Anthony Mario Ludovici MBE (8 January 1882 – 3 April 1971) was a British philosopher, sociologist, social critic and polyglot.

He wrote on subjects including art,[1] metaphysics, politics, economics, religion, the differences between the sexes and races, health, and eugenics.

He married Elsie Finnimore Buckley on 20 March 1920, and they first lived at 35 Central Hill, Upper Norwood in South London.

He began lecturing on art, politics, religion, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche,[7] about whom he wrote Who is to be Master of the World?

And after two years’ work in intelligence, in 1919, as General Staff Officer, third grade, with the rank of Captain, I rose to be the head of my department (MI6 A).”[11]He was awarded the Order of the British Empire, which he immediately returned because he felt that it was too easily attainable and held by too many people.

Liberalism, socialism, Marxism, Christianity, feminism,[13][14][15][16] multiculturalism, the modern culture of consumerism and revolt against tradition constituted Ludovici's main areas of attack.

As a young man his fin de siècle reading was typically dominated by science and the popularization of the doctrine of evolution.

With great avidity, I also read Huxley’s famous controversy with Wace, following the arguments on each side with breathless interest and becoming a convinced agnostic in the process.

Indeed, there is much in his work that anticipates Freud’s discoveries, a fact to which I have more than once called attention, and Nietzsche owed him many a profound observation, the source of which, however, is rarely acknowledged.

His articles were a regular feature of the New Pioneer, a far-right journal controlled by Viscount Lymington and closely linked to the British People's Party.

[25] Ludovici repeatedly warned of the dangers of miscegenation and defended incest as an appropriate response to racial mixing, arguing that society should act 'to break down the barriers now preventing the mating of close relatives' as it was the only way to cause 'a purification of our stock.

[31] Ludovici was dismissed from his intelligence work on 14 August 1940 and his house was subsequently raided allegedly due to his membership of the political group The Right Club.

[citation needed] From 1955 until 1969 Ludovici wrote a series of articles in the monthly journal The South African Observer.