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Nevertheless, I agree in regards to what has been expended in the past decades. There is a level of crisis that governments are increasingly unable to respond to, even to the point of causing more damage. But I think there remains a strong faith in democracy and conservatism – this will only end with a great deal of pain.

The rest is also interesting. With great danger comes great opportunity. A theological and apocalyptic nationalism is the only possibility for us, although I will emphasise the theological rather than national – it is a dynamic which gives the people its form. Post-nationalism in this sense welcomes a complete levelling, a gigantic war which can only form of a total world opposition.

Nations can only form of such mythological destruction. Not through will alone.

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"On the horizon the light glances on the ruins of Puisieux. Looking at the white roofless walls surrounded by the skeletons of trees, one might fancy oneself surprised by the ghostly apparition of a phantom and extinct oasis in the midst of a desert. Not a sign of life as far as the eye can see, and death itself seems to have fallen asleep; for not a shot breaks the midday stillness of the front. No sound and no movement betrays the presence of whole regiments in hiding. There is utter peace, and only nature speaking to itself."
~ Ernst Jünger, Copse 125
"It will be proved to the hilt, if the war goes on, that whether in attack or defence, fighting can only be done in zones. But we must at the same time manage to rid ourselves once and for all of the disastrous idea of the line with which history and the drill-yard have saddled us all through the war. The simile of the steel cord, that I introduced just now, is equally false. The right one is that of a net into which the enemy may certainly penetrate here and there, but where he will at once be overwhelmed from all sides by a web of fire. Like the magician’s apprentice, we have never made ourselves thoroughly masters of the weapons whose power we dispose of. We do not realize that the frontal volley at short range is done with. We fight now with long-range machinery, diminutive centres of energy radiating a deadly effectiveness.

We shall no longer hold our ground shoulder to shoulder, but isolated from one another in small groups and distributed far and wide over the smoking country, conductors of elemental forces. And in the same way we shall attack as an army in echelon composed of venturesome machinery, under cover of rings of fire and armoured aeroplanes, and controlled from a central point by flash-signals. Here we have the picture of the great battle of automata which consists in this—that two strongly organized and yet at all points highly mobile zones of power, whose molten edges flow into one another, attempt to turn each other from an ordered array into a chaos of useless iron and enervated mobs. A test like this, in which a number of entirely unpremeditated battles will necessarily be set in motion at one time, will give the clear and incontestable proof whether a nation deserves to survive, or whether it has played its part and must make way for a stronger and therefore a better one. Its equipment will be put to the proof and weighed up, its achievements, therefore, in science and industry—in short, only the best and most fit will be in the running. Indisputable testimony will be given, in the discipline of large bodies of men and in the capacity of the command for bold organization on a large scale, of a nation’s fitness for empire. And finally, it will be shown whether a civilized nation has so much future left it, and so compelling an appeal to its sons, that it can find hundreds of thousands of young men of high intelligence and iron heart who have still life’s joys before them and yet, in the midst of the frightful loneliness of battle, count the destruction of all they know and are and might be as nothing compared with the greatness of the idea within them. All this will come to the ordeal and much more besides. It is to be hoped that we shall always have a manhood to meet this test with joy and courage; it is equally to be hoped that it may not fall to the lot of every generation.

We shall always be proud nevertheless that it fell to our lot."

~ Ernst Jünger, Copse 125
"You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet. This observation, also, I have laid to heart, that they, who in matters of war seek in all ways to save their lives, are just they who, as a rule, die dishonourably; whereas they who, recognising that death is the common lot and destiny of all men, strive hard to die nobly: these more frequently, as I observe, do after all attain to old age, or, at any rate, while life lasts, they spend their days more happily."
~ Xenophon
Forwarded from Lazarus Symposium
The Fight for German unity and socialism!

Interview with the Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al-Kadhafi, 1983

In mid-April, three WIR SELBST employees were able to interview the Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al Kadhafi in a Bedouin tent near Benghazi. We do not know of any other statesman in the world who dares to denounce in similarly clear and unequivocal terms the division of Germany that continues to exist in the interests of the imperialist superpowers. But this is not the only reason why we consider the thoughts formulated by Kadhafi to be highly important. It becomes clear that the Arab nationalists' struggle for the unity of the Arab nation is driven by the same forces as in Germany. Social-revolutionary movements find the concrete possibility of realization in the nation; human emancipation does not take place in a vacuum, it is tied to collective identities, to the culture and to the Volk.

