Counter-Currents
2,737 words
Editor’s Note:
The following is from Anthony M. Ludovici, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, ch. 5, “My Education, Part III.” The book remains unpublished, but we hope to raise funds to finally bring it into print The notes by John V. Day are marked with his initials.
Hitler and the Third Reich
To [the English Mistery] I am also indebted for opportunities I had of becoming acquainted with the leading government personalities and the social conditions of Germany during the Hitler regime, for, had I not through the Mistery become known to the personnel of the German Embassy in London, I should never have enjoyed this unique experience.
The movement certainly attracted the attention of many of the foreign diplomats in London. Thus I met Signor Grandi, with whom I often had long talks. I cannot say that he impressed me very favorably; nor could I help being astonished to discover that Mussolini’s chief emissary in England could hardly express himself coherently in English. Our dinners were also frequently attended by members of the German Embassy staff, as well as by the representatives of many political parties in France, Holland and Sweden, all of whom wished to learn something about our aims and outlook. We were, therefore, not altogether surprised when in the spring of 1936 the so-called Chancellor of our society, William Sanderson, received an invitation from the authorities in Germany to come to Berlin as a guest of the Nazi Party. The idea was that he should meet the leading members of the government and become acquainted with some of the reforms and innovations introduced by the National Socialists since Hitler’s advent to power.
Sanderson accepted the invitation, and as I was the only German-speaking member of the Mistery, and was in other respects the best qualified to be his companion, it was arranged that I should go with him.
We crossed over to the Hook of Holland on the night of 30th April but neither of us was able to enjoy the luxury of our first-class deck cabins, for a dense fog enveloped us soon after we left Harwich and the constant hooting of the ship’s fog signal throughout the journey prevented us from getting a wink of sleep. Owing to the slow pace at which our ship had been forced to travel, moreover, we reached the Hook too late for the boat train to Berlin, and when ultimately we reached the capital, shortly before midnight, instead of being in time for dinner, there was nobody to meet us, and it looked as if our hosts had given up all hope of seeing us that day. We were not too well impressed by this poor reception, especially when some time later we heard that no government official had heard about the heavy mist in the North Sea and the serious delay it had inevitably caused.
We were both famished and exhausted, and it was pelting with rain. However, I managed to find a taxi which drove us to the address I had been given by the embassy staff in London—i.e., at the Englischer Klubb near the Tiergarten [zoo–JVD]—and there we found a rather peeved and perplexed remnant of the company with whom we should have dined that evening, who, having given us up, were on the point of dispersing. We were astonished to hear that at the railway station they had heard nothing about the mist at sea, and that when the boat train had arrived they naturally inferred that we had not traveled on the night of April 30th as arranged. Incredibly bad management! For, even if the railway officials had been remiss in their duty, the party instructed to meet us at the station ought surely to have made exhaustive inquiries which would inevitably have elicited the facts.
They deplored our having missed the special dinner that had been prepared in our honor, ordered a snack supper which we found very welcome, and then drove us to the Hotel Splendide, a most luxurious hotel which was to be our headquarters throughout our stay.
As guests of the Nazi Party, who wished to introduce us to every aspect of the new Germany they were creating, we were not allowed much peace. Having given us a kind and considerate young Foreign Office official as a bear-leader, we were taken to all important meetings and driven round the country to inspect the various camps, training centers and institutions which owed their existence to the new regime. As we had arrived just in time for the First of May celebrations, our first few days were pretty full.
In the course of our stay we were able to hear Hitler speak several times, and were always given such privileged seats at his meetings that we were able to get a close view of him and all his leading colleagues in the government. As Sanderson was partly blind and understood no German, I was compelled to be not only his visual aid but also his interpreter, and this compelled me to attend with particular care to all that was said and to all there was to see.
Of the whole bunch of men around Hitler, Blomberg—the C-in-C of that period—was by far the best and most distinguished-looking. The others—i.e., Goebbels, Himmler, Schirach, Hess, Funk, Ribbentrop and Goering—all struck me as commonplace, if not actually common. I disliked Hess and Ribbentrop, but little Goebbels, with whom I discussed Nietzsche, seemed to me rather attractive and the most intelligent of the lot. At a lunch Ribbentrop gave us at the English Club I tried repeatedly to convince him that the opposition to the Nazi regime, and above all to Hitler’s often high-handed behavior vis-à-vis of neighboring states, was much stronger in England, especially among influential Englishwomen, than he and his colleagues seemed to think; and I pointed out that women of all classes in England were inclined to resent any movement which, like the Nazi regime, was predominantly masculine in spirit. Incidentally, the unanimity with which Englishwomen subsequently backed the war party in England, often against their menfolk’s views, abundantly confirmed my opinion of their attitude in 1936.
I had, however, little success with Ribbentrop, who seemed quite unconvinced. Before the luncheon party dispersed, therefore, I button-holed his secretary and begged him to repeat my warning to his chief. But judging from the generally protzig [truculent or arrogant—JVD] attitude of many of the Party officials at that time, I doubt whether even he listened very sympathetically to my appeal. Captain Fitzroy Fyers, as he was then, who happened also to be among the English guests at the 1936 Party Rally and who spent much time with me in Nürnberg, will remember that on the afternoon of the 12th of September, the last day of our stay, I told him that the greatest danger of all in my opinion was precisely this protzigkeit of the leading officials or the Party. It was particularly marked in Himmler, with whom I spent some time that same afternoon together with the Duchess of Brunswick and her charming daughter. I thought him most objectionable, and much as I liked the two ladies I was glad to part company with him.
Later that evening, however, I had the good fortune to come across the two ladies again, for I sat between them at the dinner Himmler gave us at the Police HQ, and I vividly remember something Frederika—the Kaiser’s granddaughter, now Queen of Greece—said to me. We were discussing English schools and she told me that when she was at her English school (North Foreland Lodge, near Basingstoke) after World War I, and the whole school assembled for morning prayers, they often sang the Ancient and Modern hymn which has the same melody as Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and, as often as this happened, so she would have to cry. Ultimately, this was brought to the notice of the headmistress, who at once forbade the singing of that hymn as long as Frederika remained a pupil at the school.
My two most pleasant memories of Nazi Germany are my meeting with this young lady and her mother and my visit to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg in the previous May. His Grace was a most charming personality and our talk during the tea he gave Sanderson and me at his house in or near Berlin was one of my most interesting experiences during that first visit to Nazi Germany.
I must have heard Hitler speak in public about a dozen times, but I met him to talk to only once, at the Englischer Hof Hotel in September 1936, where he gave the whole of the English visitors a tea. I was perhaps too much preoccupied in studying his features to do more than exchange a few words about Nietzsche with him, but I had time to have a good look at his hands and to observe his manner in private intercourse. He was extraordinarily self-possessed among us all and very gracious in the attention he paid to every one of his guests in turn. A moment later I heard him arguing animatedly with a man whom I believed to be Ward Price of the Daily Mail [author of I Know These Dictators, London, 1937; revised edition, 1938; and Extra-Special Correspondent, London, 1957—JVD]. But it all ended in a good laugh, so I assumed that the argument had been friendly.
One was easily carried away by the amazing eloquence, sincerity and passion of his public utterances, and no-one who has heard him and who was capable of understanding what he said could fail to appreciate the reason of his irresistible appeal to all classes of the community. Many hostile critics, especially women, have led their English readers to believe that there was something hysterical and even pathological about his oratory and manner in public. But after watching him with particular care during many of his addresses, I saw no sign of anything of the sort. All about me in the audience were retired generals and field officers, professional men of all ages, and dignified sexagenarians who had had distinguished careers as judges, magistrates, university professors, etc., and I refuse to believe that they could have sat there, listening as reverently as they did, often with tears trickling down their cheeks, if they had been aware of any of the contemptible characteristics which hostile and bitterly biased English reporters imagined they saw in his public demeanor. Unfortunately, the falsehoods these people fabricated for the consumption of the ignorant newspaper-reader in England were only too readily accepted as facts, and of course enjoyed, by all those who were anxious to disparage the German leader. How distant seemed the days when even a Russian general could punish a subordinate for sneering at Napoleon, and that century BC when a Caesar could praise his enemies!
. . .
One last word about Hitler and I shall not need to discuss him further.
In this intellectually servile and sterile age, when both the high and the low in the land are equally sequacious and subservient, propaganda pays handsomely, whether in commercial advertising or in inculcating upon the population the opinions which the Establishment think it good for us to hold. Now, among these opinions none has been more diligently dinned into us than that the German people’s acceptance of Hitler must indicate some morbid and unpleasant flaw in German mentality. And as in modern England it suffices for such a view to be stated only once by some recognized member of the Establishment for it to be immediately taken up and re-echoed by thousands of lesser people, it follows that today one can hardly open a book or listen to a BBC broadcast in which it is not emphatically stated that, in accepting with almost complete unanimity a ‘mental defective’ such as Hitler, the German nation gave proof of its fundamental perversity.
A typical presentation of this view, which can now be found paraphrased in innumerable forms by prominent English people, from Mr Robert Birley, the Head of Eton, to the most ignorant female journalist, is that made by Colin Welch in his review of William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, when he asked: ‘Why on earth, for instance, did such a richly gifted people as the Germans prostitute themselves to become the tools of a maniac?’
Now, apart from the fact that the author of this rhetorical outburst, like all those who now obediently toe the Establishment’s line, takes for granted that his readers, who in other contexts would pride themselves on demanding the evidence, will meekly accept the statement that Hitler was in fact a maniac, can the host of parrots who repeat this rengaine [same old story—JVD] about the German people’s turpitude in accepting Hitler ever have asked themselves what Hitler meant to Germany in the decades following World War I?
The minute minority of Englishmen who happen to be well-informed do not need to be reminded of Germany’s outstanding achievements in scholarship, science, music, philosophy and poetry, or to be told that a nation possessing the record of which she could justly boast in 1914 must necessarily have her pride, her consciousness of high endowments, entitling her to feel a worthy example of what European civilization has so far produced. When, therefore, such a nation is humiliated, vilified and degraded as Germany was after World War I, the pain it undergoes is naturally proportionate to the honourable position it knew itself to have reached in the family of Western peoples. The blow to its self-esteem must have been—could not help having been—staggering.
Let anyone, even outside this minute minority of well-informed Englishmen, imagine what England would have felt had she been similarly humiliated, or merely recall what England did feel after the retreat from Dunkirk, and the whole picture assumes a different aspect.
It was thus to a Germany still suffering acutely from the wounds of such a humiliation that suddenly someone appeared who contrived to restore the country’s self-esteem and helped it to recover its self-respect and sense of worthiness. Naturally, inevitably, the response was one of rapturous gratitude and affection. Even if Hitler had really been the monster the Establishment wished us to believe he was, the enthusiastic response to his appeal would still be comprehensible.
