I don't know anything about the man, but I understand there is some sort of controversy concerning Harold A. Covington. Be that as it may, he is a fairly good writer and this article, though dated, contains some good food for thought. I also recommend his novels about the war leading to the founding of the Northwest Republic.

THE STRUGGLE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME

In the 1890s, the degenerate aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas was Oscar Wilde's bugger boy. In one of his poems, Douglas referred to homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name." There is a topic which the Aryan racial nationalist movement similarly has for years discussed only in whispers; it is time we came out of the closet and openly discussed armed struggle.

This article is a general discussion of certain aspects of human and political dynamics. It does not advocate, urge or incite any individual or group to commit unlawful acts of violence against anyone. The theoretical nature of this article should be clear to any reader of normal intelligence. I furthermore strongly caution you to beware of any person or group who approaches you with some alleged plan for armed insurrection or premature illegality. Anyone who does so is either a dangerous idiot or else a police agent of some kind. If you fall for their line, then YOU are an idiot. It is an ironic truism that, to some degree, Federal agents provocateur provide the Movement with a grim form of natural selection whereby those who are too stupid to become genuine revolutionaries are weeded out.

Bear in mind the essential difference between DIRECT ACTION and the STUPID ILLEGAL ACT. Direct action is an overt act which inflicts serious damage against the enemy through the loss of important personnel or resources; an act which improves the Movement's image as serious revolutionaries to be treated with the respect which comes from the capacity to use force successfully; which demoralizes and confuses the enemy and correspondingly strengthens the morale of the Movement and the White population as a whole. Finally, the most critical component of direct action is that the persons carrying it out ARE NOT APPREHENDED OR PUNISHED BY THEFORCES OF THE STATE.

By contrast, the STUPID ILLEGAL ACT is usually carried out spontaneously, with little or no prior planning, often under the influence of alcohol. It is directed against minor targets such as street niggers, individual faggots or race-mixers, etc. who are no real loss to the system, there being plenty more where they came from. Finally, the perpetrators are almost always immediately arrested and given crushing prison sentences, thus boosting the enemy's morale and bolstering the deterrent effect of the establishment's crumbling legal machinery, giving it a gloss of efficiency which it does not in fact possess. Any more ritual disclaimers we need to insert? Can we get on with it? Good.

SUCH AS IT IS, the Aryan racial nationalist movement throughout the world since 1945 has been distinguished by one remarkable characteristic which separates it from every other revolutionary movement ever known: a reluctance verging on the racially suicidal to engage in armed military struggle against genocidal tyranny.

Genuine politics is about one thing: the acquisition and exercise of POWER. All else is political hobbyism, a luxury which the wealthy landed gentry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who created liberal democracy could afford, but which a race on the verge of extinction cannot. Power, all power without exception, is in the final analysis founded on one basis: armed force. Religion, constitutions, civil laws, custom and all the various social institutions for reinforcing acceptable behavior (i.e., submission to authority) all have their place in a state's power structure, but without the ultimate sanction of the bayonet they are meaningless.

All power, without exception, is initially acquired through armed force or through the imminent threat of armed force. Some revolutions are bloodier than others; the Bolsheviks slaughtered millions while the National Socialist German Workers' Party came to power in Germany after somewhat less than a thousand deaths in fourteen years of street fighting between the Party's paramilitary formations and the Communists. But all modern states, without exception, were originally brought into existence by men who fought for power with weapons in their hands.

Power becomes accessible to revolutionaries when the existing order loses two vital assets upon which the maintenance of any government depends. The first element is the (at least passive and tacit) CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, and the second is THE CREDIBLE MONOPOLY OF ARMED FORCE. When the revolutionary movement has both the will and the capacity to commit acts of armed insurrection against the state, and to do so with impunity, i.e., the perpetrators ARE NOT CAUGHT OR PUNISHED, then the state has lost the credible monopoly of force which is the foundation of all power. Persons other than those sanctioned by the state exercise power over the lives and destinies of others; the revolutionary movement begins to displace the state's apparatus by armed compulsion as well as by transferring the consent of the governed to itself through persuasion and propaganda. BOTH PERSUASION AND COERCION ARE NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT A SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION. Neither element alone can succeed without the other. All the propaganda, all the popular support and all the legal activity in the world are useless if the state can fall back on armed force to maintain itself and destroy opposition. A revolutionary movement without an effective armed wing is doomed to perpetual futility and eventual defeat.

