Category: Left vs. Right

Bronski Paper on Leftism

Passably reasonable HBD.

See here.

Abstract

The US has seen a linear decrease in the proportion of conservatives in each generation for at least 90 years. Sarraf et al. [5]  have suggested that this is related to increases in mutational load due to relaxed selection pressures on humans in industrialized environments. We provide additional evidence for this hypothesis: leftists have older fathers than non-leftists, and those with older fathers are more likely to be leftist. Since male gametes acquire about 2 mutations per year, while female gametes mutate much more slowly, traits that are changing due to mutational pressure are expected to be more common in offspring from older fathers. Additionally, we show that older fathers themselves are not more leftist than younger fathers, suggesting that the paternal age effect is not due to differences in breeding patterns between leftists and non-leftists.

The paper was reviewed by two pseudonymous individuals.  Well, given that I am reviewing it here pseudonymously, I should not make an issue of that, but then my blog does not pretend to be an academic journal.  As someone who has reviewed, in real life, many hundreds of papers, for more than 150 different academic journals, I will make some comments about the Bronski work.  As Dutton has already mentioned it, and as HBD is not an area of interest to me apart from criticizing it, I will make this brief, and concentrate more on the side issues I find more relevant. You can, and should, read the paper yourself and come to your own conclusions.  As it is written in a simplistic style (see below), it should be understandable to those without a STEM background.

This, a minor point from my STEM perspective is with the writing.  The style is aimed at a general, layman audience; it is not written in the typical style of an academic scientific paper, and some of the explanations given, particularly at the beginning, are obviously aimed at people with little understanding of biomedical science (HBDers?).  Also, the punctuation at times seems off, but that may be more of a British, rather than American, style.

Executive Summary – I believe that the author is on to something; I believe the effect discovered is most likely real. The author should be commended for this work.  However, it is flawed in some ways; see below.

Methods

If leftism is related to mutational pressure, we expect for there to be a paternal age effect for leftism. In other words, leftists should have older fathers on average. The object of this study was to test the hypothesis that leftists have older fathers. We also wanted to see if older fathers are more likely to be leftist, to rule out older fathers simply having more leftist genes, without de novo mutation playing a role.

It was discovered that leftists do have older fathers and that older fathers are not more leftist, favoring the de novo mutation hypothesis.

Conclusion: 

Based on the results, we conclude that there is compelling evidence for a paternal age effect for leftism. The next step is molecular confirmation. Studies which confirm the role of de novo mutation in being more leftist than parents, as well as studies which show increasing polygenic scores for leftism associated traits like openness and individualizing through time can molecularly confirm the role of mutational load and genetics more generally in the rise of leftism. The decline of asabiyyah seems to be a general feature of empire decline. We propose that the mechanism of asabiyyah decline is in fact mutational load increasing leftism in a population, potentially alongside immigrant gene flow. Further quantitative studies investigating the universality of the rise of features of leftism like feminism (decreased fertility, increased female driven sexual selection), homosexuality, and mass immigration of foreigners can further confirm this view. 

I agree that the data are consistent with the conclusion.  But let us consider some limitations of the paper, both those cited by the author and some I note.

Limitations

Key limitations of this study include the treatment of leftism and paternal age as a binary variable, and the lack of data on potential confounders like religiosity and birth order effects.

Those are valid, and moderately serious, limitations.

Also, some claim theories of more or less complicated mechanisms of environmental effects of ideas on behavior. The present author does not find this framework generally supported or valid…

Is it up to him to say?

…and therefore is not generally concerned with measuring religious participation as an important variable, but it is relatively common and other researchers (Rutherford, 2020) who seriously believe in it will want to rule out environmental hypotheses.

That is bizarre from an academic STEM viewpoint – dismissing an alternative hypothesis by claiming that you do “not find this framework generally supported or valid” and then telling others who “seriously believe” in the alternatives should test it. It would have been better to have spelled out, in detail, why the author “does not find this framework generally supported or valid,” followed by proposing tests of the various hypotheses.  

Some additional limitations I observed:

The author only looks at male offspring.  Perhaps that is done to eliminate the sex variable, but it does leave out half the population, which happens to be, on average, the more left-leaning half.  

Then:

These were not the fathers of the first group, which we do not have access to. Instead, they are meant to be a representative sample of fathers from, approximately, the generation that produced the individuals from the first sample. The main hypothesis for the second sample is that fathers who had children at older ages were not more leftist than fathers who had children at younger ages. Given that the fathers of the first sample come from the same population as the fathers from the second sample, this would show that older fathers of the first sample are not more leftist.

I see this as a major flaw. The measurement of the political views of the “fathers” (and their wives, presumably the mothers of the offspring) were done on a different group of men than the actual biological fathers of the offspring analyzed.  The author did not have access to the actual fathers and I cannot criticize the lack of data, given the limited resources of the study, and I understand that the author attempts to justify the use of the “mock fathers” by stating they come from the same population as the unknown real ones, but they are not the same people. The “mock fathers” may in fact be a good representation of the real ones, and an Occam’s Razor view would find that plausible. But from an extremely strict, scientifically sound, control all the variables, viewpoint, this is, as stated, a major flaw. The “fathers” and “sons” data sets were not actually genetically related (except for the possibility of a few overlaps by chance). It is theoretically possible that the real fathers and the “mock fathers” are different in some significant manner that would affect the results.

Participant age increasing, of course, predicts decreased leftism, since older people are less leftist. The odds ratios were 1.012 for each year of paternal age and 0.979 for each year of participant age.

It may be interesting to track leftism of offspring over time, to see if there are differences between leftism vs. age for people with younger or older fathers.

There is also the issue of confounding variables that have not been controlled for.  One example would be socioeconomic status (SES). It is reasonable to speculate that men with higher SES become fathers later in life than those with lower SES, as the former group may be busy when younger with higher education, career, etc. The latter, lower SES, group would be expected to have a “fast-life, r-selected strategy,” consistent with younger parenthood.  As a theoretical example, conservative fathers may have invested time in their younger adulthood building a business, establishing a lucrative professional career, etc. and then had children when older, in the context of enhanced personal wealth and a higher standard of living. Their sons growing up in the midst of inherited wealth and an easy life, protected from the harsh social realities extant today, would then be more liberal than their fathers, flitting around in college in the “humanities” and getting on the road to a hardcore leftist worldview.  If this sort of scenario is common in one form or another, it could explain the trend in the absence of the mutational mechanism.  I suppose if one were to spend time pondering the issue, other such confounders could be theorized.

Another point is that if the mutational hypothesis is correct, one would expect the leftist sons to have more physical/health problems than their rightist fathers (controlling for SES, etc.). And as the author says, molecular conformation ultimately will be necessary.

In summary, the findings are likely based on an underlying reality, but I wouldn’t classify the data and the conclusions as “high confidence.” It would be optimal if an academic with resources followed through on this idea, but I am not optimistic given academic bias.

