David Myatt

National-Socialism and The Fight Against Decadence

A National-Socialist State, or Reich, is a society of people, of the same race and culture, who willingly co-operate together for their own mutual advantage, well-being and advancement. Furthermore, this State is dedicated to real freedom, and the only kind of real democracy that exists, or can exist: folk-democracy.

The State only exists to create, maintain and increase this well-being - that is, to preserve, maintain and advance the race itself. This is done by creating and maintaining folk-communities, and by Institutions and structures which enable the individuals of such communities to live prosperous, healthy and cultural lives.

A National-Socialist society is founded on noble ideals (chief among which are honour, loyalty and duty) and seeks to make these ideals the fundamental principles which govern all aspects of that society, from its educational institutions through to its system of justice. These ideals express National-Socialist morality. They express what it means to be Aryan, and thus what is necessary to ensure: (1) the preservation and advancement of  race; (2) the creation of healthy, vigourous individuals; (3) the creation of a cultured society emodying the natural ethos of the race.

The morality of National-Socialism is quite simple: what enhances the health and vitality of race and culture is good; what undermines or destroys racial and cultural health and vitality is bad. Since a National-Socialist society or State exists to produce healthy, vigorous people, and since it wishes to encourage them to live in a healthy, natural, way, it is only logical that such a State seeks to discourage or ban what is harmful and bad to racial and cultural health, well-being and advancement. What is fundamentally important in creating and maintaining such a healthy society - and thus vital to producing healthy, vigourous people - are ideals; that is, the pursuit of excellence by individuals motivated by noble concepts such as duty. A National-Socialist society means people working together for the common good of the folk - that is, they place the long-term interest of their folk, and society, before their own self-interest. They act in a noble way because they accept and understand that there are more important things in life than simply selfish indulgence - and that one of the most important things in life is the health, welfare and advancement of their own folk.
 

Thus, it is necessary for the interests of the folk to come before self-interest. Without this noble attitude among the members of society, there is no civilization, no advancement and no well-being. Accordingly, such noble individuals accept that what is detrimental to such a society, and thus the folk within that society, has to be discouraged or banned. What is detrimental to such a society is everything and anything which weakens or tends to weaken individual health, well-being, and vitality; and anything which weakens or tends to weaken the health, well-being and vitality of the race as a whole.

Thus any literature, Art, music, film or whatever which does not express or uphold positive noble ideals is detrimental and has to be rejected, by individuals just as much by the State. What is detrimental is what is decadent - and decadence itself is a decline in or loss of, excellence. Decadence undermines and destroys individual vitality.

In the realms of Art, music and such like, there is not, in reality, any such thing as 'artistic freedom' - a licence for individuals to do whatever they want regardless of the consequences to themselves or others. There is only healthy or unhealthy Art, music and so on. What is healthy, and pure, is what encourages or expresses what is vital, life-enhancing and noble. What is un-healthy is what is decadent - and decadence undermines health and vitality because, for instance, it is 'neurotic' or un-inspiring or expresses what is ignoble, cowardly and selfish. Decadence itself is like a contagious disease - it weakens people, and it needs to be fought like a contagious disease; brought under control and then wiped-out. Those with a strong character - and thus with a healthy, vigorous and noble attitude to life - know this instinctively or accept it, and it is only those who themselves are diseased, or weak in character, who do not know this or who will not accept it.

It is one of the duties of members of a National-Socialist State to fight against the disease of decadence, and take and/or support whatever measures are necessary to bring this disease under control, and eradicate it. This is the noble and wise thing to do. Anything else is fundamentally a selfish self-indulgence and leads sooner or later to the destruction of noble values, the civilization which is based on such values.

Fundamentally, a National-Socialist is someone whose life has a noble purpose: someone who is motivated by idealism, and who strives to uphold civilizing values. Because of this, such individuals possess, or strive to posses, purity; that is, they possess or strive to possess a noble character. Character means self-discipline, self-control - a determination to pursue some supra-personal ideal however hard or difficult this is. In contrast, a weak or decadent person - an impure person in thought and/or deed - is lacking in discipline, and prefers to selfishly indulge themselves, and selfishly 'express' themselves, whatever the consequences. Such weak, impure, individuals lack perspective - they see their own lives in isolation, and have little or no understanding of, or feeling for, civilization and higher culture. They place no value on things other than materialistic, hedonistic, ones - and judge everything, from Art to music to politics, by whether such things can bring them 'pleasure', or satisfaction, or something equally selfish. The morality of these impure individuals is a sub-human one, as their way of life is sub-human. Sub-human living is what results when individuals, ignoring their noble duty to their folk, pursue lives of selfish indulgence. Such individuals neither know of nor care about, the spiritual importance of race and the numinous, civilizing, power of honour.
 
