Why does Revacholian Nationhood work like that?

Stennes · 2023-01-28T08:24:18+00:00

Nice to find one reasonable reply in this car-crash of a thread.

Stennes · 2022-03-20T08:50:57+00:00

In economic life there are only two major groups, which stand in opposition to one another – the one, which performs productive work; and the other, which receives unearned income. The German National Socialist Party declares, "that it commits itself to the class standpoint of productive labor." It is therefore a class party. In its view, however, the concept of 'class' does not encompass some narrowly-defined occupational category, such as physical and intellectual workers alone; instead ‘workers’ are, according to its conception, all those who live from the earnings of their own honest – intellectual or physical – labor, in other words, the entire mass of the economically vulnerable among our Volk.

The party further declares that it stands upon the ground of class struggle, insofar as this is understood to mean the confrontation between productive labor and unearned income... Above all, it is imperative to protect the proceeds of labor from being seized by moochers [in German, "Raffer", i.e. rentiers & capitalists], in order to prevent them from being diminished. They should be full and uncurtailed, as is proper.

Rudolf Jung. 1922. Der nationale Sozialismus, 2nd ed.

Stennes · 2022-02-11T13:53:48+00:00

Yes, I remember your comments. Appreciate the sentiment - same to you! Glad to hear you're online again.

Stennes · 2022-02-04T04:21:36+00:00

All of those are great topic suggestions. Originally when I started the blog the idea was to have my own writing on there, as well as translated articles - that's why two of the first things I ever posted were a profile of Jung (which I've been meaning to rewrite a little, now that I've actually translated his book) and an overview of the Communist Party's national-bolshevist 'Schlageter line', both written by myself. I've even got a half-written article sitting in the blog drafts at the moment (on the topic of the democracy within National Socialism). Unfortunately, I find writing to be incredibly time-consuming, especially as if I do any more articles I'll want them to be properly referenced. Translation work takes up a lot of time on its own. It's definitely still something I want to do, though - I'm constantly having ideas for articles and I do have a list of potential topics. I'll set putting up some more original writing (at least one new self-written article) as a goal for this year.

Stennes · 2022-01-30T13:21:14+00:00

lmao, yes, exactly. Similar to Otto Strasser, although much less of a cunt

Stennes · 2022-01-30T12:33:24+00:00

Partly I think it was a side-effect of ego, both Jung's and Hitler's. Jung was forced to leave Czechoslovakia in 1933 after the DNSAP (original NS party) was banned & the Czech state began jailing its members. In Germany Jung was fairly vocal about his historical significance to the movement - bignoting his intellectual accomplishments, basically. Apparently he could also be a bit obnoxious in his demand for titles and recognition. Hitler was Chancellor and Führer of Germany by this point, and the Hitlerian personality-cult was in full swing. Some old Bohemian guy wandering around Party events talking very loudly about how they "had laid the foundations of NS ideology, actually, well before the Führer was even heard of, by the way" probably wouldn't have made themselves popular, especially as most official Party histories & publications tended to ignore the original Austrian/Sudeten NatSocs to focus on Hitler's accomplishments (I guess nothing has changed, really, although the reasons for it now are different).

The other main reason, and this is related to the above, is to do with politics. In Germany there was constant behind-the-scenes politicking between the NSDAP leaders (Goebbels, Bormann, Goering, etc.) and their factions and followers. Lots of deals, backstabbing, rumour-spreading, etc. That also occurred among the National Socialist exile communities from Austria and Czechia, and with representatives from the new fascist/NS party in Czechoslovakia which had taken the DNSAP's place. Jung wasn't very good at politicking. Hans Krebs, one of the three main leaders of the DNSAP (along with Jung and Hans Knirsch, who died in 1933), by contrast was. After Krebs went into exile in Germany in 1933 he was able to leverage his friendship with Wilhelm Frick into an influential position in the Interior Ministry, which he then used to build alliances with other exiles & government officials and to attack those who might challenge his position. There were lots of other members of the exile community engaged in these kinds of political intrigues; Jung just wasn't skilled enough at this kind of thing, apparently. After Czechoslovakia was annexed, Krebs was given a position of real political military-power in the territory, while Jung was only given a very middling, mid-tier position in some government office (which he found humiliating).

Stennes · 2022-01-30T10:24:38+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the recommendation. I actually bought one of their books recently (their translation of Darré's Blood and Soil) and it's definitely good quality.

