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NATIONALISM

Frequently Asked Questions

Copyright 2002 LNSG-writers

This FAQ can be found online at:

http://www.nazi.org/library/faq/nationalism/

Version: 1.0

Contents

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I. What is Nationalism

II. Why is it useful?

III. How does it work?

IV. Nationalist Groups

V. Common Fallacies

VI. About the LNSG

I. What is Nationalism

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1. Scope of Nationalism

Most beliefs address a certain area of the human socialization

process, but nationalism is a concept that applies in social,

cultural and political contexts together. It is not a system of

government, like democracy or totalitarianism, nor an economic

system, like socialism or capitalism, but it is a values system that

determines the goals and methods of a society. As such it is not

limited to being a form of "control" but is more a form of worldview

that, when shared by a population, avoids the modern disease.

As a worldview, nationalism also encompasses elements of philosophy,

sociology and spirituality. It both explains why humans behave the

way they do and suggests a sensible method in which actions can be

conceived and executed. As such, it is a design system, more than a

dogmatic or moral system, and can be applied at every level of human

existence. Furthermore it permits experimentation and variation

between its systems of government, social organization and

mysticism, so long as it adheres to the basic principles of

Nationalism.

2. Definition of Nationalism

Nationalism is most conveniently described as belief in organizing

human beings by their evolutionary and cultural branch, the nation

(or meta-tribe). Nations are defined by those who founded them and

their genetic origins, which means that the only people forced to

associate with each other on a political level are those of the same

ethnicity. In a nationalist worldview, each person from every ethnic

group esteems his or her own ethnicity above all else, and stays

free from supranational groupings, organizations or corporations.

3. Humanity as Pantheism

Two essential spiritual views exist for those believe in mysticism:

(1) that there is an external source of control for this world which

manipulates it, to which at death we all go, and (2) that the source

of mysticism in the world is either the world itself, or within the

world - material, literal and "real" - as we know it.

Nationalism originates in a view that for the purposes of

government-making, we must operate according to (2) until we

discover a consistent means of exploring the intentions of any

"other worlds" which may exist according to (1). As such, it has a

pantheistic nature instead of a "dualistic" (believing in two

"worlds," the divine and the real) nature, and suggests that any

inspiration for our current actions must exist in appreciation of

the now, including the diversity of nature, which should be

preserved and nurtured through an attention spent keeping unique

groups separate, so they do not adulterate each other and produce a

compromise between their genetic stock, culture.

This objectivist view of the situation as presented by the history,

spiritual systems and unbiased scientists of our tribe, in the

current globalist political situation, is considered heresy and a

sign of "hate" - these are methods used to fight nationalism, and

have no basis in a scientific disagreement with nationalism. Most

people in the current time are conditioned to fear "Racism" in

anything which asserts genetic differences between populations are

extant. For them, we present a brief overview of racial theory here.

Race-Culture Theory

"A theory regarding race which supports both the historical theory

and the racial theory of the LNSG, 'parallel evolution,' is codified

under something known around here as Race-Culture Theory. This

theory states that race and culture influence one another through

development of a civilization; one might paraphrase it by saying

that cultural norms determine what traits survive, and race is a

record of the traits a culture has chosen; further, the implicit

corollary is that a culture will be changed by the introduction of a

new race within its population, as these people having been

conditioned with different genetic determiners of survival will have

been developed to exist in their culture, and will recognize living

outside of that ruleset will bring ambiguity and death.

In this concept, races do not exist on a purely linear construction;

they are the evolving populations of humanity which arose in

parallel and each carry distinct traits which are handily specific

to the culture and civilizations which produced each race. A few

more steps of analysis suggests that race-mixing produces then a

step back in evolution for members of all races, as they will have

replaced specific traits - characterists rendered by thousands of

years of evolutionary pressure toward a cultural ideal - with

generic traits, or compromises between potential traits in their

genetic profiles.

Thus the basis of the LNSG's position on race is formed: race is

culture is memory is values systems, and these are sacred to every

population. While we are pro-White, and acknowledge no goals other

than preservation of nature and our own tribe, we are committed to

honorable treatment of other populations and above all else,

honorable separation of the races and injunctions against

miscegenation (race-mixing), population-mixing and most of all use

of other races for chattel slavery and/or hired labor alike."