Had not no less a person than Lord Lothian expressed his admiration for the conditions introduced by Hitler’s regime? Nor, as we know, was he by any means the only Englishman who felt this way. In the Times of 1st February 1934, speaking of National Socialism, he had written that it has given ‘Germany unity where it was terribly divided; it has produced a stable government, and restored to Germany national self-respect and international standing.’
These are the words of a sincere Liberal. Do they indicate that the charge of lunacy against Hitler and his administration was justified? Besides, we must remember that the German nation’s humiliation after 1918 was not confined to the terms of the Versailles Treaty. There was also the degradation and deep injury inflicted on them by Allied troops, who occupied their country for years after the armistice. As a tourist it was not possible to learn the full magnitude of these injuries, but I remember when I visited friends in Düren in 1922 that the account I was given of the behavior of the French black troops in the town appalled both my wife and myself.
‘The Germans, a proud people,’ says Mr Abel J. Jones, ‘were reduced to such a state of humiliation as to welcome anyone, however unlikely or dangerous, promising to restore their confidence and pride’ [In Search of Truth, 1945, Chapter 3, 2].
The intelligence and understanding, not to mention the charity, revealed in this passage are admittedly quite exceptional in present-day ‘fair-minded’ England, and show a defiance of the Establishment reminiscent of more creditable eras in British history than that covered by the last thirty years. But the fact that at least one Englishman can have been found to express such a view suggests that, in any case, as recently as 1945 some good sense and psychological insight still existed in the nation.
For what F. L. Lucas so aptly remarks of the Age of Reason applies with even greater force to this age—namely, that it owes ‘some of its most fatal mistakes to bad psychology’ [The Art of Living, 1959, Chapter 1].
Enjoyed this article?
Be the first to leave a tip in the jar!
26 comments
This is a very interesting and revealing article, in many ways. Ludovici was a very observant, urbane and well spoken man. He is always a pleasure to read, because he says a lot. Besides his honest statements about Hitler, the thing that I find most revealing is his commentary on the Anglo mindset, and especially the female Anglo mindset. The ready hostility of these denatured and delusional Anglo elements to the restoration of national sanity and manliness in the Third Reich, only confirms my realization and understanding of how deeply the average Anglo mindset has been poisoned.
This type of thinking is the reason that the British people were so easily lured into the fratricidal war against Germany, and the reason why they are still so willfully ignorant about what evil they did. It was Britain’s Blunder, as Peter Nicol so aptly phrased it in the title of his sagacious book. They are still clueless about racial reality, to say nothing of their profound ignorance about vital issues in general. Most Anglo-Whites are still living on ‘Fantasy Island’, to state it metaphorically. Many are adolescents in adult bodies, or Anglokinder, if you will. The racial damage that this obtuse, Puritan derived, spiritual nihilism has caused the world is mind boggling. To witness the current self-destructive, suicidal state of affairs in the Anglo West, is to realize just how ideologically impaired a huge number of White people really are. Many are actually proud of their ignorance. To understand our people’s flaws, and try to correct them is the challenge of our times.
In reply to Junghans:
You made one observation I would like to address.
You said:
In reply:
I have often wonder if we can “correct them,” when they are all too willing to destroy us personally, professionally, and politically.
I suffered from isolation from my family when I defended national socialism as an economic system; this, from people who were on the verge of suffering horrifically from the bankruptcy of a major parts supplier to a major car manufacturer.
I literally saw a wall come down at the dinner table, where everyone looked away, as if I had mistaken made a tremendous, socially unacceptable, faux pas. I had told them the truth, that their 401K’s were controlled by the corporation, which would liquidate them in bankruptcy, leaving them with precious little.
I was not invited back to any of the family holiday gatherings since, except when my nephews were in dire stratis, and I was asked to intervene. Even then, one cousin said there was no reason for “the family Nazi” to return for longer than to pick up his Posterity, and drive back home – twelve hour trips, one way.
Well, they’ve lost almost everything; families are doubling up and more, with several generations and/or extended family members under one roof, as, together, they can only afford to run one house. The other house is simply strategically abandoned, with jingle mail being an oft-heard sound.
TO THIS DAY, a town whose only business outlets are the unemployment office – well, so much for the 99ers! – the welfare office, the liquor store, and the drug store, which sells prescription tranquilizers, AND has a lottery terminal, refuses to admit that yesterday is GONE, and is never – repeat, NEVER – coming back.
The shoe store, the clothing shops, all gone, as an imploded economy returns to the lifestyle of the Thirties, with cable tv. The demographers tell us people will go without paying the electric bill, before they will cut off cable tv.
They will run their house off a portable electric generator so they can watch the Illusions of Others, and pay for their enslavement!
The marketing types also know that the word “free” literally short-circuits higher level reasoning; tell them they are joining a “free market” with Mexico (and now, South Korea!), and they will smile happily, and applaud, loudly!
That is why I have seen, in a small town back in the hills, what the future of America will be, if we are lucky. (Yes, they hate us. Period.)
AT BEST, we will have to consciously develop and train an Aristocracy of Merit, a small handful who will act to carry the Light of Western Civilization through the very Dark Age before us. I am trying to do this with my Posterity. I can only tell you of the absolute sense of rage that filled my soul when I had my Nephews – graduates of public high schools! – tried to read from “A Distant Thunder,” failing to do so at first, and literally moving their lips as they tried to read the book.
Rage, which comes from a feeling of helplessness, because I saw their futures very clearly, as Third Class Citizens in a Second World Country.
