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Greg Johnson was the guest on a recent broadcast of the Patriotic Alternative Book Club, where he discussed and reviewed Francis Parker Yockey’s book The Enemy of Europe with Aunt Sally, Natty, and Mark Collett, and the recording of the stream is now available for download and online listening. Written in the 1950s, The Enemy of Europe, which was recently published in a new translation by Counter-Currents, argues that the greater threat to Europe during the Cold War was not the Soviet Union, but in fact the liberal democracy of the United States.
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Ironically, Yockey would view the ethnonationalists at Counter-Currents as enemies of Europe.
Yes, obviously, but he’s wrong about that. Fortunately, we are magnanimous.
He was wrong not only about that, but about Comrade Stalin and the Soviet Union too.
I would like to contest a few points that were made here.
“The British Empire was not a race empire.” The British Empire turned huge swaths of the globe into White homelands by eradicating or reducing to tiny and powerless minorities the indigenous peoples that lived there. Whatever you think of the morality of this, you cannot deny that it makes the long-term survival of the White race more secure. For instance, Europe could be lost, but there would still be a chance for the White race in North America and Oceania thanks to the British Empire.
“There is always a backwash of empire.” No, not always. The Mongol Empire ruled many foreign peoples and spread Mongol genes throughout Eurasia, but when their power waned there was no backwash of their former subjects into Mongolia. This didn’t have to happen to Britain either.
“The proper world order is every people having their own nation-state and living in harmony… if you need resources that your own territory doesn’t have, just buy them at a fair market value.” This is utopian. History has never worked like this and never will. Should the United States make Alaska an ethnostate for the Eskimos and forsake all the oil there? Should the US have peacefully acceded to the secession of the Southern states? Perhaps you can make moral cases for these questions, but the nation who thinks like this will weaken herself relative to nations who are more willing to exert their dominance, and by a kind of Darwinian process will find themselves in the dustbin of history.
The Mongol Empire ruled many foreign peoples and spread Mongol genes throughout Eurasia, but when their power waned there was no backwash of their former subjects into Mongolia.
Because the Mongol Empire has very little common with the modern country Mongolia or with the peoples which are known now as Mongols (they call themselves Khalkha). The Khalkha were told that they are “the Mongols” and that Cingizkagan was their ancestors only by the Russian scholars and explorers in the end of the 19th century. In Khalkha folklore and traditions there were nothing about Cingizkagan and his campaigns. That is the cause number one. The cause number two however was that the “Mongols” of Cingizids (Töre) ruled another peoples in another manner as Europeans ruled their colonies.
That is interesting, so thanks for contributing that bit of historical detail. I still think the thrust of my argument stands — that there doesn’t necessarily have to be a backwash of empire, and there often isn’t. Japan, for instance, isn’t being flooded with Koreans and Filipinos. To the extent that some of these groups are starting to immigrant to Japan now, it is for reasons that have nothing to do with the Japanese Empire. Sweden, conversely, is being flooded with immigrants from countries Sweden never ruled. It is a mistake to assume that the Great Replacement happening throughout the White world has something to do with our former empires.
Here the geography and climate should be noted. The Mongolian winter, that is 50 degrees below zero in the “empty” steppe. It is worse than in Qazaqstan. Who of the former subjects of Mongol Empire would voluntarily resettle there? Persians, Özbeks, Georgians, Chinese? No, they would better stay home, because the life in Mongolia is extremely hard for all not-used to it. Even Türkic nomadis peoples of the Steppe would not migrate to Gobi, because it would be still very hard for them to live there. Note: Mongolian horses and Türkic horses are of different breeds, and the Türkic horses (argymaks) could not live in the Mongolian Steppe in the winter.
Japan. Japan is on the islands, and it is overpopulated. The Japanese were and are “Volk ohne Lebensraum”. The Japanese expansion to the continent goes back to medieval times. The well-known invasions of Türkic-Mongolian forces (with Chinese ships) in the 13th century into Japan (the story about Kamikaze wind) were not unprovoked. The Japanese made raids on the Chinese coasts (of Türkic/”Mongolian” YUAN dynasty) and tried to settle there. So the Empire stroke back. That is easy to understand why the Japanese do not let foreigners settle there on the islands. They simply do not have enough place.
Sweden. Good example of a totally degenerated nation. Degenerated partially because of democracy and neutrality (no wars, no natural selections with survival of the fittest) and partially because of massive alcoholism. They simply are drunk out of their brains.
Interesting. So who were the original Mongols of the Mongol Empire and what race were they? What happened to them? Where are they now?
I think they were Eastern Türks and some of Mongolian tribes, like ancestors of Jongars/Kalmuks, maybe some Khalkha were among them, because the Armies of Cingizids were polyethnical, but Khalkha were neither commanders, nor rulers. The names and titles of “Mongolian” rulers sound like Türkic and many of them could be translated from Türkic, but they did not mean anything in Khalkha-Mongolian. They used Türkic language and Uyghur letters.
