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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Which Revolution? The View From Lawrence Dennis Reply
The “Dennis Strategy” might be said to amount to one tenth of the ARV-ATS strategy in terms of demographics. The sinking middle class is one of the ten core demographics I have identified as potential constituents for anarcho-pluralism/pan-secessionism. (By the same measure, the “Sailer Strategy” might account for another one tenth given its primary orientation towards the populist-nationalist Right.) This also fits with the centrist dimension of the ARV-ATS strategy, which involves addressing the economic needs of the general public at large of which the sinking middle class and the various demographic subgroupings comprising the populist-right are a significant part.
Of course, there are two big differences between the ARV-ATS approach and those of both Dennis back then and Sailer today. Anarcho-pluralism/pan-secessionism identifies a much wider range of potential constituent groups for a revolutionary movement towards the end of achieving a popular majority. Both the Dennis approach and the Sailer approach are too narrowly focused population-wise to achieve ultimate success given contemporary political realities. Second, while the views of Lawrence Dennis advocating a stronger, centralized state and militarized political party might have reflected the prevailing trends of his time (Dennis was nothing if not a realist), Martin Van Creveld has demonstrated that the 21st century tendency is towards the delegitimization of the state in favor of the “fourth generation” military model. Hence, the appropriateness of the ARV-ATS emphasis on secession, decentralization, militias, etc.
Dennis’ view might have indeed been preferable to a Marxist revolution with its inevitable blood purges and economic stagnation. To some degree, the U.S. actually followed a version of the course suggested by Dennis during WW2 with the mass military mobilization and creation of the managerial state during that era, whatever the consequences of these. (Dennis was prosecuted for sedition because of his opposition to WW2 and he later became a staunch critic of the Cold War.) Fortunately, the military failures of the American empire, the bankruptcy of the welfare states, and the growing contempt for the political class should have the combined effect of reversing the 20th century trend toward ever-expanding statism.
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Revolution seemed to be in the air in the 1930s. The Nude Eel was floundering about, experimenting but the Great Depression continued. FDR & the Democrats bought time by extending relief to individuals. This was something Hoover & the Republicans refused to do. They wanted relief at the Federal level only for big companies like with their Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Most people talking of revolution thought of communism. But Lawrence Dennis as a Nationalist and an American was opposed to the classic Proletarian Revolution of left-wing dreams. Instead, Dennis proposed a middle-class revolution.
He raised these technical objections to Communist Revolution. He felt it would involve a high degree of violence & disorder. “Going against the American kulaks,” was how he phrased it. This meant liquidating many competent managers and experts. Whereas Dennis wished to utilize the skills of present bosses to economize the human resources of society.
Remember Lawrence Dennis was specific in that which he wished to accomplish. In his 1932 book, IS CAPITALISM DOOMED?, he made a closely argued attack on the policy of allowing investment bankers to determine the use & allocation of capital. But he didn’t hesitate or shrink from what needed to be done.
He was flat out for a dictatorship. States rights & the tripartite division of government would be abolished in favor of a highly centralized government which would exercise powers of a truly nation state. This was something Francis Parker Yockey would argue was something America never had.
Since the multi-party system was utterly incompatible with the successful pursuit of any possible scheme of national interest, there would have to be a single national party. This party would probably have a militarized type of organization.
Banks and basic monopolies would be nationalized; as, of course, the Federal Reserve. The rest of business would be place under strict public regulation. Above all, Dennis emphasized that a regime of discipline was a necessity.
Who would make this revolution? Dennis felt it would not come from big business or the elite professionals. Rather, he felt that the frustrated elite of the lower middle classes, the sinking members of the middle class in danger of being de-classed, here is where the revolutionary impulse would come from.
This is the opposite of the Obama schema of the top using the bottom against the middle. It should also be obvious that the aging, well-off base of the Tea Party would play NO role as well.
Neither militant labor nor reactionary capital but the insurgent middle class!
Antifa Attacked by Muslim Immigrants 3
Another rip in the ideological fabric of PC.
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The Antifa who are strongly against racism and strongly advocate more tolerance toward the non-white invasion of Europe, got “culturally enriched”, beaten off by immigrant youths. This is how the Muslim immigrants shows their gratitude toward those naive Antifa militants, they got their ass kicked off in sign of gratitude.