The problem is too overwhelming; the people we would like to save, much more often than not, would like to remove us from the face of the Earth.
This is why I view the Northwest Republic as our last, best hope, and this is why I awaken every morning, determined to dress, speak, and act as if I was an ambassador from Something Better, a Northwest Republic. I do so knowing my Posterity are taking notice, and will have their excuses for failure removed by all in my power, even if it requires all in THEIR power.
Remember this – the people we would like to save, would like to see us removed from the face of the Earth.
Let’s focus our efforts where they can be effective.
Focus Northwest.
We can learn from this.
@ “Remember this – the people we would like to save, would like to see us removed from the face of the Earth.”
Recently something quite outrageous happened in my blog. A former Swede friend (actually a fan of my book Hojas susurrantes) got mad with me when I stated that he and other Swedes were eunuchs for not defending the thousands of Swede girls that in Sweden have been raped by the immigrants.
First he posted gross, adolescent obscenities against me that I duly removed. Then in another post he wrote: “Down! Down! That’s a bad Mexican. Bow to your racial superior, Untermensch!” making fun of the fact that I was born in Mexico and that he is a pure (albeit non racialist) Aryan.
Finally, in another entry, he linked a YouTube video where the Mexican drug mafia decapitated or killed (I abstained to look at it) some poor Mexicans, and he added something that I once again deleted: that he and the group of Alice Miller fans that I had previously subscribed would do the same with me…
What is fascinating is that I have never been in Sweden. But outraged as I was by the rapes on white girls, I tried to defend the interests of that ethnic group.
Reaction?: I am the one who must be killed.
Yes. I believe that William Pierce was right. These people deserve to be punished. And they will be punished. But not by us–by the coming End of the World as We Know It in Sweden itself (this guy is in his late twenties: he will live enough to see it).
If the new republic is indeed born in the northwest, many of these Swedes will be mugged by reality, like in the film Children of Men (see scenes here). Body-Snatched Swedes who want to become human again will crave desperately to get into the new nation.
But by then it will be too late…
In reply to Chechar:
Notice the strength and integrity of The Destroyer’s control over their Minds, to the point that their only concern is themselves, and their physical gratification.
Their hatred towards you IS a real, living thing, and it is given force by their fear of what you might represent; the very Idea that all they have become, all they allowed themselves to become, and remain, is that of a serf, carrying around their prison within their Minds, AND becoming so supportive of this prison that they fight those who would show them the beginning of life outside it.
This, of course, reguires greater and greater amounts of psychic energy, and material distractions, as it becomes obvious that “things aren’t quite working out” as they were told things would.
So, when they see Something Better presented to them, their fear of losing their illusions is so great they will isolate you from the Herd, and destroy you.
Simple as that.
When I mentioned my meeting with relatives back home, I didn’t mention that they needed to replace their septic tanks, and build out their septic fields, as well as upgrade the electricty to a house that was now supporting two families, and (now) more than two generations within those families.
I paid for the upgrades.
Not a word of thanks, except from my favorite aunt, who told me quietly, when we had a moment alone, “thank you.”
Damn, I get so mad; I know the spiritual foundation of anger is a sense of helplessness, and this is usually learned – and overlearned – but I see they have identified so much with the values that were designed to enslave them, and crush their spirits.
I know why they are so angry at me, and my aunt, pretty much alone (the Family Matriarch!) recognizes what I am trying to do.
Recognize a point that is made in the Landmark Forum courses: people have what they want, and, if they really want something else, they will have to Do Something to get it.
Most people do not want to do this.
A friend of mine decided he was too undisciplined in his approach to how much he owed, and made the decision to limit his posessions to one hundred items, exempting his library.
EVERY purchase forces a discipline on him, for he has to make a conscious choice, based on his values, which he is now fully aware of.
The debt that enslaves so many households comes from them never having to make that choice, and never having to come to grips with their responsiblity for what they have made of their lives.
Their addiction to the Illusions, manufactured by Others to make them the soft slaves of Others, is so strong that they will try to destroy you, who are offering them a way out.
Fine.
Let them live their lives, and you live a better life.
That’s why I keep hearkening back to the Northwest Republic as an Analytical Model.
I don’t worry about American politics as much as I used to, because I know it has pushed the resolution of too many conflicts off to the future, where they can now only be resolved at a horrific expense.
Every single issue I see or hear about in the media concerning American politics is an opportunity to think, as creatively as possible, about how this issue would be addressed in a Northwest Republic. In short, I am using the Northwest Republic as the temporal bridge for the metapolitical project.
Covington is right, and he is so right that the pain of it forces anger to come to the surface of his detractors, just as the pain of your being right forces the anger of your Swedish friend to speak of you in rather dramatic terms.
We can learn from this.
F. of C. and Chechar, I fully empathize. I have witnessed much of the same, the clueless have a habit of wanting to shoot the messenger of truth. I, as well, despair at times about how to ‘save’ a deluded people from themselves. I am appalled at the collective ignorance of most White people that I interact with. They have no idea about what deep trouble they are in, and act indignant if informed. I think that what Dr. Pierce was alluding to in his frustration with White intransigence, ignorance and pugnacity was what might be called ‘perverse poetic justice’. If Whites fail to recognize their vital interests and act to protect them, then a deserved comeuppance and inevitable extinction will be a perverse form of ‘poetic justice’. Not a tolerable thought for any of us, so never give up. Kapitulieren Niemals!
In reply to Junghans:
Thank you for some excellent comments.
