Opportunities and failures.
See this. The topic of that essay can considered in two ways, re: pro-White activism. First, we can consider how racial nationalist dissident politics can contribute to and/or take advantage of societal disruption to lead to revolutionary change in society favoring White nationalism. Second, we can consider how anti-Der Movement forces within racial nationalist dissident politics can contribute to and/or take advantage of intra-“movement’” “societal disruption" to lead to revolutionary change within White nationalism itself.
The core characteristics of the kind of disruption I’m describing, as we’ll see in the historical episodes that follow, are that it: 1) stems from a loss of faith in a society’s central institutions…
It is quite clear that there is an increasing loss of faith in the System’s “central institutions.” Indeed, this David Potter essay is warning about precisely that, from a mainstream leftist perspective. From a rightist perspective, Der Movement often takes a triumphalist tone about the decay in the System’s institutions and decreased public trust in those institutions. Indeed, there is, across the political spectrum, much talk about this, much discussion about a sense of malaise in “Western liberal democracy.” However, one wonders how much of this talk is cynical play-acting, a need to look “tough, realistic, and pragmatic” and not “naïve,” and how much of it actually is genuine skepticism about the System. There is no doubt some genuine uneasiness in the mainstream, and no doubt that Der Movement always preaches about an “imminent collapse” (we’ve been hearing about that for the last 50-60 years), but one wonders what the top elites really believe. The masses tend to always be dissatisfied, but will almost always never act on their own. Hence, elite opinion and dissident leadership are typically crucial in determining the outcome of these processes.
What about the internal situation within the “movement?” Obviously, the Sallis Groupuscule and those will similar views exhibit a loss of faith in the “movement’s “central institutions.” Some others on the Far Right are critical as well, although these tend to have different reasons for their dissatisfaction and suggest different solutions. “Movement” leadership for the most part – if out of self-interest if for no other reason – takes a more positive view of the situation within Der Movement, and “double down” on their support for Der Movement’s “central institutions,” even if they criticize certain actions of their competitors. The attitude of the “movement” rank-and-file mirrors that of the masses in the general society – some grumbling and dissatisfaction, but also much conformist inertia, and a willingness to support their chosen leader. They have not yet lost faith, although, objectively, after decades of endless failures and humiliations, they should have already done so.
…2) establishes a set of ideas from what was once the fringe of the intellectual world, placing them at the centre of a revamped political order…
Der Movement believes that this is happening; they look at Trumpian right-wing populism and the occasional comment by Tucker Carlson about race replacement, and they believe that “the Overton window” is moving in their direction and that their beliefs are becoming the center of a “revamped political order.” As chronicled at my blog, this belief is an unfounded delusion. Der Movement has failed to significantly move their ideas from the (lunatic) fringe to the mainstream because the ideas themselves are flawed and "movement" leadership is inept. True enough, we dissidents within pro-White activism have also so far failed to move our ideas into the center of the “movement” – but unlike "movement" leaders we haven’t had decades of time nor millions of dollars to work with.
…and 3) involves a coherent leadership group committed to the change.
Besides “movement” leadership being inept, it is not very coherent either, and that’s even when only considering the American situation (international leadership is completely fragmented). The various leaders often feud and have competing strategies and tactics. Similarly, those within the “movement” who are dissatisfied also do not constitute any sort of “coherent leadership group,” as they cannot even agree on what about the “movement” they find objectionable, why these problems exist, and what to do about them. So, while these people are (allegedly) “committed to...change” they are not in any way organized as a “coherent leadership group” that can effect the desired change.
These disruptions are apparent in, but not synonymous with, some of the events commonly called revolutions. Disruptions don’t always change who is in charge – they are, in fact, sometimes necessary to preserve a government that is on the verge of failure. But they will at the very least change the way that a governing group thinks and acts.
OK, that is straightforward.
…when a political system is undermined by events such as economic failure, defeat in war or environmental catastrophe, that political system is going to have to change or fail. Success or failure depends on the choices that leaders make, and the ability to give people a fresh set of ideas that will help them see a new way forward.
Der Movement has leaders that make terrible choices, demonstrate bad judgment, and, as stated above, provide bad ideas that do not provide “a new way forward.” The internal dissidents have also not succeeded; whether or not “movement” failures have risen to the level to assure a high probability of success for dissidents such as the Sallis Groupuscule is unclear. There have been a number of “movement” catastrophes, but its members continue to support failed leaders and failed ideas.
