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June 16th, 2005, 06:42 PM
This is from The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds, pp 90-92. Highlights are made by me. Do you subscribe to Commander Rockwell's doctrine of National Socialism?
Rockwell authored a self-published book called White Power. In the book, he set out his National Socialist beliefs in the form of principles of group living he called "the laws of the tribe." There are five of these laws according to Rockwell: biological integrity, territory, leadership, status, and motherhood.
Biological integrity, said Rockwell, is the "absolute, total, and uncompromising loyalty to one's own racial group and absolute uncompromising hatred for outsiders who intrude and threaten to mix their genes with those of the females of the group." According to this idea, nature creates breeds of animals, including various species of human beings, and protects the biological purity of these breeds as a means of maintaining and improving them. Nature accomplishes these ends in humans through two powerful instincts: love of one's own breed and hatred for outsiders. These two instincts are equally necessary. Love of one's own is incredibly powerful and good, but it can't and shouldn't stand alone; it needs to be complemented by a deadly hate of that which threatens what is loved. Indeed, hate has its place. The notion that love is good and hate is evil is just the party line of "Jews, liberals, queers, half-wits, and cowards," wrote Rockwell.
Rockwell asserted that the essence of National Socialism is grounded in this law of biological integrity: namely, the affirmation of racism. To Rockwell, racism is not about morality; it is not about right and wrong. Rather, it is about fact, whether something accords with the reality of Nature or it doesn't. National Socialism at its core, he declared, is the belief "that humans differ in excellence of breed exactly the same as all other living things, and that the White Man is so far the finest breed to appear, while the Blacks are the Lowest." Thus National Socialism turns racism upside down, form something reprehensible to something that is in alignment with Nature and in service to it.
And then there is the law of territory. To illustrate this concept, Rockwell used the example of tiny tropical fish called swordtails, who will stake out a section of a tank and ferociously attack anything that intrudes into their space. Rockwell claimed that human beings are like these swordtails: it is in our nature to stake out territory for ourselves and our people. He said that in human affairs this law takes the form of adherence to the concept of private property and to national identification and loyalty.
The law of leadership, according to Rockwell, is leadership of the group being in the hands of the very best. In the animal kingdom, he asserted, even if it were possible, leaders would not be selected by democratic vote. Nature's method is combat, not the ballot, said Rockwell. Nature wouldn't employ a democratic vote because that is a chancy way of bringing the very best of the group to positions of leadership. Human affairs has demonstrated that, in the long run if not immediately, voting will inevitably result in something other than the best in leadership positions. Leaders chosen in democratic fashion are very likely to be the glibbest and the slickest, but they are very unlikely to be the wisest and most capable.
The law of status is similar to the law of leadership, except that it applies to all positions in the group and not just the leadership positions. The law of status says that for every individual there is a natural slot in a hierarchical ordering of members of a group. All of the group members compete for their slot or niche in this hierarchy and then settle into it and are reasonably content with it. The result of this process, said Rockwell, is that things run peacefully for the group and in an orderly and efficient way.
And then, lastly, there is the law of motherhood. Rockwell asserted that it is Nature's way that females stay out of the affairs of males, and that they specialize in producing and rearing the young and creating healthy families.
Rockwell authored a self-published book called White Power. In the book, he set out his National Socialist beliefs in the form of principles of group living he called "the laws of the tribe." There are five of these laws according to Rockwell: biological integrity, territory, leadership, status, and motherhood.
Biological integrity, said Rockwell, is the "absolute, total, and uncompromising loyalty to one's own racial group and absolute uncompromising hatred for outsiders who intrude and threaten to mix their genes with those of the females of the group." According to this idea, nature creates breeds of animals, including various species of human beings, and protects the biological purity of these breeds as a means of maintaining and improving them. Nature accomplishes these ends in humans through two powerful instincts: love of one's own breed and hatred for outsiders. These two instincts are equally necessary. Love of one's own is incredibly powerful and good, but it can't and shouldn't stand alone; it needs to be complemented by a deadly hate of that which threatens what is loved. Indeed, hate has its place. The notion that love is good and hate is evil is just the party line of "Jews, liberals, queers, half-wits, and cowards," wrote Rockwell.
Rockwell asserted that the essence of National Socialism is grounded in this law of biological integrity: namely, the affirmation of racism. To Rockwell, racism is not about morality; it is not about right and wrong. Rather, it is about fact, whether something accords with the reality of Nature or it doesn't. National Socialism at its core, he declared, is the belief "that humans differ in excellence of breed exactly the same as all other living things, and that the White Man is so far the finest breed to appear, while the Blacks are the Lowest." Thus National Socialism turns racism upside down, form something reprehensible to something that is in alignment with Nature and in service to it.
And then there is the law of territory. To illustrate this concept, Rockwell used the example of tiny tropical fish called swordtails, who will stake out a section of a tank and ferociously attack anything that intrudes into their space. Rockwell claimed that human beings are like these swordtails: it is in our nature to stake out territory for ourselves and our people. He said that in human affairs this law takes the form of adherence to the concept of private property and to national identification and loyalty.
The law of leadership, according to Rockwell, is leadership of the group being in the hands of the very best. In the animal kingdom, he asserted, even if it were possible, leaders would not be selected by democratic vote. Nature's method is combat, not the ballot, said Rockwell. Nature wouldn't employ a democratic vote because that is a chancy way of bringing the very best of the group to positions of leadership. Human affairs has demonstrated that, in the long run if not immediately, voting will inevitably result in something other than the best in leadership positions. Leaders chosen in democratic fashion are very likely to be the glibbest and the slickest, but they are very unlikely to be the wisest and most capable.
The law of status is similar to the law of leadership, except that it applies to all positions in the group and not just the leadership positions. The law of status says that for every individual there is a natural slot in a hierarchical ordering of members of a group. All of the group members compete for their slot or niche in this hierarchy and then settle into it and are reasonably content with it. The result of this process, said Rockwell, is that things run peacefully for the group and in an orderly and efficient way.
And then, lastly, there is the law of motherhood. Rockwell asserted that it is Nature's way that females stay out of the affairs of males, and that they specialize in producing and rearing the young and creating healthy families.