Michael Kunze, Oswald Spengler
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Introduction
It is a tradition at Counter-Currents to remember the great German philosopher of history, Oswald Spengler, on the anniversary of his birth, the 29th of May. This year, I would like to take the time to critically reflect on Spengler’s views of race within his magnum opus, The Decline of the West (1918–22), and, in particular to discuss the importance these ideas hold for modern day racialists and ethno-nationalists.
Some of these issues were touched on by Greg Johnson in his 2010 essay, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?,” and my arguments here are largely in response to some of the questions he poses therein. In brief, my intent with this piece is to (1) provide a brief overview of Spengler’s racial doctrine, (2) illustrate the disjunctions existing between the Spenglerian conception of “race” and materialistic ones, and (3) to explore what the Spengler being correct on the question of race means for those currently involved in the various shades of racial preservationism common among Counter-Currents’ readership.
When discussing “race,” it is common parlance among racial preservationists to adopt usages of the term derived from the great physical anthropologists and anthropometrists of the early 20th century. It is in works such as Carleton S. Coon’s The Races of Europe (1939) or Bertil Lundman’s Nordens Rastyper (1940), that the highly developed and nuanced models of the different human races are exemplified. And, it is from works such as these that contemporary discourses on race within preservationist circles find their genealogical root. Primary examples of this can be seen in the wide selection of early-twentieth century literature hosted on the website of the Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology (SNPA)[1]—an organization “founded in January 1999 […] by three university students” with the goals of reviving the theories of “the nature and phylogeny of human biodiversity” which dominated academia “prior to 1950.”[2] The SNPA’s website is presently hosted by a racial preservationist web forum, The Apricity, one of whose most active sub-forums is devoted to classifying both forum members and celebrities according to the racial typologies such as Lundman’s or Coon’s.[3] The deep relationship between pre-1950 physical anthropology and contemporary racialist discourse is hardly unique to The Apricity, and can be found throughout racialist websites and forums.
This biological view of race—focusing both on the phenotypical and genotypical variations both within and without Europe—is, however, quite far from what Spengler means when uttering the word “race.” While he does not deny that there is a biological dimension to race, Spengler does not reduce race to biology.[4] Rather, for Spengler, the notion of race was one which included the material, but supervened over it to include psychological and cultural dimensions as well. Later in life, this non-reductionist position would put him at odds with the high-profile members of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP), particularly with Alfred Rosenberg, whose racialism bore more in common with Lundman and Coon’s physical anthropology than with Spengler’s anti-materialism.[5] What, however, is meant by an anti-material conception of race? If Spengler did not reduce race to physical characteristics, how did he understand it?
Spenglerian “Race”
In his own words, Spengler defines a race as “the cosmic-plantlike side of life, of Being, [which] is invested with a character of duration.”[6] Race is, he tells us, “determined by the fact that the bodily succession of parents and children, the bond of the blood, forms natural groups, which disclose a definite tendency to take root in a landscape”—with “race” standing in for the “fact of a blood which circles, carried on by procreation, in a narrow or wide landscape.”[7] Prima facie, this definition of the term does not sound too far a cry from those of the physical anthropologists. However, as Spengler develops his thesis within The Decline of the West, his position emerges as one which is far closer to the völkisch landscape mystics of the Bodenbeschaffenheit movement, such as Hermann Keyserling.[8] We see this connection emphasized in the relationship Spengler postulates between race, landscape, language, and culture. In terms of the connection between race and landscape, we see Spengler advocating for a fundamentally formative and governing impact of the latter upon the former:
A race has roots. Race and landscape belong together. Where a plant takes root, there it dies also. There is certainly a sense in which we can, without absurdity, work backwards from a race to its “home,” but it is much more important to realize that the race adheres permanently to this home with some of its most essential characters of body and soul. If in that home the race cannot now be found, this means that the race has ceased to exist. A race does not migrate. Men migrate, and their successive generations are born in ever-changing landscapes; but the landscape exercises a secret force upon the plant-nature in them, and eventually the race-expression is completely transformed by the extinction of the old and the appearance of a new one. Englishmen and Germans did not migrate to America, but human beings migrated thither as Englishmen and Germans, and their descendants are there as Americans.[9]
In this, we see that Spengler’s view on race is such that it can be essentially treated as a function of a specific landscape and place—with individual races being inextricably tied to their geographic birthplaces as peoples.[10] The differences between this conception of racial formation and Darwinian models of evolution are more pronounced when we consider as well that Spengler’s philosophy treated a race not as a collection of related organisms, but rather as a single organism, and that the physical and psychological formation wrought by the landscape was collective rather than individual in nature. This collectivism is seen in the relationship Spengler posits between race and language as well, with the two complementing one another in a way analogous to body and mind in an individual:
In the limit, every race is a single great body, and every language the efficient form of one great waking-consciousness that connects many individual beings. And we shall never reach the ultimate discoveries about either unless they are treated together and constantly brought into comparison with one another.[11]
This relationship between a people’s race and its language, then, is one wherein each necessarily complements one another, with both being fundamentally necessarily to the integral unity of the singular organism. Carrying the metaphorical comparison between the individual and the people further, we see culture emerge from this race-language dyad as the natural expression of the two as they exist in the world. Spengler sees language as essentially two-fold, being divided into talk and speech, with each linguistic mode being proper to one “of the two primary Estates” such that “talk belongs with the castle [the state], and speech to the cathedral [the church].”[12] By means of its expression through these two estates, Spengler sees language as participating in the “waking relation that has Culture, [and] that is Culture.”[13] In this way, culture emerges as the activity of the interaction of the bodily race and mental language of a people with their given landscape.