 

National-Socialism and Family Values:
 

The sub-human, impure, living which has come to dominate the modern world is evident particularly in the decline of standards in marriage. National-Socialism holds marriage, and family life, in high regard because what it considers is important is the acceptance, by individuals, of the noble values of honour, loyalty and duty, and a desire to implement these values in everyday living.

Marriage involves making a vow, or swearing an oath, to be loyal to one's chosen partner, as it involves doing one's duty to one's race - that is, producing and nurturing children. This marriage vow is - or should be - given on one's honour. To break this vow of loyalty is a cowardly, dishonourable act, and shows a lack of self-discipline, a weak character. There are no excuses for weak behaviour, or acting dishonourably. Either a person acts honourably, or they do not. If they do not, they have dishonoured themselves, and shown themselves to be weak and thus impure.

Of course, striving to be honourable is often difficult. But what matters is that the individual is prepared to try; that is, they are determined not to 'give in' when difficulties and hardship arise. They are prepared to uphold the values they believe in, however it may inconvenience them, because they believe that such values are more important than their own pleasure and their own happiness. Thus do such individuals who so strive to be honourable do their duty, however difficult it may be.

Weak, and impure, individuals on the contrary easily give up when difficulties or hardship arise. They prefer to place their own welfare, their own pleasure and happiness, before that of their partner and their family. These weak individuals lack any notion of duty. Certain conduct is impure, and thus immoral, because it shows a lack of self-control; it shows a weak character and a disregard for honour, loyalty and duty.

Civilized behaviour is noble behaviour - and a noble person shows self-discipline and adheres to the noble, civilizing, values of honour, loyalty and duty. Family values - and morality in general - derive from civilized conduct, and this civilized conduct is created and maintained by these noble values. Without them, sub-human living results, and what is noble and pure becomes trampled upon, to the ultimate detriment of individuals. Sub-human living, and impure, sub-human, values undermine and destroy the potential that we as individuals possess to evolve further. In a very important sense, the family is created by a striving to live in a noble way as its very existence ensures, or should ensure, that these values survive and flourish in succeeding generations, thus enabling evolution, toward higher life, to continue.

II: National-Socialism, Justice and Penal Reform

Justice

The abstract Law of the modern world has displaced justice. Real, or natural, justice is a fairness, deriving from noble conduct. The system which has been created to enforce modern Laws - Police Forces, Courts of Laws, professional lawyers and Judges - and the prisons which have been created to 'punish' those found guilty of actions contrary to these Laws, are fundamentally ignoble, as they are expressions of the impersonal, tyrannical, societies which have been created.  Prisons, in particular, are dishonourable institutions which seek to physically intimidate prisoners and impose their tyrannical will - or the will of the System - on prisoners by force. Prisoners are forced to obey whatever orders or instructions they are given, either by the threat of physical force (and sometimes actual physical force), or moral blackmail ("you will released early if you abide by our rules and do what we say").

A real tyranny has been created in the majority of modern countries because the system which has been created makes the individual powerless - before the might of 'the Law'; before the authority of the Police; before the threat of punishment by Prison warders - and because the legal system itself no longer gives anyone accused a fair chance to defend their own honour and physically fight, in a fair way, to clear their name.

Real genuine freedom - the basis for a civilized way of life - lies in the ability of individuals to determine their own lives by being able and willing to physically defend themselves, their own honour and that of their family and kin.

Fundamentally, the whole system which has arisen  in Western nations derives from medieval times when monarchs had absolute authority, and they tried to maintain their absolute authority by harsh punishment. This was the situation that still existed, for instance, in France in the time of Louis XV. His authority was supreme, and he strove to show and maintain this authority by harsh punishments inflicted in public. Gradually, due to reform movements, the harsh nature of such punishments was reduced, in France and throughout Europe, as gradually the public exhibition of such punishment being inflicted died out. Prisons, however, remained, and although reformed and less severe than previously, they still deprived a person of their liberty as they still tried to make prisoners obey, on pain of further punishment.

