Norse Wargamer on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 18 Why take a stance at all? Israel has nothing to do with Europe or Europeans. They are a middle eastern people, who speak a semitic language and have a semitic religion. They are semites. Otherwise they would have no claim on Israel. The surivival of the west does not mean the survival of Israel.
Anonymous on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 05 When it comes to curing the Screaming-Nazi-Heeber-Jeebers, I think it can be done indirectly. Leftist hegemony is protected by a linguistic barrier; keywords like "racist," "sexist," "privilege," and so forth form the main bulwark, while pre-Leftist words like "discrimination" and "hatred" have been co-opted by Leftist interests. We can break its grip by re-defining as many words as possible, and more importantly, insisting on these new definitions in everyday conversation. Suppose you insist that it's not "sexist" to think that there are neurological differences between the genders. If this was done on television, in the newspapers, or in a moderately large blog, the conservative interlocutor would be swamped and promptly Nazified. However: if you do this in everyday conversation, esp. one-on-one conversations, you will find that people change their minds much more easily. More to the point, they will begin using...(more)
Armance on joe bloggs on edl jewish division at Jul 03 CS, thanks for saving my comment here. While I understand the reasons for which the GoV administrators deleted it (and, as I said, I respect the decision of a blog owner to accept or reject anything he wants), my post was the result of reading incessantly, for a few days, different blogs and forums related to the EDL affair. And after reading all the viewpoints I came up with a heartfelt sympathy for those "drunk idiots" (I use this expression as a badge of honor in this context) and I understood what they had to come through. Besides, I will still respect the GoV blog owners just for publishing Kipling's poem "Tommy" on their blog. That poem summs up, in a metaphorical way, the fight of the EDL. It summs up the resistance of the British working class (or "hooligans", as they are named by the British elitists) because it's their neighborhoods that are wrecked, it's their country that is destroyed, it's their daughters that are raped or...(more)
RebelliousVanilla1 on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 Since the Jews are on topic now, I read an article by Adam Garfinkle about why Americans are obsessed with the Jews and the Jews in general that I considered fairly good. I disagree with some parts, but it's a thesis I found in more places and I agree with part of it, so I think it would be an interesting read: here.
I think he doesn't go deep enough, doesn't analyze the role of Christian ethics and how we view the Jews through that prism and a myriad of other issues that were brought up either on this blog. What he does though is mention yet another narrative that prevents us from thinking rationally about the Jews. Or at least it prevents some people.
I will add something to what Adam wrote in the above article. Americans are also fascinated by 'oppressed' people because they are the descendants of the people who fled oppression in...(more)
Armance on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 Sorry for my mistakes above, it was Verdi's "Nabucco" and the Babylonian slavery, not the Egyptian one, but I was in hurry and the point I wanted to emphasize remains :)
Armance on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 Now, since for Christians deprived of their traditional or ethnic backbone the only thing to rely on is "the new Jerusalem" or "Israel, beacon of hope and light", what's left for the secularised Jews, once they leave the shtetl or the ghetto, give up their strict religious traditions and adhere to the principles of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskalah)
The documentary "Defamation" that I recommended gives the answer: the new creed, dogma and raison d'etre of the secular Jews, once they get out of the shtetl, is "fighting anti-Semitism". That's the new Yahve, the Law and the scriptures of the secular Jews, the same way for modern Christians it is democracy&freedom or Liberté, égalité, fraternité. All the fervor and mysticism that Orthodox Jews put in their religion can be found in the secular "fighting anti-Semitism" metamorphosis. "Defamation" is illuminating in...(more)
Armance on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 I have to add, regarding Israel, the Christian narrative and European nationalism, that the analogy between Jews and European nationalists was very popular in the XIXth century, when the first nation states appeared in Europe. For example, in Verdi's "Aida", the chorus of the slaves (Hebrews lamenting over their fate in Egyptian slavery and longing for their beloved Jerusalem) was conceived as an analogy with Italians' own desire for liberation from the Austrian/Hapsburg Empire, and that's how it was (emotionally) viewed by the Italians of that time. So, "the new Jerusalem" is not only an American meme, but it was intertwined with the birth of democratic nation states in Europe, too (this relates to a discussion on a previous entry of yours about the egalitarian, neo-Christian nature of the European nation states and Konkvistador's observation that "democratic" gives the same warm and fuzzy feelings today as "Christian"...(more)
I think one aspect of the phenomenon you describe here is what I call "nationalism by proxy". Since taking pride in or feeling a sense of belonging to your ethnic heritage and traditions is verboten if your ethnic group happens to be white Christian European, people are compelled to find groups that are less demonized than their own for expressing what was once considered love for the fatherland. The natural inclination to feel good and secure as a part of your extended family is thus more or less subconsciously transferred and chanelled towards groups that are sheltered under the umbrella of PC/MC. It's like prison inmates or sailors who, being deprived of women for a long time, direct their affection and lust towards other men.
