Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Fatherland: In Sardinha's "On Behalf of the Commoner"

"Superior to the individuals of a sad passing hour, the Fatherland is not, in any way the pretext of our transitory passions, neither do we have the power to transform it after our whims and according to our ideologies. The stranger is not, thus, solely he which was born from another community to another language and others customs. Also a stranger is he who, insurrectioning against the rule which socially conformed him, realises in himself the tremendous word of Comte, by condemning the Revolution as being a "rebellion of the self against the species". Now, when that stranger, which is the stranger of the interior, denacionalised by cosmopolitan ideals, masonised by lowly interests of the sect, takes over the government of a nation to imprint in it a goal which is adverse to its fundamental sentiments, is there not legitimately, even from a minority, the right to revolt?" 
- António Sardinha in "A Prol do Comum (On Behalf of the Commoner)", 1934
 
Text from O Horizonte Português - The Sun at Night

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Heinrich Himmler Enjoying a Prize Tulip

"Every plant unto thee proclaimeth the laws everlasting,
Every flower speaks louder and louder to thee"

J.W. von Goethe, "Metamorphosis of Plants" 

Himmler with a prize tulip at a market garden in the late 1930s...

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

A Quote from Franco on Fascism as an Urge to Live

"Fascism, since that is the word that is used, fascism presents, wherever it manifests itself, characteristics which are varied to the extent that countries and national temperaments vary. It is essentially a defensive reaction of the organism, a manifestation of the desire to live, of the desire not to die, which at certain times seizes a whole people. So each people reacts in its own way, according to its conception of life." 
- Francisco Franco, 1938 interview with Henri Massis

Monday, October 16, 2017

A Quote from Codreanu on the Framework of Service

"I started with an impulse of my heart, with that instinct of defense which even the least of the worms has, not with the instinct of personal self-preservation, but of defense of the race to which I belong. This is why I have always had the feeling that the whole race rests on our shoulders, the living, and those who died for the Fatherland, and our entire future, and that the race struggles and speaks through us, that the hostile flock, however huge, in relation to this historical entity, is only a handful of human detritus which we will disperse and defeat... The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone."
- Corneliu Codreanu

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Remark from Rinosuke Ichimaru's Letter to Roosevelt

"It is beyond my imagination of how you can slander Hitler's program and at the same time cooperate with Stalin's 'Soviet Russia' which has as its principal aim the "socialization" of the world at large." 
- Rear Admiral R. Ichimaru, Japanese navy, note to Roosevelt
http://www.yoyokaku.com/note-to-Roosevelt.htm 

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

A Remark on Hitler in the Fullness of the German Folk

"I have never met a happier people than the Germans and Hitler is one of the greatest men. The old trust him; the young idolise him. It is the worship of a national hero who has saved his country."

- David Lloyd George, from the Daily Express, on 17 September 1936

Friday, August 4, 2017

A Quote from D'Annunzio on the Creation of One's Life

"You must create your life, as you’d create a work of art." 
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, founder of the protofascist Italian Regency of Carnaro in the seized city of Fiume, in 'Il Piacere'

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

A Quote from Hitler on Boundaries in Nature

"Thus men without exception wander about in the garden of nature; they imagine that they know practically everything and yet with few exceptions pass blindly by one of the most patent principle's of nature's rule: the inner segregation of the species of all living beings on this Earth." 
- Adolf Hitler, 'Mein Kampf' 

Monday, July 24, 2017

A Quote from Szálasi on Truth

"The reason why people believe lies so easily, is because they don't want to fight for an ideology and they don't want to suffer to find the truth." 
- Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Arrow Cross party of Hungary 

Saturday, July 22, 2017

A Quote from Szálasi on the Hypocrisy of Peacemakers

"Those who start a war to make peace, are just like the apostle who kills off his followers, so they can join the beauty of afterlife." 
- Ferenc Szálasi 
Image: Szálasi in meeting with fellow members of the National-Socialist party, the Arrow Cross; the Arrow Cross gained and held power from Oct. 1944 to May 1945, in Hungary, under the title, the Government of National Unity.

