From The Unpopular Truth comes this interesting story.
Apparently, a local National Socialist (Nazi) group has reversed course and accepted members of all races. They are doing this to fight globalism, or internationalism, by encouraging every tribe on earth to be nationalist.
Nationalist is a hard word for modern people to understand because revisionist history has tried to obliterate its original meaning. Here's a good definition:
Nationalism is the belief that political groups should be constructed around the idea of "nation," or population group unified by culture, heritage and language.
As such, Nationalist is "rule by culture" where cultural values come before profit motive or popularity, which enables forward-thinking leadership instead. With profit motive, every object and idea and person is for sale, and society leads itself in circles. With leadership, society determines its goals and moves toward them.
The term "nationalism" comes from the term "nation," which has a different meaning in current politics. Currently, the nations of the world are political constructions made of borders, legal systems and economies, called "nation-states." These are not compatible with the view of nation that was common in history up until the last century:
The term "nationalism" is generally used to describe two phenomena: (1) the attitude that the members of a nation have when they care about their national identity and (2) the actions that the members of a nation take when seeking to achieve (or sustain) self-determination. (1) raises questions about the concept
of nation (or national identity), which is often defined in terms of common origin, ethnicity, or cultural ties, and while an individual's membership in a nation is often regarded as involuntary, it is sometimes regarded as voluntary. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The nation-state, in our current model, uses abstract concepts to unify its populations who have little in common on a cultural or ethnic level, and so become competing cultures. These abstract concepts usually take the form of an absolute which will never be demonstrated as being singularly right or wrong, like "freedom" or "free trade," but in the absence of cultural unity what brings people together is economics. Economics thus replaces culture, and soon every object and idea and person is for sale. - Nationalism FAQ
This means that a nationalist thinks a nation should be defined by an indigenous ethnic group, and that this heritage is a genetic record of culture, and that without a common standard and identity such as that provided by ethnic-cultural similarity, nations fall apart and turn into "nation-states," or political groups based around the State and commerce, not organic culture.
That's a lot for one paragraph.
Another way to put it is asking what the center of your civilization is. Is it culture, heritage, tribal identity, customs and language? Or is it a political idea, like "democratic capitalism" or "libertarian socialism"?
Here's the original Nazi group news release:
Many people have criticized us on the basis of the LNSG being a "postmodern" National Socialist party.
We are postmodern only in the sense that we recognize a decentralized order. That was the postmodern contribution: that no single inherent and absolute order existed, but many interpretations.
As National Socialists, we accept that with a caveat. We recognize that humans may construct as many interpretations as they wish, but we live in the same world and there are natural consequences to acting on wrong or partially wrong interpretations.
Our form of decentralization is that we are not a race-advocacy party. Rather, we advocate for nationalism (and National Socialism) for every ethnic, religious, racial, cultural and geographic group on earth. Our goal is to establish nationalism so that every group may take advantage of it.
In our mindset, white power groups, black power groups, Zionists, Japanese National Socialists, Basque separatists, Southern Secessionists and Maori nationalists are fighting the same struggle: to re-legitimize nationalism and show how it is the only world order that provides lasting stability and sanity to politics.
Any who can understand this message and work toward its implementation are allies of ours and welcome with open arms in our camp. - "Nazi group opens membership to all races"
It should be interesting to watch this one play out. I bet very few of their far-right brethren will understand their point of view at all. And the left of course will never listen to them.