WIR SELBST: You say that the Arab countries are one nation. In your political ideas for the future, the desire for their unification often appears. What do you think of the Germans' national question?

Kadhafi: I have participated in various congresses. Even German government officials never talk about it. In fact, they didn't even seem to understand what I was saying when I brought the conversation to their need to reunify the two parts of Germany.
I think that this nation has been torn to pieces by the enemies of the German Volk. I also do not believe in the state independence of West and East Germany. The representatives of the systems in the FRG and the GDR do not speak in the name of Germany and in the name of the German people. I gave a speech in East Berlin. And I also spoke there about the need to reunify the two parts of Germany.


WIR SELBST:The division of Germany has its reason in the Second World War. This war was instigated by fascism. Of course, this still burdens our generation. But we believe that a newly united Germany would be a great chance for the world. We see the national revolution only in connection with the social revolution. Our goal is a socialist, grassroots democratic and patriotic Germany.
In the Green Book you write: The social is the national, and the national is the social. Unfortunately, our people still lack this insight.


Kadhafi: I am firmly convinced that after the Second World War, when Germany was defeated, the Allies deliberately put the Germans through a phase of brainwashing. They tried to take away your history. Of course we are against fascism, of course we are against war. But these were only short periods in your history. But you were also deprived of the positive traditions, the liberty loving and revolutionary traditions, in which German history is so rich. You should always remember that your history was and is written by the victors of the Second World War. Today, all over the world, we hear only what the victors say about this war and about Germany. An objective picture of Germany can, of course, not arise.
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Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
"Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact." - Oswald Spengler, "Is World Peace Possible?"
War will always be reality. The modern pacifist delusion is not even consistent with modernity's own tendency to inflict the most terrible sort of empty and vain bloodshed. This war is not always a literal violence, although that too is an inescapable contingency. Jesus came not to bring peace but a sword; life truly lived is constant spiritual warfare. The Beast will not be brought down by physical weapons, but by a Solar spirit that must be greater and more virtuous than its decadence is evil.
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"Pacifism will rise and fall with the times. A period of weariness or one that lacks great ideas will always give it a clear field. And rightly, for when young men have no great aim before their eyes, why should they sacrifice themselves? When they have, on the other hand, they will of their own accord be carried away by the force that quails at nothing. The proud and indisputable right of the victor to decide the world’s destiny is so intoxicating a prospect to a race that does not doubt its call to greatness, that all else must appear of no account. In face of this, death, suffering, and all the horrors that lie on the surface of things fall away, and it is certain that the greater moral strength resides in such a conception. Every materialistic dissuasion weighs in the opposing scale—to be outweighed by the hero’s ‘So be it’ that encircles him with a supernatural glory. When all is at stake difficulties are nothing.
Once more it is Hölderlin who gives clear expression to all this:
‘I would not choose to die for nothing. But I would choose to fall for my country on a mound of slain.’"
~ Ernst Jünger, Copse 125
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"This raises the important question how one is to impress this on the soldier. How is one to proof and temper him for the frightful impressions of modern war when he crosses the frontier in unsuspecting enthusiasm?
Our enemies say we took young recruits into the slaughter-houses to accustom them to the sight of blood. This method would be effective and commendable if the endurance of the horrible were merely a matter of nerve. But, as I have said, brute force plays a smaller part here than one might think. Certainly hardness comes in. A schooling in manly exercise and sport, long marches, endurance of fatigue and privation, and the putting up with vexations of every sort, are all of them important. But they are not the essential. We have often seen weak nervous natures, men of little muscle and refined faces, who were capable of bearing a strain in a way that could not be explained by their bodily strength.
A generation worthy to represent its country in battle is not to be fashioned by any method: it springs from the primitive vigour of the people, and all the educational means by which these young men might seem to be brought up proceed from the same source as the nation has to thank for the possessing of these young men at all. It is easy to demand that historical associations shall be evoked in school and university, but what help are all the great ideas of the past if they do not fall on ears and hearts that feel themselves called to do the like? It is easy to say, too, that art must kindle a national consciousness, but if there is not in any case a depth of conviction, the only result is war memorials of plaster and boring historical pictures. The same is true of the family, of society, of the army, of philosophy, and anything by means of which men may be influenced. None of them can create ideas for which a man will die. They can represent these ideas and enforce them, give them expression, or carry them on further. But where there is not a disposition of the soul ready, they grip on air."
~ Ernst Jünger, Copse 125
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Forwarded from Archive
Monologue 44 Notes on the Peace by Junger in the modern context

When reading the peace one cannot help but think of three distinct parallels with how history really unfolded.

