From A Writer’s Diary, 1873

Herzen did not emigrate and he did not lay the foundation for other Russian emigres; no, he was simply born an emigre. They all, those people like him, were just born emigres, even though the majority of them never left Russia. In one hundred and fifty years of the life of the Russian gentry that preceeded him, with only a few exceptions, the roots rotted and the last links with the Russian soil and the Russian truth were shaken loose. History itself seemed to predestine Herzen as its most vivid illustration of how the huge majority of our educated classes split themselves off from the People. In that sense he is a historical type. When they broke with the People, they naturally lost God as well. The restless ones among them became atheists; the listless and quiescent ones became indifferent. They bore only contempt for the Russian People, all the while imagining and believing that they loved the People and wished the best for them. They loved the Russian People negatively, imagining in their stead some sort of ideal, a Russian People as they ought to be, according to their conceptions. This ideal people, through an involuntary process in the minds of certain leading representatives of the majority, took the form of the Paris mob of 1793. This was the most alluring ideal of a people at that time. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why Would Anyone Want This?

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Lifted freon F. Desouche

Why Are They Here In The First Place?

Cartel’s U.S. ring hit hard by sweep
305 arrested, including 90 in Texas, in drugs, weapons sting.

More LA Bashing

In politicized, ethnically diverse Los Angeles, it is naive to assume that any major public policy decision is made without regard to its implications for the city’s racial politics. – LA Times

Our elites never tire of telling us how wonderful the new multicultural America will be. In the real world, things look a little different and what better example of this is there than Los Angeles?

The Los Angeles Times – a paper which drank deeply of the diversity Kool-Aid long ago – could hardly be considered a critic of the on-going ethnic transformation of America, yet the first in its series on the current selection process for a new LA police chief (The Next Chief – Merit, Not Race) is so (unintentionally) damning that with a little re-write, it could appear at Vdare.

While the Times article enthuses endlesssly over race-based hiring, it explains at great length why now, “in a rare opportunity for any mayor,” it actually makes sense – unbelievable, I know! – to hire the most qualified candidate, regardless of sex or skin color, to lead LA’s police force.

Still, let’s not expect too much from our friends at the Times. To them, the real prerequisite for the job remains an unwavering commitment to the affirmative action regime:

For the next chief, the qualification for office is not to be a certain race or gender but to ensure that the policies that have diversified the LAPD continue.

Contemplating this article, one is inevitably filled with a sense of unreality. If diversity is strength then it must mean that having to appease competing ethnic blocs every time a significant political decision is made must be a good thing. It means that, in a well-run city, hiring the most effective person for a critical job like Chief of Police ought to be a “rare opportunity.” And, more than anything else, it means that we all should be looking forward to living in a place like LA.

Remind me again – what planet am I on?

Nightmare(s) in LA

… it’s becoming clear that the lines between traditional neighborhoods and the Emeros and their connection to International criminal orgs is becoming blurred….

One could easily see the creation of hybrid gangs composed of locals and foreigners with an equally heterogeneous hierarchy composed of prison-based and cross-border upper level managers.

The founders of the current Eme saw in their future a super gang composed of the best from the street gangs. We may be seeing the beginning of a future supergang composed of the best from both sides of the border. -In The Hat

It’s great to see that one of my favorite bloggers – Wally of In The Hat – is posting again regularly. An astute observer of LA’s criminal gangs, Wally has a series of excellent recent posts of the growing together of Mexico’s ultra-violent drug cartels and SoCal’s latino gangs – coincidentally enough, a relationship personified by the today’s addition to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List,

Los Angeles gang member and Mexican drug cartel enforcer … Jose Luis Saenz, a Cuatro Flats gang member, shot and killed two rivals from the East LA Trece gang in a Boyle Heights housing project a decade ago, authorities say. He then allegedly kidnapped, raped and killed his girlfriend — who was also the mother of his infant daughter — because he feared that she would talk to authorities….

Saenz “is one of the worst offenders I have ever seen,” said Special Agent Scott Garriola, a 22-year FBI veteran. “He’s got a long career of killing, and that’s just what we know about.”

Federal agents and detectives say Saenz… has transformed from a gang member to a drug cartel enforcer over the last decade. – LA Times

Other recent In The Hat posts outline the growing involvement of Mexican gangs in LA burgeoning “medical” marijuana industry and provide an update on the ongoing federal prosecution of latino gang members accused of waging a violent race war aimed at ethnically cleansing certain LA neighborhoods of their black residents. (See here and here for a couple of my own posts on this issue.)

