As the Kali Yuga marches on, the New World Order of Western parasite society is becoming all the more powerful, destroying indigenous, Traditional and radical counter cultures in favor of a hegemonic monoculture of the American variety. This means Coca-Cola and Britney Spears for children in Baghdad, Thomas Kinkade and Wal-Mart for villagers in Norway. The indigenous and traditional cultures of nation shave been ostensibly forgotten, forcibly retired at the onset of a globalizing cultural imperialism forcing the masses of Europe, Asia and elsewhere into a state of perpetual complacency before the Spectacular society. So where is the resistance?

Anyconcerned observer is bound to ask. Well, the resistance is there but it is either so marginalized that its influence is hardly worth noting or it is stifled by petty sectarianism or poor alliances which ultimately lead to its demise. What I am proposing in this article is a massive regroupment of many different political currents which oppose the presentstate of order, though until now they have been looked upon as opposing each other. What is needed now is an alliance of the ultraleft, the far right, the ecological resistance, radical Moslems, and anarchists based on some points of common unity and a respect for each groups’ autonomy. Homogeneity is what we oppose,pluralism is what we need.

 

The Red

While research has been done to show the similarities between the far right and the far left in the case of hyper Stalinists like Hohxa, Ceausescu, and Kim JongIl as well as Tito who were all ‘national revolutionaries’, so to speak, there is little on the crossover between the ultraleft Marxists and certain elements of the far right. Whereas the similarities between Hitler and Stalin and Mao are rather obvious (extremely nationalist, cult of personality,strong military State), the roots of ultraleft/farright crossover are a little harder to find. One interesting point where the two meet on the political spectrum is with the Trotskyists and their mirror image on the right, the Strasserites. While the Trots maintain that Lenin’s model for a dictatorship of the proletariat was correct and would have yielded a true socialist state, it was Stalin whose solidifying of power ruined the fledgling workers’ state and made it in to the state capitalist monstrosity that was the Soviet Union.

On the right, we have those in the tradition of Otto and Gregor Strasser whose National Socialism called for an alliance with oppressed nations to unite against the West. This National Socialism was anti-colonialist and also anti-capitalist, calling for a volkisch German socialism which included nationalization of industry and massive land redistribution. Hitler’s liquidation of this faction of NDASP is very similar to Stalin’s liquidation of all the original Bolsheviks from the Communist Party. But this only describes the crossover between far left and far right. Today most Trotskyists work in coalitions with liberals and are hardly critical of Western consumer society, instead relying on outdated orthodox Marxist criticisms of the industrial age to explain the woes of late capitalism. They are philosophically dogmatic and reductionist, though many of them do give rightful support to the Iraqi resistance and other Islamic and national liberation groups in the Middle East who are anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist. But the real beginning of the ultraleft/far right parallel lies inthe postwar ultraleft in their battle against Stalinist totalitarianism and Western bourgeois democracy. After the war, the Allied victors inevitably became the heroes as they wrote themselves into history and liberal democracy was the order ofthe day. The cause of the war was ‘officially’ the Holocaust, but the economic factors were obvious to even the casual observer. The father of what is today known as Holocaust Revisionism was neither a Nazi or someone who actually denied the Holocaust happened, infact he was actually a prisoner in both the Buchenwaldand Dora concentration camps.

Paul Rassiner was a cofounder of the Libe-Nord resistance organization during the war which helped smuggle Jews from Vichy France into Switzerland. Upon being captured in 1943,he was sent to the Buchenwald and later Doraconcentration camps. Based on his experiences in the concentration camps, Rassinier began to write about how the gas chambers had been a hoax, used to give credibility for establishment of the racist state of Israel and also to deter from the equally horrific acts of the Allied powers during the war, like the bombings of Tokyo and Dresden. In 1979, Pierre Guillaume, a former member of the group Socialisme ou Barbarisme whose membership also had included Jean-Francois Lyotard the brilliant post-modernist philosopher, published Rassinier’s Le Mensonged’Ulysse at La Veille Taupe, a bookstore in Paris that sold texts by the Siutationist International, Guy Debord, Amadeo Bordiga as well as many other ultralefts.

