A very good essay, well worth the time.

http://blog.odessa-syndicate.com/2008/04/19/an-overly-traveled-road-to-extinction/#comment-3707

As a distant observer of the American “White Nationalist scene” I am struck by it’s utter irrelevancy in public discourse outside of being a fund raising tool for anti-Occidental activists and as a subject of lurid speculation. In part, this distressing situation is a product of the typical pathologies and corruption endemic to counter culture groups but I am not inclined to cover the endless scandals that have in large part defined the “White Nationalist scene” during the last 50 years or so. Although though the character issue must be addressed for now I’ll concern myself with the issue of what Occidental advocacy presently entails in terms of an ideological foundation.

Currently paleo-conservatism dominates what little racialist discourse occurs in the states. While notable exceptions to the dominance of paleo-conservatism have appeared in the racialist scene they have never come close to rivaling it’s popular appeal or political influence. Given that the mainstream of racialist thought in the states since the reconstruction era has been remarkably consistent it matters little if one refers to it as Americanism or paleo-conservatism in terms addressing it’s ideological validity. Before considering the present day applicability of the paleo-con doctrine I think a passing consideration of the golden era of American racialism is worth while simply because it provides an excellent case study of the consequences of the character issue alluded to earlier as well as the of utility of a racially based paleo-conservatism as a governing ideology.

The golden age of American racialism coincided with the birth of what is commonly referred to as the Second Era Klan founded by the publisher of The Jeffersonian newspaper and U.S. senator Thomas Watson in 1915. Watson built the Klan into a nationwide organization with over four million members (about 15% of the white male Protestant population of the country at the time) that was particularly powerful in the Mid West and Southern states. The influence attained by the Second Era Klan far exceeded the accomplishments of American racialism at anytime since as they managed to gain control state legislatures in Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Oregon as well as electing a governor in Indiana, several Congressmen and Senators. Most impressive of all they managed to heavily influence the Democratic Convention of 1924 and helped get a Klansman on the Supreme Court.

The combination of segregation, constitutionalism, opposition to immigration, Protestant fundamentalism, isolationism and economic populism were all popular causes fully within the mainstream of public social and political thought at the time. Simply put, the Second Era Klan enjoyed a nearly ideal historical context in which to transform America into a society far more reflective of Occidental values yet they achieved little in terms of societal reform and lapsed into obscurity very quickly. The reason for this failure was largely a result of the limitations of the paleo-conservative ideology they promoted as will be shown.

The Second Era Klan was largely, with the exception of The Black Legion, committed to working within the confines of electoral politics for the purpose of advancing it’s public policy agenda which consisted of the following: 1) preserving the constitutional order of the day 2) the predominance of Europeans of Northern, Western and Celtic origins 3) restoring Protestant fundamentalism to a place of preeminence 4) maintaining American neutrality 5) advancing prohibition and 6) advance the economic populist agenda of the time.

Needless to say, the reelection of Wilson in 1916 resulted in America’s subsequent entry into the First World War (and numerous imperialistic adventures in Central and South America during the ‘20s) and entry into the League of Nations ended American neutrality. On the domestic front Klan influence failed to slow the flood of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, the triumph of the suffragette movement, the of decadence of the ‘20s or the rise of the anti-Occidental mass media during the ‘30s. In short they failed to preserve the societal order that defined America at the turn of the century or protect the ethnic and religious interests they held dear when given an ideal opportunity to do so .

While the Klan was heavily involved in promoting prohibition and progressive economic policies popular during first two decades of the 20th century the passage of such measures happened because they were promoted by popular sentiment across the political spectrum ( including Negroes, organized labor, fundamentalist Protestants and women) as well as the efforts of great portions of the political establishment entirely unsympathetic to the Klan. As a result, it is very unrealistic to view the Second Era Klan as anything more then one of several significant factions promoting progressive reforms and prohibition. Given that progressivism died with the post-war depression and the rise of social-democratic style labour unions what ever impact the Klan had upon the growth of progressivism was wholly inadequate to prevent it’s decline outside of the deep South during the ‘20s and ‘30s.

