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Decline of the West, Part 5

Greg Johnson

Artaxerxes II of Persia

2,098 words

Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here, Part 6 here)

Darryl Cooper: I want to ask you a little bit about the United States specifically. Your most recent post on Counter-Currents was a remembrance of Francis Parker Yockey, who’s best-known for his first book Imperium, and as a title that implies he advocated a pan-European empire. There are thinkers on the Alt Right today, like Richard Spencer, who advocate some form of this. You two have done a little bit of battle on that question, and you favor a more particularized ethnic nationalism, and he hopes for a more utopian universalism from Vladivostok to San Francisco. 

What is your position on that question, ethnic nationalism as opposed to a sort of universal white empire, rooted in? Do you worry that the uniqueness of French culture and German culture and so forth will be subsumed under this larger formation? Or are you really just saying that people are not ready for this, and they will fight you over it, and they’re not going to give that up? So forget about it. 

Second, will the set of ideas collected around the Alt Right turn out to be a specifically American version of White Nationalism? It seems to me that white Americans and ethnic Europeans in Europe, nationalists in those places are facing different challenges. 

The ethnic French nationalists are concerned with protecting and defending a French people and a French culture with deep historical roots and a cultural mythology that they want to protect from the corrosive effects of modernity or capitalism or immigration or what have you. 

American White Nationalists seem to me to be engaged in a project of trying to awaken or build or rally a new national identity altogether. Because it’s true that America was a white country for a long time. But as I was just talking about, that white population was never really unified. 

The northern English basically made war on the Scots-Irish in the South for a long time. Some people would say that that continues today. Irish and Italians and Southern Europeans were all at various points considered outsiders. And now that’s no longer the case. Everybody’s sort of intermarried and interbred, and there really is a sort of a white culture in America today, even though the Irish and Italians have their little cultural things that they do. 

Yet the vast majority of white Americans do not consider themselves a unique people apart from the civic nationalism of the United States. So are American White Nationalists engaged in a very different program from the European nationalists? And, and is the Alt Right maybe coming together to address those specific challenges? 

Greg Johnson: Those are related questions, obviously. I wrote a short piece called “Why ‘White’ Nationalism?” I’m both an ethnonationalist and a White Nationalist. I’m an ethnonationalist in the sense that I think that we need to preserve distinct ethnic identities, distinct nations like France and Estonia. That’s very important. [1] 

But I don’t exclude the United States from that. In the United States we have created an American identity. It’s basically been created by mixing together people from various European stocks who weren’t all that different to begin with. But a lot of them had to give up their ethnicity, their roots, and so forth to become Americans. They were deracinated and homogenized into something new. And that new thing isn’t so terribly bad. I’m an American, and there’s nothing else I can be. 

There’s a line in Brideshead Revisited where Julia says about her husband that she thought he was a whole man, but she realized that no, he’s only a small part of a man grown monstrously large. Now he was a Canadian, but in that respect they’re basically the same as Americans. Yes, there is something about Americans and Canadians and Australians and other basically European colonial societies that’s a little monstrous. 

Why is that? These societies were founded by people who were willing to sever their ties with their homelands. We were founded by rootless people. We were also founded by quarrelsome people, religious fanatics. And those traits are partly genetic. So rootlessness and quarrelsomeness are bred into the American character. 

We’re also, of course, very bourgeois. We don’t have an aristocracy here. We were founded by people who were coming to the New World to better themselves materially or to escape to a place where they could practice their own particular religious denomination. I guess those are two small parts of the human being grown monstrously large: the tendency to be religious nonconformists and materialists. The materialism is really triumphant. But even the religious nonconformism was highly materialistic, Calvinism and so forth. The religion has faded into a culture of moralism and posturing. But the bourgeois element is undimmed and enormously powerful. These are real problems. 

And yet for all that, Americans have achieved great things. We certainly deserve to survive as a people. We deserve to have a future like the peoples of Europe. And I’m fighting for that future. I want Americans to have a future, and it’s going to be in a white homeland in North America. 

Now to this business about white imperialism versus ethnonationalism. I was very alarmed when Richard Spencer started talking about a “homogeneous European man.” I’m sorry, but that basically means deracinating and blending out of existence all the different European peoples. And that’s something like what happened in the European colonial societies.

That’s what a white American is. A homogeneous European man. And indeed, Irish Americans and Italian Americans have St. Patrick’s Day and Columbus Day. But let’s be honest; let’s be real here. A lot of this is LARPing. A guy says he’s Irish American because he’s got an Irish surname. But I know people who claim to be Irish Americans, and they’re a quarter Irish and three quarters Italian. But they have an Irish surname. So they’re “Irish” American. I know Italian Americans who have an Italian surname, but they’re a quarter Italian and three quarters something else. So hyphenated-American ethnic identity is often just LARPing as something because you bear an ethnically identifiable surname, and that’s it. 

