Fingernails and Fascism: The Nastiness and Noxiousness of Jewish Ethnocentrism

Do you want ethnocentrism? I’ll give you ethnocentrism. Here’s a quote of note that is far less notorious than it should be:

“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.”

That was what a rabbi called Yaacov Perrin said in the eulogy he delivered at the funeral of an Israeli doctor called Baruch Goldstein (1956–94). The rabbi was praising Dr Goldstein not for saving lives but for taking them — large numbers of them. On Purim Day 1994, Goldstein had entered a mosque and begun machine-gunning Arabs. He killed at least twenty-nine and injured many more, then was beaten to death by the survivors, as he’d surely known he must be.

Martyr with a machine-gun: the Judeo-fascist Baruch Goldstein (image from Wikipedia)

Whatever else you say about him, you have to admit that Goldstein had the courage of his fascist convictions. Like the Pakistani Muslim Mumtaz Qadri, who murdered a blasphemous politician and then calmly accepted trial and execution, he was a martyr with a machine-gun. And “fascist” is the right word for Goldstein’s ideas. He had been active in the Kach party, a genuinely fascist Jewish movement founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, whom he’d known as a boy growing up in New York. Kahane and Goldstein were both Brooklyn boys, but although they were born in America, they didn’t enter “the melting-pot” so cynically and successfully proclaimed by their fellow Zionist Israel Zangwill. Instead, like Zangwill himself, they were intensely ethnocentric Jews. As adults they emigrated to Israel and campaigned for a truly Zionist state free of all Arabs, all Muslims, and all Christians. Goldstein’s massacre was intended to advance that glorious vision.

A Judeo-fascist kisses Goldstein’s tombstone, which calls him a saint and says “He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land” (image from the Jerusalem Post and Reuters)

Lots of other Jews supported his mass murder of Arabs. Goldstein’s grave, which bears the inscription “He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land,” became a shrine for Judeo-fascists. Samuel Hacohen, a teacher in Jerusalem, said that “Baruch Goldstein was the greatest Jew alive, not in one way but in every way. … There are no innocent Arabs here, and thank God that one Jewish hero reminded us that it had become almost legal to kill Jews in the street. He is the only one who could do it, the only one who was 100 percent perfect. He was not crazy. … Killing isn’t nice, but sometimes it is very necessary.”

Fans of Goldstein in high places

But all that was in 1994 and mainstream Israeli politicians didn’t agree with the eulogies. They unequivocally condemned Goldstein and his fellow Judeo-fascists. This is how the then Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (1922–95) addressed them:

You are not part of the community of Israel. … You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise you. You are not partners in the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed. Sensible Judaism spits you out. You placed yourself outside the wall of Jewish law. … We say to this horrible man and those like him: you are a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism. (See Baruch Goldstein at Wikipedia)

Thirty years later, Rabin has been assassinated and some powerful Israeli politicians don’t merely refuse to condemn Goldstein’s ideas: they actually support them and regard Goldstein as a martyr. The current Israeli Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir (born 1976), had a portrait of Goldstein in his living room before he entered politics. Ben-Gvir heads a party called Otzma Yehudit, which means “Jewish Power” and is the “ideological descendant” of Meir Kahane’s Kach party. Jewish Power now wields significant influence in the Knesset. For its members and supporters, Baruch Goldstein is not a horrible man but a heroic man. The Jerusalem Post has reported that “10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a “national hero’.” Like Rabbi Perrin, they think that “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.”

Goldstein fan Itamar Ben-Gvir, current Israeli Minister for National Security (image from Wikipedia)

But as I noted at the beginning, that quote is far less notorious than it should be. It appears in the Wikipedia article devoted to Goldstein, but if you look at the Talk page for the article you’ll see that some Jewish editors tried hard to censor it from the article. Part of Jewish ethnocentrism involves concealing the extent and the intensity of Jewish ethnocentrism. And its nastiness. What Rabbi Perrin said in 1994 was a good example of that nastiness and so is what Stuart Seldowitz said in 2023. Seldowitz, who was director of the highly important National Security Council under Barack Obama, has been recorded harassing an Egyptian-Arab street-vendor in New York. Fingernails also appear in Seldowitz’s ethnocentric nastiness. He smirks and sneers as he tells the vendor:

The Mukhabarat [secret police] in Egypt will get your parents. Does your father like his fingernails? They’ll take them out one by one. (See video at Twitter)

The smirking and sneering Stuart Seldowitz #1

The smirking and sneering Stuart Seldowitz #2

The smirking and sneering Stuart Seldowitz #3

He then asks the vendor “Do you rape your daughter like Muhammad?” and tells him that some people “use the Quran as a toilet.” Seldowitz has a highly unpleasant face to go with his highly unpleasant mind. And minds like his — Jewish minds — have been in charge of American foreign policy for decades. The vendor repeatedly asks him to go, but he replies: “Why should I go? I’m an American. It’s a free country. Not like Egypt.” But his claim to be American is contradicted by something else he says: “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian children, it wasn’t enough.” Who is “we”? It’s Israel that is bombing the Gaza Strip and killing Palestinian children, not America.

Destroying America

And in spirit, at least, Seldowitz contradicts his own claim that “America is a free country.” He takes a photograph of the vendor and says that “my friends in immigration” will deport the vendor back to Egypt, where he’ll be arrested by the fingernail-removing Mukhabarat. Even if Seldowitz doesn’t have the power to do that, it’s obviously what he’d like to be able to do. Indeed, Seldowitz would obviously like to be able to arrest and torture his enemies in America. Jews like him were what Kevin McDonald has called “Stalin’s Willing Executioners” in the communist Soviet Union. They were Stalin’s willing torturers too. Seldowitz himself is undoubtedly leftist and fully in support of open borders for Muslims and other non-Whites. As he said after being criticized for harassing the vendor: “I don’t think I’m an Islamophobic guy. I’ve spoken up for equal treatment of Muslims on numerous occasions with numerous different people.”

But if he’s spoken up for Muslims, it’s because he thinks it’s good for Jews to have large numbers of Muslims in the West. As the late great Larry Auster wrote way back in 2004:

Just the other week I was telling a secular, leftist Jew of my acquaintance, a man in his late sixties, about my idea that the only way to make ourselves safe from the specter of domestic Moslem terrorism is to deport all jihad-supporting Moslems from this country. He replied with emotion that if America deported Moslem fundamentalists, it would immediately start doing the same thing to Jews as well. “It’s frightening, it’s scary,” he said heatedly, as if the Jews were already on the verge of being rounded up. In the eyes of this normally phlegmatic and easy-going man, America is just a shout away from the mass persecution, detention, and even physical expulsion of Jews. Given the wildly overwrought suspicions that some Jews harbor about the American Christian majority who are in fact the Jews’ best friends in the world, it is not surprising that these Jews look at mass Third-World and Moslem immigration, not as a danger to themselves, but as the ultimate guarantor of their own safety, hoping that in a racially diversified, de-Christianized America, the waning majority culture will lack the power, even if it still has the desire, to persecute Jews. (Why Jews Welcome Muslims, Front Page Magazine, 22nd June, 2004)

But Auster missed another Jewish motive for opening the borders of Western nations to Muslims. The Muslim terrorism that inevitably followed has justified ever harsher laws against free speech and an ever more intrusive surveillance state. When Jewish propagandists claim that “Diversity is our strength,” they’re using the phrase in an Orwellian sense. The chaos and crime caused by Third-World migrants weakens White gentiles and strengthens Jewish power. Indeed, the war between Israel and Hamas has granted British Whites the richly comic sight of an ethnocentric Jew demanding arrests for thought-crime while using an image of George Orwell to proclaim his own virtue:

Orwell-fans at Harry’s Place demand that non-White Muslims be arrested for thought-crime

Harry’s Place is a supposedly Orwell-friendly anti-jihadist website run by a former Jewish Stalinist who used the nom de guerre of Harry Steele (“steel” is the English translation of Stalin). Mr Steele abandoned his Stalinism when he noticed the increasing threat posed by Islamism to Jewish interests. But his loudly proclaimed love of Orwell is humbug, because he’s obviously kept his belief in authoritarianism and a police state from his Stalinist days. It just that he now wants a police state run on behalf of Jews rather than the communist party.

The right kind of fascism

The Jews Harry Steele and Stuart Seldowitz are both no doubt implacably opposed to any ban on Muslim immigration into the West, let alone to deportation of Muslims currently residing here. They would call that kind of thing “fascism,” but what they would really mean is that it’s the wrong kind of fascism. Rather than keeping Muslims out, they want Muslims let in to cause trouble and justify a police-state in which Muslims are arrested and jailed if they act against Jewish interests. Remember that Muslim immigration vastly increased in America after the terrorist atrocities of 9/11, which were blamed on Muslims but may have taken place with the full knowledge and even direct participation of Israel.

9/11 was used to justify not just mass surveillance of Western populations, but also the detention and torture of large numbers of Muslims, some of whom were entirely innocent. However, when Muslims act against White interests, there is no stern action from the state. Jewish control of Western politics means not only that innocent Muslims are tortured but also that guilty Muslims remain free. But only if they’re guilty of crimes against Whites. When he was Labour MP for the Yorkshire constituency of Rotherham, the repulsive Denis MacShane worked tirelessly for Jews in far-off London while ignoring what Muslim rape-gangs were doing to White working-class women and girls in his own constituency.

Business as Jewsual

After he was jailed for fraud, the Jewish Chronicle saluted him as “one of the community’s greatest champions” and said that “we should mourn Denis MacShane’s fall from grace.” MacShane was supposedly in politics to champion the White working-class as part of the Labour party, but the Labour party long ago abandoned its founding principles and became an enemy of the White working-class. When Jeremy Corbyn was unexpectedly elected party-leader, he didn’t reverse that betrayal. But he did commit a horrible crime. He refused to make Jewish interests the first and overwhelming priority of the party. That’s why he was endlessly vilified by the mass media and eventually replaced as leader by the slippery lawyer Sir Keir Starmer, who is married to a Jew, has “family in Israel,” and runs Labour as it should be run: as a vehicle for Jewish interests.

Like the Conservative leader Rishi Sunak, Starmer is firmly behind Israel in its war with Hamas. After the aberration of Corbynism, British politics is back to business as Jewsual: working tirelessly for Jews and just as tirelessly against Whites. That’s why the so-called Conservative party entered power promising to cut immigration and has instead allowed immigration to increase massively. At the same time, it provides unlimited support to an Israeli government containing politicians who want Israel to be “free from the river to the sea.” Free of Arabs, Muslims and Christians, that is. Is that fascism? Yes, it is, but it’s the right kind of fascism: the Judeo-fascism for which Baruch Goldstein slaughtered Arabs and became a Jewish saint. Always remember: “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” Many Jews have always thought the same about Whites. That’s why Jewish control of Western politics has been such a disaster.

Julius Evola dans le Troisième Reich

Par Alexander Jacob; Traduction Francis Goumain

[FG: Julius Evola vaut la peine d’être connu pour son triptyque race – tradition – histoire, il s’est néanmoins fait retoquer par le Reich pour une question d’ordre de priorité: pour le Reich, c’est d’abord la race, puis la tradition puis, enfin, l’histoire; pour Evola, c’est d’abord la tradition, puis la race, et enfin l’histoire. Les deux s’accordent à penser que l’histoire est une dégénérescence de la race et de la tradition, les deux se heurtent au paradoxe problématique posé par l’histoire: le champ de bataille, c’est l’histoire, pour défendre la race et la tradition, il faut descendre dans l’arène de l’histoire, mais dès qu’on y descend, on court ipso facto le risque de la relativisation et de la destruction de la race et de la tradition. La position du Reich paraît néanmoins plus sûre, plus à même de supporter l’épreuve de l’histoire, parce que la race et l’histoire ne sont pas sur le même plan, l’une est sur le plan physique, l’autre sur le plan de l’intellectuel, du réversible. Par conséquent, si c’est la tradition qui est assise sur la race, elle a elle aussi une chance de sortir à peu près indemne d’une confrontation avec l’histoire, par contre, si c’est la race qui n’est qu’une expression phénoménologique de la tradition, alors, les deux, race et tradition, courent un grave danger de dissolution dans l’histoire.]

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Le livre d’Alexander Jacob sur Julius Evola vu par quatre intellectuels du Troisième Reich. Extrait de la notice d’Amazon:

Comment Julius Evola était-il perçu dans le Troisième Reich ? Ce livre présente les évaluations faites par quatre intellectuels de premier plan du régime : Walther Wüst, Joseph Otto Plassmann, Wolfram Sievers et Kurt Hancke. Traduit avec une introduction d’Alexander Jacob, cet ouvrage scientifique est une lecture essentielle pour quiconque s’intéresse sérieusement à Evola ou à l’histoire de l’Allemagne nationale-socialiste.

Amazon link.

Julius Evola in the Third Reich
Alexander Jacob
Uthwita Press, 2023

Introduction à Julius Evola dans le Troisième Reich, Uthwita Press, 2023

Julius Evola (1898-1974) est aujourd’hui connu comme l’un des principaux représentants du mouvement que l’on a appelé le traditionalisme et l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages importants sur l’hermétisme, le bouddhisme et le yoga. Cependant, dans les années trente, il a également publié des pamphlets sur des sujets qui avaient pris de l’importance depuis l’avènement du Troisième Reich, à savoir le mythe aryen et la question juive. Evola n’était pas fasciste et dans ses premières publications sur la politique, notamment l’Imperialismo pagano de 1928, il critiquait l’État fasciste italien comme une entité sans âme, incapable de s’élever au-dessus d’un populisme et d’un nationalisme étroit et de remonter aux sources transcendantes d’une société hiérarchique idéale. L’impérialisme païen qu’Evola admirait était celui de la Rome antique, ruiné, estimait-il, par la montée en puissance de l’Église qui était venu indûment concurrencer celle de l’État et qui avait finalement conduit à la séparation du politique et du religieux. Cependant, lorsqu’il a publié la traduction allemande de son ouvrage en 1933 (Heidnischer Imperialismus), il y a apporté des changements substantiels. Par exemple, le paganisme du monde méditerranéen de l’édition italienne se voyait remplacé par un paganisme aryen originaire d’une légendaire Thulé hyperboréenne. Alors qu’il avait montré peu de sympathie pour le fascisme italien, voilà qu’il manifestait désormais un intérêt singulier pour l’idéologie racialiste du national-socialisme.