This conception of mankind which Spengler elucidates is not anti-material in that it denies the material dimensions of race, but is so in that it does not treat a people as being reducible to mere physiological characteristics and differences. For Spengler, the very term “people” is not a simple designation for a group with physical or political or linguistic ties, but is “a unit of the soul,” designating a unified collective spiritual internality shared by all members of the group.[14] For Spengler, this racial soul was expresses most fully through the peoples’ modes of cultural production—namely through the arts. He saw racial virility as being intimately tied to artistic expression, with the development of High Art being “a mark of race,” rather than of learning.[15] He tells us that “the great art by which the Culture finds its tongue is the achievement of race and not that of craft.”[16] In this, Spengler is saying that the art whose expression comes to define a people (e.g. the relationship between Gothic architecture and Western man) is essentially racial in nature, and not a learned skill—insofar as the art itself is the cultural “vocalization” of the race’s experience of the world.[17]
It is with this sense of both the terms “race” and “art” that we can make sense of Spengler’s assertion that “the creators of the Doric temples of South Italy and Sicily, and those of the brick Gothic of North Germany were emphatically race-men, and so too the German musicians from Heinrich Schütz to Johann Sebastian Bach.”[18] For, in this, he is saying that these great artists throughout history exemplified through their works the inner experience of their race, and as such were great men of race. The art of these great men, which forms the core cultural expression of Western man, is for Spengler, thus seen not as the products of artistic education achieved by individuals. Rather, it is a fundamentally racial production, which can no more be separated from the race of the people who birthed it than can that race from its language, nor the race from its landscape. It is through cultural production generally, and through art particularly, that the genius of the race is made manifest—its strength and vitality being translated into forms which supervene over the brute materiality of phenotype and genotype.
Questions of Preservation
If Spengler is correct, what does this mean for contemporary racialists and racial preservationists? To begin, let us examine one of Spengler’s best known statements on the question of racial purity and preservation, from The Hour of Decision (1943):
But in speaking of race, it is not intended in the sense in which it is the fashion among anti-Semites in Europe and America to use it today: Darwinistically, materially. Race purity is a grotesque world in view of the fact that for centuries all stocks and species have been mixed, and that warlike—that is, healthy—generations with a future before them have from time immemorial always welcomed a stranger into the family if he had “race,” to whatever race it was he belonged. Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them. What is needed is not a pure race, but a strong one, which has a nation within it. This manifests itself above all in self-evident elemental fecundity, in an abundance of children, which historical life can consume without ever exhausting the supply.[19]
In this passage, we see Spengler vehemently rejecting the purity-based racial theories prevalent within the NSDAP. But, what is the nature of this strong rejection? At its root, what we see in Spengler is a sharp contrast between his characterization of (a) the raceless man’s engaging in discourse on race and (b) the man of race’s non-discursive lived experience of race. The former discursive behavior, we see Spengler treat as degenerate and weak—the latter non-discursive behavior, as vital and strong. As Johnson notes, one of the key differences between these two behaviors is the activity’s vector; where “racial consciousness is backwards looking […] the feeling of race is forward-looking.”[20] The former is an after-the-face reflection on the past activities of race men; while the latter is the present experience of the man of race, impelling him to reach new creative heights in the cultural expression of his race.