However, what did not fundamentally change was the absolute authority exercised over the individual, and the disregard of individual character. The authority was merely transferred, from the monarch, to the State, with Institutions being developed which possessed the authority to arrest an individual, deprive individuals of their liberty, and try those individuals in an abstract way in a manner most individuals could not understand. The individual, in most cases, had to rely on 'experts' to represent them in Courts of Law, as, once arrested for some offence, the individual forfeited most of their rights. The individual then had to wait until the 'due process of law' was complete, and if innocent and found guilty, could do very little, or nothing. The individual was powerless once caught up in the System.

The System continued the barbaric medieval practice of treating people like serfs. The System itself behaved like a feudal lord - the serf or peasant could be forced to forfeit what rights and freedom they possessed if that serf or peasant 'transgressed'.

This whole system is tyrannical because it undermines and seeks to break individual character and individual spirit. It does not allow the individual to defend themselves - and their honour - by such things as 'trial by combat'. Instead, it de-humanizes the individual; it seeks to make them obey and conform to an impersonal system over which they do not have any control or influence. It does not given them a chance to prove, by their own wits and strength, their innocence.

This system is dominated and made by abstract, impersonal, ideas. Real justice depends on personal honour - on individuals allowing their honour to be tested. Real justice gives the individual a fair chance to go free, if they can triumph in a test of physical skill or courage.

Justice means testing the honour of an individual - - it means allowing  God, fate, 'the gods', or the cosmic Being, to decide if a person is honourable, or not; innocent or not. Real justice does not depend on technical 'evidence', on obscure points 'of Law'. It depends on individual character. An innocent honourable person will always wish to prove their innocence, their character, by allowing themselves to be tested, by combat or in a fair fight with their accuser, since that person feels that given such an opportunity, 'justice will be seen to be done'. Furthermore, an accused person who for some good reason cannot so fight, can be championed by someone else, who will fight on their behalf, this champion being so willing to fight, to champion the honour of that person, because they have made a personal decision based on their assessment of the accused person's character.

Likewise, no human being should be caged like an animal, deprived of their dignity, and be kept confined and at the mercy of other people.

Such feelings as these, such assessments as these, derive from noble character; they allow for character. Basically, justice exists in fair, noble individuals who uphold honour and who live by honour. Justice does not exist and cannot exist in anything abstract, be it in a law, a court, an Institution or whatever. Real justice is based on a human scale; it is always individual and takes account of the character of the individual. Real justice lives only in individuals - it has no life, no being, outside of individuals, and it cannot be made to live in dead, lifeless, or abstract forms.

The modern world, in its ignoble decadence, has tried to make justice something impersonal and abstract. As a result, an inhuman, tyrannical, system has been created which is destroying individual character and which has almost eradicated honour. This system seeks to break the spirit of an individual. As such, this system represents everything which is dis-honourable, and uncivilized. It is fundamentally inhuman, irrational, cowardly and ignoble: opposed to the spirit, the nature, and the well-being of all human beings, manifest as this is in honour.
 

Our honour is what makes us want to look after ourselves - and carry weapons to enable us to do this, if necessary. Our honour is what makes us want to settle some disputes and arguments by a fight - by a trial of strength. Our honour is what makes us feel that no one has the right to take away our freedom, and enslave/imprison us, for whatever reason, and that if by some chance we are so enslaved/imprisoned we must fight and struggle to regain our freedom. It is our duty to try and escape if we are caged like some animal. Our honour  is what makes us hate any system or institution designed to keep us enslaved/imprisoned, where escape is made difficult, and where other people have power over us, and where we are supposed to obey, on pain of punishment. Our honour  is what makes us feel that the only justice which is right is that obtained by trial by combat - where we will have a fair chance to prove ourselves and secure our freedom. Our honour  is what makes us feel that the only system of justice which is right is that which tests the validity of any charge or accusation brought against us, by anyone, by this trial by combat.

For too long there has been a dishonourable, inhuman system of justice, and ignoble laws. The system of so-called justice we now have - with Laws, a Police force, with Courts and law officers trained in 'law' - is a system designed by decadent capitalist cowards to create and maintain a society of decadent consumers. It is a system designed to emasculate us; designed to break our spirit of honour and so destroy what makes us human. It is an impure, barbaric, system.

