Labor Day Follies

In all cases, emphasis added.

Not that long ago:

In March of 2017, Gregory Conte joined the National Policy Institute as Director of Operations. Before and since, he has proven to be indispensable in terms of planning our demonstrations and events, coordinating them as they happen, and keeping our supporters and staff–especially our President, Richard Spencer–safe. He also undertakes any and every chore-like duty that arises in the course of operating a tiny organization like the National Policy Institute. In short, he is fine employee.

He’s a fine employee…until he’s gone.  Seriously though, this is a common paradigm in Der Movement…one day someone is great, a fine employee, part of the team, a valuable asset, and the next day they’re anathema, it all falls apart.  That’s being going on in the Alt Right for quite some time – Jorjani being another prime example.

Spencer comments on the rumors (reproduced at the Luke Ford site):

Richard Spencer says August 29, 2018 on JF Gariepy’s show: “Greg Conte’s not the person spreading this rumor. The origin of this whole thing is a basic misunderstanding and Greg and my growing apart the past three months. It was very frustrating for me… I know exactly the people who started promoting this, the Irony Bros first and then Luke Ford… The people who were there including Mike Enoch, who was literally right there, have disabused these people.”

In the last analysis, what’s important is that the Alt Right/Altright.com/NPI has fallen apart – totally predictable and I did predict it (but didn’t think it would happen quite so fast) - and the anti-Whites get another Far Right defeat and humiliation to crow about.  However, the details as to why it happened are important from a moral and leadership standpoint; the whole thing is bizarre.  If Spencer’s “take” is correct, then why isn’t Conte putting the rumors (which publicly humiliate him) to rest?  Why the reference to July 22 in his resignation letter?  

How about sharing with us at least the bare bones general reason for the “misunderstanding” and the “growing apart.”  If it is not personal, then what?  Ideological?  Strategy and tactics?  What?  When I’ve had differences with “movement leaders” I’ve always explained what these differences are – and they fall in the category of ideology, strategy, or both.

Why not here in this case?

Whatever the story in this case, many “movement” schisms occur because a “leader” or group doesn’t have a clear ideology or strategy to begin with.  Der Movement is strange.  On the one hand, there IS a fossilized, rigid dogma that I often criticize here.  The problem is that the dogma is often implicit, not explicit, and is sometimes at odds with “official policy” – meaning there is no real official policy at all – or the dogma is not consistently applied, or there is open conflict between factions following alternative dogmas (real and implicit vs superficial and explicit).  One can think of Rockwell trying to appease both the pan-Aryan and Nordicist factions leading to the Patler incident (in large part initiated by Pierce), then Pierce’s National Alliance, which was officially pan-European but with a hardcore Nordicist foundation.  All recipes for dissension.  Then there is Amren, whose position on the Jews is unclear between an official pro-Jewish position and having writers that have previously criticized Jewry – and are they a White advocacy group or HBD Yellow Supremacists?

There needs to be a rock-solid EXPLICIT ideology, with a clearly defined ingroup, with the actual working of the group always consistent with that ideology.  And if something changes it needs to be EXPLICIT, so people always know what is going on, without uncertainty and confusion.

More stupidity from Zman (note how these types gravitate toward ethnonationalism and have an allergic reaction to the pan-European ideal):

Now, as far as the concept of a white ethno-state that Richard Spencer promotes, well, I’m skeptical. There is a reason Europeans fought thousands of wars. 

Yes, because until recently, national politics and great power rivalries were for the most part local/continental.  Today, in the era of the Clash of Civilizations and global grand politics, the battles are racial, civilizational, and existential.  If the ethnonationalists want to stay stuck in the past, then leave them there to rot, and the rest of us can deal with the present and the future.

Historically, race is not a great unifier. It is useful as a short hand when starting to sort human populations geographically. It’s not the primary identity people have, even in America which has a small former slave population that is entirely of African origin. Caribbean and African immigrants refuse to see themselves as in the same tribe as the former slave population.

Yes, which is why Black radical organizations separate out these groups from typical African-Americans…except that they don’t.  Which is why Black radical leaders in America have never come from the Caribbean…but they have.  What an idiot.  It’s about race, race, and again race.

Ethnicity is a much stronger bond, especially when it is combined with geography. It’s why, despite the efforts of successive conquerors, Europe is a land of many people with many identities.

And why the wars of ethnonationalists wrecked the White world – as Stoddard predicted (you know, Stoddard, one of you guys, a Type I) - and why Europe is now being colonized by the Global South.

Even America, a land of white mutts, breaks down regionally. Southern whites see themselves as distinct from the Northern whites. That said, the rest of the world sees American whites as a unique ethnicity. It’s also becoming clear to whites all over America that we are a new identity group within America.

So, this idiot ends up contradicting his original thesis.

In summary, I think what will happen in Europe is the evolution of a national populism that is rooted in local ethnicity. Poles will work with Italians to oppose globalist and Eurocrats, but will see themselves as primarily Poles and Italians. Localism will make a comeback in a big way in Europe. In the US, the Cold Civil War will eventually give way to an acceptance of demographic reality. America will become a majority-minority country and stop being America, at least the version sold to us at patriotic events.

In summary, Europe and the White race are doomed, unless the West accepts that narrow ethnonationalism died in the ruins of Berlin in 1945.  Comically, narrow jingoistic ethnonationalism died being defended by pan-Europeanism, as some of the last defenders of Berlin were the French SS of the Charlemagne division.  The nations and peoples of Europe can survive only by making common cause with each other, not as some sort of brief alliance of convenience, but as an Imperium which – as Yockey repeatedly stated – retains local autonomy and preserves local identities.

If this Zman wants to do the usual tin cup panhandling, he’d better start putting out a better product.