The Littlest Red Pill
Archibald Ramsay’s The Nameless War
Spencer J. Quinn
2,896 words
Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory.
If it is plausible and helps explains something a person knows to be true but cannot prove, then it provides comfort. It makes the truth seem less daunting. It also helps if the theory is entertaining. Sometimes conspiracy theories are correct, sometimes only partially so, and sometimes — maybe most of the time — not at all. The centuries-old conspiracy theory positing that the Jews are behind the destruction of Christian Europe is a combination of all three as packaged in an essential little volume entitled The Nameless War by Archibald Ramsay. Aside from its explosive content, what’s most interesting about this book is that it dispenses red pills of the highest dosage, but in such tiny capsules. The work’s brevity gives it the impression of being a beginner course on the Jewish Question, when in truth it is anything but.
Ramsay was a staunch Right-wing member of the British Parliament from 1931 until his arrest and imprisonment on trumped-up charges in May 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B, which allowed the British government to detain and imprison without trial anyone suspected of harboring pro-German sentiments (Sir Oswald Mosley and other members of the British Union of Fascists were likewise detained under this legislation). During the buildup to the Second World War, Ramsay became more and more convinced that not only were the Jews behind the belligerence toward Nazi Germany, they were also behind all of the most destructive European revolutions for the previous 300 years. In The Nameless War, written in 1952 — eight years after his release from prison — Ramsay endeavored to reveal the truth behind this vast conspiracy theory. Just as importantly, he argued for Nazi Germany’s innocence — as well as his own — in the face of all the accusations leveled against them.
Ramsay is a clear and engaging writer, but hardly a historian. His chapters on the twentieth century, especially those dealing with events of the late 1930s, are his strongest and mark a valuable contribution to dissident literature. More on these later. The early chapters dealing with the Jewish hand behind Oliver Cromwell’s interregnum, the Glorious Revolution, and the French Revolution, however, are brief and less convincing. Like any good conspiracy theorist, Ramsay reports rumors, hearsay, and difficult-to-verify facts and then encourages the reader to connect the dots. He may be right or wrong — and probably closer to right than wrong in many cases — but it is difficult to put faith an author who produces scanty evidence to support a bold claim while not protecting himself against counter-argument. That is one of the main differences between a historian and a polemicist, and sadly, the further back in time he goes, the more Archibald Ramsay seems like a polemicist.
In the first ten paragraphs of The Nameless War, Ramsay outlines the Jews’ nefarious plans after being banished from England in 1290. He adduces a letter written to the Rabbi of Arles in Provence, France in 1489 from Constantinople by someone named V.S.S.V.F.F., Prince of the Jews. According to Ramsay, this princely person “advised the Jews of Europe to adopt the tactics of the Trojan Horse; to make their sons Christian priests, lawyers, doctors, etc., and work to destroy the Christian structure from within.”
That’s it. This is all that Ramsay offers to explain why the Jews prompted the Spanish Inquisition and later subverted England through “their creature and hireling,” Oliver Cromwell. The source for this? The letter was apparently published in 1889 in James de Rothschild’s newspaper Revue des estudes Juives. While I could find a handful of sources online reprinting the letter, I could not find any references to the actual, physical letter itself — at least not in English. Did it ever even exist? Another wrinkle not mentioned by Ramsay is that this letter suggests that Jews retaliate to similar gentile threats. For example:
2. As for what you say about their making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians’ lives.
3. As for what you say of their destroying your synagogues: make your sons canons and clerics in order that they may destroy their churches.
So, leaving aside the innumerable verities and falsities of history, Ramsay’s own source could be used against him. It would have been nice had Ramsay included this nugget of information as a sign of his good faith. That he didn’t is a strike against him, unfortunately.
