by Kerry Bolton
Babel, Inc.
Multiculturalism, Globalisation, and the New World Order
by
Kerry Bolton
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Contents
Foreword
Introduction
No Colour, No Country: the Nature of Capitalism
Decolonisation as the Prelude to Globalisation
Apartheid: Lest We Forget (Or Never Knew)
‘One World, One Race’
Multiculturalism as a Process of Globalisation
The Global Me
The Jewish Factor
Cultural Imperialism
Wars in the Name of ‘Multiculturalism’
Target: France
De-Europeanising Europe
‘Hip Hop Diplomacy’
Purse Strings
Conclusion:
Foreword
The New True Enemy
If a book is a tool that brings affective forces into the world, then one may measure a book by its strengthening or weakening affects; by whether or not it makes possible the will to attack one’s enemies and to defend one’s people; by how much purpose and resolve it provides those in the thick of a life and death struggle; and by how much “territory” it liberates from one’s enemies. In light of these criteria, Dr. Kerry Bolton’s Babel, Inc. : Multiculturalism, Globalization, and the New World Order has the potential to be truly explosive.
Babel, Inc. continues the critical analysis that Dr. Bolton began in Revolution from Above (2011).[1] But whereas that book on the close bonds between the power structure of global capitalism and supposedly oppositional Marxist ideologies and movements gave the reader a sense of distance – as if reading about the machinations and absurdities of an alien species – this book does not afford such a luxurious feeling in the reader. In fact, it affects a changing wind and a reappraisal of the forces aligned against the contemporary Right and the world’s peoples and traditions that face certain extinction.
For while it has long been common to read Rightist ruminations on race, immigration, and even ethnological characteristics, only recently has the Right devoted much critical thought to capitalism and the liberal State. Bolton, in his characteristically energetic style, not only makes it possible to know how the United States and its neoliberal allies are combining multinational corporate Money Power with the contemporary moral and truth regime known as multiculturalism to create a new type of human creature, but he also succeeds in making this arrangement the primary target of Rightist agitation and revolt. For unlike the Left, which is utterly complicit in the very State-sponsored liberalism that it purports to oppose, the Right’s anti-liberalism and transvaluational tendencies have allowed it to remain free of the sense-and-capital making apparatuses of the liberal State.
Despite this freedom, though, the Right has said very little about the State or capitalism. Perhaps this is because both are darlings of Marxist ideologues, or because the Right has always been fond of nationalism and Statism and weary of homo economicus. In any case, Bolton has ensured that the State and its capitalist “culture of death” will no longer be ignored.
The Creation of Homo Globicus
At the heart of Babel Inc. is an exposé of multiculturalism as a “social control mechanism” that scorches the earth in preparation for the coming of the rationale of global capitalism: homo globicus. This global man will be at home anywhere in the world because the world will be homogeneously liberal. If that idea seems farfetched now, perhaps at the conclusion of Babel Inc. it will seem less a possibility than a growing reality.
Homogeneity is the key that unlocks the ontological functions of multiculturalism. While globalists, corporate spokesmen, political leaders, and academics speak in glowing terms of a relativist multicultural humanism based on political and economic freedom, they are actively engaged in a two-pronged attack on human particularity and the defense thereof.
First, multiculturalism is a moral regime that links progressive liberal ideals of tolerance, ecumenicalism, and cosmopolitanism in order to aggressively condemn racism or pride in one’s particularity. This moral and epistemological element links the liberal intelligentsia with Leftist ideologues and activists, not only against the world’s various media-created racist and fascist villains, but also in the service of the liberal State and capitalism.
Second, the State, having finally shed the pretense of existing as the will of a people, uses this moral regime at the bidding of the capitalist oligarchs – that actually make the State possible – to spread a monolithic culture of liberal politics, feminism, anti-racism, and identity-based hyper-consumption. It calls for “one world, one race,” – the flip side of multiculturalism – and actively undermines any attempts to preserve the standards, values, and traditions of local peoples, wherever they exist. Just as the State uses the World Trade Organization and World Monetary Fund to control the underdevelopment of the Third World, it uses global capitalism as a talisman to unlock any societies, peoples, States, or regions that remain overly local, xenophobic, or archaic, essentially capturing space for the purpose of its homogeneic valuation.
But when that talisman does not properly entice, war is an ever-present possibility. Indeed, Bolton provides an indispensible explanation of the wars in the name of homo globicus that have laid the foundation of the contemporary geopolitical reality. War and identity, then, are merely capitalism by other means. In this unipolar world, allies are merely markets, and people are merely consumers; most of who will gladly embrace the possibilities of unencumbered consumption, credit, and leisure promised by the global American man.
