December 2, 2012
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New National-Anarchist Websites
NATA-NY are back with a new website and some great articles
and we would also like to welcome the Southern Appalachian National-Anarchists
We look forward to hearing more from both these groups in the future.
National-Anarchism: A Reader out now
EVERY significant force in modern politics requires an essential text as a means of presenting the world with its own unique ideological vision. NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: A READER is perhaps no different, in that it represents a fresh attempt to …both educate and inspire a new generation of disaffected young radicals. This book, brimming with original ideas and practical remedies, is the ‘bible’ of a new and dynamic phenomenon that seeks to transcend the superfluous and obsolete ideologies of ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘centre’. In a time when the West is beginning to crumble beneath the weight of its own hypocrisy, an undertaking of this magnitude has become more important than ever before. The contents examine a wide range of issues, including Politics, Economics, Race, History, Philosophy, Community, Education, Zionism, Defence, Revolution, Semantics, the Environment and Anarchism itself. Contributors include Troy Southgate, Keith Preston, Welf Herfurth, Flávio Gonçalves, Brett Stevens and Josh Bates.
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A Journey Through the Political Maze
A Review of Welf Herfurth’s “A Life in the Political Wilderness” by Keith Preston
A new title issued by the Portuguese publishing firm Finis Mundi Press, Welf Herfurth’s, A Life in the Political Wilderness, is unquestionably one of the most interesting politically oriented books I have encountered in quite some time. It is the work of a remarkable individual whom I am also pleased to call a friend. This book, which includes an introduction by Troy Southgate and a preface by Dr. Tomislav Sunic, is partly autobiographical, partly analytical and partly polemical. Welf is a thirty-year veteran of radical nationalist political activism, and has collected a treasure trove of insights from his many varied experiences over the decades.
Welf Herfurth was born in West Germany and grew up in a small rural community until his family relocated to Iran when he was a teenager. As a 17-year-old, Welf witnessed the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, and subsequently returned with his family to Germany. He became politically active with the NPD not long afterward because of his interest in the cause of German reunification. From the start of his political life onward, Welf experienced persecution by left-wing fanatics, even having eggs thrown at him during the very first political rally he ever attended. While traveling in South America during the early 1980s, Herfurth became aware of the pernicious effect of U.S. foreign policy in that region and throughout much of the globe and abandoned his previous pro-American sentiments. He was dismissed from three different jobs in West Germany because of his political activities. Eventually settling in Australia and becoming a successful businessman, Welf has been involved in dissident politics in that country for a quarter century, even achieving high level positions in party politics and working in parliament. Along the way, he has also continued to travel extensively, having visited nearly seventy different countries.
A Life in the Political Wilderness is a collection of thirteen essays discussing many of the major issues of our time from a decidedly politically incorrect perspective. These issues include the mass media, economics, international relations, political repression, culture, women, questions of political strategy, immigration and race. An aspect of Hefurth’s political odyssey that I predictably find to be the most fascinating is his embrace of the philosophy of National-Anarchism after more than twenty years of participation in party politics, even to the point of spending six figure amounts of his own money on his partisan activities. Indeed, his hard-earned insights into the futility of participation in the “democratic process” reminds me a bit of similar insights gained by the classical anarchists Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Johann Most after having served in the French and German parliaments, respectively.
A refreshing aspect of Welf’s outlook is its positive and optimistic nature. Unlike many nationalists, he refrains from denigrating or attacking other races and cultures, and indeed expresses a profound respect for the many variations of human culture that he has experienced during the course of his travels. Welf writes disdainfully of the effect of American cultural imperialism on the world’s historic cultures and civilizations. One of the illustrations he is fond of using involves his experience of observing a McDonald’s in Saigon and Vietnamese kids imitating American “gangsta” rappers. One of the book’s essays, “The Paris Hilton Syndrome,” provides a powerful Evola-influenced critique of American popular culture symbolized as it is by the nation’s reigning bimbo-supremo. While sharply observant and critical of the effect of mass Third World immigration on Western nations, Herfurth avoids falling into the trap of the “kill ‘em all, send ‘em back” fantasies and deification of past “radical right” movements common to some within the white nationalist milieu. His proposed solutions to the immigration crisis are instead nuanced, practical, forward-looking, and heavily influenced by the “ethnic federalism” concept advanced by Alain De Benoist.