The collapse of the Second Era Klan began in large measure as a result of Stephenson scandal of ‘25. Under Stephenson’s guidance, Klan membership swelled to 300,000 in the State of Indiana and in the 1924 elections, Klan backed candidates won all but one of Indiana’s U.S Congressional seats as well as the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary Of State. Stephenson was one of the most charismatic leaders the Klan ever had being a gifted orator and a popular leader throughout much of the country as well as the Grand Dragon of Indiana which was a major Klan stronghold at the time. Yet all he is remembered for now is the extremely brutal kidnaping and rape of Madge Oberholtzer. The subsequent media coverage devastated the Klan and turned formerly cordial elite opinion against the organization resulting in a dramatic decline in it’s influence and popularity.

In ‘36 the kidnaping and murder of Charles Poole and the subsequent crackdown on the Black Legion (a para-military offshoot of the Klan active in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio) sped the disintegration of the Klan which was sold in ‘39 and bankrupted for tax avoidance in ‘44 ending both the Second Era Klan and hastening the decline of racially based paleo-conservatism.

As mentioned earlier, the ideology promoted by the Klan and like minded groups since the Reconstruction Era is extremely similar to the ideology promoted by the mainstream of American racialist groups such as Storm Front, American Renaissance, VDARE, the Council of Conservative Citizens, various Klan factions, the American Nationalist Union the recently disbanded National Vanguard and several other organizations as well.

Given the failure of paleo-conservatism to preserve Occidental interests in America within the nearly ideal historical context that presented itself to the Second Era Klan honest men should question the suitability of the ideology within the current era even if most in the “the WN community” refuse to do so as has been the case for over sixty years.

Fundamentally, paleo-conservatism should be about the preservation of that which makes a people or a nation state unique. Within the American context that has unfortunately come to mean classical liberalism, capitalism, constitutionalism and a less permissive form of Christianity.

The single greatest flaw with such an ideology is that the things it wishes to preserve are already dead. The constitutional republic of the founders so revered by the paleo-cons is like any other legal doctrine in that it can’t help but to die along with the societal conditions that gave rise to it. It died when the states ceased to be sovereign entities able to withdraw from the union and the republics that succeeded it are as alien to the vision of the 18th century liberals that created the constitution as the founder’s republic is the typical Obama voter or Howard Stern fan.

One endlessly hears commentary about the sacred glory of the constitution and debate among paleo-cons over it’s relevance to various contemporary controversies. What is not noted is that the constitution not only failed to protect Occidental children from being forced at gunpoint to attend publicly funded indoctrination centers extolling the virtues of miscegenation while being physically abused by racial aliens it made such travesties the law of the land. Although the constitution failed to prevent Occidentals in America being dispossessed by a never ending tidal wave of third world flotsam it has granted the invaders legal equality with those that created your nation. The constitution failed to prevent America becoming a client state of Israel just as it failed to prevent the rise of Bush’s Orwellian surveillance state. The constitution has been powerless to stop the ascension of a multi billion dollar industry based upon sexual debasement and an economic order in which tens of millions of Americans live the lives of serfs slaving away for global enterprises that buy legislators, presidents and judges. While constitutionalism has done absolutely nothing to prevent cultural bolshevism dominating American life it has given legal license to every manner of social malignancy one can imagine. And yet for more then one hundred and fifty years American paleocons cling to the fantasy that the very same legal mechanism that gutted the republic they love will somehow restore it back to the halcion days of the 1950s, the early 1900s, the antebellum South, 1789 or what ever nostalgic fantasy they aspire to.

The reason that such a tragedy has come to pass is because such an outcome is a consequence of the individualistic nature of liberalism without which cultural Bolshevism simply would have not have been possible.

The mainstream of what little remains of the paleo-con movement is committed to racial egalitarianism and the notion that Occidental cultures can be perpetuated by races other then the one that created it. Mainstream paleo-cons believe that racial aliens can be assimilated to accept and even advance Occidental culture ignoring the realities of racial psychometrical differences, evolutionary psychology and mountains of historical evidence to the contrary. In short they embrace a major cause of Occidental decline (multi-racialism) and even uphold it as an example of enlighten Western values while bemoaning the societal disintegration it engenders.