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Victors Write History: Joachim Peiper on the Past

"History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circles of those who were there." 
- Joachim Peiper, field officer in the Waffen SS 
Image: Members 'Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler' at Königsplatz in Munich

Friday, July 14, 2017

Codreanu on the Virtue of Silence and the Oratory of Deeds

"The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk." 
- Corneliu Codreanu, 'The Nest Leader's Manual'

Friday, February 10, 2017

Remark from Salazar on Dubious Concepts

"The attentive observer will notice that what is called political life in the world of today is, to a great extent, only agitation and that that agitation operates around primary feelings and imprecise concepts. Certain number of words or punchlines fly from continent to continent and take with them, in the simplicity and apparent clarity of the formulas, worlds of doubtful, if not entirely wrong, concepts. For example, the words freedom, democracy, dictatorship, rights of the people, before historians could track them or philosophers define them, already had they awoken emotional torrents, unleashed revolutions, altered the march of events." 
- António de Oliveira Salazar em "Oliveira Salazar - Discursos e Notas Políticas - 1928 a 1966 (Oliveira Salazar - Speeches and Political Notes - 1928 to 1966)", 2016

Text from O Horizonte Português - The Sun at Night

Thursday, January 12, 2017

The Ecofascist Response: "Humanflood," by Pentti Linkola

The following was translated by Harri Heinonen and Michael Moynihan. The original article, as well as the introduction written by Michael Moynihan, may be found here. There are two other articles that trace the outline of ecofascism from a mainstream and a leftist perspective: Derek Wall's "Darker Shades of Green" and David Orton's "Ecofascism."

Pentti Linkola, Finnish ecologist.

What is man? "Oh, what art thou man?" the poets of the good old days used to wonder. Man may be defined in an arbitrary number of ways, but to convey his most fundamental characteristic, he could be described with two words: too much. I'm too much, you're too much. There's five billion of us - an absurd, astonishing number, and still increasing? The earth's biosphere could possibly support a population of five million large mammals of this size, given their food requirements and the offal they produce, in order that they might exist in their own ecological niche, living as one species among many, without discriminating against the richness of other forms of life.

What meaning is there in these masses, what use do they have? What essential new contribution is brought forth to the world by hundreds of human societies similar to one other, or by the hundreds of identical communities existing within these societies? What sense is there in the fact that every small Finnish town has the same choice of workshops and stores, a similar men's choir and a similar municipal theatre, all clogging up the earth's surface with their foundations and asphalt slabs? Would it be any loss to the biosphere - or to humanity itself - if the area of ??nekoski no longer existed, and instead in its place was an unregulated and diverse mosaic of natural landscape, containing thousands of species and tilting slopes of gnarled, primitive trees mirrored in the shimmering surface of Kuhmoj?rvi lake? Or would it really be a loss if a small bundle of towns disappeared from the map - Ylivieska, Kuusamo, lahti, Duisburg, Jefremov, Gloucester - and wilderness replaced them? How about Belgium?

What use do we have with Ylivieska? The question is not ingenious, but it's relevant. And the only answer isn't that, perhaps, there is no use for these places - but rather that the people in Ylivieska town have a reason: they live there. I'm not just talking about the suffocation of life due to the population explosion, or that life and the earth's respiratory rhythm cry out for the productive, metabolic green oases they sorely need everywhere, between the areas razed by man. I also mean that humanity, by squirting and birthing all these teeming, filth-producing multitudes from out of itself, in the process also suffocates and defames its own culture - one in which individuals and communities have to spasmodically search for the "meaning of life" and create an identity for themselves through petty childish arguing.

I spent a summer once touring Poland by bicycle. It is a lovely country, one where small Catholic children, cute as buttons, almost entirely dressed in silk, turn up around every corner. I read from a travel brochure that in Poland the percentage of people who perished in the Second World War is larger than in any other country - about six million, if my memory doesn't fail me. From another part of the brochure I calculated that since the end of the war, population growth has compensated for the loss threefold in forty years? On my next trip after that, I went through the most bombed-out city in the world, Dresden. It was terrifying in its ugliness and filth, overstuffed to the point of suffocation - a smoke-filled, polluting nest where the first spontaneous impression was that another vaccination from the sky wouldn't do any harm. Who misses all those who died in the Second World War? Who misses the twenty million executed by Stalin? Who misses Hitler's six million Jews? Israel creaks with overcrowdedness; in Asia minor, overpopulation creates struggles for mere square meters of dirt. The cities throughout the world were rebuilt and filled to the brim with people long ago, their churches and monuments restored so that acid rain would have something to eat through. Who misses the unused procreation potential of those killed in the Second World War? Is the world lacking another hundred million people at the moment? Is there a shortage of books, songs, movies, porcelain dogs, vases? Are one billion embodiments of motherly love and one billion sweet silver-haired grandmothers not enough?

