Old Right Authenticity Against New Right Pragmatism

In a recent recording, Austrian Identitarian leader Martin Sellner lamented the success of the “Old Right” — organizations perceived as being of a Nationalsocialist or Third Positionist orientation such as Die Heimat and Der Dritte Weg — in activating and mobilizing the youth. Sellner, a figure who has sought to ingratiate himself in National Conservative circles with his slogans, polished marketing and choreographed protests, has expressed concern over the “wild youth” and its seeming lack of interest in the mainstream access he has worked for years to cultivate by aggressively distancing himself from “anti-Semitism,” Fascism, and other liberal taboos.

The New Right, which Sellner is a disciple of, is a current in thought associated with Alain De Benoist and his organization GRECE. Its argument against the Old Right is largely pragmatic: radical nationalists should seek to influence existing social institutions instead of organizing as confrontational political agents to avoid frightening the bourgeoisie, triggering state repression, and escaping “ghettoization” produced by mainstream media boycott and censorship. The experience of the Second World War has irreparably sullied the reputation and marketability of the Old Right, say these critics, and so activists should seek to ingratiate themselves in mainstream institutions while not triggering any of the numerous landmines placed in front of political dissidents. In the eyes of the New Right, the Old Right is responsible for the deaths of 10s of millions of Europeans, and this psychic trauma has made independent radical organizing impossible post-1945.

This view of the “Old Right” is baseless. Figures such as Oswald Spengler accurately prophesized the demise of the West and the decline of the white race before Hitler was sworn into power, for example. The “Old Right” did not cause these problems, it emerged in response to a series of atrocious episodes conducted by sadistic Western Judeo-liberalism, such as the unleashing of Moroccans and Senegalese soldiers to rape German women and girls in the Rhineland following the First World War. Blaming the Old Right for the same racial attack repeating itself in every Western capital following the Second World war can only be described as motivated reasoning.

In his 1936 lecture on Schiller, Martin Heidegger described the political revolutions spearheaded by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler as Authentic (per Being and Time), albeit incomplete, counter-nihilist metaphysical reactions to degenerating and abusive liberalism. An honest assessment of Nationalsocialism, Italian Fascism, the Spanish revolution and similar developments is that these movements were selfless feats emanating from Europe’s finest geniuses, artists, warriors, and prophets, who under the spell of Jung’s Wotan, chose to fight to the death instead of surrendering to the state of darkness, dehumanization and depravity we now endure.

Sellner’s perplexity at his group’s relative lack of appeal to young Europeans, in lieu of their increasing access to mainstream conservative institutions, is a product of a failure of imagination and ideological blinkers. The youth of the West was thrown into a world where money and law are not in their hands and never will be. They have no stake in the current order, they don’t care about respectability, and through radical and at times wild racial struggle, they begin the process of rediscovering their authentic selves. The Old Right may not have the money and famous people on its side, but we have something greater and more enduring: a dangerous and beautiful salvific mission we have inherited and are called to continue regardless of what our enemies think.

A cursory look at world history produces the revelation that acts of superhuman will guided by Authentic humanity – Boer and Irish uprisings against British imperialism, the Palestinian incursion of October 7, Russia standing alone against the hegemonic Atlanticist tsunami, and yes, a united Europe behind Germany and Italy presenting Hegelian battle against the mechanized civilizational drift of Bolshevism and liberalism -- indeed culminate in immense, undeniably causative, suffering of the active agent. But through these selfless realizations of will, a metaphysical shock and recalculation is produced, which in retrospect, alters and will continue to alter the trajectory of all of our destinies as these compounds under pressure explode and we become what we were always meant to be. The first resolute eagle who shatters the iron bars of his cage to fly free may be soon shot dead by its captors, but through his daring feat he overturns all established conventions, revealing a new path that against time will inevitably triumph. A “New Right” that seeks to abolish and sever its link to the “Old Right” in hopes of being allowed for a two-minute segment on Rupert Murdoch owned media rips the germ out of its mission, interrupting continuity by erasing hard fought gains in how we understand politics and the world. Defense of the Old Right is not a call to fight the last war, of course new concepts are also necessary, but seeing how often the New Right compares our modern regimes with the Weimar Republic, it is patently absurd to completely ignore the insights from the only political force in history that successfully vanquished the Weimar system simply because it is not allowed.

