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The Cold War on Whites, Part 1
Selling the Cold War: A Racially-Integrated America Menaced by White Russian Communists
“The world is white no longer.”
– James Baldwin
For white nationalists — whose cyber-based “movement” is still in its infancy — simple explanations tend to be the rule.
The reductionist “anti-Semitism” that dominates WN ranks and serves as a catch-all explanation for the predicament white people find themselves in today, to cite the most prominent example, is wont to attribute every assault on white life to Jewish perfidy.
There is, certainly, no disputing the existence of this “perfidy,” for no other group — not the browns or blacks, not the former powers of international Communism, not anyone or anything — is or has been so disposed to breaching the color line, undermining America’s traditional racial hierarchy, or propelling the processes responsible for the present dispossession of the country’s white majority.
To think, however, that Organized Jewry has been the alpha and omega of this dispossession is not just simple-minded, it’s dishonorable.
It’s simple-minded because it understands complex historical processes in Kindergarten terms. It ignores other, no less culpable factors.
More fundamentally, it ignores or conflates the differences between structural imperatives and conspiratorial designs, between concrete objective forces and the subjective influences of interest and conscience.
History, as such, offers few cases where monocausal explanations suffice, for the confluence of fortune, structure, and subject (fortuna, necessita, virtu) undergirding the historical process means that significant historical changes are almost always the consequence of a combination of forces unique to their specific time and place.
By the same reasoning, monocausal explanations focusing exclusively on a demonized “other” are dishonorable because they spare whites all responsibility for their misfortunes, refuse to acknowledge the dysgenic and self-destructive forces indigenous to modern society, and ignore the numerous, inherently Jewish facets of the American project.
In criticizing this, I do so not to absolve the Jews, but to preface the subject of this essay — the anti-white consequences of the Cold War — which offers a somewhat broader explanation of white dispossession (though there are at least a couple of others that can also be made).
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The Second World War was a watershed event in both American and world history.
It changed not only America’s relationship with the rest of the world, it fundamentally changed America.
Thomas Hart Benton, "Negro Soldier," 1942
The struggle against National Socialist Germany (despite the racial character of the Pacific War against the “Japs”) was ideologically waged as a war against fascism and racism.
As the unadmirable Gunnar Myrdal wrote in 1944, “In fighting fascism and racism, America had to stand before the whole world in favor of racial tolerance and . . . racial equality.”
Its international crusade for liberal ideals stood, though, in obvious contradiction to the exclusion of various colored peoples, blacks particularly, who were denied a place in the country’s political and social firmament — denied because whites wanted a white nation, like other Europeans.
Myrdal called this supposed contradiction between its ideals and practices the “American Dilemma.”
It would become especially conspicuous after 1945, when America’s newly assumed international role left it with numerous, new obligations that drew attention to its so-called “dilemma” (which, in actuality, was a dilemma of American liberalism).
The war, moreover, changed not just the prevailing Zeitgeist.
The colossal undertaking to put 13 million men in uniform, to arm them (and the allies), and to fight on several different fronts in distant parts of the world required a national mobilization of unprecedented scope.
The war, it followed, brought great dislocations, disrupting traditional social relations and forcing the alteration of many traditional attitudes.
America’s democratic crusade against “German racism” also brought millions of blacks north to work in defense plants. This had a major impact on housing and employment. It also heightened black self-confidence, freed them from the older Southern forms of race relations, and emboldened their challenge to white supremacy. This became especially evident in 1943, when 200 race riots flared up in more than forty-five American cities, anticipating the contentious racial battles of the postwar era, especially those of the 1960s and ’70s.
At the same time, a million negroes were drafted into the military.
Though the army remained segregated, it quickly discovered the inefficiency and expense of maintaining separate facilities. It was even forced, whenever the exhausted, ill-supplied, and depleted forces of the Wehrmacht beat back the unheroic GIs, to bypass its segregated practices and throw in blacks troops to support decimated or beleaguered white units.
Black veterans, relatedly, provided many of the shock troops that would assault Jim Crow after 1945.
These developments — combined with the retreat of “scientific racism” in the 1930s, the wartime expansion of the New Deal state, the defeat and demonization of German anti-liberalism, and the Cold War’s ensuing crusade for democracy and equality — would together undermine much of the legitimacy of traditional American racial practices.
As one Alabama governor (Frank Dixon) rather tendentiously put it (and only a Southerner could make this argument with a straight face), “The Huns have wrecked the theory of the master race.”
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Following the war, American power in the world was supreme, unchallenged, except by the Soviet Union, which, after having lost 27 million Russians in the course of the war (compared to 250,000 US combat deaths), was not actually in a position to defy the new superpower, though its unwillingness to submit to Washington’s tutelage would automatically cast it as a potential rival.