Placing Israel/the Jews above your own country/people is an example, but other examples are the chase for "Black conservatives" in the Tea Party to gain...(more)
RebelliousVanilla1 on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 Take the democracies and their ideals - we basically would have to fight a war in order to end war, be intolerant to promote tolerance. This requires men to fight at the same time that was as such is criticized - they must be heroes while pacifism is proclaimed as an ideal. Men have to become warriors when warrior is a synonym for criminal. Right now, a just war is just a large scale police operation and combat is just defending oneself as a last resort. So the West as it is must die because nobody will defend it. And it doesn't deserve to be defended because the modern West merely leeches on the achievements of the West that took place prior to our problems and on technical prowess, which has nothing to do with our philosophical/moral problems.
So what we must do isn't trying to preserve the West, but carrying the torch for those will rebuild the next great European civilization and who will perpetuate our peoples. What is odd is that even if we mustered up the...(more)
RebelliousVanilla1 on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 Conservative Swede, see, blog posts like these were the reason I kept bothering you. While I knew the gist of what you written, seeing it written down by someone else pushes the borders of subconscious into the conscious. I had the same experience in terms of you criticizing universalism. Nice masthead. ;)
Baron, Julius Evola wrote something in regards to the end of civilizations. "When a cycle of civilization is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by resisting it and by directly opposing the forces in motion. The current is too strong: one would be overwhelmed. The essential thing is not to let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch. (...) It might be better to contribute to the fall of that which is already wavering and belongs to yesterday's world than to try to prop it up and prolong its existence artificially."
While I disagree on certain things with Evola, I believe he is 100%...(more)
Unfortunately, I will be one of the dead ones underneath the wreckage of the mega-tsunami. Only a few robust young people like you will make it.
Does Yggdrasil stop turning when Ragnarök arrives? If so, that makes the analogy even more like the Urth of the New Sun, because planetary rotation is briefly interrupted as the planet assumes its new orbit.
Unfortunately I have not read that book. But I will consider it.
You will not be surprised if I bring up Ragnarök as my point of reference. This is when all the gods die (Odin, Thor, etc.), so it's an obvious point of time when the rules of magic changes.
Ragnarök is not an end, but a new beginning. With Liv and Livtrasir as the initiators of the new breed of humanity.
Baron Bodissey on nazification spells and philosemitic at Jul 03 Actually, I was more thinking of the end of the "Urth of the New Sun" series by Gene Wolfe. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but at the end of the last book, the prophecies are fulfilled: to replace the dying sun, a new sun approaches the Urth and yanks it into its orbit.
The old civilization is destroyed by the massive gravitational effects, and only a remnant of humanity crawls out of the mega-tsunami wreckage to begin all over on the newly-formed land masses.
That's what I see happening to us. Everything will seem fine and normal right up to the last moment, and then tremendous unimaginable devastation, with the remnant emerging to start it all over.
Yes I saw your article about SNHJ (schicklgruberitis). Very good one. I already thought of bringing it up in a coming post of mine. You see this post can be seen as part of a series. But as hinted already in this post, the SNHJ is just a special case of a more general phenomenon. I'll get back to this.
Regarding magic: since you have a blog at a or two magnitude bigger than mine, you have to respect the rules of magic. At least your wife is very good at doing so. Therefore I must say that you are brave to make these comments at my blog, since I'm a kind of a magic nihilist. Please notice that your comments here will make your magical protection weaker.
Regarding your question: no kind of magic leads of out of this mental maze. The purpose of all magic is to keep us inside the maze. Both you and me have white knuckles in trying to resist the gravity of this magic.
If you have read enough fantasy fiction, you will be familiar...(more)
There are many things that I will never find the time and patience to convince you about. But I'm sort of fine with that nowadays. I'm not looking for soul-mates anymore. It's so clear to me, after all these years, that nobody is a soul-mate to me.