Mussolini, pour sa part, avait initialement encouragé les dénonciations publiques de la doctrine raciale nazie et les deux principales contributions d’Evola à cette campagne sont apparues à la fin de 1933 et au début de 1934. Le premier article («Osservazioni critiche sul «razzismo» nazionalsocialista») [1] présente, comme le dit Staudenmaier [2], quelques “observations critiques” sur les composantes excessivement “naturalistes” de l’idéologie raciale nazie:

Evola y expose sa philosophie du racisme «spirituel» et l’oppose au racisme «matérialiste» qui prédominait au sein du national-socialisme. Le second article (Razza e Cultura) [3] applaudit certes à la renaissance de l’aryanisme» par le nazisme et à sa dichotomie entre «races supérieures et races inférieures», mais avertit que les théories purement biologiques ne sont pas assez aristocratiques et ne saisissent pas la véritable noblesse raciale. Evola insistait sur le fait que les formes vulgaires de racisme «matérialiste» n’étaient pas à la hauteur de la tâche consistant à affronter la «menace juive» dans toute sa profondeur et son ampleur, puisque la race n’était «pas simplement physique» [4].

Puis, en 1936, Evola écrit un pamphlet intitulé Tre aspetti del problema ebraico (Trois aspects du problème juif) qui trahit sa principale préoccupation dans toutes les discussions raciales, à savoir exonérer les Juifs des diverses accusations raciales, culturelles et économiques portées contre eux par les penseurs antisémites en Allemagne et au sein du régime national-socialiste. Selon Evola, les Juifs sont en effet coupables de divers crimes de subversion sociale et politique en Europe – cependant, ils ne sont pas la principale force de corruption, mais seulement une petite partie d’une plus grande force métaphysique du mal qui travaille contre le domaine originel pur de la Tradition.

Tout comme le philosémite Nietzsche [5], Evola estime que le culte juif était à l’origine viril et guerrier et que ce n’est qu’après les prophètes qu’il a dégénéré dans le messianisme d’une religion servile aboutissant au christianisme [6]. De même, il considère que la subversion juive de la culture des pays indo-européens n’est pas due à un quelconque plan des Juifs [7] mais fait partie d’un processus plus large de dégénérescence dans lequel le caractère racial des Juifs ne joue qu’un rôle accessoire, bien que non négligeable. Seul un sursaut spirituel sera en mesure d’empêcher le facteur juif de prospérer sur la décadence qui se manifeste dans les sociétés occidentales. Les voies populistes, les déportations massives, etc. sont des façons plébéiennes d’envisager un problème qui est d’essence métaphysique.

Le fait qu’Evola ait écrit ce pamphlet juste avant ses conférences allemandes sur la question aryenne et la fusion de l’idéologie nationale-socialiste avec le fascisme semblent suggérer que ses visites en Allemagne n’étaient pas fortuites mais pressées du désir impérieux de modérer l’antisémitisme du Reich en soulignant ses éventuelles lacunes métaphysiques.

En 1941, Evola publie un ouvrage exposant sa propre idéologie raciale, Sintesi di dottrina della razza, il s’y livre à une déconsidération en règle du racialisme biologique, accordant la primauté aux notions de race spirituelle et d’âmes raciales. Dans ses développements sur les races dégénérées, il n’isole pas spécifiquement les Juifs, mais parle plus généralement des «Sémites» – qu’il place aux côtés des Subsahariens – et qu’il décrit comme des types raciaux inférieurs. Evola conclut en concédant que les doctrines raciales du national-socialisme sont à la rigueur comme un fanal dans la nuit, faisant briller l’espoir de la recréation possible de la race supérieure originelle qui hantait jadis les sphères supérieures de la Tradition. Mais ce faisant, il renvoie les «vraies» sources de la perfection raciale dans un éther si manifestement éloigné du monde réel qu’on ne voit pas comment il pourrait venir sauver ce dernier de la corruption. Les espoirs de régénérescence d’Evola, fichés dans un hypothétique royaume de la Tradition, paraissent donc assez chimériques.

À la fin des années trente et au début des années quarante, Evola entreprend de fréquents voyages en Allemagne, où il effectue des tournées de conférences, rencontre des responsables de la SS et participe à des congrès. Le point d’orgues de ses visites se situant en 1934 avec le discours qu’il prononce au Herrenklub de Berlin, le cercle politique conservateur qui s’est formé autour du livre de Moeller van den Bruck Das dritte Reich (1923) [8]. Comme il l’a raconté plus tard dans son autobiographie, «c’est là que j’ai trouvé mon habitat naturel. Dès lors, une amitié cordiale et fructueuse s’établit entre moi et le président du club, le baron Heinrich von Gleichen… Ce fut aussi la base de certaines activités en Allemagne, fondées sur des intérêts et des objectifs communs» [9]. Les éditions allemandes de ses œuvres parues à cette époque comprennent Heidnischer Imperialismus (1933) et Erhebung wider die moderne Welt (1935).

En outre, comme nous l’indique Staudenmeier,

En 1937, il participe à une convention internationale antisémite à Erfurt et rédige un rapport pour les lecteurs italiens. Au printemps 1941, Evola se rend à Munich, Stuttgart, Francfort, Cologne et Berlin pour une tournée de conférences. En avril 1942, il donne des conférences sur la race à Hambourg et à Berlin, décrivant un héritage aryen commun qui lie les Italiens et les Allemands [10].

Tout dans la doctrine d’Evola se fonde sur la primauté de l’esprit, de sorte que la question raciale, elle aussi, ne peut être déterminée par référence à des réalités biologiques, mais plutôt à des réalités spirituelles. Il considère que la race elle-même est d’abord une condition spirituelle, puis une question d’identité ethnique (l’âme raciale de Clauß), et enfin un phénomène biologique individuel. L’effort pour recréer la race idéale primitive, caractéristique du domaine originel de la tradition, doit être entrepris, selon Evola, non par la discrimination biologique, mais par l’élévation spirituelle.

Evola se montre plutôt réservé sur une éventuelle influence intrinsèquement délétère des Juifs. S’il est vrai qu’il a rédigé la préface de la traduction des Protocoles par Giovanni Preziosi en 1921 et qu’il a approuvé avec enthousiasme la campagne antisémite de Codreanu dans son article de 1938 intitulé La tragedia della ‘Guardia di Ferro‘ [11], il ne peut se résoudre à l’idée que tout Juif soit biologiquement voué à être un matérialiste dégénéré, tout comme il ne peut accepter que tout Aryen soit automatiquement un être supérieur – comme il l’a déclaré dans sa conférence de 1937, reproduite dans la présente édition [12].

Répétons-le : la race est l’élément secondaire, l’esprit et la tradition sont l’élément primaire car, au sens métaphysique, la race – avant de s’exprimer dans le sang – est dans l’esprit. S’il est vrai que, sans pureté raciale, l’esprit et la tradition sont privés de leurs moyens d’expression les plus précieux, il est tout aussi vrai que la race pure privée d’esprit est condamnée à devenir un mécanisme biologique et à s’éteindre. La dégénérescence spirituelle, l’affaiblissement éthique et la mort lente de nombreuses tribus qui n’ont pourtant commis aucun des péchés de sang signalés par une certaine doctrine raciale matérialiste en sont la preuve, et nous pensons ici non seulement aux primitifs, mais aussi aux Suédois et aux Néerlandais. Il s’ensuit que, sans la revivification de la force spirituelle supérieure latente dans le caractère nordique, même toutes les mesures de protection raciale biologique n’auraient qu’un effet très relatif et limité par rapport à notre tâche supérieure de reconstruction de l’Occident.

S’agissant de l’énumération des tactiques de subversion employées par les ennemis de la Tradition, Evola critique de manière cinglante ceux qui, comme les nationaux-socialistes, manifestent une hostilité monomaniaque à l’égard des Juifs et des francs-maçons. Le SS Obersturmbannführer Hancke résumait ainsi Evola dans son rapport de juin 1938:

Le national-socialisme, par sa concentration monomaniaque sur les Juifs et les francs-maçons en vient à négliger ses véritables adversaires.

C’est peut-être dans ce genre de passage qu’Evola frôle le plus dangereusement une  défense risquée du judaïsme et de la franc-maçonnerie.

Tandis qu’Evola ne cesse de prêcher aux Allemands l’union autour de la question de la civilisation nordico-aryenne et des inégalités raciales, il n’est pas sans provoquer chez lui, dans les milieux fascistes italiens, des ébats aussi intenses qu’hostiles. Comme le dit Staudenmaier, «ses longs séjours en Allemagne lui ont valu les appréciations les plus contradictoires. Certains le considèrent comme un fasciste peu fiable en raison de sa position fortement pro-allemande, tandis que d’autres le jugent excessivement critique à l’égard de la politique nazie au point d’en être désobligeant pour le partenaire de l’Axe» [13].

Les Allemands eux non plus ne voyaient pas Evola d’un très bon œil, le rapprochement au plan philosophique entre le national-socialisme et le fascisme n’avait d’ailleurs toujours pas abouti au moment de l’incorporation précipitée de l’Italie en 1943, et c’est de force que des mesures antisémites strictes semblables à celles qui avaient cours dans le Reich y ont été mises en place. Pendant cette période de la République sociale italienne, Evola reste principalement en contact avec Giovanni Preziosi, qui est comme lui un antisémite spirituel, et Roberto Farinacci, dont les lois raciales de 1938 ne reposaient pas non plus sur un racialisme biologique [14].

Dans les milieux officiels de la SS, les conférences d’Evola font l’objet d’un examen minutieux et d’une évaluation plus ou moins négative. Selon Goodrick-Clarke [15], dès le début de l’année 1938, les SS commencent à passer au crible ses idées et Karl Maria Wiligut (également connu sous le nom de Weisthor lorsqu’il a rejoint les SS en 1933) – le voyant qui est devenu le «gourou» spirituel d’Himmler – a été invité à commenter une conférence donnée par Evola à Berlin en décembre 1937.  Trois autres conférences furent données par Evola en juin 1938 et Himmler renvoya à nouveau la question à Weisthor, en lui demandant de revoir le livre d’Evola sur l’impérialisme païen dans la perspective des traditions allemandes. Comme le raconte Goodrick-Clarke, Weisthor répondit que:

Evola partait du concept d’aryanité vu comme fondamental, mais ignorait tout des institutions germaniques préhistoriques et de leur signification. Il a également observé que ce défaut était représentatif des différences idéologiques entre l’Italie fasciste et l’Allemagne nazie et qu’il pouvait en fin de compte porter préjudice à la permanence de leur alliance [16].

Sur la base du rapport de Wiligut et des rapports présentés dans cette édition, les SS ordonnaient que les activités d’Evola dans le Troisième Reich soient découragées.

Désormais, Evola se heurtait à l’opposition aussi bien des Allemands que des Italiens. Ainsi, comme le raconte Staudenmaier, lorsqu’Evola a proposé à Mussolini et à ses contacts allemands, en 1941, de fonder une revue bilingue sur les questions raciales, Werner Hüttig, le spécialiste des sciences raciales, «présentait en septembre 1942, une critique serrée des théories raciales d’Evola, en éreintant la façon dont Evola abordait les questions scientifiques avec un mélange hétéroclite de sources insolites allant de l’ancienne tradition aryenne à l’ésotérisme moderne» [17] En Italie également, les aspects occultes du racisme spirituel d’Evola ont été source de controverses. Des dénonciations anonymes envoyées à la direction fasciste mettaient en garde depuis des années contre «l’épidémie d’ésotérisme» qui frappait l’Italie. Dans une lettre adressée à Mussolini en mars 1942, Telesio Interlandi, le scientifique racialiste, s’insurge contre les perversions «occultistes» de l’idée raciste. Le prêtre jésuite Pietro Tacchi Venturi insiste lui aussi sur le fait que «le projet d’Evola entraînerait des problèmes avec l’Église, qui considère les questions spirituelles comme son domaine légitime et désapprouve les connotations païennes de l’approche d’Evola». [18]

Les critiques d’Evola, qui considère le christianisme comme une corruption sémite de l’ordre traditionnel, devaient fatalement se trouver en butte à l’opposition des ecclésiastiques. De même, les nationalistes allemands mettaient en garde contre la subversion pernicieuse du Reich que constituait la doctrine traditionaliste d’Evola, décourageant  son intégration aux programmes idéologiques et politiques.

Fondamentalement, le système politique d’Evola est idéaliste et établit une dichotomie radicale entre la société «traditionnelle» et les sociétés historiques. La première est une condition idéale, tandis que les secondes ne sont que des déviations de plus en plus corrompues de la première qui culminent dans les horreurs de la modernité. La race qui se rapproche le plus du monde idéal de la tradition est, selon Evola, l’Aryenne. Bien qu’il ait d’abord célébré la culture méditerranéenne comme la plus élevée, en 1933, il modifiait considérablement son point de vue pour l’adapter à la montée du parti racialiste d’Hitler. À partir de là, Evola n’a eu de cesse de marier les deux concepts de suprématie nordique et romaine dans ses représentations de l’organisation sociale idéale telle qu’elle serait apparue au cours de l’histoire. Ainsi, l’Empire romain et l’Empire gibelin devenaient des modèles pour l’Occident moderne.

