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Can a movement win if it has the right tactics but the wrong target? The story of the American Conservative Movement after the Cold War suggests that it can’t. The American Right has chased tangential issues, acted as controlled opposition, and operated more like a business than a serious movement partially because it didn’t know what it was fighting. Conservative radio host Jesse Kelly [Tweet him] deserves credit for trying to point to a real target, suggesting some productive means to fight the enemy, and having a clear view of the stakes. Unfortunately, he may be wrong about who it is that really threatens America and what they really want. America is being torn about by tribes who fundamentally aren’t part of the country and never want to be, not simply people who want a different economic system. As Paul Gottfried might put it, we aren’t threatened by “Communists,” because we are actually facing people to the left of them.
Still, Kelly deserves credit for rejecting the complacency and triumphalism in American political thought. “I wish I could tell you that our nation stands at a crossroad…” he says in his June, 2023 best-seller The Anti-Communist Manifesto. “But that’s not the case. America chose a path long ago. Now we stand within sight of the journey’s dark end.”
Although he claims the people we face are “really Communists,” he has an interesting analysis of what the Communist really is—an almost biological phenomenon of entropy. “The communist is the water,” he says. “Your society is the boulder.” “Communism is the religion of the malcontent,” he argues, and this idea that Communism is a faith, impervious to reason and reality, is true. He also doesn’t take refuge in the idea that people will just naturally choose freedom. “Defeating the communist is all that matters,” he says. “Victory comes the day the communist can no longer openly practice his demonic religion.”
Yet Communism is also a highly specific doctrine. Kelly himself, quoting the “prophet” Marx, says “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property” [The Communist Manifesto, 1848]. That said, today it seems control over property is more important to the Left than abolishing it, as shown by the phenomenon “Woke Capital.”
While Kelly addresses why corporate America moved in this direction, pinning the origin on Howard Bowen’s concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 1953, this explanation doesn’t convince. Obviously, communists have sought positions in corporate America to gain power over the culture, but corporations themselves (including institutions like the Chamber of Commerce and the Open-Borders Wall Street Journal) have long gone along with cultural Leftism. The late paleoconservative writer Sam Francis’ theory of the managerial state and the short-term interest capitalists have in breaking down barriers to markets (including national borders, cultural identities, and labor mobility) clearly plays a major role. Why capital behaves in this way and what incentives are required to change it is arguably the most important theoretical question before us.
For those of us who saw the end of the Cold War when we were young (or missed it altogether), it’s tempting to simply brush past Kelly’s account of Communist crimes. It’s important not to. It sounds simplistic, but the fact that Leftists were never held to account for communism, while American Right-wingers are constantly “linked” to fascism and national socialism is arguably the whole reason conservatives are in a permanently failed, defensive crouch. It’s especially nefarious because the accusations of Hitlerism are often flimsy or simply made up, while Leftists’ identification with socialism or outright Communism is often proudly asserted. The slapdash identification of patriotism with a comic-book version of “Nazism” has been used to pathologize conservatism, American patriotism, and even national identity in what VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow has called “Hitler’s Revenge.”
While major cities throughout the West host Holocaust museums designed to pathologize the Right, even in countries that fought the Axis, the Hammer And Sickle can be openly displayed almost everywhere, and defenders of even the most bloodthirsty Communist regimes never fear deplatforming from capitalist tech companies.
“America should be covered with museums and memorials to the tens of millions of people who died because of communism,” Kelly says, and he’s right. Even veterans of the conservative movement may find themselves stunned by some of the atrocities Kelly chronicles from Communist governments, notably the Pitești Experiment in Romania.
While even a passing mention to a historical “Far-Right” figure is a cause for hysterical screeching from the Main Stream Media, as Kelly shows, explicit support for Communism continues to rise. Partially, this is because previous Communist activists, notably the violent figures involved in the Weather Underground (who estimated 25 million Americans would need to be killed for the Revolution[Eliminating 25 million Americans, by Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, October 23, 2008]) easily moved into academia. Involvement as an activist for a “Far-Right” cause is career death even in the conservative movement, but even the most violent Leftist can confidently anticipate an easy sinecure in academia in a major like Education.
Yet clearly what mobilizes activists today is race, not class. “The eternal struggle between workers and capitalists was out; the eternal struggle between aggrieved racial groups and their white antagonists was in,” said Kelly, tracing the rise of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in academia. “Whatever they call themselves, they are united in their hostility towards America and their hatred of you, your values, and everything you care about, make no mistake,” he also says.
