- This article is specifically about the National-Anarchist movement. See Nationalism and anarchism for a general article on fusions of nationalist and anarchist ideas.
National Anarchism (spelled National-Anarchism by some adherents) is an ideology that combines anarchism and nationalism, with intellectual roots in Third Positionism and the writings of the neo-Spenglerian Francis Parker Yockey and Julius Evola.[citation needed] Used in this sense, the term was coined simultaneously by Troy Southgate (England), Peter Topfer (Germany) and Hans Cany (France), and was defined by the National Revolutionary Faction to describe its ideological position.[citation needed] National-Anarchists see the hierarchies inherent in government and capitalism as oppressive, and advocate collective action organized along the lines of national identity. They cite Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leo Tolstoy, Murray Bookchin and Max Stirner among their influences. National-Anarchism has been denounced by left-wingers, who regard it as a far right ideology, and by some white nationalists, who accuse it of being left wing.[1][2]
History and organizations
Although the term national anarchist predates the development of its contemporary use (see Black Ram), in its present context it dates back to the 1990s.[3] French National Anarchist Hans Cany first made use of the term in the early 1990s, along with the related terms national-libertarian and anarcho-identitarian.[4] Around the same time, Richard Hunt left the editorial board of Green Anarchist, due to a disagreement over political strategies, and formed his own journal, Alternative Green[5]. Due to Alternative Green's policy of publishing articles from across the political spectrum, Hunt was constantly accused of fascism by the remaining Green Anarchist staff, as well as by other anarchists and left-wingers, such as Stewart Home, who accused both Green Anarchist and Alternative Green of supporting ecofascism.
In the mid-1990s, Troy Southgate, a Strasserite former member of the British National Front, began to move towards Hunt's green anarchism, and fused it with racial separatism (which Hunt did not support) to create the best-known modern form of National Anarchism. Southgate then formed the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF), and was for a period on Alternative Green's editorial board. NRF has since split up, and Southgate and other NRF associates became involved with a successor group, the Cercle de la rose noire.
Core positions
National-Anarchism shares with most strains of anarchism a desire to reorganize human relationships with an emphasis on replacing the hierarchical structures of government and capitalism with local, communal decision-making. National-Anarchist Troy Southgate has stated:
We believe in political, social and economic decentralisation. In other words, we wish to see a positive downward trend whereby all bureaucratic concepts such as the UN, NATO, the EU, the World Bank and even nation-states like England and Germany are eradicated and consequently replaced by autonomous village-communities.[citation needed]
National-Anarchists tend to advocate economic practices which can be loosely described as varieties of distributism and mutualism, where the emphasis is placed on a wide ownership of the means of production, as in small businesses and workers' cooperatives.[6]
Proponents of National-Anarchism support voluntary racial separatism, but not racial hatred or racial supremacy such as white supremacy. Most National-Anarchists believe that miscegenation destroys cultural diversity. This belief is rooted in the notion that intermixing of cultures destroys one or both of the cultures involved. Some critics of National-Anarchism hold that this implies racial hatred. However, National-Anarchists argue that there is no hatred involved but unavoidable consequences of allowing a totally different culture to dominate all spheres social, civic, and cultural life of a nationality. It is their view that separatism stops racial hatred from developing by allowing indigenous cultures and biodiversity to continue. Southgate has stated: "Our concept of the word ‘national’ relates not to territory but to the racial identity which is a natural facet of all peoples" and that "We simply want our own space in which to live according to our own principles." [citation needed] The United States National-Anarchist group Folk and Faith states: "Being firm believers in true bio-diversity, National-Anarchists are staunch racial separatists."[7]
Relations with other movements
Many left-wing anarchists regard National-Anarchism's concept of racial seperation as intrinsically leading to racial hatred.[8] Green Anarchist often published articles accusing National-Anarchists of being state-backed fascist infiltrators with the goal of discrediting mainstream anarchism[citation needed]. National-Anarchism has also attracted considerable criticism from members of the white nationalist movement, many of whom regard it as being communist, and some white nationalists have accused it of being a plot backed by "Jewish oligarchs" to infiltrate white nationalism.[9] As a result, most National-Anarchists distance themselves from both mainstream anarchists and white supremacists. One anarchist group that has accepted National-Anarchism as an ally is the American Revolutionary Vanguard, which proposes a cross-ideological alliance opposed to the present governments of the Western world.[10]
National-Anarchists reject fascism as statist and centralist. However, the neologism post-fascist has been used to describe their beliefs, owing to their intellectual roots which lie partly in Third Positionism, an ideology often interpreted to be neo-fascist.[citation needed] National-Anarchists reject liberalism as a primary cause of the social decline of nations and cultural identity. National-Anarchists reject National Socialism as a failed dictatorship of a totalitarian government.
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&writingId=150
- ^ http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/national-anarchism-371362.html
- ^ http://www.nationalanarchismus.org/Nationalanarchismus/NA-International/na-international.html
- ^ http://www.nationalanarchismus.org/Nationalanarchismus/NA-International/Cany_deutsch/cany_deutsch.html
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050306231050/http://www.national-anarchist.org/articles/INTERVIEWHunt.html
- ^ http://www.folkandfaith.com/index2.shtml
- ^ http://www.folkandfaith.com/index2.shtml
- ^ National Anarchism - Trojan Horse for White Nationalism by Nick Griffin. Greenanarchy.org Accessed June 15, 2007.
- ^ http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/national-anarchism-371362.html
- ^ http://www.attackthesystem.com
See also
- Alternative Green
- Anarchism
- Anarchism and nationalism
- Bases Autónomas
- Communities
- Cultural identity
- Integralism
- Libertarian National Socialist Green Party
- National syndicalism
- Separatism
- Strasserism
External links
- Bay Area National Anarchists
- New Right Australia New Zealand
- National Anarchist!
- Metapedia
- Synthesis
- Transcending the Beyond: From Third Position to National-Anarchism an article in Pravda online
- National-Anarchism and Classical American Ideals: Is A Reconciliation Possible? by Keith Preston
- Folk and Faith - American National-Anarchists
- Beyond Left and Right
- Attack the System
- National Anarchism - Trojan Horse for White Nationalism