Spengler would argue, then, that the discursive activities of contemporary racialists and racial preservationists on maintaining racial purity not only miss the point of race entirely by reducing it to mere physical characteristics, but also that such discursive action is a decadent and unhealthy way of approaching race. The man of race would view, Spengler tells us, such concerns with racial purity as entirely backwards-looking, seeking to preserve what his race once was. However, the non-discursive experience of one’s race is correspondingly forward-looking, seeking to actualize and create a strong and vital future culture. Johnson tells us that Spengler would argue that “the racial purist looks to the past, not the future, because he does not have the vitality in him necessary to create a future.”[21] The racial consciousness of the preservationist is defined entirely by his race’s past—a past which is, by definition, immutable and fixed; his engagement with race, then, is wholly discursive, merely talking of past glories and present ills. It is not defined by the action born of the inner experience of race-feeling itself.
These unhealthy manifestations of discursive preoccupations with racial purity run counter to the healthy non-discursive race-feeling and its resulting cultural production not because the discourse of the purist is wrong. Indeed, as Johnson argues, “decadent people can be right, and healthy people can be wrong.”[22] However, in terms of effective action, there are more important things than simply holding “correct” opinions, or engaging in “correct” discourses. What is needed so much more than mere discourse is the action which springs naturally from the healthy man of race’s vitality. In, correctly in my estimation, judging “White nationalism in America” as “as overwhelmingly degenerate movement,” Johnson concludes his musings on Spengler by asking the question: “what would a vital white nationalism look like?” We know now what a movement whose primary activity is discourse on race looks like; it is what we have today—a decadent movement which produces a near endless stream of discussion and literature on the topic of race. How would a vital and healthy movement differ from this? Johnson speculates:
A vital white nationalist movement would be a utopian, progressivist, eugenicist mythical-cultural phenomenon. It would not be founded on empirical studies of how race influences culture. It would not propagate itself through academic conferences and policy studies. It would be founded on a grand culture-creating, race-shaping myth, propagated through art and religion, that enthralls and mobilizes a whole people. It would be less concerned about the race we were or the race we are than about the race we can become.[23]
In terms of Spenglerian views on the question of race, we can imagine a healthy movement as one whose primary activity is not discourse, but cultural production. A healthy movement would not necessarily be wholly unconcerned with “correct” discourse on race, but its dominant and overriding concern would be the cultural production stemming from the non-discursive experience of the vital feeling of one’s race. The healthy movement would by defined not by polemic literature on the “dangers” of race-mixing, but by grand works of art expressing the inner experience of the race. It would be a movement whose “celebrities” were not the authors of books on race, but men whose entire being was devoted to the furtherance of their race’s artistic expression.
In this way, Richard Wagner, stands forth as the near-ideal example of Spengler’s man of race. Wagner was not unconcerned with the question of race, or with discourse on race, but when we look at the scope of his life and work, his activities were overwhelmingly defined by cultural production rather than discourse. We remember Wagner not primarily for his writings on race. Rather, we remember him because the art he produced was a force of nature, which expressed to purely the soul of his race that it drew together thousands upon thousands of the German people—giving rise to sweeping cultural movements. Taking Wagner as our paradigm, then, we should perhaps revise our questions. Rather than asking what would a vital movement look like, perhaps we should ask how can I become a Spenglerian man of race? It is my contention that if we are to succeed—to win, as Johnson puts it—it will not be through the endless discourse we have engaged in thus far; nor will it be through grand plans to re-shape the movement from the top-down.
Our success will come through individual change and progress. It is not necessary that we cease engaging in racialist discourse, or that such discourses are wrong, but this is not the means of our victory. Rather than through imitation of racialist authors like Francis Parker Yockey, our success will come through the imitation of cultural producers like Wagner. Naturally, such a movement would be characterized by physical vitalism and fecundity as well, but it would not be limited to such. It would be equally—if not moreso—characterized by cultural fecundity and strength. In this way, a reevaluation of our very idea of “race” in Spenglerian terms proves to be of the utmost importance in providing a pathway to success.
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Notes
[1] “Essays & Excerpts,” Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology.
[2] “Introduction,” Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology.
[3] “The Apricity: A European Community.”
