Preface: Ethical Socialism For A New Age

"Mightier than the tread of marching armies is the power of an idea whose time has come". Victor Hugo.

The ethical-socialist world-view for the new millennium is the Platonic golden mean between Classical liberal- democracy (in the original sense of the French and American revolutions), Marxism (as its founder postulated and not as dished up by contemporary liberal-cosmopolitans in the West) and European Fascism (in its many variations), which, as a community of anti-communist, anti-liberal, ultra-nationalist ideologies with totalitarian aspirations ("nothing outside of the state" to paraphrase Mussolini), appeared after the First World War and effectively disappeared in 1945. The subsequent plethora of miniscule neo-fascist groups (including neo-nazis) were/are politically ineffectual. Unlike certain Marxists and liberals, this author shall not associate military dictatorships with fascism. So as to avoid rendering the term fascism and neo-fascism historically meaningless, this author will constrain himself to defining neo-fascism as an ideology which draws upon one or more of the historical fascisms as its ideological antecedents - the bulk of which were either actively or passively aligned with the Axis powers.

Despite what cosmopolitan propagandists whether through ignorance or deception maintain is the irreconcilability of these ideologies, the FACTS of the matter are very different. It can be said that the disaster which befell the European world, indeed the whole world, in the Second World War, had some of its roots in the contention amongst these reductionist ideologies for global hegemony. There was no effort at a revolutionary syncretism.

Contemporary cosmopolitan plutocratic liberal-democracy has little relationship to the ideologies of the American and French revolutions. In fact these philosophies bore points in common with pre-Leninist Marxist Social Democracy (at the turn of the twentieth century) and historical fascism. Jacobinism, Fascism and Bolshevism all share the combat model of the command structured action party. Even their ideas of workers participation in industry through trade guilds, soviets or corporations are similar. It should be remembered that the 'Star Spangled Banner' which graces the American Congress is flanked by two fasces, the symbol of fascism, and that there is a large statue of Thomas Jefferson leaning on a fasces. Thus, the spiritual common origins of classical liberal-democracy and fascism are self-evident. I make this comparison by referring to the well known work of the American fascist poet, Ezra Pound - Jefferson And/Or Mussolini, New York, 1955. For the relationship between Fascism and Marxism-Leninism, see A. James Gregor, The Two Faces Of Janus, Yale University Press, 2000.

(Ezra Pound was one of the many ideologically diverse contributors to A. R. Orage's New Age magazine , . Ernest Hemmingway, who was also a contributor to Orage's New Age, pleaded for Pound's release from political imprisonment on treason charges in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in Washington, a lunatic asylum and achieved that end to the advantage of Anglophone culture; earlier he had pleaded for Pound's life, obviously equally successfully. Pound's would-be executioners were aware that the alienation of Hemingway in the event of Pound's death would embarrass them tremendously.)

Apart from the thought-forms behind these ideologies, a Pan-European ethical-socialist ideal can call upon the collected wisdom of "all ages". One can apply an eclectic and syncretic approach in these matters. Platonic or Neo-Platonic thought (a derivative of which is certain Christian thought), pre-Platonic Hellenic or Roman thought, Gothic Christian (commencing with the Arius Heresy and culminating in the Catholic Cathedrals of the Middle Ages with their Freemasonic / Templar mythic overtones) or Renaissance thought and other Indo-European thought, can and already does, serve as a spiritual-political base for 'New Age' thought.

I refer to many exceptional thinkers in this pamphlet, including those whose world-view may bear a resemblance or relationship to liberal-democracy, Marxism and fascism; however, the perspective for the new millenium must remain anti-liberal, anti-marxist and anti-fascist, since these ideologies are reductionist and not holistic in their approaches. From the outset in 19th century Australia (and New Zealand), this millenarian perspective was anticipated as 'socialism without doctrines'.

"The (Hegelian) State of the Whole People" is the objective of the new political ideal. It is the herald of the rebirth of the philosophy of the Overman. The new faith affirms the right of every race and nation to pursue its own path to its own "OVER-SELF" and respects the principle of ‘unity in diversity’, not exclusively in the form of the multiracial/multicultural society, but also in the respect amongst the plurality of the many imminent unique sovereign predominantly homogenous ethical-socialist nation states. The right of national self-determination, in theory acknowledged by the United Nations, must also unequivocally include the right of a country to determine its ethnic composition. The totalitarian cosmopolitans induced their cosmopolis predominantly through stealth and without consultation, and finally with the terror associated with 'political-correctness'.

This perspective is articulated in my The Social Revolutionary Nature of Australian Nationalism, and may be qualified in a future Internet essay, What Is Australian-Socialism?: The Impact Of The Knights Of Labour On Australia's Nationalist tradition..

PART ONE:

Karl Marx : Racist

The following comments can be verified by an examination of Nathan Weyl’s Karl Marx: Racist, Arlington House, N.Y., 1980.