The formulations stated above are by no means original with me; they are as old as statecraft itself. I simply happen to be the only American racial nationalist who is willing to discuss them in public. These truths are obvious from even the most cursory examination of human history. They are also obvious from reading today's headlines. It is a demonstrable historical fact: pursued with sufficient persistence, ruthlessness, military expertise and fearless disregard for the consequences, armed struggle eventuallyWORKS.

Why, then, do the White males of the late twentieth century persistently refuse to utilize the gun, the basic tool of power which is understood and applied without hesitation by the most savage African tribal leader and the most corrupt and uncouth Latin American despot? As a side issue of some interest, why does our present Aryan leadership (again, such as it is) consistently refuse to even address this question, instead expending a good deal of time and effort orchestrating extensive campaigns of slander and vilification against those who do?

There are several immediately apparent reasons. As discreditable as it is, a good part of it is simple garden-variety physical cowardice, as well as fear on the part of the "leaders" that any boat-rocking militancy will draw heat and frighten the racist couch potatoes who provide the bulk of the present constellation of grouplet's mail-order funding, sending them scuttling for cover, their precious checkbooks snapped shut like oysters.

There is also the incredible lack of practical political education and knowledge among what passes for Aryan leadership, the bulk of whom are politically and historically illiterate. Your average Ku Klux Klan "leader" has never cracked a proper history book in his life and probably thinks Machiavelli is a foreign sports car. To be sure, some prominent Movement figures, especially those involved in Revisionism, do have a high degree of specialized knowledge within certain very narrow fields, such as Constitutional esoterica or the Third Reich period in Germany. But while they may be able to wax abstruse on obscure points of common law which the Federal judiciary of today simply ignores or rattle off the name of every SS division and every Jew who was ever involved in Marxism, by and large any in-depth historical scholarship is almost entirely lacking within the Movement. But our reluctance to face up to the reality of armed struggle's pivotal role in social and political change goes beyond these immediately apparent causes. It reaches into the deep-rooted psychological malaise which has pervaded the entire White racial resistance movement throughout the Western world since 1945. This psychological and spiritual condition is difficult to quantify. The late Dr. Revilo Oliver once posed the famous question: "Have we, the men of the West, lost the will to live?" Down through the years I have often observed that the White man in America seems to be in the grip of a kind of collective death wish, a mysterious and inexplicable WILL TO FAILURE.

I am by no means the first to notice this phenomenon. One of the best articles the late Bob Miles ever wrote was in the aftermath of the Fort Smith sedition trials of 1988, when he pointed out in his "From the Mountain" newsletter that the acquittals in that despicable charade, instead of heartening us and encouraging more activism, resulted in an avalanche of sullen defeatism, smears, carping and dog-in-the-manger petty bickering throughout the Movement.

Bob pointed out something which is crucial to understanding why we have gotten virtually nowhere for the past two generations. Over and above the preponderance of outright fraudulent leadership who are in it for the money, the Movement has been controlled for years by elements who are deeply pessimistic, defeatist, lazy, lethargic and mired in profound depression over Aryan man's terrible present situation and our more terrible prospects for the future. We are an army of Eeyores.

It's difficult to assign a precise point where the rot set in; the murder of Commander Rockwell will do for a benchmark, but the fact remains that for almost three decades the bulk of the White right in North America has been led by men who are simply going through the motions.

To be sure, sometimes they have gone through the motions with a certain style and panache. Yet with one or two shining exceptions, such as the saga of The Order, the multifarious attempts at White resistance which have occurred over the past thirty years have always had a dark, sinister leitmotif underlying them; the acidly poisonous idea that VICTORY ISN'T REALLY POSSIBLE, that the White man is essentially doomed to extinction through his own stupidity, and that the most any of us can really do is to draw the funeral ceremonies and the eulogies out as long as we can, before getting on with the business of dying.

When this attitude is taken into consideration, the reluctance seriously to discuss, much less to adopt, the one operational strategy 100 percent guaranteed to catapult us into serious politics in double-quick time becomes comprehensible. Why risk one's life, health and liberty on what is essentially an interesting but ultimately futile hobby? For that is exactly how most so-called "leaders" among us regard the whole exercise in which they are engaged.

THERE ARE, OF COURSE, a number of very practical objections to Aryan armed struggle at the moment; please don't think I'm unaware of them. In the first place, we lack anything even remotely resembling leadership sufficiently competent to wage a military campaign. Tom Metzger regularly incites his Skinhead followers to acts of random violence with hysterical rhetoric about "Aryan warriors," but this is just self-destructive hooliganism, not properly organized revolution. Usually the Skins who fall into this trap end up doing more damage to themselves and their friends than to the enemy, which result may of course be the object of the whole exercise.