The outcome of a disruption is often completely unexpected to contemporaries, and that is precisely because ideas from outside the mainstream were used to shape the solutions to the problems of the time.
Does that mean that the dissidents vs. the System and the dissidents vs. Der Movement cannot predict what will occur, which also means that their desired outcomes – that they would seem to expect – will not occur? Or is it too early to tell? Or, to look at it from the opposite, dominant perspective, is it that the System does not expect the victory of pro-White activism and that the Quota Queens do not expect “movement” dissidents to succeed? It all depends who are the “contemporaries” who cannot understand what the “outside the mainstream” ideas are that will eventually succeed. Note that, in both cases, the current leaders hate and oppose the dissidents and that may blind them to the possibilities of dissident success. The System hates and opposes pro-White activism and the Quota Queens hate and oppose dissidents such as myself. These attitudes may bias and prevent them from recognizing the possible outcomes.
We can’t know in advance exactly how a disruption will end. What history can teach us is what the circumstances are that lead to a disruption. It can make us realise what we might be facing as a result of the situation we are in today.
It would seem that the System is well advanced to a disruption, but perhaps not as advanced as the “collapse is imminent” “movement” hopes for. Apparently, disruption within the “movement” itself has not yet reached the level where revolutionary change against the Quota Queens and their ideology can be successful.
When we look at one of the first major disruptions, one that is still influencing the world in which we live – the Roman emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in the 4th century CE – we have a case where change had been in the air for a while. In the half-century before Constantine staged the coup that set him on the path to unifying the Roman Empire under his own control, the empire had suffered through plague, massive inflation and a series of military disasters, but the tendency of leadership had been simply to try to make old systems work better.
I won’t directly comment here about Christianity and whether it was good or bad for Rome, but I will say that this example is currently not too relevant as the dominant entities are not ready or willing to compromise with the belief system of the dissidents, even if they believe such would strengthen their position. Eventually they may get desperate enough to try.
Constantine sent a completely different message when his regime imported concepts from a fringe movement, Christianity, to support its own legitimacy. In doing so, Constantine made use of a small number of Christian advisers, who shaped a new relationship between the Church and Roman society, and joined the closely knit group upon which he depended to run the empire.
Der Movement may believe they could have such influence, but the Alt Right/Trump fiasco underscores how much of that is delusion. And it is unlikely that Der Movement will “import concepts” from the dissidents to its orthodoxy in the near future. Of course, that may all change in time.
This early example exhibits the key characteristics of a disruption: a loss of faith in central institutions (the imperial system of government), the establishment of previously fringe ideas (those of Christianity) at the centre of the political order, and a cohesive, committed leadership group that initiated the change. In elevating Christianity’s role in the empire, Constantine altered patterns of thought, replacing old ideas about imperial authority with a fresh, obviously different model of authority that told people they were moving in a new direction.
That all does not currently exist in either the System-Der Movement situation nor in the Der Movement-dissidents to the “movement” situation.
I discuss Suvorov’s Law below, in regard to the topic of Potter’s essay; what I can say now is that the Christian Rome scenario illustrates this law. Constantine compromised with Christianity in the thought it would strengthen Rome. In reality, the church became dominant, to the point that the emperor Theodosius groveled to the bishop Ambrose when the latter excommunicated the former. Just like the humiliation at Canossa much later. Weakening repression, making compromises to the point of embracing aspects of the other side, is what eventually leads to revolutionary change and the victory of that other side.
One thing that helped…in spreading previously marginal ideas was that they could effectively control the available media for mass communication…
Der Movement lacks access to mass communication apart from limited use of the Internet; likewise for intra-“movement” dissidents. The “word” is not effectively getting out.
…a sign that one of the crucial aspects of a successful disruption is that it creates space in which people can discuss new ideas.
Sure. But the ideas need to be sound and need to be propagated by effective activists.
…Louis could have survived if he had allowed that becoming a constitutional rather than absolute monarch was a reasonable option. But he didn’t. He conspired with other monarchs to overthrow the reform movement in France, thereby undermining centrists who would have allowed him to retain his throne. In so doing, he opened the door to Maximilien Robespierre and other radicals with bold ideas, who claimed that moderation was undermining the revolution – that it could succeed only if traitors were removed and a new state, founded upon the promotion of virtue, replaced the dysfunctional civic constitutions favoured by moderates.