Side Issues: 

Those who study empire decline have argued that the lack of certain selective pressures contributes to behavioral change in a population over 10-40 generations (Turchin, 2018). This behavioral change is marked by a decline in asabiyyah, a term introduced by Ibn Khaldun which roughly translates to “groupishness.” Khaldun theorized that asabiyyah declined following an increase in wealth. Peter Turchin theorized that it increases through prolonged exposure to “meta-ethnic frontiers”, areas of ethnic tension, over the course of 10-40 generations. He claimed that high asabiyyah predicts empire formation, and rots after a race becomes a successful imperial ethnicity with a lot of wealth. In support of this, he showed that empires form more than 90 % of the time in meta-ethnic frontiers, and that empire decline tends to last about 20-40 generations (Turchin, 2018). Multi-level selection theory lines up with research on “moral foundations” which attempts to predict political views from deeper sentiments. These sentiments, of course, are highly heritable (49 % – 66 %), meaning there is a lot of potential for genetic change (Zakharin & Bates, 2023). Leftists have been shown to have depressed “binding” sentiments and increased “individualizing” sentiments (Graham et al., 2009) relative to conservatives. Binding sentiments essentially map onto “groupishness”, as they include group loyalty and sexual morality.

Does this help answer the Italian Question – why Italians are, in general, atomized individualists who exhibit a propensity to ethnic self-abasement, why the tend to be lazy hedonistic cowards, and why when grouped together in a large group (i.e., Italy and Italian institutions) they tend to be catastrophically inept?  I have previously speculated that the Italian stock became exhausted because of the Roman Empire, and the loss of Italian asabiyyah could also correlate to Frost’s concept of “genetic pacification.”  Thus, as a result of the Roman state, 2,000+ years of genetics, and historical exhaustion, the depleted Italian stock is low in asabiyyah and is genetically pacified.

By the way, the asabiyyah metric is not a reason to favor ethnonationalism over Pan-Europeanism, despite the “empire” connection to declining asabiyyah.  First, a Pan-European Imperium would not be an empire per se, but a voluntary confederation of nations.  Second, “meta-ethnic frontiers” would exist between “the West” and “the Rest” so that asabiyyah-boosting “ethnic tension” would certainly exist.  Third, asabiyyah has been in free-fall in the individual nations of “the West” independent of empire, so empire is not the most relevant factor. Any decline in selective pressure, such as “Western” wealth and standard of living, and particular cultural aspects (favoring the weak and botched over the strong; a culture of de facto and de jure Bioleninism), could be responsible.

There is also E. O. Wilson’s idea of the “multiplier effect” (Wilson, 2000). “A small evolutionary change in the behavior pattern of individuals can be amplified into a major social effect by the expanding upward distribution of the effect into multiple facets of social life. Consider, for example, the differing social organizations of the related olive baboon (Papio anubis) and hamadryas baboon (P. hamadryas). These two species are so close genetically that they interbreed extensively where their ranges overlap and could reasonably be classified as no more than subspecies. The hamadryas male is distinguished by its proprietary attitude toward females, which is total and permanent, whereas the olive male attempts to appropriate females only around the time of their estrus. This difference is only one of degree, and would scarcely be noticeable if one’s interest were restricted in each species to the activities of a single dominant male and one consort female. Yet this trait alone is enough to account for profound differences in social structure, affecting the size of the troops, the relationship of troops to one another, and the relationship of males within each troop.” In other words, there is ethological reason to believe that political behaviors are the most sensitive to changes in the genome. Minor changes in behavior can result in large changes to the aggregate social structure. Civil rights, feminism, and gay marriage may seem like radical steps that are hard to explain with small mutational pressures, but the multiplier effect can in theory make small individual changes result in huge aggregate changes to a society.

This would also explain and answer the Italian Question as well. The collapse of Italian asabiyyah and resulting sociopolitical consequences do not need to be due to large genetic-behavioral changes, nor necessarily traits exhibited by the vast majority of the population.  Consistent small effects, exhibited by a large fraction of the population, exerted over long time periods by large numbers of people, influenced by historical events, could result in significant differences in ethnic mass social-cultural behavior, such as what we observe with The Inadequate Italian.

The multiplier effect is a double-edged sword. This, it makes degeneration occur quickly and such degeneration can be induced by small (genetically-encoded) cognitive and behavioral changes.  However, it also means that minor changes for the better with respect to cognition and behavior can be multiplied over mass society to effect positive societal-cultural-civilizational outcomes. Of course, given the role of sociopolitical and sociobiological entropy in civilizational sociopolitical thermodynamics, degeneration is always easier than regeneration; the civilizational free energy change favors a tendency toward easier, more spontaneous, higher-entropy degeneration.  

But if one puts in the effort, if one puts in the energy, one could move in the direction of lower-entropy societal regeneration.  Eugenics can assist in this regard. Thus, Italians, or any other group, could exhibit marked group improvement by shifting heritable mental traits in a direction of higher asabiyyah and lower genetic pacification (and higher IQ, etc.).

More On Our Failure

Reasons.

While presentation and optics are important, the failures of our side have deeper origins. I will list and describe the most fundamental of these.

1. Whites are less ethnocentric than other groups. This is a prime fundamental problem that obviously has no quick fix.

2. Elites side with the Left. There are many reasons why they do so – economic, ethnic, etc. One major factor among those elites who know better is their apparent belief that a slow decline is preferable compared to some sort of catastrophic racial reckoning to actually solve the race/culture/diversity problem. They would rather “punt” the problem downstream to future generations than to suffer the consequences of “lancing the boil” and dealing it with now. Riding out a long slow decline is their preferred strategy; however, if the elites can be convinced that the decline may be faster than they thought, and a precipitous collapse is coming sooner than they predicted, some change in their attitude may occur. But I am not sanguine about that.

The Elite-Left alliance is what produces social pricing against the Right, particularly the Far Right, and what produces hate speech laws and other examples of repression against Whites defending their group interests. Rightists believe they have more to personally lose via activism than the Left, and that is true, but that is a secondary downstream effect of the more fundamental issues at play.

There is no way out but through the elites. There’s only two ways I see this happening – either, as alluded to above, some fraction of the elites can be convinced to take our side, even if for no other reason than self-interest, or the System collapses to such an extent that the elites lose much of their power and interests conducive to our side can fill part of the power vacuum.  Well, there’s a third way as well, but unlikely given the retarded mindset of the Right – infiltration of the System so parts of the elite are slowly replaced by us. That’ll take time that we can ill afford (it should have been started decades ago), and will require a level of discipline, seriousness, and long-term strategic thinking severely lacking on the Right.

3. People on the Left (and Jews in general, compared to Whites) are more serious and psychologically intense than those on the Right.

The Right, in its juvenile stupidity and HBD-inspired obtuseness, mocks this psychological intensity as “neuroticism.”  Well, if that’s the case, all I say is we need a lot more neurotics on our side. I suppose Yockey and Hitler are examples of “neurotics.”  Well, that’s what we need, not a dispassionate analysis of “high Asian IQ” written by a placid milksop being sodomized by a strap-on-wearing Chinatrix.

If people on our side really believe in White Genocide and The Great Replacement, they certain don’t act like it. Even when one controls for psychological intensity and for Elite preferences, leftists always seem to outcompete rightists.  There may be another behavioral traits at play that result in the Left always being more active, more dissatisfied with the status quo, more aggressive, more involved in every way, apart from the general trend of psychological intensity.  It well may be that those with a more rightist mindset value stability and “conservative” (broadly defined) behavior as compared to the Left.  There is also a basic asymmetry between the inherently forward-looking, futurist, progressive, revolutionary, optimistic, utopian mindset of the Left and the inherently backward-looking, reactionary, pessimistic, “Golden Age in the past,” mindset that unfortunately characterizes the Right.  The former tends to promote action and self-sacrifice; the latter to suppress it.