Les meilleurs moyens de comprendre et de faire revivre le monde originel de la tradition dans la vie moderne sont, selon Evola, les mythes et les symboles. C’est en eux que l’on reconnaît les modèles idéaux à suivre. D’où en particulier l’intérêt d’Evola pour le mythe du Graal, la quête du Saint Graal, au cœur de la légende, ne serait autre que la recherche de la restauration de l’Empire idéal des origines. Le penchant mythologique de la pensée d’Evola est évidemment d’une valeur pratique douteuse, aucune politique ne saurait se réguler en permanence par un recours aux mythes anciens, fût-ce à titre de symboles.

Champion de l’impérialisme spirituel, Evola s’est particulièrement opposé aux nationalismes tels que ceux mis en vigueur par les forces libérales en Europe aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, car il estime qu’ils entravent la réalisation d’une spiritualité universelle. Comme le souligne Hancke:

Pour E., l’idée de nation appartient, de par son origine récente au XVIIIe siècle, à l’idéologie moderne dont est issu notre monde dégénéré. Elle doit donc être dépassée dans le sens supranational, c’est-à-dire impérial, de telle sorte que la race aryenne d’origine germano-romaine ait la primauté.

Outre la dangereuse proximité de cette doctrine avec des projets universalistes tels que ceux de la théosophie et de la franc-maçonnerie, son caractère utopique n’a pas manqué d’être relevé par Hancke:

Ce qui le distingue particulièrement de la vision du monde national-socialiste, c’est sa négligence radicale des données historiques concrètes de notre passé racial au profit d’une utopie abstraite, spirituelle et fantaisiste.

Plassmann/Sievers, dans leur réponse aux conférences d’Evola reproduites dans cette édition, ont également précisé que:

Evola ne semble pas avoir conscience des forces politiques pragmatiques en jeu et il a donc pu facilement s’égarer de bonne foi dans des voies qui prétendaient servir l’idéologie raciale mais qui en fait se retournait contre elle(Othmar Spann) [19] ou n’avaient aucun dynamisme politique propre (Goga). [ 20]  En général, lorsqu’on tente de mettre en pratique une telle idée [la fin des nations], il y a immédiatement le danger d’un idéal cosmopolite aux conséquences imprévisibles.

Outre le nationalisme, Evola dénonce également la tendance à la démagogie populiste qui s’est manifestée tant dans le fascisme italien que dans le national-socialisme. Evola propose au contraire un «Ordre» d’élite qui représenterait le monde de la Tradition et affirmerait son autorité innée sans tenir compte des masses. Comme le dit Hancke:

Après avoir rejeté l’idée du Volk, E. se fait aujourd’hui le défenseur d’une «communauté ethnique» qui, en tant que principe de réalisation spirituelle, va à l’encontre de toute collectivité. La véritable communauté, en revanche, est pour E. la caste des dirigeants, une élite de l’esprit, liée dans la lutte pour la Tradition contre le monde moderne.

Ces objections aux thèses politiques d’Evola ne signifient pas pour autant que le travail missionnaire d’Evola au nom du traditionalisme était totalement dépourvu de valeur intellectuelle. Sa notion de spiritualité universelle, qui ne serait pas l’apanage d’une seule religion, est un idéal qui a une certaine allure. Par exemple, dans sa conférence de décembre 1937, reproduite dans cette édition, il suggère ce qui suit:

Il est nécessaire de parvenir à une solidarité qui soit aussi forte dans son spiritualisme transnational que, par exemple, le communisme bolchevique l’est dans son matérialisme antinational. La première et indispensable condition préalable est toutefois la détermination d’une vision universelle du monde dont les principes et les valeurs devraient être valables en tant qu’axe uniforme, partagé et immuable pour tous ceux qui se déclarent contre les ennemis que nous avons dénoncés.

Cependant, il est clair qu’une politique aussi idéaliste étendue à l’échelle mondiale est frappée d’impraticabilité. Outre la difficulté de mettre en œuvre une telle spiritualité parmi les divers peuples du monde, l’acceptation d’une hégémonie spirituelle aryenne nordique sur le monde est également plus que douteuse. Pourtant, Evola précise dans sa conférence de 1937 que son aryanisme n’est pas limité par les différences biologiques:

La tradition nordique n’est pas une notion naturaliste, c’est-à-dire que même si elle ne doit être conçue que sur la base du sang et du sol, elle est avant tout comme une catégorie culturelle, comme une forme d’esprit primordiale et transcendante dont le type nordique, la race aryenne et l’éthos indo-germanique général ne sont que des formes phénoménales externes. L’idée de race elle-même est, selon sa signification supérieure, liée à la tradition, quelque chose qui ne peut pas et ne doit pas avoir de rapport avec les idées rationalistes de la biologie moderne et de la science ordinaire. La race est avant tout une attitude fondamentale, un pouvoir spirituel, quelque chose de formateur d’une manière primordiale, dont les formes extérieures, positivement tangibles, ne sont qu’un dernier écho.

[FG: Passage peu clair parce que Julius Evola fait mine d’apporter une précision alors qu’il continue de tourner autour du pot – le politiquement correct, déjà. Quelle est donc cette notion d’aryanité, à la fois totalement idéale, immatérielle, et qui pourtant passe obligatoirement par la biologie du sang aryen? Réponse: la beauté.

Exemples féminins: Estella Blain, Eva Bartok, Anna Karina, Mylène Demongeot, Claudine Auger, Bulle Ogier, Claude Jade, Caroline Cellier, Stéphane Audran, Marie Dubois, Laure Deschanel, Brigitte Fossey, Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve, Mireille Darc, Françoise Brion, Marie-Christine Descouard, Nathalie Delon, Catherine Alric, Anne Canovas, Olga George Picot, Irina Demick, Martine Sarcey, Danièle Delorme, Dyan Canon,

Angie Dickinson, Lee Remick, Anne Margret, Faye Dunaway, Erin Gray, Samantha Eggar, Catherine Spaak, Senta Berger, Tisa Farrow, Nadine Nabokov, Marisa Mell, Jane Fonda, Bibi Anderson, la Maman de Boule, la nièce de Bourdon, la femme d’Agecononix, Eva Germeau …

Exemples masculins: Louis Jourdan, Serge Marquand, Claude Titre, Claude Rich, Alain Delon, Bernard Giraudeau, Marc Porel, Ric Hochet, Lefranc, Alix …]

Avec une définition aussi relâchée de l’aryanisme nordique, le christianisme peut lui aussi être régénéré s’il est réorienté vers la spiritualité originelle du domaine de la tradition «nordique hyperboréenne»:

Il est possible d’intervenir de manière créative contre le christianisme si l’on a accompli les tâches déjà mentionnées, c’est-à-dire si l’on a élevé l’idée nordique et l’idée du Reich à un niveau de vraie spiritualité universelle et solaire, alors nous aurions vraiment quelque chose de plus authentique que le christianisme, englobant l’héroïque et le sacral, le mondain et l’autre, le royal et le spirituel, c’est-à-dire quelque chose qui mène de manière décisive au-delà de toute vision du monde qui n’est que religieusement chrétienne. Notre principe devrait d’ailleurs toujours être de ne pas rejeter, mais de dépasser. Même en ce qui concerne la question catholique et païenne, la tâche de la nouvelle élite devrait consister à fixer les grands principes de la vision générale du monde issue de l’esprit nordique à un niveau pleinement métaphysique et objectif, donc «supra-religieux». Ces principes seraient alors en mesure d’extraire, de clarifier et d’intensifier ce qui est valable dans la tradition chrétienne elle-même.

La société idéale d’Evola est une société héroïque fondée sur ce qu’il appelle le caractère solaire et viril de la tradition «aryenne nordique», qui s’oppose à la qualité lunaire et féminine de la tradition «sémite»:

Deux attitudes fondamentales sont possibles face à la réalité supra-naturelle. L’une est solaire, virile, affirmative, correspondant à l’idéal du pouvoir royal sacré et de la chevalerie. L’autre est l’attitude lunaire, féminine, religieuse, passive, correspondant à l’idéal sacerdotal. Si la seconde attitude est surtout caractéristique des cultures méridionales sémitiques, le chevalier nordique et indo-germanique, en revanche, a toujours été solaire; l’asservissement de la création et le pathos de son altérité fondamentale du Tout-Puissant lui étaient totalement inconnus. Il sentait que les dieux étaient comme lui, il se considérait d’une race céleste et du même sang qu’eux. De là naît une conception de l’héroïque qui ne s’épuise pas dans le physique, le militaire, voire le tragico-chorégraphique, et une conception de l’homme supérieur qui n’a rien à voir avec la caricature nietzschéenne-darwiniste de la belle bête blonde, car cet homme supérieur nordique présente à la fois des traits ascétiques, sacrés et supra-naturels et culmine dans le type du souverain olympien, de l’Aryen Chakravarti comme commandant des deux pouvoirs et roi des rois.

Cette classification des Aryens comme étant solaires et des Sémites comme étant lunaires est toutefois vague et ne repose pas sur une réalité historique, puisque les Akkadiens sémites orientaux vénéraient le dieu soleil, Shamash, au troisième millénaire avant J.-C., bien avant qu’un culte solaire ne soit attesté chez les Indo-Européens.

Plus important encore, Evola rejette fermement tout panthéisme immanentiste et toute glorification pseudo-philosophique de la science et de la technologie:

Nous devons donc nous libérer de tout mysticisme de ce monde, de tout culte de la nature et de la vie, de tout panthéisme. En même temps, nous devons rejeter ce sens de l’Aryen conçu par ce dilettante qu’est Chamberlain [21] et qui est lié à un éloge purement rationaliste et à la glorification de la science et de la technologie d’ici-bas.

L’élite d’Evola doit être capable de remonter l’histoire jusqu’aux origines de la corruption et de reconstruire l’Occident de manière traditionnelle:

Et cela devrait d’abord être l’œuvre d’une élite qui, avec le désintéressement et la rigueur d’un ordre ascétique, élève les principes et les symboles de la tradition nordique primordiale à un niveau de spiritualité, d’universalité et de connaissance claire et mette fin à toute interprétation dilettante, mythique et déformante.

En conclusion, nous pouvons dire que si le projet d’une spiritualité universelle servie par une élite éclairée peut sembler louable, les tendances mythologiques de la pensée d’Evola et sa réticence à traiter des réalités concrètes de la question juive sapent les compromis pratiques sur lesquels tout projet politique doit s’appuyer.

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[FG: quelque remarques après cette passionnante traversée en compagnie d’Evola et du Reich.

1 – Tant qu’à faire, il ne faut pas s’arrêter à l’histoire, lorsqu’un peuple, au sens organique du terme, vit dans la tradition, il n’a pas non plus besoin de sociologie ni de psychologie.

2 – On peut quand même se demander sir l’Histoire est forcément dégénérescence. Par exemple, l’histoire, en Occident, est présente dans un domaine qui en principe relève typiquement de la tradition: l’art. Or, on a plutôt l’impression que l’histoire avec ses étapes a plutôt été grandement bénéfique à la musique, la peinture, la littérature, et que si l’art souffre de quelque chose aujourd’hui, c’est bien d’une sorte de «fin de l’histoire». Ce à quoi Nietzsche pourrait répondre qu’en réalité, l’histoire n’a fait que consumer le stock de signification porté par la tradition, en étant incapable de créer de sens nouveaux, dans cette optique, l’histoire de l’art s’est simplement arrêtée quand il n’y a plus rien eu à brûler.

3 – Au plan politique, l’histoire est tellement dominée par – s’articule tellement autour de – l’Occident, qu’on peut se demander si l’histoire n’est pas finalement plus constitutive de l’Occident que la tradition. On peut penser à une formule comme: «l’Occident a une tradition, l’émancipation» – n’était-ce que ce genre de formule pseudo synthétique est plus hilarante qu’éclairante et qu’elle ne satisfait personne, ni les tenants de la race (blanche) et de la tradition, ni ceux de l’émancipation].

Source

New Book: Julius Evola in the Third Reich – The Occidental Observer


[1]Vita Italiana, November 1933, 544-9.

[2] I am indebted in this summary to Peter Staudenmaier, ‘Racial Ideology between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Julius Evola and the Aryan Myth, 1933-43,’ Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 55, No. 3 (2020), 473-491.

[3]Rassegna Italiana, January 1934, 11-16.

[4] Staudenmaier, ibid. 

[5] “After Wagner, in the late 1870s and early 1880s, Nietzsche developed intense relationships with several ethnic Jews, all of them atheists, and made explicitly positive pronouncements about Jews.” Nietzsche even wrote: “The Jews, however, are beyond any doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race now living in Europe.” (Soros, Alex. “Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism, by Robert Holub.” Intellectual History Review 28, No. 2 (2018): 344-348.)

[6] Cf. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 52: “The Jewish ‘Old Testament,’ the book of divine justice, has people, things, and speeches in such grand style that it is without parallel in the written works of Greece and India … Perhaps he will still find the New Testament, the book of mercy, more to his liking (it is full of the proper, tender, musty stench of true believers and small souls).” (Tr. Judith Norman)

[7] Cf. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 251: “The fact that the Jews, if they wanted (or if they were forced, as the anti-Semites seem to want), could already be dominant, or indeed could quite literally have control over present-day Europe — this is established. The fact that they are not working and making plans to this end is likewise established.” (Tr. Judith Norman).

[8] See Ferraresi, Franco. “Julius Evola: Tradition, Reaction, and the Radical Right.” European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie 28, No. 1 (1987): 107-151.

[9]Il cammino del cinabro (1963), 137.