Currently, the System won’t compromise to Der Movement and Der Movement won’t compromise to its dissidents. This may change in the future if these dominant entities become desperate enough due to "societal disruption." But I disagree with Potter here; given Suvorov’s Law, Louis’ fate may have been sealed with the first compromise…the Estates General led inexorably to the Terror. Moderation weakens the dam holding back extremism.
The French example stands as a disruption that succeeded in destroying previous institutions without succeeding in building a lasting alternative. It underscores the importance of having political leadership with a clear vision at the moment an existing system of government is overthrown.
Der Movement has utterly failed in this regard.
Lenin’s successor, Joseph Stalin, destroyed the New Economic Policy with his programme of forced collectivisation. His homicidal regime ensured that the Soviet Union could never offer a viable alternative to Western capitalism.
So, what? Lenin would have succeeded? Why not describe that potential success as “lies” as right-wing beliefs are so described by Potter below?
Another profoundly violent 20th-century disruption, the rise of Nazism, had roots in a theory that implied that nations must inevitably be in competition. Just as within each nation there was an ongoing contest for survival, and government should be geared towards supporting ‘winners’ over ‘losers’ in this struggle, so too there could only be ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in foreign affairs.
That seems to be more or less correct, and in accordance with the historical record, but it not always nations in conflict but could be religions, or, races and civilizations.
This view, promulgated by Herbert Spencer, became known as social Darwinism, and it was supported by the pseudoscience of eugenics…
It is not a pseudoscience. One may agree or disagree with eugenics, but it is based on the selection of heritable traits. One could argue that the development of, say, dog breeds, was a result of “canine eugenics” to select traits of use or other interest to humans. The same could apply to human development. Whether that would be good or bad is another question, but it is not a “pseudoscience.” That’s the moralistic fallacy.
…developed by Spencer’s contemporary Francis Galton. Although he was English, Spencer’s theories gained greater currency in the US, where Galton’s eugenic theories were taken up to support restrictive immigration policies and the state-sponsored sterilisation of prisoners on the grounds of ‘mental deficiency’. One person who found such laws appealing was Adolf Hitler.
So? It’s ad hominem to attack ideas by stating that someone designated as “bad” found those ideas appealing.
Hitler’s political success stemmed in large part from the fact that his assertions about Germany’s path – that it could have won the First World War, that it had been stabbed in the back, and that its problems could be solved by undoing the treaty that had ended the war – were familiar to the electorate from other sources. These positions were lies…
The “stab in the back” apparently was not true. But who is to say that it was impossible for Germany to have won WWI? Or that reversing the Treaty of Versailles would be helpful to Germany? Why were that all “lies?”
…but the lies were popular. Hitler’s extreme version of racist social Darwinism was initially on the fringe of German thought but, linked to his anticommunism, it was tolerated outside Nazi circles.
So?
Yet an anticommunist message backed by lies…
Labelling all of Hitler’s beliefs as “lies” is simplistic thinking bordering on childish.
…would not be sufficient to explain Hitler’s rise to power. Echoing previous disruptions, this required the disintegration of faith in government.
So? This seems obvious.
The value of history is that it enables us to detect patterns of behaviour in the present that have had serious consequences in the past.
Like oppressing majority populations?
Today, there are signs that the US and European liberal democratic systems are under threat. The most obvious of these is a loss of trust in public institutions.
See above. This perception is present throughout the political spectrum and thus reflects some degree of reality.
Factors such as the willingness of Western governments to allow widespread impoverishment, the weakening of labour organisations, and the failure to provide adequate healthcare and other necessities, feed into powerful movements seeking to undercut the mainstream political system.
What an oblivious, self-unaware jackass David Potter is. He’s focusing only on those issues that he, and his leftist associates, find distressing. The rise of right-wing populism, which is the danger that Potter is really agonizing about, derives from completely different sets of dissatisfactions. If Potter represents the degree of analysis by the System, then maybe that System really is doomed.
So too we see ideas from the intellectual fringe informing these increasingly powerful political movements. Some of these movements use social Darwinist ideas to claim, for instance, that public welfare is undercut by immigration.
