By Frederick Dixon:
Jared Taylor of American Renaissance in an interview published recently on this website, and again in his recent address to a meeting in London, admitted that although he had racked his brains over the problem for twenty years he could not account for the loss of racial solidarity among white peoples since 1945. After advancing several partial answers he admitted that none of these could really explain so unnatural a phenomenon:- “I do not think that these explanations are sufficient, even in combination. We have an instinctive loyalty to family, to those to whom we are genetically close. Our race is our extended family, and its boundaries are marked by clearly visible physical traits. For an entire race to have lost this sense of kinship, to have lost sight of boundaries, is without historical precedent.”
Taylor is right of course, but there is another factor which is seldom, if ever, mentioned but which might provide a clue to this perilous loss of faith in our racial identity. That factor is the Cold War. For more than forty years from the end of the Second World War the rival empires of the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a struggle for the hearts and minds of the third world. We were warned that if we did not win that struggle, the “West” would be reduced to a prosperous pond around the North Atlantic as Africa, Latin America and Asia joined eastern Europe in its proletarian paradise. From the 1950s this seemed all too credible as Cuba turned communist, as the French were routed by the Viet Minh, as South Korea almost fell to an assault from the north.
In this struggle for hearts and minds, the Soviet Union possessed two weapons of great power – western colonialism and racial segregation in the United States. “Look” the Soviets might have said with unconscious irony “this is how they treat people of colour, while we, on the other hand, have an official doctrine of national liberation and racial equality.” To strike these weapons from Soviet hands, Europe’s colonial empires had to be dismantled, segregation outlawed in the United States, Rhodesia and South Africa destroyed, immigration control liberalised.
None of this would be easy because these things enjoyed strong popular support. That popular support had therefore to be undermined by weakening to the point of destruction that belief which white people had in the achievements and virtues of their race and thus, ultimately, in the value of its very existence. The tools for doing so were ready to hand in left/liberal ideas, such as those of the Frankfurt School, which had been around since the First World War but which, in the West, had always hitherto been dismissed as the ideas of cranks and extremists. Now their time had come. It would be interesting to discover to what extent government was active in insinuating such ideas into the universities, schools, media and judiciary, or was government merely content to allow them to spread by removing the previous constraints on extremist penetration?
The reach of these “new” ideas was enhanced by the rise of a very large young generation, the “baby boomer” generation, which came of age in the 1960s and whose leading elements were eager to throw off the restraints of the “old”. The adoption by that new generation of a style of music which was at least partly of Negro inspiration inevitably affected attitudes to race. So these sixties “rebels” against the establishment perfectly served the purposes of government.
We know now that the Soviet Union was a paper tiger. Although not every part of the third world is like Afghanistan, where the Soviets came so memorably unstuck, it does seem very unlikely that they would have been able to impose their rule for very long outside Europe. It did not take many years after 1945 for the communist countries in Asia, led by China, to slip the leash, but their socialism had always had a strong nationalist bias. Paper tiger though it may have been in reality, the Soviet Union was always presented to we plebs as a terrifying monster of monolithic strength intent on the destruction of “freedom”, and that too served the purpose of breaking down resistance to the designs of government. Did government know the truth about the Soviet Union? If it did, then the dismantling of white racial solidarity was procured by fraud.
All the nostrums of the Left have failed, all their ideas have been tested to destruction – our destruction. It is now time for a new generation to revolt against the old, to defy the conventions of the Left, to outrage the politically respectable, to let in the Truth.