As for Cromwell, Ramsay is on much firmer ground since he cites several sources and names names. He forwards the claims made in the Jewish Encyclopedia and other sources that the Jews Manassa Ben Israel and Fernandez Carvajal funded Cromwell and his New Model Army, respectively. That Jews were officially admitted into England under Cromwell after over 350 years of exile is well known. Ramsay also mentions the fact that in 1921, two letters were unearthed that confirmed beyond any doubt Cromwell’s paid service to the Jews, and how this resulted directly in the assassination of King Charles I, and later, the admission of Jews into England. A conspiracy, if you will. But here at least Ramsay offers a real source: the September 3, 1921 issue of a newspaper called Plain English, edited by onetime Oscar Wilde lover Lord Alfred Douglas. These letters may or may not be hoaxes, but at least Ramsay does his due diligence as a reporter.
Ramsay also implies that Jewish intrigue was the primary reason for Cromwell’s belated Jewish welcome into England. Maybe not. Paul Johnson in his A History of the Jews writes about how many of the Puritan opponents of the Crown at the time believed that the End Times would not happen unless the Biblical prophecy of the Jews being scattered across the Earth was first fulfilled. This apparently gave many Englishmen a reason for accepting Jews back into their country. Thus, maybe it wasn’t just about blood money. Maybe it wasn’t only because of Cromwell and the Jews. Who knows? This is the kind of historical messiness that conspiracy theorists tend to eschew, and Ramsay is no exception. And yes, Johnson was a philo-Semite, but that doesn’t mean he is wrong in this instance.
Ramsay’s French Revolution chapter is in equal parts compelling and iffy. Firstly, he uncritically cites The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to demonstrate the way in which the disastrous results of the Revolution coincided neatly with the insidious aims expressed by the purported Hebraic authors of that mysterious document. Well, okay. But I know that even as far back as 1952, the origin of The Protocols was hotly disputed, with many claiming it was an elaborate forgery. This was well known in Ramsay’s day. The very least he should have done was alert his readers to this controversy rather than rely on their general ignorance to get his points across. Even better would have been an effort to show how the Protocols were not a cribbed version Maurice Joly’s 1864 pamphlet describing Napoleon III’s ambitions to control the world after all.
We don’t get that. So another strike against Ramsay.
Regardless, he covers the French Revolution well enough. He describes how France had fallen into debt to Jews and how issuing money on the security of precious metals rather than land worked against the interests of France. He cites various sources, including Sir Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon, describing how Jews financed the Revolution behind the scenes. Jews also pulled strings behind the Illuminati and the Freemasons, which sowed the seeds for revolution among the French public throughout the 1780s. Then, of course, there was Jewish control of the press, which issued calumny and propaganda to discredit the French Crown — most famously in the instance of Marie Antoinette, when she was falsely reported as having ordered an extremely expensive diamond necklace while the populace was starving. All this, along with a few convenient deaths — or well-timed murders — of key players in the French government led to the Revolution and all the horrors which followed.
Toward the end of the chapter, Ramsay quotes G. J. Renier, the seemingly philo-Semitic author of a Robespierre biography, who quotes his subject in one of his final speeches:
“I dare not name them at this moment and in this place. I cannot bring myself entirely to tear asunder the veil that covers this profound mystery of iniquity. But I can affirm most positively that among the authors of this plot are the agents of that system of corruption and extravagance, the most powerful of all the means invented by foreigners for the undoing of the Republic; I mean the impure apostles of atheism, and the immorality that is at is base.”
Mr. Renier continues with all a Jew’s satisfaction: “Had he not spoken these words he might still have triumphed!”
In this smug sentence Mr. Renier unwittingly dots the i’s and crosses the t’s, which Robespierre had left uncompleted. Robespierre’s allusion to the “corrupting and secret foreigners” was getting altogether too near the mark; a little more and the full truth would be out.
At 2 a.m., that night Robespierre was shot in the jaw and early on the following day dragged to the guillotine.
Again let us recall Protocol 15 . . .