Of course, from a “thermodynamic” perspective, the Left’s objectives of chaos and degeneration are far easier to achieve. Yet, paradoxically, the Left puts more effort into their more achievable goals than the Right does to its less achievable ones.  Is it that the Left has confidence that their work will pay off and that the Right believes that “resistance is futile?”

To summarize – the grand secret of the Dissident Right is that no one actually wants to do anything. By “anything” I mean effective, meaningful, rational, legal political and metapolitical activism. The mantra – when in doubt, do nothing; when not in doubt, do nothing; in all possible circumstances, do nothing.  It’s all a joke, just entertainment for hobbyists. Of course, the (Far) Right always loses. To them, it is just entertainment.  The Left wages war; the Right has fun. The former always wins; the latter always loses. Why are we surprised?

4. Paradox – the Left supports affirmative action for the broad society but generally practices meritocracy among its own ranks, while the Right supports meritocracy for the broad society but practices affirmative action in its own ranks – especially in the Far Right.  Your “leaders” are meritless, juvenile incompetents whose major objectives ultimately revolve around fundraising.

5. Bad dogma. The crazy and stupid dogma of the “movement” attracts low quality individuals and alienates those of higher quality (including STEM people and academics/intellectuals in general) and also contributes to the abovementioned affirmative action program. It is ludicrous nonsense promoted by meritless losers (see point four) to entertain the useless hobbyists who constitute the rank-and-file (see point three) to elicit donations (see point four again).  Serious people are repulsed by “movement” nonsense.  You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear; putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t make it an attractive woman.  Dressing up “movement” trash with “good optics” and “good aesthetics” doesn’t make it any less trash.

Other serious issues like social pricing and the low quality of the human material among rank-and-file “activists” derive from one of more of the abovementioned five basic problems; therefore the listed problems are those most fundamental (although everything is connected to each other; I am simplifying very complex issues for the sake of illustration).

All of the five problems listed above are difficult to solve, but some are relatively easier to solve than others.  Among the difficult ones to solve is number one – the relative lack of White ethnocentrism. Number one is likely to be solved only by long term selection – if Whites survive – and the only thing to do now is to coalesce together more ethnocentric Whites who naturally will be more attracted to our cause. Numbers two, four, and five are theoretically solvable, at least partially, they are those that are easier to solve in a relative sense, but it is unlikely in the extreme that anything will be done in that regard, at least for the foreseeable future. Number three seems almost as intractable as number one. There seems to be innate behaviors characteristic of rightists, of Whites, and thus particularly of White rightists, and one may as well try to reason with a brick than to get most of these people to be serious, committed, consistent activists. The human material to get things done just does not exist on the Right.  It does on the Left; hence their constant winning, as opposed to the fake and delusional “we’re winning” nonsense coming from right-wing retards and grifters.

I am not sanguine about solving any of this.  But we should at least understand what the real problems are, so those few among us on the Right who are serious do not waste more time and energy trying to “fix” false problems.

One more thing.  In my analysis of point five I wrote of trashy “movement” dogma:

Serious people are repulsed by “movement” nonsense.  You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear; putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t make it an attractive woman.  Dressing up “movement” trash with “good optics” and “good aesthetics” doesn’t make it any less trash.

The opposite is a concern. I understand that optics and aesthetics are important.  A public speaker – at least one from the Right – should look and act respectable and not be a babbling disheveled wreck. Written material should be coherent and logical, with proper spelling and grammar. Audio and/or visual material should be presented effectively. There needs to be collaboration between people skilled at message content and those skilled at message presentation (but this would require people to be active and actually do things, so we’re back to square one).

Very well.  But why should optics and aesthetics of a message be considered as important, or even more important, than the actual content of the message?  I have problem with the idea that important content, serious messages, powerful paradigms, objective facts will be ignored if they are not presented with all sorts of “bells and whistles” and made into a “catching” entertainment presentation.  One can argue that I am confusing prescriptive and descriptive, that I am uselessly complaining about what should be, rather than pragmatically dealing with the reality of what is – the reality that people need entertaining aesthetics to pay attention to serious sociopolitical messages.

Maybe.  But there’s a place for prescription here. Serious people, the type of people who will actually DO things, seem to me to be the type of people who would focus on message content rather than an entertaining message delivery.  I can point out that entertaining aesthetics are no guarantee of success.  The British National Party produced a very well-made and entertaining video that had ZERO success and ZERO real-world impact.  You can pour all your time and effort into optics and aesthetics and problem number three will still exist – the do-nothings will be nicely entertained by your content and then proceed to continue to do absolutely nothing. The end result is the same regardless of optics and aesthetics – endless failure, endless inertia, and endless nothing.  If we cannot attract serious people with serious messaging, then the serious people we require do not exist (as seems to be the case) and the entire effort is for nothing.

If we just put out entertainment, we will attract those who want to be entertained. That may be a good business model for Der Movement’s “brand” that has its objective as fundraising, but is a poor political activist model for serious people.

Maybe we are all really doomed.

But, if that is so, maybe we should focus our attention on the small number of serious people (of they exist) who are primarily attracted to message content?  That prescription may run afoul of descriptive reality and end in failure.  Almost certainly it will.. But concentrating on optics and aesthetics will also almost certainly end in failure as well.

Insurgent Supremacists

Book review: Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, by Matthew N. Lyons.

See this. There’s a mention of your humble blog author in that book, so let’s examine Lyons’ trashy work.

It is described on Amazon thus:

In this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism.

A major study of movements that strive to overthrow the U.S. government, that often claim to be anti-imperialist and sometimes even anti-capitalist yet also consciously promote inequality, hierarchy, and domination, generally along explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic lines. Revolutionaries of the far right: insurgent supremacists.

Intervening directly in debates within left and antifascist movements, Lyons examines both the widespread use and abuse of the term “fascism,” and the relationship between federal security forces and the paramilitary right. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right’s shifting responses to it.

About the Author

Matthew N. Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 25 years. He writes regularly for Three Way Fight, a radical anti-fascist blog, and his work has also appeared in The Guardian, New Politics, Socialism and Democracy, teleSUR, Upping the Anti, and other publications. He is co-author Right-Wing Populism in America and author of Arier, Patriarchen, Übermenschen: die extreme Rechte in den USA.

Over 25 years – they’re obsessed with us.

Hmmm…”radical anti-fascist blog.”  Consider the definition of terrorism:

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims.

The well-known actions of anti-fascists are, therefore, by definition, terrorism. Support for anti-fascists is, therefore, by definition, support for terrorism. So, when are such people going to be held accountable for supporting domestic terrorism? Do you need more evidence of the close association between the System (including global capitalism) and the so-called “anti-capitalist Marxist and Anarchist anti-fascist” Left? The latter are the running dogs of the former; thus, they are allowed to be terrorists with impunity. Nevertheless, the Right should continue to press for anti-terror laws to be applied to anti-fascists and their supporters. The leftist paradigm of “rightist speech is violence and leftist violence is speech” must be exposed and opposed. I also dislike when rightists praise leftist authors because “he/she/it took my ideas seriously and wrote about them.” Supporters of leftist terrorism belong in prison, not being praised by idiotic rightists who get an ego boost seeing their names in print.

