This is the beginning of the absolutely serious search for a pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker and anti-war alternative candidate to Tony Blair for President of the EU.
We need an economically social-democratic moral and social conservative who recognises that national sovereignty is essential to both aspects of that position, and that it precludes domination by the United States (the driving force behind European federalism since the 1940s) or anywhere else.
And we need someone who recognises and unconditionally opposes the Trotskyist and Fascist roots of neoconservatism, and its relationship both with Islamic militancy and with remnant or revivalist Nazism.
Any suggestions, with contact details if at all possible?
davidaslindsay@hotmail.com
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Why don't you do it yourself?
ReplyDeleteI'll do it. Or if not me, then someone from the Jon party will.
ReplyDeleteCVs and covering statements welcome, Jon.
ReplyDeleteI have had some really interesting emails about this (the people who read this blog - I am truly taken aback): there is a genuine head of steam building up against Blair on the Left and among the moral/social Right in and around Brussells and Strasbourg. If a viable alternative more or less acceptable to both can be found, then he could be in serious trouble.
I am intrigued by " Fascist roots of neoconservatism, and its relationship both with Islamic militancy and with remnant or revivalist Nazism." Connects a few dots for me, any other details, thanks. Mike
ReplyDeleteNeoconservatism has no roots whatever in the mainstream political tradition of any country on earth. Even in the United States, its intellectual debts are to Max Shachtman, Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand.
ReplyDeleteShachtman tried to make Trotskyism Americanist. Meanwhile, Strauss and Rand gave life to Huey Long’s prediction that America would one day produce its own Fascism, but would call it anti-Fascism.
Then add in, first, the sort of Zionism that denies the very existence of the Palestinians as a people. It would annex the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the State of Israel, along with Lebanon south of the Litani River. And it would clear all non-Jews from Israel thus expanded: they could go to Jordan or to a northern Lebanon annexed to Syria, or they could be put to death.
Add in, secondly, a stock Irish-American saloon-bar rant against a perceived Anglophile network within the WASP élite. (It is striking how many neoconservatives are self-hating Canadian subjects of the Crown and products of the Keynes-Beveridge settlement: David Frum, Mark Steyn, Conrad Black, Barbara Amiel, and so on. Not that Canada is the only, or even the worst, case of the closely related rise of hostility to that settlement, hostility to the Crown, and support for American neoconservative foreign policy.)
Add in, thirdly, the influence of neo-orthodoxy, a mid-twentieth century movement to salvage the traditional vocabulary of Protestant theology even while surrendering to every liberal, secularising assault. As among Lutherans and Calvinists on the Continent, and as in the Anglican, Scottish Presbyterian and historic Nonconformist bodies in Britain, so also in the related "mainline" churches in the United States, neo-orthodoxy successfully sold itself as a vindication of popular orthodoxy. But it is actually ruinous of such faith, as is evident from, among much else, "mainline" churchgoers’ support for neoconservatives.
And add in, fourthly, one of the two de facto schismatic Americanist bodies within the Catholic Church. For American Catholics now divide almost entirely between those who agree with the Pope about sex but not about economics, and those who agree with him about economics but not about sex. The latter are termed "liberals" and excoriated by the former, termed "conservatives". But, in fact, they are equally far removed from the Church’s position, which includes a huge amount of almost unutterably important work on how all these things are connected.
But do not add in Evangelical Protestantism, to which neoconservatism relates much as Irish Republicanism relates to Catholicism. In principle, they have nothing to do with each other beyond being mutually antagonistic. The upper echelons of each hold the views and persons of the other in horrified contempt.
Yet large numbers of devout Catholics have been cajoled or deceived into supporting Irish Republicanism despite its Jacobin and Marxist roots and character. And large numbers of Evangelical Protestants have been cajoled or deceived into supporting neoconservatism despite its Trotskyism, its Straussianism, its Randianism, its Zionism (serious Evangelical scholars are not "Christian Zionists"), its hatred of WASPs and Ulster Scots, its neo-orthodoxy, its Americanist pseudo-Catholicism, and its roots in the counter-culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Such is the ideology of those who have sold themselves as the defenders of Western civilisation while actively seeking to destroy all memory of that civilisation’s roots in the Biblical-Classical synthesis that is Christianity. They have sold themselves as the West’s guardians against "militant Islam" (the only kind that there can ever be, as they pointedly refuse to admit). Yet theirs was active support for that cause in 1980s Afghanistan, in Bosnia (against Europe’s real age-old bulwark against Islam) and in Kosovo (likewise). It remains so in Kosovo, in Chechnya, in Saudi Arabia and in Pakistan.