All species have an oversized capacity for reproduction, otherwise they would become extinct in times of crisis due to variations of circumstances. In the end it's always hunger that enforces a limit on the size of a population. A great many species have self-regulating birth control mechanisms which prevent them from constantly falling into crisis situations and suffering from hunger. In the case of man, however, such mechanisms - when found at all - are only weak and ineffective: for example, the small-scale infanticide practiced in primitive cultures. Throughout its evolutionary development, humankind has defied and outdistanced the hunger line. Man has been a conspicuously extravagant breeder, and decidedly animal-like. Mankind produces especially large litters both in cramped, distressed conditions, as well as among very prosperous segments of the population. Humans reproduce abundantly in the times of peace and particularly abundantly in the aftermath of a war, owing to a peculiar decree of nature.

It may be said that man's defensive methods are powerless against hunger controlling his population growth, but his offensive methods for pushing the hunger line out of the way of the swelling population are enormously eminent. Man is extremely expansive - fundamentally so, as a species.

In the history of mankind we witness Nature's desperate struggle against an error of her own evolution. An old and previously efficacious method of curtailment, hunger, began to increasingly lose its effectiveness as man's engineering abilities progressed. Man had wrenched himself loose from his niche and started to grab more and more resources, displacing other forms of life. Then Nature took stock of the situation, found out that she had lost the first round, and changed strategy. She brandished a weapon she hadn't been able to employ when the enemy had been scattered in numbers, but one which was all the more effective now against the densely proliferating enemy troops. With the aid of microbes - or "infectious diseases" as man calls them, in the parlance of his war propaganda - Nature fought stubbornly for two thousand years against mankind and achieved many brilliant victories. But these triumphs remained localised, and more and more ineluctably took on the flavour of rear-guard actions. Nature wasn't capable of destroying the echelon of humanity in which scientists and researchers toiled away, and in the meantime they managed to disarm Nature of her arsenal.

At this point, Nature - no longer possessed of the weapons for attaining victory, yet utterly embittered and still retaining her sense of self-esteem - decided to concede a Pyrrhic victory to man, but only in the most absolute sense of the term. During the entire war, Nature had maintained her peculiar connection to the enemy: they had both shared the same supply sources, they drank from the same springs and ate from the same fields. Regardless of the course of the war, a permanent position of constraint prevailed at this point; for just as much as the enemy had not succeeded in conquering the supply targets for himself, Nature likewise did not possess the capability to take these same targets out of the clutches of humanity. The only option left was the scorched earth policy, which Nature had already tested on a small scale during the microbe-phase of the war, and which she decided to carry through to the bitter end. Nature did not submit to defeat - she called it a draw, but at the price of self-immolation. Man wasn't, after all, an external, autonomous enemy, but rather her very own tumour. And the fate of a tumour ordains that it must always die along with its host.

In the case of man - who sits atop the food chain, yet nevertheless ominously lacks the ability to sufficiently restrain his own population growth - it might appear that salvation would lie in the propensity for killing his fellow man. The characteristically human institution of war, with its wholesale massacre of fellow humanoids, would seem to contain a basis for desirable population control - that is, if it hadn't been portentously thwarted, since there is no human culture where young females take part in war. Thus, even a large decrease in population as a result of war affects only males, and lasts only a very short time in a given generation. The very next generation is up to strength, and by the natural law of the "baby boom" even becomes oversized, as the females are fertilised through the resilience of just a very small number of males. In reality, the evolution of war, while erratic, has actually been even more negative: in the early stages of its development there were more wars of a type that swept away a moderate amount of civilians as well. But by a twist of man's tragicomic fate, at the very point when the institution of war appeared capable of taking out truly significant shares of fertile females - as was intimated by the bombings of civilians in the Second World War - military technology advanced in such a way that large-scale wars, those with the ability to make substantial demographic impact, became impossible.