The only thing that really matters to me is that I managed to convert you fully in to HFLC - or LCHF as it is known as in Sweden: Low Carb High Fat. You needed it so badly (quite as so many others). So now you will live longer, and I will have more time to screw your mind with my radical ideas :-)
You already knew all the bits and facts about it - I'm impressed by how much you know about food and cooking. But you needed that final push to get out of the grip of the zeitgeist, the dogmas of the establishment, and the fear-mongering of the medicine men in the white robes. And that's the sort of thing I'm good at :-)
And you are right about my bad-ass style of...(more)
Dymphna on joe bloggs on edl jewish division at Jul 02 Reading your essay, the image that came to mind was from the chemistry of fluids, though I don't know what process is called. This site describes what happens, kind of. Anyhow, that image of distinctly different fluids in a swirl is what you've produced (and reproduced) here.
Poltical movements (and the blogs which attempt to delineate them) are chock-a-block with snafus. So many hatreds, so little time.
Thank you for preserving what I had to remove. I'd rather not do that, but experience has made me wiser now. And when a thread goes on for that long, I am simply too fatigued to use a scalpel. It's simply hatchet time.
[I shudder to think what shape I'd be in if we weren't on that HFLC food system. I refuse to call it a "diet". My fatigue would've set in long since]
Armance on im vicious antisemite at Jun 28 Konkvistador, do you happen to be the Reactionary_Konkvistador on Alternative Right? If you are the same person, I admire your posts :)
Konkvistador on im vicious antisemite at Jun 27 "I have the feeling that in the eyes of the modern man, "the right to vote" (which implies full citizenship) is more like a religious empowering ritual than a pragmatic way to organize the governance."
To call something "Democratic" has the same warm fuzzy feeling accompany it as did to call something "Christian" in a previous era.
Thanks for your kindness, but this is the sort of comment that I do not want at this blog (since it's just an open-ended question).
I want comments that contribute something. By taking something I wrote and develop it further, or provide historical examples, or convince me that I'm wrong about something.
By posting an open-ended question, you expect nothing from yourself, and everything from me. You demand of me to contribute more, while you offer nothing yourself. That is neither fair nor constructive.
From people commenting here I expect that they are familiar with my previous writing. Familiar enough not to ask very basic open-ended questions. So do your home-work first, and then come back with more educated questions.
I hope you understand.
PS. The clue to the answer, anyway, is how political power rests on the shoulders of military power.
Agreed regarding the tendency to take emotional sides and destroy a discussion. I for one enjoy the learning experience and mourn the ruin perpetuated by desperate commentors.
I think you are touching on an idea of a new kind of etiquette that is needed today. Go for it.
When I went to school a couple male teachers had a paddle. We didn't act up too much because we didn't want to hear that paddle echo through the hallways.
Also, the desire to fight seems to be right up front in people these days when they come to certain topics. I find it dull to read those feisty, one-sided kinds of comments.
Well thank you for writing things worth linking too. And don't worry about the missed review of CofC. You see, I declared just after you that I would also review it :-)
Ferdinand Bardamu is going to review CofC, and now you declare that you will be writing more at length about KMac at your blog. So I will catch on. I have ordered the book, and will give my review of it too. This will be interesting!
Well, as I have explained in my blog post after this one, something happened right after that comment which ...removed my enthusiasm for the whole thing.
Nevertheless, I have read half the book, and it's a good book worth reading. My problems with KMac is with what he has written after that. It's obvious that something has happened on the way.
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 23 CS, regarding the JQ as an intelligent discussion, I don't know if you saw the documentary "Defamation", directed by an Israeli. It can be found on YouTube. Anyway, forget about the pro-Palestinian, Norman Finkelstein-ish parts of the movie (which are not very long anyway), and concentrate on the parts about how the mechanisms of guilt-tripping work regarding Europeans and Americans. I'm very curious about your insights, if you didn't see the movie before.
My promised review of the Culture of Critique died on the vine for more mundane reasons - I lost interest. I finished reading it a couple of weeks after I wrote that post, but I find the Jews to be too depressing to write about for extended periods of time, and I had a quarter-life crisis that summer (which I sort of wrote about in December - see my post "How I cured my case of Roosh Syndrome"), which put the kibosh on the review for good. If you go back through my archives, you'll find all sorts of declarations of posts/analyses/reviews I was going to write but never got around to for various reasons - a nasty habit I've tried to shake.
