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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984328
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In this special issue of JSR, we welcome you to an exploration of vanguardism, guest edited by Dr. Richard T. Marcy, professor of organizational behavior in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, where his research focuses on nonviolent, avant-garde groups on the Left and the Right, including political, cultural, and psychological perspectives. With special emphasis on leadership, Dr. Marcy's academic work includes publications on topics such as the leadership of sociopolitical vanguards and the role of leader cognition in radical social innovations. We are very pleased to present this special issue, edited by Dr. Marcy, a book-length collection of thematically interlinked articles on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallEditor's Introduction2026-03-04text/htmlen-USEditor's Introduction2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®25542026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Everything Old is New Again: The Return of the Vanguards
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984329
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As it was in the 1960s, political instability and polarization are once again the new normal in the West, with various sociopolitical groups both pushing for these conditions and being created because of them. Groups such as Antifa and the Alt-Right first began gaining public attention in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, with the COVID-19 pandemic further ushering in a new era of protests, activism, and backlash. Increasingly, small but highly visible vanguard groups have been coalescing in various forms to react to what they each perceive as various weaknesses of modern liberal democratic and capitalist systems, vanguard here being understood broadly as a group of people leading the way with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallEverything Old is New Again: The Return of the Vanguards2026-03-04text/htmlen-USEverything Old is New Again: The Return of the Vanguards2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®358422026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04The Techno-Social Vanguard
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984330
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Recent interest in the concept of the vanguard or vanguardism has shed new light on what was regarded until recently as a discredited concept.1 For the purposes of this article, we take vanguardism to mean a specific form of epistemologically privileged extremism promoted by a particular group through novel organizational means. Our particular focus here is upon what we term techno-social vanguardism. Our intention is to expand the notion of vanguardism by focusing upon technology as a social doctrine, and to understand it within the context of "disruptive" techno-capitalism.2We will proceed as follows. First, a brief discussion of terms. Second, a brief history of vanguardism that describes the emergence of a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallThe Techno-Social Vanguard2026-03-04text/htmlen-USThe Techno-Social Vanguard2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®977342026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04The Avant-Garde and the Administrator: Preliminary Considerations on Vanguardist and Managerial Symbiosis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984331
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Vanguardism and managerialism/technocracy share numerous organizational traits as well as overlapping historical contexts that inspired, shaped, and modified each of these forms. The foundations for the legitimate claim to rulership in both of these types of organizational systems lies on a certain notion of knowledge: specifically, that leaders have a deeper understanding of reality itself, which justifies their positions of power over others. The origin of this understanding, however, differs significantly between the two. Vanguardism emphasizes the role of "category-based epistemology," which "indicates that a specific mass population holds a uniquely important place in social/historical development, and this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallThe Avant-Garde and the Administrator: Preliminary Considerations on Vanguardist and Managerial Symbiosis2026-03-04text/htmlen-USThe Avant-Garde and the Administrator: Preliminary Considerations on Vanguardist and Managerial Symbiosis2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®1061972026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Making Sense of Christian Nationalism: The Role of Academic Vanguards
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984332
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What struck me in the United States was the difficulty of disabusing the majority of an idea it has taken into its head or of detaching it from a man it has decided to adopt. Neither the written or the spoken word is adequate to the task. Only experience can do it, and sometimes that experience needs to be repeated.I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.The presentation of Christian nationalist ideology in recent scholarly literature raises anew old questions in the minds of the academic community about the propriety of activism
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallMaking Sense of Christian Nationalism: The Role of Academic Vanguards2026-03-04text/htmlen-USMaking Sense of Christian Nationalism: The Role of Academic Vanguards2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®1292502026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Reactionary Vanguards and the Social Question (or, Contemporary Vulnerability Politics Between Left and Right Decontestations)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984333
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"The social question" in modern politics—iterated in several languages (la question sociale, der soziale fraga)—has historically summarized a range of popular discontents thrown up by modernization processes, with industrialization (and its corresponding new inequities and hardships) being at the center of those processes.1 In contemporary politics, "vulnerability" has started to appear in its place, denoting the range of wounds that social experience—as much as naturally occurring phenomena like certain environmental events, or disease, or deterioration by age—can inflict upon people (vulnerare is Latin for "to wound," and, etymologically, vulnerability is liability to wound [OED]).2 To the original social
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallReactionary Vanguards and the Social Question (or, Contemporary Vulnerability Politics Between Left and Right Decontestations)2026-03-04text/htmlen-USReactionary Vanguards and the Social Question (or, Contemporary Vulnerability Politics Between Left and Right Decontestations)2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®1638012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04What Do Masculinists Want? Virile Vanguards, Identitarians, and Traditional Political Theology
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984334
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Only when the king is dead can one think political theology. If he be not dead in body, let him be afflicted unto death. By body, think the immaterial body of sovereignty.1 Yet the immaterial body of sovereignty stands—rises to presence and visibility—only in relation to the physical body of the king.2 In his physical body as a male, the king is to be manly, masculine, virile. Likewise in his immaterial body as sovereign. Kingship rests on this duality, simultaneously physical and immaterial, the constitutional foundation for any political theology worth the name.3Such is the groundwork on which we find erected the political theology of Julius Evola, the mid-twentieth-century Italian theorist of Tradition
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallWhat Do Masculinists Want? Virile Vanguards, Identitarians, and Traditional Political Theology2026-03-04text/htmlen-USWhat Do Masculinists Want? Virile Vanguards, Identitarians, and Traditional Political Theology2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®1804342026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Viewing Right-Wing Intellectuals Through a Dual Lens: Vanguard Leadership and Political Ideology
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984335
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The inauguration of US President Donald Trump in 2025 has once again focused both national and global attention on the new Republican administration. In the first Trump presidency, which began in 2016, wildly differing evaluations of Trump emerged in political and media circles from a "renegade" or "traitor" from the Republican Party to a "fascist."1 Academics that study right-wing politics also found it difficult to make sense of the Trump phenomena with some calling him an "authoritarian" and others a "libertarian," thus making it difficult to place him on the traditional political spectrum.2 One thing is clear: Leadership scholars viewed Trump as the harbinger of a different leadership style. Some saw in Trump
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallViewing Right-Wing Intellectuals Through a Dual Lens: Vanguard Leadership and Political Ideology2026-03-04text/htmlen-USViewing Right-Wing Intellectuals Through a Dual Lens: Vanguard Leadership and Political Ideology2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®1996102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Death for a Dawn: Dominique Venner and the Vanguard of Identity
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984336
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The French intellectual Dominique Venner, who was born and died in Paris (1935–2013), is today a key reference for the European Identitarian right, which aims to replace conservatism with Identitarianism as the default position of the Right. Identitarians view conservatism as inadequate for confronting contemporary challenges, particularly demographic fears and threats to Europeans, due to its inoffensive, overly accommodating nature and adherence to liberal norms and values. In contrast, Identitarianism presents itself as radical, addressing the root causes of societal decline (the erosion of heritage, identity, and ethnic continuity) rather than settling for superficial reforms or accommodating decay as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/386/image/coversmallDeath for a Dawn: Dominique Venner and the Vanguard of Identity2026-03-04text/htmlen-USDeath for a Dawn: Dominique Venner and the Vanguard of Identity2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®759412026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04