1. The politics of a post war Europe intended by Junger will lead the reader to feel compelled to compare it to the present day European Union. Whatever one feels about the Union, it is worth asking if Junger's Pan European program would resemble it, and if so, what would he think of this?

2. Throughout the essay, the role of religion is seen as important Junger, especially to provide a spiritual backbone to the war torn continent. Again one cannot help but draw parallels to how Germany did turn out, in which upon returning to the democratic process, it was none other than the Christian Democratic Union, whose leader Konrad Adenauer had campaigned much on a Christian humanism, urging his citizens to use religion to cope with their guilty conscience that arguably is still present in the German conscious today.

3. Western Europe quickly lost its geopolitical power after the war, England and France lost their colonies, and Germany was divided into two puppet states for the next half of the century. It was the Americans and Soviet Union that took the geopolitical throne in a bipolar world. The implications of this regarding the vision outlined in the Peace is surely something interesting to think about.
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Monologue 44 Notes on the Peace by Junger in the modern context When reading the peace one cannot help but think of three distinct parallels with how history really unfolded. 1. The politics of a post war Europe intended by Junger will lead the reader to…
The Peace is often maligned by national socialists as this turn away from the spirit, towards liberalism and world government. But amnesty is a very old and aristocratic law of war. Carl Schmitt also writes about it, and if anything the necessity of forgetting is even more important once international law introduces the concept of crime into war.

Regarding unification of Europe in the wars, Jünger said that Germany should have taken the early territory it gained in France, then worked towards unification. The war was not Hitler, but a specific type of unification – in any case what was the result? "The world state progressed all the same, for all those national issues were already obsolete." The First World War ended the monarchies, and the Second World War ended the national states.

Later he says that Nuremberg was the end of the Jus Publicum Europaeum, and that Schmitt outlined this new order in The Nomos of the Earth. Jünger was looking forward when he wrote The Peace as with moves in a game of chess, he was speaking as a defendant of Germany, and for a European Amnesty which would save the Jus Publicum Europaeum.
Nomos of War
The Peace is often maligned by national socialists as this turn away from the spirit, towards liberalism and world government. But amnesty is a very old and aristocratic law of war. Carl Schmitt also writes about it, and if anything the necessity of forgetting…
The world state is itself existential, theological. There is a world unity and opposition to which all order is aligned, whether in ttack or defense. The world war is a civil war, and the cold war a cold civil war. It is not only limited due to nuclear weapons, and the catastrophic weakness of nations after the World Wars, it is a new type of war – delimited, irregular focused on all elements of subversion. It is the type of war which neutralizes the revolutionary wars, but also mobilizes them. Indeed, the democratic states prefigured their wars, and the partisan is the natural figure of the movement of the new nations – or rather spaces.

War is not weakened, the anti-war position is spatial in its attempt to eliminate the criminal type, the unhuman form which is always a threat to democracy. War becomes so pervasive that a simple vote on the world stage can hold an impossibly destructive power. Every veto of the Soviet Union was equal to the battles of the World Wars. And the race to include the most insignificant nations, to give them a vote in the world state was an attempt by America to unravel this legal weapon of the Soviet Union. The world became multipolar, but only as an intensification, and rearmament of the world duality.

Peace, then, is catastrophic, apocalyptic in its answer to the new conflict. It is the shearing of pain, that fear of the deathless and unnamed – so great that in eternal repetition all of them could never be found. There are two types of Unknown Soldier: he who disappeared with the Fatherland, and he who becomes like a wandering spirit in the Motherland because of the inescapable new form of combat.

Where war becomes eternal, peace can only meet it in kind. This is the reason for the apocalyptic language in Jünger's text. One is reconciling with the death of all lands, and the entire weight of history coming to a final brutal conflict.
Forwarded from LaDarc's Ghost
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Forwarded from Lance's Legion
I lived this once, in a past life. I died on a firebase in the Viet highlands near Cambodia.
I led my men in battle, destroyed many enemy, and fell in the company of Titans.
AMERICA LIVES!
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Forwarded from Intel Slava
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