I've wanted to revisit the Culture of Critique (tl;dr of my thoughts - MacDonald's book is worth reading but suffers from the "just-so story" logic of evolutionary psychology, which I've become more skeptical of as of late), but my job and travel schedule precludes me...(more)
Armance on im vicious antisemite at Jun 23 What's interesting (and funny, IMO) here is that in the eyes of the modern man, there's no worse fate than being stripped of citizenship. You can be the richest man in the world or the king of Eurasia, and still, if you don't have citizenship, it's like you are damned or cursed (that's why Dennis is a little bit frightened even to imagine such a possibility). It reminds me of the French woman who said that Communism brought some good things in Eastern Europe, like, for example, the right to vote for women. When I replied that Communist elections were phony and the results were known before the vote started, she answered "yes, but still, it's about the right in itself, not the result". So, the fact that all grown-ups, men and women alike, were infantilized to the point of participating with a straight face in bogus elections which were basically some hilarious theatrical performances (let's pretend that we vote, let's pretend that it counts)...(more)
What we need to return to is basically something similar to an organic society - in which people have different roles, but they have roles nonetheless. A criticism of capitalism that Marx had and with which I agree is considering the worth of people based on their part in the economic system, which is flawed. I'm sure that all of us are better described by our interest in music, alcohol, our hobbies or whatever than our jobs, yet when we are asked what we are, we generally answer with our job. This needs to end. So classical liberalism is far from being a solution. On the other hand, there must a difference in between an organic society and an organic state. In order to get there, we must do what Confucius called a rectification of names. Mind you, the liberals did this in a twisted, inverted way, in which the achievers are evil...(more)
Another problem of nationalism is that it makes all Swedes equal. I think that Conservative Swede prefers where he lives over the Swedes in other cities of Sweden. I prefer the dwellers of my city, or would have preferred if the communists wouldn't have moved the whole country here, over those of another city. We must remove ALL kinds of egalitarianism from our thinking. At least I reject it completely. Take someone who isn't involved here. If I was Fjordman, this is how I would view the world: me -> my family -> my city -> Norwegians -> Nordics -> Germanics -> Europeans -> mixed people with my co-ethnics -> the rest. Mind you, this doesn't mean that every Norwegian is better than every Nordic. If I was him, I'd prefer Conservative Swede over a Maxism spewing Norwegian. We must view the world as inherently unequal and hierarchical from both a descriptive and normative points of view.
To continue what I wrote earlier. Prior to the age of republicanism and of mass conscription, war was basically the realm of knights, kings and professional armies. The commoners had nothing to do with them besides paying taxes and the only wars in which they were involved were the ones in which you defended your own territory - since Armance is Romanian, she probably knows that most of our battles against the Turks involved having peasants conscripted into the army. I believe that this is one of the parts of the huge advantages that the defenders had, unlike the attackers(combined with the knowledge that if you lose, your women will become slave girls and all that).
So the question really is this. How can one return to a society in which the majority of the people actually mind their business and live their day to day lives? Politics and war are two sides of the same...(more)
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 I have to add two premieres brought by the French Republic in Europe. One is probably well-known - citizenship for a whole minority. The second premiere was:
To build an alliance with the gens de couleur and slaves, the French commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel abolished slavery in the colony. Six months later, the National Convention led by Robespierre and the Jacobins endorsed abolition and extended it to all the French colonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 Yes, now it makes sense. France was the first modern nation state and as I said in a post above, the political structure of the nation state is derived from the Enlightenment: Constitution, collective and individual rights, elections for broader and broader categories of citizens (and citizenship for minorities, as it happened immediately after the French Revolution). The nation state and the proposition nation are two sides of the same coin, egalitarianism.
Then, for the first time in European warfare, we had the "general conscription", "crush your enemy, impose your institutions" type of war: Napoleon. The Napoleonic wars were the prologue to WWI and WWII.
We've tried to explain America: now, this is France.
Conservative Swede on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 Armance, interesting book! Another book I came to think of during our discussions here is John Grisham's "A painted house", where there is the presence of white "hill people" as described above.
Regarding what you and RV have said about nationalism and the ethnostate: Egalitarianism (and it's sibling Universalism) is like gangrene that will spread step by step and destroy the whole body. It might start as a nation state (indeed a bourgeoisie egalitarian concept), but the gangrene will continue spreading so it is bound to end up in universalist multiculturalism etc.
RV mentioned in another thread also the politeness culture of the bourgeoisie, hence polite way of talking, and this is one of the fundaments of Political Correctness. Someone mentioned also America as the triumph of the average (the not to sophisticated middle class), and with all these things in the melting pot a brew of more poisonous gangrene developed.
This is the thesis of the French political philosopher Pierre Manent, developed in a few books, such as "Democracy without Nations? The Fate of Self-Government in Europe" (http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=d9eda640-7c4c-4cdf-8fcc-92ae3993bfed&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1).