At this pivotal historical moment, when the whole world lay prostrate before them, American leaders felt as if they had been granted the Mandate of Heaven.
Inspired by the biblical Zionism of their Puritan heritage and encouraged by the economic self-interests of the great corporations, these leaders would reshape the international arena to reflect and serve the interests of American democracy and capitalism (each the economic or ideological mirror of the other).
Before even the war’s end, New Deal planners had developed the programs and trained the personnel who would occupy Germany, Italy, and (they thought) France and integrate them into the new American-led Atlantic “coalition”; Britain had earlier been deprived of its sovereignty and integrated. At the same time, a host of American-created international organizations — especially the United Nations, whose 1945 Charter committed its members to opposing racial discrimination — were designed to ensure the American governance of this new international order.
It was left, thought, to the administration of Harry S. Truman, the architect of the Cold War, to mould the exact contours of this order.
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Russian-Americans relations had soured in the closing phase of the war, as political differences became more important than strategic ones. By 1946 they were engaged in a war of words, with the Soviets countering American claims of tyranny by pointing to lynchings, poll taxes, and other facets of Jim Crow to expose the fraudulence of America’s democratic-egalitarian ideology.
By 1947, with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine to fight the international forces of Communist subversion, a Cold War, which would last until 1989, was implicitly declared.
In many respects, this was a phony war.
A severely exhausted and crippled Soviet Union posed no threat to the US.
But this phony war had become a political necessity for US leaders.
The New Deal, which arose in response to the breakdown of liberal capitalism in 1929, had failed (unlike Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany) to fix the depressed economy. It was only with the advent of “Defense Preparations” in 1939 and the war economy after 1941 that the American economy began to rebound.
The most pressing concern of liberal democrats after 1945 was thus avoiding another economic collapse — which meant on-going defense preparations and continued government intervention in the economy.
To justify this New-Deal created “Pentagon capitalism,” as well as a National Security State to oversee it, it was necessary, however, “to scare the hell out of the American people.”
Hence the ensuing transformation of good old “Uncle Joe” (Stalin) into the great bogeyman bent on enslaving the world.
To be continued . . .
Michael O'Meara
Michael O’Meara, Ph.D., studied social theory at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and modern European history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe (Bloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004).
Good post. I share this view of the ‘JQ’; like you I’m hardly what you would call a philo-semite, but there is far too much banal talk about Jews for my liking in place of interesting, useful discussions that are to be had about the causes of our decline.
Totally agree about the “reductionist anti-Semitism” of many nationalists and the need to flesh out the story, but I’m not sure you can disentangle this narrative so easily without a good bit of reductionism of your own. For example, WWII had a strong Marxist/Jewish instigating component that is seldom addressed. That is due in no small measure to the considerable leftist/Jewish influence in managing the WWII narrative. Thus Nazis were pure evil racists with no rationally-motivated reaction involved; all Jews were sheepishly innocent victims, no leftist revolutionaries in sight.
From this version of history you reach such conclusions as WWII was “ideologically waged as a war against fascism and racism.” Given the abundant use of racism by allied propagandists, I don’t think many Americans of that time thought they were going to war against racism. Had Germany not advanced beyond its borders, no one, least of all Americans, would have fought and died to rid them of their fascism or racism. That’s reducing things a bit too much.
The reductionist “anti-Semitism” that dominates WN ranks and serves as a catch-all explanation for the predicament white people find themselves in today, to cite the most prominent example, is wont to attribute every assault on white life to Jewish perfidy.
I’m not sure why our societal maladies should be an exception to the “germ theory of disease”.
History, as such, offers few cases where monocausal explanations suffice….
We’re not talking about history; we’re talking about biology. You yourself referred to “every assault on white life”.
Where have you referred to any causal agent other than Jewry in this essay?
You reference to “the anti-white consequences of the Cold War ” won’t cut it. You can’t blame our plight on abstractions like the Cold War.
Who? Whom?
If Jewish money, Jewish media and Jewish lawyer activists weren’t in the US then things would have turned out much MUCH different, regardless of WWII, Cold War, whatever.
Jews have always been the primary problem — they are organized, single minded, and push hard for something and have money and media. That’s hard to defend against when Whites have diverse political opinions. The 1960s was the breaking point I believe as Whites completely lost their identity from that point on.
Now though, regardless of where one is on the Jewish Question, it doesn’t matter too much as the first line sums up our failures: “For white nationalists — whose cyber-based “movement” is still in its infancy.”
We, who are aware, have failed ourselves . . . we should be much farther along in our real world networking, professional relationships, etc.
