Counter-Currents
Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 4, Part 2:
The Post-War Consensus
Kenneth Vinther
Karl Popper, one of the intellectuals who gave rise to the anti-populist conception of democracy that has prevailed in the West since the Second World War.
3,535 words
Part 5 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 4 Part 1 here, Chapter 5 Part 1 here)
Whereas liberal elites had always harbored a cynical and technocratic rejection of the fundamental premises of popular government, after the Second World War “the highly educated [also began] to deplore working-class movements for their bigotry, their refusal of modernity,” and their apparent instinctual tendency towards nationalism and authoritarian leaders. They became openly and dogmatically hostile towards all forms of “collectivism” and solidaristic political movements because they identified popular social organization as fundamentally incompatible with liberalism’s hallowed individual rights and liberties. Post-war elites embraced anti-fascism and anti-populism as two necessary tenets of contemporary liberalism.
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Well done. But we need an ideology that is able to dissolve the ‘liberal’ view. The Right’s appeal to ‘authority’, discipline and sado-masochism can never have the same power as ‘freedom’.
Which is why the Racial Right needs to think in terms of ‘love’, specifically racial love.
Before Will Williams has his say, the National Alliance has a ‘Love your Race’ campaign, which I believe is centred around St Valentine’s Day, and consequently the anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden.
Traditional family life and morality, continuous self-improvement, conceptualising one’s life as a valuable part of of a larger racial whole or as the jews say ‘Blessed are you Hashem that you did not make me a gentile’. This article by a woman who has defected to judaism, apparently because she fell in love with it, is instructive. Individualism is such a barren creed that the opportunity to belong to a self-confident, dare we say supremacist genetic club is very tempting.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/thank-you-for-not-making-me-a-gentile/
I don’t see where you get the sado-masochism.
The sadism comes out in the relish with which the right heaps contempt on almost everyone (including each other), the appeal to violence and violent imagery and the not-so-hidden desire for catastrophic events to provide them with the Mad Max world in which the right believes only it can thrive. The masochism is presents when the right glories in rejection.
I’m not talking about a slogan. I’m talking about making ‘love’ the central orientation of our politics. Love must be balanced by an appreciation for power, but power without love is desolation.
Why would anyone give the Racial Right power over life and death, happiness and suffering when it so clearly holds the majority of Whites in contempt?
The OTO probably had at least one thing right: Love is the Law. Love under Will.
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