You wrote:
In reply:
Their “indignation” comes from their belief that they are doing what they were told, and, sooner or later, things will be like they were told they would be. A fleet of peaches and cream ice cream trucks are on their way!
The lies have been uncontroverted, and they settled comfortably to the belief that having the values, desires, goals and things of those people on the television would bring them joy.
But it hasn’t.
Worse, debt has built invisible chains – a debt that came from the Illusion they could afford things they couldn’t afford – and the chains have become stronger. Indeed, many of our college students and college graduates now realize they are entering job markets where they can NEVER repay the debt (student loans, as a rule, can not be discharged in bankruptcy).
They are so addicted to those Illusions that many of them can not survive the truth. Hence, they are all but demanding tranquilizers which, as you know, only mask the pain.
Their identificaton with, and addiction to, their Illusions is so strong they will destroy the person who can prove they are wrong.
You wrote:
In reply:
This is a fascinating point, and I can reply on several levels.
First is my usual criticism of Pierce.
He simply refused to develop any sort of political organization, even when it was desperately sought by his listeners. The great double message he sent out – “(VERBALLY) Something must be done about this political situation, (NONVERBALLY) but we will not allow any of the Alliance’s members to do anything about it” – drove his followers to distraction, AND kept them politically gelded.
With the Alliance, certainly, it would seem the frustration led to the de facto advocacy of the inappropriate use of force, and the tragedy that the lives of Bob Mathews and David Lane became, spent on the worst possible Plan for developing the best possible Idea.
Outside the Alliance, it would seem the National Alliance became little more than the Cult of William Luther Pierce, who refused to allow his Children to leave the cradle, and strangled their best ideas in the cradle.
Thus, my opinion of Pierce – a great philosopher, a great analyst, a great teacher, and a worthless leader who did more good for those who oppose us than he did for us, at the Racial level.
My strongest argument against Pierce is reflected in my strongest argument for Harold Covington, and the Northwest Republic as the temporal bridge for the metapolitical project.
Pierce stopped development of an explicitly Racial organization at the John Birch Society level; that is, all of the information is one-way (top-down), and all of the resources are not fully accounted for to the members.
Thus, de facto, Pierce created the perfect false flag for our Enemies to use; full of sound and substance (the ADV’s with Kevin Alfred Strom), in political effectiveness it was Lear-like, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
This practice of activity without productivity made the National Alliance the political equivalent of a convenient Opposition, useful as an outlet, and totally ineffective about actually Doing Something About It.
The National Alliance is actually an excellent example of how The Destroyer works against us, by what Bezmenov called the power of demoralization.
People listened to Pierce, got his magazines, got his books, listened to him some more, sent him money, and ended up Doing Nothing That Mattered.
Demoralization to the point of de facto depression.
Now you know why I feel a bit stronger about the untimely demise of Robert Mathews, and David Lane. Both went looking for White Nationalism, both went looking for what they thought Pierce and the National Alliance were selling, and both paid the highest possible price for what I see as … no forget about how I see it.
For now.
Covington sees the world through a telescope, and wants to create positive outlets – as did Mathews! as did Lane! – that could harness our energies positively, and productively, so our Posterity could fulfill the transcendent purpose that is their heritage.
All of Pierce’s ideas led to the untimely deaths of Mathews and Lane, who heard his call for change, and took the only path they saw to accomplish it.
If – IF! – Pierce had been the Great Man his followers say he was, he would have worked with men like Mathews and Lane to lay the foundation of something Mathews worked for on his own; small, self-sufficient ethnocommunities, merging (in time) to become an ethnostate, a White Homeland, a Northwest Republic, where none many make afraid.
Instead, the National Alliance – Pierce’s Folly – occupies a mudhole in West Virginia, with a dramatically reduced and disillusioned membership.
Just like Pierce really wanted, in his absence, I suppose.
After all, if Pierce REALLY wanted to Do Something about the social problems he described, he could have laid down the foundations of a national political organization.
With Bill White and Alex Linder running interference, Kevin Alfred Strom’s masterful educational work backing it up, Pierce could have fulfilled – here it comes! – Rockwell’s Plan of having an effective national political organization representing the Race.
Pierce’s Choice led to demoralization of those who took him seriously.
Covington’s Northwest Republic speaks directly to the seeds of our Racial Greatness, AND, unlike Pierce, Covington has a Plan that will lead to organizations that will build on his efforts well beyond his lifetime.
The difference between Pierce and Covington, in political practice, is the difference between demoralization, and inspiration.
I know which choice Robert Mathews and David Lane would make, if they knew then what they would have known, now, IF their lives hadn’t been wasted on taking Pierce’s Words more seriously than Pierce did.
We can learn from this.
I don’t think any further back and forth between Covington and Pierce followers about the real and imagined flaws of the two men and their organizations is productive here. Let’s keep this focused on ideas.
When I repeatedly read in explicit White Nationalist sites that any mention of NS Germany “is a non starter”, I can only think of the deep level of sleep in the Matrix that virtually every individual of Anglo-Saxon origin suffers.
Mixing film metaphors I would say that awakening from this dream is probably the litmus test that distinguishes the normal human being from the one who has become a Body-Snatched Pod.
In reply to Chechar:
Your comments are are derived from a clear, ruthless understanding of the magnitude of the opportunity before us. Thank you!
A few comments, on your comments.
Chechar wrote:
In reply:
The nominally WNist sites that preclude any discussion of the single greatest triumph of Western Man over his Racial Enemy are allowing us to be anything but effective in our solutions to the problem before us.