This could all be speculation or fantasy; then again, perhaps not. Simon Schama suggests the gunshot to Robespierre’s jaw may have been a botched suicide. (Yes, Schama is Jewish, but again, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s wrong in this instance.) Regardless, even if Ramsay’s information is not always reliable and his methods not always rigorous, a pattern of Jews seeking gain through the violent usurpation of established gentile hierarchies is beginning to emerge. Could there be something to it?
Once we get into the twentieth century, The Nameless War gains its footing. They say “write what you know,” and Archibald Ramsay certainly knew the twentieth century. In his brief treatise one can find hints of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, David Hoggan, Elmer Barnes, Francis Parker Yockey, and a number of other leading lights of the Right. As with his previous chapters, he’s light on sources and evidence, but in this case it’s all right. I’ve read enough dissident material about the Russian Revolution and the Second World War to vouch for much of what comes next.
In his chapter on the Russian Revolution of 1917, he’s right when he claims that the Jew Jacob Schiff financed the Bolsheviks as well as the Japanese in their 1905 war against Russia. He’s right about the high proportion of Bolsheviks being Jews. He quotes several sources, including the April 1919 British White Paper on Bolshevism as well as a few Jewish sources, all effectively saying the same thing: that the most destructive force the civilized world had ever seen since the days of Genghis Kahn was disproportionately the handiwork of Jews. As is his wont, Ramsay continues to ignore possible counter-argument and skepticism. The conspiratorial thinking is still there. But with the sins of Soviets so grotesque and enormous, the reader begins to realize that even if Ramsay’s assertions were only half-right, he’d still have a powerful point.
Next comes Ramsay’s ardent defense of Adolf Hitler and Germany — although oddly, not of Nazism or fascism. As expected, he quotes Mein Kampf at length. His effusive praise of Hitler might be a little on the shameless side, but it’s not wrong. As a world leader, Hitler understood the Jewish Question better than anyone. He also cared for the German people and did his best to peacefully undo the wrongs of the Treaty of Versailles, all the while encouraging Jewish ethnocentrism in their own homeland. It was Bolshevik-aligned international Jewry which brought the war to him.
Never before in history had any country not only repulsed organized revolution, but discerned Jewry behind it, and faced up to that fact. We need not wonder that the sewers of Jewish vituperation were flooded over these men and their leader; nor should we make the mistake of supposing that Jewry would stick at any lie to deter honest men everywhere from making a thorough investigation of the facts for themselves.
Ramsay then discusses events that are common knowledge among many dissidents today about Germany, England, the United States, and the build-up to the Second World War:
- That Hitler had always proposed peace and friendship with the British Empire.
- That Hitler deliberately spared the British forces at Dunkirk.
- That powerful Jews such as Samuel Untermyer waged economic warfare against Germany throughout the Great Depression.
- That the anti-German language of warmongering Jews during this time was apocalyptic and unrelenting.
- That Jews had found their way to positions of great influence in the major nations of the world at that time.
- That the British offered a secret guarantee — known then as the “blank check” — to Poland months before the war, promising that they would support Poland in the event of German aggression.
- That Poland provoked Germany’s invasion by abusing its German minority, economically threatening the Free City of Danzig, and making numerous incursions into German territory.
- That England and France would not have adopted a belligerent attitude towards Germany if not for “constant needling from Washington.”
- That Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1940 campaign promises of neutrality were lies, given the American convoys of supplies and ammunition being sent to the Allied nations and the Lend-Lease Act.
- That Roosevelt deliberately goaded Japan into war.
The Nameless War wouldn’t be The Nameless War without conspiratorial thinking, even in its best chapters. Ramsay claims with little evidence that the Jews were behind Neville Chamberlain’s fall from power after the Munich conference in 1938. He also blames the Treaty of Versailles on the Jews since, presumably, the secretaries of all the world leaders in attendance were Jews, and their bosses didn’t know how to read maps:
It is known the Mr. Lloyd George and others were hazy about geography. Their Jewish secretaries, however, were on the contrary very much on the spot on such matters. These Jews met at 6 p.m. in the evenings; and mapped out the decision for the following day’s conference of the “Big Four.”