This is true, but if even they can’t unite around the term “Communist” or even socialist, we should look at the one thing that really does unite them. That is their hatred of whites, full stop. If the attack is being waged on that ground, as Sam Francis pointed out, it must eventually be met on that ground. To say it’s “Communists” misleads people if it makes activists start defending ground that isn’t actually under attack. For example, Kelly repeatedly criticizes George Soros for his nefarious impact in his book, but the currency speculator is not a “Communist.” He’s against whites, full stop.
Kelly may also be a bit too confident in the possibility of non-state solutions to what we face. “Unlike those nations [the Soviet Union and Mao’s China], Political Correctness is not imposed by the government the U.S. (not yet, anyway),” says Kelly, describing one problem. “Instead, the enforcement mechanism is crowdsourced to digital mobs of anonymous malcontents and a handful of vocal activists. We call this enforcement mechanism ‘cancel culture.’”
Yet his description isn’t really true. It’s the government, including the Department of Homeland Security (under President Donald Trump) that has directly pressured tech companies to deplatform [Feds Can’t Censor: Ask Big Tech to Do it For Them, by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, September 26, 2019].
It’s true that tech companies and other corporations would probably deny services and deplatform on their own, but this wasn’t always true. Amazon and other companies once defended free speech, even to the point of defending the vilest conduct[Jeff Bezos Makes it Clear Where He Stands on Freedom of Speech, by Mathew Ingram, Fortune, June 1, 2016]. Media pressure was a big reason they backed down, but as Richard Hanania has persuasively argued, it is the U.S. government and its Civil Rights legislation that essentially forces company to act this way and also provides jobs for professional activists. It’s not enough to “defy Political Correctness” to win. Seizing and using state power is necessary.
Similarly, chronicling the rise and fall of the social media company Parler, Kelly urges readers not to depend on “big tech” companies that “won’t kick you off their servers the moment they sense trouble.” Yet sometimes there is no real alternative, as when discussing banks, payment processors, or companies like Cloudflare that protect against DDOS attacks.
The government and media (increasingly the same thing) specialize in coordinated attacks precisely on the most vulnerable choke points any online businesses relies on. If there is a “free market” solution, it relies on a deus ex machina like Elon Musk buying Twitter out of nowhere and loosening up (though not ending) censorship.
Kelly’s suggestions for conservatives to organize are also impractical today unless Big Tech permits you to organize, which, in many cases, they simply don’t. Largely because of the Musk Effect however, it does seem things are loosening up. Kelly does admit that government interference in business is “inevitable” and that “we need to use it to our advantage.”
Lawfare is by far the biggest threat Americans face. Kelly is closer than most in recognizing the pure “friend/enemy” way Leftists view law. As he points out, the USSR, East Germany, and other Communist states guaranteed all sorts of theoretical rights that citizens didn’t actually enjoy. Peter Brimelow has argued that what we are facing now is a “Communist coup” similar to that which took place in the East Bloc after World War II, when formerly free states were gradually subjugated to one party rule through lawfare. Unlike during the Cold War, we also don’t have a powerful international ally speaking out for our own traditional liberties.
The implicit Cold War nostalgia of “anti-Communism” is a powerful frame for older conservatives, but it poses its own dangers. What we face now may have grown out of Communism but it is something beyond a new face for an old ideology.
It’s even beyond “Cultural Marxism,” a term that already seems dated. As Steve Sailer pointed out in TakiMag recently, much of it is “simple lowbrow hate and greed” against whites, and we’re giving them too much credit by assuming “a highly intellectual ideological backstory [America’s Untouchables, September 6, 2023].”
Kelly’s passing description of Marxism as simply the religion of the malcontent probably tells us more than poring over the history of the USSR or the turgid prose of Karl Marxism. It’s a dysgenic, entropic, biological phenomenon that needs to be stamped out wherever it raises its head, not because it’s just coming after our “private property” but it attacks everything that Western Man was—and could be again.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him | Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow‘s Preface here.
Adapted from the VDARE Book Club discussion on Jesse Kelley’s THE ANTI-COMMUNIST MANIFESTO between Kirkpatrick and Paul Kersey
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Thanks for the detailed description of so many leftist attacks.
