Quote: (11-26-2016 11:56 PM)Valentine Wrote:
Not sure where you're getting the idea of hating other people for their skin colour from. His organisation is very clearly a reactionary, not fascist one
No I disagree. I finally had a look at this guy and what he says (because he seems to have been significant enough to get condemned by Trump).
1. He envisions a new Roman empire, but just for white people. I think this by itself is enough to call him fascist, based on the constitution and behaviour of that society. You can't call that merely reactionary since it's more than a thousand years old. He didn't say "Roman republic" he said "Roman
empire".
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I think we should have a new Roman empire...a grand ethno-state for all Europeans to come together.
2. He wants State-enforced eugenics. This is too far right to be considered merely reactionary. By "it sounds terrible and nasty" he's implying sterilization.
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"We are undergoing a sad process of degeneration,” [Spencer] said, coming back to minority births in the U.S. “We will need to reverse it using the state and the government. You incentivize people with higher intelligence, you incentivize people who are healthy to have children. And it sounds terrible and nasty, but there would be a great use of contraception.”
You could argue that it's reactionary for eugenics to come back, as it did exist in some relatively minor forms from time to time. But a
great use that is
terrible and nasty?
3. He founded the website AlternativeRight.com in 2010. For this reason he does have first claim to the label 'alt right', and for this reason I think the
brand label 'alt right' should in fact apply only to a white nationalist and fascist movement similar to his.
4. He thinks race isn't just important, it is the
foundation of identity
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“race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.”
That's clearly fascist. This monotonic, single-trait view of "one of us or not" goes hand in hand with rigidly unifying a society. As a reactionary I consider that being white
is a part of my identity, but only one part among many. Something about calling it the 'foundation' of my identity makes my skin crawl, as does this guy overall frankly.
5. He uses the term 'ethnic cleansing'. Advocating ethnic cleansing is a well-known far-right position. It isn't merely reactionary or conservative.
6. His organization's blog 'radix journal' is hostile to capitalism. For me this is the first indicator of a right-wing movement being fascist, a.k.a far right. This is when you start to see the 'national workers party' kind of emblems and rhetoric that characterized fascism in Germany. Fascism dislikes capitalism because it's focused on individual businessmen putting themselves and their families first, instead of enterprise being about furthering the state as a unit. This is why under fascist Germany and Italy, businessmen's activities were all reined into the state apparatus. Reactionaries want a reversion to earlier capitalist free-enterprise societies, not binding business into the state apparatus.
I'm sorry, but if this guy isn't fascist then fascists don't exist. If you want to support him, fine. But don't then pretend he's not a fascist. Call him a 'mild fascist' or something.
And frankly that's the last I want to read or hear about that guy. Way too many red flags coming off him. If he just stood for white rights, fine, but if you look at the fact he wants a white ethno-state, ethnic cleansing, eugenics, an empire, plus he wears the haircut preferred by the SS, and he's done a Roman salute (which is now called a Nazi salute for exactly the same reason -- the Nazis wanted a return of the Roman empire too)...
If it sounds like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. This guy couldn't be closer to a Nazi unless he outright said "Hitler was a hero".
So let's cut the shit. This guy is at the very least a stormfronter. We should ignore him and distance him. That doesn't mean to fight against him or ally against him. Simply he should be treated as a group we do not associate with, such as stormfront. Everyone who has distanced themselves from him was completely in the right.