[10] Staudenmaier, ibid.

[11] In La vita italiana, 309 (December 1938).

[12] The present edition by Gerd Simon (http://www.gerd-simon.de). presents the December 1937 lecture of Julius Evola as well as the commentaries of Joseph Plassmann/Wolfram Sievers and Kurt Hancke on Evola’s 1938 lectures in Germany.

[13]Ibid.

[14] See A. James Gregor, Mussolini’s Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought, Princeton, NJ, 2005, p.258n.

[15] See Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935, Wellingborough, 1985.

[16]Ibid.

[17] Staudenmaier, op.cit.

[18]Ibid.

[19] Othmar Spann (1878-1950) was an Austrian philosopher who developed an idealistic doctrine of ‘universalism’ to counter the individualism of liberal sociology and economics. As an Austrian nationalist and Catholic, he was not fully favoured by the German National Socialists.

[20] Octavian Goga (1881-1938) was a Romanian politician and man of letters. He was a member of the Romanian National Party in Austro-Hungary and joined forces in 1935 with A.C. Cuza’s anti-Semitic National-Christian Defence League to form the National Christian Party. In 1937 Goga served briefly as Prime Minister of Romania and enacted several anti-Semitic measures to maintain the electoral support of Corneliu Codreanu’s Iron Guard.

[21] Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) was a British philosopher who became a naturalised German and wrote many works extolling the spiritual superiority of the Aryan race and of the Germanic peoples in particular.

 

The Unfair City of Dublin

‘In Dublin’s fair city’, runs the first line of the Irish folk song Molly Malone, ‘where the girls are so pretty’. Dublin lives up to that description, or at least it did. Since its prime, however, and victim as it now is to a nationwide political program in which its famously friendly people had no say, the city is evolving along darker lines, and the pace of change received an accelerant last week. At least one Dublin girl is unlikely to be as pretty as she was.

Events on Thursday, November 23 were depressingly familiar for two reasons. That afternoon, a man knifed three children and a woman outside a Dublin school. Rumors quickly spread that the attacker was Algerian which, in keeping with the modern world, was both true and not true.

A man arrested in connection with the attack was described by the authorities as ‘an Irish citizen who had been in the country 20 years’, which is the passport-and-paperwork definition. He is also originally from Algeria, which was the definition many ordinary Irish people were more interested in. At the time of writing, a five-year-old girl and a teacher are still in serious condition in hospital. The little girl had her throat cut, among other wounds. Had the man still been in his native Algeria, one assumes the little girl would not now be fighting for life.

Context is required. While this event would probably be unexceptional in some American cities, and not even that rare in London, this is Dublin, almost a byword for conviviality, easy relations even between strangers, and a popular tourist destination for those very reasons. I have visited three times (although not for many years) and could have vouched for an interpersonal warmth that is a come-hither tourist brochure all its own. However, the Dublin Tourist Board will have an increasingly tough task to entice visitors after last week.

Later that same evening, the unprovoked and bloody stranger attacks were the catalyst for rioting which, although modest by BLM standards in the USA, was shocking seen on the streets of Dublin. Police cars, a tram and a bus were burned out, fireworks were shot at the Garda (the Irish police force), and shops were looted. A migrant center was also torched, an action seized on by the media as evidence of something far more to be feared than a mere maniac with a knife: Nationalism.

With the terrible synchronicity often incorrectly called irony, the epicenter of the rioting was on Parnell Street, named for nineteenth-century Irish nationalist politician Charles Parnell. The stabbings themselves took place on Parnell Square East. Nationalism was a main undercurrent of these disturbances, although in a way that would have puzzled Parnell.

The response to the rioting from the politico-media complex was as immediate and forceful as any of the famous Irish popular uprisings. What is now commonly referred to as ‘the narrative’ – a word with its classical roots in ‘story-telling’ – was assembled rapidly even by media standards, and a televised speech was quickly and solemnly made by Ireland’s premier, and to say it implicitly but aggressively defended untrammeled immigration would be under-statement not natural to those affectionately known as Paddy. The Irish premier is called the Taoiseach (pronounced tea-schock) and the incumbent, Leo Varadkar, is half-caste, his father having been a Bombay-born Indian, his mother a white Dubliner.

This may seem incidental, but could also be a factor when it comes to organizing political priorities concerning immigration, and is certainly not rare for the British Isles. Britain’s Prime Minister is a Hindu, Scotland’s First Minister and the Mayor of London are both Muslims. Varadkar’s immigrant lineage instantiates a problem hard-wired into politicians from familial backgrounds outside their adopted nations. They believe that their own success proves incontrovertibly that immigration is good in itself. It must be, they think. Just look at me! Affirmative action, for many of the duskier members of the British political class, is just something that happens to other people.

Varadkar’s speech was shockingly skewed. In passing, he referred to the attack on a little girl then in intensive care, and the care assistant who bravely defended her, for 42 seconds compared with the 4min 20 he took denouncing the ‘far right’ that he held responsible for the subsequent rioting. One attack, he said, took place ‘on innocent children’, the other on ‘our society and the rule of law’. The ‘far right’ became the media trope immediately connected with the riotous evening, punctuating most headlines. I wrote here at The Occidental Observer about the chimera of the British far right. If it doesn’t exist, however, politicians are finding it expedient to invent it and act as though they wish ordinary folk to believe it does.

As always, the media echo ran to form, taking its lead from globalist mob-bosses. The ‘far-right’ were the main concern here, not a psychotic Algerian who had notably failed to integrate (integration being the Holy Grail of open-borders promoters, and equally mythical) after two decades. Many headlines featured the phrase ‘far-right’, without even the precautionary scare quotes, and a pre-fabricated narrative was simply flown in like a theater set, as Times Radio exemplifies. And stateside, whereas the US media portrayed the anarchistic fire dances of the BLM riots as though they were a provincial bar fight, the Dublin rioting was portrayed by CNN as though it were Dresden after the RAF bombed it in World War II. And this, the Irish were told, was the direct result of what Dublin Police Commissioner Drew Harris claimed as ‘far-right ideology’. His parroting of the official line, however, brought an interesting voice into play, one from which the media commissars were not expecting to hear.

Ireland — or Éire, to give its original Gaelic name — is known for its nationalistic heroes, both mythological and very real, and perhaps Conor McGregor sees himself in that legendary role. McGregor is a successful boxer and Mixed Martial Arts fighter much respected in Ireland, particularly among its fighting-age men, and his response to the Dublin riots on social media caused the Left to hit the canvas, floored by Tweets stating, as an example, that ‘Ireland is at war’, alongside criticism of the police commissioner noted above. There has been talk of McGregor running for office after he came out of his social media corner throwing punches. There is also a lot of chatter – or ‘blarney’, as the Irish call it – indicating that the police may be investigating McGregor for ‘hate speech’, of which more later.

The riotous response to the Dublin knife attack was not spontaneous combustion. This was a light touched to flammable material already piled high by two other recent crimes in Ireland. The murder of 23-year-old teacher Ashling Murphy last year, and the murder and beheading of two gay men also in 2022. Both committed by immigrants, these killings had already sickened a nation always grateful to have (mostly) avoided the violent horrors of Northern Ireland during The Troubles.

With these slayings in recent memory, the butchery of small children outside a school was just a little too rich for Irish blood, with results that the media reported along ideological lines becoming all too familiar. Initial speculation also showed another cardinal rule of media narration: If a foreigner commits a violent crime, it’s likely mental health issues. If an indigenous person commits a violent crime, it’s definitely far-right ideology.

People who are fearful for their communities and say as much are branded as far right, immigrants of whatever stripe enter as victims and saints as soon as they set foot on the Emerald Isle. And if an immigrant saint were needed for the narrative, surely the media could find one.

And it did!

The story had a twist the media were overjoyed to use. The knifeman was tackled by a number of passers-by, but the man who became a hero to the press overnight was a Brazilian immigrant working for a food-delivery company. I wouldn’t want to take anything away from him, as he stopped his bike when he saw the carnage unfolding, battered the attacker with his crash-helmet, and is obviously a brave man. But others were involved, already forgotten, and it is curious that an appeal set up for the Brazilian via Go Fund Me has so far raised more than one set up for the critically injured. The message is uncomplicated. Even if one immigrant tries to kill children with a large knife, the presence of another who helps stop that is worth more. Write that down, children.

Speaking of the knife attacks in Dublin and the resultant evening of anarchy, the president of political party Sinn Féin (forever linked inextricably with the IRA, or Irish Republican Army) said something so irresistibly Irish it was comic even amid the tragedy. “This the last thing you would expect to happen in Dublin on a Thursday afternoon”, she said, implying that it would have been just so Dublin on a Wednesday or a Friday, or possibly after Sunday mass. But the surprise element of the attacks has been put to good use by the Irish political class, a franchise of globalism as they so clearly are.

The Irish version of the deep state seems to have been instructed to use the Dublin attacks as an urgent catalyst for legislation which has in fact been coming for some time. This is validation for the hate-speech laws for which Ireland seems to have been chosen by the EU to road-test. Dublin incident even provided one of those. As PM Varadkar happily noted, “The bill would give the government more power to prosecute individuals who post “reckless” comments or memes that “incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons.”

The political imperative never to let a good crisis go to waste has been variously attributed, but the political class today may as well have it tattooed on their arms. Within 24 hours of the knifing of children in broad daylight outside a school in a peaceable city, the attendant political advantage had been picked up and booted like a rugby ball. Ireland’s Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill 2022 is the harshest in Europe, and there is a sense that Ireland is being used, as scientists used to write in Latin, in laboratorio, just to test how things proceed, given the theory. But the bill has been easing its way through the Irish political process for a while, slinking by and trying not to attract attention. As with many of these Orwellian additions to legal systems that worked perfectly well before, there is a sense that the political class would like to hurry things along.

This is what is being proposed:

“Racism and xenophobia are direct violations of the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, principles upon which the European Union is founded and which are common to the Member States.”

One of the punishable crimes relating to “xenophobia” is merely “the commission of an act referred to in point (a) by public dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material,” which can roughly apply to political pamphlets criticizing the influx of immigrants and refugees in Ireland.

But don’t worry. It’s for your own good: In June, Irish Green Party Sen. Pauline O’Reilly was panned for a speech defending the bill in which she admitted, “We are restricting freedom, but we’re doing it for the common good.”

Now there have even been suggestions that such legislation might be applied retrospectively. I had to have a second look at that. If I were a cartoon character, I would have rubbed my eyes. This is what it means:

You performed action x in 2014, when action x was not illegal.

A law has just been passed in 2023 making action x illegal.

You are under arrest for action x performed in 2014.

Is there not something tremendously wrong in this warping of the law to defy time itself? It is obvious who this archeologically applied legislation will be applied to, and they will include those on Parnell Street protesting the slaughter of innocents.

So, then. From Dublin’s fair city to a very unfair city indeed, at the risk of sounding childish. Everyone has heard a child complain – and may even have been that child — that a parental decision which has not gone their way is ‘not fair’. We recognize the charge of ‘unfairness’ as a childish response to minor disappointment, and we smile. What has happened to Dublin, however, is not fair in a far deeper sense than the small concerns of children, or ‘childer’, as the unreconstructed accent of older Irish people would say it.

It is not fair to the White Irish, who planted a beautiful, historical seed of a city through their own communitarian instincts and watched it blossom into one of the most popular tourist magnets in Europe, and at one time a beautiful place to live, vibrant with creativity rather than sullen Muslims and blacks. It is not fair to the very old and the very young, who are now just that little bit more frightened to walk familiar streets than they were. Even the Sky News’ report includes vox pop saying that Dublin city center is not now safe to walk at night. And it is certainly not fair to combined notions of race, nationhood, and sovereignty, which are not yesterday’s focus-group wheeze, but have grown by accretion and patriotic attention for centuries.

In what used to be called ‘olden times’, if a country was invaded, it not only had the right to defend itself and repel invaders, its men were commanded to do so by the monarch. Now, those voices of command issue from castles in different countries from that being invaded, and with different instructions. The enemy does not stand outside the gates now, but is active inside, voted in as they were by a populace they successfully duped. ‘Better a thousand enemies outside the house’, runs an Arab proverb, ‘than one inside’.

Legend has it that there are no snakes in Ireland due to their expulsion by St. Patrick in the fifth century, an early example of pest-control, perhaps. The Irish — the real Irish, not arrivistes granted Irish passports — are beginning to approve of his methods. But that apparent absence of venomous serpents on the Emerald Isle very much depends on where you look for them. I suggest starting with the nest of vipers which is the Irish political class.

Germany’s AfD: Controlled Opposition

Björn Höcke (AfD, Der Flügel)

Alice Weidel (Chairwoman, AfD)

Each time an aspiring nationalist party scores some parliamentary gains, let alone enters the corridors of power, its followers assume that the System faces imminent death, announcing the dawn of a shining nationalist future. Over the last seventy years, such a self-serving delusion has framed the mindset of countless White nationalist voters in the U.S. and Europe – leading, as a rule, to their constant disappointment. From Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France (Rassemblement National (RN)) to the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Flemish Vlaams Belang, followed by the recently installed post-pseudo fascist Italian government of Giorgia Meloni, or the would-be second term U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump, along with a few lurking Latin American Bolsonaros, such prominent nationalist voices sooner or later lapse into self-caricature. Even if they miraculously manage to scramble to the System’s gates of power, the next day they will piously start reciting Systemspeak homilies.

The reason for this turnaround is understandable. Parliamentary or presidential perks are powerful; the liberal glitz and glamor easily disarm even the most devout White nationalist. Furthermore, it must not be forgotten that since 1945 the System has invested tons of money into erecting firewalls and a multitude of cordons sanitaires in order to prevent an aspiring nationalist party from rocking the post-World War II Liberal Order.

