It is distinct from Pro-Europeanism, which is primarily underpinned by liberal values, in being based on a civilizational understanding of Europe as a continent of white Christians with shared histories and cultural values and usually seeking to transform the current political system of European Union.
Both Mosley and Yockey were influenced by the German philosopher Oswald Spengler but diverged both from him and each other on the issue of whether the Western civilization's collapse was inevitable or avoidable.
Another major point of contention between Yockey and Mosley was their attitude towards the United States and the Soviet Union.
However, Yockey saw the American occupation of Europe as more harmful and spiritually perverting the Europe, unlike the Soviets who mostly relied on crude force to establish their control, which Yockey perceived as less harmful and effective than spiritual pervertion.
[3] In 1949, Yockey published the Proclamation of London as the ELF manifesto, which stated "two great tasks" of the organization: "(1) the complete expulsion of everything alien from the soul and from the soil of Europe, the cleansing of the European soul of the dross of 19th century materialism and rationalism with its money-worship, liberal-democracy, social degeneration, parliamentarism, class-war, feminism, vertical nationalism, finance-capitalism, petty-statism, chauvinism, the Bolshevism of Moscow and Washington, the ethical syphilis of Hollywood, and the spiritual leprosy of New York; (2) the construction of the Imperium of Europe and the actualizing of the divinely-emanated European will to unlimited political Imperialism".