“Orientations: Eleven Points” (Orientamenti: Undici Punti) is one of Julius Evola’s most concise and radical manifestos, published in 1950 in the Italian periodical Imperium. It was intended as a guiding document for young men of the Right in post-war Italy, offering a spiritual-political compass for those rejecting both liberal democracy and Marxist collectivism.
Rather than a political program, it’s a doctrinal declaration—a call for the restoration of higher values, rooted in Tradition, hierarchy, asceticism, and spiritual virility.
Orientations: Eleven Points
- Reject the Modern World
- Affirm a Higher Order
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power
- Anti-Democracy
- True Elitism
- Heroic View of Life
- War as a Means of Realization
- Oppose Materialism and Economic Man
- Tradition over Innovation
- Masculine, Virile Spirit
- Fight Against the Current
Deny all fundamental values of liberalism, egalitarianism, progressivism, and the modern cult of the masses.
Align with values rooted in spiritual transcendence, aristocracy of the soul, and metaphysical hierarchy.
Re-establish the primacy of spiritual authority (the priestly) over materialistic, bureaucratic forms of power.
Reject democracy as rule by quantity and mediocrity. Advocate principled leadership, not popular consensus.
Call for a new spiritual elite, not based on birth or wealth, but on inner formation, will, and initiation.
Life must be approached as a battlefield, a chance for ascetic discipline, overcoming, and honor—not comfort.
War, when just and transcendentally oriented, is a rite of passage, a means to access immortality and glory.
Refuse to see man as a consumer or worker. Economy must serve the soul, not dominate it.
True greatness lies in fidelity to primordial order, not in novelty, fashion, or ideological evolution.
Uphold the virtues of discipline, loyalty, hierarchy, and inner strength—reject softness and sentimentalism.
Be the differentiated man (l’uomo differenziato) who walks alone if necessary, holding the torch of the sacred against the tide of modern dissolution.