- http://www.nazi.org/party/theory/race/

4. Nations as Ecosystems

In the nationalist view, localized nations of ethnic groups ruling

themselves are like human ecosystems in that, while they are fully

specialized for their location and its character, they have a high

degree of internal variation and different roles served by each of

their members. As there are mice and eagles in a forest, there are

leaders and implementors in any human society, just as there are

those who break down the old in any ecosystem and those who seek

opportunity for change, much as there are those creatures in nature

who burrow under the earth, make dams, eat detritus and destroy

other life forms to make paths of their own.

As such, there is no single appearance to people within a race, nor

is there a single genetic marker or composite, but these people

share among them the greatest commonality in genetics, adaptive

inclinations and cultural background. Thus it is sensible to keep

these ecosystems isolated as much is possible to prevent an

introduction of the alien to a large degree, which then destroys

these areas. Much as a forest in the hands of industrialized

humanity is helpless, so is humanity and its 15,000 years of

cultural heritage in the hands of its modern technological

dominators.

5. Nature to Nation

Following the example of nature, we can adopt biological

organization systems for human use, as was common in the ancient

empires of Greek, Rome and Egypt (long before they collapsed shortly

after admitting non-ethnic citizens). Each tribe rules itself, and

the meta-tribe loosely unites them, enabling trade and exchange of

ideas. Tribes may interact with others freely, but if they choose to

intermix, they are exiled from the meta-nation. There are no

allegiances higher than nation, and each locality is ruled by the

people who live in it most immediately (in small groups) - people

who know each other as distant but vital kin - for whom land,

family, tribe and culture are interlocked, interdependent concepts.

In this type of system, the widescale pollution, over-development,

economic servitude to distant owners, and adulteration of culture is

stopped; as such, many people have correctly identified nationalism,

whether of democratic states or totalitarian ones, as the only force

that can consistently repel globalism.

Globalism, for the purposes of this essay, is defined as any system

in which nations are unified in trading or military groups, or

through the system of multi-national commerce, meaning that what

unites groups is dogma related to economic systems, with economics -

and not the people, their culture and heritage - as the primary

goal. At the time of this writing, a globalist state centered around

the interests of the United States and Israel seems likely, and will

quickly assimilate us all into the cultureless "trader's paradise"

of the United States, with only religiously xenophobic international

tribes keeping their identity protected for reasons of compassion.

II. How does it work?

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1. What are its basic ideas?

Nationalism is built around the idea of parallel evolution, or that

people, plants, animals, ideas, concepts, and languages evolve in

multiple threads simultaneously. This encloses several ideas,

including that of meritocratic parallel elitism, by which multiple

sub-species of idea or organism refine themselves according to the

specific needs of their locality (or in the case of humans, cultural

goals). It also holds a concept of uniqueness and diversity by which

groups not individuals are the measurement of diversity, and they

are correspondingly isolated to keep them from being "averaged," or

combined with others in such a way only the compromise - lowest

common denominator - of their traits prevails. In a parallelist

system, mixing threads results in a decrease of specialized function

and thus a reduction of evolution.

Naturally, this runs contrary to the globalist and internationalist

ideas that, propelled by a worldwide liberalization making way for

larger populations and great profits, suggest we should all merge

into a generic population to become better consumers. Nationalists

hold that the ultimate extension of egalitarianism is conformity,

much as communism through its desire to mold people into generics

reduced the ability of cultures to compete where innovation was

required. Similarly, liberalism slowly bogs us down with social

pretense of equality and in effect, becomes a self-fulfilling

prophecy that crushes individuality, destroys cultures and provides

only distant idealized leaders who most commonly facilitate

individual needs, not things of collective importance such as

environmental reconstruction.

2. How does this apply to government?

Government must serve the people, and the needs of the people as a

culture, as a part of a natural system, and as individuals.

