ENOCH POWELL: THE MAN AND HIS POLITICS

Fifty years ago today, Enoch Powell made perhaps the most famous speech in British politics, the "Rivers of Blood" speech, warning against the dangers of mass immigration.

STRAIGHTENING OUT THE HORSESHOE THEORY

by James Lawrence 

@JWLawrence85

As I have argued in a recent article, there is no going back to classical liberalism, and the illusion that we can do so is a major factor preventing our people from defending themselves. Liberalism has opened the door to culture-destroying progressivism, masked its takeover of our countries by presenting a show of formal continuity, and lacks the means of purging it. Those who would save the West are thus forced to search outside liberalism for a political framework that can do the job.

CONTRA COSMOPOLITANISM

by James Lawrence

  

In common with many others in this movement, I see European racial self-defence as the foundation of the Alt-Right. This does not mean, as some would have it, that this foundation is also the pinnacle, or that the Alt-Right can be reduced to it and nothing else. But in a future where the European people have been replaced, and the civilisation of Europe no longer exists in any form distinct from the modernist anti-culture to which it gave birth, everything else good and true on the Alt-Right ends up reduced to so much meaningless blog chatter.

However, I have long been aware of a serious shortcoming in ethnonationalism, which runs through all of its discourse like cracks in a wall. On the one hand, most if not all of the ethnonationalist charges against ‘foreigners’ (blacks, Muslims, Jews etc.) are both carefully reasoned and backed up with solid facts. On the other hand, cheek by jowl with these, we find statements and assumptions about ‘our own people’ (white Europeans) that are not only arbitrary and slapdash, but do not even accord with basic common sense.

THE AMORALITY OF PACIFISM

by James Lawrence

Although there is no single explanation for the plight of the European peoples and the ongoing destruction of Western civilisation, we can perhaps distinguish between two different categories of explanations. With regards to the actions of our globalist, Cultural Marxist, Jewish, and corporate elites, so-called "left-wing explanations" are most appropriate: here we are correct in speaking of a hostile and exploitative ruling class, busily engaged in running down the West for its own benefit. (Indeed, as Sean Gabb argues in Cultural Revolution, Culture War, the various Marxist and Marxist-derived critiques of Western society should be read backwards as "manifestos" of the oppressive, unprincipled and self-interested regimes that are invariably set up by the students of these critiques.)

However, underpinning the rule of this hostile elite - and preceding it in time - is a more longstanding and natively developed self-destructive mentality in Western white people (particularly the middle classes), which cannot reasonably be blamed on anyone other than those white people themselves. This mentality consists of a toxic pacifism and idealism which, even when distinct from pacifism as a political dogma, is generally obsessed with keeping the peace at all costs and furthering the delusional vision of a world in which strife between peoples has become a thing of the past. With regards to this phenomenon, it is "right-wing explanations" such as decadence, cultural effeteness and racial suicide that seem to ring true.

A NIGEL TO REMEMBER

by Colin Liddell

It was the great British politician Enoch Powell who said, "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure." The political life of Nigel Farage, however, has defied Powell's maxim, with the UKIP leader choosing to end his career neither in failure nor in "midstream." The tremendous victory achieved by the Brexit vote a few days ago means that he has crossed over the river and achieved the one goal he always defined his career by.

ENOCH POWELL: THE MAN AND HIS POLITICS

Sean Gabb's excellent speech on Enoch Powell, delivered on the 13th of September 2014 at the Property and Freedom Society Conference in Bodrum, Turkey. Sean Gabb is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance.

The text of the speech can be found here.