[4] Farrenkopf, “Spengler’s Historical Pessimism and the Tragedy of Our Age,” 395; Borthwick, “Historian of the Future”; Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?”.
[5] Dreher, “Spengler and the Third Reich”; Bolton, “Oswald Spengler.”
[6] Spengler, The Decline of the West, 2:113.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Noll, The Jung Cult, 95–103.
[9] Spengler, The Decline of the West, 2:119.
[10] Brown, “Metaphysical Presuppositions in Spengler’s Der Untergang des Abendlandes,” 223.
[11] Spengler, The Decline of the West, 2:114.
[12] Spengler, The Decline of the West, 2:153.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Spengler, The Decline of the West, 2:165.
[15] Spengler, The Decline of the West,
[16] Ibid.
[17] Farrenkopf, “Spengler’s Historical Pessimism and the Tragedy of Our Age,” 396; Farrenkopf, “Spengler’s Theory of Civilization,” 24–25.
[18] Spengler, The Decline of the West, 2:118–19.
[19] Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 219.
[20] Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?”
[21] Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?”
[22] Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?”
[23] Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?”
6 comments
This essay asked many an important question and provided many an important answer. Well done.
There are two points I’d like to take issue with.
Firstly, with respect objective (3) in the introduction, the essay should have made clear that preservationists mainly oppose concepts of “spiritual race” when the definition of the putative spiritual race unreasonably expands the boundaries of the physical definition of the race. For example, a Frenchman conceding that N. Africans are a physically distinct breed but claiming they are “spiritually French” (and by extension European).
I suspect this is typically done to include certain favored individuals rather than entire groups. It is, howver, (a) completely unnecessary because the inclusion of a small number of individuals would not of itself pose any serious physical threat at all (whether such individuals should be included is an entirely separate question), and it is (b) risky because including such individuals under the aegis of spiritual race (rather than a more straightforward “earned exception”) opens the door to a far greater number of people than originally anticipated.
Spengler’s own definition of spiritual race works in the opposite direction: it effectively narrows rather than expands the boundaries of physical race. As such, his definition has more in common with the blood and soil notions that were still the vogue in his day (“Race and landscape belong together”). While I can appreciate that a common attachment to a territory produces greater feelings of unity in a people, I have a serious problem with attempts to elevate this attachment to mystical heights. Sometimes when I listen to these blood and soilers I get the feeling they’d have me believe they are so at one with the land they know each owl, each fox, each individual blade of grass by name. It’s just silly. Still, from a strictly preservationist perspective, this is a separate issue, thus a preservationist would not oppose Spengler’s spiritual definition on physical grounds.
Secondly, Johnson wrote: “racial consciousness is backwards looking […] the feeling of race is forward-looking.” Restricted to that sentence alone this is a distinction without a difference. Racial consciousness is not some arid taxonomical concept; the vast majority of people who would call themselves as racially conscious would also claim to have “the feeling of race” as Johnson later describes it. Johnson wrote that essay at time when he was locking horns with racial conservatives (a wasted time I bet he regrets) and perhaps this caused him to overstate his case a little. All the same, I would grant that one can draw an important distinction between backward-looking and forward-looking racialism and I would agree that the latter is preferable, particularly with respect to achieving political objectives in the real world.
“Race purity is a grotesque world in view of the fact that for centuries all stocks and species have been mixed, and that warlike—that is, healthy—generations with a future before them have from time immemorial always welcomed a stranger into the family if he had “race,” to whatever race it was he belonged. Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them. What is needed is not a pure race, but a strong one, which has a nation within it.” OSWALD SPENGLER
This is exactly the point. I am a Frenchman originally from France. And the term “race” (as an adjective) we also use to denote strong or virile.
This idea of only white is stupid as most original Europeans are not only white (some brown, many short). Also, Spengler was a bit brown. But only strong is good. Warlike and strong is a better than let’s say blues eyes (and for the record, I have blues eyes, hair blond). But I rather a strong Sikh man (non-Muslim) if they are French in spirit. They are tall and very honest and brave. I was in Haiti with. If he swears to France, and ready to bleed for France, that is a good “race” to marry my daughter.
“Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.” OSWALD SPENGLER
If you want to win, you win strong (strong race), you win with your culture, not with a stupid notion of race. I know a lot of very weak white people. Non merci. America used to be strong men, like France. Now, it is sad.