Nationalism is accepting of any economic system and most political

ones, although its values as post-egalitarian will conflict in

varying degrees with democracy and communism. Most importantly,

nationalism as a political standard saves governments from having to

participate in global politics, and allows them to concentrate on

working for the people and local needs, including environmental

ones. As such, nationalism is a superior basis for civilization as a

whole - with its component disciplines of politics, society and

culture - and benefits any culture who adopts it.

3. How does this apply to society?

Society is the part of a civilization which exists outside of

official constraints, but is influenced by them and helps effect

them through its cultural and social tendencies. A nationalist

society would accept certain ideas, including those of ethnic

independence, meritocratic elitism, and specialization through

localization that would thwart the tendency of money, power and

religious symbolism to replace the goal with the method. In society,

this can be seen most clearly in how we value money more than the

sanity and health of our families, as evidenced by the increasing

pollution, lack of family cohesion and social disorder created in

the churning wake of our political and economic "advancement."

4. How does this apply to nature?

Local governments, composed of the people who live in an area and

are specifically adapted to its unique characteristics, are more in

touch with what is occurring in that area and planning for its

future than some distant organization which may see a piece of land

fit to be converted into a giant factory complex, resulting in

massive pollution and destruction of natural land for the benefits

of others, while a tiny portion of the profit goes back into the

local community. In a nationalist system, local governments would be

guardians of natural resources and ecosystems, and would be able to

fall into balance with a national economy that limited its imports,

reducing competition and allowing its economies to reach an internal

equilibrium, preserving higher salaries and making an ever-

increasing demand for money less of a motivation than the health of

the community as a whole.

5. How does nationalism relate to the superpower age?

Previous to the superpower age, the last gasp of nationalism was in

Europe and Asia attempting to resist cosmopolitanism,

internationalism and anti-meritocratic systems of government such as

communism. Through the help of mostly the United States, the

nationalists were defeated by a much larger force, mainly because of

political confusion in European nations leading to them being unable

to unite against the larger American and Soviet forces. Similarly,

Asia was too fractured by competing financial interests to see the

wisdom of the Japanese and Chinese nationalists who were fighting

for independent empires in that area. The version of nationalism

from the 1940s however barely resembles what it is today, which is

both more Traditional and modernized/post-modernized relative to the

older version of Nationalism. The Nationalism advocated in this FAQ

draws more from the Greco-Roman, Indic and Egyptian empires than it

does from China, Japan or Nazi Germany, although we recognize that

form of nationalism as being inspired by the same roots and thus an

ally in common.

III. Nationalist Groups

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An extensive list of nationalist groups can be found here:

http://www.nazi.org/current/links/

Groups recommended exclusively by this author:

1. The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party - a sensible,

emotionally controlled, traditionalist nationalist party which

incorporates the best and most citizen-nurturing ideas of the

past 5,000 years of human politics.

http://www.nazi.org/

2. Overthrow/Bill White - this highly intelligent young man

writes about the importance of Radical Traditionalism and the

utility of National Socialism as a device to further develop

white culture and society. He is also a candidate in his local

area in Maryland.

http://www.overthrow.com/

3. The National Alliance - one of the oldest Nationalist groups

in America, this group has a National Socialist and traditionalist

flavor with a good understanding of the classic works, ideas and

actions of Indo-European culture.

http://www.natvan.com/

4. British National Party - although heavy on patriotic elements

from the era of the nation-state, the BNP advocates a strong

nationalist platform with an eye toward tradition, reclaiming

the UK for the people who created it.

http://www.bnp.org.uk/

IV. Common Fallacies

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1. "You're racists!"

While understanding that race is culture is ethnicity is heritage is

nation is part of nationalism, it is one part of nationalism and

without the sensible respect for others and cultural self-

determination that is part of any healthy nationalist outlook, race

becomes a dominant hot-button issue which is considered before all

others in a paranoid, reactionary backlash, whether anti-racism or

pro-racism. What we call "racism" today, or recognizing the

evolutionary differences between tribes, is natural to all people

but only those with bravery admit it.

2. "You're haters!"

It is important for any governmental system to be assertive about

doing what is healthy, even adamant or voilent about it, regardless

of how it inconveniences others. However, it is doubtful that

nationalists are propelled by hatred.

3. "You're anti-Semites!"

