Europe and the Concept of Organic Unity

by Julius Evola

Julius Evola argues that European unity should aim for an organic, spiritually grounded integration, rather than relying on reactive, unstable federalist solutions.

This essay was first published in 1951.

Today, the idea of Europe is gaining more ground among the most responsible minds on our continent. However, there is rarely clarity on a point of fundamental importance: whether this idea stems from the necessity to defend against the threatening pressure of non-European powers and interests, or whether one aims higher, striving for an organic unity that has a positive content and its own law. Should European unity have only a realpolitik significance, or should it primarily have a spiritual basis? Most federalist solutions belong to the first alternative and can only have the accidental character of a union of forces which — lacking any inner bond — fall apart again when circumstances change. The opposite solution — the organic one — is, however, associated with prerequisites that are difficult to fulfil.