A second objection is the serious dearth of Aryan men in this country of sufficiently strong and durable makeup even to serve as cannon fodder. On the whole, American White males are as soft as butter, a fact clearly evinced by the increasing number of White women who choose non-White men or other women as sexual partners.

I do not mean soft only in the sense of physical fitness, although to be sure the bulk of America's weak-willed, flabby and self-indulgent White male population can't even run up a staircase without huffing and puffing. But physical strength is a minor problem and the one most easily corrected with some willpower and some exercise. If physical strength were everything, the orang-outang would rule the world.

I refer to SPIRITUAL and MORAL softness; the infantile and egotistical American demand for instant gratification of every whim; the attention span of a housefly which characterizes our present Beavis and Butt-Head generation; the deathly fear of even the slightest physical pain or discomfort; the deeply-ingrained, bone-idle laziness which keeps the posterior of the White American firmly planted in his armchair staring at the tube like a zombie.

Almost nowhere in White American males do we find the attributes of the political soldier: the alertness to one's surroundings which means survival in guerrilla warfare; the cool and steady hand that can pull a trigger at close range and watch the brains splatter or detonate a bomb without fumbling or hesitation; the mental agility necessary to stay one step ahead of the pursuing police and government troops; and above all the total selfless dedication, the inflexible purpose, the iron self-discipline necessary to function under unbelievable pressure, to stand the unimaginable stress and to live the life of the modern-day urban guerrilla. During my twenty-five years in the Movement I have met a few White men with that kind of inflexible will, hardness, courage and integrity--but only a few.

Before we can even think about rebelling against the tyrant, we must produce a different kind of White man in this country. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. I do not, in fact, believe that we ourselves will have to perform this prodigious transmutation. I think ZOG is going to do it for us.

Because, you see, oppression either breaks men or it makes them. The philosopher Nietzsche said, "THAT WHICH DOES NOT DESTROY ME MAKES ME STRONGER." The Jews and their leftist allies have turned this country into a revolting, putrid swamp--but dangerous beasts breed in swamps. I think the Jews and the establishment have long suffered from the typical defect which the arrogance of power breeds: AN OVERESTIMATION OF THEIR ABILITY TO CONTROL EVENTS.

By denying jobs and educational opportunities to young White males through racial quotas, by persecuting those who resist with "hate crime" laws and vile civil lawsuits, by shouting their derision and their hatred for everything White through their controlled media and subjecting the White male to an unending torrent of insult, abuse and vilification, the scum who run this society are sowing dragon's teeth.

ASSUMING THAT WE ARE SERIOUS about the survival of our race (an assumption which at times does not seem justifiable, but we'll let that go for the moment), precisely what alternatives to the armed struggle have been proposed in order to achieve our objective? It is time we examined those alternatives realistically.

Every effort at building an effective White resistance movement has foundered on this central rock of contradiction: When all is said and done, precisely WHAT THE HELL DO WE INTEND TO DO? How are we going to break the Judaic stranglehold which at present grips every aspect of American life? How are we going to get rid of the hordes of Third World mud people who now infest the North American continent and whose numbers swell every year since the government has abandoned all pretense of immigration control? How will we implement the historic Fourteen Words of David Lane and secure the existence of our people and a future for White children?

Shall we win some big election victory and walk into power with our enemies bowing and scraping and strewing flowers before us? Surely, SURELY there remains no one in this Movement who is so stupid as to continue to believe that such a thing is possible? One wonders what planet such people have been living on for the past thirty years.

For one thing, since the inception of the Clinton co-presidency the Democratic party has gone to the Federal courts in several serious attempts to un-do statewide elections (in New Jersey and Texas) where the results displeased them. We will doubtless see more of this kind of thing as the American political system continues its present downward slide into Third World sleaze and degradation. And if the Democrats will pull this stunt with respectable Republican conservatives who were so rude as to win elections, what do you think would happen if an open National Socialist or Klansman were to win an elective office? The Democrats, the Republicans, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and Morris Dees would all go running to the nearest Federal judge as fast as their bandy little legs could carry them and get an injunction to prevent the White winner from taking office until some way could be found to overturn the election results.

I suppose there might be a few who continue to cite the example of David Duke, but Duke's subsequent career since his Louisiana state election victory in 1989 conclusively demonstrates the futility of racial nationalist participation in electoral politics. Duke ran for the U.S. Senate and for Governor; he lost both elections due to blatant vote fraud which was carried out by Louisiana state elections officials and tacitly condoned by the Federal Election Commission. Duke furthermore had to spend several years battling bogus legal charges over his campaign finances, charges he eventually won clear of but which bankrupted him. Duke's 1989 victory was an ACCIDENT. It won't be allowed to happen again.