An noble system of justice is a system created for, and maintained by, honourable individuals. These individuals live by a strict Code of Honour - a strict code of human ethics. Such a noble system of justice is based on personal honour, and thus on the right of the individual to defend themselves, and their honour, by trial by combat - or have someone champion their honour. Such a system is healthy, natural, civilized and for honourable individuals.

To create such a natural system of justice - or rather to return to it - the present system will have to be totally destroyed. This requires a revolution - particularly in people's attitudes. There has to be a return to valuing personal character; to upholding honour. There has to be a return to morality and reason - to humanity itself. There has to be an understanding of what justice really means. The present impure society has to be completely overthrown. In brief, there has to be a revolution and then the practical implementation of the ideals of honour, duty and loyalty. Anything other than a total revolution brought about by changing people's attitudes and way of living is uncivilized, and a compromise with tyranny.

Of course, creating an entirely new system based on individual honour, and allowing for individuals to defend their honour in a practical way, by such things as trial by combat, is difficult. But it is not impractical. The obstacles which exist are only there to be overcome. And they can and will be overcome given our human inventiveness, our human determination and a noble desire to implement noble ideals in a practical way. All that is required - all that is ever required in such circumstances - is a 'triumph of the will': a re-affirmation of our humanity. of using our will to change ourselves for the better.
 

Penal Reform
 

Honour demands penal reform. The present penal system, where individuals are kept in prisons, is uncivilized and dishonourable. Furthermore, prison simply does not work - it seldom makes individuals change their attitudes or behaviour, as it just wastes the lives of those imprisoned, giving them little or no opportunity to make something of themselves. In a noble society, created after a revolution, no prisons would exist, just as there would be no such thing as 'the death penalty'.

The basic and unalterable principles involved in an honourable, human, treatment of those who, having been accused of transgressing the noble customs of a society of honourable individuals, are found to be guilty, are: (1) Exile to another land; (2) Community service; (3) Compensation paid by the accused to recompense those they have offended; (4) Character building exercises.

Exile means the individual is allowed to go and live freely in another land. Community service means the individual is given a chance to show some noble character. It provides them with an opportunity to reform themselves, so that they can take a full part in the community. Compensation means a restoration of the honourable custom of Wergeld. Character building exercises means arduous and/or dangerous adventure-type courses or training designed to test the individual, take them to their limits, and bring out the best in them; it also means giving them an opportunity to prove themselves by doing heroic deeds - for example, in battle.

Only these principles - of reform of the accused or exile of the accused - enshrine civilized, honourable, behaviour, toward those who for whatever reason are found wanting. Anything else is uncivilized and inhuman. Anything other than these principles does not represent a conscious attempt to create an entirely new type of society based upon noble, civilized, ideals. A truely human society must strive to implement noble principles, however difficult it may seem.

Fundamentally, a noble society is optimistic where individuals are concerned, believing that most, given the necessary guidance, understanding and opportunity, can and will change themselves for the better. What is important is allowing for change - creating structures which aid such change in individuals and which provide them with the opportunity to become useful members of their community. What is important is seeking to build individual character, by practical means based on a striving, or quest, for excellence. Those who cannot or will not change, after being given the opportunity to do so, will be a minority.

The notion of punishment - particularly prison - as a 'deterrence' to uncivilized behaviour has to be replaced by the notion of personal honour. There has to be a complete and fundamental change in people's attitudes: away from abstract often political ideas back to a human morality based on individual honour.

For the minority that cannot or will not change, and who persist in uncivilized behaviour, even after being given opportunities to change, there can only be exile from society, for such recidivist individuals have proved themselves to be ignoble, and they are not wanted in a civilized society.

III: Eugenics and Racial Socialism

Eugenics is the science which deals with ways and means of improving a particular race. It is a fundamental principle of National-Socialism that racial identity and racial improvement should be encouraged. This racial improvement is an advancement - a further evolution.

One of the fundamental aims or goals of National-Socialism is to create an entirely new, higher, race. However, the means which National-Socialism would use to create this higher race of beings have been mis-understood for decades, mainly due to the lying, ignoble propaganda which the dishonourable enemies of National-Socialism have produced and virulently propagated in order to try and discredit the noble aims and the noble ideals of National-Socialism.