At one point, he includes a personal anecdote in which he approached a “very wealthy and patriotic peer, the head of a great business” to ask for funding to publish The Nameless War. The man, who remains nameless, refused, citing his certainty that the Jews would ruin him if he were to try. A compelling story, no doubt, but impossible to verify.
Ramsay also gets a few things wrong. Aside from obvious mistakes such as claiming that Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was Jewish and uncritically reprinting the Franklin Prophecy — the hoax which purported that Benjamin Franklin wanted to keep Jews out of the nascent United States — Ramsay claims that Neville Chamberlain was sincerely opposed to civilian bombing during the war. Thanks to Jewish political pressure, he was replaced by Winston Churchill, who wasn’t. David Hoggan in The Forced War demonstrates, however, that Chamberlain and Lord Halifax had been planning the bombing of German cities for at least a year prior to the outbreak of war, and only appeared to appease Hitler at Munich because they felt that Britain was not yet ready for a fight with Germany.
Ramsay also never has anything positive to say about Jews. Their skill in business, medicine, science, music, chess — none of that seems to matter to him. This was one of the more charming aspects of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together: He presented the truth about Jews, both good and bad. Ramsay almost never offers cover for innocent Jews, which is something that Kevin MacDonald does in the Introduction to The Culture of Critique. With Ramsay, it’s all Jews, all the time, and aside from one sentence in The Nameless War, it’s all bad.
This is too bad. The Nameless War contains a lot of crucial information. That this information often appears alongside a nearly equal amount of fanciful or unverifiable information makes the work easier for the skeptic or the uninformed to dismiss. Ramsay should have understood this and done the legwork ahead of time to prevent this from happening. Regardless, Ramsay has one thing going for him as an author: a seemingly instinctual loathing of Bolshevism and a crystal-clear recognition of its grave dangers. He’s also fearless when it comes to pursuing the truth behind it all. This should endear him to anyone on the Right and makes the chapter in which he exonerates himself from the bogus charges leveled against him especially compelling.
So what if he fudges things a little bit? What’s a little untethered propaganda between friends, am I right? What difference does it make if he can’t tell good evidence from bad? Who cares if he has a weakness for conspiracy theories? I mean, we all wanna believe, don’t we? Let’s be honest. Plus, Archibald Ramsay, unfairly persecuted historical figure that he was, meant well, and that’s what counts.
Then again, when you look at all the untethered propaganda Jews have been leveling at whites for the past 150 years, perhaps Archibald Ramsay and The Nameless War deserve a second look.
Now that I think about it, forget about everything critical I wrote in this review. The Nameless War is a great book. Perfect, even. Buy it now. Read it. Memorize it. The conspiracy is real. Ignore it at your peril. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you different. Every word in this fantastic little tome is true, I swear to God.
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Another author from the UK is Arthur Pillans Laurie. He visited Germany in the 1930s and wrote a book about it called The Case for Germany.
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/caseforgermany/cfg00.html
I just finished reading the book “Blood and Gold” by Eustace Mullins, it is a good source of information, in terms of quotes it could perhaps be the most exhaustive book about the machinations of Jews and communists in the 40s and 50s.
Mr. Quinn,
Thank you for a most engrossing article. It has led me to devour The Nameless War in a single sitting.
I was especially grateful for your mentions of the Jewish tactic of “. . . issuing money on the security of precious metals rather than land . . .” Indeed, symbols for value can be manipulated in ways that the tangible elements of value cannot; and Ramsay continuously recurs to fraught instances of manipulating monetary symbols throughout his essay.
Permit me to offer that Ramsay’s historical précis illuminates a critical schism in the radical right: 1) many of our number did their intellectual apprenticeships among libertarians, and absorbed their Austrian economic creed; versus 2) those of us who favour the ‘corporatist economic command’ through which the Axis Powers rescued their populations from the degenerate, international economic regime of the 1930’s.