By the way, the close association of the System with the Radical Left is why the latter concentrates on the negative of opposing our side rather than promoting any positive plan of their own. Since the System is doing the Left’s work for them, all the leftists need to do is stop the Far Right from opposing the System-Left agenda. Global Capital and the Radical Left are two heads of the same monster. 

I note that Lyons, in this book, makes clear that from his perspective the Far Right should be studied so it can be more effectively opposed, and that the anti-fascist fight is part of a larger struggle for “human liberation” (apparently Whites are either insufficiently human to be liberated and/or too excessively “dominant” to require “liberation” – more on this hypocrisy below). That he labels White nationalists “supremacists” demonstrates that he is a biased ideologue whose has lost any right to have his work considered “legitimate,” and his bizarre spin about the oppressive nature of the USA against his favorite groups – who are actually a favored caste both de jure and de facto – is laughable.  

Even more ludicrous are assertions of connections between the System and the Far Right, and that the former sometimes makes use of the latter.  If you substitute “Left” for “Right” then that would be more accurate.  The System uses “Marxist” and “anarchist” anti-fascist domestic terror groups (the kind Lyons apparently supports) as private militias to suppress the only genuine dissent against the System, that coming from the Far Right. Observe how the System treats the Far Right – or even just civic nationalist right-wing populists (that I do not consider Far Right, although Lyons seems to do so) – compared to the Far Left.  Far rightists are subject to criminal and civil lawfare attack, while violent radical leftists get a slap on the wrist, if even that. Compare the persecution and prosecution of Jan. 6 protestors to the complete lack of investigation and prosecution of the 2020 Floyd rioters (including murder and attempted murder [including the attempted mass murder of Portland police], arson, assault and battery, besieging the White House, threatening Senators, and the full-scale insurrection of establishing an “autonomous zone” in a major American city). Compare lawfare against rightists involved in Unite the Right vs. the lack of response to violent anti-fascists who instigated the trouble on that day.  Compare the deplatforming of rightists vs. the coddling of the Left – who does “capital” support?  Who do major corporations donate to – BLM or the Dissident Right?  The idea of any positive association of the System with the Far Right is mendacious pure projection.  Global Capital is in bed with the Far Left, which is supported by objective observation of the on-the-ground reality.

If Lyons had any self-awareness, he’d compare his own status as an overt Far Left activist vs. those on the Far Right. People on the (American) Far Right are deplatformed, subjected to lawfare, are physically attacked with impunity, and/or hide their identities. Insofar as I know, Lyons, a leftist activist, has not been deplatformed, subject to lawfare or any sort of attack, etc.  So how is America tacitly manifesting White supremacism?  How are Whites “dominant?” How is the System cooperating with the Far Right in any way?  I won’t even mention the open legal persecution of the Far Right in Europe via criminal prosecution, banning of political parties, “hate speech” laws, etc. Reality is completely inverted by the Left.

Further, the bias of Lyons is demonstrated by his outrageous labeling as “myths” the idea that Whites are oppressed (instead the “fact” is that people of color are “oppressed,” despite his admission of the reality of civil rights and affirmative action) and the idea of White genocide. Further, after stating that a characteristic of “White supremacy” is the desire to rule over other groups, he then states that White nationalism is a form of “White supremacy,” despite admitting that a defining characteristic of White nationalism is a Whites-only state. So, wishing to live apart from others, each having their own nations, is somehow a “supremacist” desire to rule over others?  Leftism must be akin to a form of mental illness, because the lack of logic here, the utter lack of self-awareness to write such nonsense, is simply astonishing. That is the sort of trashy nonsense this book is full of. I note that Lyons also describes the idea of male victimhood as a “false belief.” Lyons is simply a knee-jerk, dogmatic, garden-variety leftist, simply of a more radical persuasion. Coloreds and women are “oppressed;” Whites and men are oppressors.  White men are the worst. To repeat myself – the Left has nothing new to say, nothing new and/or interesting to offer. They can simply only oppose those on the Far Right who do.

The sections of the book are as follows. 

Section one is composed of a survey of various entities that Lyons considers part of the American Far Right. I list on the left his naming of these entities and on the right is my own translation.

  • Neonazis – Type I Nutzi freaks
  • Theocrats – Christards
  • The Patriot Movement – Alt Lite civic nationalist Amnat Patriotard idiots
  • The Alt-Right – Beavis and Butthead White nationalism
  • The LaRouche Network – tin foil hats

Section two is “Neglected Theses” – Gender and Sexuality, Anti-Imperialism, and Decentralism. Note that “Decentralism” feeds into the author’s thesis that the American Far Right has moved away from advocacy of a strong central state and now promotes decentralized local structures – a thesis that suggests to me that Lyons may be too foolish to distinguish a temporary expedient from an actual political philosophy and/or he focuses too much on Christards, MAGA types, patriot freaks, and the like, instead of on authentic White nationalists (many of who still promote the idea of state power – of their future projected racial nationalist state).

Section three is “Partners, Rivals, Opponents” (Feds, Leftists, Trump, blah, blah, blah). That is followed by a conclusion “Disloyalty in Motion” (a bit too revealing as it tacitly exposes the Left’s loyalty to multiculturalist Global Capital), and an Appendix “Two Ways of Looking at Fascism.”                                                                                                                                     

Lyons defines the Far Right has consisting of those who believe in the fact and desirability of human inequality and who reject the current political system as illegitimate.  Indeed, he thinks a “turning point” occurred in the 1970s and 80s in which significant numbers of (American) rightists “began to withdraw loyalty from the U.S. government.” Well, “significant” is the important word here, since there were those earlier who had withdrawn such loyalty, Yockey prominent among them, but I suppose he’s talking about rank-and-file activists and most of their leaders. Of course, one could look at it the other way around – the American government withdrew any loyalty it ever had for the White majority, so a reaction to that was inevitable.

In the Appendix, he attempts to define fascism. After considering ludicrous Marxist “definitions” (fascism as a reactionary tool of capitalism, blah, blah, blah) and Roger Griffin’s views, he concludes with “Fascism is better understood as an autonomous right-wing force that has a contradictory relationship with capital and that draws mass support largely by advocating a revolution against established valued and institutions.”  In the Introduction, he provides the following: “Fascism is a revolutionary form of right-wing populism, inspired by a totalitarian vision of collective rebirth, that [sic] challenges capitalist political and cultural power while promoting economic and social hierarchy.”  That is a reasonable definition.

He asserts that Marxists have failed to consider actual fascist ideology and that Griffin does not properly consider fascism’s “scope and prospects today.”  He thus considers his own view of fascism as a superior synthesis of previous definitions. Further, he proposes that the political reality is not the Manichean Marxist view of a two-way battle between “liberation” and “oppression” but a three-way battle between fascism, global capital, and leftists. 