4HONESTY.com sees the basis for all DISHONEST FALSE theorizing the general acceptance of DISHONESTY as a virtuous.
Deception, dishonesty, omission and cherry-picking are considered legitimate, even virtuous, if the promote Leftst goals.
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Communism – as actually practiced – is merely the flip side of the same debased coin as its nemesis, which goes by the name of “free-market capitalism” or neo-liberalism (also as actually practiced). It all amounts to the same racket, which is more accurately described as something like mafia-feudalism. For those who worship at the altar of the free-market, it’s useful to keep in mind that there is absolutely nothing “free” about a rigged market – anymore than rigged elections are free. For those who insist that Marxist states were classless utopias of equality – note that all featured certain folks who were much more equal than others (politboro, central committees). The salient features of both systems are remarkably similar: everything is controlled by a small clique of oligarchs, who employ a number of toadies (nomenklatura) to ensure that no challenge emerges to La cosa nostra. All talk and narratives about “democracy”, “freedom”, and (especially) “equality” are total lies. Omerta is ruthlessly enforced. The proles (zeks) are allowed to “vote” for legislatures whose sole purpose is to ratify decisions from above. Orwell summarized the end result of both nominal systems in Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Orwell’s book was also prophetic about the use of endless wars by the ruling oligarchy (or central committee, if you prefer).
The only serious question for the present day is whether Eastasia (which might resemble China and Russia) is a genuine opponent of Oceania (which bears much resemblance to Clown-World) or if it’s just another level of the overall racket to establish global rule by the “stakeholders” – or their own utterly blasphemous self-description as “Masters of the Universe”. I suspect Orwell viewed Eastasia as the latter – kind of like the “opposition” GOP in the US but less brazenly fake.
So what’s new? Hitler and the Nazis exposed this Judeo-Communist nexus/conspiracy last century & its existential threat to the white race, but nobody listened much outside of Germany, except for a few intelligent individuals like Mosley, Amery, Ramsay, Beckett, Celine, Joyce & Unity Mitford. Instead the prodigious majority of white gentile Christian-Communist morons united to extirpate Nazism so they could continue believing in rabbi Jesus & Marx on a planet governed by their Israel Overlords.
What is Communism in the first place?
Karl Marx was paid to write his Manifesto by Oligarch Friedrich Engels as propaganda. Why would a Manifesto supposedly championing the Proletariat be written on behalf of Oligarchs to cede power to the Proletariat?
So, wouldn’t an Anti-Communist Manifesto be to champion the Oligarchs?
One has to understand Marxist Communism as propaganda and an ideology that maintains Oligarchs in power by making the Proletariat believe in a worker’s paradise somewhere in the future when Communism would be perfected. The Communist Manifesto is mythic, not scientific as alleged.
If you read Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon it is a critique of Napoleon III’s uncle, Napoleon I, taking over France by a coup (meaning the 18th day of the French Revolutionary Calendar). It could be re-read today as a similar critique of the 2020 elitist and corporatist takeover of the US. Marx was apparently not paid to write the 18th Brumaire as propaganda. This indicates that Marx was opposed to Oligarch’s grabbing power, contradicting the Communist Manifesto.
Any book on the Anti-Communist Manifesto has to address these contradictions.
“Hudge and Gudge are secretly in partnership”
“I WILL WHISPER in the reader’s ear a horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me: the suspicion that Hudge and Gudge are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is very much of a put-up job, and that the way in which they perpetually play into each other’s hands is not an everlasting coincidence. Gudge, the plutocrat, wants an anarchic industrialism; Hudge, the idealist, provides him with lyric praises of anarchy. Gudge wants women-workers because they are cheaper; Hudge calls the woman’s work “freedom to live her own life.” Gudge wants steady and obedient workmen, Hudge preaches teetotalism — to workmen, not to Gudge. Gudge wants a tame and timid population who will never take arms against tyranny; Hudge proves from Tolstoi that nobody must take arms against anything. Gudge is naturally a healthy and well-washed gentleman; Hudge earnestly preaches the perfection of Gudge’s washing to people who can’t practice it. Above all, Gudge rules by a coarse and cruel system of sacking and sweating and bi-sexual toil which is totally inconsistent with the free family and which is bound to destroy it; therefore Hudge, stretching out his arms to the universe with a prophetic smile, tells us that the family is something that we shall soon gloriously outgrow.
