You'll Cowards Don't Even Get Politics

You want to talk about politics? Like, the actual power process by which things get done or undone or done unto you and me? Or do you just want to endlessly debate history? The key tenants of your particular political faith? Whether Hitler had one testicle or two?

Apologies.

I’ve just spent enough time around dissident movements to know what a waste of time they all are. It’s really no different from joining a Warhammer 40K or DnD fan club. It’s fantasy world creation and live-action role-playing. Except you don’t get arrested and harassed by feds for pretending to be a Space Marine and you generally meet a higher caliber of person in random hobbydoms than you meet in the dissident sphere. So choose wisely.

Politics, like everything that we talk about here, has a perennial quality to it. That means that you can study the ur-structure or ur-concept of politics to come to a general understanding of how it works in the same way that you can figure out the basic design of a diesel engine and then apply that knowledge to more complex machinery. I’m saying that the core of the … thingy remains the same. People just get distracted by all the bells and whistles of the leather salon, the hubcaps, the rims, the democratic process and so on. But that’s all a distraction from the, well, the thingy that actually matters, the actual motor that makes the thingy move and do its thing.

Hopefully that makes sense. I find that the simpler the idea I’m trying to convey, the harder it is to convey it. The situation is made more complicated by the fact that right-wing writers generally make themselves as obtuse as possible to discourage the light-hearted from ever gleaning what it is they’re blathering on about in their tomes. By the way, my tome is pretty much finished. I’m thinking of calling it Not a Prison But a Fortress - the Case For Authoritarianism in the 21st Century. A friend helped me out with the title. Now I just gotta find someone willing to publish it… Anyways, tell me what you think in the comments below.

Alright, enough dancing around the subject. Let’s talk turkey.

Imagine that a nation or a tribe or a corporation owns 100 gold pieces. That is the total wealth of the people in the thing. Concentration of capital almost always occurs in one form or another though, so, if there are 100 people in this thing, there are probably 10 that own all the gold pieces. 10 people out of 100 owning 10 pieces of gold each out of 100. Following so far?

K, so imagine that some of the oligarchs want to increase their wealth. How do they go about doing so? Well, they make a deal with some of their fellow gold-holders and they say something like: “Let’s kill the other 4 dudes with coins and split the remaining coins amongst ourselves. Everyone who joins our plot will end up richer.” They gather the majority of the other coin-holders and maybe some of their own retainers, and they slaughter the unlucky 4 and increase their wealth.

What we have just described is a process that is always at work in all politics in all countries at all times.

The key points:

• There is a finite amount of stuff worth fighting over, always.

• By making deals and forming coalitions, political players can steal the wealth of their competitors.

• Politics is about forming working coalitions that can secure access to others’ wealth and power.

Kind of primitive so far, but this model will serve our needs well for the time being.

The gold coins in our example and money, in general, isn’t the key point I’m trying to make here. Politics can be about money, but it can also be about power or prestige. We’re not talking about the goal of the struggle, but the process that takes place. We’re talking about the engine taking the car, any car, from point a to point b, not the car or whether the destination itself is worth going to. We’re talking about technology, folks. And yes, politics has a technology at its core that largely stays unchanged much the same way that a car, fundamentally, needs an engine to be a car.

In short, politics, or the science/art of politicking is about forming coalitions to take on other coalitions.

That means that if you’re not reaching out to people with wealth and power and influence - basically all the things that make men do things and follow orders and make moves, then you’re not doing politics.

I’m not doing politics. This blog isn’t political, really. Politics have nothing to do with essays on culture and metaphysics and the Ukraine.

But whatever, I realize that my big-picture conceptualizing is no doubt causing a few readers to start dozing off. Let’s get back to that turkey that we started carving up earlier.

How then does a revolutionary movement seize power?

Ah, got your attention didn’t I? That’s what we’re all really here to talk about, isn’t it?

Well, if politics is about squabbling over stuff, but doing it in a more-or-less civilized way, by following certain rules and guidelines, (like who can fool the peasant masses better in one election cycle or another, for example,) then revolutions are just a messier form of politics. But the principle remains the same.

