Send Out the Rhizomes

Groupuscules again.

I will be discussing this essay again in this post. I have discussed it before and I will no doubt do so again. It is of fundamental importance, particularly given the situation unfolding in America today and how this will likely affect the Far Right. Any retarded unimaginative dullards who tell you we just need “more of the same” need to be ignored.  

What do we need?

Given the potential of increased scrutiny of, and persecution of, the Far Right, the Groupuscule “rhizome” format looks increasingly attractive as the main strategic approach for the foreseeable future – that is, for the fundamental Far Right itself (indirect surface manifestations among “normies” and various “fellow travelers” is another matter entirely).

Griffin’s essay focuses on the “groupuscular right”—groups, called groupuscules, specifically defined as fully-formed, small, and completely autonomous, with a worldview articulated more for “elite” rather than “mass” consumption. These groupuscules have negligible membership and “minimal if any public support or visibility;” rather than involvement in “politics” (i.e., electoral politics), groupuscular entities instead focus more on metapolitics.

Please note that this does not mean we should not be involved in electoral politics.  As I have been arguing here for years, that is will be crucially important for us going forward; for a rationale see here.

However, the main vanguardist intellectual ferment, the inner core (of which electoral politics is  surface manifestation), the foundation (upon which electoral politics can be built) is the metapolitical work, and under current circumstances, and in the predicted direction of increased scrutiny and persecution, the optimal vehicle for achieving this in in the groupuscular Right, focused more on elite cadres, and with an emphasis on the generation of ideas – particularly the new ideas required to smash “movement” idols and break through the morass of fossilized dogma.

The groupuscule thus renounces a mass public following, and concerns itself with political (actually, metapolitical) education. Groupuscules are revolutionary, promoting for the most part “palingenetic” objectives, with the “ultimate goal of overcoming the decadence of the existing liberal democratic system.”

Putting aside Griffin’s scare quotes, which are reproduced in my essay, that is a fair assessment. This certainly is not the time for a “mass public following.”  As the fiasco of Unite the Right proved, and as the last four wasted years also proved, premature “mass public activities” generated directly from the Far Right will end in failure. The time is not yet ripe. Indirectly, yes, the Far Right can influence “mass events,” including electoral politics, from behind the scenes, and through the generation of the metapolitical ideas that direct surface politics.  But as far as direct activity, it is time to take a step back so as to be able to take two steps forward later on.

Further, to be deemed worthy of analysis by students of “fascism,” such groups must be creating important, possibly novel, ideas, and exerting influence at least among fellow groupuscules. In summary, the groupuscular right is, to quote Griffin, “a constantly growing, mutating, protean counter-culture,” composed of “highly specialized and individualized grouplets.”

It is of crucial importance to stress “must be creating important, possibly novel, ideas…”

Related to the groupuscular definition is Griffin’s distinction between the “slime mold” and “rhizome” models of “movement” structure. While traditional far-right groups have operated more like a “slime mold”—a group of cells that can come together and function as a single, unitary organism (e.g., Nazis, Italian Fascists), Griffin likens modern groupuscular rightists groups as analogous to a “rhizome”—a “tangled root system” with no defined beginning or end, “constantly producing new shoots as others die off in an unpredictable, asymmetrical pattern of growth and decay.” Thus, the rhizome structure is diffuse and leaderless, with no center, no definitive boundaries or “formal hierarchy.”

In the context of increased scrutiny and persecution of the Far Right, the rhizome structure is obviously optimal.  We should be hard to pin down, diffuse, anti-fragile, more robust, with the ability to grow back if some branches get “trimmed.” The tendency of the grifting Quota Queens to want to monopolize and centralize for their personal benefit must be opposed.  In times of increased pressure and persecution, the adaptive response should be for the slime mold to break up and decentralize; instead, we should establish a decentralized rhizome root system that is difficult to be eradicated.

Griffin bemoans the relative invulnerability of the rhizome structure, since “the revolutionary right no longer plays into the hands of security and intelligence organizations” and can survive the suppression of particular “nodal points” of activity. The rhizome can continue to exist even with banned groups and shut down websites, and the constant variable expression of multiple points of activity “fuels the vitality and viability of the organism as a whole.”

