Radical Coup

A Case for Reaction

What has gone wrong in England—and what would it take to restore it?

In this uncompromising work of political analysis, Sean Gabb argues that the British ruling class has transformed itself into a left-authoritarian managerial elite, intent on reshaping English society through propaganda, bureaucracy, and cultural domination. Since 1997, he maintains, the Establishment has waged a sustained war on liberty, tradition, and cultural continuity, using the machinery of the State and its control over institutions to impose a new ideological order.

In his foreword, Hans-Hermann Hoppe praises the book’s clarity and courage, noting that Gabb offers deeply informed commentary on issues at the centre of today’s political struggles: mass immigration, multiculturalism, cultural fragmentation, the rise of the new Left and the Alternative Right, decentralisation vs. centralisation, and the conflict between Western bourgeois civilisation and its challengers.

Radical Coup includes the complete text of Gabb’s influential 2007 classic Cultural Revolution, Culture War, the book that introduced the English Right to concepts such as Cultural Marxism and New Class subversion. This expanded edition adds new essays that update the analysis and outline the steps necessary for the restoration of English civilisation.

Gabb’s thesis is direct. The ruling class survives by State patronage. Cut off the flow of resources, and the elite collapses. The only viable response for conservatives, libertarians, and nationalists is a strategic alignment aimed at dismantling the power of the State and reversing the cultural revolution that now shapes British life.

A bold, rigorous, and provocative manifesto, this book is essential reading for:

• readers of conservative, libertarian, or dissident political thought

• political scientists studying the modern Right

• activists and strategists seeking to understand cultural and ideological conflict

• anyone who wants to understand the forces reshaping England today

From the Reviews

Madsen Pirie:
“England has been taken over by a new ruling class, totalitarian in its ambitions. Its influence is more powerful and pervasive than government itself; it seeks to mould our behaviour and even our thought.”

Paul Gottfried:
“Today’s England is a moral-social basket case, full of violent crime, state-enforced political correctness, and protected extremists.”

Kevin Carson:
“A penetrating analysis of political correctness and multiculturalism as ruling-class ideologies—tools of division and control in the hands of the New Class.”

A Brief Encounter:
“Not the run-of-the-mill attack on political correctness. Gabb goes deep into the political revolution destroying our country and offers a manifesto for counter-revolution. Readable, precise, and delivered without compromise.”