And the Eastern Türks had long tradition of their own statehood, beginning at latest with the Hunlar Empire of Metehan (Mode) in the 3rd century BC. And later with Köktürk Kaganates in the early Middle Ages. But Khalkha on the other side have never had any own state. They are wonderful hunters and shep/horse-breeders, however their state was created by the Russians, not by them themselves. And Cingizid Mongols were mostly Tengrians, not Buddhists as Khalkha (and also Jongars/Kalmaks) are.
Altay Türks like Tuvanians, Sahalar (“Yakuts”) and also Qazaqs have more rights to call themselves inheritors of Cingizkagan, than Khalkha. Someway Nogays could claim that Cingizids Mongols are their ancestors, but, as with Qazaqs, they are mixture of defeated (Kipchaks) and victorious (Mongols). Of course there were mixtures and interrelations of Türks and Mongols, because Türks and Mongols are relatives.
The origins of the world Mongol is unclear. Some translated that as “thousand of hands”, but personally I prefer the interpretation “Mengi El”, what means “Eternal State/Homeland”, i.e. something like “Das Tausendjährige Reich”. The Mountain Elbrus in the Kaukasus is called Mengi Taw, the Eternal Mountain.
Thank you all for a very interesting debate. This is exactly the type of content that I have come to expect from Counter-Currents.
Thanks also to Dr. Johnson for the new editions of Yockey’s works. I have a dog-eared copy of Imperium that I got from Noontide Press over forty years ago, and it is one of my favorite books ─ although I do not agree with all of Yockey’s ideas.
I have also read the Enemy of Europe ─ I guess it must have been the Liberty Bell edition ─ but about all I remember from it was that I was not impressed. I have ordered the new CC edition of EoE and will re-read it soon.
I do not think that Yockey was especially prescient about anything other than along the lines that the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union came apart. This was not something that I was expecting so easily, although I suppose Glasnost/Perestroika was encouraging.
However, I think the Neocons were expecting and preparing for this for over a decade, and they actively sought to shift American Interventionist focus to the Middle East.
I think the end of the Cold War was a lost opportunity for Western Civilization in general. The last thing that “the traditional enemies of free-speech,” as David Irving calls them, ever wanted was a rapprochement between America and Russia, and an organic outlook for Europe and the West in general.
The Joos have traditionally hated the Russians, Poles, and the Germans ─ in that order. They will hate the Americans and the Anglosphere with equal fervor if this is not the case already. This is all part of Globalization, or “Globohomo” if you prefer, and a decided shift to cultural-Marxism and blatant anti-White propaganda with things like Critical Race Theory and Drag Queen Story Hour, etc.
This should come as no surprise.
I find the idea that Putin is fighting Globohomo to be ludicrous. We should not confuse the EU with NATO or oversimplify these things monolithically. The only party that benefits from renewed or continued conflict and White people killing each other is the New World Order of Globohomo.
While a perfectly reasonable and probably correct response, it is unfortunate that previously-neutral states like Sweden and Finland are joining NATO because this will only add to the old brinksmanship of the Cold War, which benefits no one besides the New World Order of Globohomo.
NATO served its purposes during the Cold War, and the West German contribution to Soviet containment was enormously valuable. And I for one do not miss the bipolar standoff of the Cold War. Thanks, Mr. Putin, this is exactly the wrong direction that we needed to go.
We need to deescalate this conflict and to focus on ridding our own society from the virus that infects it. Metaphysical copes are not going to save us. I can understand why people think that Joo-fighting Popes and Patriarchs will save them, but I do not want to go back to that backward society. Bolshevism won its victories in part by how backwards and obscurantist that Mother Russia was. I think Yockey understood this, and I doubt that those who are drawing “anti-Modernity” lessons from him now are necessarily doing so as he would have approved of if he were alive today.
Furthermore, Stalin was not fighting our fight. I don’t care if he hanged a few Jews in Prague or not. Unlike Hitler, he did not try to systematically purge Jewish power over Gentile nations. Stalin may have purged the rootless cosmopolitan Trotsky and suppressed Refuseniks and Zionists, but that only made him a more formidable threat to Europe. Churchill already noted in his famous article in 1920 that the Joos were torn between Zionism and Bolshevism ─ and he sided with the former by siding during the war with the latter.
The Anglosphere is under the same regime as everybody else in the world. One will not escape by sending your kid to Moscow, homeschooling, or hiding in the pews. Systemic problems require Systemic solutions.
And all this anti-American talk, sometimes with shilling for Red China or the PRK by “dissident” podcasters who tend to be very edgy and wet behind the ears, is not particularly helpful.
No, the former Soviet countries are not resisting ZOG. The virus is everywhere, perhaps even tailored to be more deadly for specific location.
Greg made a very good point about Yockey’s “Michel stratum.”
