National-Anarchism: The Way of the
Future
by Flávio Gonçalves
WHAT led me to write this short essay –
through which I will try to explain how National-Anarchism first
arose and what it stands for and why – was the fact that whilst
involved in a discussion regarding the Unabomber with other comrades
I came to realize that in Portugal, and in Portugal alone, there is a
huge lack of knowledge regarding this vanguard’s ideological
current, a current that at least from the perspective of those who
run Wikipedia, although very reluctantly, has finally been included
as a valid current of Anarchism.
It’s common for National-Anarchists
(N-A) to be frowned upon with distrust by the whole political
spectrum – both from the right-wing and the left-wing – and even
fought back by both mainstream Nationalists (pro-State, supremacist
and racist) and mainstream Anarchists (anti-State, egalitarian and
anti-racist). Why? Because N-A, even though they agree partially with
a few common goals, repudiates the majority of the dogma upheld by
both movements. N-A stands out as a revolutionary third way.
The repudiated dogmas
State – N-A, like any other
Anarchist current, does not uphold the existence of a ruling state;
all decisions must be taken by the local communities, not by a
central government and politicians that are not aware of the
realities of the people. N-A is also anti-totalitarian, by extension
that means it is anti-fascist and anti-communist.
Racial supremacy – N-A does not
recognize the superiority of any race, whatever it may be, by doing
so it does not uphold that Nationalist dogma. Races are different and
cannot be compared nor labeled. What is good for one race does not
necessarily mean that it is good for another race. What some consider
as evolution and civilisation, others find to be abomination and
barbarism.
Racism – N-A is not racist, it
does not discriminate against anyone because of their race, creed or
culture. N-A works with revolutionaries from all races, ethnic
backgrounds and creeds.
Equalitarian – N-A is not
egalitarian, it defends the fact that every person is different unto
himself, meaning that if I am different from my own brother or my own
family it’s only due to an act of imbecility that I would not
consider myself to be different from members of other sexual, racial
and cultural groups. Each person is an individual, with different
capacities; equality does not exist in the real world. Nonetheless,
N-A stands for the equality of opportunity.
Anti-racism – N-A, even though
not being racist, does not uphold the anti-racist dogma that
discriminates “positively”. N-A recognises that races exist and
that their differences can and should not be fanatically eliminated,
as most of the anti-racists believe.
Left/Right – N-A has attracted
since it’s conception both former leftists and rightists, it is a
third way ideology and as such it is beyond left and right,
considering both concepts to be surpassed realities. Some of the N-A
propaganda upholds that today it’s not an issue of Left versus
Right but of the State versus the citizen, of people that support the
System and people that fight the System.
What it stands for
N-A stands for something that many
believe to be pessimistic and/or defeatist, and considering the
degree of social degradation that is so deep and rooted we see no way
of turning this boat around, if you will allow me to use an analogy
from “Ship of Fools”. Drugs, alcohol, MTV and sexual degradation
have affected our society in such a way that it is impossible to
return to the old days, some even consider those things as a
fundamental part of our society.
N-A stands for the termination of
nation-states, has a necessity for survival and upholds the need of a
rebirth of our tribal spirit. All national territories should be
regionalised, fragmented, reduced to small territories and within
those territories people with common ethnic or cultural affinities
will gather together. Our notion of Nationalism is very strict: it
covers solely the racial group closer to us (Azoreans, Galicians,
Flemish, for example) and also covers the cultural aspects of that
group (we also uphold autonomous communities for homosexuals,
hippies, vegetarians, Muslims, pagans, etc.) or even the political
aspects (autonomous communities for Anarchists, Ecologists, Social
Democrats, etc.). N-A above all stands for the right of any
individual to live among those whom he feels more comfortable with
ideologically, racially and culturally, or by any other identitarian
concept that may define him and his people as a group.
We should have autonomous and
independent communities for each ethnic and cultural group. N-A
believes that the racist formula upheld by most Nationalist parties,
proposing the expulsion of all ethnic and cultural minorities from
our territories is completely unrealistic and surpassed by the real
world: there are millions of citizens from other races and cultures
living in Europe and, believe us, they are here to stay!
So being, the regions where a large
concentration of different populations live will have to right to
create their own communities and that is nothing new, even the Greeks
in old Hellas lived in this way, in autonomous city-states that had
different cultures (let us compare Sparta to Athens, just to
exemplify this example).
This N-A stance angers particularly the
mainstream Nationalists, but we hope that they might gift us with any
other more realistic solution, or would they prefer a total civil war
or maybe even a policy of genocide?
Utopia?
This being said, you are free to
consider National-Anarchism as an Utopian ideology. N-A is not an
ideology for the present time, it is something that has been created
to prepare the ground for tomorrow, when today’s System
disintegrate amid all the wars and natural disasters that have
started in the last few years. It’s not with joy that we behold
today’s world, N-A may very well be the only valid future for the
time when it all gets even worse and, believe us, it will get much
worse. National-Anarchism, at least, tries to be a more realistic
option.
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