There is some utility in his Appendix. I’ll give him credit for recognizing that elements of the American Far Right are currently trying to appeal to non-Whites. While I critique (see below, my conclusion) Lyons and other leftists for misunderstanding the Far Right and being years behind in being up-to-date with Far Right reality, in this one case Lyons was actually prescient, foreseeing the emergence of WN 3.0 multiracial “White nationalism.” 

I note that there is no mention of “genetic interests,” ”ethnic genetic interests,” etc. in this book; unfortunately that reflects Der Movement’s stupid disregard for the work of Salter on those topics. Salter was the one who promoted democratic multiculturalism, and despite me always giving the proper credit and despite Lyon’s concerns about this strategy, Salter is still not mentioned by Lyons. That Salter is not American is irrelevant, as his work is important for us, and, anyway, people like Dugin are referenced, so being American has nothing to do with it.  Salter’s ideas have been sadly neglected, and if I hadn’t been championing them, would have been quickly completely forgotten (even more than it actually is now), shortly after the publication of On Genetic Interests.

As far as neo-Nazis go, Lyons’ chapter is a superficial historical summary, full of leftist bias (Far Right claims and ideas are all “phony”), coupled to the usual lack of self-awareness. Lyons truthfully underscores that the Nutzis have failed and failed utterly, and mentions how their ideas are unpopular and marginalized in society, how they are denounced by everyone, and how they have been subjected to legal persecutions and prosecutions. Yet, they are a “danger.” Further, the same America that marginalizes and persecutes neo-Nazis and other elements of the Far Right is somehow characterized by a “dominant” White population and a system that cooperates with the Far Right; indeed, America is really an implicit hidden-occult “White supremacist” country that persecutes Coloreds. That is why, of course, Farrakhan can hold a “million man march” with impunity, but Dickie Spinster got elbowed upside his head whenever he dared show his face in public. What an inane boob this Lyons is.

The sections on the Christards and Patriotards were tiresomely boring and mostly irrelevant to the areas of interest to this blog. After noting that these types often disavow racism, Lyons claims these groups sometimes have “common ground” with dastardly White nationalists. So, having common interests is apparently evidence of a dangerous association when it is the Right; for the Left it would simply be another step toward “liberation.” Lyons is not satisfied with people disavowing racism, not only because of their “common ground” with racists, but because color blind ideology enables “structural racism.” You just can’t win Patriotards, you just can’t win.

Then there’s the Alt-Right, the part of the book of most interest to me since it is most relevant to today’s “movement” and it is the part of the book where I am mentioned. Thus, on page 77, there is a mention of your humble blog host, the dastardly Theodore:

One approach has been to propose working within the system in order to weaken it, advocating changes that sound reasonable but require radical change—a right-wing version of the Trotskyist transitional demand strategy. Ted Sallis, for example, urged White nationalists to “demand a seat at the multicultural table, represented by real advocates of White interests, not groveling patsies.” This would involve using the language of multiculturalism to complain about “legitimate” cases of discrimination against Whites or members of other dominant groups. The aim here would not be “reforming the System. It is instead using the contradictions and weaknesses of the System against itself…

Note scare quotes around “legitimate.” How dare Whites complain about discrimination!  More importantly, note how the democratic multiculturalism strategy bothers these types, a sure sign that it is something they fear and for good reason – it can work, and it is something that can practically be done in the real world. And how dare rightists adopt useful methods from leftists!  Also note “dominant.”  If Whites were really “dominant” in America, as opposed to the reality of being an oppressed subaltern group, then many of our problems would not exist, would they?  Also, categorizing me as Far Right is correct, but if there is the idea here that I am of the Alt-Right, that is absolutely incorrect. In any case, Lyons cited this. That is what he was concerned about.

The Alt-Right collapsed after he wrote the book (published in 2018); the disintegration started as early as 2017. From the perspective of 2024, Lyons’ Alt-Right chapter is painfully out-of-date and I would argue that even at the time it was published it painted an incomplete picture of the American Dissident Right (that Lyons mistakenly conflated with the Alt-Right subspecies).  Lyons stresses some things (e.g., decentralization, minor and stupid characters) more than other ideas and figures (I could have been given more analysis than a single brief mention about democratic multiculturalism). There’s nothing in the book about the pan-European, ethnonationalist, Nordicism debates, the ethnic question, and so many other important things are left out. The chapter on the LaRouche group is completely irrelevant.  

The “Neglected Themes” sections for the most part are both leftist bias and Lyons’ personal bias.  As I say, once again, he overemphasizes the extent to which the American Far Right stresses decentralization – although of course maybe I’m biased because the area of the Far Right I focus most of my interest in is not decentralizing (I argue that the part I focus on is the most important). Further, with all of his emphasis on decentralization, Lyons could have devoted an entire chapter to Roger Griffin’s Rhizome/Slime Mold hypothesis and the concept of groupuscules, and my own thoughts on the matter could have been analyzed. Griffin’s thesis revolves around political and metapolitical decentralization on the Far Right, which seems to be more relevant and important than a bunch of retards “larping” as Jeffersonians or (right-wing) anarchists.

On sex and gender, Lyons asserts that the Far Right chooses between one of four models: patriarchal traditionalism, demographic nationalism, male bonding through warfare, and quasi-feminism.  To put these in the language that we can better understand, this would be the traditionalists, adaptive-minded racial nationalists, the “smear yourself with ashes and go on a moot” crown and the homosexual “bonding” “Mannerbund” crowd, and the right-wing simps. A lot of this, particularly the first group (obviously not so much the third), revolves around a more traditional militant Christianity. One of the arguments of the quasi-feminists is that, according to Molly Gill, if you “ride herd too hard” then “she’s likely to slip in a little miscegenation.”  It’s the fault of overbearing men, you see, that poor persecuted White milady lies in bed with DeShawn. Another “empowered” right-wing female, Lee Ann Callear, said “If men are a problem, just go around them like a brick wall.”  I have no doubt that it is White men who are meant. Andrew Yeoman criticized the “constant litany of abuse and frequent courtship invitations from unwanted suitors” that milady faces in the “movement” and that “We need women’s help, now more than ever.” Yeoman apparently has no problem with right wing e-thots exploiting their sexuality and their attractiveness for men for the purpose of attention-seeking and grifting. Milady does whatever milady wants, and don’t you forget it! 

There’s a mention of Johnson’s pro-homosexual writing here as well; further comment by me here is superfluous. There is of course mention of the manosphere, as well as “macho man” homosexual Donovan. With respect to anti-imperialism and decentralization, Lyons contrasts the “bad” Far Right versions of these with the “good” leftist versions (and Lyons increasingly uses “we” to describe leftists, dropping any pretense of the slightest degree of objectivity). With respect to anti-imperialism, Lyons grossly overestimates the influence (positive or negative) of Dugin in the American Far Right, and he also stupidly describes Yockey’s ideology as akin to “National Bolsevism,” misinterpreting Yockey’s “lesser of two evils” strategy of cooperation with the Soviet Bloc as some sort of “Nazi-Communist” synthesis. In the decentralization chapter, Lyons not only overestimates (as I stress here) decentralizing trends in the American Far Right, but ludicrously smears mainstream libertarians as facilitating “oppression” because they fail to buy into the Neo-Marxist “race/sex replacing class” dogma of the modern Left.