Aside from the massive vote fraud which has become a regular feature of American elections, demographics increasingly dictate against our use of electoral politics. The simple fact of the matter is that White people in general are becoming outnumbered in large parts of this country, and racially conscious White people even more so. The various Third World minorities, the left-wing, union, feminist and faggot bloc votes will combine with that solid lump of White jackasses who simply will not change their voting patterns no matter how much it would be in their racial interest to do so.

And suppose we did win a few minor public offices? Elected officials in this society no longer wield much in the way of effective power; true power is concentrated unconstitutionally in the hands of the Federal judiciary and the massive civil service bureaucracy. There is little point in getting our people elected to talking shops whose primary function in these times is to rubber-stamp the power structure's true agenda.

Communalism, then? The formation of Aryan communities or colonies or whatever, far out in the deep forests of the Ozarks or the Pacific Northwest? We saw on Ruby Ridge and in Waco what ZOG has planned for separatists of any racial or religious stripe who attempt to unplug themselves from the tube and who refuse to function as mere economic units of production and consumption within the New World Order.

So what should we do? For the time being we must stick with legality AS TACTIC OF CONVENIENCE AND EXPEDIENCY ONLY, which is all legality ever is for any truly revolutionary movement. But we need to accept that the entire thrust of the Movement from this point on must be aimed at PREPARATION FOR EVENTUAL ARMED STRUGGLE in order to seize state power and create a genuine New Order, a new way of life in America.

At some point in the future, the White man in North America will be confronted with a choice: He must either fight for his right to exist here, literally, in the sense of armed combat with military weapons, or he must perish and hand his children over into slavery. It is the responsibility of the National Socialist White People's Party to ensure that our people make the correct choice. We cannot save our people if we persistently refuse even to discuss physical resistance against the government which is enslaving us and the anthropoid sub-species who butcher us like hogs for sport. We cannot hope to lead our children out of the terrible world into which they have been born if we lie to them and lie to ourselves that ultimate salvation will be found in a ballot box or a computer terminal behind which we can sit on a soft cushioned chair. If our race is to survive then there must come a time of death, blood and fire.

Finally, we will inevitably hear the last quavering objections of the Nervous Nellies who wail and bleat, "But it's the LAAAAAW! We can't break the precious, wonderful, sacred LAAAAAW of AMURRRRRICA!"

Well, they're quite right. Bill and Hillary ARE the law. Tyrants always are. That's what distinguishes tyrants from ordinary gangsters. Stalin was the law in Russia, too. Integration is the law. Affirmative action is the law. Quotas in university admissions are the law. Every April 15th the law robs you of one-third of what you earn all year. Drugs and black crime and the Third World hordes swarming over the borders are ignored by the law. Any little light bulbs coming on over your head yet?

The law is a weapon, and like any other weapon it is only as good or as bad as the people wielding it. Right now the law is in the hands of the present United States government and the liberal establishment, one of many such weapons. It is being used to pillage you, disrupt and break up your family, rob your children of a future, and will eventually destroy you in your old age. The law in its present state deserves no respect from any White man or woman in America. Indeed, obedience and respect for the law have become countersurvival and, human nature being what it is, anything which is countersurvival will not endure.

Adolf Hitler himself stated in "Mein Kampf": "WHEN A PEOPLE IS BEING DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION THROUGH THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY, THEN REBELLION IS NOT ONLY THE RIGHT BUT THE DUTY OF THAT PEOPLE." This point is so obvious that I really can't make it any more clear; if you honestly don't understand this, then you should not be in the Movement at all.

Finally, there is the moral dimension to be considered. Looking for easy outs and safe shortcuts is not only futile, it is wrong. Before we can have a new White world, we must EARN it. That's the way life works.

Like all persecuted minorities, White males are despised. We are despised by the government, by the liberal establishment, by the congoid criminals who rob and rape and kill our people, by the media, and to a large degree we are despised by our own children. We are despised because we are correctly viewed as weak, cowardly, lazy, incapable and unwilling to defend ourselves or take any serious action against those who despoil and victimize us, other than to go whining to the enemy's police and the enemy's courts. Why in the name of God SHOULD anyone respect us? Why should we respect ourselves?

It's time White men recovered our self-respect and the respect of those who hate us. And it is a longstanding human truth that respect among men is earned by the shedding of blood.

For Aryan Victory,

HAROLD A. COVINGTON