A case in point is the nationalist-conservative party Alternative for Germany, the AfD, which over the last ten years and especially over the last few months has surged as a major contender for a power grab in several federal states. The ruling leftist “Ampel” i.e., “traffic lights coalition,” as well as all E.U. member states, no longer attempt to hide their fear of the AfD contagion spreading to their own front yard. Hence the reason that the System-friendly media outlets are resorting to demonization of the AfD by decorating it with epithets from their plentiful arsenal of fascist labels.

Germany is not just the financial locomotive of the E.U. and its economic powerhouse; it also serves as the main U.S. military and intelligence hub for the entire Eurasian heartland. The System and its proconsuls in Europe, including their sycophantic media outlets stretching from Washington to Berlin and all the way to Tel Aviv, are up in arms over the AfD’s suspected intention to pave a separate way for Germany.

On its domestic front, the AfD is critical of non-European migrants, and it aggressively lobbies for their repatriation to their countries of origin. In its foreign-policy stance, it has shown reluctance regarding Germany’s official sanctions of Russia, and it is also becoming an outspoken critic of Germany’s military assistance to Ukraine. Even prior to the conflict in Ukraine it had earned itself the media nickname of the “Kremlin party.” Given the catastrophic mutual bloodletting between Russians and Germans during the twentieth century, the “pro-Putin” conciliatory move on the part of the AfD hardly comes as a surprise.

The AfD’s success in the October 2023 elections in the federal state of Hesse and in the largest and the richest state of Bavaria is further proof of its growing popularity. Its electoral gains in the state of Hesse account for 18.4 percent of the total vote, while in Bavaria the AfD scored 14.6 percent, which translates into 28 and 32 seats respectively. The meteoric performance of the AfD comes as a shock to the ruling Ampel class, as well as Germany’s overseas supervisor in Washington.

There is little doubt that the issue of feral non-European migration is the prime cause for the spectacular rise of the AfD, although it cannot be assumed to be the only factor. Most of the AfD constituency are fed up with the technical incompetence of the ruling Ampel coalition which has failed to halt rising energy costs or the shrinking pension funds of its ageing population. This is the reason why everybody wants change. AfD’s recent electoral breakthrough in western German states only proves that its success is no longer limited to its traditional strongholds in the formerly Soviet-ruled Communist eastern Germany, such as the state of Thuringia. Short of getting banned or outlawed on the eve of the E.U. elections scheduled for next year — which cannot be ruled out — the AfD will likely double the 78 seats it now has in the Bundestag by 2024–25.

Upon closer look, AfD rank and file members do not look at all like the much-maligned radical right-wing specimens advocating revolution or threatening the German constitutional order, as is often suggested by the mainstream media. Its overall agenda is basically just an updated carbon copy of what the still strong German Christian Democrats (CSU, CDU) once stood for. And while the AfD is filling the void of the fossilized “conservative” CDU and CSU, the latter are becoming barely distinguishable from the ruling leftwing Ampel coalition. This is nothing new in the century-long charade known under the fancy name of “liberal parliamentary democracy.” One is reminded of the prominent antiliberal scholar Robert Michels and his classic depiction of the inherent corruption of the multiparty democratic parliamentary system.[1]

More to the point and less of a scholarly venue is the former bestseller by the late François-Bernard Huyghe, published three decades ago. In his semi-satirical work, he uncovers faked hostility between the parliamentary Left vs. Right. Accordingly, the Christian conservative declares: “Madame la Marquise I like your cute butt.” To that, the leftist Social Democrat responds with the same sentence, albeit by inverting its syntax: “Your cute butt I like Madame la Marquise.”[2] The more things change in the Liberal System the more they must stay the same — as witnessed in key swing states during the mysterious ballot counting after the November 2020 U.S. election.

Likewise, if it wants to survive in the high-tech surveillance state of Germany, the AfD must follow the System’s canons. In Germany’s political landscape, this means that it must strictly abide by the official self-censoring narrative and in addition perform ritual pilgrimages to Israel. An important figure in the AfD, the old timer and now AfD honorary chairman Alexander Gauland reiterated shortly after the Hamas attack on October 7, followed by the Israeli bombing of the Gaza strip: “When we stand with Israel, we also defend our way of life.”[3] His recent backpedaling into the Jewish orbit is hardly going to exonerate him in the eyes of the Jews in view of his earlier words regarding the National-Socialist past. Several years ago, he said that “the Nazis were just a minor chickenshit in the otherwise successful history of Germany.”[4]

The Empress’ New Clothes

What Medjugorje, Fatima or Lourdes means for the Catholic faithful, Yad Vashem operates now as an obligatory place of pilgrimage for the Western political class, and especially for German presidential hopefuls. No matter the size and number of German philo-Semitic genuflections, the Central Council of Jews in Germany remains reluctant to embrace AfD’s advances. In fact, following the Hamas October 7, 2023 raid on an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza strip, the Israeli government and its mouthpiece in Germany declared the AfD, a party that provides a political home to right-wing extremists and anti-Jewish sentiments and which has sought to trivialize Germany’s Nazi past and the Holocaust.”[5]

Consequently, in order to stay alive, the AfD needs to constantly provide evidence that it does follow the System’s rules. One of the most powerful figures in the AfD, chairwoman Alice Weidel, has learned this body-language mimicry well; she dresses up in the empress’s new clothes in an effort to deflect potential detractors. A tall, attractive, and soft-spoken woman of Nordic phenotype, Weidel is a picture-perfect modern conservative model, perfectly matching the image of a traditional Aryan female that can be spotted  in  Sepp Hilz paintings or Arno Breker sculptures. With her carefully administered mascara and her dark pastel attire she projects herself as the role model for White urban middle-class German women. Her game change is aired not just on one conservative frequency but on all political wavelengths and for all lifestyles. As a self-declared lesbian living with a Sri Lankan actress, she has managed to triple-shield herself from potential threats from powerful German antifas, LGBTQ+ loud-mouths, and diverse multicultural-multicolored virtue signalers. With her measured telegenic diction, she never postures like some West Coast drag queen, nor does she ever pose like a seasoned Berlin dyke on a bike. Despite her unorthodox sexual lifestyle, she knows how to put up her conservative physiognomy up for sale, with her outward persona displaying signs of traditional Frömmigkeit, i.e., German motherly devoutness. How that squares up with her female constituency remains to be seen in the months to come.

The most interesting and intriguing figure in the AfD is  Björn Höcke and his faction the Fluegel, i.e., the Wing, enjoying  a great deal of popularity, particularly among educated hard-core German nationalists and especially among young supporters of the now terminated NPD. Needless to say, the German spy agencies, euphemistically called as “agencies for the protection of the constitution,” watch every move Höcke makes and every step he takes.

Björn Höcke (AfD, Der Flügel)

Understanding the AfD means first and foremost understanding high German culture and its intricate and tortuous history. Having lost twenty percent of its pre-World War II population (more than 10 million civilians and soldiers) by 1950 as a result of Western and Eastern  Allied  serial  large-scale massacres, firebombing, expulsions and captivity, and having been subjected  over 75 years to incessant  brainwashing by American, largely Jewish born  educators, one cannot expect miracles  in the German political scene.[6] History, however, is always open and with serious new tremors happening now in Europe and the Middle East one might see some changes, not just in Germany but also in the entire West. Unless one accepts, but also believes in mysterious, multi-meaning, multi-god last words of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, “Only a God Can Save Us.”[7]


Notes:

[1] Robert Michels, Political Parties; A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911 Kitchener; Batoche books, 2021), pp. 224-235.

[2] François-Bernard Huyghe, La Soft-Idéologie  (Paris: R. Laffont, 1987).

[3]   David Gebhard, „AfD streitet über Israel-Unterstützung“, ZDF-Heute (October, 15, 2023)

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/afd-chrupalla-israel-hamas-100.html

[4]    „Gauland: Hitler nur „Vogelschiss“ in deutscher Geschichte“ in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 2, 2018.

[5] Dirk Kurbjuweit, „Germany Must Stand Unequivocally with Israel“, Der Spiegel, Oct. 13, 2023.

[6] T. Sunic, Homo americanus; Child of the Postmodern Age (Ch. III, “Brainwashing the Germans”), (London: Arktos 2018), pp.74-86 and passim.

[7] Martin Heidegger in interview, “Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten,” Der Spiegel, May 31, 1976.

Letitia James vs. VDare.com

VDARE.com LAWFARE CRISIS INTENSIFIES—Federal Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin Dodges Protecting Our (And Our Writers’) 1A Rights From “Hyperpoliticized” NYAG Letitia James
11/09/2023
The statue Laocoön and His Sons, of a Trojan priest being attacked by sea serpents, had an immense impact on the Renaissance after it was unearthed in Rome in the early sixteenth century. Wikipedia quotes an art historian as saying it is ”the prototypical icon of human agony” in Western art. It’s how we at VDARE.com feel, entrapped in Letitia James’ endless unprincipled, decidedly un-Western, Lawfare.

See earlier: VDARE.com FACING MORTAL THREAT!—NY Attorney General Letitia James Mugs Us (As Well As Donald Trump, NRA etc.)

Very soon, perhaps by mid-December, VDARE.com may be pressured to turn over the names of its vendors and its pseudonymous writers (and in the current Reign Of Terror, virtually all of our writers are pseudonymous) to the notoriously leak-crazed office of out-of-control New York Attorney General Letitia James. Which means our current vendors, i.e., tech support, etc., may be forced to drop us, as so many have already done, e.g., MailchimpConstant ContactPayPalAmazonGoogle Ads.  And at least some of our pseudonymous writers will certainly be fired from their day jobs—with the result that in today’s Woke-whipped America they may well be unable to find employment at all.

And VDARE.com will effectively be destroyed.

How has this appalling situation arisen?

  • Because NYAG James has now moved to find us in contempt of court because we have not yet complied with her subpoena demands, although we are fighting them in both New York State and Federal courts.

If we are found in contempt, we will face fines that could quickly amount to thousands of dollars.

The alleged cause of NYAG James’ investigation into VDARE.com: our purchase of the Berkeley Springs Castle WV as a conference and headquarters venue, which we did only after we had been repeatedly Cancelled out of hotel conference venues because of communist pressure. (See, e.g., hereherehere, and here.)

But this whole transaction—which is entirely normal in the 501(c)(3) world, e.g., the Southern Poverty Law Center communist enforcer group owns its notoriously lavish “Poverty Palace” headquarters in Montgomery AL— was expensively lawyered and is completely bullet-proof, not least because we always knew NYAG James was Out There.

And, tellingly, NYAG James has repeatedly refused to meet with our expensive lawyers to discuss the Castle purchase—obviously preferring to use this excuse to subpoena us to death on other matters.

And, crucially, she still has not yet brought any charges against us. Notoriously, the reality of modern politicized legal and regulatory tyranny is that ”the process is the punishment.”

In December 2022, NYAG James tricked our lawyers, who had filed in Federal Court for First Amendment relief after her subpoena demands became blatant political harassment, by asking for time to respond “because of the holidays [a.k.a Christmas] and a member of our team who has COVID…”

But she then used the time we granted to file against us in New York State Court, in itself an extremely aggressive move.

Of course, in a just world, even apart from NYAG Letitia James’ obvious malfeasance, the New York State Court should have stayed or even dismissed NYAG Letitia James’ petition to compel enforcement, pending resolution of our First Amendment case in Federal Court, which would normally have had priority.

But to our lawyers’ shock, and with unprecedented speed—as in the next business day after our last contact with her, a proposal that she review our vendors in camera, which she ignored—New York State Judge Sabrina Kraus, ruled against us, uncritically reproducing NYAG James’ lying and stupid assertions as to why she had cause to want disclosure.[Ruling, January 19, 2023, PDF]

 

Judge Sabrina Kraus

Normally, these rulings take months.

Kraus even required that we provide the names of pseudonymous writers.

This is particularly telling because NYAG James had ostentatiously eschewed asking for the real names of writers in her response to our Federal suit—presumably because of its obvious First Amendment implications.

It is this Judge Sabrina Kraus who will be hearing NYAG’s James contempt of court motion on December 8.

Amazingly, NYAG James’ new Memorandum of Law in support of her motion to compel not only ignores the ethical issues that our counsel raised, but doubles down and again brazenly repeats what we called out as her “lying and stupid assertions” noted above. It claims:

According to VDARE’s required IRS Form 990, at the time VDARE conveyed the castle to the Brimelows’ companies, it had no independent directors as that term is defined in the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law (“N-PCL”), Section 102(21).

Let’s go over this again, slowly: there are no “Brimelows’ companies,” in the lyingly insinuated sense that they are personally owned. The entities in question are entirely controlled by the VDARE Foundation, again a perfectly normal situation in the non-profit world.

(And, for that matter, the VDARE Foundation has always had “independent directors.”)

(And anyway 501(c)(3) charities are not obliged to have “independent directors.” They are regularly family-controlled.)

These are lies and (because easily refuted) stupid lies.

In this context, it’s vital to realize that NYAG James is not (at least in theory) a politician like Joe Biden, free to repeat flights of fantasy at will. She is what in the legal system is known as an  “Officer of the Court.” She is simply not allowed to misrepresent the facts in legal pleadings before a judge.

But she has. Repeatedly. And, at least in the case of Judge Kraus, she has gotten away with it.

This means that NYAG James is committing repeated violations of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct—despite the fact that our lawyers have already formally called her out on them:

See the Letter of Complaint here.

