Politics & Power Quote by Francis Parker Yockey

It is a recruitment pitch disguised as a diagnosis. Yockey’s line flatters young people by treating them as uniquely targeted victims, then hands them an enemy: unnamed “forces” whose defining trait is secrecy. That vagueness is the point. “Forces” can mean government, media, finance, universities, liberals, conservatives - whoever the listener already distrusts. The sentence offers the emotional relief of certainty without the burden of evidence.

The phrasing works through a classic conspiracist rhythm: totalization (“No section”), intensification (“more completely”), and moral melodrama (“keeping the truth”). Youth aren’t merely misinformed; they’re “deceived,” implying an intentional campaign. That move turns disagreement into treason and makes counterarguments sound like part of the cover-up. It’s also an inversion of democratic responsibility: the problem isn’t what you believe or how you reason, but what “they” have done to you. The young become both aggrieved and absolved.

Context matters because Yockey wasn’t a neutral cultural critic. Writing in the postwar era, he was a fascist ideologue best known for Imperium, a pseudo-philosophical attempt to repackage authoritarian politics after Nazism’s defeat. In that light, the quote reads less like concern for civic education and more like strategic positioning: delegitimize mainstream institutions, cultivate generational alienation, and prime a cohort to seek “truth” in a counter-elite movement he can steer. Youth are not the audience he pities; they’re the audience he wants to mobilize.