When Uncle Adolph took responsibility, he faced an unemployment rate of FIFTY percent. The closer we get to ten percent (I know the Shadowstats analysis on our REAL unemployment rate, and I agree with him), the closer to induced madness. Four dollars a gallon for gasoline, when it should be closer to eight, if you factor in the externalities – drives us to distraction.
In an NS Social Order, we would address the disease, as well as the symptoms. Here, we are forbidden to address the disease, and are strongly encouraged to misidentify the symptoms.
Little wonder the forbidden discussion of the only way out – an explicit Racial Homeland, based on alternative economic models that work – is forbidden, and the people – White Nationalists! – religiously self-censor themselves to a state of learned helplessness like you saw at the end of 1984.
“Winston, how much is 2 + 2?”
“Whatever the Party says it is.”
“Correct.”
If the Party is silent, so is the mind of Winston.
So, it seems, are so many nominal White Nationalists, at least in terms of effectiveness.
That can change, and it will have to change, or their hopes will perish with their dreams.
Chechar wrote:
In reply:
Note that we have many, many sources of distraction to stop that from happening, from sports to vast internet wastelands (WoW, HALO) where they can shut down their own creative abilities, and blindly follow the dreams created BY their Racial Enemies, to control them – at a profit!
We can learn from this.
I’ve liked your comments too, Fourmyle. In fact, one of your comments at C-C ended up as an entire post.
Two recent examples will illustrate our point.
Laura Wood, a conservative fan of Larry Auster who purportedly defends traditional civilization yesterday posted something really outrageous in her blog: “If it came down to choosing between citizenship in a white ethnostate which identified itself as proudly ‘Jew-free’ in its constitution and a nation that was suicidally multicultural, I would choose the latter.’
Jesus Christ.
Also recently, in his famous blog Dennis Mangan wrote: “Other things [from the commenters] that do not get posted: the merest hint of a threat of violence or the advocating of it; gratuitous ethnic insults; and if you mention the H-man or the NS state, you better have a really, really good reason to do so.”
After he censored a couple of my comments (see here) I promised never again to post at Mangan’s.
With such self-proclaimed defenders of Western civilization (in fact, Body-Snatched Pods) who needs enemies?
in reply to Chechar:
Let’s look at your post for an Idea or two.
You wrote:
In reply:
Thanks!
You wrote:
In reply:
The Good News, only one person has expressly focused on the idea of a “white ethnostate which identified itself proudly as Jew-free in its constitution,” and that is Harold Covington.
The Word is getting around, and this is an Idea the Adversary MUST strangle in its crib, as it makes so much sense and is so desired – as seen in the observed behavior of people who have a choice! – that if it gets even half a chance, particularly among our Racial Brethren with nothing, and nothing to lose, it will change the demographic face of America as dramatically as Singapore changed Malaysia.
Notice, by the way, that her devotion is to a nation – an obviously inroganic nation, which is the foundation of Empire – that could deliberately commit cultural suicide.
Let’s repeat that, because it says so much about the emotional immaturity we see there.
If she had to choose between the Northwest Republic, even in embryo, and “a nation that was suicidally multicultural, I (she) would choose the latter.”
Let’s go through that slowly.
The issue we address here is the future our Posterity will face; like the Founders, we MUST take the Long View of History – that is a necessity for the metapolitical project, and any one who wishes to have his Posterity have it better than him, which is how mature people think.
It would seem, to her, it’s all about HER.
Cultural suicide over a Northwest Republic?
THINK of where we see this today; Great Britain, where gangs of “Asians” run down and destroy the future of Britain, while the State subsidizes them in all realms of life.
Would you rather have your daughter raised in a Northwest Republic, or Londonistan, where she will be attacked, and threatened with more where that came from, if she doesn’t go along with them?
Her wishes can be answred by moving outside London, just to be fair.
Birmingham will do nicely.
How irresponsible can you be to your duties as a mother, to sacrifice the future of YOUR CHILDREN for the sake of the approval of Wordists?
Of course, she could move to South Central Los Angeles, the capital of Alta California, which, it would seem, she would prefer to living in a Northwest Republic.
Isn’t what she proposes to support the functional equivalent of himan sacrifice, her Children for the sake of an artificial ideology, which is inherently hostile to her children, and anyone else of her Race?
You wrote:
In reply:
Unclde Adolph looked at a FIFTY percent unemployment rate when he took office. Reorganizing society along organic Racial lines, and allowing the further flourishing of Western Civilization, he simply neutralized the practices put in place by our Racial Enemies.
It worked.
It was like turning on a light swqitch everyone had forgot about.
Why is anyone so afraid to discuss what they did, and how they did it?
I would suspect, looking at the Versailles Reparations, and looking at the incredible debt burden our Posterity must face, an example of how to reverse what went wrong THEN can be used to solve what is going wrong NOW.
Organic nationalism, and the organic nation-state, just terrifies those who are doing all in their power to destroy us.
There’s a reason for that.
The example of the NSDAP Cultural Monent shows it WAS possible then, and IS possible now.
THAT is part of the Idea they must crush in the cradle.
Once it gets out, and people can SEE that it can be done, things will change fairly quickly.
Don’t take my word for this.
Ask Hosni Mubarak.
We can learn from this.
This is especially funny when you think of the Jewish laws against revisionism.
– How many Jews were killed in gas chambers during WW2 ?
– Whatever number you say it is, sir !
You can not give them a number, as they don’t have an official number.