The “Partners, Rivals, Opponents” section of the book is particularly boring and inane. The section on Feds describes Timothy McVeigh as “neonazi,” which I find completely ludicrous. Lyons admits that anti-fascism can lead to societal repression (do you have a mirror handy, Matt?) and also discusses counterinsurgency (COIN) tactics, including infiltration and disruption, targeted toward the Right. The piece ends with an interesting quote by someone named Kristian Williams: “As a matter of realpolitik the authorities have to respond in some manner to popular demands; however, COIN allows them to do so in a way that at least preserves, and in the best case amplifies, their overall control. The purpose of counterinsurgency is to prevent any real shift in power.”  The part about “respond in some manner to popular demands” fits into my (and Salter’s) advocacy of democratic multiculturalism, and also to my strategic approach centered on Suvorov’s Law of Revolution – revolutions tend not to occur at the time of greatest repression but when that repression is suddenly relaxed.  Forcing the System to respond in some positive conciliatory manner to right-wing popular demands is one way of pushing toward that relaxation.  What about COIN and the System objective of controlling the effect of any response on their part to our demands?  That is why we must infiltrate the System and have some people on our side with at least some influence over the levers of power, and we need to be wary of System attempts to channel dissent into useless dead-end cul-se-sacs. Instead, we need to channel dissent into even greater dissent.

The leftists mentioned in this section are even more dysfunctional (from a Bioleninist and irrationality standpoint) than is the Far Right, although from the standpoint of practical success and getting things done in the real world, the Left has so far proven itself to be superior to the Right. Lyons more aggressively unmasks himself here as a subjective political actor studying the Right in order to better oppose it.  He does reveal leftist stupidities and hysterias, such as labeling “Dubya” Bush as “fascist,” although Lyons himself makes ludicrous comments about “commonalities” between fascism and historical mainstream American politics and social policies.

Lyons overemphasizes the role (if any) of the Far Right in Trump’s 2016 electoral victory (Lyons apparently believes that the Alt-Right played a key role; this is ludicrous). Lyon asserts that, at the time of the writing of the book, the Trump-Russia collusion scenario is still possible; how did that all work out in the end?  I am amused that Lyons says that Alt-Righters believed that the Trump Presidency would give them “breathing room.” If so, they certainly didn’t act upon it, drawing attention to themselves via destructive stupidity, rather than taking my advice (given at that time) to use the “breathing room” to quietly build in depth behind the scenes, with the major overt activity being superficially more “mainstream” electoral politics, focused on extending right-wing populism as far as it could go. Lyons does expose the silliness of considering the useless, “all talk and no action” Trump as a fascist and underscores Trump’s lazy do-nothing attitude. Lyons emphasizes that Trump’s ostensible MAGA agenda was obstructed by elements within his administration, as the Trump governing structure contained incompatible elements both supportive of and opposed to mainstream conservatism.  Added to the “disorganization and confusion,” the result was an unfulfilled agenda.  

Lyons outlines the contrasting view of the Alt-Right to Trump’s Presidency, but the book was written before Trump “jumped the shark” in 2020, responding to mass leftist insurrection with “LAW AND ORDER!” tweets, followed by The Platinum Plan for Negroes. On the other hand, the Jan. 6 “insurrection” would no doubt have led to heavy breathing on Lyons’ part if it had occurred at a time that it could have been included in this book. I note that Lyons asserts that “neo-Nazis” not part of the Alt-Right “tended to be more skeptical of Donald Trump from the beginning,” but there is no mention of the dastardly Ted Sallis, who critiqued Trump as early as the 2016 campaign. I think that Lyons is, or at least was, aware of Sallis only insofar as Terrible Ted was featured in Counter-Currents in the past; I am skeptical that Lyons is or was aware of my work as an independent groupuscule.  

According to Lyons, the grand dilemma for the Far Right, re; Trump is “To what extent and under what circumstances should you support a system-loyal politician who shares many of your politics?  How do you balance the importance of holding fast to political principles against the value of expanded visibility, legitimacy, and influence?” There are many things wrong with these two questions. As a start, let me say this – first, it is questionable that Trump actually “shares many of [our] politics;” second, Far Right support is currently meaningless in the grand scheme of things given how laughably inept Der Movement is; and third, does Der Movement have any “principles” other than bizarre dogma and grifting for donations?  Further, someone in the Far Right can pragmatically endorse Trump (not that it means anything in the real world) because he brings chaos and balkanization to America, while realizing he is a fraud and a weakling, which has consistently been my position. I agree with Lyons that the emergence of Trump as a political figure (not what he actually is, has done, or will do, but what he represents) is indicative that the American political system is in crisis.  Unfortunately, the moronic American Far Right has so far proven itself incapable of capitalizing on this crisis.  Indeed, it is worse off now than it was when Trump ride down that elevator.

As regards the Appendix, I have already discussed it above, and his Conclusion is useless and inane. He complains in the latter that the Far Right is learning “street fighting.”  Sure they are – if by “street fighting” you mean getting attacked by anti-fascists with impunity and then those attacked – not the attackers – are subjected to legal persecution, and those attacked abandon the public space, yeah, that certainly is some hardcore “street fighting.”  Lyons is upset in this book that the violence by anti-fascists is “exaggerated.” Sure it is.  We certainly saw that in 2020, didn’t we? He concludes that the American Far Right is defined by withdrawal of loyalty to the state, as opposed to the attitude of the Mainstream Right.  Perhaps, but who cares?  What is the current effect on the System of that withdrawal? Nothing. Lyons concludes with “The conflict between the far right and the existing system of power is real, but a politics of liberation calls on us to defeat both.” To which I respond with: “The conflict between the (Far) Left and the existing system of power is an illusion, as they are both two wings of the same entity, and a politics of White liberation calls on us to defeat all of our enemies.”

My Conclusion:

It is always good to check up what the other side is saying about us, and since I was mentioned, that was added incentive.

To summarize, I take the following from this book.  As I’ve stated many times, the Left has nothing new to offer.  The whole meaning of the Far Left today is so-called anti-fascism, a defensive left-reactionary counterpart to the right-reactionary anti-communism and anti-liberalism of the Mainstream Right.  Since the System and the Far Left are de facto allies against the Far Right, the Left is most concerned about a merely negative effort to stop Far Right activity, to “run out the clock,” and let the gradualism of the System’s inherent leftism achieve the Far Left’s goals. Also, as I have written before, the Left really does not understand the Far Right very well.  Even the self-proclaimed “experts” like Lyons, the academics, and the watchdog groups misunderstand much, emphasize the wrong things, and are years behind actual developments.  They also cannot see past their own biases; all of these weaknesses of theirs are of benefit to us. They are of course incredibly deluded and hypocritical, and, although they are wrong about much concerning the Far Right, they are still dangerous given their fanaticism and, especially, their close alliance with the organs of state power, as part of their alliance with Global Capital. Sorry, Lyons, it really is a two way fight, but the opposite of what the Left thinks.  It is in reality the System/Global Capital allied with the Left against the only real opposition – the Far Right.

