Rockwell Redux
Ideological incoherence led to tragedy. I’ve written about the Rockwell-Patler scenario before, but let us consider it again. In one of his books, Rockwell wrote, on the one hand, that his “movement” was pan-European/pan-Aryan/pan-White, but, on the other hand, that the Nordic is the racial ideal we should all strive for. Hopefully, the inconsistency there is plain for all to see. While the Nordic may be the appropriate ideal, the appropriate archetype, for Northern Europeans, at least for Northwest Europeans, it is not so for any other European types. Rockwell’s incoherence here essentially created a two-tier (at least) caste system in his “movement,” with Nordics as the superstars, and other Whites as the scrubs, the second-stringers, and the bench warmers. Rockwell’s attempt to merge pan-Europeanism with Nordicism, trying to push a square peg into a round hole (or a round peg into a square hole, whichever image you refer), was a failure, and he paid the pri...