A LOOK BACK AT OUR SUMMER MEETING 2024

On Saturday, August 17, 2024, Folkets Flamme had the great honor of having none other than the American professor of evolutionary psychology Kevin B. MacDonald as the keynote speaker at our summer meeting in Copenhagen, where both new and seasoned patriots met to hear one of the world’s absolute leading nationalists speak.

Kevin MacDonald is a professor of evolutionary psychology, and until his retirement, he was permanently employed at California State University, Long Beach. MacDonald has for many years been a very active champion of the interests of Western people and our unique culture. He is the editor of the excellent, nationally oriented, Internet media The Occidental Observer. The medium publishes articles on a multitude of relevant topics, and common to all of them is their high quality and well-argued reasoning. The medium can be used both as a news site and as a library for the inquisitive nationalist.

MacDonald is the author of no fewer than seven books on evolutionary theory and child development, and he is the author or editor of over 30 academic articles published in reputable scientific journals. He received his bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966 and his master’s degree (M.S.) in biology from the University of Connecticut in 1976. In 1981, he received a doctoral degree (PhD) in biological behavioral science from the University of Connecticut, where his advisor was Benson Ginsburg, one of the founders of modern behavioral genetics.

MacDonald completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Ross Parke in the psychology department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. MacDonald and Parke’s work there resulted in no less than three scientific publications. MacDonald joined the Department of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSU-LB) in 1985 and became a professor in 1995. He retired at the end of 2014.

Kevin MacDonald thus has an extensive scientific portfolio behind him, and his professional skills cannot be doubted.

From 1994-1998, MacDonald published his three groundbreaking books, A People That Shall Dwell Alone (1994), Separation and its Discontents (1998) and The Culture of Critique (1998), in which Judaism is analyzed for the first time from an evolutionary psychology perspective. These are 3 absolutely essential books that no modern nationalist can do without if he wants to understand his time. MacDonald describes Judaism as an “evolutionary group strategy”, which he claims increases the Jews’ ability to outcompete non-Jews in the struggle for resources. With a pronounced degree of Jewish ethnocentrism, he argues that Judaism fosters a number of distinctive genetic traits in Jews, including an above-average verbal intelligence and a strong tendency towards collectivist behavior that ensures optimal management of their group interests, a significant part of which has been the dissolution and degradation of Western ethnic and cultural self-awareness. This is expressed, among other things, in a number of influential intellectual movements that have been a necessary prerequisite for breaking down the ethnic and cultural cohesion of the West. MacDonald recognizes, of course, that not all Jews exhibit the traits he identifies. These are general patterns of behavior.

The study of Jews gave MacDonald a deeper understanding of how important ethnic groups and their interests are, and he has therefore devoted a large part of his life to working for the well-being and survival of his own ethnic group. The topic of MacDonald’s speech in Denmark was thus the survival of European culture and the peoples of Europe in a world that is getting darker and darker. You can watch his speech, with an introduction by cand.mag. Povl H. Riis-Knudsen, here:

The meeting also offered a large book sale with many exciting nationalistic books, and several participants used the opportunity to stock up on informative literature. Knowledge is power and without well-educated nationalists, our struggle is meaningless. In this connection, we must remind people that the internet can quickly be shut down for us, while the printed book is far more difficult to eradicate.

At the meeting, it was also possible to have a picture taken with our invited guest, which many took advantage of and thus got a memory for life!

Folkets Flamme thanks the many attendees for a good and instructive meeting, where we all got food for thought, made new acquaintances, made new contacts and emphasized that without ethnic and cultural self-awareness, our people and our culture cannot survive.

Denmark, always Denmark!

See also www.danmarksfrihedsraad.com references to and articles by Professor Kevin MacDonald here.