Overall, for an unsettling look at multiculturalism’s poster city, check out In The Hat.

From Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Liberalism is the Death of Nations

…. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated. To promote this they are willing to make use, now of nationalism, now of pacificism, now of militarism, according to the expediency of the moment. Sceptically they ask: “What are we living for?” Cynically they answer: “Just for the sake of living!”

….  Liberalism has undermined civilization, has destroyed religions, has ruined nations. Primitive peoples know no liberalism. The world is for them a simple place where one man shares with another. Instinctively they conceive existence as a struggle in which all those who belong in any way to one group must defend themselves against those who threaten them.

From Germany’s Third Empire – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

(FolkAdvance has the book’s chapter on Liberalism posted in its entirety.   See here for more on Moeller van den Bruck.)

From the South

For years now we have been struggling against the idea of multiculturalism as a mode of ideological domination created by US cultural anthropologists, exalting minorities [simply] because they are minorities, to the detrimant of the popular majorities…. It comes as the Trojan Horse of imperialism to separate national communities into multiple urban and rural tribes (Maffesoli dixit) which which will no longer be restrained by belonging to the Nation-state, but only by the monotheistic god of the Global Market. – Alberto Buela

Too often we forget our brethren to the south, in spite of the fact that they often confront similar challanges to those we face here in the US and in Europe. In fact, particularly in the countries of South America’s southern cone (Chile, Argentina and Uruguay) there are nationalist and identitarian movements well worth noticing.

Reading the Uruguayan blog Ideas y reflexiones desde la Derecha I came across the above quoted article by Alberto Buela, an Argentine philosophy profesor.

I confess to know little (as of today – yesterday I knew nothing) of Buela. For Spanish readers, there is an extensive archive of his work here. I’ve found almost nothing in English, with the exception of an article in Telos. (See here for a teaser.)

Anyway, all of this bears further reading and, hopefully, I’ll have more to say about the South American anti-system right soon.

(And for more on Michel Maffesoli and neo-tribalism, see here and here.)

Vdare

… the Obama Administration has very shallow roots in historic America. It is, to put it brutally, a minority occupation government. – Peter Brimelow

Over the years I have scolded Vdare for its failure to go beyond mere complaining about mass immigration and begin to think about movement building, at least a little. Still, with the exception of the shrill and poisonous Paul Craig Roberts, it is almost always worth reading. Peter Brimelow’s recent Yes, It Is About Race. Quite Right Too. is especially militant:

By importing diversity through the disastrous immigration reform of 1965 and the simultaneous abandonment of enforcement at the southern border, Washington has forced whites—who for most of U.S. history would have been simply called “Americans”—to recognize, if only for now at a subliminal level, that they have common interests and must act to defend them.

This development is unimpeachably legitimate. It is not, of course, a recipe for civil peace.

From Alain de Benoist

FolkAdvance has republished Alain de Benoist’s 1994 essay Gemeinshaft & Gessellschaft.

… liberalism, in the sense of the emphasis on the individual above and even against that of the nation, actually endangers the individual by undermining the stability of the society which gives him identity, values, purpose and meaning, the social, cultural and biological nexus to which he owes his very being….

Shorn of the protection of a society which identifies with its members because of a shared national history and destiny, the individual is left to grasp struggle for his own survival, without the protective sense of community which his forebears enjoyed since the earliest of human history.

Read the whole thing.

Still here, but thinking more than writing…

… the West… [has] become a world without a will, a world gradually petrifying in the face of the danger confronting it…All of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I’ve been pretty much silent these past few months, partly from an excess of work but more from a sense of frustration with the political options available in this worst of times. Mere microblog belly-aching seems like a waste of energy – we all know that things are a mess and there are so many others who already do that better anyway.

The problem here in the US is that once one moves beyond the confines of the establishment right, there is almost no authentically political discourse – only endless hand-wringing. The authentic right in the this country needs to undertake a collective What is to be Done?, but so far it has been largely silent on this question. (But then , I guess, so have I.)

(The most notable of the very few exceptions to this has been the challenging and insightful work of Michael O’Meara appearing over the past few months on TOQOnline. While I share neither his anti-semitism, his maximalism, nor his racial separatism, I recognize that his work cannot be ignored – but more on that later…)