The primary purpose of a National-Socialist society, State, or - more correctly - Reich, is to encourage healthy individuals of strong character who represent their racial ethos: their own culture. Such a Reich aims to encourage, nurture and produce, individuals who are of the culture and race of that Reich, who live in a way consistent with that culture. To enable this to be done, such a Reich would pursue idealistic goals, as it would make noble standards ideals for individuals to strive for. That is, such a Reich would encourage a quest for excellence by setting high standards for individuals to achieve. The best, most noble individuals would be standards for other individuals to compare themselves with and strive to emulate. The structures and Institutions of such a Reich would embody these standards and this quest for excellence. Marriage itself would be such an institution, with the noble aim being to produce and nurture healthy children and encourage those children to uphold and pursue noble ideals and the quest for excellence. Thus, such a Reich would encourage individuals to be noble, responsible and act in a mature and wise way by placing the well-being, future and welfare of their race before their own self-interest and their own selfish pleasure.

This natural quest for excellence by individuals and their Reich pursuing high ideals is the eugenic mechanism which National-Socialism would use to create a higher race of beings.

In practice, this means that such a Reich would it make it possible for such higher individuals to be produced by encouraging healthy, noble, individuals to marry and by giving practical and financial support to them to enable them to have several healthy children. Thus, there would be Reich-subsided, or free, housing; excellent health-care facilities; and financial incentives. For instance, mothers would be entitled to a generous Reich income to enable them to care for their children.

Furthermore, the Reich itself would pursue noble goals, since what is best in individuals is brought out by those individuals striving for excellence. For instance, in such a Reich, there would be dignity of labour, with every kind of work necessary to ensure the well-being and future of that Reich and its members being respected. That is, a classless system of comradeship would be developed, with there being no division, either financial or otherwise, between those engaged in any type of work, since the Reich itself depends on the well-being of the people within it, and because the Reich itself is organic, each aspect dependant on the other, and each of importance for the whole. This is National, or 'racial', Socialism - idealistically aiming to dignify all members of a particular race, the work necessary to create and maintain a noble society, and aiming to provide the individuals in that society with what they need to live a healthy, noble, existence free from poverty and free from exploitation. Such a society further aims to provide the opportunities for individuals to improve or advance themselves, as it rewards those of nobility and those who achieve excellence. That is, it values and encourages individual character, setting standards whereby excellence of character can be created in individuals.

It is this combination of racial awareness, noble idealism, and racial socialism which is the eugenic method of National-Socialism. Indeed, this combination is National-Socialism, expressing as this combination does the unique, evolutionary, wisdom which is National-Socialism. Thus, National-Socialism itself - its principles, its ideals - is a eugenic means of producing a higher race. No other specific eugenic measures are necessary, just as it is neither necessary nor desirable to try and create a 'genetically engineered' race.
 

It is a lie - created by the enemies of National-Socialism - that a National-Socialist Reich would exterminate, or seek to exterminate infirm members of the people of that Reich and members of other races who either lived in that Reich or dwelt elsewhere.

In respect of other races, a National-Socialist Reich - once established and secure - would seek to encourage other races to form their own ethnic States dedicated to the welfare and well-being of a particular race. It would do this, because this is the noble, National-Socialist, thing to do. The 'living-space' that an expanding race would require can be acquired through the exploration, conquest and settlement of that final frontier which is Outer Space - through the pursuit of the noble, numinous, goal of a Galactic Empire. This is because our Destiny is to create a higher civilization and use that civilization to seed ourselves across the stars. The very pursuit of this numinous goal will create higher, and entirely new, races of beings in a natural way.

In respect of members of its own race, a National-Socialist Reich would care for the aged, the sick and the infirm because this is the noble thing to do. Further, such a Reich would expect offspring to take an active role in caring for their elderly parents, if necessary, as it would provide adequate and generous financial, and adequate and generous medical, assistance to enable them to do this. This is noble because such care is how such offspring can repay their parents for the care they themselves received as children. However, such a Reich would provide compassionate care for those elderly bereft of offspring. It would also take the healthy and noble view in respect of the infirm elderly and the terminally ill - allowing such people the opportunity, should they wish, to end their own lives in a dignified way.

Furthermore, a National-Socialist Reich would expect its members to act responsibly and in a noble way by placing the welfare of their race before their own self-interest. Thus, an individual with an inherited genetic defect would be discouraged from producing offspring. They would be expected to act in the best interests of their folk, and so not produce defective offspring.