It is estimated that many modern Nationalists treat Metapolitics with skepticism or even hostility, as difficult to understand and scholastic, as it is presented in terms they cannot envision, understand or apply:
1. The medium of Metapolitics is Culture. Culture is a complex, mysterious, unstable and changeable thing. The work required to change civilization on a social, cultural and historical level is extremely difficult, uncertain and slow, so that it can be very difficult for Nationalists to see how it can be accomplished, as well as to believe that they can accomplish it. The attempt to change the pulse, the spirit of the season, the spirit of the days, can be similar to the attempt to change the weather or…. of the conversion of sea waves.
2. Metapolitics is presented in very large, broad and grandiose terms. To make Metapolitics visible, believable and practical it is necessary to present it in terms that people can visualize. It is necessary to define Metapolitics in contrasting terms of large-small, long-term-short-term and potential-actual, so that it appears clearly delineated as a work in progress rather than a chimerical utopia.
3. Metapolitics is often presented in highly scholarly, literary and abstract terms. It appears as lacking a clear purpose or a clear direction. She appears as overwhelmed only with ideas, as if these ideas were sufficient in themselves to achieve goals, and she is also shown to manage ideas as toys rather than tools. American scholar Richard Malcolm Weaver Jr. expressed his famous judgment: “Ideas have effects.” In a similar direction, his compatriot Samuel Francis testified his lesser-known observation that: “Some ideas have more impact than others”. Metapolitics must therefore engage with and destroy ideas that have serious implications and consequences, as well as the creation of important ideas with influence.
4. Metapolitics is presented in terms that suggest it is independent or even hostile to other forms of political activism. It must be seen as part of that multi-composite “complex” that National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) campaigners call a “three-tiered strategy,” of cultural, community, and electoral activism. Every form of activism must, according to this strategy, complement and strengthen the others.
5. Metapolitics appears as limited to the professional crafters and managers of discourse, such as scholars, intellectuals, writers, publishers, and editors. This appearance places Metapolitics beyond the position and scope of most Nationalists. Relatively very few Nationalists can write books and articles worth publishing or reading. The number of regular contributors to nationalist publications is very small. Metapolitics therefore does not seem to provide most Nationalists with useful tools and meaningful work.
The aforementioned concerns impressions with which Metapolitics is presented and received by many Nationalists. These impressions are mostly subjective and we have given them above for the sake of understanding and brevity, in simple and dogmatic terms. We could expand this list by further explaining and elucidating specific points, but we feel that this is currently useless verbosity. For example, our use of the phrase “professional craftsmen and managers of speech”, may indicate that we are possessed of a tendency against intellectuals, which is certainly not the case. On the other hand, if our attitude was against the intellectuals and thinkers, they would despise most of the authors and their works, which we often refer to and quote in our general work.
As Metapolitics includes the struggle for cultural hegemony, it must be conducted in many regions and at many levels. It is not possible to establish cultural hegemony overnight, but it is possible and necessary to carve out, to shape those “autonomous zones” of ours, from which we will be able to carry out the required activities against the prevailing anti-national hegemony and where we will be able to prepare the foundations for the denial and overthrow of the anti-national system.
The front is limitless, it is everywhere. Whether we like it or not we are in total war. We must mobilize everyone to work for the great national cause, wherever they are and as they are.
We therefore support a Metapolitics which is directed and carried out by the Nationalists who are not necessarily professional managers of the discourse. The political events of the last decade have revealed a lot about the global phenomenon of Nationalism. Thus, we must now take into account the actions and concerns of our fellow Nationalists across the Atlantic. Where “think tanks” such as “Countercurrents / North American New Right” and “The Western Quarterly” review were born, political thought and ideology groups engaged in the development and cultivation of high-level nationalist ideas. There is still a marked need for “ideological irrigation systems” which will be destroyed by the methodical and systematic popularization of nationalist ideas. Metapolitics must equip Nationalist fighters with what the American Nationalist Gregory – “Greg” Johnson1 calls “a powerful arsenal of intellectual ammunition.” We certainly need such an arsenal as well as a functioning logistics system.
Below are several characteristic events and components that concern this peculiar fundamental nationalist “Gramsism”, this theory and practice of “soft power”, which we envision and intend:
- It must include the doctrinal and practical formation and formation of the average Nationalist. Nationalists must know what they are fighting for and how to fight. They need to cultivate their ability and dexterity to formulate and present their ideas. They do not need to be professional writers or speakers to effectively present their ideas within their own sphere of influence.
