Statist Capitalism or Multi-Nationalist Socialism?

This is written in response to the misconceived hostility towards “socialism” prevalent on this website, and to the Left’s hostility towards “nationalism”.

Superficially, viewed from the Right, “socialism” may seem responsible for most of society’s woes, just as viewed from the Left, “nationalism” does – or did, until the state succeeded in equating the natural ethnic basis of nationhood with “racism”.

Socialism and nationalism were the most powerful motivating ideas prior to ww2, because deeply rooted in man’s inherent social (socialism) and tribal (nationalism) nature. But being so powerful, both were misappropriated by the STATE or statists, who misused them to their own power-political advantage, whereby giving both the extremely bad names they now have.

The Nazis, being supreme propagandists, went the whole hog in calling themselves “national socialists”, the appeal of which, as a concept, to basic human instincts was doubly profound. This the Nazis abused to an insanely criminal extent, resulting in the concept of “national socialism” being dragged into the abyss along with their evil selves, where it remains to this day, no one daring to go even near it for fear of all its terrible associations.

Which is not just a shame, but a tragedy (representing perhaps Hitler’s ultimate victory over us), the concepts of both nationalism (from nation) and socialism (from social responsibility and solidarity) being vitally important for any healthy, just, humane and sustainable human society, and you can’t have one without the other.

We urgently need to recover the CONCEPT of “national socialism” from the abyss into which the Nazis dragged it, cleanse it of its evil associations and re-examine it. And since much of Nazi nastiness revolved around its mono-nationalistic self-centredness, at the expense of others, I suggest we alter the name to “Multi-National Socialism”.

Another misconception on the Right is that free-market capitalism is anti-statist. It’s not. It just wants a small, non-interventionist state, rather than a large interventionist one. Capitalism needs the state to maintain law and order amongst the work force (the human resources” it exploits) and enforce property rights to the advantage of power, wealth, privilege and “talent”.

The primary purpose of the STATE, clearly visible from a human-evolutionary, i.e. Darwinian, perspective, is to facilitate “society’s” self-exploitation, which the political Left and Right merely take different approaches to. Both look to the STATE to serve their own particular (social, political, financial, ideological, or whatever) advantage.

I envisage Multi-National Socialism as a grass-roots-democratic alternative to the statism of both the Left and the Right.

How to proceed? By organising OURSELVES, peacefully and grass-roots-democratically, into TRIBES and NATIONS of our OWN creation and choosing, which will cooperate with each other (without the imposed statist pretence of single pseudo-nationhood) in creating alternatives to the oppressive state institutions and non-sustainable, unjust and inhumane capitalist-consumer economy we currently all depend on.

I know how fanciful this all sounds, for which there are understandable psychological reasons. It is very difficult for our brains to imagine anything that is not an extension of existing experience, especially when it is materially and emotionally so dependent on the status quo. It wants to maintain the environment which supports it and gives it an advantage over others, and is thus terrified of truly radical change, even though without it we are doomed.

Multi-National Socialism

Those on the political right tend to hate “socialism”, while those on the left hate “nationalism” (which they have succeeded effectively in equating with “racism”).

But here I will argue that both concepts are extremely important, because deeply rooted in human nature, as it evolved long before the advent of civilisation and the state; which is why they have been subjected to such abuse by the state, in its pursuit and exercise of POWER, which has resulted in them acquiring the most negative associations.

The worst abuse of all, resulting in the most negative associations, was, of course, committed by the Nazis, who actually called their movement “National Socialism”.

Why did they choose that name? Because at the time both concepts were, for very good reason, very popular, speaking as they do to two essential aspects of human nature: socialism to our inherent social nature; nationalism to our inherent tribal nature, the control and manipulation of which the power of the state (and indirectly, also capital) depends upon.

In the hands of the power-hungry state, both nationalism and socialism are obnoxious, which is why they are so hated, one especially by the left the other especially by the right. However, these two concepts belong together (cannot exist apart), but without the state. We need to recover the concept of national socialism from the abyss into which the Nazis dragged it, along with their insane and hateful ideology, cleanse it of its nasty Nazi associations, and re-examine it.

And because we comprise many tribes and nations (rather than the single “master race” the Nazis envisaged) – although we have yet to initiate, peacefully and grass-roots-democratically, their formation – I suggest we call it Multi-National Socialism.