Although racially conscious paleo-cons still exist they embrace classical liberalism because they fail to understand that the liberalism of the 18th century has cultural bolshevism as it’s logical consequence. In part this stems from the egalitarianism and individualism expressed in the American constitution. America can’t be understood to be a nation in any meaningful sense of the term since it was not the product of the confluence of blood and soil and the folkways produced from such a dynamic. Rather, the old republic came about as an expression of the liberal idealism of the late 18th century and as such it exemplified a rejection of Occidental traditionalism with it’s emphasis upon communal responsibilities, privileges and hierarchy produced by the interaction between blood, soil and history.

Liberalism is expressed economically as capitalism and socially as atomistic individualism.
Tradition is incompatible with capitalism because social interaction is determined largely by ones’ financial prowess and conformity to fleeting consumerist fads. Within such an environment communing with ancestors and descendants becomes impossible when individuals can at best think in terms of family welfare and the occasional act of charity while typically they become defined by crass materialism or merely serfs living at the edge of subsistence.

A notion often promoted in paleo-con and WN circles is that modern day capitalism (often termed super-capitalism) is somehow substantially different then capitalism of what ever era they romanticize. Such a notion is absurd because it fails to recognize the anti-social nature inherent in capitalism.

Such destructiveness is demonstrated by the accumulation of financial power via usury which results in an extreme consolidation of wealth distorting so called “market forces” allowing oligopolies and/or monopolies to control markets and limit competition. In so doing they further consolidate their economic power creating an economy in which purchasing decisions, competition and chances for individual enrichment suffer. Oligopolies and/or monopolies also subvert supposedly free markets and democratic institutions when they inevitably discover that legislation, political parties and public office holders can be purchased as easily as any other commodity. In effect, highly concentrated capital is able nullify electoral results via well funded lobbying campaigns, dramatically manipulate electoral campaigns and mold public opinion to suit plutocratic interests. In practical terms the so called private sector can be just as an effective oppressor as an omnipotent state although some would argue that the engineering of consent via highly a concentrated corporate media creates a propasphere that is far more capable of controlling dissent then any state could. Paleo-con economic thought is like mainstream libertarianism in that they both prefer to believe the flagrant lie that capital is not inevitably concentrated and/or that such concentration does not distort the market nor cause social havoc.

When one surveys the post Occidental nation states of the West it becomes apparent that the political power of concentrated finance often can’t be overcome by regulatory regimes or tax policies consistent with the current liberal gestalt because the means by which such policies are crafted are owned by the very interests they seek to regulate. To the extent that various Western states have implemented social-democratic style control over capital the same dynamics of alienation remain in part because excessive statist regulation and taxes have simply shifted the power of capital to the state rather then to society at large. Within the context of the globalist order which the Occidental world has submitted itself to statist regulation of capital is ineffective as transnational finance has far more power culturally and politically then any nation state could muster within it’s own boarders. This unfortunate reality has been the case from the earliest days of the East India Trading company and remains so today.

Racially aware paleo-cons are cognizant of the reality that culture is a biologically based construct and that demographics determine the destiny of nations. Unfortunately they fail to realize that capitalism shapes demographics to suit the interests of those able to control capital. Although a great many racial paleo-cons look upon the Antebellum South with nostalgia they choose to forget the enslavement of Europeans and the misery inflicted upon free White men forced to compete with slave labor. In the case of Rhodesia and South Africa segregation and the concentration of political power in White hands did not translate into economic security for working class Europeans who were forced to compete with far more abundant Negroid labor while paying higher taxes to support parallel social services for two separate races. Elsewhere in the Western World slave labor came to be supplanted by an endless supply of alien labor when it became technologically possible to do so during the second half of the 19th century.

If by some miracle the racial paleo-cons of the likes of American Renaissance take power tomorrow bringing back segregation and ending third world immigration the twin forces of third world fertility and capitalism’s need for ever cheaper labor will do away what ever demographic gains the racial paleo-cons may achieve in short order. While mainstream and racial paleo-cons alike pay homage to Burke’s famous call for self determination from Madras to Manchester they ignore that the traditionalism of both will perish when left to so called market forces.

Since capitalism views individuals as any other commodity why should one expect tradition to be anything more then a marketing tool discarded when something else can be sold with a greater return on investment? The same “market forces” which imported slaves nearly two centuries ago to gain higher profits while taking bread from the mouths of White laborers exports Occidental jobs for higher profits today.