The alliance of Islam and the Left — which is a Demonic Convergence — is only a temporary one. The compound formed by combining Social Marxists with Mohammedans is inherently unstable, and will break down under the slightest environmental stress.
The radical Left in Europe is using Islam as its battering ram against what remains of European democracy. Presumably the lefties think — to the extent that they think at all — that when last redoubts of European civilization are a smoking ruin, they will somehow be able to push the Muslims to one side as they get on with the business of creating a Socialist utopia.
A street festival held in the Rosengård district of Malmö deteriorated into a fight on Saturday evening as activists were forced out by area residents.
The “Reclaim Rosengård” street festival, which was conceived as a protest against the social conditions in Rosengård, didn’t exactly go according to organizers’ plans. The event was supposed to get underway at 8pm on Saturday, but after about 15 minutes the activists who had gathered to participate were pushed out by Rosengård residents.
The activists’ floats with music were also barred from entering the predominantly immigrant neighbourhood.
“There were quite a few who had gathered, not only young people, but also a lot of parents. I think that patience has run out among the residents of Rosengård,” said municipal district representative Inger Leite to the TT news agency.
According to Leite, the Rosengård residents had made it clear previously that they didn’t want people to feel they had the right to come and speak to the residents who live there.
Instead, the activists gathered in front of a nearby petrol station where they threw stones, bottled, and burning objects at police cars.
By 2am Sunday morning, the disturbances remained in full swing. Several small fires were burning, including a hedge near the petrol station which had also had its windows broken.
Thirty minutes later, most of those involved had gone home and the situation had calmed down.
Other than a few small fires and the damage to the petrol station, no other serious incidents were reported, according to Skåne police spokesperson Lars-Håkan Lindholm.
No one was injured during the night’s disturbance and no arrests have been made.
40% of African-Americans Identify as Independent or Republican Reply
So says this study. Yet another debunking of the myth that all minorities belong to the Left.
Race Realism: The Tipping Point Reply
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A friend and I were talking about Arthur Jensen–the psychologist who reignited the race and IQ debate with his 1969 paper “How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?” published in the Harvard Educational Review. My friend said that starting with that paper there had been a huge amount of supportive research published in reputable academic journals like Intelligence andPersonality and Individual Differences. There have also been major works like The Bell Curve that provoked a national discussion in newspapers and intellectual media. And there have been major works by J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn published by academic presses.
The thrust of my friend’s comments was that it was just a matter of time before it becomes standard wisdom, informing all respectable discussions of the issue, even among politicians and the mainstream media.
But it doesn’t seem to work that way. When it comes to a politically charged issue like the changeability of IQ, there is no necessary gradual path from being out in the intellectual deserts to acceptance among media and political elites.
The decade's biggest scam Reply
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The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic “homeland security” projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of “9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret” to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles. All of that — which is independent of the exponentially greater sums spent on foreign wars, occupations, bombings, and the vast array of weaponry and private contractors to support it all — is in response to this mammoth, existential, the-single-greatest-challenge-of-our-generation threat:
“The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It’s basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year,” said John Mueller, an Ohio State University professor who has written extensively about the balance between threat and expenditures in fighting terrorism.
Occupation 101 Reply
More Tales From the Collegiate Loony Bin Reply
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I’ve recently started recovering from forty years among pseudo-academic weirdos in the collegiate loony bin. One persistent aspect of modern college life is its obvious loathing for anything that smacks of Christianity. This includes whiting out Christian symbols and references to Christian holidays from the academic landscape. In the fall of 2006, a bronze cross was carted out of Wren Chapel at William and Mary lest it cause offense to unidentified spectators. Faculty members I’ve had the misfortune of knowing usually vibrate with excitement at such displays of sensitivity, and whenever the possibility exists for replacing “Christmas greetings” with “Have a blessed Kwanzaa,” “Peace to you on Ramadan,” or an inspirational listing of white racist sins, academics will run to make this happen. Staff members once changed a “Yule Bowl Party” to a “Season’s Greeting Festival,” arguing that “Yule” references were an affront to non-Westerners. Perhaps an itinerant Hindu would wander into the gathering and go bonkers at the mention of something once associated with Christianity.