Join the Fight!
Others though will fight. They will fight homo globicus as homo insurrectus. They will fight to defend their particular values and traditions, their people, and, in a sense, their humanity. However, they will not fight to defend their State or nation, for, as Bolton demonstrates, these are the enemies of the people, being friends only of capitalist oligarchs and liberal humanist consumers. In place of Statist and nationalist solutions, Bolton posits new collective arrangements like the geopolitical vectors and blocs explained by Alexander Dugin and based in the ethnic and civilizational heritages being subsumed by liberalism, multiculturalism, and global capitalism.[2]
Ultimately, however, the will to fight must be stirred and nourished in each man, woman, and child that understands the price to be paid for homo globicus. For the Afrikaner, Serb, or Basque the war has long since begun, but for others it is long overdue. The only certainty is that this modern Babel is coming to each and all. States will not fight it because they are beholden to its rewards; nor will bourgeois men and women because it is their inheritance and, more importantly, their instinctual constitution. The smooth spaces – territorial, ontological, or epistemological – that either resist being captured or extricate themselves from the flood of homogenization find themselves at the frontlines of a war. It is a war of ideas and concepts; of territory and space; but also of men and women. The enemy is in each and every one of us, but it is also in very specific States, corporations, and governmental agencies.
; The failure or success of Babel, Inc. will be measured neither in dollars nor readers; it will not be because of the efforts of Dr. Bolton, even though he has identified our potential enslavers. Instead, the energies brought into the world by Babel, Inc. place the onus of the book’s ultimate value squarely on the reader, for it is his or her responsibility to do something – to act! – with those affective forces.
For all of the supposed “inevitability” of homo globicus, the United States, the global capitalist oligarchs, and the lackeys of both, are working extremely hard to ensure his victory: they know the power of ideas and the threat of even the smallest breach in the web that they weave. It is time that we follow suit and embrace the power of our ideas, to seek out and create breaches, and to become an enemy worthy of such a powerful threat.
Mark Dyal
September 2013
Mark W. Dyal is a cultural anthropologist specializing in Western European resistances to globalization and the homogenizing forces of liberal modernity. He has a PhD in Anthropology and a Masters in Black Studies. In his short time writing for New Right journals and websites, he has demonstrated a wide range of philosophical and historical interests, from contemporary artisan production to post-modern anti-philosophy, while remaining focused on the Nietzschean critique of modernity. His most recent series of essays seeks to move the New Right toward a more revolutionary stance against the liberal State.
His essays can be found online at Counter-Currents (www.counter-currents.com), Attack the System (www.attackthesystem.com), and his own site (www.markdyal.com). He publishes essays in academic presses as well, and has just signed with Arktos Media to publish his first book later this year. The book will be on Ultras (a very political Southern European version of soccer hooligans) and the fight against globalization, Americanization, and liberalization in Rome, Italy.
[1] Kerry Bolton, Revolution from Above: Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order (London: Arktos Media, 2011).
[2] Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory. Mark Sleboda and Michael Millerman. trans. John Morgan ed. (London: Arktos Media, 2011).
Introduction
If Hitlerism allegedly aimed at the creation of a ‘master race,’ the ‘one world, one race’ ideology is its mirror image: the elimination of all distinct peoples and their replacement with a homogeneous, dumbed-down global slave race, without attachments to any land, culture, lineage, or ethnicity.
That this drive for global uniformity is being undertaken in the name of ‘celebrating our differences’ and ‘respect for all cultures’ (other than the European) is fooling the masses into thinking that the aim is quite opposite to what is really intended. It is what we can call deconstruction for the purpose of reconstruction: The deconstruction of a cohesive cultural or national entity in the name of multiculturalism, for the purpose of reconstructing a society that has no ethno-cultural foundation at all, but has been reduced to a produce-and-consume society, with the aim of a global factory and a global shopping mall.
Doublethink: Destroying Diversity by Proclaiming Diversity
Multiculturalism is a self-contradiction. Its propaganda slogans include oxymorons such as ‘unity in diversity,’ proclaim that we are ‘all different and should celebrate those differences’ while simultaneously proclaiming: ‘one race, the human race.’ The Left rants and protests against globalisation, while adopting the same aim as the globalists: ‘open borders.’ Every race has the right to ‘self-determination’ unless they are Europeans. On the other hand, when the Right raises the same banner it is decried with the challenge that ‘there is no such thing as race.’ Indigenous rights are promoted—but only for non-European indigenes. ‘Minority rights’ are promoted, but only when the minority is non-White; otherwise ‘majority rights’ are promoted, but only when the majority is non-White. If one happens to be a Zionist, then the contention will be that ‘multiculturalism is a moral duty in every land other than Israel, and among every people other than Jews.’