I also note that – to the extent that people like Lyons actually do understand something about the Far Right, however misinterpreted, biased, and (sometimes) outdated it may be – these leftists are very revealing as to what it is they really fear. They do NOT really fear Nutzi freaks, Christards, idiots acting out, and all the rest. They ARE afraid of serious political actors on the Far Right who take several pages out of the Left’s playbook and promote democratic multiculturalism (see the quote about me, above), reach out to the White working class and offer novel solutions to the problems of globalization and run-away capitalism, make use of populism, make use of cultural critiques, make use of deconstructing the flawed ideology of opponents, and make use of the legal system and of electoral politics. The more the Far Right gibbers about nonsense and does nothing of practical political use, the happier people like Lyons are, but the more our side learns from the likes of Trotsky and Alinsky, the more worried the leftists become. And most of all they fear that the illusion of “the Far Left against the System” will be exposed as the fraud that it is, and the reality that the Far Right is the only real opposition to the System, and has supplanted the Far Left as the real revolutionary force in what used to be the West, will be recognized for the truth that it is.

It says a lot about the Left, and their insecurity, that Lyons felt it necessary to write a book analyzing what, for the most part, is a failed “movement,” full of freaks, grifters, addicts, fetishists, and lazy procrastinators. The Left becomes hysterical about the slightest Far Right presence; it is like a tall, powerful martial artist being frightened because he’s getting kicked in the shins by a small, weak, spastic, five year old retard.

Don’t worry Lyons – The Grand Secret of the American Far Right is that no one wants to do anything. It’s an entertainment brand, a grift, a hobby, there’s no serious political activity there, looking at it in its entirety. When someone emerges in that milieu who is serious and has some useful ideas, they’re ignored, banned, and blacklisted. In his Appendix, he quotes some who say that leftists underestimate the potential of fascism to attract mass support in the USA and abroad. Perhaps, but it is only potential, and the Far Right with their “we’re winning” nonsense genuinely or cynically (for donations) overestimates their influence.  Potential without actualization is historically meaningless.

In any case, we can at least praise Lyons for trying to understand the Far Right while we at the same time ridicule the pathetic mess he made of it. Maybe we should analyze the Left, and do a better job of it, but then we are not obsessed with them as they are with us. I suppose we should be thankful that they are so biased, misinformed, and irrational that their “learn about the Far Right so we can oppose them” analyses are so substandard.

Finally, Lyons and his ilk have a fundamental flaw in their professed ideology.  If they believe in “liberation” why does that not include Far Right Whites, who wish to be liberated from multiculturalism and form a separatist state of their own? If some Whites want their own nation, why can’t they have it, particularly if they grant the same right to others, in accord with Salter’s principal of Universal Nationalism?  Why must these Whites be forced to live with those that they do not wish to live with; why must they be coerced into multiculturalism?  Don’t Whites have the same rights of demographic and cultural survival and integrity as other groups?  Why does the Left oppose the right of some Whited to live the life they wish to live?  That the Left disapproves of Far Right preferences should have nothing to do with it, especially from the moral and ethical “liberation” standpoint. The Left routinely tells the rest of us that we need to respect the rights of others whose preferences we may disagree with. How come we must accord these rights to others if we are not allowed to enjoy them ourselves?  These are not rhetorical questions – the Left should be made to answer them.  Or, perhaps I can answer these questions by stating that the Left’s purported support for “liberation” is a sham; the Left’s ideology is based on a totalitarian messianic vision of humanity and humanity’s future that is inimical to White interests, and all must be forced to comply with this vision, regardless of their own beliefs, desires, and preferences. Thus, Far Right Liberation Ideology must oppose the Left’s Messianic Totalitarianism.

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Odds and Ends, 1/7/24

In der news.

The HBD race realists are somewhat illogical. First, they promote an ideology in which people/hominids are judged based on a hierarchical ranking of traits such as IQ, behavior, etc. Then they tell us that Asians are superior to Whites by all such standards. Finally, they then label themselves “pro-White advocates.”  Huh? If they believe that value is inherent in specific traits and if they believe that Asians are superior in those traits then the HBD race realists should be pro-Asian advocates. If, on the other hand, they value Whites because Whites are their racial kin, then they should jettison their slavish adherence to HBD and make kinship-based racialism their priority. They can get away with this incoherence within Der Movement because of the affirmative action program and because they refuse to debate their critics among the Dissident/Far Right. But once these issues are hammered away at by the Left, then the Quota Queens will need to deal with it.

Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun is disliked by Der Right because, unlike Tolkien, he makes a traditionalist society look like an unrelenting catastrophe, and unlike Herbert, he makes archaeofuturism look like a dystopia with no redeeming qualities. Wolfe’s work is disliked by Da Left because he is accused of “misogyny” and of having traditional Catholic (a convert) conservative values. The masses in the Center can’t understand Wolfe’s dense and indirect writing. Jack Vance’s style, although unique, is more direct, and sometimes strands of anti-fascist civic liberalism creep through, but because of his near-perfect rendition of female behavior, he too has been accused of “misogyny.” You see, if you are a White male writer who does not have 100 pound female characters effortlessly beating up 250 pound muscular male super-soldiers then you are, by definition, a “misogynist,” and don’t you forget it! If anything, I can criticize Wolfe and Vance for creating female characters who are too unrealistically positive. That’s why Vance is near-perfect and not perfect, re: milady.

Amren hates YOU (emphasis added):

truthgiverofhumanity

…mass immigration of Jews, Italians & Irish.

“It is interesting to note that the original Indo-European descended Romans viewed anyone who was dark with suspicion. The Roman proverb Hic niger es, bunc tu, Romane, caveato (“He is black, beware of him, Roman’’) is recorded by Horace as being a common saying amongst Romans of the time. (Saz., i. 4, 85).”(March of the Titans).

Even the fair Brittonic, Pictish & Germanic men fought off the Roman Empire because they wanted to protect their fair colored women & children from the invading Black-haired dark-eyed Romans who wished to conquer & integrate with them. Fair-colored women like Boudica also lead the resistance against the blackening force of the Romans especially after her two fair daughters who raped by Black-haired Roman soldiers while she was beaten by them.

Sallis is always, always, ALWAYS right. Today’s Nordicism is a Nord-Colored alliance against YOU. Your reaction? Nothing.

Note the Sallis’ Law at Amren – a discussion about Irish riots against Colored immigration in 2023 devolves into a (Colored-led) discussion of March of the Titans and racially mixed Romans mongrelizing innocent Nords 2000 years ago. But – Rome conquered England. So by this logic – the English are dark colored mongrels?

Genetic evidence on Roman pigmentation shows that “fairness” has either been stable since the Iron Age/Republic or increasing, not decreasing,

Wrong, wrong, they’re always, always, ALWAYS wrong.

This is an old and tired schtick – non-Whites, South Asians and other NECs prominent among them, promoting radical Nordicism to divide Whites, with the willing cooperation of the Eloi, who get their vanity petted, to assuage their deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy.

In this scenario, the Eloi are worse than the Brownsters. They must be opposed.

It is typical of Nordicists that they take comments from Roman satirists and poets and try to derive racial meaning from them. Let’s look a bit closer at the quote from Horace; emphasis added:

The title is taken from Horace: “Absentem qui rodit amicum, qui non defendit, alio culpante; hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto – He who attacks an absent friend, or who does not defend him when spoken ill of by another; that man is a dark character; you, Romans, beware of him.”, suggesting that the subject has betrayed a friend.