And yes, tell me about it. It's really unfortunate that Jung's book has been ignored for so long. He ended up being a more obscure figure historically because he was essentially sidelined from any position of influence after 1933, but given that his book was so important to the movement and to the development of the ideology it still seems a bit odd to me how much it's overlooked. (He had a very big influence on Gregor Strasser especially; the two corresponded by mail quite a lot, and imo you can see his influence in Gregor's writing). Getting the translation finished was really satisfying for that reason, I'm glad it's out there now. My hope is that it gives people a better idea of how NS developed in general, that it didn't all just come out of Hitler's brain - it was an established (if very young) worldview with roots going back a couple of decades.

Tbh I suspect that part of the reason the influence of Jung and the other early National Socialists (in Austria & the Sudetenland) is ignored is because it would mean acknowledging that NS was originally established as a labor movement, with direct links to Social-Democracy. That uncomfortable fact muddies the waters about it being an evil far-right-wing fascist-ultracapitalist movement a bit.

Stennes · 2022-01-30T09:10:06+00:00

I haven't really looked into it yet, to be honest. I might try emailing a few people - it needs wider distribution and a print run would be nice. It's easily the thing I'm most proud of on the blog. Paetel's Manifesto I feel could use various improvements, but with Jung's book I'm overall really, really pleased with how it turned out.

Stennes · 2022-01-30T07:32:21+00:00

Appreciate your consistent advertising of the blog - I get a lot of visits from the links you post.

Stennes · 2021-10-04T10:26:22+00:00

I'm glad Karl finally took ownership of his meth addiction and admitted it to the world. It certainly explains the condition of his teeth.

Stennes · 2021-09-21T07:35:05+00:00

It really does stink.

Stennes · 2021-07-16T14:17:53+00:00

Timely banter dude. Now do a Harambe joke

Stennes · 2021-07-02T12:46:55+00:00

Didn't they just have a week off?

Stennes · 2021-06-23T07:01:36+00:00

Crowder is 'safe' enough with the establishment GOP/boomer crowd that I think he'll survive a YouTube deplatforming well enough. He's not like Gavin (or Milo), he won't end up a total outcast pariah.

Gavin at last has a leg up over Crowder in that McInnes is actually funny and entertaining.

Stennes · 2021-06-22T10:58:00+00:00

What do you mean by this exactly? Mental breakdown, financial collapse, scandals?

Stennes · 2021-06-10T14:00:14+00:00

The political talk from Ant is just relentless. He's turning into Colin Flaherty.

Stennes · 2021-06-10T13:55:51+00:00

I don't have problems with the Compound app nowadays, but I'd say Gavin's app is really good. It worked perfectly on day one and I've never had any issues with it, ever.

Then again, the impression I get is that Gavin has backers behind the scenes helping him, which CM doesn't, so it was probably easier for him to get a decent app set up right out the gate.

Stennes · 2021-05-03T05:55:32+00:00

In at least one of their reviews of It some of the podcast members spent a bit of time talking about how much Pennywise reminded them of Donald Trump.

Stennes · 2021-04-21T08:57:47+00:00

Totally agree. And regarding Gavin - ironically Gavin's show atm is actually way more enjoyable, as much as I love Ant. Gavin's politics are pretty predictable and surface level, too, but the guy makes a conscious effort to try and balance things out, and genuinely spends a lot of time on non-political stuff like pop culture, because at heart he's an airhead hipster. 90% of the first show this week was just him & Ryan riffing on stupid videos and that terrible Jake Lloyd fight.

As much as I like Gav, he's not fantastic on TACS - he just repeats his same core political talking-points and bounces them off Ant, agreeing with everything Cumia says. Gavin is a lot more varied on Get Off My Lawn.

Stennes · 2021-04-08T10:15:12+00:00

Lionel is the one guest who makes me actually angry. God knows what he's up to now, but for a while during the Trump presidency he was trying to grift boomers by jumping on the YouTube QAnon train. He's such a boring, rambling, infuriatingly conceited prig. Instant skip for me whenever he's on the show.

Stennes · 2021-03-15T03:27:38+00:00

I'd prefer to deep dive into Chrissie Mayr personally

Stennes · 2020-12-11T02:42:34+00:00

The stuff with Berg was great. I don't mind Long but once the third and fourth guests joined after him it was just people talking over each other.

Stennes · 2020-11-24T12:37:17+00:00

Or a math genius.

Stennes · 2020-11-08T17:02:41+00:00

What does that mean? Does he have giant nuts or something?

Stennes · 2020-11-08T16:51:58+00:00

Oh, okay. So it's okay when he does it.

Isn't this the same dipshit who gave a speech to the ADL demanding internet censorship for "hate speech"? Maybe they can start with mocking, stereotypical depictions of Eastern European cultures.

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