Salter, Yockey, and the Future of the West

Synthesis.

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A Balancing of Accounts

A Balancing of Accounts

I am a pan-Europeanist who believes that people of European descent, of all ethnic derivations, need to work together to pursue our common racial interests.  I don’t ignore or overlook ethnic conflicts between Europeans, but we need to get over the past and deal with the present and look to the future.

However, there are some with a constant ethnic axe to grind, who revel in promoting intra-European conflicts, the same conflicts which, starting in August 1914, has so thoroughly wrecked the White world.

A common theme for such people is how White ethnics have damaged the interests of WASPs/founding stock peoples in the Anglosphere.  This can be considered a form of “White ethnic guilt mongering.” Now, there is of course some truth in their complaints, as ethnic conflicts have of course occurred between Whites and, in the past, there may well have been serious conflicts of interests (note: in the past).  What these people won’t admit though, is that the conflict cut both ways and that the White ethnics were as much victims as they were the victimizers. 

The work of E. Michael Jones is instructive in this regard; some reviews of that work are excerpted below (emphasis added):

The Slaughter of Cities provides a key to understanding who 'broke' America's cities and why they did so. The book also indicates how the elites used World Wars I and II to 'Americanize' Catholic ethnics, used the crisis of war production to transport millions of poor blacks North for factory work and housed them in Catholic neighborhoods, branded Catholics as racists for resisting this influx…

…Rather, from the 1950s on, a combination of misnamed redevelopment programs and malicious social planning turned these areas into war zones, and finally, depopulated deserts. ... He insists that what motivated such experiments as busing and scattered public housing, presented as urban renewal, was at least partly a disdain for urban ethnics.... Protestant elites and their Jewish liberal allies never hid their contempt for the white ethnics who resisted their plans for thrusting underclass blacks into ethnic Catholic neighborhoods. Nor did the urban reformers whom Jones examines, such as Louis Wirth and the Blanshard brothers, conceal their intention of mainstreaming Catholic immigrants and their descendants, whom they viewed as a threat to their notion of a 'pluralistic America.' ... Jones correctly understands the overshadowing role of ethnic hatred in political life. ... Jones demonstrates that anti-Catholic Protestants have also contributed to this manipulative revolution from above, carried out in the name of fighting 'prejudice….

…Jones documents, from a wide variety of government documents, essays and memoirs, the blood-boiling indictment that a well-defined elite orchestrated federal housing policy to destroy the political base of Polish, Italian, Irish and other ethnic Americans in the major, industrial cities…

…the cultural subversion practiced by America's elites, especially such seemingly respectable institutions as the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations…

…the application of private foundation and federal housing policies and dollars in Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia as a weapon of economic and political warfare…

Thus, WASPs and Jews together waged war on White ethnics, using Blacks (and also Hispanics) as a biological weapon to destroy White ethnic neighborhoods, wrecking America’s cities, and ruining the lives of many millions of people. What could be worse than this – using Blacks/Hispanics as weapons of biological warfare against other Whites?  That weapon has proved more deadly than nuclear bombs; compare Hiroshima and Nagasaki today with the pathetic ruins of Detroit and Camden.  And Jones’ analysis is supported by Lind’s political analysis, identifying a “Yankee”-Jewish-Black alliance aimed against both White ethnics as well as White southerners.

An honest balancing of accounts would admit that neither side is without “guilt.”  It’s time to move on.

An Anti-Amnesty Analysis

Insightful analysis.

Read here.

White Advocacy and Conversion

Aspects of the conversion process.

Important Kevin MacDonald essay.

Fidelity of Identity

Ted Sallis essay.

Read here.

Counter-Currents on White Identity, Racial "Purity" and EGI

Important: Identity Does Not Depend on "Purity"

First, we have excellent comments by Greg Johnson and Matt Parrott on the subject of this post here - I endorse those views 100%..

Then, my Ted Sallis essay here.

These positions constitute part of the new direction for the "movement" that this blog wishes to influence and affect.

How the Proximate Influences the Ultimate

Some good sense.

One point that requires repeated stressing is that ultimate and proximate interests can never be truly separated from each other, since each influences the other.  Here is where certain blogs go wrong, in their instrumental use of "EGI" - using "ethnic genetic interests" as some sort of talisman, without thinking of its implications.  

MacDonald writes at The Occidental Observer (emphasis added):

As Frank Salter reminds us, genetic distances between human groups are the basis of natural selection and that one’s racial/ethnic group  is a huge storehouse of genetic interests compared to other groups. That is the fundamental biological reality underlying all this. But how we behave on the basis of this information is not at all determined by the genetic data. We Europeans must define ourselves in a way that makes strategic sense, using the culture-producing mental faculties of explicit processing. We have to make explicit assertions of racial identity and explicit assertions of our racial interests. No other strategy will succeed in staving off the dispossession of European America.

That is correct.  And more:

Via explicit processing, we can decide how to carve up the racial landscape to best suit our political and genetic interests... Races and ethnic groups are fuzzy sets in which the boundaries are fluid and subject to social construction. For a European-American, it makes much more sense to identify with others who can trace their ancestry back to Europe before 1492... On the other hand, it would be a poor strategy for me to identify only with Scottish Americans because such a relatively small group has much less political potential in multicultural America than the category of European Americans.

Thus, while genetic interests are ultimate interests, how we best pursue those ultimate interests is realistically determined by proximate interests influencing the determination of Identity.  This is why there is a distinction between net and gross genetic interests.  Using Maconald's example above, one can argue that his gross genetic interests would be served with a narrow identification with Scottish Americans, and a ideology focused on Scottish Americans outcompeting all other groups, including other Whites.  Realistically, however, this is a recipe for failure, and the final, net genetic interests of MacDonald and of Scottish Americans are best served as part of Euro-America, with its much greater political potential.

The ethnoracial paradox is that while race and ethnicity are real, biological entities, their boundaries are not rigidly determined solely based on biology.  The same applies to the concept of color and no one denies the objective reality of, say, red vs. blue, even though the distinctions at the boundaries of red vs. orange and blue vs. green can become fuzzy and subjective.  The categorization of the boundaries of real entities by the human mind is a fact of our reality.  The construction of racial and racial identities starts with a biological foundation, and the rest of Identity is built upon that - using cultural artifacts as one key ingredient.  All of this is perfectly consistent with genetic interests as ultimate interests.  Genetic interests are what they are.  How they are best pursued delves into the proximate realm.