Again, the rhizome structure is more robust.

“Keeping the dream alive” in the face of…repression…small and decentralized nature of the groupuscular right allows these ideas to survive; indeed, Griffin suggests that it would be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to completely eliminate memes and memetic development that utilizes the groupuscular rhizome format…a diffuse “organization” with many independent nodes is a much hardier organism in the face of repression than would be a highly centralized group…

Survival is paramount.  Survival ensures the possibility of future success.  A surviving rhizome can sprout up more centralized nodes later on if the times become more propitious.  However, if you force centralization at a time of repression and if those centralized nodes are all eliminated, then you are back to square one, left with nothing, needing to start at point zero.

The decentralized aspect of the current far right allows for the development of diverse, interesting, and extremely varied permutations of memes and ideology—manifestations that would not be possible in the context of a highly organized, top-down hierarchical structure imposing a common worldview…This is analogous to the biological process of mutation—most mutations are harmful or neutral, but, in the midst of the plethora of genetic variation is the occasional beneficial mutation, which confers adaptive value in specific challenging environments.

This is important.  New ideas and new approaches are always important and always welcome, but especially in “specific challenging environments” we need to generate more “mutations” hoping that some of these “mutations” – novel ideas and novel approaches – will be beneficial and aid in the survival and success in difficult times. To create the opportunity for the creation of such “mutations” you will need a lot of diversity of “life”- a diverse group of decentralized groupuscules.

…the groupuscular right may act as a form of metapolitical “dark matter” pulling (Western) societies in the direction of the right and away from the “equality” liberalism he so loves.

To do this, you need to survive and exist.

…one of the cardinal rules of revolutionary, insurgent warfare: as long as the insurgent army exists, and is in the field, that counts as a victory of sorts, and continued existence can, over time, wear down the will and resistance of the enemy. Thus did George Washington help forge a British strategic defeat in the American Revolutionary War, despite many tactical setbacks for the Colonial Army. Stressing survival, and keeping his army intact and in the field, engaging the enemy as often as possible on his own terms, Washington kept the dream alive until circumstances (e.g., French assistance) helped turn the tide. The same logic applies to the role of rhizomitic groupuscules in keeping our dream alive. Therefore, the minimal objective is to maintain some sort of viable ideological memetic, metapolitical presence in the world. 

We need to survive. Better to survive as decentralized rhizome groupuscules than be destroyed as a centralized slime mold.

…any possibility of influencing society outside of the groupuscular right must be taken advantage of…

...Griffin’s concern that “the membrane between the groupuscular right’s uncivil society and orthodox party-politics can at times by highly permeable” can give us hope. 

This is an important consideration. Now more than ever, we need to be on the lookout for the thinnest and most permeable areas of the membrane separating us from the more mainstream Right and focus our attention on those areas to infiltrate memes, paradigms, ideas and ideals, and, actual people – operatives – into the more mainstream Right. And to limit this membrane permeability only to political activity would be a mistake; it serves just as well, if not better, for a wide variety of mainstream rightist metapolitical activities and organizations. Indeed, I have some ideas on what would be sound targets for seeping through the membrane and diffusing Far Right ideas into the more mainstream Right.  I am obviously not going to discuss any of this on a public online forum. I am more than happy to privately share these ideas with the broader “movement” but because of the cordon sanitaire that they have put around the Sallis Groupuscule they are of course not interested (*). But these are things I can do myself and/or with any people willing to participate.

This latest analysis should be considered part of an ongoing conversation, a work in progress, not as a stand-alone, comprehensive, finished piece. As current events unfold, and ae observe and determine what works and what does not, we must continuously evaluate and re-evaluate the role of the groupuscular rhizome structure in pro-White activism.

*Please note: As I have been telling you all along, the self-serving, rent-seeking, grifting “movement leaders” put their personal perks and privileges and their egos ahead of the well-being of their people.  For if they cared about White interests, if they prioritized that, they would be willing to work with other people, including critics that they do not like, instead of protecting the affirmative action program and circling the wagons around the “good old boys” network.  But no. Instead of putting the race ahead of self, they do the opposite. Always remember that.