Counter-Currents
The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser
Morphing Into a Movement
Spencer J. Quinn
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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $55,936.00 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) And now for a few words from one of our most prolific contributors, Spencer J. Quinn, on why your help is so crucial for us.
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Sharing talking points and topics of interest helps keep a community strong. There need not be perfect agreement; rather, a general consensus is enough to distinguish ingroup from outgroup, which in turn simplifies the task of converting the uninitiated. This is how communities grow. For today’s dissident Right, this means first and foremost white advocacy and race realism, about which everyone is in general agreement. Beyond this, we have a host of topics — including the Jewish Question, Islam, Christianity, homosexuality, libertarianism, the Ukraine War, and others — about which there is much more controversy within our ranks.
How do we know this? Because we all share a vital means of communication. Aside from the many books that are published within the movement, we have the Internet: social media, video streaming, and blogging in the form of essays. While all three have their strengths, the essay carries the most staying power as a source of knowledge and argument. It lacks the immediacy of social media and requires a greater commitment of one’s time and attention than audio or video. But it is very easily indexed and discovered through search engines, at its best it is subject to editorial review, and it is the most useful for developing new ideas out of old ones.
Raw data obtained via research, scientific and academic papers, and works of philosophy, history, and theory make up our most important resources. From these spring the ruminations of our thought leaders — and these are best expressed in the form of the essay. In this way, our thought leaders can debate with one another via dialectic in order to discover, refine, or put aside certain ideas, as they did in Ancient Greece. They can ask questions of one another, they can probe for weaknesses, and they can figure out ways to strengthen their positions in the face of counterarguments.
A great example of this was the recent debate between Greg Johnson and Gregory Hood on the future of White Nationalism. Do you prefer ethnic nationalism or racial imperium? Can the former be achieved? Is the latter inevitable? Which side of the issue has a better grasp of history? Which faction is more attuned to human nature? These are difficult questions, and it is highly rewarding to read and listen to men who have dedicated hundreds of hours of thought and study in order to answer them. Unlike Jared Taylor’s 2021 debate with E. Michael Jones, this was not a debate with an outgroup member. Both Dr. Johnson and Mr. Hood are dissidents in the same camp. Because they argued in such a civil, disciplined manner, both in person and in essay form — and most importantly, leaving the audience to decide the matter for themselves — the dissident Right community became more confident in itself as a result. We know that our community can sustain controversy, because it has responsible, good-faith leadership that can withstand — and even profit from — criticism. This can only mean that our community has truth on its side.
When a sufficient amount of this happening, a community can morph into a movement. A shared purpose becomes apparent. Merely existing and biding time is no longer enough for leaders and followers alike. And suddenly, there is a sense of urgency. There are things to do.
None of this would be possible without dynamic institutions such as Counter-Currents, which lay the cornerstone for debate in the dissident Right today. Counter-Currents has a strong social media presence and is constantly publishing essays, as well as audio and video materials. All of this amounts to a vast, online dissident library that has been under development since 2010 — and is still growing. That’s a lot of content. Want to know the facts behind White Extinction or how to Restore White Homelands? Go to Counter-Currents. Want to know the lessons learned from the Proud Boys or the relevance of the 1790 Naturalization Act? Go to Counter-Currents. Want to learn about the war on whites in advertising? Go to Counter-Currents. If you want to learn more about any topic of concern to a dissident these days, from the Bible and Ancient Greece all the way to a washed-up celebrity’s recent contretemps over the “LOLocaust” and the latest liberal shenanigans in England, you’ll go to Counter-Currents — and odds are you are going to find something relevant.
This is because Counter-Currents is worth more than what its supporters put into it. More than a decade of continual output has not only built and maintained a dissident community, but has converted it into a genuine movement. But that alone isn’t the key to Counter-Currents’ success. The fact is that Counter-Currents would be much less than what it is without its loyal supporters. More importantly, the dissident Right community as a whole would be much less than what it is today without Counter-Currents.
So please, continue to give — and continue to be part of something great.