The arguments of the globalists and their Left-wing and liberal stalwarts are buttressed by a system of mental acrobatics that George Orwell described as ‘doublethink’: ‘The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. . . .’[1] Hence the slogans of the regime in Nineteen Eighty-Four: ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.’ The multicultural equivalent is ‘unity in diversity,’ ‘diversity is strength,’ and the like.
Orwell has his protagonists in Nineteen Eighty-Four describe ‘doublethink’: ‘But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.’ ‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.’ ‘Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.’
‘Doublethink’ today is the language of ‘political correctness.’ The most draconian of laws are enacted in ‘democratic societies’ in the interests of ‘human rights.’ It is the same type of doublethink that enables the most tyrannical state to call itself a ‘Democratic People’s Republic.’ The French Revolution undertook the ‘Reign of Terror’ in the name of ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.’ The same outlook prevails today in terms of political doctrine. As will be seen, it has even been suggested in our liberal-democratic states that medication could be used on people deemed ‘racist.’
A Symptom of Decay
The multiculturalism and immigration that are being used in the process of globalisation are repeating aspects of a cycle of decline that has taken place in long-dead Civilisations. We in the Western Civilisation are not unique. We stand analogously where the Greeks, Romans, and others stood in the dying cycles of their Civilisations. When a culture comes to be based on the pursuit of wealth and neglects its moral, religious, social, and ethnic foundations, the measure of people becomes their ability to produce and consume in the economy of what has become an ossified Civilisation. Material well-being becomes the dominant aim; what today is called the ‘American Dream’ which is what the globalists want for the entire world. At this time of a culture’s cycle, when economic considerations dominate, and hence when the ruling class is an oligarchy or an elite of money, rather than a trained and disciplined nobility, the measure of a potential citizen is based on how that person might contribute to the economy.
Immigration brings with it the alien customs of a multitude of cultures. The habits and thoughts of former colonial subjects and slaves have an increasingly important and eventually dominant role in a Civilisation. Over the course of centuries, the Civilisation is altered until little is left of its founding élan and ethos. Those few with foresight try to warn of an approaching collapse, and are vilified or laughed at as ‘alarmists,’ ‘racists, ‘extremists,’ and ‘xenophobes.’ ‘A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.’[2]
The English scholar Professor C. Northcote Parkinson, writing on the fall of Rome, commented that the Roman conquerors were subjected ‘to cultural inundation and grassroots influence.’ Because Rome extended throughout the world, the economic opportunities accorded by Rome drew in all the elements of the subject peoples, ‘groups of mixed origin and alien ways of life.’ ‘Even more significant was what the Romans learnt while on duty overseas, for men so influenced were of the highest rank.’ Parkinson quotes Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, referring to the Roman colony of Antioch:
. . . Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured, the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule, and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capitals of the East . . .[3]
The Roman traditional ethos of severity, austerity and disdain for softness that Emperor Julian attempted to
reassert was greeted by ‘fashionable society’ with ‘disgust.’[4] Parkinson remarks that ‘there is just such a tendency in the London of today, as there was still earlier in Boston and New York.’[5] The Rome and Antioch that were being described existed in the analogous cultural epochs of the present Western Civilisation, and hence the attitudes of the Roman citizens in it’s epoch of decay, as described by Parkinson and Gibbon, will sound familiar to the reader today.
With a change in the values of a culture, and the focus on material comfort, birth rates decline. It is a factor that was observed in ancient Civilisations, just as it is among the European populations today. Centuries ago this shortfall in population was made up by slaves, mercenaries, and immigrants. Today the same situation pertains to the policies of having an ageing population supported by immigrants from still prolific regions such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Hence the economic argument in favour of alien immigration into European nations is based on the need to supplement the declining European population. States are now nothing other than pieces of real estate for the purposes of economic function. According to the economic rationale for immigration, it does not matter where immigrants come from, as long as they provide labour or investments. At any rate, since Europeans, Asians, Africans, and Latinos all have the same desire to become cogs in the production process and ‘make it’ in terms of money, a global consumer culture will allow those of all races to integrate as units of the economic process. Differences in culture, race, ethos, élan, or religion no longer matter, because there is increasingly a common faith in what the Bible calls the ‘love of Mammon.’[6] Behind this façade of the happy shopper of the global mall and the smiling idiot of the global village stands the raw power of the global oligarchy. To paraphrase Karl Marx, ‘shopping is the opiate of the people.’