The historical Karl Marx shares little in common with the mythical creature invented by the liberal/totalitarian cosmopolitan Marxoid priesthood. He was never the propagandist for "World Revolution" outside of the parameters of the European world. He regarded coloured peoples as outside of his historical dialectic. He was not in favour of the emancipation of the coloured peoples from the yoke of Western Imperialism.

The growth of the national liberation movements influenced by Western nineteenth century rationalist economic determinist thinking was the inevitable historical marriage of the genuine nationalist aspirations of Third World peoples with what they perceived was the dominant contending ideology in the West sympatheic to their emancipation; this 'sympathy' was a product of Western liberalism not a derivative of the ideology of Karl Marx. The liberation of the Third World from the yoke of Western imperialism was rather an inevitable historical trend since even a cursory historical view of former empires demonstrates they fragment along national/tribal/ethnocentric lines once the centrifugal hegemonic power has no longer the means nor willingness to assert its dominance. The most recent example was the USSR which was in many ways geographically a continuation of the former Tsarist empire, and it in itself represented a marriage of anti-Western Russian nationalist aspirations with what was then the 'trendy' ideology of the day - Marxism.

The only similarity between Marx’s conception of history and that of the liberal/totalitarian cosmopolitan "marxists" is the theory of the class struggle and Economic Determinism. He and Engels defined this theory as Dialectical Materialism.

As ethical-socialists subscribe to a holistic philosophy which in an eclectic fashion favours Hegel’s dialectic of history (Hegel understood that economics is only part of the locomotive of history and not its predominant determinant), they could not subscribe to Marxism even as its founder intended it. This is not to suggest that Marx did not, in a genius-like fashion, understand certain historical processes, but rather his views were myopic and therefore over-rated.

Marx was a "Left-Hegelian" who distorted his mentor’s philosophy.

PART TWO:

Heresy

Exoteric Judaeo-Christianity has little relationship to historical fact. It has little in common with its alleged "founders" - Moses, Jesus etc. It is simply the de-naturalised distorted representation of a series of archetypal myths (in the Jungian sense) common to various Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European cultures. The works of John M. Allegro, The Controversy Of Zion by Douglas Reed, The White Goddess by Robert Graves and The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler illustrate this. Allegro, and Koestler both had a Jewish background. Zionist fanatics and rabid Christian fundamentalists have threatened them with murder and violence for their intellectual "threat" to Judaeo-Christian civilization. R.S. Campbell, Race And Religion (Omni Christian Book Club of America), discusses this subject, as does the following: H. Spencer Lewis in his The Mystical Life Of Jesus. Lewis was the late inspiration of A.M.O.R.C., the principal American Rosicrucian fraternity and his book is available through most New Age bookshops.

This is not to suggest that there may not be "valuable" ethics and ideas in both Judaism and Christianity such as belief in family, justice etc., but these things are not a monopoly of Judaeo-Christian thought in any case. In that sense, we recognise the Ten Commandments and other implied strictures in this system as also empirically and universally necessary to the survival of a society and present and prescribed by the Hammurabi Law Code, the Laws of Manu and so forth; expressed otherwise they appear as the eternal struggle between cosmos and chaos contained in Greek philosophy. Further, quite reasonably, what has been claimed as a Judaeo-Christian monopoly has often been a distortion of other systems and not of much value if not applied in the macrocosm. For Nietzsche's view of the Laws of Manu, we can do an Internet search, but then that would turn up thousands of references!.

For the relevance of the Laws Of Manu to Western Civilization, I quote from an introduction to this work adopted by Professor M. Devanayagam and Professor D. Devakala in their writings. Some of their work is freely available on: www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/1412/brahmins.html and www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/1412/racism.html

"In the tradition of Western scholarship, 'there is no work that has had such great fame and has for centuries been considered to be so authoritative as the Manavadharmasastra. Manu was among the first Sanskrit works to be translated into any European language. The earliest translation of the text, published in Calcutta in 1794, was that of Sir William Jones, one of the founding fathers of modern Indology; the statue of Jones in St.. Paul's Cathedral in London holds a volume of Manu in its hand. Jones's English translation was then translated into German and published by J. Chr. Huttner in Weimar in 1797. The rapid appearance of subsequent translations in French, German, Portuguese and Russian and the inclusion of the text in the monumental Sacred Books of The East series edited by F. Max Muller, are testimonials to the historical and religious importance that European Orientalists conferred on the work."

All codes of law appearing in higher civilizations in the past have been summed up by Dorian Scott Cole in his Claims And Expectations: Ontology Of God religion series in the 'Spirit Of The Law' as to the goals of the law being as follows:

#Harmony, justice, restoring balance in society
#The integrity of the family
#Well-being of the needy in society
#Fairness in trade and economics
#Misuse of position, power, and wealth - oppression and tyranny
#Individual and community moral (law) and responsibility.
(www.visualwriter.com/HumanCond/OntologyOfGod5TheLaw.htm)

PART THREE:

Jung And Mythical Indo-European Archetypes

For a novel insight into the origins of Jungian mythical archetypes and customs , refer to: Julius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition Rochester: Inner Traditions ; Franz Bardon, Initiation Into Hermetics, Dieter Ruggberg, 1962; Frithjof Schuon, Castes And Races, Bedford, Perennial Books; Caitlin Matthews, Sophia: Goddess Of Wisdom, London, Harper Collins, 1992; Paul Huson, The Devil’s Picture Book, Sphere Books, Abacus, London; as well as the great classic by Sir James Frazer - The Golden Bough.

