of peoples and threatens them? I am not speaking of the educated or uneducated masses of our cities, the newspaper readers, the voting cattle on election days—although there is now no longer any difference in rank between voters and those they elect—but of the leading strata of the white nations, insofar as they have not already been destroyed: of statesmen, if any remain, of the real leaders in politics and business, in the armies, and in the world of thought. Does anyone see beyond these present years, beyond his continent, his country, even beyond the narrow circle of his own activity?”
New edition with an introduction and biography by Arthur Kemp.
Contents
Oswald Spengler: A Biography
Introduction to The Year of Decision, 1933
Introduction
The Political Horizon
The World Wars and World Powers
The White World Revolution
The World Coloured Revolution
Softcover, 168 pages.