This reaching out to other cultures while pushing away the host culture took a particularly bizarre form at a nearby college about fifteen years ago when a Protestant chapel was being built. Plans had been made to crown the newly constructed steeple with a simple cross to indicate a Christian house of worship at what was then a quasi-denominational institution. But this was not permitted to transpire because a Jewish faculty member protested mightily against the blood-curdling symbol. It seems the cross reminded her of the Holocaust, an association that is perhaps understandable given that authors who are abundantly present in college libraries always make the same dubious connection. The proper answer in this instance would have been to tell the employee to look elsewhere for a job if she found Christian symbols so intolerable. Instead, the “cross was reconsidered”—that is, replaced by a less offensive spherical object.
Would Mother Jones read Mother Jones? Reply
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I’m not going to pretend this is some recent, tragic downfall; we’re talking about a publication that fired Michael Moore after just four months because he refused to publish — amid a U.S.-backed right-wing insurgency that left 50,000 dead — a liberal hawk’s hit piece against Nicaragua’s Sandinistas, after all.
It’s nonetheless worth noting, however, the incongruity of a magazine named for a radical activist who embraced civil disobedience in defiance of unjust laws and refused to recognize the legitimacy of the state’s legal actions against her hiring a careerist Democratic pundit, Adam Serwer, who explicitly rejects the notion that those who kill as part of unjust wars of aggression are moral actors who bear any responsibility for their actions, morality being the sole province of our betters in political office. He even maintains that one’s support for members of the military ought to be “unconditional,” just as soldiers themselves, in his view, ought to kill and be killed without question, anything less than blind allegiance to authority being a potentially grave threat to the republic. Serwer also defended on narrow legal grounds the U.S. government’s extrajudicial killing of an apparently unarmed, detained man — an argument he defended with ripped-from-The-Weekly-Standard Chomsky and pacifist-bashing — and, rather than respond to actual arguments that were made, mocked yours truly because I work for an antiwar group that is nowhere near as “prestigious” in his view as, hold your laughter, The American Prospect.
Unfortunately, Serwer’s brand of smug apologia for the Democratic Party, mixed in with a healthy dose of condescension toward those who fail to see the electoral system and the law-making process as the be-all and end-all of political agitation, will fit right in at the modern Mother Jones. This is a formerly radical magazine, remember, that employs the invasion of Iraq-supporting, bailout-defending Kevin “I’d literally trust [Obama's] judgment over my own” Drum (warning: his writing may cause drowsiness) and which attacked Ron Paul, not over his odious views on immigration, but because the latter wants to end the war on drugs, stop arresting sex workers and would have “sought Pakistan’s cooperation” in the arrest of an international fugitive, things that were once known as Standard Left-Wing Positions.
So no, I’m pretty sure that, were she alive today, Mother Jones would not be reading Mother Jones.
8 Signs that the US Government is Making it Harder For You to Become an Expat Reply
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Have the terrorists won?
One of the most common reasons for wanting to expatriate from the United States is the concern about government overreach. Many feel that the expansion of government in recent years has been chipping away at the freedom and liberty that the country was founded upon. What with more and more agencies, regulations, surveillance, and mandates, the right to privacy and self-determination is steadily shrinking right along with financial outlooks.
So, are you among the increasing number of people who feel that the only real solution is to get out of the country? Well, using the exact same tactics that are driving you away, the government appears intent on preventing you from leaving. Changes that have recently been put in place as well as proposals for future changes in rules and regulations might be intended to discourage. But they might also drive your resolve to take your destiny into your own hands and do whatever it takes to make your move overseas.
1. Escalating Cost of Passports
From $35 a few years ago the fee for a US passport has ballooned to today’s $135 for adults (16 and older) and $105 for minors. Renewals cost $110. If you need it in a hurry, there is another $60 expediting fee, and you have to provide a preaddressed prepaid express mail envelope, if you want it back in less than the 6-8 weeks required. The Passport Agency of the Department of State in 2010 issued 13,883,129 passports as well as 1,596,485 items of a new product called the “passport card,” which is good for reentry from anywhere within the Western Hemisphere. This product, which costs $55 for adults, $30 for previous adult passport holders, and $40 for all minors, was created at the behest of heavy lobbying by the cruise industry.