And if you look at the people who go to Saint Patrick’s Day and to Octoberfest, they’re the same people. Also an “Irish” American has more in common with a “Polish” American or an “Anglo” American than he has with somebody who lives in Ireland today. In terms of language, in terms of food, even in terms of general culture, they feel at home in the company of one another, and they feel like foreigners if they’re in Ireland or Poland or England or whatever. That’s just the reality of the situation. 

So to say, like Vox Day has said to me several times, there is no such thing as a generic white American. They’re Italian Americans and Irish Americans. I don’t think that’s true. There was a time when that was true, but that time has gone. That was then, this is now. 

From the viewpoint of the European who is descended from people who didn’t up stakes and move to the New World because they wanted a better life, more stuff—from the viewpoint of a Frenchman or a Hungarian or anybody who’s rooted and stayed behind—an American is a monster of rootlessness and homogenization. They’re not going to allow that to happen in Europe. They don’t want to become homogeneous European men. They want to be French or Hungarian or Latvian. And they have got every reason and right to do so. So they’re going to veto this imperium idea.

DC: They will kill and die to prevent that.

GJ: They will kill and die to prevent it. So it’s never going to happen. When Richard Spencer talks about “the ethnostate,” he uses it in the singular, because he thinks of just one state. Well, the one ethnos for that single ethnostate has to be homogeneous European man. He doesn’t think of the Czech Republic as an ethnostate. That’s just Richard envisioning Russian tanks in the streets of Prague. He’ll deny that. But he who wills the end has to will the means. 

I tell everyone who says Europe should be united: Great, you put the Czechs and the Slovaks back together in the same state again, and then we’ll talk. You put the Serbs and the Croats back together in the same state again, and then we’ll talk. It’s not going to happen. It’s just grandiose and empty. Do we want Serbs and Croats to start fighting with one another again? Absolutely not. That’s a horrible thing. Then don’t force them to live under the same state. 

The end of communism was horribly mismanaged by the Bush I administration. They said “We stand for stability,” the stability of multinational, multi-ethnic empires against nations yearning to be free of communist tyranny. What horrible fools Bush I and his people were. When the communist regime fell in Yugoslavia, or when it was falling apart in Russia, the United States should have stood for the liberty of all the different peoples in that vast prison house of nations that was the Soviet bloc. We should have stood up for the peaceful partition and secession of distinct ethnostates. 

But instead of doing that, we suffered a decade of wars in the Balkans, so that they could end up with such states. We should have just gone straight there in a diplomatic way. That would have been the best thing. 

So if you don’t want Serbs and Croats to fight again, don’t force them to have the same state over them. Do we want to prevent wars between European peoples? Then don’t force them to have the same government over them. 

Now what if they want to fight anyway? That’s when you need a Pan-European sensibility. Because we are all Europeans. That’s a racial sensibility, a sense of our common whiteness. So even in a Europe of proud little ethnostates, there’s room for a sense of overarching whiteness and Europeaness, and that’s real. So if tensions start rising between the Hungarians and the Romanians somewhere down the road, the other states in Europe need to step in and say, “We need to walk this back.” 

There’s a concept from the ancient world. It’s called “the King’s Peace.” After two attempts to conquer mainland Greece, by Darius and Xerxes, the Persians gave up on that. Yet Artaxerxes II found a way of extending Persian influence into mainland Greece without actually ruling over it. He extended hegemony, soft power, by basically saying that if any Greek city-state attacked another, he would put the full weight of the Persian Empire on the side of the attacked party. It was not a perfect solution, but it did reduce fighting between the notoriously quarrelsome mainland Greek city-states for two decades. That was a great gift. 

The ideology of the Persian Empire is that it created peace between warring peoples that could not create peace between themselves because they were too well-matched in battle, so one could never conquer the other. But they could be pacified by an overwhelming third force. The Persians fought for glory and wealth, of course. But Cyrus also legitimated his conquests by pacifying peoples weary of war but unable to conclude peace on their own by forcing them to get along. That’s why Cyrus was the first “prince of peace,” a title later transferred to Jesus.

Peace was the ideology of the Persian empire. But you don’t actually need to rule others to resolve conflicts. You just need a pan-European sensibility. The most nationalistic people I know in every European society realize there’s something terribly tragic about Europeans killing one another. Because as a race we have so much more in common. Every European society is threatened with negative population growth. Every European society is threatened with invasion from non-Europeans. That’s far more important than little border disputes that can be solved without bloodshed. 

