Sharp Relief

The fate of the Iraqi Christians throws into sharp relief, as so many things do, the split between Whigs and Tories, between Gladstonians and Disraelians, between anti-Marxist Old Labour and neo-Marxist New Labour.

To us Tories, to us Disraelians, to us Old Labourites, our social democracy is specifically in order to conserve against capitalism and Marxism everything that conservatives exist in order to conserve, and nothing could be less conservative than the attempt to make the world anew, in accordance with some academic blueprint, by means of global war: sex, drugs and rock’n’roll at the barrel of a gun.

To us Tories, to us Disraelians, to us Old Labourites, the West is the recapitulation in Jesus Christ and His Church of all three of the Old Israel, Hellenism and the Roman Empire. We would die to protect it, on whatever shore it found itself, and it now finds itself on every shore. But if by “the West”, you mean the rootless, godless, globalised, hypercapitalist, meterosexual wasteland of usury, promiscuity and stupefaction, then we hate it as much as does any Islamist. Including the Islamists to whom, whatever they may pretend, the Whigs, the Gladstonians, the New Labourites have been allied from 1980s Afghanistan through 1990s Bosnia to today’s Turkey, Kosovo, Chechnya, Saudi Arabia (whence came the 9/11 attacks), Xinjiang and elsewhere. Including by taking out the bulwark against them in Iraq. Including in the form of Jundullah, their favoured Islamist terrorists against the present government of Iran. And including by means of the capitalist system that cannot function without unrestricted global migration.

To us Tories, to us Disraelians, to us Old Labourites, the Slavs in general, and Russia in particular, are the age-old gatekeepers of our Biblical-Classical civilisation, whether against Islam, against Far Eastern domination, or now also against the pseudo-West of the Whigs, the Gladstonians, the New Labourites; the pseudo-West of which they hold up Israel, Georgia and Taiwan as supposedly plucky and inspiring outposts.

To us Tories, to us Disraelians, to us Old Labourites, Lebanon is a country where one of the official languages is European, and the President and half of the Parliament have to be Christian. Syria is a country which has Christian-majority provinces and Christian festivals as public holidays. Iran is a country where the Assyrians and the Armenians are a lot better off than in “liberated” Iraq or in NATO Turkey, even to the extent of having reserved parliamentary representation. There is more to Western civilisation than McDonalds, Starbucks and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Each of those countries is at the very least as much a part of our civilisation as is any nearby state of which none of these things can be said. Never mind one quite lately created by the ultimate globalist institution in surrender to anti-British Marxist terrorism, and built up by evicting people who had lived there for many centuries in favour of those shipped in from every corner of the earth. By contrast, the world’s second-oldest continuous civilisation is self-evidently entitled to a very particular respect.

As, to us Tories, to us Disraelians, to us Old Labourites, is the world’s oldest continuous civilisation. Just as pre-Communist Russia always remained the country’s true character, so very pre-Communist China remains the country’s true character. That character reveres tradition and ritual, upholds government by moral rather than physical force, affirms the Golden Rule, is Agrarian and Distributist, and has barely started an external war since China became China five thousand years ago. It is especially open to completion by, in, through and as classical Christianity. China has already moved from Maoism to the equal repressiveness of unbridled capitalism. The reassertion of her own culture is to be encouraged by every means of “soft” (in reality, truly hard) power, and the same is true of the wider Confucian world. But economic, or any other, dependence on a foreign power remains totally unacceptable.

This split within and across the self-identified Left and Right is greater than any split between them.