That cause has been done no end of good by the removal of one of the Arab world’s two principal bulwarks against it, in Iraq. And now the neoconservatives are planning to remove the other such bulwark, in Syria. All this while actively encouraging, through the unlimited immigration without which their capitalist system cannot function, the Islamisation of the West. This whole is with a view to their re-establishment of the privileged dhimmitude that existed in Moorish Spain.
Furthermore, violently in Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as less so (for now) in Flanders and Denmark, neoconservatism has backed to the hilt, and continues to do so, those who represent the unbroken continuation of the many international divisions of the SS and Waffen SS after they went home at the end of the War.
All four of the movements in question - Bosnian separatism, Kosovar separatism, Flemish separatism, and the Danish People’s Party (part of the pro-war "coalition of the willing" in Denmark) - derive directly and uncritically from those brigades, including that weird combination of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial (why would an anti-Semite want to deny the Holocaust?). The Kosovars even wear black shirts in deference to their SS fathers and grandfathers.
There were many, many more such brigades (there was almost certainly even a British one, made up of PoWs), so watch that space.
And for that matter, the neoconservatives’ fanatical support for Israel’s anachronistic retention of the Law of Return constitutes support for the flooding of Israel with Russian Nazis.
Just in case no one has told you David, although I doubt that - you have lost the plot. I work in Westminster and was recommended to look at this website. It is the talk of the place - but dont get excited, only as a source of great amusement. How have you avoided being sectioned?
ReplyDeletePoor Mike. No doubt he's some teaboy researcher who can afford to work here on next to no pay, possibly for his daddy.
ReplyDeleteHow many times is it possible to lose someone? Here are a few examples:
"Max Shachtman, Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand"
Three times.
"David Frum, Mark Steyn, Conrad Black, Barbara Amiel"
Four times.
"its Trotskyism, its Straussianism, its Randianism, its Zionism (serious Evangelical scholars are not "Christian Zionists"), its hatred of WASPs and Ulster Scots, its neo-orthodoxy, its Americanist pseudo-Catholicism, and its roots in the counter-culture of the 1960s and 1970s"
At least eight times.
And the rest, of course.
But at least 15 times seems to be enough to be going on with. Poor Mike genuinely doesn't know what these words mean. He wouldn't even be able to pronounce several of them. Honestly, you just can't get the staff these days!
Keep up the good work. I take it you've received the emails on this one. We both know what I mean.
Leaving aside Polish bishops, American union-busting firms and so on, here are a few of the people and places metioned on this blog that Mike and his kind have certainly never heard of (with frightening possibilities or probablities in brackets):
ReplyDeleteSenator Jim Webb, Dr John Laughland, Saint-Just, Paul Gottfried, Immanuel Kant, Leon Trotsky, (V.I. Lenin), Matthias Brügmann, Hashim Thaci, Iain King, Whit Mason, (Flanders), (Northern Cyprus), Republika Srpska, Transnistria, Robert Cooper, Robert Kaplan, Cicero, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, Straight Left, (Rod Liddle), R.D. Laing, Jürgen Habermas, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Joschka Fischer, the Red Army Faction, Ulrike Meinhof, the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Lady Plowden, (Shirley Williams), Valerie Solanas, (Andy Warhol), Alexander Dubcek, de Tocqueville, (Brendan Barber), Dr John Logan, Stewart Acuff, the AFL-CIO, Unite, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Edmund Randolph, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Jesse James, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Penn, Beete Davises Jefferson Davies, D.W. Griffiths, (Tammy Wynette), Howard Hughes, Meriwether Lewis, Elihu Yale, Ted Williams, Warren Zevon , Murray “The Camel” Humphreys, James Earl Jones, (Colin Powell), the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, (Freud), the Bloomsbury set, Hermann Hesse, Peter Kellner, John Shelby Spong, President Tadic, Disraeli, Gladstone, Alexander the Great, Mahmud of Ghazni and the Ghaznavids, (Genghis Khan), Tamerlaine, (the Moghuls), Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
They know that they shouldn't be in the job, and wouldn't be if it were open to people without independent incomes.
They know that they have been educated beyond their intelligence on account of their privileged background.
And they know that they will only become MPs because Britain no longer has proper political parties, and wouldn't have had a chance in hell back in the days when proper parties still existed.
So they read something like this blog and lash out.
Yes, Mike, be afraid. Be very afraid.