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Old January 25th, 2016 #3
Jim Harting
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Thumbs up Yockey and the "Strategy of Tension"

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Originally Posted by Robbie Key View Post
I might be wrong on this but wasn't Yockey a bit ahead of his time? From what I understand, Yockey very early on was against the US while many other nationalists and 'Nazis' (primarily those who were obsessed with Communism) at the time were propagating and working for the US; see post-WW2 Ukraine for example. He also recognized the legitimacy of the Arab movements who were against Israel and Zionism.

My impression of nationalists after WW2 is that most of them were positive towards the US, and against the Soviet Union. History, to me, has shown us that, that wasn't necessarily the correct position really.
Imperium is one of those books that everyone talks about -- but almost no one has actually read. It is lengthy and difficult, and it was written from a European perspective that is unfamiliar to most American racialists.

Yockey was not "pro-Soviet" or "pro-Russian" as many American racialists believe. Rather, he was an advocate of the Strategy of Tension. This was a strategic approach first devised in the late 1940s by Arthur Axmann and Werner Naumann, who were the de facto leaders of the remnants of the NSDAP in postwar Germany. Later it was taken up by other diehard NS'ers, such as Ernst Otto Remer, Otto Skorzeny and Hans Ulrich Rudel. I believe that Adolf von Thadden, one of the founders of the National Democratic Party, was also a practitioner of this strategy, and in any event he was certainly familiar with it.

In essence, the Strategy of Tension called for National-Socialists in the West to advocate rapprochement with the Soviet Union, while those in the East would adopt a pro-Western stance. The goal was to create a space between East and West in which National-Socialism could exist and grow, in preparation for better days to come. In consequence, Western NS groups were often financed by the Soviets, while those in the East received support from the Americans, the British and the French.

In other words, the goal was to play off the two occupying powers (the Americans and the Soviets) against each other. I guess that it was relatively successful, on a modest scale.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification of East and West Germany, this strategy became obsolete and was abandoned. Today, animosity in the German movement is directed almost entirely against America, as the remaining occupying power.

Back in Yockey's day, the American movement was obsessed with the threat posed by the Soviet Union, which was felt to be a bastion of "Jewish Bolshevism." It seems almost inevitable that Yockey's nuanced, politically-adept stance would be misunderstood by the American movement as being "pro-communist."

Ideologically, Yockey wrote that while both the Soviet Russians and the Americans were enemies of the "European Race" (Yockey's term), in the long run the Americans posed a greater danger. He believed (1) that the Jews had a tighter control over the US than they did over the USSR; and (2) that the Russian occupation was superficial, whereas the corruption and degeneracy visited upon Western Europe by the Americans ran deeper and was more spiritually corrosive.

Yockey was not a racialist in the biological sense that we normally use the term today, but if he had been he might have remarked that areas of Soviet occupation remained exclusively White, while race-mixing and mass immigration polluted Western, Americanized Europe. This happened slowly at first, and then accelerated over time to the catastrophic proportions that it has assumed today. But Eastern Europe has remained White, largely because of the legacy of the Russian occupation.
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Point of correction in the OP: although the name "W.A. Carto" appears at the end of the 34 page introduction to Imperium in the Noontide Press edition of the book, that introduction was largely written (95%+) by Revilo Oliver, and not by Carto.
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Last edited by Jim Harting; January 29th, 2016 at 02:42 AM.