Today we can operate ONLY via those American free-speech ideals that our country was founded on. At the dawn of the 21st century, when Revisionist chemist and former PhD candidate Germar Rudolf was still an exile, he noted in a speech or an essay somewhere that the Thoughtcrimes regime in Germany ─ which was persecuting him and threatening incarceration for looking into the truth of the Nazi homicidal gaschamber claim at Auschwitz ─ was “imposed” upon his native country from without.
I took issue with this on a blog somewhere ─ maybe the old CODOH bbs (now defunct). Surely there is some truth to what Germar said. The current de-Nazification regime was imposed on Germany by the Victors after the war ─ but, but, but ─ Germans today have to take some responsibility for the traitors of their own and for what they have meted out to White dissidents like Mr. Rudolf and to Ernst Zündel, Ursula Haverbeck, and many others.
In the old days, when the Holocaust cult was new in America, the odd middle-aged SS man was deported to the Soviet Union to be killed for allegedly harming the Jews. After the SU was no more, John Demjanjuk was deported to Israel and sentenced to death. This did not set well with everyone so he was returned, and his American citizenship was restored, only to be deported again, this time to the Fatherland on the basis of new accusations. Now German nonagenarian veterans are routinely subjected to the show trial ─ and they will be dead before the clock runs out. The “good” Germans do not need the Soviet Union or Israel to do it for them.
Hitler understood that many of the Enemies of Germany were Germans themselves. As Yockey put it, there are the “Culture Distorters,” plus the subversive “Michel stratum” itself, which have today completed their Long March through Western institutions.
I realize that it is easy to get lost in the gravy. Instauration is not easy.
My friend, the Revisionist and Columbia-educated engineer Friedrich Paul Berg before he died had a similar blind-spot as some of us when it came to Germany and the Germans. He was raised as a German minority in New York and was under no illusions about how vicious and petty Jews could be ─ nor how shallow and clueless Americans were and are.
Fritz had fixed in his mind the Germans of 1965, when as a University graduate he visited the country for the first time and found the Germans who had nobly rebuilt from the devastation of the war and were once again leaders in Europe, and crucial to the containment of Communism, which Hitler had once “wounded almost unto death.”
But these are not the Germans of today ─ just as the Americans of today are not the Americans of 1965 that I remember when typical American neighborhood streets were wholsome and White.
Germar Rudolf is now a dissident living with an American wife and family in the United States, and it has not been easy for him by any means. But this is lightyears from what he could have expected in a country without long traditions of freedom-of-speech.
My point is that not everything is ZOG incarnate. Secondly, we have to find a way to move forward and for Western Civilization to win without throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
These are exactly the kinds of debates that we should have and that we must have as we make our way forward in ever widening and synchronous steps.
Since the birth of the Internet, I have been banned from many message forums by sensitive souls, and have never hidden behind Internet anonymity. I don’t have all the answers, but these uncomfortable discussions are not going away. They must continue.
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The US did NOT want the Soviet Union fell apart. Maximum the West wanted was the independence of three Baltic Republics. All other republics should stay together in the “reformed SU”. I do not know if it would be better or not, but that is really so.
Moreover, as Diana West, citing the famous Russian emigre’ dissident and scientist Vladimir Bukovsky, writes, the Western politicians strictly forbade Boris Yeltsin to arrange the political trial on the Communism in Russia in 1992.
I don’t mean that the U.S. necessarily wanted the Soviet Union to fall apart, in spite of giving lip service to the Captive Nations. But I don’t think it was so much of a surprise for them.
I think the Neocons were trying to sell the idea of Middle Eastern terrorism or the threat of “Islamo-Fascism” long before the Berlin Wall came down. It was being sold as a fallback position in case the Cold War somehow failed to serve its institutional purposes.
The Clinton Administration was trying to cash in on the “Peace Dividend” from the end of the Cold War and even issued a Department of Defense “Cold War Victory” medal for all those who served honorably in the U.S. military from September 2, 1945 to December 26, 1991.
This was pushed back on hard by those who disliked the idea of ending or even scaling back the gravy train that Pres. Eisenhower called the “Military Industrial Complex.” The Bush 43 administration notably refused to create a CW campaign medal, even though recommended by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act of October, 2001.
The “commemorative” Cold War Victory Medal from the Clintonista period still exists, but active duty military are not allowed to wear it on their uniform in public. Veterans can only wear it during commemorative events if in civilian clothing. For those who qualify, you are supposed to be able to request the medal by sending the DoD a copy of your Honorable Discharge ─ but they never sent me one, and I don’t know of anybody else that got sent one either.
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I had, regrettably, never heard of Francis Yockey. After listening to this PA book club edition, I will definitely be acquiring a copy of his work. Well done to Counter-Currents Publishing for bringing his work magnificently back to life!
This podcast episode is a must-listen for the fascinating discussion between Mark Collett and panel with Greg Johnson, re the legacy of communism.
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