The main idea is that modern European ethnic states cannot exist outside democracy and, the moment you throw away the nation state, the basis for democracy ceases to exist.
Another problem built into republics is the need to carry out ideological wars and all ideological wars require total victory, the beheading of your enemy's elite, building your own institutions in their country and the like.
The best example of an ideological war would be Napoleon, spreading the ideas of the Revolution in Europe, under the French national flag.
This comment by you is so brilliant. I have been heading towards these conclusions myself, but you are here unlocking new insights for me, connecting the dots. I can now see the long winding history of humanity yet a bit clearer than before. You have dissolved another of those apparent paradoxes. I will have reason to get back to this later on.
Armance, the problem is built in nationalism itself. Leaving away the fact that a lot of whites are attracted to Swedish, white, etc nationalism solely because of its egalitarian and claiming benefits just for being in a group, instead of viewing everything in a hierarchical fashion - not just groups, but individuals in groups, the real problem of it is that you can't have nationalism, which is ethnic states, without democracy and republicanism. You can have an ethnocentric population, but an ethnocentric state is hard to have. Take Hapsburg Austria. It was a multi-ethnic state, yet every ethnicity within it had an identity and was pretty much separate. I'm not exactly sure if republicanism creates nationalism at first or the other way around, but they are interconnected. And republics always do total wars. One of the inventions of the French Republic was national conscription and from then on all countries had to have...(more)
I've read The Redneck Manifesto. It's thesis is roughly as follows:
Well, the South is the land of hillbillies. Only a few were "aristocratic" land-owners, duh! The vast majority were poor white (trash), many of which had been deported there just as forcefully as the black.
The real upper-class are the bourgeoisie of New England. The most "egalitarian" ones in their ideological zeal, yeah. But we know this is all phony babbling. They have always played blacks and rednecks against each other to distract the attention of all the troubles that they caused themselves.
The plight of the rednecks is: 1) to first having been forcefully deported to the U.S. South working as slaves, and next 2) being demonized as the ones being guilty of the slavery in the South (which is now depicted as a race issue).
This is all patently absurd, and completely at odds with truth, but it serves the interests of...(more)
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 It's interesting, from the link you provided above, The Redneck Manifesto, how the former aristocratic-prone South is perceived by the progressivists as the group/land of the hillbillies. But actually there's no surprise here: one of the lies of the progressivists is that aristocrats are completely disconnected from the commoners. Actually, it's exactly the Jacobins that were perceived as illegitimate, coup d'état types by the people (for obvious reasons). Basically, the French Revolution meant a few dozens revolutionaries whose only allies were a few thousands homeless of Paris: meanwhile, the peasants of Vendée were massacred for defending their king. And that's why the most patriotic, crown-lover types in the UK can be found among the drunkards of the working class. Equally, that's why the Bolshevik Revolution started with a mass-murder of the most reactionary class: the peasants.
The "elitist" sophisticated progressivists know they...(more)
CS, unlike you, I don't think the JQ is exactly a dead end.
Well, obsession about Jews, Muslims or Hispanics will block the minds of people to look for the real "man behind the curtain".
These sort of obsessions are rather symptoms of the disease than the cure of it.
The JQ is worse than the others in the sense that not only are the ones obsessing about the Jews being useless and disruptive in the discussion (given that the purpose of the discussion is to look for a cure), but it distracts everyone in the room from thinking clearly.
Thus, the JQ is a dead end for public debates.
I would also claim that the JQ, even in a distinguished and intelligent discourse, is only a way of describing the symptoms of our civilizational disease, and does not address the needed cure. Thus, it is a dead end when searching for a cure.
But there are no rules against discussing the JQ intelligently...(more)
CS, unlike you, I don't think the JQ is exactly a dead end. I think that't one the best ways to exemplify the perils and dangers of the proposition nation or the aftermath of Jacobinism. I could write a few long posts about why I think this way, but since I take into consideration the rules that you established on your blog, I'll leave it like that.
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 I we take your "the Civil War was America's Reign of Terror" seriously, that suggests that the Americans of the Southern tradition are as badly demonized and bullied into silence as Germans are post-WWII.
But they are! Actually, I should add the Southerners/the Confederates on the black list of demonized groups, along Germans and Russians. It's enough to read a mainstream newspaper, to watch television, to see the typical Hollywood movie, etc. The Southerners are portrayed as Klansmen/stupid hillbilies, the same way Germans are portrayed in Nazi roles or the Russians are dangerous, mafia-types, weird, insane. Yes, the Southerners are a good example of a demonized white group, strongly disliked and loathed by the New World Order.