The Bordigists are another interesting example of postwar ultraleft/far right parallelism. Known for their theoretical attacks on anti-fascism, a topic taken seriously even in far-left and anarchist circles, for its almost complete lack of criticism of the bourgeois liberal state. To these Bordigists, any ties between them and the far-right were excusable on the grounds that the bigger issues at hand were the encompassing bourgeois liberal state and Americanneo-colonialism, be it cultural, economic, social or political. Another parallel between the extremes of the spectrum is more in the field of methodology rather than ideology. The radical right-wing terrorist group Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, influenced mainly by works of Julius Evola, who bombed a Bologna train station in 1980, were taking on a praxis and cell structure identical to that of of Italy’s Red Brigades and the Red Army Faction. The latter of the two was named after the Japanese Red Army, who received asylum in North Korea after hijacking aplane. Claudio Mutti, who had been wanted in relation to the Bologna bombing, is a sympathizer with Islamic radicalism and a self-described Nazi Maoist. Upon observing the parallels between the ultraleft and the radical right, certain points of unity are noticeable: methodology of armed revolution, anti-Zionism,anti-imperialism, and opposition to Western liberal democracy.

 

The Green

The Green represents two distinct movements of contemporary anti-Western radicalism, the revolutionary/deep ecology movement and Islamic radicalism. The latter movement includes the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front as well as the publications Green Anarchy, Alternative Green, and Do or Die! One of the first major groups of ecological resistance was Earth First! which in its early years was influenced mainly by the works of Edward Abbey. Abbey’s writings are excellent critiques of the destruction of the natural environment at the hands of civilization, railing against industrial tourism, the Glen Canyon Dam and the military-industrial complex. But Abbey’s solutions were just as radical as his critiques. He had no time for the insipid charade that is reformism and electoral politics, and advocated monkey wrenching or eco-sabotage as a means to an end. Here we find the shared methodology of insurrection with both the radical right, the ultraleft, anarchists and radical Moslems. Despite the pigeonholing of environmentalism as a purelyleft-wing phenomenon, Abbey was also known to have supported conservative causes like immigration reduction and the National Rifle Association. One of his famous quotes was “A patriot must always be readyto defend their country from its government.” Starting about the mid 1980s, many in Earth First! started to get influenced by both anarchism and the philosophy of Arne Naess.

Naess is considered the founder of deep ecology, a philosophy that rejects the anthropocentric base of other environmental philosophies as well as the Man/Nature dichotomy,instead believing that humans are part of nature and thus not in conflict with it, as Western civilization teaches. This view is also found in Islam, where there is no morality in nature or a conflict between man and nature, as there is in Judeo-Christianity. Deep ecology also holds that biospheres exist in astate of dynamic equilibrium and can take only limited change by humans, the massive economic industrialization by Western civilization is thus headed towards a crisis of mass human extinction. Avery similar idea was held by the 18th century economist, Robert Malthus, who predicted that when asociety’s economic production is outstripped by its population growth a similar catastrophe would occur bringing the society back to subsistence-level conditions. Oswald Spengler, a philosophical influence on the early NDASP, held that history was cyclical instead of linear, as held by the West, and that once a culture had reached the stage of civilization it was at the height of its decadence, no longer a organic growing organism and could only fall.

This view would be appreciated by deep ecologists and primitivists who hold that civilization is domination over nature. Another tenet of deep ecology is astrong resistance to authoritarianism and decentralization. This clearly overlaps with anarchism as well as ultraleft communism, which [forthe most part] opposes the vanguard model and supports the autonomy of the working class. The Frenchneo-Marxist philosopher Andre Gorz, who was heavily influenced by the events of May ‘68, wrote that just as capitalism was based on the domination of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat, capitalist growth and was based on the domination of technology over nature. Gorz also noted that just as Marx had concluded that alienation derived from the division of labor, technology was the source of that division (Hirsh 225) .

In Germany at the fin de séicle, a youth movement known as the Wandervogel was formed whichpromoted the abandoning of bourgeois values and areturn to the freedom of nature, they also sought to revive the romanticism of German folklore. This was mainly a response from the German youth who had seen the horrors of industrialized modern society with the end of the First World War. Wandervogel groups emphasized hiking, adventuring, and the leadership of the youth as a counter to drab modern living, many were also influenced by the educationalist Gustav Wyneken. They was also a high degree of autonomy within the different Wandervogel groupings. Though they were outlawed by the Nazi party in 1933, there has been a reivival of present day Wandervogel associations in Germany.

The musical subculture of Neofolk, which is reviving the traditional folk music of central and northern Europe, is also deeply influenced by the Wandervogel. The spirit of the Wandervogel is summed up in the very meaning of the word, which translates to migratory bird. This is anidea very similar to the dérive, or drift, proposed by the ultraleft cultural revolutionaries, the Situationists, which is the ‘opening of one's consciousness to the unconsciousness of urban space.’ This idea also overlaps in Islam, where travel is essential for any spiritual journey or pilgrimage. Here we can see that a resistance to the excesses of industrialized society, a desire for a return to nature, and a tradition of decentralization and anti-authoritarianism are ideals that overlap in deep ecology, anarchism, ultraleftism, Islam, as well as incultural nationalism.