Inherited standards of political validity under Anglo and European liberal democracies are founded on deliberate moral and intellectual distortions, libels, and fraud, hence it is debris to combat and fundamentally unworthy of our respect. It is not the “old right” who is guilty of dogmatism, it is those on the “New Right” who take an accommodationist position towards the present illegitimate elite welded onto us against our will — via Talmudic nepotism, military violence, and high finance — who twist themselves into pretzels to uphold established doctrines and taboos that we did not create and we do not want.

Ultimately, the only outcome the New Right can produce by glomming on to the latest system approved right-wing fad is to strengthen the status quo of white European irrelevance and subjugation. This hijacking of our destiny, the ahistoricity of the Western white man, does not mean we get to quietly retire from the world stage. On the contrary, as engineers, teachers, workers and soldiers we have been consigned to the role of servant, where our air force pilots, military thinkers, economies — our respective nations writ large — must stain their reputations and violate their conscience to murder starving, frightened and defenseless Palestinian children on behalf of a planetary organized crime conspiracy that has only in the last two years slightly paused its perpetual assault on the white race solely for short-term utilitarian purposes. Our true existential form is that of the noble hearted Knight, not our current status of hired and conscripted gangster enforcers. Rather than meet the new awakening among the youth as the sign of heightened consciousness we have been waiting for, the New Right seeks to restrain it, imploring that the aforementioned eagle flap its wings to obtain the concession of a slightly expanded cage instead of using the captor’s loss of balance to free ourselves.

Most frustrating is the fact many on the New Right share the Old Rights true distinctions -- right and wrong, heroic and nihilistic, vital and decaying – but this shared consensus drowns in the New Right’s glass of water, one of the Gramscian “war of position” that manifests as pompous, meticulously scripted displays in rooms full of a few hundred old reactionaries, retracing the same failed tactical debates while refusing to consider the power of authenticity and pushing through. There’s no doubt that winning hearts and minds is important, but Stalin famously ignored pleas to help the obnoxious Gramsci, opted for him to rot in prison instead. The astute Georgian peasant knew in his gut that to gain hegemony over institutions inevitably requires submitting to them, thus making the whole exercise pointless. The set outcome of Gramscian conspiracies seeking “cultural hegemony,” inevitably at the expense of authenticity, is a rudimentary misunderstanding of how power works. Taken to its logical end point, you end up with the inorganic monstrosity known as the Sorosite Left — a tool of the US State Department and international Jewry quickly eliminated and tossed in the garbage bin as soon as it is no longer useful to the real power brokers. We must take great care that the “right” does not follow in its path.

Jared Taylor’s recent interview with the liberal Zionist Renaud Camus, only serves as a mallet to drive home this position. The New Right’s fixation on the lower intelligence of black Africans, the backwardness (at times, presented as a antithetical to liberal values) of Muslims, or in some sections of it (including De Benoist), blaming the long defeated and forgotten institutions of organized Christianity for the policies currently being set by homosexual atheists, rapacious capitalists, and Jewish elites. The global cabal currently bringing about the Great Replacement, simultaneously, in every Western nation from Argentina to Australia, cannot be truly persuaded by IQ charts or concerns about migrants bringing anti-gay and anti-Jewish grievances with them since the current system bringing about our race’s demise has brought these elites an unprecedented period of felicity. For the New Right, the solution to the ongoing crisis of representative democracy is always the same: we must further reduce and process our people’s preferences, dreams and desires down even further, since it is still too threatening to the ruling class and thus not “safe enough” for the latest controlled conservative entertainer to interact with.

From a Gramscian perspective, the identity right (thanks to the frontal assaults against the system by the Old Right) has soundly won the metapolitical battle on questions of ethnic self-determination, civilizational self-doubt (“Wokeism”), and the irreparable harm of mass immigration. The spontaneous and ferocious anti-immigration riots in Dublin and Southport reveal that the man on the street is in fact more radical on these questions than those who spend decades grooming themselves in hopes of one day being invited to the President’s office as regime interlocutor. All across the West, political figures ranging from the center-left to the populist right have been repeatedly elected on mandates to end mass immigration. And every time, it amounts to lip service without policy, perhaps occasionally addressing symptoms but never root causes.

The last 50 years have shown us that electing phony populists or orienting all of our resources around repeating the slogan “Immigration Bad” in hopes some bought off politician repeats it to get elected does not work. We need a complete revolution in our political thinking, its application, and in the end, a completely new elite untainted by the prestigious institutions that exist to breed traitors to manage our decline.

The future of Europe lives in the wild youth of the Old Right, nowhere else.