The term "Right-wing" is used to described everything from libertarians such as those in the Act and National parties to skinhead street gangs. Seldom is the term "Right" used in its correct definition, especially in English-peaking countries. "Right", briefly, stands for the recognition of traditional customs and institutions such as family and nationhood, as timeless and eternally valid.
"New Right" adds to this the concept of identity and unlike certain schools of thought wrongly called "right-wing" and "neo-conservative", holds that globalisation and free trade capitalism, headed up by the USA, so far from defending the core values of traditional Western cultural, are in opposition.
When the "Right" is labelled as "nazi", this is used as a convenient smear-word without the need for critical debate or analysis, whether by journalists, political scientists or the "Left".
An unfortunate side-effect of this smear is that it can attract the attention of those who do indeed consider themselves to be "nazis", and who actually believe the smears of the enemies of the Right. When they enter the ranks of such a group they can through their own juvenile antics often give credence to the smear and thereby serve the interests of the enemy.
The following points are a summary of our booklet Nazism? An answer to the smear-mongers, published by New Right – NZ.
It is felt that this summary might be useful for those with limited attention spans or diminished critical thinking faculties, such as journalists, political scientists and delusional Leftists.
Here then are some major points of ideological difference that the Right, and specifically New Right – NZ, has relative to Hitlerism:
- Nazism reduces all history to one factor – race purity. The traditionalist Right however, holds that history is comprised of the rise and fall of civilisations according to life cycles. This "cyclic" view of history was put forward by Rightist philosopher-historians, particularly Oswald Spengler, who was at odds with the Nazis, who claimed that race purity is the basis of the rise and fall of civilisations
- One major by-product of Nazi race doctrine was the supposed ‘inferiority of the Slavs’. Nazism divided Europeans into a racial hierarchy, just as they did other races. Blond haired, blue eyed Nordics were held to be the best of the European races. Thus Europeans were divided against themselves. Therefore when the Germans were greeted as liberators from Stalin by MILLIONS of Slavs, Russians, Ukrainians, Latvians and others, the potential for a massive anti-Soviet liberation army was sacrificed because of Hitlerite contempt for Slavs. They were seen as conquered serfs rather than as fellow Europeans. Hitler repudiated any notion of forming independent Baltic states, and opposed Ukrainian national aspirations. Gen. Valsov’s Russian National Liberation Army did not get approval from Hitler until near the end of the war. Tragically, the valiant Vlasov army spent its final encounter fighting the SS to save Prague from destruction, only to be turned over en mass by the USA to the Soviets for execution.
Ironically, the ideal of the 19th Century Anarchist revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin has more in common with New Rightist beliefs than Hitlerism: Bakunin advocated self-government for every folk community within a European federation. Bakunin was Marx’s main rival as head of the revolutionary movement during he 19th Century. He opposed Marxism because it was not a "folkish" party, and condemned Marx for only recognising the role of economics in history rather than that of ethnic struggles. (This is ironic because the loudest – and stupidest – condemnation of nationalism comes from young self-styled "anarchists", few of whom have heard of Bakunin).
- The Hitlerite "Nordicist" theory of history, that the Nordics are responsible for all civilisation, relegates other Europeans to inferior status. In fact, despite the mistaken belief that every ancient statue of a Greek depicting supposedly ‘Nordic’ features proves the ancient Greeks responsible for building the great Hellenic civilisation for e.g. were Nordics, they were actually mainly Dinaric-Alpine. It is also incorrect to say that the ancient Hellenes were of a different racial type than today’s Greeks, thereby ‘proving’ that racial mixture caused the downfall of Greece. Anthropology shows that Greeks, whether ancient or modern, have remained of the Dinaric-Alpine type.
- The Right recognises that the preservation of ALL traditional cultures is essential in halting the advance of global conformity under a single economic system, where all nations and cultures are obliterated in favour of a global consumer culture under what is today called globalisation. Therefore the Right does not recognise any idea of ‘inferior’ or ‘superior’ but recognises the vitality of different traditional cultures and identities. The Right recognises that open immigration and multiculturalism, which the Left promotes, is also promoted by global capitalism to destroy national and ethnic barriers to the free flow of labour, technology and capital. That is why the original trade unionists, before the unions were taken over by middle class liberals, fought for immigration restrictions, the most obvious e.g. being the original programme of the Australian Labour Party advocating the White Australia Policy.