I think we lack a binding “culture” — something that religion provided in the past but does not anymore — “White” isn’t a monoculture and our different views on everything other than citizenship and immigration is preventing us from moving forward.
Soft-peddling the Jewish Question whilst making it front and center is prima facie contradictory, but perhaps it is good rhetoric.
Hypocrisy for the enemy and condescension for the friend.
Good rhetoric? Not my cup of tea.
The dogmatic assertion of Jewish omnipotence is not an argument, but a confession of faith, reflective of the Jewish tendency to blame their own misfortunes on everyone but themselves.
While I do agree that ultimatley we have only ourselves to blame, to not fully recognize the jew would be get us nowhere. No way out but through the jew. No way, no how.
Jews are like termites or loccusts, they simply do what comes naturally to them…..devour and destroy.
Jewish power is a symptom of White racial decline, but not the cause of it.
The NUMBER ONE enemy of the White race, is the White ruling elite, who WILLINGLY conspire with them against us.
Jews may be the enemy within the gates, but it is our own ruling elite who allowed them in and gave them a free hand, in return for a share of the spoils.
“The dogmatic assertion of Jewish omnipotence is not an argument,”
Well now, I doubt those who argue that all that ails the White man is the fault of the Jew adhere to the hyperbolic formulation of “Jewish omnipotence.” Of course if it were argued that Jews were omnipotent, that indeed would be a powerful argument that Jews were solely to blame for our plight as it would be totally within Jewish power to destroy us if and as they so choose, and completely not within our power to resist. But that isn’t what you were aiming for anyway, more of a rhetorical slight to ‘judeo-obsessives’, so I guess no harm done.
“but a confession of faith,”
Not if wholly or mostly demonstrated as fact.
“reflective of the Jewish tendency to blame their own misfortunes on everyone but themselves.”
I hope you are not suggesting that we not blame the Jews for what they are guilty of. That would be unfortunate.
Ah, now I remember, thanks to M. O’Meara’s comment, and my reading of the Scorpion back in the day, the Euro New Right is somewhat sympathetic to the Soviets. A balance is needed here, the Soviets had inter-ballistic missiles, nuclear warheads, they were chauvinistic, imperialistic, and in the name of “glorious” revolution, made common the HK 47 throughout the world-so much so, they sell for about forty bucks in S. America. Where’s this going, the omnipotence of “Capitalism”?
By the same reasoning, monocausal explanations focusing exclusively on a demonized “other” are dishonorable because they spare whites all responsibility for their misfortunes[1], refuse to acknowledge the dysgenic and self-destructive forces indigenous to modern society[2], and ignore the numerous, inherently Jewish facets of the American project[3].
Accusing others of being “dishonorable” for disagreeing with one’s viewpoint is an extraordinary claim that, hopefully, demands an extraordinary level of proof. None is provided. I will acknowledge that some White people with shortcoming do tend to blame everyone but themselves for their situation, but, I will note, also, that there are numerous Whites who both take responsibility for their own personal failings, and have a proper understanding of the destructive nature of Jewry. Simply asserting that disagreeing with your viewpoint automatically places a White nationalist in the former category is, itself, a dishonorable tactic.
On the second point there is an answer that is succinct, complete, and accurate: “No!” The statement is bizarre. It presupposes that Whites cannot find Jewish perfidy to be at the root of today’s, “dysgenic and self-destructive forces indigenous to modern society.” Now, it can be argued that such a claim isn’t accurate, but, it can’t be denied that such a claim is possible.
On the third point, one would have to admit that the total Jewish dominance of Hollywood has made American cinema one of “the uniquely Jewish facets of the American project,” but, that is not to say that that “facet” reflects well upon Jewry.
But, I would be amiss not to note that even Hollywood isn’t uniquely Jewish. To claim that the American project has even one facet that is uniquely Jewish is quite a stretch. I’m sure there are facets, such as Hollywood, and the porn industry, that are heavily Jewish, but that is not the same claim as saying they are uniquely Jewish. Perhaps you meant quintessentially Jewish?
Claims of uniquely Jewish positive facets of the American project are wrong, and highly insulting. In a nation of two-hundred million Europeans it is absurd to believe that not one of them are in any way responsible for any positive facet of the American project. Hell, some of them can even dance and play basketball well!
The majority of people in our supposed democracies pay little attention to politics of any kind, other than the most superficial. Corruption will have to reach a point where the capitalist economy fails to function and people suffer material losses. Then more will be open to a different way of thinking from what is fed them by establishment media and politicians. Truth and reason must form the backbone of a movement but only a percentage of people are moved by ideals.. The rest need a home and a social setting to fit in. White nationalism has to grow in numbers and financial resources to the point where the general public will notice. Then a comparison can be made to the ruling elite. This all takes a lot of effort – much more than has been made so far. If nothing else, too much harping about the Jews has a tendency to turn off potential recruits. Rich and powerful Jews are a major part of a corrupt establishment, but not the only part.