Is Horace talking about race? Is he suggesting that Romans not trust dark-eyed, dark-haired people?  Is “character” appropriate to be inserted in the translation?  I say yes, because it is quite clear from the context – “He who attacks an absent friend, or who does not defend him” – that Horace is referring to defects in character, in behavior, and there is no implication of a literal meaning of phenotypic complexion or race/ethnicity in general.  If the “hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto” was spoken in reference to, say, immigration into Rome then the meaning could be interpreted differently, but here Horace talks about a faithless friend of bad character. Further, even if you want to extrapolate that certain cultures, including the Roman, associated “dark features” with a bad character – and there is no implication of that in this quote – then it is more likely to refer to dark complexioned non-White aliens, such as NECs, rather than to dark-eyed, dark-haired Romans that could be the immediate family of lighter-complexioned individuals (as is common in European populations). To extend Horace’s comment to Roman race is ludicrous. 

In the context of the entire Horace quote, it is quite clear that “niger” refers to character and not a literal reference to complexion. If you hear someone refer to “dark humor” does that mean a Negro comedian? Does “a black day in history” mean Marcus Garvey’s birthday? A more relevant question – is a positive trisomy 21 status a prerequisite for membership in Der Movement?

Let’s apply the standards Der Movement applies to the Roman Empire to the British Empire. Disraeli as prime minister? Proves that 19th century Britain was populated by Judeo-Semitic Levantine mongrels, a fact supported by Jewish graveyards in London’s ghettoes. Random quotes from Oliver Twist will confirm the degeneracy of the population. Hence, the British Empire collapsed because of racial admixture. QED.

Some things (among) many in Der Movement that are annoying. First, labeling people you disagree with as Feds, CIA assets, Jews, Russian shills, etc. – while at the same time ignoring the open infiltration of Der Movement by non-Whites. Then we have individuals (“Hood” and the late “Roberts” being prime examples) who write under different personas at the same time. The last annoyance to be mentioned here is the opposite of what was just mentioned – in this case an individual is incorrectly associated with other personas; in other words, actual different people (two or more) are assumed to be a single individual (this has happened to me several times). Interestingly, the same types who make incorrect accusations that “X” is really “Y” never catch on to the “Hood” and “Roberts” types.

People who obsess over “racial admixture” in Southern (and Eastern) Europe have a blind spot when it comes to those areas they favor. I’ve previously posted links to papers showing North Asian/Siberian ancestry in Northern Europe and have posted pictures of celebrities whose phenotypes are consistent with such ancestry. Let us consider another case. Actor Charles Bronson’s ancestors came to America from Lithuania. However, his father was of Lipka Tatar origin, which likely explains Bronson’s phenotype. However, let us be realistic – the only reason this detail is known is because Bronson was a famous actor (and one with an unusual appearance), so someone went digging into his background. Otherwise, he’d just be a “Lithuanian-American” and that’s that. It is also obvious that Bronson’s family were not the only people in Lithuania with such ancestry. So, in addition to the more ancient Asian/Siberian ancestry, the Baltic states no doubt have some more recent Tatar influences as well (that no doubt crossed borders into neighboring countries). But we are not “allowed” to discuss such things in Der Movement; it takes away from mentioning True Romance every 15 seconds. The reality is that low levels of admixture exist throughout Europe and Strom is right in that racial purity is something we need to strive for in the future, not some state of grace we fell from in the mythical past.\\

It’s all well and good to say that we should be infiltrating existing community organizations. But you really need at least several people acting as a coordinated unit to make it work. The real underlying issue is how to form local groups of trustworthy pro-White activists to begin with; social pricing, infiltrators, and possible spiteful apostates turning against the cause and against you are all impediments. I suspect that in any locale with a reasonably significant White population there will be at least several pro-White activists who do not know of each other’s existence and would not know how to safely establish contact. They could be neighbors or co-workers and they would not know it. For all I know, I could have neighbors and co-workers who are regular readers/listeners of my work, and I would never know it. The System/Left and their minions have created – intentionally – an atmosphere of fear and mistrust, and this is a problem. Facilitating networking would be an important role for pro-White organizations, but I’m skeptical that Der Movement could effectively do it even if they wanted to. Der Movement’s history with infiltrators and apostates is rather depressing.

When the major difference between America’s “two” parties (actually two wings of a single party) was economics/class, Italian-Americans supported the “working class” Democrats against the “country club Yankee” Republicans. Once the Democrats became the Colored/Left party, Italian-Americans  started shifting to the GOP, on the basis of race and social issues. They were attracted to Nixon’s false “Silent Majority Law and Order” image (some Italian-Americans  were Wallace supporters in 1968) and more so Reagan’s image of semi-populist social conservatism (“Reagan Democrats” = White ethnics) and even more so to Trump’s (fake) right-wing populism. On the other hand, Italian-Americans  have been less interested in the Bush family, Dole, McCain, Romney, etc. Italian-Americans  in general care about “sticking it to the darkies” and not about “capital gains tax cuts.”

Four axioms of warfare:

  • 1. Victory is achieved through offensive operations; defense alone is insufficient
  • 2. Total victory is achieved through the destruction of the enemy’s armed forces and their ability to resist, not merely by occupying territory.
  • 3. All else being equal, and if possible, encirclement and maneuver are superior to a direct frontal assault.
  • 4. While both are important, morale is more important than is material.

Now apply that to politics (war by other means).

If you are a graduate of a college/university, and graduate/professional school as well, you may get in the mail the school magazine and you can read the contents, full of far left activism of not only faculty and current students, but stories of how graduates are now engaging in Far Left anti-White, anti-male sociopolitical activism, across a broad front of activities, with not a single example of anything on the Right. The idea that “we’re winning” is again shown to be ludicrous; we’re losing and losing badly. As the Left engages in effective, broad-based real world activism that has real destructive consequences for us, the Right engages in esoteric theorizing and debate, tin foil hat conspiracy theorizing, with the occasional foray into real world activity in doing things like opposing abortion and vaccination. As the Right preaches anti-intellectualism and downward mobility, the Left has a stranglehold on academia and on the professions, and are constantly training new generations of activists. The reality is utterly catastrophic for our side.

See this. I know I posted about that before, but it is useful to look at again. You do not need to stress out over the math, just listen qualitatively to Harpending’s arguments; his debunking of Lewontin is complementary to my own. Also interesting is his discussion of Bushmen having a phenotype with East Asian-like characteristics, with speculation that this convergent evolution was no accident, implying the possibility of a common mechanism. Contra HBD dogma, that common mechanism, if it exists, obviously cannot be “cold, Arctic conditions.” My own theory that the East Asian phenotype is due to selection for neoteny is, unlike the Arctic theory, compatible with the Bushmen situation. It is therefore possible that both Mongoloids and Bushmen underwent selection for neoteny for environmental reasons and/or sexual selection; in the case of East Asians, these adaptions pre-selected them to be able to thrive after some of them moved from warm climates to cold climates in Northern Asia. So, I’m saying the opposite of HBD – Arctic conditions did not cause the Mongoloid phenotype; the Mongoloid phenotype, due to selection for neoteny, allowed Asians to live in Arctic conditions.