Err, that diversity damages social cohesion has been shown by academics on both the Left (e.g., Putnam) and the Right (e.g., Salter). It has nothing to do with “social Darwinism” you insufferable pompous jackass.
In Europe, the normalisation of nationalist groups such as the one supporting Éric Zemmour’s bid for the French presidency, or Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz Party in Hungary, is threatening established political norms.
Ah yes, the crazy idea that demographic majorities (particularly indigenous ones!) have the right to resist dispossession is what is threatening established political norms. Well, if true, then those established political norms” deserve to be threatened.
In the United Kingdom, some advocates of Brexit have translated traditional English exceptionalism into a form of hypernationalism in terms that, like those of the former US president Donald Trump’s supporters, echo social Darwinist doctrines.
Huh? Brexit has essentially replaced Polish plumbers with more Paki and Negro immigrants, so I’m not sure what kind of “hypernationalism” exists in a country in which indigenous British are jailed for mean tweets about Colored invaders.
The prevalence of belief in lies, such as the lie…
Lie?
…that Trump won the 2020 election, is evocative of the universe of false assumptions that spread in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power.
What false assumptions?
To combat the fissures that election lies…
Lies?
…immigration fantasies…
Fantasies? I suppose demographic change is a “fantasy” except when the Left wants to celebrate it and/or use the resultant “diversity” as an excuse to pass more Orwellian laws to suppress majority rights.
…or antivaccination movements…
I oppose such movements, but the lack of faith in the System over other issues (e.g., immigration) helps empower that nonsense.
…represent, Western governments should recognise that the prevalence of fringe thinking is a sign that they are failing.
True.
The path to restoring faith – which could lead through the sort of disruption that has preserved societies in the past – will offer real help to those who have been left behind.
Yes, except when those “left behind” are White majority members “left behind” because of mass immigration and multiculturalism – then we should label that as “lies” and instead “restore faith” by focusing on relatively irrelevant issues that are NOT the prime concern leading to the loss of faith, right, Potter, you mendacious hypocrite? Again, Potter fails miserably. He is so blinded by his political biases that his analysis is worthless.
On the other hand, a sane and effective Far Right could restore faith by replacing the failed System with something different. Within dissident rightist politics, particularly in America, those left behind – sane and rational people, White ethnics, STEM people, pan-Europeanists, Futurists, etc. – could find new faith in a New Movement, and the Sallis Groupuscle exists to help find the way to that New Movement. In order to solve a problem, one has to properly identify that problem, and have the will and ability to do it. Potter cannot even identify the real problems. We must do better.
The underlying principle of liberal democracy is the contract between government and the governed.
Does “the governed” include White people?
Government has a responsibility to reign in corporate power that undermines public welfare and spreads falsehood, just as it has a responsibility to ensure that people have access to the goods and services they need.
Government also has a responsibility to safeguard ethnic genetic (and other) interests, particularly for majority members. What does Potter have to say about that?
This will require practices very different from ‘politics as normal’. It is a critical lesson from history that, when normality fails, change will come.
Yes, my dear Potter, but one must identify WHY “normality fails.” You, so blinded by your prejudices, so immersed in your leftist milieu, are unable to do so.
The signs are that we’re in a time that is ripe for disruption. But what sort will it be?
The signs demonstrate that there are unprecedented opportunities for Der Movement, which makes its unending manifest failures even more stark and pathetic. What about changes within White racial nationalism? The same may apply eventually, but Der Movement and its followers are so used to failure, that it would take something radically catastrophic to open up the possibility of change. In both cases, the dissident forces need to develop ideas that can step in to replace those that others have lost faith it, need effective coherent leadership, and need to exacerbate disruption to open niche space for the new ideas and leaders. Given Suvorov’s Law, making the dominant entities believe that they can survive through moderation and compromise will be helpful in eventually overthrowing those entities. Given the current hostility of the dominant entities for the dissidents, the dominant entities will need to get more desperate before they are willing to take the chance. Dissidents can promote that desperation by causing as much societal disruption as possible while maintaining themselves as a viable ideological alternative. Eventually, the temptation to try and save themselves by importing aspects of that alternative may prove too much for the dominant entities to resist. Then - contra Potter - that will destroy them.
Later essays here will explore how a dissident Far Right Groupuscule can form a nucleus to effectively take on Der Movement.
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