The correct answer is really: whatever you say.
I agree completely with this observation. NS is only a non-starter to those who don’t really understand the problem – or for that matter, NS in the first place. Indeed, too many who profess to align themselves therewith don’t exactly understand NS all that well either!
An absolutely fascinating reminiscence — one of the most interesting pieces I’ve ever read on this site.
It would be a worthwhile project to collect, perhaps in book form or at least e-book form, a comprehensive record of all of the positive contemporary assessments of the national socialists that ever appeared in the English and American press, and in public utterances in general, prior to the war. Presented in a favourable manner, with favourable commentary, this could be a fascinating window into the time period that might dispel some of the myths about the regime, especially among on-the-fence radical-traditionalists who say that they are committed to genuine-Right principles, but of course reject the NSDAP, and what not.
I found this passage extremely enlightening:
How typical. There may be exceptions (indeed, perhaps German womanhood as a whole was once the exception), but women in the Western world have always been a problem in these matters. They always skew further left than men, and the description of national socialism as a “quintessentially masculine” movement is exactly correct. It is the aesthetic of the Sublime (the male complement to the aesthetic of the Beautiful) as expressed in politics. This is the same reason why women can never appreciate the titanic fury of Beethoven as well as men can.
Truly an insightful essay.
I hadn’t known that Ludovici wrote an autobiography. I hope to see it published in the near future. I have a queston: Is ‘Confessions of an Anti-Feminist’ the title Ludovici himself gave to this unpublished work? I find this title problematic. While his work on feminism is important, Ludovici saw himself primarily as a Conservative and Nietzschean philosopher. His writings on feminism were of secondary importance to him.
The original title is My Autobiography: The Confessions of an Anti-Feminist.
Thank you, but your answer still leaves open the possibility that ‘My Autobiography: The Confessions of an Anti-Feminist’ is the ‘original title’ only because whoever edited the manuscript was the first person to provide it with a title. Did Ludovici give it this title?
I know this is very inconsequential, but I’d like to know for certain.
I am delighted I’m not the only one who still reads Ludovici. For many years I thought I was probably his only living reader.
Yes, this is Ludovici’s title.
It is also worth noting that Ludovici’s book: The False Assumptions of “Democracy” is now available through Print-on-Demand vendors for about $17.00.
Below I spoke of “the deep level of sleep in the Matrix that virtually every individual of Anglo-Saxon origin suffers”. But that was an understatement. We are living in a world where virtually all whites have been snatched. And sympathy/antipathy toward National Socialism is a good acid test to measure who has and who hasn’t been turned into a giant Pod.
@ “For many years I thought I was probably his only living reader.”
You words about Ludovici remind me Gandalf’s search for information among rotten parchments in the obscure libraries Minas Tirith, almost at the beginning of the War of the Ring. With the exception of a few immortal elves the decadent inhabitants Middle Earth had forgotten the historical tragedy that had befallen upon them. He who reads Ludovici, “a conservative of a now bygone world” keeps the flame alive, albeit in the form of the light of a single candle in the middle of the dark.
In another recent C-C thread I implied that feminism must be utterly defeated if our civilization is to be saved. The sexual roles and mores must be forcefully reverted back to saner times once the new fascists reach power. Today I glanced through a couple of otherwise intelligent entries at Mangan’s. But I cannot imagine how can we succeed with such queers; how could we win unless the ultimate taboo, the “H-man” as a subject of legitimate discussion (cf. my post below), is broken. He was the only head of a state who tried to destroy the One Ring.
The Anglo-Saxons at both sides of the Atlantic fell upon the spell of the Ring. When will Aragorn’s sword be reforged? When will the feminized western males start to behave like men again? Either a few thousand of us become like Earl Turner, or any hero of Covington’s novels, or we shall perish. (Personally I identify myself with Oscar, the very austere national socialist of The Brigade, but where are the rest?)
We have two primary tasks to build an ideological movement: We need 1) a coherent worldview, which in our case revolves around race, and 2) an explanation for why OUR race is in a massive decline. (Hint: It’s the Jews…) The rest of our political/ideological platform falls into place around these central ideas.
So that’s two tasks we have in front of us. If we add the task of rehabilitating NS, that’s a third one. Each of these tasks requires time, money, and most of all: dedicated workers. We have a serious lack of all of them. Plus, in my humble opinion most whites just won’t jump onto NS. The connection between NS and supremacism and genocide is almost identical today, whatever our opinion of it. Racial separatism, the Northwest homeland, etc – these are all alot more neutral.
If we’re going to succeed we have to achieve concentration of force in whatever area we choose. We can’t achieve our goals all at once. It must be done in pieces. This is why the Northwest homeland is a good idea, at least on paper.
The NS-supremacism-genocide connection is a d*mned lie. If you want my humble opinion we need to knock down two pillars before we can ever begin talking of any sort of “white” racial awareness in this Judeo-Saxonist country called America (derived from the Viking ‘Omme rikke’ meaning “the remotest land”).
1) Expose the Holocaust lie for what it is. When you have over 1 MILLION holocaust survivors in the year 2003 (a FACT), then suffice to say there was no holocaust. Period. Such a figure means that well over 4 million Jews ‘somehow’ survived Hitler’s assembly-line genocide program. Tis too silly to entertain at this point Holmes.
2) Knock down the lie that Hitler was some foaming racist. He was no such thing. As a matter of fact 99.9% of Hitler’s “victims” were white people. He was more willing to work with the Japanese and East Indians than with Poles or Russian Slavs. So where does this racist nonsense come into play? This is in fact why there are a growing number of white people who denounce Hitler as a “Zionist agent”. But that too is rubbish. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.
