Monday, May 25, 2009

The Logic of Capitalism and Race


According to Attorney-General Eric Holder, all Americans are cowards when it comes to race. The statement springs from Holder’s view -- and Obama’s -- that white Americans are unwilling to discuss race to their Black satisfaction. We should find such a statement ironic coming from the lips of the first black attorney general serving under the first (half) black president of a nation conceived of and hacked out of the wilderness by whites still running on the fumes of white ideas and genius. More ironic is the fact that, should Americans drop their cowardice and pretence and take up an open and truly honest discussion of race, Holder and his master might find it slapping back in their faces in truly a rude fashion.

For example, they may have to answer embarrassing questions about the decline of Detroit under black domination or questions of why blacks remain well below whites in terms of success. But don’t expect those questions ever to make it into any national debate over race because the real racial cowards are blacks themselves who don’t want the focus to shift to their duplicity. Moreover, neither does the white capitalist elite who benefit from not talking about race.

Capitalism, particularly global capitalism, has replaced the traditional concept of race as individuals belonging to a long historic almost familial chain of similar people with the idea of amassing wealth and living the good life. Under capitalism, egotism trumps race awareness. One may feel subconsciously that one's race is one's family but consciously one also realizes that families are expensive and in an atomized culture that celebrates acquisition as the prime motivation of the individual.

However, a race of people is not an accidental sum of individuals. It is not a chance accumulation. It is a reunion of inheritors of a specific fraction of human history, who, on the basis of the sense of common adherence, develop the will to pursue their own history and give themselves a common destiny.

But let’s face it, babies are expensive. They are also time-consuming and damn demanding. It’s better not to have them since they get in the way of playing video games or cheering on your favorite millionaire athlete or watching Oprah. In this way capitalist societies destroy races because the individuals that populate them do not sufficiently reproduce. Simply put, races die when their members want to make money more than they want to make and rear children. The fact is a race reproduces itself or it dies. Capitalism promotes abandonment of racial awareness by emphasizing the individual’s “need” and desires. It promotes the individual as a MERE individual with no bonds and no commitments. In capitalism, consuming goods is the highest goal, it is self-fulfillment.

Capitalism promotes abandonment of racial awareness because the people at the top of this atomistic heap benefit from cheap racially alien labor either by exporting jobs to Third World hovels or importing Third World people into the nation (thus the global aspect). This upper class or managerial class tends to be of the same race as the people at the bottom whom its members are screwing, but their actions (and attitudes) mark them as individuals apart. They are concerned exclusively with the needs of their own tiny class above the needs of the rest of their own people, nation and society. These attitudes have cascaded down to the bottom as well so that all stratas are primarily concerned with their own economic well-being. Like drowning rats they fight and claw one another for a spot on the ever shrinking raft of prosperity. Unless it liberates itself from the flawed effects of this global capitalist mentality whites are doomed to further decline and death.

Common markets, currency unions, and supra-national organizations like the European Parliament are symptoms of both the attack on race and the victory of pure economics. If local loyalties and racial loyalties no longer matter, only economic efficiency is left. The Deutsche Mark, the Pound Sterling, and the traditions and sovereignties they represent can all be brushed aside if a single European currency would be more efficient.

Real ‘organic’ society or nation can only exist where people have developed a firm sense of historical and spiritual commitment to their community. In such an organic polity, the law must not derive from some abstract preconceived principles, but rather from the genius of the people and its unique historical character. In such a democracy, the sense of community must invariably preside over individualistic and economic self-interests.

Strangely, whites hand out billions of dollars every year in social services to non-whites, and pass affirmative action legislation to help them compete against whites for jobs and education. Whites promote mass Third-World immigration, and white politicians try to make immigration easier and more attractive. Whites willingly surrender whole neighborhoods to immigrants. In short, whites consider it praiseworthy to work in the interests of other races, but disreputable to work in their own.

Put directly, a left-wing sensibility pervades the managerial elite. Leftists are an aberration of nature. They have not inherited basic defence and survival mechanisms that optimise the survival of their genes. Their basic survival mechanisms are lacking, and this could well explain why liberals and Leftists generally consider it a matter of individual ‘choice’ regarding such issues as abortion, and “gay marriage” e.g., rather than as a matter for the entire social organism, reflecting its chances of genetic continuity. The Leftist has an overly rationalised response to his environment that is detached from instinct. It might be said that the liberal is an aberration of nature, a revolt against his own self as an organism, an aberration bereft of the will to genetic perpetuity; that liberalism (and its variants of communism and feminism) literally means DEATH.

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