Indeed, Welf Herfurth’s suggestions to contemporary “alternative right” movements might be summarized to a large degree with the slogan, “Go left, young man!” He advises activists of the present day radical Right to adopt the symbolism, style and many of the issues of the radical Left. He asks the question of why, for instance, the Left should have a monopoly on environmentalism? On many economic questions, he follows the lead of many of the nationalist parties of Europe in taking essentially left-wing positions. Aside from their immigration restrictionist views, the BNP, National Front, and NPD are arguably the most left-wing parties in their respective nations on economic matters.
Herfurth likewise points to the struggle of the Tibetans and the Palestinians to preserve their traditional ethno-cultures and national sovereignties in the face of political and demographic aggression by the Chinese Communist Party or the Zionist state. He notices the similarities between their struggle and the situation of those of us in the West and asks why the Left should dominate the “Free Tibet” or Palestinian statehood movements in Western countries. Welf and his fellow New Right and National-Anarchist activists in Australia have participated in left-wing demonstrations and activities, much to the frustration of the more conventional Left. This approach has likewise been utilized by the “free nationalist” or “autonomous nationalist” groups in Germany.
A particularly insightful aspect of Welf’s writing involves his critique of modern systems of “liberal democracy.” His ideas on this question are heavily influenced by Carl Schmitt and he discusses how the meaning of “democracy” in political discourse has shifted over time. Previously, “democracy” was principally a synonym for party politics, elections, and parliamentary debate. Herfurth notes that Iran has all of these things but is not regarded as a “democracy.” Free speech was once considered a core component of democracy, yet Germany is considered to be a democratic regime despite having as many political prisoners as some Middle Eastern autocracies. Welf examines the heretical question of why this is so.
He concludes that the meaning of “democracy” in the West has shifted from its previous emphasis on parliamentary politics and the classical liberal ideal of achieving the good society through political competition and open debate and has instead become synonymous with mere personal hedonism. A nation is judged to be “democratic” not on the basis of its institutional procedures or protection of political rights but according to such criteria as the frequency of its Pride Marches, the amount of public nudity it permits, and its efforts to eradicate “hate.” By this standard, a state could exhibit the legal norms and level of toleration of political dissent of Enver Hoxha’s Albania while still maintaining its status as a “democracy” so long as hate speech is prohibited, abortion on demand is permitted, and spectacles such as the Folsom Street Fair are allowed to flourish.
While reading this book, I was amazed by the fact that Welf and I have come to nearly identical conclusions on so many questions but from opposite ends of the political spectrum. During the years of the 1980s and 1990s while Welf was involved with the NPD or One Nation, I was involved with CISPES, the IWW, the WSA-IWA, the Greens, the ACLU, the U.S. Libertarian Party, and other not exactly rightist organizations. Then as now, my primary areas of interest were the growth of plutocracy in the United States and the declining economic condition of the working to middle classes, aggressive war carried out by the American empire, the ongoing expansion of the police state in the name of fighting crime, drugs, or guns (and, subsequently, terrorism), and the all-pervasive statism endemic to modern societies which seemingly has no end. My experience of coming from the far Left to the New Right, National-Anarchism and other overlapping perspectives was triggered by my realization that the “far Left” in its present incarnation is actually the mirror image of the ruling class it claims to oppose.
The values of the present day hard left are a kind of caricature of the norms of the liberal establishment that approaches the level of parody. A particularly obvious example is the antifa phenomena. The antifa ideology differs in no particularly significant way from that of the establishment in the sense that both regard differentiation along the lines of race, gender and other taboo areas to be the ultimate moral transgression, and that fighting discrimination and “hate” is the principal social and political value. Further, I became aware that this radical egalitarian ideology was in fact being used to justify the ever-expanding statism and aggressive warfare (what the Marxists call a “superstructure”) of which I was so critical. Additionally, I came to realize that my own ideals were essentially an outgrowth of the wider cultural and intellectual heritage of the West and that the unrestrained importation of immigrants with no similar cultural heritage was not compatible with those ideals. Finally, I came to understand the role of mass immigration as a weapon being utilized for the sake of strengthening the state and the plutocracy at the cost of the dispossession of the working to middle classes and the lower proletariat and lumpenproletarian orders alike.
Like Professor Gottfried (see here and here), I consider the state itself to be the source of many of our present day problems. As I have written elsewhere:
The state by itself does not comprise the full body of the elite or the ruling class as a whole. Rather, the state is the core institution through which layered networks of systems of institutional power interact. The political class is merely the highest body of the ruling class, its top layer. The state contains within itself multiple layers and contending factions. It is the state through which the other core institutions of ruling class power such as banking and finance, international commerce, industrial corporations, systems of mass propaganda (i.e. education and the media), the legal caste, other professional castes such as medicine (“the white coat priesthood”), and military and police power are coordinated.
