“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward. We know not much about them. It is remarkable that we know so much of them as we do. The same is true of the more modern reformers and benefactors of their race. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men. But why do men degenerate ever? What makes families run out? What is the nature of the luxury which enervates and destroys nations? Are we sure that there is none of it in our own lives? The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his contemporaries. How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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"Muammar was the solution to a hundred refugee crises. He took in more people than most First World countries. And he didn't just assimilate them or cram them in camps. He trained them then sent them back with truckloads of guns to fix their own countries. Half of Africa has a street named after him in the capitals he helped liberate from European colonialism. His ghost cannot be erased. He will haunt his killers to their last breath."
- Nicky Reid
"He was very moderate in a religious sense and Islamic fundamentalists were constantly trying to destroy the Jamahiriyan system in favour of an imposed theocracy. This is why the West was eventually able to overthrow the country by cobbling together an army of embittered criminals and jihadists who had either been jailed or expelled. Qathafi was always opposed to religious extremism and the whole idea of the Jamahiriya was to create a societal balance."
- Troy Southgate
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"Only when we have Socialism in Germany, [...] only then the needy and oppressed People will have a Fatherland, a Fatherland that belongs to us and only then will they have a socialist homeland."
- Ernst Thaelmann
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"Either we are a revolutionary people or we will suffocate in the swamp and finally stop being a free people."
- Ernst Niekisch
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"Revolutionary nationalism is anti-fascist because fascism, apart from the features of foreign nationalism, does not understand how to incorporate the leaders of the proletariat, in its economic order is merely a reform of capitalism, in its stealthily disguised form of government a dictatorship over the working people and thus the Division of the nation into sovereign and dominated immortalised."
- Karl Otto Paetel, "The National Bolshevist Manifesto", Berlin, January 1933
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"Where there was once one nation, now there are many nations. The world map has been fragmented. This is the paradoxical effect that is taking place because of this Fourth World War. Instead of being globalised, the world is fragmenting, and, instead of this mechanism hegemonising and homogenising, more and more differences are appearing. Globalisation and neoliberalism are making the world an archipelago. And it must be given a market logic."
- Subcomandante Marcos, Leader of EZLN
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“To establish Juche in ideology means having the consciousness that one is the master of the revolution and construction, thinking and doing everything, centring on the revolution in one’s own country, and acquiring the viewpoint and attitude of solving all questions by one’s own talents and initiative.” - Kim Jong Il
In order to establish Juche in ideology, it is necessary to arm oneself with independent ideological consciousness that reflects independent demand and interests of the people as well as with policy of one’s revolutionary party.
To know one’s things well does not mean to be ignorant about other countries.
It is necessary to know about other countries in order to perfect one's own revolutionary struggle and efforts to realise socialist construction. However it is harmful to do so at the expense of knowing one's own conditions and history.
To establish Juche in ideology has three meanings: that is, to have the consciousness that one is the master of the revolution and construction; to think and do everything, centring on the revolution in one’s own country; and to acquire the viewpoint and attitude of solving all questions by one’s own talents and initiative.
To have the consciousness that one is the master of the revolution and construction means to have standpoint and attitude that the revolution and construction is for the people and should be done by the people.
That is because the revolution and construction is the work to realise the people’s independence. The people should have standpoint and attitude to take part in the revolution and construction as masters. Only then, can they devote themselves to the revolution and construction.
As each country has links with other countries, revolution in one country may have influence on other country and can help others. But masters of each country are the people in that country. If the people, masters of the revolution do not rise, it is useless as if watering the dead tree, however big others’ support.
The people in each country are masters of their revolution, which is their main task. Under this condition, they should have the consciousness that they are the masters of the revolution and construction and should think and do everything, centring on the revolution in their country and acquire the viewpoint and attitude of solving all questions by their own talents and initiative.
It is also necessary to establish Juche in ideology because when each country has success in revolution, it accelerates the world revolution and liberation of humanity.
The world revolution is the struggle for people’s independence in international arena.
The world revolution wins final victory in the process in which each country wins its revolution.
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Ode To A Scab
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumour of rotten principles.
When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab hasn't.
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his saviour for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust, or corporation.
Jack London, 1913
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In the past, we had a trade, today we seek a job. A trade and a job are not the same thing. With the trade, one saw what one created and frequently consumed what one produced. It’s a form of autonomy. With the job one is employed, it’s a form of dependency, of dispossession - and one only consumes what others have created.
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The generalisation of precariousness is the advent of the substitutable, interchangeable, flexible, mobile, disposable man. It’s the reduction of the entire person to his labour power, that is to say to this part of himself that can be treated as merchandise. It’s submission to the imperative of production, the sale of oneself extending to all aspects of existence.
Alain de Benoist, "Contre le libéralisme", éditions du Rocher, 2019, p.309 et 319
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The degenerate idiocy of capitalism’s apologists knows no bounds. Comfort and luxury has made weaklings and fools of billions! Those who celebrate the triumph of capitalism often claim the insipid abundance and comfort it’s provided are among its greatest benefits. What are they arguing for if not the gross and unprecedented debilitation of all bodies, minds, and spirits? This article is a perfect example of this self-destructive and contemptibly chicken-hearted mentality. A mentality which, to one degree or another, has made almost every modern westerner into a blubberous, domesticated, artificial, flaccid, sickly, pusillanimous, hyper-sensitive, (to pain both physical and psychological) Epicurean mockery of humanity.
Anthony Crowley
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Be wary of whenever you see an article in your local town that says “Mayor says we need more immigration for labour shortages”. Remember a labour shortage is a benefit to you and all workers as you are more valuable, immigration to solve labour shortages are the attack words against the working class. The economy is there to serve us, it is not an altar which we are to sacrifice everything upon it.
-The National Bolshevik
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