The issues here are far from trivial. To the extent that a self-interested disposition of private property might be sanctioned, it is well and truly demonstrated that optimal, stable economic conditions will follow. On the economist’s famous other hand, the authority to create fiat, ‘Greenback’ currencies can and has been frightfully abused. And successful command economics must, at minimum, be based on an ethnically coherent polity.
Thus the cause of a new White ethnostate might be advanced if our convenient, liquid symbols for value could be inextricably bound to an expression of the actual land, installations of manufacture, and human resources that constitute economic value. But the Austrian view has informed many of us that such expressions are “beyond the possibilities of human intellect”.
In closing, I hope I might usefully call attention to a movement on the rightist fringe that is based on a product of human intellect through which a currency might be created that (to quote a TakiMag article) . . .
. . . ‘cannot be counterfeited, hidden, confiscated, hoarded, lost, misrepresented, or cornered because it is an abstraction that anyone can compute, on the basis of (1) a self-evident scientific premise, and (2) information of a sort that is publicly available now’.
My interview of the central figure in this initiative is here.
In what, precisely, would this “corporatist economic command” consist? How would prices be formed, production coordinated, etc?
As an ethnonationalist who very much absorbed the Austrian economic “creed” in his youth – and still retains it! – I’m trying to decipher your objections to it.
Thank you for engaging on behalf of the (no doubt) many Austrians in our midst.
If you are seriously “trying to decipher [my] objections to” your Austrian oeuvre, you might start with the material provided in my Roemer interview. I went to a great deal of trouble to add end notes that particularize my objections.
Note 6 links to a published, refereed, peer-reviewed monograph that is one of many available presentations of formal solutions to Mises’ presumably indissoluble Economic Calculation Problem. I believe it is fair to say that Austrianism begins with Mises’s (entirely correct) assertion that economic command will fail unless and until it was guided by a solution to his calculation problem (note 9).
My concern for the radical right is that so many of you are satisfied with mere a priori reasoning as to why it is pointless to consider the possibility of a solved calculation problem, (e.g. note 7) thence to inquire as to what that might mean for a future ethnostate.
If you avail yourself of one of SFEcon’s free, open-sourced, instructional videogames (note 10) your home computer will become a robot intelligence that continuously forms prices and coordinates production to the end of efficiently create the stable and optimal steady-state proclaimed by Hayek (note 8) as the solution to Mises’ calculation problem.
Equal Time for STEM
Good luck trying to convince His Lordship that economic calculation is a solved problem. I have already been around these same bushes with him on this very comment thread, and would now like to sound off to the effect that the disconnect here IS creedal as well as vital.
For benefit of our moderator, I hereby make this early declaration of my intention to fault the radical right’s leadership for its continuing indulgence of not just Austrian economics in particular, but of libertarianism in general.
While our leadership is to be commended for their academic achievements in history, literature, and philosophy, I wish to observe that such highly verbal people often proceed in the mode of Erasmus Darwin:
“In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won’t fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.”
Let us note that the a defining aspect of the Western civilization we are here to preserve and develop is its unique scientific outlook. Nullius in verba. Galileo did not argue against Ptolemaic astronomy; he built a telescope. And, as you say, SFEcon does not argue for the possibility of artificial economic calculation; they build devices that enact it.
I once tried to have this debate with the ever-voluble Stefan Molyneux. He rejected my offer of operating counter-examples to Mises’ non-computability premise with his prehensile giant-killer: “that’s not an argument”. My point is that if everything hereabouts has to be in the form of argument, then we enclose ourselves in the endless disputes characteristic of Talmudism.
Objective demonstrata, as currently on-going in racial bio-realism, is the only way out of closed circuits of reasoning leading from unexamined premises to unfounded conclusions and back again.