Spengler’s opposition to racial purism makes more sense in light of the fact, which I only recently discovered, that he was 1/4 Jewish — a Mischling. Hence his mention of anti-Semitism right up front. This clearly rankled him. Also, he is depending on an ambiguity of the word “race” which can refer to races proper or subracial groups (the English race, for example). When different white “races” would breed with one another, that is not miscegenation. But breeding with non-white races definitely is.
My opposition to the racial purist mindset is very specific, and really directed at conservatism. Our race (and its many subraces) are product not just of natural selection but sexual selection — and broader forms of eugenics. Who we are is a product of choice. By wishing to perpetuate the past, the conservative basically ignores that racially and culturally, our heritage is the product of countless choices, but he does not wish to exercise his freedom; he just wishes to repeat the products of other people’s freedom — to be ruled by the choices of dead men, rather than his own. That strikes me as a devitalized, decadent attitude. And it is also a self-defeating attitude, because as Burke said, those who lack the ability to change, lack the ability to preserve themselves. Beyond that, a sense of destiny — beyond simply repeating the past — makes people strong rather than weak. A really vital, non-decadent racialism focuses less on the race that we have been made and is more interested in becoming the race we wish to be. That means embracing and using our freedom to perfect ourselves.
But from that eugenic, racially idealistic point of view, I see no advantage whatsoever to miscegenation.
Your own vision of being French strikes me as deeply flawed. If physical strength and manliness are more important to you than French literature, art, science, and culture, and French people themselves, then marrying non-whites into your family may seem like a good deal. But every race can be warlike. Only Europeans can create and carry forth a European civilization. And to continue our race and civilization into the future, we must not allow foreign blood to dilute our own.
Greg, I think that the point you make in the final paragraph of this response is key to understanding Spengler’s view. Strength and vitality must here be understood in holistic and specific, rather than reductionist terms. For Western man to be racially vital doesn’t merely mean for his progeny to be physically strong. It encompasses that, but should not be reduced to it. Rather, we should view cultural vitality as supervening over physical strength. Taking this view, we can see that while miscegenation might do well to increase the latter (less important) aspect, it would surely diminish the former (more important) one. We can strengthen the physical pole of our race while weakening the cultural pole; but the converse is not true. In that way, we see that while culture cannot be reduced to blood, its emergence does depends on it.
The idea that Western Man (i.e. White European) is physically deficient compared to other races is preposterous anyway. It should be unnecessary to point this out, but there are numerous numbers of white men who are physically gifted/strong. Perhaps Sir Edmund Hillary is a prime example of a white man who exuded a unique combination of physical strength and an indomitable will to conquer the unconquerable. To use more pedestrian examples, just look at white rugby players across Europe. White men actually dominate athletics in South Africa. In summation, whites are not physically deficient. It seems this notion that whites are physically weak stem from media portrayals, pornography, American-centric sports, or the damage that feminism/liberalism has wrought on our societies. As Herbert pointed out, racial vitality has holistic implications. Physiology is a piece of this holistic view, but it is certainly not an aspect whites inherently lack.
“A vital white nationalist movement would be a utopian, progressivist, eugenicist mythical-cultural phenomenon. It would not be founded on empirical studies of how race influences culture. It would not propagate itself through academic conferences and policy studies. It would be founded on a grand culture-creating, race-shaping myth, propagated through art and religion, that enthralls and mobilizes a whole people. It would be less concerned about the race we were or the race we are than about the race we can become.”
I was surprised to read Spengler and Mr. Johnson’s works, because both aligned very much with my own thought on the subject. Whites are probably the race with the most potential to recreate themselves, our adoption of various racial ideals (the Nordic man, Mediterranean man, Dinaric man) reflects this. Static ideologies where the world is divided into White/Black/Yellow, with no change possible, strikes me as dreary and fatalistic, incompatible with the Aryan view of freedom.
It’s possibly because of a rumored (recently confirmed) Amerindian ancestor, but I have never understood the one drop racial purity rule. If a person has a European phenotype, and a European spirit, why would they be non-white because of an ancestor generations ago, who’s existence may not even be known to them?
It seems like it would induce a fear similar to those living in Stalinist Russia. For all a person knows, they could be a White Nationalist for years, march in protest of White genocide, and form close ties in the movement, only to have it all dissolved because they might find a Jewish or Amerindian ancestor some generations back who they didn’t even know about.
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