However, because the Right resists the dumping of populations all over the world in the interests of global business, regardless of traditional boundaries, this does not mean that Rightists regard others as inferior or shut themselves off from appreciating the traditional cultures of others. It was Right-wing poets such as W B Yeats and Ezra Pound who introduced Westerners to traditional Chinese culture. Percy Stephensen, the Australian literary figure and Right-wing nationalist, was an early champion of Aborigine causes. The New Zealand Right-wing poet Geoffrey de Montalk regarded Maoris as the only ‘noble’ race in New Zealand and learnt the language.
- Nazism sees "the Jew" as a non-human, a biological parasite. Some Jews after World War I did oblige the Nazis and other anti-Semites by being conspicuous in communist and other anti-national cultural and political movements. One section of Jewry the Nazis did favour were the Zionists, because both Nazis and Zionists opposed the assimilation of the Jews.
From a biological viewpoint, the widely promoted anti-Semitic contention that Jews are descended from Turkic-Mongol Khazars who adopted Judaism in 800AD is not correct. Most Jews are Ashkenazic and are of Armenian stock, as were the Hebrews and other Middle Eastern peoples. They are a branch of the Indo-European family of peoples. The broad head, thick lips and beaked nose regarded as "typically Jewish’, is more accurately typically Armenoid. The Armenians themselves were a great civilisation and one of the first Christian cultures of Europe. The Sephardic Jews are mostly of Mediterranean descent. There are no biological barriers to Jewish assimilation into the European mainstream. The barriers have been cultural, religious and more recently political (Zionism). During the Middle Age, despite the animosity between Judaism and Christianity, many thousands of Jews assimilated into Christian Europe.
Politically and culturally, the bulk of Jews of post-World War I Germany were proudly German. 100,000 Jews had fought in the Kaiser’s army. 35,000 were decorated. The League of Nationalist German Jews was founded in 1921 to promote German nationalism and oppose both Zionism and communism. The National Association of Jewish Combat Veterans founded in 1919 had the same nationalist views.
Even the Stahlhelm, the ultra-nationalist private army of war vets was headed by a Jew, Lt. Col. Duesterberg, descended from rabbis, who ran for the presidency for the Nationalist Right against Hitler.
As for Zionism, the Zionist flag was the only flag apart from the Nazi one, permitted to fly in Hitler’s Germany. The Zionists were permitted their own press which only underwent restrictions when there was a newsprint shortage. The Zionist role during World War II is not a noble one. Zionists discouraged efforts to relocate European Jews to any other country than Palestine. The Irgun Zionist terror gang tried to negotiate an alliance with Nazi Germany during World War II.
- Some of the bravest critics of Zionism have been and are Jews. To name a few, Ben Freedman, formerly high placed adviser in the Democratic Party, a millionaire businessman, broke with Zionism and spent a fortune funding US Nationalists. Henry Klein, prominent New York lawyer and journalist, fought Zionism, communism and internationalism. Rabbi Nachum Shiften has endured condemnation by Zionist extremists and public "excommunication" by a self-appointed council of rabbis, for his support of American Rightist Pat Buchanan. Rabbi Daniel Lapin, TV and radio personality and head of Towards Tradition, attempts to bring traditionalist Americans of both Christian and Jewish beliefs together in a common cause, and has been scathing of Jews involved in Hollywood decadence and Left-wing causes. Jews have also joined nationalist movements such as the British National Front, the late Albert Alder, an orthodox Jew, having been a major influence in the NF. A Jewess sits as a councillor for the British National Party. However, Zionists condemn any Jewish involvement in patriotic movements other than Zionism. Hence in NZ in 2004 Hagai Segal, an overseas guest, lamented to Wellington Jews that "many Jews" had voted for Le Pen in France, etc.
- Nazism is based on social Darwinism, "survival of the fittest" and sees war as a means of cleansing a race of its ‘inferior’ elements. Actually, warfare has generally served to kill off the fittest elements of a population. In ancient history societies which were otherwise sound, such as the Spartans, killed themselves off through constant war.
Apart form this, the New Right recognises that most wars particularly over the past century or so have served economic interests such as bankers and arms merchants.
- Nazism was based on narrow German imperial interests to the detriment of European and Western solidarity. As we have seen, Hitler opposed the national aspirations of the Slavs, Balts and Russians. However, elsewhere narrow German interests were paramount. For e.g. the Nazis assassinated the Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss, a Christian European patriot who sought to create a nation based on Catholic social and economic interests, rejecting both liberal capitalism and communism.
For the fully documented, illustrated booklet Nazism? An answer to the smear-mongers, send $7 to New Right, P. O. Box 39046 Wellington Mail Centre, New Zealand.
Check out the political programme of New Right-NZ at www.geocities.com/newrightnz/