But our immediate problem:

  • Federal Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., the senior judge in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of New York, has dodged our First Amendment argument on the incredibly annoying technicality that the case had been already heard by New York State Judge Kraus (see above).
Judge Scullin

Judge Scullin’s final ruling was on September 13, 2023.[Ruling, PDF]

This was a devastating shock to us, and also to our counsel. We had presumed that making a good-faith effort to comply with NYAG James’ crushingly burdensome subpoenas, and only raising our First Amendment issues with the Federal court (where they should properly be heard) when it became clear that NYAG James herself was not acting in good faith, would create a record that the Federal court would respect.

But Judge Scullin ignored our good-faith efforts completely. Nor did he address NYAG James’ ethical transgressions a.k.a. her lying and stupid assertions to the court noted above. Nor did he address affidavits submitted by pseudonymous VDARE.com writers pointing out that revealing their names could cause them serious harm.

And he denied us any injunctive relief, thereby exposing us to New York State court compliance—precipitating the current crisis.

It’s hard to avoid the impression that Judge Scullin simply didn’t want to deal with the VDARE.com case at all—just as the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court Of Appeal, with the heroic exception of Judge Harris L. Hartz, dodged dealing with our slam-dunk Civil Rights case against the City of Colorado Springs’ refusal to protect our 2017 conference there.

  • What happens next?

VDARE.com is now in the Kafkaesque position of have having to defend the same issue, and also appeals relating to both of them, in both state and federal courts simultaneously—at absolutely appalling expense.

Our appeal against New York State Judge Kraus’ decision is here [PDF]. Its key point:

Almost every word Respondent has stated about the castle transactions is a false and misleading statement of fact and law to a tribunal. Yet the castle transactions were supposed to be the “critical facts that first triggered [Respondent’s] scrutiny.” Stripped of Respondent’s deliberate lies about the castle transactions, Respondent is left with picayune complaints about de minimis technicalities. Such inquiries do not justify the breadth of the three subpoenas, especially the attempt to deanonymize those with the right to speak and associate anonymously.

Furthermore, the 6,000 pages of documents already produced (R.6) are by now more than enough to answer and lay to rest these trivial inquiries. Demanding that VDARE continue on with the massive administrative burden of producing another 40 gigabytes of data—a truly monumental amount of data—chasing after these petty phantoms bespeaks nothing other a desire to punish VDARE for its speech.

Quite aside from Respondent’s admission, such a sweeping inquiry tethered to such de minimis concerns reveals Respondent’s conduct for what it is: an “unlimited and general inquisition” calling for “irrelevant and immaterial documents” meant to harass VDARE (an ideological adversary of James’s professed politics). Myerson v Lentini Bros Moving & Storage Co. It manifestly does not survive the strict or “careful” scrutiny required by the First Amendment or New York’s own constitutionEvergreen Ass’n, Inc v Schneiderman, 153 AD3d 87, 100 [2nd Dept, 2017]. Such being the case, Respondent should be told, in no uncertain terms, that this subpoena is invalid and should not be enforcedGrotallio v. Soft Drink Leasing Corp., 468 NYS2d 4, 5-6, [1st Dept, 1983].

In addition, we are appealing Judge Scullin’s dismissal to the Federal Second Circuit.

  • A point in VDARE.com’s favor—At least everyone now knows about weaponized law enforcement. (But of course this Is Bad News for America.)

There was a time when Americans innocently assumed that anyone attacked by law enforcement authorities must be guilty of something.

Perhaps the first crack in this assumption for conservatives:  former Reagan Administration official Paul Craig Roberts’ demonstration, in his 2000 book The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, that an epidemic of prosecutorial abuse had emerged as a result of the 1990s War on Drugs/Crime.

I was able to write about this in FORBES magazine, despite Steve Forbes’ characteristically conventional misgivings, only because of the support of FORBES’ great Editor James W. Michaels.

”Americans are no longer secure in law—the justice system no longer seeks truth and prosecutors are untroubled by wrongful convictions,” Roberts wrote.

”They can seize anyone, and any property, at any time,” he said of modern law enforcement agencies.

A key traditional right that Roberts argued had been eroded: “To have the confidential assistance of an attorney.”

Of course the further destruction of this right has been exemplified recently by Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis’ financial torturing into submission of President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers: herehere and here.

Fani Willis

How can any lawyer, with a family to support, now dare represent Trump—or for that matter anyone on the Dissident Right?

The broader significance of this development: It means that the equivalent of what economists used to call the “money illusion”—consumers’ slowness to realize that the nominal value of money was being destroyed by inflation—is finally ending for America’s law enforcement system.

Significantly, a plurality (46%) of Americans now flat-out believe that the charges against Trump are political [Nearly two-thirds of Americans think Jan. 6 charges against Trump are serious: POLL, by Tal Axelrod, ABC, August 4, 2023]. They think the law enforcement system has been weaponized—as is clearly the case with NYAG Letitia James’ attack on us.

Simply put, Americans are ceasing to believe the law enforcement system is impartial.

Of course, the same thing has already happened to America’s increasingly partisan Regime Media

The 32% of Americans who say they trust the mass media “a great deal” or “a fair amount” to report the news in a full, fair and accurate way ties Gallup’s lowest historical reading, previously recorded in 2016 [Media Confidence in U.S. Matches 2016 Record Low by Megan Brenan, Gallup Polls, October 19, 2023].

With President Trump appearing certain to get the GOP nomination, and the Deep State appearing  fanatically determined to stop him, the U.S. is unmistakably headed for a Constitutional crisis.

And what recourse do Americans have if they can’t trust the courts?

To quote Shakespeare’s Brutus in his funeral oration over the murdered Julius Caesar: I pause for a reply.

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This is headed in a very bad direction.

And it is entirely the fault of fanatical Leftist lawfare activists like NYAG James—and, of course, compliant courts.

  • Which is another point in VDARE.com’s favor—Everyone now knows about NYAG James’ clearly unconstitutional thuggery.

Thus a brilliant unsigned October 4, 2023 editorial in Revolver.news, The Definitive MAGA Legal Counter-Offensive: Striking Back Against the Regime’s Political Prosecution Spree, includes this bravura passage:

If you want a model for how a state law enforcement agency can seamlessly blend enforcing the law with political objectives, New York is the gold standard….

In the 1990s, Kamala Harris slept her way to the top of California politics. Thirty years later, a black woman can instead MeToo her way to the top. [Letitia] James planned to quickly level up to the governorship by sticking a MeToo knife into Andrew Cuomo. But James’s bid for New York’s top job in 2022 was a bust, so she’s instead still lurking in Albany, biding her time, and trying to take MAGA scalps in the meantime.

James and her predecessors have amassed a formidable set of wins against Donald Trump and right-of-center America generally, and crucially, they’ve done this damage without getting any electric headline-dominating convictions.

In 2018, under [NTYAG Eric] Schneiderman’s temporary replacement, Barbara Underwood, the New York A.G. office successfully dissolved the entire Trump Foundation after suing it for an alleged pattern of illegal behavior. In 2020, after years of preparatory maneuvers, the NYAG brought a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association and seize its assets. That bid failed, but at the same time, when was the last time you’ve heard about the NRA mattering in national politics? The group’s costly, years-long legal battles have sapped it of wealth and energy.

The NYAG’s most recent major action is a lawsuit against Trump, three of his children, and the Trump Organization, accusing it of systematically inflating Trump’s net worth to deceive investors. That case might get far less press attention than Trump’s four criminal indictments…

Subsequently, of course, press attention has surged with Trump’s recent New York court appearances.

 

 

The Washington Examiner’s Byron York has described Letitia James’s claims against Trump as

A punishment so out of line with the behavior alleged in this case that it boggles the mind. It is made possible by two factors: a bad law and a hyperpoliticized attorney general.

A politicized, grossly unfair lawsuit against Trump, November 7, 2023

“Hyperpoliticized Attorney General.” Yeah.

  • Putting this in perspective

VDARE.com is a tiny operation. And it has been crippled since the halcyon days of the free internet that was cut off after Trump’s election in 2016 by the Empire Striking Back—in the form of shadow-banning, deplatforming by, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, and demonetization by, e.g., Amazon.com.

Moreover, as noted above, we have always stood ready to prove that the Castle transaction, itself financially trivial—especially compared to James’ own just-revealed mysterious real estate deals [After you see Letitia James’ net worth, you’ll wonder why SHE isn’t the one being investigated…, Revolver.newsNovember 7, 2023]—was entirely legitimate. Any questions could have been settled with phone calls, possibly a couple of conferences, and the production of a handful of documents.

And anyway we are not even operating in New York State.

So why is NYAG James bringing this massive investigatory effort against us—her court documents are always signed by multiple lawyers, highly paid at taxpayer expense?

Does she have no criminals to prosecute?

The answer is obvious: This is a political mugging aimed at suppressing dissent—part of America’s ongoing communist coup.

  • A bitter personal note

I immigrated from Britain in 1970, not simply to America but to the American Conservative Movement. I would not claim to be particularly prominent in it, but I have gotten to know many of the key players personally.

And I have to say that, on a personal level, I am bitterly disappointed by how few of them have offered VDARE.com support since NYAG James’ mugging became public.

Of course, there’s a lot of other things going on right now—an ongoing communist coup, the Biden Rush at the southern (and now northern) border, the looming Constitutional crisis over the Deep State’s fanatical determination to block Trump, the very real imminent possibility of World War III, etc., etc.

But the key factor hurting VDARE.com:  fear of the “racism” smear continues to be hegemonic. America Firsters who are household names (I won’t name them—yet) tell us they are afraid to help us.

Patriots will not get anywhere until this taboo is broken down.

And that may be too late for us.

Right now there is a real danger that VDARE.com may vanish quietly like Icarus, in the W.H. Auden poem that Lydia quoted in her obituary for our much-missed friend Martin Rojas:

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white [is this Hate Speech?]  legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Roll of Honor (and thanks also to our supports on Twitter/X/Gab):

And I’d also like to thank the redoubtable Revolver.news for linking to our stories..

But that’s all I can see right now.

Specifically, nothing from my former colleagues at the Wall Street JournalBarron’s magazine, Fortune magazine, Forbes magazine, American Spectator, American Conservative, National Review, etc.).

Apologies to anyone I’ve missed—let me know.

  • VDARE.com NEEDS Help NOW

With Federal Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin dodging his obligation to protect our First Amendment rights, VDARE.com is now in supreme peril—along with our writers.

I do often say that miracles happen quite often in politics.

BUT VDARE.COM NEEDS A MIRACLE RIGHT NOW.

NYAG Letitia James’ regulatory harassment has driven us to the wall.

We are again very close to the point where we cannot continue to pay our writers and our technical support staff—let alone defend their pseudonymity.

So, again, we must ask you to help us continue to fight for immigration patriotism—and for America.

We—and all of our posterity—will be profoundly grateful.

John Tooby on Coalitional Politics in Science

John Tooby (1952–2023) died on November 10. Hearing about this brought back a whole lot of memories, many none too pleasant. As will be obvious, we disagreed about pretty much everything. But I have to say that in my experience he was an affable enough guy even after he attacked me publicly, and even after I was being shunned by the good people at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. I wrote this originally in 2017.

John Tooby was a professor of anthropology at UC-Santa Barbara and, along with his wife Leda Cosmides, prominent in the field of evolutionary psychology. For a whole lot of reasons, we do not see eye-to-eye on pretty much anything related to evolutionary psychology, but Tooby has also criticized me for my work on Judaism and for around ten years they had a note on their website that they were going to refute me—since removed. But I am happy to say that I finally agree with him about something. But first a little background.

Our differences long predate my study of Judaism and go to the heart of how to conceptualize evolutionary psychology. At a time when E. O. Wilson’s sociobiology was still under fire from the left, Tooby and Cosmides designed an evolutionary psychology that would fly under the radar of political correctness. The vicious assault on sociobiology by the left was a sight to behold—culminating in a woman pouring a pitcher of ice water over Wilson’s head at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

But the left succeeded. Evolutionary psychology became ensconced as the heir of sociobiology. The word ‘sociobiology’ was virtually expunged from the lexicon, and the most important academic journal in the field changed its name from Ethology and Sociobiology to Evolution and Human Behavior. I heard it on good authority that Wilson described those who carried out this coup as acting like “beaten dogs.”

Without the baggage of the term ‘sociobiology’, the field was free to reinvent itself.  The trick was to loudly proclaim the idea that evolution did indeed sculpt the mind, but that all humans were essentially alike because we all evolved in the same Pleistocene environment. This takes issues like race differences completely off the table, and individual differences, as in personality and intelligence, become mere “noise.”

And since we were all the same, the only interesting source of differences between humans was that people were exposed to different environmental contexts in their lifetime. Why is one person more aggressive than another? The evolutionary psych answer is that some people are exposed to contexts that bring out aggression, such as poverty and low social status, or their muscular build makes aggression have greater payoffs — explanations that fit well with a leftist zeitgeist. The  fact that some people have genes that predispose them to be more aggressive than others was out of bounds, along with the entire field of behavior genetics.

Evolutionary psychology also posited the “massively modular” mind — the idea that the mind was nothing more than a set of mechanisms each designed to solve a specific problem in our evolutionary past: a mechanism for falling in love, a mechanism for finding someone sexually attractive, one for fearing snakes, etc.

This neatly avoids talking about IQ — the one measure that is most feared by the left. That’s because differences in IQ are powerfully associated with success in modern societies, because IQ is strongly genetically influenced,  and, most importantly, because we don’t have any environmental interventions capable of getting rid of race differences in IQ in developed societies. IQ doesn’t fit well with evolutionary psychology because intelligence was not designed to solve any particular problem from our evolutionary past. Rather, as discussed in my 2013 paper (my last statement on the topic), it was designed to integrate information from a wide range of areas and use this information to solve novel problems and create imaginary worlds. Humans can solve a whole lot of problems that were not around in the environments we evolved in. That’s why it’s important  for success in school — and modern life.