The Luce
Refreshing “confession” from a racially conscious, erudite anti-feminist. Good choice for C-C to publish.
AML’s observations and opinion of Mr. Hitler and his inner circle conform to other 1936 contemporary observers who weren’t anti-German. It’s always good to read objective, first hand accounts of a like-minded, close observer who was actually there, who actually met and interacted with the actors.
Of feminism, Dr. Pierce wrote that it is an unnatural ideology, opposed to ours, which is essentially masculine and in tune with “Mother Nature’s plan.” From an interview with Kevin A. Strom:
—
[…]
K.A.S.: OK. So that’s what feminism is. Now, in what way is it destructive? How is it connected to America’s decline?
W.L.P.: Feminism is destructive at several different levels. At the racial level it is destructive because it divides the race against itself, robbing us of racial solidarity and weakening us in the struggle for racial survival; and because it reduces the White birthrate, especially among educated women. It also undermines the family by taking women out of the home and leaving the raising of children to television and day-care centers.
At a personal or social level feminism does its damage by eroding the traditional relationship between men and women. That traditional relationship is not based on any assumption of equality or sameness. It’s not a symmetrical relationship, but rather a complementary one. It’s based on a sexual division of labor, with fundamentally different roles for men and women: men are the providers and the protectors, and women are the nurturers. Men bring home the bacon, and they guard the den; women nourish the children and tend the hearth.
Many people today sneer at this traditional relationship. They think that in the New World Order there is no need to protect the den or the condo or whatever, because these days we’re all very civilized, and that all one needs to do to bring home the bacon is hop in the car and drive to the nearest shopping mall, and, of course, a woman can do that just as well as a man. Therefore, because the times have changed, roles should change. There’s no longer any reason for a division of labor; now we can all be the same, claim the apologists for feminism.
Now, I have a couple of problems with that line of reasoning. First, I’m not as eager to toss million-year-old traditions in the ash-can as the New World Order enthusiasts are, because I’m not as confident in the ability of the government to provide protection for all of us as they are, nor am I as confident that there’ll always be bacon at the neighborhood shopping mall and we won’t have to revert to earlier ways of getting it. Actually, I’m an optimist by nature, but I’m not so optimistic as to believe that I’ll never be called on to use my strength or my fighting instincts to protect my family. In fact, every time I watch the evening news on television, I become more convinced that there’s a very good chance we’re going to end up having to fight for our bacon within the next few years.
In the second place, Mother Nature made a very big investment in her way of doing things over the past few million years of primate evolution. It’s not simply a matter of our deciding that we don’t like Mother Nature’s plan because it’s not fashionable any longer, and so we’ll change it. We are what we are. That is, we are what millions of years of evolution have made us. A man is a man in every cell of his body and his brain, not just in his genitalia, and a woman is a woman to the same degree. We were very thoroughly and precisely adapted to our different roles. We can’t change reality by passing a civil rights law. When we deceive ourselves into thinking that we can, there’s hell to pay. Which is to say that we end up with a lot of very confused, disappointed, and unhappy men and women. We also end up with a lot of very angry men and women, which accounts for the feminists and the male chauvinists.
It’s true, of course, that some women might be perfectly happy as corporate raiders or professional knife fighters, just as some men have willingly adapted to the New World Order by becoming less aggressive and more “sensitive.” But it doesn’t work that way for normal men and women. What the normal man really wants and needs is not just a business partner and roommate of the opposite sex, but a real woman whom he can protect and provide for. And what a normal woman really wants and needs with every fiber of her being, regardless of how much feminist propaganda she’s soaked up, is a real man, who can love and protect her and provide for her and their children. If she’s watched too much television and has let herself be persuaded that what she wants instead of a strong, masculine man is a sensitive wimp who’ll let her wear the trousers in the family half the time, she’s headed for a severe collision with the reality of her own nature. She’ll end up making herself very neurotic, driving a few men into male chauvinism, and becoming a social liability. Our society just can’t afford any more of that sort of foolishness. If feminism were only making individuals unhappy, I wouldn’t be very concerned about it. I’ve always believed that people were entitled to make themselves as unhappy as they wanted to. But unfortunately, it’s wrecking our society and weakening our race, and we must put a stop to it soon. ”
—
More here, like what Dr. Pierce proposed we must do to reverse the unnatural, detrimental impact that feminism has had on our race: http://www.natvan.com/free-speech/fs969d.html Reading the part where WLP says there’s even room in a healthy society for a few glass-eaters and a few female lawyers with butch haircuts, as long as their brand of odd behavior doesn’t undermine the health of the whole society, makes me laugh out loud. His rare sense of humor comes through as he ridicules feminist dykes along with suggestible girly-men.
Feminism (broadly construed) has been shown to catastrophically depress birth rates among advanced peoples like Whites and East Asians. Black birth rates are (overall) immune to the effects of feminism. Mestizos and Arabs are somewhere in between. Whites are the big losers because they have been indoctrinated to accept race replacement as a positive good.
Is it safe to say here that we do indeed have an Anglo-Jewish Problem? This has actually long been the case, but a lotta folks don’t wanna hear it.
Comments are closed.
If you have Paywall access,
simply login first to see your comment auto-approved.
Note on comments privacy & moderation
Your email is never published nor shared.
Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.
Paywall Access
Lost your password?Edit your comment