B.S. Bob,
When I speak of the inherently Jewish aspects of the America project, I by no means imply, as you suggest, that this is something positive. Rather, just the opposite — it’s America’s negative Jewish aspects that explain why the US has become the heart and soul of World Jewry, even more so than Israel.
Travis wrote:
True. In a 1939 speech only a few months before the breakout of war Hitler said:
I think Michael says that it has to exist a certain innate weakness that allowed such alien influence and power. And if we are able to pinpoint this weakness we’ll be able to properly treat the illness. And this weakness is a lack of racial loyalty, broader than and including national loyalty.
Though I would say that the aliens, having no national allegiance (except their own) are able to switch the sides in no time, are able to identify the winners long before any war breaks out. They are able to be funny and useful when they lack numbers. They become annoying, rude, and violent when they have the numbers.
Today, if they need you, they call you my dear brother; tomorrow, if they don’t need you anymore, they call you names and accuse you of everything.
This is a lesson that we never learn. It is a lesson that our leaders never learn.
We never tire of being “objective” and treating everybody as a different person. We are “objective” and happy about it. Meantime we don’t realize that we are throwing down the drain a tradition that summarizes almost everything we need to survive. We are daring and call it “obsolete.” “The only lesson from history is that we have nothing to learn from history” stated Karl Popper — just another stupid mantra.
Trying so hard to be objective, we never learn even from our experience which is worse. We are not listened to even when trying to share first hand experience.
From Cesar and Octavian-Augustus, to Roderic of Spain, to Napoleon Bonaparte and Bismark, from Maria Theresa to Queen Victoria till our days, everyone of them had a useful and funny Rothschild or Disraeli.
In thousands of years nobody was able to resist. Commoners or noblemen.
Using the cold war example, Michael demonstrates how the lack of that broader racial loyalty enables those aliens to wage war against everybody else without firing a shot. Both the USSR and US (and the satellites) were “alien” led. As a matter of fact Russia and US are still alien led. Even Vladimir Putin convinced some people to believe that is not the fact anymore. If Madoff went to jail, it doesn’t mean that the alien power came to a halt in US. Likewise, uf Hodorkovsky went to jail it doesn’t mean that the alien power came to a halt in Russia.
It is an unending “let’s you and him fight” game.
Every white people receives an different idea (or ideology) and marches to death with it. Every social category gets an ideology. But above everything, they believe that their aliens are better that the aliens on the other side.
Usually the idea contains great promises of wealth, of love, of happiness, of justice, but only if you crack the skull of your racial brother because you are righteous and he’s wicked. Here lies an enormous maneuvering and target rich ground for the aliens.
Make it personal, ask those Jews who so torment us why they are anti-white and why they contribute to what amounts to the genocide of our race. Its fine to deal with the abstract, but there comes a time that in order to be effective it must deal with physical reality.
“Mr. Foxman why do you advocate anti-white policies that amount to genocide as described in the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide?” “You say you are ‘anti-racist’, but you only advocate mass immigration in white countries and white countries only.”
Interesting article by Mr. O’Meara, and also very thought provoking.
However, regardless of whether you swallow the Jared-Taylor ideology that says whites are entirely to blame for their present state of pitiful subjugation to International Jewry and the hordes of third world non-whites that Jewry has imported into literally every white nation to act as foot soldiers against the respective white majorities – or whether you tend to put the bulk of the blame at the feet of Jews and their anti-white machinations inside white homelands – there is one truth that nobody can deny.
It is this: Every effort and every attempt by whites to defend their interests and to work to ensure that whites survive and eventually free themselves from hostile rule by Jews and their non-white puppets – those efforts will be attacked and, if possible, made illegal and criminalized – by the very same organized Jewry that O’Meara attempts to paint as something far less than the number one, most critical problem.
As someone already said, therefore – there is no way out of our mess that doesn’t go through the defeat of organized Jewry. This foe plays to win, and this foe is obsessed with our extermination from this Earth.
Hence, compromising with this enemy does not appear to be in the cards.
We are playing for all the marbles, White man. Are we up to the task?
For some reason my Jew-obsessed critics have trouble distinguishing between the disease (the de-Aryanization of the West) and its major symptom (Jewish power). For those who care to understand the distinction, I would recommend my article, “Evola’s Anti-Semitism,” archived at this site.