So let us consider that Mises, Rand, Rothbard, et al were all Jews. Whatever contributions Jews have made to Western civility, their dominance of our economic ‘science’ continues the materialist line through Trotskyism, neoconservatism, and Likudism into the developing foundations of White ethnostates, where it will fester as it now does in all Western institutions.
Unrestrained free market capitalism is what gives Jews their power over us; and their Austrian economics will govern us until we create an economic order that serves us, as opposed to spending our lives in service to an abstract economic ideal.
Power will not be awarded to he who presents the most incisive essay on Heidegger. It will be most likely be taken by those with the most serviceable program for stabilizing material circumstances in the wake of an economic collapse. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Greg, Richard, Moike, Sven, Stefan, et al, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The movement is full of people like you, with big projects for other people to do. Why don’t you work out your “program” yourself and send it to CC.
Mr. Johnson:
Thank you for indulging my post. I feel better now.
As to your suggestion that I formulate further interactions with your audience, I would be pleased to do so. But, unfortunately, I honestly do not comprehend what you mean by “people like you” or “big projects”. Who are these people? What projects do they wish to see accomplished?
Obviously we should not further clutter-up this comment thread with the back and forth required to come to an understanding on these matters. You have my email address. I would welcome further interactions. Your move.
I would like to reinforce Glen Whaley’s point that the White Nationalist movement might usefully engage more with us STEM types (e.g.: making space for us to beat-up on Austrian economics; blood sports anyone?)
I am a post-doc in economics, and a closet partisan of the ‘SFEcon’ movement referenced by KM Vanetti. My concern for “[t]he movement[‘s]” understanding of my profession has led me to compose a long-form article that spells out the ‘what’s what’ of economics for a general, radical right audience:
https://1drv.ms/w/c/ea68d02add8a675d/EXgOx6foJK9JvM1jnVxovG4BK1L9PORaAO7pVOPryLoVCw?e=Cukwny
The above was intended for UNZ Review. Mr. Unz was kind enough to respond with personal reply that complemented my writing, but nonetheless announced that he found the article “too specialized” for his readership.
Perhaps Counter-Currents would like to experiment with this article to see if ITS general audience can make use of a professional economist’s effort to portray her profession’s essence to non-professionals.
What do you mean by “engage with”? Do you expect an engraved invitation? Deference? Flattery?
There’s a guy who pretends to have a STEM degree on Gab (he’s an obvious poseur, because he reasons like a girl) who basically thinks that he should be able to dictate to the movement because he’s allegedly good at sums.
In a world populated largely by anons, credentials can simply be made up, so one’s arguments have to stand on their own merits.
I did graduate work in econometrics (that would be abstruse statistics, applied mathematics). Specialized economics discussion in a forum like this has to remain at a Louis Rukeyeser/Wall Street Week level to appeal to the generalists and remain accessible to all. Otherwise it’s all inside-baseball obscurantism, not seeing the forest for the trees. Besides which, although it works with bits of “STEM” (ghastly acronym!) economics remains first and foremost a social science. If we wanted to write about sociology and showed the audience a bunch of graphs with small print explaining the chi squares, we’d be working at so many levels of abstraction that its relevance would be lost, except maybe to the very few. That may be what Ron Unz was driving at.
Mr. Johnson,
You have asked me several answerable questions: “What do you mean by ‘engage with’? Do you expect an engraved invitation? Deference? Flattery?” Though I do not think a comment thread is an appropriate venue for my answer, I will answer nonetheless – albeit at the regrettably uncomfortable length I think required.
Summing to this point, your Mr. Quinn has brought the work of Captain Archibald Ramsay to our attention. His summa on Ramsay informs us that the abstract nature of monetary symbols (including gold) has been exploited again and again throughout history by the same alien people to their detriment surrounding host civilizations.
The first three responses on Mr. Quinn’s article cited other related materials. The third of these comments has touched off this more extended commentary. Where Captain Archibald offered no alternative (other than Juden Raus) to the ills he catalogued, KM Vanetti informs us of a scientific initiative that purports to ground abstract monetary symbols in the physical components of economic value – thus making the self-serving falsification of value a great deal more challenging.