With rare exceptions, rebellion within the context of a consumerist society has nothing to do with upholding traditionalistic values. Instead uniqueness is based upon purchasing items which convey a pseudo-rebellion likely to win approval from one’s peers, media sanctioned carnality or mere nihilism. Occidentals must confront the discomforting reality that we are faced with a relentless marginalization and a looming extinction for the benefit of an elite that hold us in contempt rather then as individual members of a transcendent order in which commonality of purpose extends beyond material advancement and fashionableness. When a societal consensus is based upon ever fluxuating fads and the need to produce wealth for others with ever greater efficiency and ever lessening security it is inevitable that alienation and all it’s various symptoms like promiscuity, homosexualism, substance abuse, familial disintegration and delinquency will follow.

Capitalism and the individualism which gave birth to the classical liberalism of yore and the liberty so cherished by those that claim to be conservatives have seen the legal doctrines and institutions they cherish transformed into mere tools for competing interest groups and ascendant racial entities seeking to impose themselves over disassociated groups of individuals lacking any sense of common identity and purpose. Such an outcome is to be expected as Occidental peoples have had any sense of organically instilled purpose swept from them. Occidentals of all nations have no sense of an inherent uniqueness and value extending across countless generations of the past and those yet to be born and are doomed to extinction as long as such a mind set persists. We merely produce to the extent a global plutocracy allow us to with no thought of communal purpose beyond our grandparents and grandchildren.

Given that mainstream as well as racial paleo-cons lack the fortitude to realize the corrosive effects of capitalism and atomistic individualism upon what remains of the liberal democratic order they can not help but to bemoan the demise of our traditionalism while hoping that institutions controlled by racial aliens and deracinated Occidentals will once again serve the vision of the liberals of the late 18th century. A return to the liberalism of ages past presumes an electoral awakening of masses of lemmings motivated by gut and groin demonstrates a Fourierian disconnect from reality every bit as unreal as skull shapes being explained by Boasian anthropology.

A legal code shouldn’t be seen as anything more then mechanism for articulating and balancing competing interests for the greater good of a society as reflected within the confines of texts recognized as reflecting some transcendent truth. For a collection of texts to have such authority depends upon a nation being comprised of people with a sense of common purpose, history and destiny and such a perception can never be instilled in a fractious collection of rival cultures bound by force and avarice as is the case in the post Occidental West.

The vast material disparities and attendant political/societal dispossession is concurrent with capital becoming ever more focused resulting in the amplification of the social and economic Hobbesian struggle of “all against all”. Given that even paleo-cons have chosen to accept the foundational elements that have gutted our civilization and will continue to do so constitutionalism has no chance of reviving Burke’s “proud submission to the responsibilities class and providence revealed in custom”. Instead, recent generations have inherited the negation of those things resulting in the end of common identity and purpose which has been replaced by the current anti-culture abhorred by all who reject the modern crapulence of liberalism.

What now is termed paleo - conservatism is simply a sentimental attachment to the vestigial institutions of a deceased liberalism. Paleo-conservatism is in practice nothing more then the collective delusion of viewing an apparition as viable basis for restoring society to an idealized past. Raspail is right when he sees us as Hermit Crabs inhabiting the bounty of an ancestry we neither build upon, preserve, appreciate nor recognize. Instead we identify with the institutions and doctrines that not only once gave us prosperity but also license mistook for freedom bringing us to our current decrepitude. Paleocons of all sorts as well as libertarians have done so partly out of ignorance and nostalgia but also out of cowardice. The cowardice I speak of they imagine to be prudence which they hope against reason will ingratiate those that control the institutions that loath them but hope to be co-opted by. In the end all the paleo-cons of any description can hope for is the demented fantasy that contrary to evidence and reason revolutionary change can be avoided by merely fine tuning the legal code, withering the state, praying more fervently or that assimilation will transform aliens into Occidentals as we fade to an anthropological curiosity.

Such a perspective is a biological and ideological distraction the Occidental world hasn’t been able to afford for generations. A genuine conservatism given the current demographic and institutional context must be revolutionary in it’s rejection of the foundational assumptions of liberalism. Paleo-conservativism and libertarianism have never and will never rescue a decadent, deracinated people from oblivion nor even made a credible attempt at doing so. By contrast National Revolutionary doctrine has done so several times within living memory. Occidental man requires a revolutionary traditionalism totally divorced from liberalism. Anything else is merely an overly traveled road to the extinction of Occidental humanity.