7.
NAZISM, RACISM & SATANISM, BY WALTER GRIMWALD
An
Answer Extracted from The Burning Ground, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1994. Can be seen
on www.november9.org
(November
9th is the date of most importance in the Identity Christian book held
most high: "The Turner Diaries." It is the date where every race on
the planet is wiped out and the world is made safe for blonde-blue-eyed white
people. Ed.)
I first read Jeffrey
Deboo's "Nazism, Racism and Satanism" in The Black Flame (Vol.3/Num.1
& 2), forum of the CHURCH OF SATAN. Since then, it has been reprinted in other
Satanic forums more often than any other article which I can recall. Deboo is
editing his own magazine - Dark Reflections - which he advertises as "Satanism
without Fascist/racist/authoritarian nonsense."
Despite
his anti-Fascist, libertarian obsession, Deboo manages to hang on to the coat-tails
of the CHURCH OF SATAN, while declaring himself to be "independent,"
although CHURCH OF SATAN Magister Peter Gilmore has written in The Black Flame
(Vol.4/Num.1 & 2):
"In
as much as Fascism stands for an embracing of the Natural Order and a rejection
of 'anything goes' attitudes that have hindered our society, particularly since
the 1960's, then Fascists we are." (Note: the words, "in as
much as, " are quaifiers. Does Fascism stand for an embracing of the Natural
Order? If so, then the Natural Order is more attuned to the herd. Ed.)
CHURCH
OF SATAN High Priest Anton LaVey has himself stated in The Black Flame
(Vol.4/Num.3 & 4):
"If
a neo-Fascist look - or outlook - makes for men who look like men and women who
look like women, I am all for it." (Note: "if" is another
qualifier. Does a neo- Fascist look or outlook make for this? It would depend
wholly on which society practiced the Fascism. Ed.)
Turning
to Deboo's anti-Fascist epistle, he begins by quoting Mein Kampf, where
Hitler states that the creation of a culture is predicated on the willingness
of individuals to subordinate their selfish tendencies to the wider interests
of the Volkish community.
Deboo's
"Satanism" is the type of "Hyper-individualism" Hitler condemns
as having been a weakening factor in Germany during the Weimar regime. Deboo states
that Hitler recognized that the masses were sheeplike - but rather than deploring
this, he applauded it...
But
what is the use of deploring facts, rather than recognizing them when making State
policy? It is Communism that tried to overcome nature, including human nature.
Is not Satanism supposed to be the "carnal doctrine," recognizing the
laws of nature (as Fascism did) rather than seeking to negate them with dogma?
What of man as "just another animal," as LaVey put it? (Note: Communists
tried to make social conditions that would lead to a more evolved man; they did
not try to negate nature. They stood up for the working people who made the things
"in nature and life" that everyone used and needed: "To look
at any organism outside of its environment is abiological and tatamount to scientific
heresy," more or less verbatim, said by J.V. Stalin to the geneticists
that were bemoaning Nature as She is, and trying to take and view the organism
out of Nature. Ed.)
Recognition
of the herdlike nature of man is just a realization that man is tribal like other
species, and has that "life collective" (as Friedrich Nietzsche put
it) within, its natural outstanding leaders, who must necessarily be individuals
themselves. (Note: he fails comically to recognize the combined force of the Labor
Movement - supported by the Communists that he obviously knows nothing about.
In fact, in these regards, the Nazis and Communists were identical. Ed.).
National-Socialism sought to
harness the outstanding individual to the service of the Volk community (tribe),
just as the best is selected in a herd to lead, rather than to let the outstanding
individual waste and rot as democratic societies do.
To
quote Hitler:
"The
progress and culture of humanity are not a product of the majority, but rest exclusively
on the genius and energy of the personality." (Note: Hitler fails
to realize that the Ideas of the individual go nowhere without the masses that
agree with those ideas pushing them forward. Ed. )
And
indeed, it is the rootlessness of America which has caused its great artists either
to exile themselves from the cultural sewer of America, or to die in rejection.
While National-Socialist Germany was patronizing its great artists, T.S.Eliot,
Ezra Pound, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald left those sterile shores, the latter
returning to die of alcoholic poisoning. Other literary figures such as Hart Crane
and Thomas Heggen committed suicide before their prime. Pound was caged in Italy
then returned to America to be committed in a lunatic asylum for opposing the
Roosevelt war-mongering regime, and denied literary honours on political grounds
solely. (Note: NS Germany is a burnt cinder primarily due to the insane racial
ideas of one man. America is the biggest and most powerful imperialist nation
on the planet. Ed.)
Yet Deboo
still pontificates about how National-Socialist Germany killed or exiled its cultural
elite. But who is he referring to? A bunch of Dadaist dabblers or some profit-driven
pornographers? (Note: I believe DeBoo is referring to the Jewish geniuses who
invented the Atomic and Hydrogen bombs, among other similarly scientific people.
Ed.)
Deboo has visions (or nightmares?)
of Hitler as "the jackbooted pontiff whose mezmerizing voice holds his flock
in his thrall" with "no LaVey challenging each man to live for himself..."
Yet what LaVey writes of is of the Satanist coming forth in splendour "through
his Satanic might" proudly proclaiming: "I am a Satanist. Bow down,
for I am the highest embodiment of human life!" in The Satanic Bible.