Hereupon your Lord Shang (other than yourself, Counter-Currents’ most prolific commentator by far) emerged to inform us that His Lordship is yet to be convinced that the Austrian interdict prohibiting artificial economic calculation has been breached.
Vanetti replied with the requested supporting information, and Lord Shang’s non-response has been to blithely proceed on to his pronouncements upon the comments of still others. He has yet to report back as to what he discovered following up on Vanetti’s response to his inquiry; and, according Whaley, he never will. His performance here apparently reprises earlier exchanges in which he demanded the same information, received it, and ignored it.
This continues SFEcon’s experience in many other prominent radical right venues: the Austrian contingent never responds to presentations of a solved calculation problem except to smother them with arguments from authority, a priori reasoning, and their outworn declarations of Hitlerism – (which occasionally have the intended effect).
(Ron Unz’ unrelated finding that my submission is “too specialized” is, however, not shared by less popular outlets such as National Vanguard, Radio Albion, or TakiMag. Could it be that the editors of the radical right’s more substantial publications are underestimating their readership?)
As an example of Austrians smothering, rather than honorably addressing their opponents, I observe that searching YouTube for “The Economic Calculation Problem” will bring up literally hundreds of videos. All but one features the same covey of professors waving their arms while expounding the “a priori knowledge”, “acquired through the faculty of reason”, together with their “knowledge of universals”, through which they conclude upon the impossibility of emulating the economic calculation that the actual economy is actually performing. SFEcon’s YouTube channel is in there, but try finding it.
So, yes, we would expect the “deference” owed to objective counterexamples to the Austrian premise of non-computably. We are operating in the specifically Western scientific paradigm of objective demonstrata; they are operating in (as Mr. Whaley succinctly puts it) “closed circuits of reasoning leading from unexamined premises to unfounded conclusions and back again”. And, yes, a little “flattery” might be appropriate for those people (White Nationalists all) who have solved “the most complicated problem that actually has a solution” and have been made unemployable by their efforts.
Solution to this problem is indeed vital to one of the most critical discussions now taking place on the radical right: the Austrians envision an ultimate ethnostate upheld by the self-interested disposition of private property; others, arguing that capitalism is what has brought us to the edge of Western civility’s dissolution, favor the corporatist economic command practiced to great effect by the Axis powers. Artificial economic calculation gives economic command the same purchase on stability and efficiency that is claimed for purely abstract, buccaneer capitalism.
You might not like having people in your movement who find merit in the economics of the Axis powers; and you might find comfort in Austria’s absolute faith that unrestrained free markets will eventuate in the best of all possible worlds. But consider: the standard order of culture descending from race, politics descending from culture, and economics descending from politics is not going away. The Austrians might assert that all we need is the market, but this ignores the political, cultural, and racial context required for free markets to operate. The Axis knew better; and they did better.
Mr. Johnson, you are a very articulate man. You are obviously made uncomfortable with the direction this thread has taken. But your responses have not been worthy of you. Joining with Glen Whaley, I too inquire as to what is meant by “people like you” and what are these “big [unrealized] projects”.
I do not know who this “guy who pretends to have a STEM degree on Gab” might be. You gave no link. I am informed only that “he reasons like a girl”. Well, I am a girl, and you are addressing me. My reasoning powers are there to be seen in the above and in my UNZ submission. I have not required that my arguments “stand on [anything other than] their own merits”. As for the significance of credentials, the only credentials mentioned in any of the foregoing are those of Kurt Roemer. If these are in doubt, I am sure the registrars at Carnegie and MIT can help you.