As a consequence of this viewpoint, I consider the eradication of the states that are imposing the twisted ideology of “totalitarian humanism” upon us to be the key to our civilization’s salvation. My pessimistic view of human nature leads me to the conclusion that systems of centralized authority are inherently dangerous and cannot be controlled simply by the ideological enlightenment of the political class. It must also be recognized that to at least some degree immigration is a done deal in the West and that cultural and ideological diversity is here to stay. Indeed, even among those of us who resist the reigning ideological paradigm there is a great deal of diversity (for instance, there seems to be about as many branches of the alternative right as there are adherents of the alternative right). Clearly, all of these things need to be considered when examining the question of what a “post-postmodern” political order in the West might look like. Hence, there is a need for smaller scale, less bureaucratic institutions that are capable of accommodating genuine irreconcilable differences among population groups.
Over the past decade, I have tried to promote and apply many of the same ideas that Welf Herfurth similarly advocates. Consequently, I have developed a kind of “alternative anarchism” that incorporates many of the core ideas of the present day radical right or alternative right into a wider anti-statist philosophical paradigm that also draws from the many different strands of anti-state thought and even aspects of the radical Left. To a great degree, the alternative right of today is in the same position as the classical socialists of the nineteenth century or the New Left during the 1950s in that the alternative right is now the true radicalism or true anti-establishmentarianism to be found in Western societies. Many amazing parallels exist along these lines.
My approach thus far seems to be working as I have achieved a fairly large audience for my own outlook not only among the many scattered elements of the “far right,” but also among conventional libertarians, some ordinary conservatives, some liberals, some antiwar leftists who take their anti-imperialism seriously, some left-wing anarchists who take their anti-statism seriously, some Green decentralist or bioregionalists, some nationalists or neo-tribalists among the racial and ethnic minority groups, and even some libertine-individualist types who oppose the puritanical moralism of PC and the therapeutic state.The end game of all of this is, of course, to build an opposition political movement that is large enough and powerful to eventually topple the entire institutional and ideological apparatus of totalitarian humanism. (Hear my recent interviews with Robert Stark on this question here and here.)
It may well be that the ideas advanced by National-Anarchism and related tendencies are the last hope for our civilization given the failures of conventional rightist politics. If so, Welf Herfurth’s A Life in the Political Wilderness is in many ways the handbook for approaching political activism in the twenty-first century.
A video of a talk Welf gave in San Francisco last year concerning his ideas and experiences is available online. Likewise, his book may be purchased through either the publisher or from Amazon.Com.
Signed copies of this book are also available in Australia. Contact us if you would like a copy.
New websites and updates
The Australian National-Anarchists have been very busy over the past few months and regret not being able to share these important websites and articles with our readers sooner.
The Palm Beach County Tribalist Collective have written some thoughtful articles that we’d like to share, including useful information for those forming intentional communities.
The World National Anarchist Alliance is a new website with a Zen Buddhist perspective. Includes the important article Race Essential to National Anarchism?
“National Anarchism is an answer to the anarchist with suffixes syndrome. We have anywhere from Anarcho-Capitalists to Anarcho-Communists. With the National Anarchist system, each tribe could implement whichever system they want.”
Other articles of interest:
Noam Chomsky on big business as a supporter of “anti-racism”
Video: The Great Global Warming Swindle (this seems pretty pro-capitalism and fossil fuels but it does sum up the arguments against the manmade climate change theory well, and shows how and why the establishment is manipulating the masses.)
The war on Africa’s family farmers An important article about globalists in Africa.
N-A News Digest – 7 February 2011
“I think the growing disregard for the environment, culture and heritage is a natural consequence of capitalism. When people care more about profit than the world they live in that is what happens. Capitalism in the “Western” world in turn is just a natural consequence of Christianity, because Christianity created a spiritual void when it ousted Paganism, and all that is left is materialism and a religion with no meaningful contents. The Christians often kept the Pagan festivals, rituals and symbols, but they no longer have any real meaning.” – Varg Vikernes
From N-A blogs:
BANA – Feminism, women and National-Anarchism; An interview with Andrew Yeoman of BANA
African/Indigenous N-A – Black history month
NATA NY – Anarcho-pluralism and pan-secessionism: What they are and what they are not
NATA NY – film screening: WeAreChangeNYC + NATA NY present Enemy of the State: Camp FEMA part 2
Berrocscir’s Banner – South Sudan – A herald for tomorrow?
ATS – The scourge of civilisation, the state
Other news and articles:
Why environmentalists should have large families
10 things that the Egypt riots can teach us about what happens when society breaks down
Australia in the process of making thousands of plants illegal!
If you are a Getup member, your help would be greatly appreciated in this.
Gestational carrier is an ugly term
“The real road to achieving an anarchist utopia is not through violence, disrespect, and chaos. All of these activities only lead to more government. An entirely free society, where government is no longer necessary, can only exist where people respect one another, accept responsibility, treat each other fairly, and have compassion for their fellow man. In short: we don’t need government if humans are humane.”
World’s oldest marijuana stash totally busted
Interview with Jóhanna G. Hardar∂óttier of the Ásatrúerfélegi∂
90% of Germans do not believe the official 9-11 story
Jason and the argot: land where Greek’s ancient language survives
“Many of the world’s languages are disappearing as once-isolated populations become part of the global economy, with children failing to learn the language of their grandparents and instead using the dominant language of the majority population, which in this part of the world is Turkish.”
Gender roles: Adaptivity, not control
“Our conventional mythos that gender roles are a method of control makes little sense, since without them, we are better subjects for control by economic forces and government regulation. Could it be that our controllers found an easy way to lure us into something labeled “freedom” that was in fact a form of slavery?”
Earth may soon have a second sun
New websites:
Landshare Australia – a site connecting people with land to spare and people who want to grow food
N-A News Digest – 19 January 2011
From N-A blogs
N-A M – Dark green romanticism
Tasna – A great year for the northern folkway
RATS – R.I.P “Hippie John” Mahoney
BANA – Announcing the BANA Zazzle store
NATA NY – City’s latest snubs fuel secession
NATA NY – NYPD implements iris scan technology
NATA NY – Note on racial separatism
NATA NY – Food “safety” bill empowers Monsanto to control food industry
ATS – What would the right-wing of pan-secessionism look like?
ATS – Attackthesystem.com is now ten years old
ATS – Keith Preston and the “king of conspiracy”
ATS – The real history of the religious right and its relevance to pan-secessionism
ATS – Thinking ahead: What will ARV/ATS be in the future?
ATS – On the political climate of hate in America
ATS – Sociopaths all look alike
Other news and articles
Bill Gates wants to register all new babies on the planet for vaccines
Doctors and animals alike tell us: avoid genetically modified food
Youtube video – Hemp bricks are harder than concrete for homes and buildings
Leaked document: EPA knowingly approved bee-killing pesticide
GM corn releases insecticide chemicals that are now polluting rivers and streams
Colourful termination letter from Dominos Pizza
GM potato to be grown in Europe
Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details
Vimeo video – Aurora Borealis timelapse HD – Tromsø 2010
Earth’s magnetic pole shift unleashing poisonous space clouds linked to mysterious bird deaths
ADHD linked to pesticide exposure
Border collie comprehends over 1,000 object names as verbal referents
Archaeologists to prove Sherwood Forest’s ‘Thing’
Researchers discover a shocking 96 percent decline in four major bumblebee species.
N-A Weekly News Digest – 4 January 2011
From N-A blogs:
Berrocscir’s Banner – Desperate gestures
NATA NY – Reclaim New Yorkers homes stolen by banks
NATA NY – USDA Certified Organic’s dirty little secret: Neotame
BANA – Social Nationalism: Guidelines for organising
BANA TV: APS against diversity
ATS – Antimodernist autonomism: Where left and right meet
ATS – The assessment revisited
Other news and articles:
Remembering J. R. R. Tolkein: January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973
Marvel Studios re-writes entire history of Northern Europe
German archeologists uncover Celtic treasure
More problems with genetically modified foods
Europe, Japan to cancel grain contracts with Australia due to GMO contamination
N-A Weekly News Digest – 27 December 2010
From N-A blogs:
WANA – Manifesto now available
WANA – Patrick Buchanan: Ethnic-Nationalism returns
ATS – Encouraging words from a reader
NATA NY – The spy who texted me… big sis invades your iphone
Berrocscir’s Banner – A steady state society
Other news and articles:
Logging moratorium to begin in ninety days for Tasmania’s high conservation forests
GM contamination of organic crop confirmed (Western Australia)
The 30 most important cats of 2010
Strange creature photographed in the backwoods of louisiana
Reindeer eat magic mushrooms to escape winter boredom, scientists say
8000 year old Sun temple found in Bulgaria
Study: Fluoridated water causes brain damage in children
Sandra Bullock: A woman for our time
Troy Southgate: Homeschooling – creating real alternatives in education
Artificial ‘nano-food’ could soon show up at a store near you
N-A in action, in South Africa
New websites:
National Anarchists AUS/NZ 