Interesting comments. This is your commentary to the discussion about the Proposition Nation. The first two were like Nietzschean diatribes (for good and for bad). If you write the whole thing together as one piece, I'll publish it as an article.
What you say here is of course an old theme of my own, but at least initially you express it more strongly, and you add many interesting perspectives to it.
The remedy for Europe is to get America out of the way, so we can have a more pronounced presence of Germany and Russia here, but also of traditional European conservatives in all of our countries. And that spells exactly the reversal of NATO, which purpose is precisely "to keep America in, to keep Russia out and to keep Germany down."
For the Americans an implosion of NATO is just the start of the remedy. For the freedom of the Americans the breakdown of the USA would be as essential as the breakdown of the USSR was to...(more)
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 I was I, a European commenter, who gave the example of Fitzhugh - a Confederate pamphleteer. There's a few others but they are all from the Southern tradition, which is a dead tradition.
Thanks, European commenter, and sorry for my mistake. Anyway, I could bet that Fitzhugh was a Southerner since you mentioned him on GoV, considering my post above about the South vs. the Judeo-Jacobins :)
Sean O'Brian on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 "An American commenter gave an example of a thinker that seems a genuine conservative, to the point of rejecting the Constitution (one of the tenets of the Proposition Nation)."
I was I, a European commenter, who gave the example of Fitzhugh - a Confederate pamphleteer. There's a few others but they are all from the Southern tradition, which is a dead tradition.
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 I have to add something regarding the demonization of the Russians and the Germans, a mindset which can be often found among Americans or Americanized European types. The same way modern France and America are incarnations of the Enlightenment ideals, the Russians and the Germans were, usually, the counter-reaction, both in thinking ("the philosophy of inequality") and in practice (defining their nations based on ethnicity). The demonization started before Hitler, and even before the Bolshevik Revolution: the Tsar and the Kaiser were the ultimate bad guys in the eyes of progressivists everywhere, and especially in Judeo-Jacobin America, the epitome of the European ancien regime, the symbols of the "dark age". The tsar even more, particularly because the Tsarist empire was sane enough to deal ruthlessly with the revolutionary types (send them to Siberia) and to find a solution to the minority problem, the Pale of Settlement.
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 Anyway, regarding the next American elections, I agree with Medvedev, the Russian president, and I will take Obama over the Republicans any time of the day. The Democrats are incompetent regarding foreign policy; the Republicans (neocon war-mongers and evangelical freedom-obsessed idiots) are both incompetent and insane. The open hostility towards Russia and China is a threat to world stability. Or maybe I can choose the Republicans, but only if I know in advance that Russia or China will destroy them.
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 It should be noted that, in Europe, the XIXth century was the century of radicalism: the bourgeoise revolutions in 1848, Marxism, La Commune de Paris, the first ideas to introduce the universal suffrage. Following the logic of the revolution, Girondins are replaced by Jacobins who are replaced by Bolsheviks.
One of the unfortunate occurences is that the birth of the nation states coincided with the rise of radical democracy. While based on old tribalistic or group allegiances, the political structure of the nation state is usually inspired by the Enlightenment: Constitution, elections, citizenship, individual or collective rights. In the beginning of the XXth century, assaulted by both European political radicalism and Americanization, the old order is gone, there's almost nothing to preserve. The only survivors of the old Europe are the British and the Tsarist empires, the latter dealing with a substantial besiege of revolutionary movements (and dealing with them in...(more)
Armance on ferdinand bardamu white people are at Jun 22 Now, let's go back to Europe. On the GoV thread somebody asked if there's a true American conservative the commenters know, somebody who would think, for example, that granting citizenship to Blacks was a bad idea. An American commenter gave an example of a thinker that seems a genuine conservative, to the point of rejecting the Constitution (one of the tenets of the Proposition Nation). But individual examples do not matter in the general ideological landscape; in Europe, the fatherland of the Enlightenment, there's always been a counter-balance to the progressive ideals, what the Russian Berdyaev called "the philosophy of inequality". It started with Burke and (an even better example) the French Joseph de Maistre (it's a fine article on Alternative Right comparing the two thinkers, written by a Norwegian, Metternich). And their spiritual heirs live even today, like the French often quoted by Fjordman, Guillaume Faye (it's worth noticing that the country...(more)