(Frazer, along with Nietzsche and Ibsen were the favourite authors of the famous Australian poet, patriot and prophet, Bernard O’Dowd).

The following works trace the psychological, mythical and biological evolution of European culture and civilization:

Julius Evola, Revolt Against The Modern World, Rochester: Inner Traditions; Joshua Buckley, Collin Cleary and Michael Moynihan, Tyr: Myth Culture Tradition, Atlanta: Ultra, 2002; Pagan, Celtic Britain (Sphere, Cardinal edition, 1974), Robert Graves (ed.), The New Larouse Encyclopedia Of Mythology, (Paul Hamelyn), H.R. Ellis Davidson, Scandinavian Mythology, (Paul Hamelyn), John Gray, Near Eastern Mythology, (Paul Hamelyn), Pierre Honore, In Quest of the White God, (Futura Publications) and all of Carlton Coon's classic works including Living Races Of Man (1965) The Origins Of The Races (1962), The Story Of Man (1962) and The Seven Caves (1957); refer to any work by Marija Gimbutas on the Indo-Europeans.

On race history: Vere Gordon Childe (1892 - 1957): Origins Of European Civilization and The Aryans: Childe was an eminent Australian anthropologist whose principal concern with the economic factor in pre-historic European development was the result of his belonging to the European ethnocentric Marxist school – which he freely acknowledged. Childe’s concern with economics was not doctrinaire Marxism; he was a brilliant intellectual who would not confine his analysis to the restrictive confines of any dogmatic school of thought.

PART FOUR:

Herrenvolk?

Nietzsche has introduced into contemporary Western philosophy the term ‘Herrenvolk’ or Master People. This should not be confused with the Herrenvolk ideology of Hitler’s fascism. The Nietzsche scholar, Walter Kaufmann, has demonstrated the distortions involved in the Nazi misrepresentation of the original concept. A 2002 academic analysis by Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich (Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich (eds.) Nietzsche: Godfather Of Fascism?, Princeton, 2002), offers an interesting criticism of Kaufmann's view of Nietzsche.

Nietzsche, like the Nazarene of whom he was ambivalently critical, has inspired countless inividuals with heterodoxical interpretations (or to satirically re-present a New Testament idea: whenever two or three of you are gathered in my name, there is the basis of a new sect). Ideologically opposed persons could all style themselves as Nietzscheans. We see therefore two gentlemen of the Left, Jean-Paul Sartre and the neo-marxist of Jewish descent, Erich Fromm (see his Psychoanalysis And Religion) using Nietzschean prisms to articlutate their world-views and their right-wing antagonists, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini doing likewise. It should also be remembered that Jesus said "in my father's house there are many mansions" (ie. there are many paths to the truth). Nietzsche recommended that everyone find's his own truth - and thus every interpretation must be personalised - as is the one of this author. (More on the ideological heterogeneity of Nietzsche, refer to: Steven E. Ascheim, "Nietzschean Socialism - Left And Right 1890-1933", Journal Of History, 1988, pp. 147 - 165. Available also on Internet.)

Nietzsche in the Vedantist tradition subscribed to the concept of Self-Overcoming or Self-Mastery. A national community of Self-Mastered individuals led by the most capable in body and soul (Evola's anarch, a Being which no longer is subject necessarily to the mores of society, but rather draws upon the value of his Higher Self or what ethical socialists like Dugin, Bessant etc define in Vedic terms as the Atman) constitutes a Master People or Herrenvolk. Its contending leading group, presently organized as a sub-culture, having overcome its own internal chaos, would (as the governing stratum of a nation) institute order within the whole national body-politic by acknowledging the value of every component and formulating an ideology/methodology aiming at national salvation through national reconciliation, national reconstruction, national re-birth. Self-overcoming is the raison d’etre of every High Religion.

Such a group (organized in every nation of the European Civilization) in the Nietzschean terminology is "the Party of Life" and its world-historical mission is to vanquish our current bourgeois Western civilization in a "twilight of the idols", during the "Great Noon Tide".

An interesting insight into Nietzschean thinking is found in a number of Colin Wilson’s works, in particular, "The Outsider". The writings of P. D. Ouspensky and G. I. Gurdjieff, two early 20^th Century Russian psycho-technologists, was a development of Nietzschean thinking. (For the relationship of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff to New Age metaphysical/metapolitical ethical socialist thought, simply do an Internet search using their names in tandem with A.R. Orage.)

All "good Europeans" need arise from their lethargy. Nietzsche was the first prophet of the coming age of the "good European".