The closest thing to a European imperium that would be both desirable and practical is a non-sovereign intergovernmental treaty organization, something like NATO, in which European nations ally together out of two common interests: to maintain peace among themselves and to maintain advantageous relations with other racial and civilizational blocs, like the Muslim world, Africa, Far East, etc. There needs to be some kind of coordination. So something like NATO, without the United States or Russia in it, an actual European NATO, would be the best solution. But it would be totally consistent with maintaining the distinct sovereign ethnostates that exist in Europe today. 

Notes

[1] Greg Johnson, “Why ‘White’ Nationalism?,” in Toward a New Nationalism (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2019). 

 

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  1. P. J. Collins says:
    July 31, 2019 at 5:57 am

    This Cooper has some very strange ideas. ‘The northern English basically made war on the Scots-Irish in the South for a long time.”

    What northern English? Geordies? “Scots-Irish” weren’t invented till the latter 1800s. When did all of these war fantasies happen? 1903? I’m really curious.

    1. O'Brien says:
      July 31, 2019 at 7:47 pm

      PJ,
      From what I understood of that by my reading was that the “Northern English” here refers to the Yankee/Union/ Northern States of America in the 1860-65 U.S. Civil War .

      If the transcript had had a comma between Northern, and English, and maybe had the word Yankee too it would clear this confusion.

      By the Scots-Irish in the South I believe he refers to the Confederacy, which was largely settled by Scots (certainly in the Carolinas). It is also noteworthy that the “Stars and Bars” of the Dixie flag use the same cross as the Scottish flag – diagonal, or the “Saltire”.

      The WASP, English (/Dutch) North was industrial, the rural South agricultural, and the North did more or less subjugate the South, which led to civil war. I don’t know to what extent Irish came to Dixieland, it was my impression the Irish came more to the North, and I didn’t realize Dixie was Catholic (which seemed to be inferred) but Scots certainly tended to land in the South (or Canada) as opposed to further up e.g. New York which was English and Dutch. I don’t know to what extent it was Scots-Irish but this isn’t my strong suit

      I hope this is more accurate, and clears it up for you. As I said this is just my reading of it, it made sense to me straight away but I can see how it could be construed as unclear.

      1. P. J. Collins says:
        July 31, 2019 at 11:33 pm

        The great Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSA of Alabama, originally of mid-1600s Marylander stock, was devoutly Catholic like many Cavaliers, and also pure English in ancestry. Like the similarly attuned Jefferson Davis, he endorsed the belief that there was an actual racial difference between the peoples of the South and the North, going back at least to the English Civil War.

        This is too thorny an issue for me to take a side on, but obviously it was a widespread belief among Southern intellectuals in the antebellum era.

        I am not going to take issue with all your possible misconceptions, but please leave with this friendly takeaway:

        a) the Scots-Irish ethnonym is a misnomer and a lie; originally it was a rebranding of those Irish who didn’t go to church; now it’s a slur on Irish and Scots and border people whose present-day descendants are supposed to be retarded ignoramuses living in Hillbilly Hollow;

        b) the attack on the Confederacy was indeed, at root, an attack on old-stock traditionalists and therefore the spawn of devotées of the French Revolution. The abolitionist “spin” against the largely Catholic “peace party” Democrats in New York City, 1862-63, is a good example. The Jacobins in the black Republican faction redefined this opposition as the July 1863 “Draft Riots,” and eradicated all mention of the political background. Someone recently wrote an article that touched on this problem: https://www.amren.com/features/2019/07/what-happened-at-the-colored-orphan-asylum/

  2. Veles says:
    July 31, 2019 at 6:36 am

    You don’t need to eradicate ethic groups in Europe. When they see the hatred in the eyes of non-Europeans that will be all they need. I think that there is nothing like racism to help people sort out their differences and find practical solutions to live together. A European sensibility could grow out by itself just by this alone. It does require the will to fix things and Europeans must not start to see themselves as victims. If you are able to develop ethnic groups with a strong identity and people that will stand together no matter what the chaos around them, they will survive.

  3. MadJack says:
    July 31, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    Latin. Interesting. Who’s onboard?

    1. Anton says:
      August 1, 2019 at 8:34 am

      Latin for all; well, some people. English, Spanish, French, Italian are Latin-based and solid foundations for bringing various people(s) together. And this should include all Slavs as well even though they also use Cyrillic.

  4. K says:
    July 31, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    An understandable reaction that is why Johnson and others don’t advocate for some “grandiose nationalistic” vision. Europe is neither receptive to such a thing and it isn’t even clear if it would be any better than what Johnson proposed. Americans don’t really hold the old rivalries and wounds anymore, but they are very real in Europe. Just as example, my grandfather was a Macedonian who married a Russian from Belarus, but even in America, his Macedonian brethren shunned him and his family because of his marriage (something my dad resents to this day). The old conflicts are serious, but they shouldn’t be prioritized over a common defense against racial outsiders and a sense of overarching racial sensibility.

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