Full Thread: #1 Holohoax Thread
View Single Post
Old July 27th, 2012 #86
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

Quote:
Some time later, on April 22, 2000, I purchased The Turner Diaries and Hunter from Dent Myers at his Wildman’s Shop in Kennesaw, Georgia. Frankly, I found them repulsive, The Turner Diaries in particular. Pierce may have been inspired by National Socialism, but his model of revolution was pure Lenin and his model of government pure Stalin. If he had the power, he would have killed more people than Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot combined. He epitomizes everything about the Old Right model that I reject: one party politics, totalitarianism, terrorism, imperialism, and genocide. At the time, I remarked that as a novelist and political theorist Pierce was a first rate physicist. I regarded him as a monster.
A monster? Good lord. I have trouble believing Johnson truly regarded him that way. Would you post a monster's essays without criticism on your site? That doesn't make sense.

Johnson is doing what they all do: making what we should do identical with what he wants to do: the politics of the personal comfort zone. He wants to write essays, publish translations, publish books, raise funds, and hold salons. He tells himself that we can win by creating some fresh cultural wave that drowns our enemies. We create a New Right (sorry to all of you cons already using that term), and we create a rebirth of racialism on the left too...and somehow we sweep into power. Not through an actual leader and party, that would be Leninist. Through mere cultural propagation. No mention of our opponent owning all the politicians, the mass media, and the academic system, we are going to defeat these bad boys with translations of obscure European fascists and 5,000-word exegeses of the latest "Batman" movie. James Holmes had a more reasonable plan.

What Johnson is doing with Counter-Currents is quite valuable. It's just that his pretense that it's going to propagate some cultural tsunami with no recourse to actual icky politics is wrong, not to say ridiculous. We're sitting here watching daily how it's done by Golden Dawn in Greece. What more do we need? That's how it's done. No new philosophy (Majority Rights) or cultural shift (Counter-Currents) is needed: just solid NS-proven tactics.

Quote:
I remember when I first read The Turner Diaries. I myself was shocked by the violence in it, but at the same time, I understood the point of it. Dr. Pierce was trying to convey that it's a harsh world and that we have to man up. Greg Johnson evidently didn't sympathize with that message at all. That's revealing.
I don't think anyone could like Turner Diaries. It is a disturbing book, frightening even - even if you agree with him, as I obviously do. But it is undeniably heavy. In a way that Covington's novels, so beloved of Johnson, are not. They are almost fruity in how bubbly the characters are, given the situation, although they are certainly enjoyable escapism. Pierce's work has a gravitas befitting a genocidal struggle, and no other WN novel has come even close to it except Raspaille's Camp of the Saints. Raspaille is a better artist than Pierce, by a long stretch, but both books are about equally heavy, in that they impress and linger.

Last edited by Alex Linder; July 27th, 2012 at 12:42 PM.