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Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
When I received my first issue of American Renaissance I finally felt like I was at home politically. That's a racialist periodical like The Occidental Quarterly and Mankind. From there I've been introduced to a great many authors and intellectuals most of whom are Europeans. I feel that I can work with American rightists but we don't believe the same things.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
That's one of main topics I'm focused in on for my term paper right now. I'm trying to dig up the differences between Wilhelmine social welfare and Weimar social welfare. The period until WWI seems to be more occupied with poor relief with the immediate goal of preventing a socialist revolution (One of Bismarck's stated goals) while the Social Democrats actually wanted to change the system in order to make it preventive of social ills, create a greater "social spirit," undermine the individual causes of poverty and, according to Alice Salomon, to make it so welfare was no longer accountable to "God, the State, the community, but rather to the individual in need."
Basically, it looks like the Bismarck reforms were more of a pragmatic approach against the threat of socialism, while the Social Democrats wanted to create a system that was friendly to state socialism.
Mister D (11-12-2012)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Not to offend, D, and do not misconstrue this as Reductio ad Hitlerum, but from what I understand from what you've told me is that the European New Right is anti liberal in both economic and social issues. If they're largely in favor of using the state to promote the collective interests of the citizen, and from what I gather support more traditional values, then how are they different from earlier Fascist movements, a la Benito Mussolini or otherwise? After all, Mussolini made traditionalism an essential plank of his Fascist movement, but at the same time strongly supported state intervention in the economy in favor of collective interests.
None taken. I'm sympathetic to fascism. I don't take that as an insult. It's only insulting when people use it as an excuse to dismiss your ideas without honestly engaging them.
As for the New Rightists, they explicitly reject racism, intolerance, and aggression. I've seen no one advocate a cult of virility or glorify war. In fact, they are largely critical of the US and its efforts to maintain its empire. Neither do they advocate an authoritarian model of government but rather a decentralized European federalism.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist