Emmanuel Malynski

Portrait of Malynski in fencing dress, armed with rapier (1907)

Emmanuel Malynski (8 April 1875 – 17 May 1938), was a Polish essayist of French expression.

Biography

Emmanuel Malynski was born in Berezne, the only child of Dubensky nobleman Marshal Michael Małyński and Baroness Annette von Wrangel zu Addinal, who came from the Courland nobility and used the name Anna. In 1903, he inherited a sizable fortune from his uncle Jan Małyński. After having lived in Paris for several years at the time, the inheritance allowed him to buy his own apartment and lead a lavish way of life.

From 1902, he belonged to the École d'Escrime Pratique, which brought together lovers of dueling fencing and defensive sports. In 1904, he became president of this organization and became involved in organizing prestigious fencing tournaments, and founded the "Challenge de Malinski" prize for fencers and shooters. Being a man of uncommon wealth, his acquaintances and connections included people from the world of politics and artists. His interests included aviation and travel, and he visited North America, India and Australia.

Malynski bore the noble title of Count. He was a friend of Léon de Poncins, with whom he wrote La Guerre Occulte, his best-known work, published in 1936, which is a summary by de Poncins of the theses expounded in the many books that make up Malynski's cycle of La Mission du peuple de Dieu, and which is presented up to chapter IX as a reworking of an earlier work, La Grande Conspiration mondiale. As soon as it was published, the work attracted the attention of Julius Evola, who translated it into Italian in 1939.

Emmanuel Malynski died in Lausanne.

Thought

He is considered by critics to be a traditionalist whose views were different from the programs of existing political currents of the time. As a person of deep faith, he built his theories on the foundation of a stronger Catholic faith and based on the papacy. At the same time, he was a declared anti-communist, and he saw the way to fight Bolshevism as the abolition of democracy and the prevention of political liberalization.

For Malynski, revolutionary movements aim at a religious rather than a political war and are part of a secular and international clash of two antagonistic worldviews. He theorized a deep affinity between the extreme left and the extreme right of the social spectrum, which, according to him, have neither antithesis of aspiration nor irreducibility of interest.

Malynski repeatedly proclaimed that he was in favor of private property, and that nationalization leads to revolution.

After World War I, Malynski was among the early defenders of an United States of Europe to counterblast the growing Bolshevik menace, alongside such people as Joseph Caillaux, Wilhelm Heile, Richard Baerwald and Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi.

He left behind thirty-nine books written in French and English and two in Polish. A 25-volume collection of Emanuel Malinsky's works was published in France in 2005 by Editions Saint-Remi.

Works

• A Short Cut to a Splendid Peace (1918)
• Comment Gagner la Guerre: La Clef de l'Impasse Européenne Politique, Économique et Sociale (1921)
• Le Peuple-roi (1923)
• La Gauche et la Droite (1923)
• Peuples, Voulez-vous Manger ou Être Mangés? (1923)
• How to Save Europe (1925)
• L'Erreur du Prédestiné (1925)
• L'Empreinte d'Israël (1926; 2 volumes)
• Le Réveil du Maudit (1926)
• Le Triomphe du Réprouvé (1926)
• Capital et Propriété (1926)
• Le Système Économique de l'Avenir (1926)
• John Bull et l'Oncle Sam (1928)
• Le Triangle et la Croix (1928)
• Le Colosse aux Pieds d'Argile (1928)
• Les Éléments de l'Histoire Contemporaine (1928)
• La Grande Conspiration Mondiale (1928)
• La Grande Guerre Sociale (1929)
• La Démocratie Victorieuse: Suite et Fin de la Grande Guerre Sociale (1929)
• La Veillée des Armes (1929)
• Le Bouleversement de l'Europe (1930)
• La Nouvelle Babel (1930)
• Dans la Galerie des Glaces (1930)
• Les Problèmes de l'Est et la Petite-Entente (1931)
• La Pologne Nouvelle (1931)
• Alexandre III: Artisan de la Révolution (1933)
• L'Aube Rouge (1933)
• La Grande Erreur d'Alexandre II (1933)
• Une Main Cachée Dirige... (1933)
• Les Finalités Communistes du Capitalisme (1933)
• La Fin de la Russie (1934)
• Le Tsar Libérateur: Fourrier du Bolchevisme (1934)
• Au Seuil du Cataclysme Russe (1934)
• La Guerre Occulte (1936; with Léon de Poncins)

References

• Kreis, Emmanuel (2008). Les Puissances de l'Ombre. Paris: CNRS.

External links

• Works by Emmanuel Malynski at Gallica
• Works by Emmanuel Malynski at Hathi Trust
• Works by Emmanuel Malynski at Polona