There are other differences as well, on the theory of learning (here, p. 29ff), as well as prefrontal control of evolved modules sensitive to cultural input, and the theory of culture generally. My theory of culture emphasizes that intellectual endeavor and quite a bit of what passes as science is actually the result of coalition of interest. My book, The Culture of Critique, essentially argues that strongly identified Jews formed the backbone of intellectual coalitions that were intended to advance Jewish ethnic interests. Seems like a natural thing for an evolutionist to think about. So I was pleased to read the following from Tooby’s Edge article on “coalitional instincts.

Coalition-mindedness makes everyone, including scientists, far stupider in coalitional collectivities than as individuals. Paradoxically, a political party united by supernatural beliefs can revise its beliefs about economics or climate without revisers being bad coalition members. But people whose coalitional membership is constituted by their shared adherence to “rational,” scientific propositions have a problem when—as is generally the case—new information arises which requires belief revision. To question or disagree with coalitional precepts, even for rational reasons, makes one a bad and immoral coalition member—at risk of losing job offers, her friends, and her cherished group identity. This freezes belief revision.

Forming coalitions around scientific or factual questions is disastrous, because it pits our urge for scientific truth-seeking against the nearly insuperable human appetite to be a good coalition member. Once scientific propositions are moralized, the scientific process is wounded, often fatally.  No one is behaving either ethically or scientifically who does not make the best-case possible for rival theories with which one disagrees.

All of the intellectual movements reviewed in The Culture of Critique involved shared adherence to doctrines that had a flimsy grounding (if any) in scientific research, and questioning the doctrines brought shame and ostracism. The fact that a century passed without any evidence for the Oedipal Complex had no effect on Freud’s followers, any more than research on ethnocentrism or race differences would influence the Frankfurt School or the Boasians.

In the intellectual world, group cohesiveness has facilitated the advocacy of particular viewpoints within academic professional associations (e.g., the Boasian program within the American Anthropological Association; psychoanalysis within the American Psychiatric Association). Rothman and Lichter (1982, 104–105) note that Jews formed and dominated cohesive subgroups with a radical political agenda in several academic societies in the 1960s, including professional associations in economics, political science, sociology, history, and the Modern Language Association. They also suggest a broad political agenda of Jewish social scientists during this period: “We have already pointed out the weaknesses of some of these studies [on Jewish involvement in radical political movements]. We suspect that many of the ‘truths’ established in other areas of the social sciences during this period suffer from similar weaknesses. Their widespread acceptance . . . may have had as much to do with the changing ethnic and ideological characteristics of those who dominated the social science community as they did with any real advance in knowledge” (Rothman & Lichter 1982, 104). Sachar (1992, 804) notes that the Caucus for a New Politics of the American Political Science Association was “overwhelmingly Jewish” and that the Union of Radical Political Economists was initially disproportionately Jewish. Moreover, as Higham (1984, 154) notes, the incredible success of the Authoritarian Personality studies was facilitated by the “extraordinary ascent” of Jews concerned with anti-Semitism in academic social science departments in the post– World War II era.

Once an organization becomes dominated by a particular intellectual perspective, there is enormous intellectual inertia created by the fact that the informal networks dominating elite universities serve as gatekeepers for the next generation of scholars. Aspiring intellectuals, whether Jewish or gentile, are subjected to a high level of indoctrination at the undergraduate and graduate levels; there is tremendous psychological pressure to adopt the fundamental intellectual assumptions that lie at the center of the power hierarchy of the discipline. As discussed in Chapter 1, once a Jewish-dominated intellectual movement attains intellectual predominance, it is not surprising that gentiles would be attracted to Jewish intellectuals as members of a socially dominant and prestigious group and as dispensers of valued resources. Group cohesiveness can also be seen in the development of worshipful cults that have lionized the achievements of group leaders (Boasian anthropology and psychoanalysis) (Chapter 6, 224-225)

Real science is individualist, not a product of coalitions:

I propose that a minimal requirement of a scientific social system is that science not be conducted from an ingroup-outgroup perspective. Scientific progress (Campbell’s “competence-of reference”) depends on an individualistic, atomistic universe of discourse in which each individual sees himself or herself not as a member of a wider political or cultural entity advancing a particular point of view but as an independent agent endeavoring to evaluate evidence and discover the structure of reality. As Campbell (1986, 121–122) notes, a critical feature of science as it evolved in the seventeenth century was that individuals were independent agents who could each replicate scientific findings for themselves.  Scientific opinion certainly coalesces around certain propositions in real science (e.g., the structure of DNA, the mechanisms of reinforcement), but this scientific consensus is highly prone to defection in the event that new data cast doubt on presently held theories. (Chapter 6, p. 235)

And as Tooby notes as a general rule, there were indeed strong moral overtones to being a coalition member in the movements reviewed in CofC. As I noted in Chapter 6 (p. 213)

Collectively, these movements have called into question the fundamental moral, political, and economic foundations of Western society. A critical feature of these movements is that they have been, at least in the United States, top-down movements in the sense that they were originated and dominated by members of a highly intelligent and highly educated group. These movements have been advocated with great intellectual passion and moral fervor and with a very high level of theoretical sophistication.

Dissenters were expelled and vilified as moral cretins (and intellectual morons). To dissent was to place oneself outside of polite society. These coalitions had access to the moral and intellectual high ground of the society — prestigious university presses, academic departments able to turn out compliant graduate students, and the elite media. Under these conditions, the coalitions become immune to criticism.

Finally, Tooby might want to think about the extent to which evolutionary psychology itself became a coalition of like-minded people able to marginalize dissenters and ignore unpleasant findings — findings that conflict with the leftist zeitgeist that dominates universities today. Coalitions are indeed the death of science, and prima facie,  designing an evolutionary science able to fly under the radar of political correctness is not a great strategy for discovering scientific truth.

New Book: Julius Evola in the Third Reich

Alexander Jacob’s book on Julius Evola as seen by four intellectuals in the Third Reich. From the Amazon blurb:

How was Julius Evola viewed in the Third Reich? This book presents assessments made by 4 leading intellectuals of the regime: Walther Wüst, Joseph Otto Plassmann, Wolfram Sievers and Kurt Hancke. Translated with an Introduction by Alexander Jacob, this scholarly work is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Evola or the history of National Socialist Germany.

Amazon link.

Julius Evola in the Third Reich
Alexander Jacob
Uthwita Press, 2023

Introduction to Julius Evola in the Third Reich, Uthwita Press, 2023

Julius Evola (1898–1974) is today known as a major exponent of the movement that has come to be called Traditionalism and the author of several important works on Hermeticism, Buddhism and Yoga. However, in the thirties, he also published pamphlets on subjects that had come into prominence since the establishment of the Third Reich, namely, the Aryan mythos and the Jewish Question. Evola was not a Fascist and in his earliest publications on politics, such as notably the Imperialismo pagano of 1928, he criticised the Italian Fascist state as a soulless entity that did not rise above petty populism and nationalism to the transcendental sources of an ideal hierarchical society. The pagan imperialism that Evola admired was that of ancient Rome, which he believed had been ruined by the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, which assumed an undue power alongside the state and thereby separated the state from the church. However, when he published a German translation of this work in 1933 (Heidnischer Imperialismus), he made radical changes to it. For instance, the Roman paganism of the Mediterranean world pointed to in the Italian edition was replaced by a Nordic Aryan one emanating from the Hyperborean North of a legendary Thule. While he had shown little sympathy for Italian Fascism, he now evinced an unusual interest in the racialist ideology of National Socialism.

Mussolini, for his part, had initially encouraged public denunciations of Nazi racial doctrine and Evola’s two major contributions to this campaign appeared in late 1933 and early 1934. The first article (‘Osservazioni critiche sul “razzismo” nazionalsocialista’)[1] presented, as Staudenmaier puts it,[2] some ‘critical observations’ on the excessively ‘naturalistic’ components of Nazi racial ideology:

Here Evola outlined his philosophy of ‘spiritual’ racism and contrasted it to the ‘materialist’ racism that predominated within National Socialism. While the materialist ignored the ‘metabiological’ aspects of race, Fascism had pointed to the ‘higher reality’ proper to the ‘Aryan peoples’ … The second article (‘Razza e Cultura’)[3] applauded Nazism’s revival of ‘Aryanism’ and its contrast between ‘superior races and inferior races,’ but cautioned that biological theories of race were not aristocratic enough and did not grasp true racial nobility. Evola insisted that standard forms of ‘materialist’ racism were not equal to the task of confronting the ‘Jewish menace’ in its full depth and breadth since race was ‘not merely physical.’[4]

Then, in 1936, Evola wrote a pamphlet on Tre aspetti del problema ebraico (‘Three Aspects of the Jewish Problem’) which betrays his main concern in all racial discussions — namely, to exonerate the Jews of the various racial, cultural and economic accusations made against them by anti-Semitic thinkers in Germany and within the National Socialist regime. According to Evola, the Jews are indeed guilty of various crimes of social and political subversion in Europe — however, they are not the major force of corruption but only a small part of a larger metaphysical force of evil working against the pure original realm of Tradition.

Like the philo-Semitic Nietzsche,[5] Evola believes that the most ancient Jewish cult was manly and warlike whereas the later cult revolving around the prophets degenerated into a Messianism that culminated in the servile religion of Christianity.[6] Similarly, he considers Jewish subversion of the culture of Indo-European countries not due to any plan of the Jews[7] but as part to a larger process of degeneration in which the racial character of the Jews only plays a small though important role. Thus, a spiritual change is needed that will not allow the Jewish element to benefit from the natural tendency towards decay that is apparent in Western societies. Populist solutions, mass deportations, etc. are plebeian ways of viewing a problem that is metaphysical in essence.

The fact that Evola wrote this pamphlet just before his lectures to the Germans on the Aryan question and the fusion of National Socialist ideology with Fascism suggests that his visits to Germany were not accidental but impelled by an urgent desire to soften the anti-Semitism of the Reich by pointing out its supposed metaphysical shortcomings.

In 1941, Evola published a work detailing his own racial ideology, Sintesi di dottrina della razza, which decried all biological racialism and raised the notions of spiritual race and of racial souls above it. In his discussion of degenerate races, he significantly does not specify the Jewish race but generally designates the ‘Semites’ — along with sub-Saharan Africans — as inferior racial types. Evola concludes by suggesting that the National Socialist racial doctrines are a hopeful sign of the possible recreation of the original superior race that inhabited the lofty world of Tradition. We see therefore that the sources both of racial perfection and of corruption are pushed back by Evola to an ideal realm that is so far removed from the present world that it is virtually impossible to alter the current course of the latter. And Evola’s professed hopes of the rise of a new type of enlightened humanity out of the realm of Tradition are, consequently, somewhat fantastic.

In the late thirties and early forties, Evola undertook frequent trips to Germany, going on speaking tours, meeting with SS officials, and attending conferences. For him, the climax of a 1934 visit to Germany was a speech he delivered at Berlin’s Herrenklub, the conservative political establishment inspired by Moeller van den Bruck’s book Das dritte Reich (1923).[8] As he later recounted in his autobiography — ‘Here I found my natural habitat. From then on a cordial and fruitful friendship was established between myself and the club’s president, Baron Heinrich von Gleichen … That was also the basis for certain activity in Germany, grounded on common interests and objectives.’[9] German editions of his works that appeared at this time included Heidnischer Imperialismus (1933) and Erhebung wider die moderne Welt (1935).

Further, as Staudenmeier informs us,

In 1937 he took part in an international antisemitic convention in Erfurt and wrote a report for Italian readers. A lecture tour in spring 1941 took Evola to Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin. This was followed by lectures on race in April 1942 in Hamburg and Berlin, depicting a shared Aryan heritage that bound Italians and Germans together.[10] 

Everything in Evola’s doctrine is based on the primacy of spirit so that the racial question too cannot be determined by reference to biological realities but rather to spiritual ones. He considers race itself to be a spiritual condition first, then a question of ethnic identity (Clauß’ racial soul), and finally an individual biological phenomenon. The effort to recreate the primal perfect race that is characteristic of the original realm of tradition should be undertaken, according to Evola, not through biological discrimination but through spiritual elevation.

Evola is quite ambiguous regarding the materialistic and socially degenerate aspects of Jewry. It is true that he wrote the Preface to Giovanni Preziosi’s 1921 translation of the Protocols as well as an enthusiastic endorsement of Codreanu’s anti-Semitic campaign in his 1938 article, ‘La tragedia della ‘Guardia di Ferro.’[11] But he cannot accept that every Jew is biologically bound to be materialistic and degenerate just as every Aryan is not a superior being — as he declared in his 1937 lecture reproduced in the present edition:[12]

We shall repeat: race is the secondary element, spirit and tradition are the primary because, in the metaphysical sense, race — before it is expressed in the blood — is in the spirit. If it is true that, without racial purity, spirit and tradition are robbed of their most precious means of expression, it is equally true however that the pure race robbed of spirit is doomed to become a biological mechanism and to eventually die out. Spiritual degeneration, ethical weakening, and the slow death of many tribes that have not however committed any of the sins of the blood pointed to by a certain materialistic racial doctrine are a proof of that, and here we are thinking not only of primitives but also of Swedes and the Dutch. It follows therefrom that, without the revivification of the higher spiritual power latent in the Nordic character, even all measures for biological racial protection would have a very relative and limited effect with regard to our higher task of a reconstruction of the West.

In his enumeration of the tactics of subversion employed by the enemies of Tradition, Evola tellingly criticises those — like the National Socialists — who manifest a monomaniacal hostility to the Jews and Freemasons. As SS Obersturmbannführer Hancke paraphrased Evola in his report of June 1938:

In this way National Socialism overlooks its real opponents as a result of its monomaniacal concentration on Jews and Freemasons.