- It must include a developing nationalist discourse, so as to make it as presentable and convincing as possible in relation to the audience it addresses. This work includes the careful selection and shaping of ideas, arguments, examples, language, symbolism, tone, and style of nationalist discourse so that it produces optimum effectiveness.
Nationalists need to develop their powers of observation and judgment so that they can determine exactly what works on such and such issues and what does not. Perhaps nationalist discourse could be developed and nurtured in a similar way to “open source software” / open source, as described in American software developer Eric Steven Raymond’s fascinating essay 2 “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” (essay on 1997 and a book in 1999). As the versatile Wendell Berry aptly observed, “Cultural solutions are organisms, not machines, so they cannot be deliberately invented or prescribed.”
Those who write about Nationalism must present the most radical positions in a seductively plausible way. Only in this way will the nationalist discourse be reliable, digestible and communicative. The average Nationalist must be able to collect, formulate and communicate his ideas to others. This is how traditions are created.
It is a pleasure to see in our days militant, stimulating and essential writers, analogues of the great Alain de Benoit and the circle of GRECE 30 and 40 years ago. May writers like the brilliant Michael Polignano 3 produce more work in this area. As has been repeatedly noted, Polignano “makes the most radical positions seductively reasonable.” Writers like him can do much to shape a nationalist discourse that is credible, digestible, and contagious. Average Nationalists should be able to pick up such ideas of his and convey them to others. This is how Traditions are created.
- The nationalist discourse cannot be ordinary, banal and follow the mainstream. On the contrary, the doctrinal and practical formation of the average Nationalist must be directed towards the prevention of this popularity of the train. The Nationalists must have the ideas and abilities that will allow and facilitate them to stand up for themselves! Then it will be impossible for various deceitful opportunists or arrogant expedients to hijack the nationalist organizations as, for example, the wretched Italian Gianfranco Fini, former Nationalist and subsequently compromised Minister of the bourgeois Right, did at the expense of the late nationalist “Italian Social Movement” – I.S.M.
- More self-discipline is required from the Nationalists. They should definitely think before they speak and should not say whatever is on their mind. Nationalists should not think that they are free to do whatever they want. In addition to the required iron self-discipline, Nationalists definitely need self-awareness. Personal self-awareness and collective i.e. national self-awareness.
Readers possessing a copy of the Evolian work Men and Ruins would be able to read and reflect on Evolus’ comments on the ‘Mediterranean’ and ‘Roman’ character in this regard. They are too long to list here. It is epigrammatically stated that the Nationalists must have a “Roman” character.
- The ideas, findings and observations listed above are very rough. They look like a promising invention, but it will take a long time to become a marketable product. They could easily be forgotten. If the ideas in this text are of any value, they might also serve as an object lesson in what readers might claim. These ideas aren’t necessarily obvious, they took a long time to sort out and will take a lot of work to actually make them practical.
FOOTNOTES
1. Gregory Johnson (born 1971) is a white American Nationalist and supports a white “nation state”. He is known for his role as the editor-in-chief of the nationalist website “Opposite Currents” and in charge of the publications of the same name, which he founded in 2010 with his ally Michael Polignano. Through the above publications he has published more than 40 books, many of which he wrote himself, under his real name or under the pseudonym Trevor Lynch. He is also a writer for the nationalist website “Western Observer”. He is a highly recognizable Nationalist, also appearing in nationalist events in Europe (where in 2019 he was arrested in Norway before such an event and deported). He lives in Seattle, Washington.
2. Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open source software advocate, and author of the critically acclaimed “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” an essay in 1997 and a book in 1999).
3. Michael Polignano first came to the attention of a US readership nationally in 2000 when, as an undergraduate student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, he sparked a firestorm of controversy writing in the school newspaper about scientifically established fact that racial differences are largely genetic. His book Taking Our Own Side is a collection of 45 short essays, op-eds, reviews and satires. These lucid and well-written, carefully reasoned essays are profound, poignant, and occasionally prophetic. Sometimes they are also brutally honest and outrageously funny. Michael Polignano demonstrates how one can “make the most radical positions seductively logical.” more radical positions seductively logical. Taking Our Side established him as one of the most exciting and versatile writers of the North American New Right.