Every group has its national character, whether currently in their

nation or not. Each group must have a national ground as its home

nation, including Semites (Jews, Arabs, and many middle easterners).

In the context of Semitic Nationalism, we are pro-Semitic.

By the same token, however, no nation should allow alien populations

to reside within except as temporary visitors, and in our own

nations we do not want alien cultures, which for many tribes

(Africa, Asian and Indo-Europeans most notably) does not include

Semitic religions, psychology or philosophy. Semitic religions such

as Judaism or Christianity or Islam, Semitic cultures like Judaism,

and Semitic bloodlines belong in Semitic nations. This is a fair and

sensible action, because every culture, including Indo-European

tribes, deserves its right to tribal autonomy.

Some will say that nationalism excludes Jews, because since losing a

war in the land of Israel they wandered the world in a diaspora,

living in host nations while practicing the culture, religion and

mental outlook of a Semitic nation. In the minds of these people, it

is anti-Semitic to deny these exiles a home; in the view of a

nationalist, every tribe must preserve its own identity in its

homeland, thus Israelites must return to Israel or create a new

nation in one specific area.

"The Egyptians worship many animals and images of monstrous form;

the Jews have purely conceptions of Deity, as one in essence. They

call those profane who make representations of God in human shape of

perishable materials. They believe that Being to supreme and

eternal, neither capable of representation or decay. " Tacitus, on

Judaism

4. "You're conservatives!"

Conservative is a modern definition which means someone who in a

liberal system embraces as much of traditional values as is

possible. To nationalists, this is a paradoxical outlook, as having

given up on nation and culture, the conservative has no leg to stand

on defending that society from its degeneration at the hands of race

adulteration, social reprogramming and cultural reduction. Thus, no

nationalist is a conservative, although nationalists are by

definition the strongest argument for Tradition and traditionalism.

5. "You're liberals!"

Liberalism arose from a belief in egalitarianism, or the equality of

all people in a political or religious sense, and became convenient

during the industrial revolution as a way of convincing the masses

they were "empowered" when in fact they had less power to ever

change the system around them. Liberal ideals such as democracy make

consensus on anything but the lowest common denominator changes

unlikely, thus one gets "panem et circensus" alongside sentimental

reforms based on grand statements of emotional commonality, not

logic. No nationalist is a liberal, although by its own goalset

nationalism embraces many liberal reforms such as: environmentalism,

diversity, cultural preservation and tolerance of the unique views

of other groups.

In the chronologue of history, the development of liberalism can be

traced from its origins in the Judeo-Christian religions, which

proclaimed an equality of man and the importance of certain "grand

absolute statements," such as morality and pity and equality and

social neutrality, over any of the values of the previous order,

namely those of tribe, honor, justice and independence. As we are

not of a Semitic tribe, we do not see it fitting to embrace Semitic

dogma, although Semites are welcome to if they so desire, obviously.

6. "You'll never achieve anything!"

Nationalism has been the dominant system on earth until the pax

judaica, starting with the adoption of Christianity as the official

religion of the Roman empire, creators of the previous era as

defined by historians, pax romana. Pax judaica has been home to the

most frustrating and destructive events in history, including

unchecked industry eating natural ecosystems, cultural and ethnic

dissolution, and globalist superpowers and corporations wiht

unprecedented control over nation-states and individuals. Change is

inevitable and nationalism has succeeded far longer than

"internationalism" has, so it is likely we as a species will switch

back to the previous working model, with some changes to keep

current.

7. "There's proof races don't exist!"

From the LNSG:

We've heard this one many times; all of the arguments against race

so far advanced by the mainstream society centers around semantic

ideas of race. Thus, they are easily defeated if one looks at the

arguments being made, despite the flashy "proof" (facts and figures

unrelated to the actual question of race) being displayed by so-

called intellectuals.