Permit me to suggest that the mistrust between highly verbal people and STEM types is that those of us who can do the math know that reality is both singular and just barely possible. When we finally pin down some real phenomena we inevitably find that it is rational; but we also realize that there are always an unlimited number perfectly rational conjurings of reality that cannot exist. By “engaging with” STEM types I mean not getting carried away with unalloyed reason’s power to discern that which is real or possible. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, et al have already told you that. Now please apply it to Austrian ‘theory’ and praxis.
I hope you might take some time (other than at 12:30 am) to collect your thoughts on these matters, and perhaps give us a fully realized article expounding your conclusions. In doing so, please essay Mr. Whaley’s suggestion that keeping our Austrians on side might involve clutching a Kosher asp to our European bosom.
You are certainly welcome to write articles on economics.
Mr. Johnson,
I hope you are saying that I am “welcome to write articles on economics” for submission to Counter-Currents, and that you would not deem this subject too specialized for your readership. If you are seriously inviting my inner Dorothy Parker to come out and play, please consider my prospective UNZ article re-submitted for your uses.
Again (and with apologies for being insistent) it would be most helpful to know what elements of the foregoing exchanges you, personally, found interesting, provocative, or worthy of further development. What has earned us so much of your personal time and attention?
[E]ven if Ramsay’s information is not always reliable and his methods not always rigorous, a pattern of Jews seeking gain through the violent usurpation of established gentile hierarchies is beginning to emerge. Could there be something to it?
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Yes, certainly, except our struggle is not just beginning to emerge.
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Ramsay also never has anything positive to say about Jews. Their skill in business, medicine, science, music, chess — none of that seems to matter to him.
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Good for him.
Jews are group thinkers — theirs vs. ours. Whites must do the same and cease playing “good Jew”/”bad Jew.”
” Good for him. ”
I agree. Enough with this empty rhetoric.
Thank you for examining this pamphlet I’d never heard of.
One thing is clear: the Right needs to be scrupulously accurate in our speaking and writing if we are to be taken seriously by our own people, who exhibit higher (probably innate) ethicality than other peoples – our glory, and perhaps also our downfall.
That’s true but Captain Ramsay’s little book, published in the height of post war paranoia, had a lot of work to do. Checking sources must have been far more difficult than it is today and ‘The Nameless War’ might have been an Englishman’s only exposure to the idea of hidden history and the lies of his own government. Very few would have been in a position to fact check. As Mr Quinn admits at the end the errors are relatively inconsequential,
As Claud Cockburn once said, “The way people talk about facts, you’d think they were lying around in the street, waiting to be picked up.”
Merci pour la reponse Madame M. Why were all these smart, well brought up people like Cockburn such rabid commies?
Good to see Capt. Ramsay here. I first discovered his little book in the early 1980s. While it wasn’t exactly red-pilling for me, it was curious to see all those legends and theories gathered into one place. His discussion of Jewish Bolshevism, as I recall, came largely from the writings of Father Fahey in Dublin.
The roundup of the Right Club members in May 1940, and their imprisonment under 18b, remains the murkiest and most interesting part of the tale. Tyler Kent, Anna Wolkoff, and the Right Club had been under scrutiny by Maxwell Knight, the “M” of MI-5, someone with his own fascist connections going back to the 1920s. He was an old friend of William Joyce, and the one who tipped him off that he was due to be arrested in August 1939. When Joyce got to Berlin, MI-5 paid him a £10 monthly retainer. For that, I doubt they were expecting him to penetrate the Abwehr. Over the following months, the Right Club wasn’t doing anything illegal, but Knight may well have determined that Kent, Wolkoff and others were functioning as Soviet assets.
I never found out where Ramsay got the idea that John Wilkes Booth was Jewish, but I have seen speculation that his father, Junius Brutus Booth, was part Jewish. (I may have read this in the biography of Edwin Booth, Prince of Players.) What is known about the Booths is that the Wilkes side were the family of the radical politician John Wilkes, the person Dr. Johnson was speaking of when he said that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Also that the Booths were distant cousins of Cherie Booth, the QC wife of Tony Whatsisname, the former British PM.
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