This is perhaps the clearest indication of Evola’s dubious defence of both Judaism and Freemasonry.

While Evola continued to appeal to the Germans to unite on the question of Nordic or Aryan civilisation and racial differences, in Italy, he aroused staunch opposition from Fascist quarters. As Staudenmaier puts it, ‘His long sojourns in Germany provoked contrary assessments. Some saw him as an unreliable fascist due to his strongly pro-German stance, while others cast him as excessively critical of Nazi policy and an irritant to the Axis partnership.’[13]

The Germans too were in general not fully sympathetic to Evola’s views and the union between National Socialism and Fascism did not come about in any deep philosophical sense before the forced incorporation of Italy in 1943 led to the implementation of the Reich’s uncompromising anti-Jewish measures. During this period of the Italian Social Republic, Evola remained mainly in contact with Giovanni Preziosi, who was like Evola a spiritual anti-Semite, and Roberto Farinacci, whose strict enforcement of the anti-Jewish measures of 1938 were also not based on any biologically based racialism.[14]

In official SS circles, Evola’s lectures were subjected to close scrutiny and a more or less negative evaluation. According to Goodrick-Clarke,[15] already in early 1938, the SS started to investigate his ideas and Karl Maria Wiligut (also known as Weisthor when he joined the SS in 1933) — the seer who became Himmler’s spiritual ‘guru’— was asked to comment on a lecture delivered bv Evola at Berlin in December 1937. Three further lectures were given by Evola in June 1938 and again Himmler referred the matter to Weisthor, with the additional request that he review Evola’s book on pagan imperialism from the perspective of his own traditions. As Goodrick-Clarke recounts, Weisthor replied that:

Evola worked from a basic Aryan concept but was quite ignorant of prehistoric Germanic institutions and their meaning. He also observed that this defect was representative of the ideological differences between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and could ultimately prejudice the permanency of their alliance.[16]

Both on the basis of Wiligut’s report and the reports presented in this edition, the SS ordered that Evola’s activities in the Third Reich should be discouraged.

Even after the initial period of his lectures in Germany, Evola faced opposition from both Germans and Italians. Thus, as Staudenmaier relates, when Evola proposed to Mussolini and his German contacts in 1941 the founding of a bilingual journal on racial questions, Werner Hüttig, the racial scientist, ‘submitted a detailed critique of Evola’s racial theories in September 1942, and faulted Evola’s treatment of scientific issues and his obscure mixture of incongruous sources, from ancient Aryan tradition to modern esoteric lore.’[17] In Italy too, ‘The occult aspects of Evola’s spiritual racism were a source of particular controversy. Anonymous denunciations sent to the fascist leadership had warned for years of ‘an epidemic of esotericism’ afflicting Italy.’ In a March 1942 letter to Mussolini, Telesio Interlandi, the scientific racialist, protested against ‘occultist’ perversions of the racist idea.‘ The Jesuit priest, Pietro Tacchi Venturi, too insisted that ‘Evola’s project would lead to problems with the church, which viewed spiritual matters as its rightful territory and frowned on the pagan overtones of Evola’s approach.’[18]

Evola’s critiques of Christianity as a Semitic corruption of Traditional order would naturally be opposed by Italian Catholic priests like Tacchi. The German nationalists equally warned against Evola’s subtle subversion of the Reich by his Traditionalist doctrine and discouraged his influence on German ideological and political programmes.

In general, Evola’s idealistic political system posits a radical dichotomy between ‘traditional’ society and historical ones. The former is an ideal condition whereas the latter are only increasingly corrupt deviations from the former that have culminated in the horrors of modernity. The race closest to the ideal world of tradition is, according to Evola, the Aryan. Even though he had first celebrated the Mediterranean culture as the highest, by 1933 he had changed his views considerably to adapt them to the rise of Hitler’s German racialist party. Henceforth, Evola sought to wed the two concepts of Nordic and Roman supremacy so as to present a glimpse of ideal social organisation in historical times. Thus, the Roman Empire and the Ghibelline Empire were exemplary moments in the history of the modern West.

The means of understanding and reviving the original world of tradition in modern life are, according to Evola, myths and symbols. It is in these that one recognises the ideal templates that are to be followed. Hence Evola’s interest in the Grail myth in particular, where the crux of the legend is located by him in the restoration of the original ideal empire by the Grail King. The mythological orientation of Evola’s thought is obviously of dubious value since no polity can be directed by constant recourse to ancient myths even as symbols.

A champion of spiritual imperialism, Evola is particularly opposed to nationalism such as those initiated in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe by Liberal forces since he believes that it hinders the attainment of a universal spirituality. As Hancke pointed out:

For E. the idea of the nation belongs, according to its origin in the 18th century, to the ideational world of the degenerate modern world. It is therefore to be overcome in the imperialistic, that is, the supra-national, sense in such a way indeed that the Aryan race of Germanic-Roman stamp would have primacy.

Apart from the dangerous proximity of this doctrine to universalist schemes such as those of Theosophy and Freemasonry, its utopian quality too was quickly noted by Hancke:

That which separates him especially from the National Socialist worldview is his radical neglect of the concrete historical data of our racial past in favour of an abstract-spiritual and fantasy-based utopia.

Plassmann/Sievers too, in their response to Evola’s lectures reproduced in this edition, made it clear that:

Evola does not seem quite familiar with the pragmatic political forces and so he could easily associate in good faith with orientations that represented this idea only apparently but in reality employed it against the racial idea (Othmar Spann)[19] or do not have any political dynamism of their own (Goga).[20] In general, when one attempts to organise such an idea, there arises immediately the danger of a certain ideal cosmopolitanism that must lead to unforeseeable consequences.

Along with nationalism, Evola also denounces the tendency to populist demagogy that was evident in both Italian Fascism and National Socialism. Evola posited instead a rule by an elite ‘Order’ that would represent the world of Tradition and assert its innate authority regardless of the masses. As Hancke put it:

After E. had earlier rejected the idea of the Volk, in the same way he now champions an ‘ethnic community,’ which in turn, as the principle of spiritual realisation, works against every collectivity. The real community, by contrast, is for E. the caste of rulers, an elite of the spirit, bound together in the battle for Tradition against the modern world.

These objections to Evola’s political views do not however mean that Evola’s missionary work on behalf of Traditionalism was wholly lacking in intellectual merit. His notion of universal spirituality that is not the rule of a single religion has a certain idealistic allure. For example, in his lecture of December 1937 reproduced in this edition, he suggests that:

It is necessary to arrive at a solidarity which should be as trans-nationalistic and spiritual as, for example, the Bolshevist-Communist is anti-nationalistic and materialistic. The first and indispensable precondition for that is, however, the determination of a universal worldview whose principles and values should be valid as a uniform, shared and unchangeable axis for all those who declare that they are against the enemies exposed by us.

However, it is clear that such an ideal international policy is marred by its impracticality. Apart from the difficulty of the implementation of such a spirituality among the diverse peoples of the world, the acceptance of a Nordic Aryan spiritual hegemony over the world is also a matter of uncertainty. Yet, Evola does clarify in his 1937 lecture that his Aryanism is not limited by biological differences:

The Nordic tradition is not half-naturalistic, that is, to be conceived only on the basis of blood and soil, but as a cultural category, as a primordial transcendental form of spirit of which the Nordic type, the Aryan race, and the general Indo-Germanic ethos, are only external phenomenal forms. The idea of race itself is, according to its higher tradition-bound significance, something that cannot and must not have anything to do with the rationalistic ideas of modern biology and mundane science. Race is above all a basic attitude, a spiritual power, something that is formative in a primordial way, of which the external, positively tangible forms are only a final echo.

With such a loose definition of Nordic Aryanism, Christianity too may be regenerated if reoriented to the original spirituality of the ‘Nordic Hyperborean’ realm of Tradition:

It is possible to intervene in a creative way against Christianity if one has fulfilled the tasks already pointed to, that is, if one has raised the Nordic idea and the idea of the Reich to a level of true spirituality that is universal and solar, then we would really have something more authentic than Christianity, encompassing the heroic and the sacral, the worldly and the otherworldly, the regal and the spiritual, that is, something that leads decisively beyond every worldview that is merely religiously Christian. Our principle should, moreover, always be: not to reject but to overcome. Even in regard to the Catholic and the pagan question, the task of the new elite should consist in fixing the chief principles of the general worldview from the Nordic spirit on a fully metaphysical and objective, thus ‘supra-religious,’ level. These principles would then be able to extract, clarify and intensify that which is valid in the Christian tradition itself.

Evola’s ideal society is a heroic one based on what he calls the solar and manly character of the ‘Nordic Aryan’ tradition that is opposed to the lunar and womanly quality of the ‘Semitic’:

Two fundamental attitudes are possible with regard to the supra-natural reality. One is the solar, manly, affirmative one corresponding to the ideal of the sacred royal power and knighthood. The other is the lunar, womanly, religious, passive one corresponding to the priestly ideal. If the second attitude is chiefly characteristic of the Semitic southern cultures, the Nordic and Indo-Germanic lordly man, on the other hand, has always been solar; the subjection of the creation and the pathos of its fundamental distance from the Almighty was fully unknown to him. He felt the gods to be like him, he considered himself to be of a heavenly race and the same blood as them. From that arises a conception of the heroic that is not exhausted in the physical, soldierly, or even tragic-choreographic and a conception of the higher man that has nothing to do with the Nietzschean-Darwinistic caricature of the handsome blond beast because this Nordic higher man exhibits at the same time ascetic, sacral and supra-natural traits and culminates in the type of the Olympian ruler, of the Aryan Chakravarti as the commander of the two powers and king of kings.’

This classification of Aryan as solar and Semitic as lunar is, however, vague and not grounded in historical reality since the East Semitic Akkadians worshipped the sun god, Shamash, in the third millennium B.C. long before any solar worship was attested among the Indo-Europeans.

More important is Evola’s firm dismissal of all immanentist pantheism and pseudo-philosophical glorification of science and technology:

We therefore have to free ourselves from every this-worldly mysticism, every worship of Nature and of Life, every pantheism. At the same time we should reject that significance of Aryan initiated by the dilettante Chamberlain[21] that is connected to a purely rationalistic eulogy and glorification of profane science and technology.’

Evola’s elite should be capable of penetrating to the origins of corruption in history and reconstruct the West in a traditional manner:

And this should at the start be the work of an elite who, with the same impersonality and strictness of an ascetic Order, raise the principles and the symbols of the Nordic primordial tradition to a level of spirituality, universality and clear knowledge and put an end to every dilettantish mythic and distorting interpretation.

In closing, we may state that Evola’s doctrine of a universal spiritual politics directed by an enlightened elite is indeed a commendable intellectual exercise, but the mythologizing tendencies of his thought and his reluctance to deal with the concrete realities of the Jewish Question expose the practical compromises upon which any Evolian political project must flounder.


[1]Vita Italiana, November 1933, 544-9.

[2] I am indebted in this summary to Peter Staudenmaier, ‘Racial Ideology between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Julius Evola and the Aryan Myth, 1933-43,’ Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 55, No. 3 (2020), 473-491.

[3]Rassegna Italiana, January 1934, 11-16.

[4] Staudenmaier, ibid. 

[5] “After Wagner, in the late 1870s and early 1880s, Nietzsche developed intense relationships with several ethnic Jews, all of them atheists, and made explicitly positive pronouncements about Jews.” Nietzsche even wrote: “The Jews, however, are beyond any doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race now living in Europe.” (Soros, Alex. “Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism, by Robert Holub.” Intellectual History Review 28, No. 2 (2018): 344-348.)

[6] Cf. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 52: “The Jewish ‘Old Testament,’ the book of divine justice, has people, things, and speeches in such grand style that it is without parallel in the written works of Greece and India … Perhaps he will still find the New Testament, the book of mercy, more to his liking (it is full of the proper, tender, musty stench of true believers and small souls).” (Tr. Judith Norman)

[7] Cf. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 251: “The fact that the Jews, if they wanted (or if they were forced, as the anti-Semites seem to want), could already be dominant, or indeed could quite literally have control over present-day Europe — this is established. The fact that they are not working and making plans to this end is likewise established.” (Tr. Judith Norman).

[8] See Ferraresi, Franco. “Julius Evola: Tradition, Reaction, and the Radical Right.” European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie 28, No. 1 (1987): 107-151.

[9]Il cammino del cinabro (1963), 137.

[10] Staudenmaier, ibid.

[11] In La vita italiana, 309 (December 1938).

[12] The present edition by Gerd Simon (http://www.gerd-simon.de). presents the December 1937 lecture of Julius Evola as well as the commentaries of Joseph Plassmann/Wolfram Sievers and Kurt Hancke on Evola’s 1938 lectures in Germany.

[13]Ibid.

[14] See A. James Gregor, Mussolini’s Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought, Princeton, NJ, 2005, p.258n.

[15] See Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935, Wellingborough, 1985.

[16]Ibid.

[17] Staudenmaier, op.cit.

[18]Ibid.

[19] Othmar Spann (1878-1950) was an Austrian philosopher who developed an idealistic doctrine of ‘universalism’ to counter the individualism of liberal sociology and economics. As an Austrian nationalist and Catholic, he was not fully favoured by the German National Socialists.

[20] Octavian Goga (1881-1938) was a Romanian politician and man of letters. He was a member of the Romanian National Party in Austro-Hungary and joined forces in 1935 with A.C. Cuza’s anti-Semitic National-Christian Defence League to form the National Christian Party. In 1937 Goga served briefly as Prime Minister of Romania and enacted several anti-Semitic measures to maintain the electoral support of Corneliu Codreanu’s Iron Guard.

[21] Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) was a British philosopher who became a naturalised German and wrote many works extolling the spiritual superiority of the Aryan race and of the Germanic peoples in particular.