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7 comments
If things weren’t so financially tight on my end I would donate more, but I do donate as much as I can on a monthly basis. Every dollar counts. Counter-Currents is one of the best White Nationalist groups out there (if not number one) and I’m happy to support it as much as I am able. The staff writers here are great, most of the posters are insightful, and it’s a Fair, effective place to get the word out and have meaningful discussion about the problems facing whites.
Over the years I’ve lost my taste for a lot of other White Nationalist groups out there. American Renaissance I think has some validity between the years of 1990-1997, but they’ve gotten really bad over the years. The posters there are literally insufferable. I do have respect for Jared Taylor, and he did open my eyes to a number of things back in the 1990s, but his continued refusal to clearly identify who the number one enemy behind our demise is has not only gotten tiresome, but I also think it renders him ineffective in the 2020s and beyond. That, and I think he’s way too soft on Asians — seeing them as very little to no threat to whites. What absolute nonsense.
Please keep up the good work! We need to be more aggressive than ever before.
Strong disagree on Amren and Mr. Taylor. The Jewish question is the #1 way to scare away people who aren’t fully in the white nationalist camp yet. I wasn’t ready or able to understand that more difficult subject until I had been made aware of the obvious realities about race by Mr. Taylor and the others at Amren.
I’m with you on this point. Strategically, it can sometimes be effective (counter intuitive as it may sound) to not name an enemy, but rather focus on what they are doing.
Taylor, for me, is like the guy who’s most concerned with pointing out that a car is crossing into our lane about to collide with us.
In the metaphor, this guy isn’t as concerned with whether the driver is drunk, asleep, having a heart attack, suicidal, homicidal, only that there is an imminent threat (the car), the effect of the cause (whatever it is), that must be taken seriously and avoided.
It’s not that Mr. Taylor thinks determining the cause(s) is unimportant; in fact, he supports many who do just that. But his approach is what it is, and his efforts presumably spring from his own strengths, weaknesses, and proclivities.
We should respect that.
Also, he has criticized Jews. He just doesn’t seem to think their role deserves as much emphasis as others do. Whatever. He’s a good man who cares about the plight of white people and has put his neck on the line for years.
I’m sort of between Ian Connolly and IntractableAmerican regarding AmRen. For me and many others, of course, they were the gateway. Much of their commentary is incisive and insightful. However, they lack the sense of humor that makes C-C my preferred venue. AmRen’s focus on providing a clipping service of media accounts of white masochism and interracial violence can be relentless and depressing. Finally, ignoring the JQ, for whatever editorial reason and despite potential discomfort for the novice, is like presenting a mathematical equation with a variable missing. For that reason alone, their content now seems to have a quality of obtuseness.
“A Vast, Online Dissident Library”.
This library of Counter Currents’ commentaries and comments has been under development since 2010 — and is still growing — even today — with our comments here and now.
From “White Extinction” to “The Latest Liberal Shenanigans”, it’s all hear online, reader to be explored day or night. The existence of this vas library, or archive actually, of popular to scholarly subjects is a great record of our existence as White Nationalists during the past 13 years, open to you and the whole world, actually, to inform and educate.
I think a “Thank You” gift of $1300 might be in order — a tribute of one hundred smackers for each year.
Strangely, for me, that amount is just about my monthly SS check, so my check will be in the mail today. and canned tuna withe canned pineapple chunks with a touch of mayo is on the menu. Seriously, it’s delicious.
Also, I’m promising myself to buy a printer and begin creating a mini-library of my favorite and most relevant (to me) published essays. Yes, it will cost me a lot, but gathering these essays for the future is a goal to set.
I once read someone’s comment on CC , about our archive of posts, that if someone actually read each single post and its comments, over two or three years, and researched briefly the name of each central character, concept and idea, they would have gained the equivalent of a four-year college degree. I believe this to be true.
So, am I running a guilt trip on you? You bet I am!
Incredibly generous of you. Thank you!
Thank you so much. You have been a mainstay for years now.
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