Deboo then condemns racism in
typical libertarian terms as a collectivism that confers automatic superiority
or inferiority on an individual according to his race, regardless of his actual
ability. But it is precisely the recognition of innate differences - not only
between races but within races - that is the basis of National-Socialism. However,
the National-Socialist regime saw as its duty the elevation of the humblest citizen
to the highest possible cultural level. It also recognized that one cannot appreciate
culture too well with an empty stomach, a destitute family and no secure income.
Hence the pioneering social and economic reforms. This cultural elevation it set
about to achieve by providing subsidized excursions to the humblest worker who
was given opportunities to appreciate his nation's culture which had formerly
been reserved for the wealthier classes. (Note: that's exactly what the Communists
did. Ed.) What do you think "Strength through Joy" was, Deboo? Compulsory
weight-lifting classes? (Note: he is addressing Deboo personally here. Ed.)
Deboo
illustrates his point:
"Indeed,
Hitler's first followers, his Brownshirts, were recruited from the trash of Germany,
the failures and the brawlers of the streets who resented the creative and successful
people in their own country."
One
wonders what episode of Hogan's Heroes Deboo has been watching! These "brownshirted
scum" were for the most part war-veterans, many of whom had their livelihoods
destroyed by the disastrous Weimar regime and the Versailles Diktat and who fought
back rather than wimper as Deboo would prefer. (Note: most Brown Shirts were what
DeBoo said they were: Hitler killed them during the Night of the Long Knives.
Ed.)
Deboo next compares National-Socialism
with Medieval Christianity, both being held as "conformist" ideologies
which killed or exiled "the most creative and independent minds". "Nazism
was a revolt of the street-trash which wiped out or drove away the country's true
elite," we are reminded again. (Note: Deboo should have pointed out that
Reich is another for Holy Roman Empire. Ed.)
No,
Deboo, Communism was a revolt of the street-trash, against which the Brownshirts
laid down their lives fighting. (Note: See
"On
Education in a Real Merit System - by a COS Member from the Soviet System"
on this website for a clear view of meritocracy in action. Ed.)
The
National-Socialist State instituted a meritocracy based on talent rather than
on the selection of rulers by head-counting; as in democracy. The Cabinet included
such people as Dr. Walter Darré, minister of agriculture, whose advice as an agricultural
expert had been widely sought after by European governments, Dr. Wilhelm Frick,
minister of the interior, widely known throughout Europe as a patron of chamber
music (yes, the street-trash!), Bernard Rust, minister of science and education,
who had twice turned down an offer of professorship in favour of a more humble
teaching position which he considered a more practical way to help German youth.
Indeed, looking at the 1938 Reich
Cabinet, out of its twenty members, nine held doctorates, with others such as
Rudolf Hess holding degrees and diplomas of some type.
It
was precisely because Germany was reconstructing its cultural life that some of
the greatest intellectuals and artists in Europe backed her. They saw the possibilities
of a general European cultural renaissance.
Arno
Breker's sculptures, and other neo-classical art and architecture adorned public
buildings and parks. Intellectuals of lasting impact such as Heidegger, and writers
of the stature of Pound and Knut Hamsen declared themselves supporters of the
regime.
The democrats' answer
was to bomb a defenceless open city - Dresden - primarily because it was a cultural
centre; and to consign Europe's cultural elite to death, to jail, or to clean
the streets as part of "denazification". And Breker's sculptures were
sledgehammered by American G.I.'s.
The
significance of National-Socialism for Satanists is more specifically that it
tapped the shadow of the repressed European collective unconscious, releasing
a great Dionysian or Wotanic creative urge, viewed favourably by Carl Jung. (Note:
It did noting but tap into an already-existing Christian anti-Semitism. Ed.)
Deboo
goes on praising LaVey for having always rejected "with contempt" overtures
from "neo-Nazis," thereby defending the "integrity of the Satanic
philosophy." But what can we make of the association of Boyd Rice and Michael
Moynihan (the former, if not the latter, belonging to the priesthood of the CHURCH
OF SATAN) with the CHURCH OF SATAN? Or of LaVey's gift of an autographed copy
of The Satanic Bible to National-Socialist ideologue James Mason, whose
book Siege was heavily advertised in The Black Flame? (Note: personal
letters against the Nazi overtures and Anton LaVey's rejection there of, written
by Anton LaVey, are in Dr. Michael Aquino's book on the Church of Satan. Efforts
of one of us to obtain just those letters were unproductive. Ed.)
Deboo
finally ends with a warning that any association with Nazism "will derail
the Satanist movement into the junkyard of failed ideas and missed opportunities."
Yet his own ideology, somehow masquerading as "Satanism," is just a
rehash of the Nineteenth Century whig-liberalism with that dash of inanity that
is typical of the Homo Americanus. Deboo, far from being a "Satanic adversary"
of entrenched orthodoxy is just a low-grade promoter of the status-quo, an echoer
of fifty-year-old System clichés against one of the most heretical movements in
history. (Note: Communism was, in fact, the most heretical movement: they were
considered the Anti-Christ for having a vast Atheist Empire - by the Pope that
praised Hitler . Ed.)