A. "There must be a skin color gene which also includes

intelligence" - fallacy: race is a collection of traits linked only

by their presence in real world populations. It is not a symbolized,

denoted or signal-indicated thing in the human species. It is an

extant fact of what traits were accumulated in what localities by

each tribe (as opposed to a symbol, or marker, of what the grouping

- something humans must name - of those traits must be). Tribes are

like neanderthals and cro-magnons: different evolutionary branches

of the same organism, contributing different specialized DNA. As you

can see, this argument against race and its variants attempt to

confuse the reader with semantic issues, and then, constructing of

those semantic issues a fallacious argument attributed to those who

believe in race, demolishing the "straw man" and claiming to defeat

the original argument by extension.

An excellent example of this is Stephen Jay Gould's "the mismeasure

of man," whose basic argument against race can be summarized as,

"Because there is no clear marker of race, or clear links between

these traits indicated in the genes themselves, there is no race."

This is a clear fallacy, as all racists from the older tradition

have indicated that the grouping of traits is itself what defines

race, without requiring any symbolic confirmation from the DNA

itself, as the grouping already exists by producing individuals with

that DNA.

B. "Scientists recognize race doesn't exist" - not true, although

some vocals ones claim this. Pathologists can identify human bones

by race, and races achieve the same statistical results on IQ tests

regardless of socioeconomic background. Further, there are many

scientists who believe that race not only exists but is an important

biological and social determinant, but these do not seem to be

favored by the publishing, media or government industries.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1HMMZ63NZISL/

C. "The white race is intolerant!"

If the Indo-Europeans were as a blanket policy "intolerant" of other

races, they would have eliminated the other races using the

technologies exclusive to white societies when they had a chance.

They did not, and in fact repulsed invasions of other tribes from

Europe and allowed intermarriage and citizen transplants to the

reasonable degree that occurred during normal commerce with other

nations; until the globalist agenda began advancing the idea of "one

world race" and culture, the Indo-European cause to begin racial

segregation was small. Today, however, commerce and media culture

threatens to merge the races into one of uniform traits, eliminating

all nationality and the uniqueness of local populations.

D. "You should feel guilty for having what whites do!"

Indo-Europeans designed and organized the culture of America and

Europe, and built it with almost exclusively white labor (slaves, as

fewer than a million of these laborers, accounted for very little of

this advance). There is no reason to feel guilty for the successes

of one's ancestors, nor to assume that giving the trappings of these

successes to those who could not create them for themselves is

anything other than a symbolical gesture out of pity, one which

exacerbates the problem after applying a short-term, temporary

solution.

E. "Racism was invented to justify slavery!"

If by "racism" you mean "racial awareness in a social and economic

context," there may be some truth to this, as economic systems were

working against the nationalist model when "racism" because a

fashionable justification for some of slavery. However, looking at a

definition of racism from the dictionary:

1 - The belief that race accounts for differences in

human character or ability and that a particular

race is superior to others.

2 - Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=racism

This form of thought existed far earlier, and in our view, is

inherent to any species and its enclosed sub-groupings, races. In

order to specialize, one must resist breeding and thus notice what

is different about other groups. This demonization of unwanted

traits in others is both instructive to people in how to live as

members of that culture, and useful in keeping everyone from

becoming averaged, which by the nature of conflict traits reduces

any kind of overall organization to the individual, producing

someone with semi-random traits. This is the reason that

interbreeding with neanderthals in European areas was kept to a

minimum, and that ancient civilizations in Greece, India, Africa,

the Middle East, Asia and the Americas were rigorously racist in

construction of caste systems and racial hierarchies.

"The Germans, I am apt to believe, derive their original from no

other people; and are nowise mixed with different nations arriving

amongst them: since anciently those who went in search of new

dwellings, travelled not by land, but were carried in fleets; and

into that mighty ocean so boundless, and, as I may call it, so

repugnant and forbidding, ships from our world rarely enter.

Moreover, besides the dangers from a sea tempestuous, horrid and

unknown, who would relinquish Asia, or Africa, or Italy, to repair

to Germany, a region hideous and rude, under a rigorous climate,

dismal to behold or to manure (TGF: To cultivate) unless the same

were his native country? In their old ballads (which amongst them

are the only sort of registers and history) they celebrate Tuisto, a

God sprung from the earth, and Mannus his son, as the fathers and

founders of the nation. To Mannus they assign three sons, after

whose names so many people are called; the Ing