Thank you for your email. I’m sorry to hear you are in such abject unhappiness. I hope returning to your childhood area helps you. I grew up on the outskirts of a tiny, picturesque country village. I don’t know if it would let me down these days if I returned and examined it in adult detail, but all I remember from then are miles of bright cornfields and flower meadows, horses, and fields of cows, the scent of manure, and wood smoke, and plenty of butterflies. It’s a shame the atmosphere inside my family home did not match the delightful pastoral exterior, at least not for very long. Still, it’s good therapy to extricate yourself from what sounds like a nightmare town. As an honorary ‘country person’ I’ve never liked living in cities or towns much. I can’t imagine what it would feel like to live in an area with no white faces. I imagine it would make me paranoid, as if they were ‘closing in’. I look at the classic illustrations of Rome in about 400-500 AD, totally decayed and vulgar, fallen to pieces, and terribly depressing, and I think of our countries these days.
As with myself, I know you are betting on a currency collapse to aid your financial situation. I often feel I have let myself down by not having a job which could provide for us ([my girlfriend] and myself, but also donations), but then I remember that I was at various university courses until age 26, then spent longer than a decade after that in regular psychosis which only really went into remission once I wrote my books (and with the trial out of the way), and I remember that, on this account, I’ve simply been too busy/ill. I wish I could help you out more financially. None of my myriad self-employment creative efforts ever sell.
I was shocked by Europe. True, the buildings and statues were awe-inspiring, especially compared with the slum of Britain, but it was simply eye candy, and, when placed in context with the degenerate soullessness of the natives, somehow garish, and totally empty. A decent civilization requires decent quality people. I was surprised more did not comment on your report.
That’s the long-term problem with your site—it’s erudite, and intensely detailed, and high-brow (and challenging both intellectually and ethically) unlike the stale, pop journalist circle-jerk of Unz for example, or the smug hipster pretension of C-C. You know what you get there. I imagine it’s like cocaine to them, their daily slew of bland articles. Ego-stroking prolefeed, to do no more than delay vast numbers, and keep them vegetating in their echo-chamber. I should rephrase: the problem is not your site, it’s that people are idiots. I’m left waiting for the likes of Walsh to get out of prison so they can come back to commenting (although I imagine he’ll be monitored pretty tightly in aftermath).
I re-read your PDF booklet on American racialism recently. I didn’t realise there were so many small NS movements, all highly unsuccessful. It seemed to go in cycles. I noticed that the hardest point is always finding, recruiting, and holding onto people. It’s like NS is on the whole dead, somehow. The British Movement disappointed me terribly recently. It seems I was right—this country has no National Socialist presence. It’s just scores of bourgeois dissident rightists here and there, some with swastika paraphernalia, and fat, football hooligan punks.
I have to go shortly, I have a health appointment. I’ll write more later.
Best regards,
Ben
2 replies on “Dear César,”
Pseudo-NS movements are dying because there never was a real National Socialist movement in the US.
For example, Rockwell’s attempt to place the American flag next to the National Socialist flag (a practice Koehl continued) was, to use an Orwellian term, doublethink: it’s simply putting enemy flags together.
That’s why I insist so much on reading books like Simms’s to fully understand Hitler and the ideals he stood for.
There are a couple more books I personally recommend, three rather dry and most written by non-sympathetic authors, yet very informative. There are plenty more on National Socialist economics, but I was interested in some of the specifics.
Another flaw of (Conservative by any other name) Rockwell was not getting to grips with the extent of Hitler’s profound dislike of and opposition towards international Western Capitalism. That he had more respect for – misguided – Communists than for bourgeois Conservatives is telling to me. I remember writing before that I too get on slightly better with idealistic underground leftists than with your bog-standard right-wing type, much as I don’t think the left on the whole these days has any interest in doing more than paying lip service to their former economic ideals, if that even, jettisoning them in favour of all the prominent DEI stuff.
They still have a more pronounced and effective monopoly on civilian violence i.e. good for anyone who isn’t directly part of the State, which is commendable. I seem to remember Savitri Devi commenting that, even had Hitler done away with private property, it would not have been so much of a bother to his worldview’s ideological strength (much as he didn’t go quite that far). I can’t imagine Rockwell, or indeed any other American racialist today, tolerating that idea.
1. The Artist Within the Warlord by Carolyn Yeager and Wilhelm Kriessmann
2. Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life by Timothy W. Ryback
3. Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy by Avraham Barkai
4. Hitler and the Peasants: Agrarian Policy of the Third Reich 1930-39 by Gustavo Corni
and perhaps, 5. Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany by Alan E. Steinweis.