I read with interest Greg Johnson’s recent article about Douglas Hyde’s Dedication and Leadership, a book where the author — who fed 20 years of his life to the meat-grinder of Communist activism — provided trenchant advise on how best to mobilize the idealism, and inspire the sacrifice, of those seeking to change the world. In bringing Hyde to readers’ attention, Johnson’s aim was to encourage activists on the Right to learn from the winners on the Left. The Right, he argued, has been fighting a losing battle since 1943, to the point where nowadays even so-called “conservatives” are defined by their political enemies. Understanding, therefore, how the Left achieved cultural hegemony during the twentieth century is indispensable if we are to end the Left’s tyranny during the twenty-first.
Learning from the successful strategies of the Left, however, is only part of the ‘homework’. The other part is learning from the failed strategies of the Right. Studying the latter is just as important, because the triumph of the Left is as much a consequence of how egalitarians built their credibility (or at least the illusion of credibility), as the defeat of the Right is a consequence of how elitists squandered theirs. The Left’s early victories were hard fought and hard won, but the Left’s recent victories have been largely by default, possible because they faced virtually no opposition.
Read the rest here
Both of her recent works are certainly worth a reading. In some occasions Devi is inspirational and an enlightening writer, a ruthless exposer of Allied lies and hypocrisy, but in other occasions she is the worst kind of Nietsczhean Social-Darwinist and a blind believer in the Hitlerite version of National Socialism. She has also a very distorted image of Aryanism and Hinduism and degrades both of them to the level of crude will to power in a very materialistic and reductionist sense. Ergo: Devi was a false prophet (no moralism attached here).
ReplyDeleteAs everyone who has made ones studies correctly well knows, Hitler's cold-hearted search of personal power, the Nazi's collaboration with Big Business, bourgeois Capitalists and the wall street, and finally the exclusion and outright murder of the Strasser brothers, killed every ounce of true Social Nationalism, betrayed the original NSDAP program, destroyed spiritual aristocracy and folk tradition from the Nazi cause and this way turned it into a counter-traditional force destined to unleash the revolution of the fourth estate and the emancipation of a collectivised humanity. Hitler and his hench men were inverted dupes of the counter-tradition masked as Enlightened Leaders.