Revolutionaries go to people with money, power, and influence and offer them more money, power, and influence. They form a coalition of people who are willing to put their bets on a new regime that will reward them for their support. Oftentimes, these are disgruntled second-tier elites who feel that they are not getting their share. Or it is a coalition of oligarchs licking their chops and eyeing the power and wealth and prestige that an autocrat has amassed and sharpening their knives, ready to cannibalize him and feast on this political body.

Once revolutionaries have their own coalition ready, they then go to war against the ruling coalition. If they win, they chop off the heads of the political elite who refused to support them and their cause. They may even chop off the heads of the elite who went along with their cause too. This is because revolutionaries often write out a lot of checks that they can’t cash. In other words, they make promises that they either can’t keep or never intended to keep to get key people on their side. Once the throne is theirs, the long knives come out. Also, revolutions are destructive, and that means there’s less to dole out once the dust settles. That means that purges are a necessity for any revolutionary regime, because there was too much stuff promised to too many people and there’s not enough to dole out and keep everyone happy.

By the way, does it matter whether these revolutionaries are Marxist-Leninists or Leninist-Marxists or Juche-Anprimitivists or Space Marines? No, of course not. The different flags and bells and whistles are just pageantry for the gullible ideologoyim who are susceptible to such things. But not for you. Not anymore. You and I, together, have peered into the monitor darkly and begun to peel back and discover the hidden processes behind all things.

Phew. I’ve given you a lot to chew over, and turkey makes people sleepy, I know. But try to stay awake for the dessert - I promise you its worth it.

Reactionaries/Nationalists/Straight people might want to consider politicking in the near future. I understand that we’re all enjoying Netflix and shitposting on Twitter and reviewing classic Hollywood films right now and can’t be bothered to do less important things like politics. But, you never know, that might change someday.

You’ll know that people are getting serious when they start writing checks.

See, there’s a lot of stuff up for grabs, even now. There’s houses, boats, prestige, pussy, designer drugs, marble blocks just waiting to be shaped in someone’s likeness… Yes, indeed, the motherland is overflowing with milk and honey - only the wrong people are suckling at its teat.

But what do you think? Are there people that might want some of that sweet goodness? People who have had a taste of all the Demiurge’s material blessings and feel personally slighted that they haven’t gotten more? Do you think that there might be men in the military retired or serving who are married to women who feel entitled to a plot of land in Martha’s Vineyard? What about a husband in the police force that thinks diamond necklaces will keep his wife from leaving him? State-level politicians who have had a falling out with their usual deep-pocketed donors?

What’s that? You say that there aren’t? Such things no longer exist?

Well, then we are up against the most impregnable political fortress known to man.

One in which literally everyone has been bribed into complicity and obedience? Where even petty rivalry and ambition has been drowned in oceans of material plenty?

Yes, you’re telling me that everyone can have their turkey and eat it too and that the oligarchs dole out the wealth judiciously and fairly. That there aren’t people - people with power and grudges - that they haven’t stolen from. That they’re not hoarding the wealth like literally every single oligarchic caste in history has. That they have no enemies, only well-wishers and friends.

Well, why then would you even want to rebel against such a system? Surely, you must agree then with the ruling caste that this is the most fair and morally upright system ever devised by man, no?

If, however, you, like me, consider our current political paradigm to be one of the most corrupt and indefensible political projects since Atlantis was swallowed up by the ocean 12k years ago, then you must also consider the possibility that this system has screwed over a lot of people. Not just school-shooters-in-waiting, but serious people. People with stocks in big companies going back generations. Families with names of dead relatives written on university walls.

Ah, but these people are “cucked” and “blue-pilled” you wail.

There you go again preaching your political faith on the street corner, surprised that only bums and vagrants take the time to stop to listen. Perhaps you should consider writing your ideological screeds on the back of political checks and see if you have anymore luck that way. People tend to listen more closely when it is in their material interest to do so.