By Frederick Dixon © 2013
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Michael Woodbridge
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Frederick Dixon has put his finger on a very significant factor in explaining the “Suicide of the West.” In addition to what he writes it has been discovered that modern abstract art was actually funded by the CIA as a way, as Mr. Dixon puts it, of “insinuating” the chimera of progress into our society as a counterweight to the supposed “progressive” principles of Marxism. What he doesn’t quite explain is why some twenty years after the fall of Communism as a monolithic power Marxist propaganda still has such a stranglehold on our society. I well remember listening to a discussion on Radio 4 just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in which one of the contributers boasted that whilst Communism may have been defeated its value system could continue to permeate society. In fact if anything the situation has got worse. Twenty years ago who would have thought that homosexual marriage would be institutonalised or that there would actually be an institutionalised “Hollowhoax Day”? I don’t claim to have all the answers but there’re two factors which may go somewhere towards answering it. One is the Western tradition of universalism as preached by Christianity. (I’m sorry to have to say this when Christianity has been inextricably linked to so much that is positive in our culture). The second factor might be that deracination suits the Capitalist system perfectly because it breaks down communites into economic units devoid of any organic identity. With the death of Mrs.Thatcher and a reassessment of her legacy we can begin to realise that the real enemy during the Cold War period was not so much Communism but Capitalism. Marxism was merely the nasty virus that destroyed our morale exposing us to Capitalist exploitation.
Steve
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I think there has been a slow ratchet effect using things that at first glance looked reasonable but were a Trojan horse to get the unreasonable through, which would have never been agreed to by the minority.
It’s as the Frankfurt School proposed, to rot all our institutions from within to cause revolution but the workers won’t be the ones profiting from this.
frederickdixon
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Mike, thank you for adding some more perspective to this conundrum with your references to the effects of abstract art, Christian teaching and capitalist internationalism. I’m sure that all of these things play their part; but I also believe that we are far too close to this bizarre phenomenon to be able to see the whole picture. It is still working itself out, and we might have to wait a century or two for a learned historian to produce the definitive study – pity we won’t be around to read it, but hopefully our great-grandchildren will do so.
I admit that I don’t quite explain why Marxist values still hold sway more than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall. All I can offer is the old fable of Pandora’s box – once released, these horrors take on a life of their own and will not be easily put back in the box.
Steve
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The Soviet Union came unstuck in Afghanistan, the US in Vietnam & to a certain extent in Korea & Cuba, it was stalemate.
In the film “Body of lies” they talk about men of the future trying to fight men of the past & failing.
I think our government & in the US & elsewhere in the western world control both by divide & rule methods but also by indirect fear as in “We’ll protect you from this that or the other”.
After the cold war evaporated we have all sorts other fears to worry about, we had acid rain, CFC’s, famines, global warming & so on.
Some of it might have a germ of truth about it but is manipulated to suit the ruling classes.
Michael Woodbridge
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Well said Steve! Not least are we being manipulated by our fear of Islam. Islam is a convenient side issue to deflect us from our racial mission and destiny. It is a way in which we can give vent to our racism and feelings of dismay at the colonisation of our country without upsetting the status quo. It suits the Establishment to provide us with a whipping boy in the form of Islam because Islam is essentially a traditionalist philosophy that runs counter to Capitalism. More especially the Islamic states stand in opposition to Israel and by stirring up prejudice against the Islamic religion the Establishment has been able to agitate and co-opt us into a series of incredibly cruel and unnecessary wars.
Steve
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Thanks, the other thing is that the Church of England is so wishy washy, it won’t fight to protect itself, it sees no danger in anything it seems.
Steve
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In many ways our societies are very flimsy as well, it wouldn’t take much to create chaos, if the electricity fails, our society is pretty much finished in its present form.
Imagine if the drinking water stopped or was contaminated & so on.
Michael Woodbridge
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Yes, I’d like to agree with Mr. Dixon about the Pandora’s Box effect. I suppose it was a bit optimistic and premature of me to think that decades, or even centuries, of moral corruption would disappear with the Berlin Wall. An old political ally of mine, who used to publish a right-wing news letter and who now lives in Germany, asked me not to put public political messages on his Facebook page because, “Political correctness is a notch higher in Germany.” This is twenty years after the fall of Communism! Just a day ago an old friend who now lives in California and once begged me to give her my recording of the “Triumph of the Will,” defriended me on Facebook because she found my political postings, “Unpleasant.” Still, as an optimist, I regard “political correctness” as the rigor mortis grip of a dead creed.
Steve
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“defriended me on Facebook”
I find it very rare anyone wants “friend” me in the first place, I must be doing something right!