“I do not know whether the partnership of Hudge and Gudge is conscious or unconscious. I only know that between them they still keep the common man homeless.”
~GKC: ‘What’s Wrong with the World.’ Perhaps GKC would call the modern melding of Hudge and Gudge “Sludge.”
We are at the tail-end of boomer anticommunism. The days of Jews such as Levin, Savage, Horowits etc selling clueless boomers books on the “communist” “left” menace are over. pretty much everyone especially the younger generation have woken up on the JQ and their shabbos goys. Millennials are starting to wake up to who is at fault for their debts, the prohibitively expensive housing, the corporate bullshit, the shit jobs, the rising crime. All this will be more apparent when people start to realise that China has surpassed the United States in quality of life.
If you created one of those ‘historical timeline’ posters and plotted all of Europe’s various enemies over the last 2,200 years, Huns, Mongols, Vikings, Moors, Turks, etc., would appear as large blips and then gradually fade away. But over those 2,200 years, one group — the Jews — would appear as a solid line extending evenly along the entire length of the poster. At first (the Maccabee uprising, 167-152 B.C.) the Jews tried to wage war. They defeated the Seleucids, but Rome was becoming interested in Palestine. In 66 A.D., the first great Jewish revolt against Rome broke out. In 70 A.D., Titus destroyed the Temple, and the final resistance was crushed in 72 A.D. True to their natures, they refused to accept alien rule, and the 115-117 A.D. Diaspora Uprising occurred. Jews simply started slaughtering gentiles everywhere. They killed 250,000 on Cyprus; and another 240,000 in Cyrene. Jewish populations were seriously thinned as the legions of Rome took care of business. Yet, the Jews rose up yet again in the bar Kokhba Revolt (131-135 A.D.). They were decisively defeated and dispersed throughout the roman Empire. In the early 8th Century, we find the Jews in Spain helping the Moors invade the country (711 A.D.). They helped the Moors after the country was largely conquered by holding conquered cities while the Moorish army was fighting elsewhere. The Mohammedans called Granada, Lucena, and Tarragona “Jewish cities”. Elsewhere, the 5,000 Jews in England in 1290 A.D. controlled over one-third of all the money in England. Their usury as so hated by the English people that the took up a huge collection to reimburse King Edward for any loses he would suffer with the loss of Jewish taxes and bribes if he would only expel them. And so it goes down the ages — Jewish money-lenders, tax-farmers, slave traders, white slavers, estate managers, tavern-keepers, etc., became so rich that they held kings and royalty hostage because they owed so much money, and could borrow more.
Add in the non-stop cultural attacks on European civilization, from Baruch Spinoza to Karl Marx and George Soros, and you see the situation the European Peoples are in today.
Any critique of our modern collapse that does not feature the efforts of Jews to plunder and corrupt our societies is brain-dead.
Jesse Kelly is as good as it gets on broadcast.
He’s also better than many Unz writers.
Be grateful.
As the Jesuit economist Heinrich Pesch, S.J. explained— and I borrow the paraphrase of E. Michael Jones here— ‘socialism is the pus that develops when the body gets sick from capitalism*’.
*And as EMJ is wont to say, “Capitalism is state-sponsored usury.”
I broke down and bought the book but haven’t had time to read it yet. Leafing through it it doesn’t appear that Jesse Kelly ever mentions the disproportionate role that Jews played in leading communist movements since its inception nor that Kar Marx and George Soros are Jews. And for that matter neither does James Kirkpatrick. Or that communist thug and murderer Lenin was at least 25% Jewish and held the Jewish people in high regard.
Jesse Kelly occasionally virtue signals by telling his audience that his best friend is a Mexican and how he loves Mexican food. He often reminds us that his producer Chris is Jewish (What Chris?). I think in 2023 he was organizing a trip to Israel for he and any listeners who wanted to go.
If Kelly’s book is anything like his radio show then he mostly glosses over the anti-white hatred of today’s Jew led left and seems to offer no real solutions other than to run for your local school board. But that’s unlikely to yield much success in the age of weaponized federal government who’ve shown they’re willing to harass parents who show up to hold left wing school boards accountable for wokeness.
In the end Kelly is getting rich telling us how bad things are. Kelly is street smart and I think he knows what the real solutions entail (and it’s not 1990’s race blindness) but like all conservatives stays within the guardrails to protect his lucrative income.