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There is an important historical connection between these radical artisans and Marx. As Maximilen Rubel and Lewis Feuer have shown, just at the time that Marx turned from Hegelian philosophy to political economy, in 1841-2, he began to read comparative political history. He was particularly interested in the American republic, and read three main sources: Beaumont, Tocqueville, and a less well-known Englishman, Thomas Hamilton. Hamilton was a former colonel who wrote his own, very popular observation of his time traveling in the United States called Men and Manners in America, published in 1833. For Marx, Hamilton was the best source of the three because Hamilton, unlike the Frenchmen, actually met with and spoke to leaders of the Workingman’s Party of New York. That section of Hamilton’s travelogue includes ominous references to the “Extreme Gauche” of the “Workies” who wish to introduce an “AGRARIAN LAW, and a periodical division of property,” and includes gloomy reflections on the coming “anarchy and despoliation.” It is these very sections of Hamilton that Marx copied into his notebooks during this period of preparatory study. |
Unbeknown to Marx, he was copying a copy. In those sections of Men and Manners Hamilton had essentially transcribed parts of Thomas Skidmore’s report to the Workingmen’s Party of New York, which were a distillation of the ideas that could be found in Skidmore’s lengthy The Rights of Man to Property! Skidmore’s book included the argument that property rights were invalid if they were used to make the poor economically dependent, allowing owners “to live in idleness, partial or total, thus supporting himself, more or less, on the labors of others.” |
If property rights were illegitimate the minute they were used to make some dependent on others then it was clear all freedom-loving citizens were justified in transforming property relations in the name of republican liberty. This was why Skidmore proposed the radical demand that the workers “APPROPRIATE ALSO, in the same way, THE COTTON FACTORIES, THE WOOLEN FACTORIES, THE IRON FOUNDERIES, THE ROLLING MILLS, HOUSES, CHURCHES, SHIPS, GOODS, STEAM-BOATS, FIELDS OF AGRICULTURE, &c. &c. &c. in manner as proposed in this work, AND AS IS THEIR RIGHT.” The manner proposed for this expropriation of the expropriators was not violent revolution but a state constitutional convention in which all property would be nationalized and then redistributed in shares of equal value to be used to form cooperatives or buy land. |
Marx never knew these labor republicans by name, nor any of their primary writings, but it is clear from his notebooks that their ideas and political self-organization contributed to his early thinking, especially at the moment at which he was formulating his view of workers as the universal class. Indeed, in On the Jewish Question, Beaumont, Tocqueville and “the Englishman Hamilton’s” accounts of the United States feature heavily in Marx’s discussion of America. It is there that Marx makes the famous distinction between political and human emancipation, arguing that the American republic shows us most clearly the distinction between the two. This was almost exactly the same distinction that the Workies made when saying, as Philadelphian Samuel Simpson did, “the consequence now is, that while the government is republican, society in its general features, is as regal as it is in England.” A republican theory of wage-slavery was developed well before Marx (see here for evidence of similar developments in France that were also very likely to have influenced Marx). |
In the United States, the republican critique of wage-labor went into abeyance for a time after the 1840s, or more appropriately, it was absorbed into the agrarian socialism of the National Reform Association – a tale masterfully told by the historian Mark Lause in Young America: Land, Labor and Republican Community. But ‘labor republicanism’ exploded back onto the political scene in the United States after the Civil War, especially with leading figures around the Knights of Labor and the eight-hour movement. The Knights were for a time one of the most powerful organizations in the country, organized skilled and unskilled labor together, and at their peak included more than 700,000 official members, probably representing more than 1 million participating workers. The Knights used the republican concept of liberty to assert the universal interests of labor and to argue for the transformation of American society. George McNeill, a leading Knight, wrote that “There is an inevitable and irresistible conflict between the wage-system of labor and the republican system of government.” Ira Steward, most famous as an eight-hour campaigner, demanded a “a republicanization of labor, as well as a republicanization of government.” |
These turns of phrase were more than rhetorical gestures. They were self-conscious appeals to the republican theory. Indeed the Journal of United Labor even reproduced a famous passage on slavery from Algernon Sidney’s Discourses on Government in order to articulate why wage-labor was a form of servitude. The passage goes: |
Slavery.—The weight of chains, number of stripes, hardness of labor, and other effects of a master’s cruelty, may make one servitude more miserable than another; but he is a slave who serves the gentlest man in the world, as well as he who serves the worst; and he does serve him if he must obey his commands and depend upon his will. |
This passage, and Sidney’s writings, have played a major role in contemporary scholarship on early modern republicanism, and here it is deployed to critique not the political enslavement to a monarch but wage-slavery. |
In fact, the labor republicans not only drew on the republican theory but further developed it in light of the new dynamics of industrial capitalism. They noted that there were two interconnected forms of dependence. One was the general or structural dependence of the wage-laborer on employers, defined by the fact that the monopoly of control over productive property by some left the rest dependent upon those owners for their livelihoods. This, as George McNeil put it, meant that workers “assent but they do not consent, they submit but do not agree.” |
The voluntaristic language here was meant to capture how, thought the workers were not literally slaves, they were nonetheless compelled to work for others. As Skinner has shown in his book on Hobbes, it is precisely this conflation of voluntaristic action and freedom that modern republicans have always rejected, and which their enemies, like Hobbes, have regularly defended. Though here, the worker’s dependence was not a feature so much of being the legal property of another as it was being forced, by economic need, to sell his labor: |
when a man is placed in a position where he is compelled to give the benefit of his labor to another, he is in a condition of slavery, whether the slave is held in chattel bondage or in wages bondage, he is equally a slave. |
Emancipation may have eliminated chattel slavery, but, as eight-hour campaigner Ira Steward once put it, the creation of this new form of economic dependence meant “something of slavery still remains…something of freedom is yet to come.” |
According to labor republicans, the structural dependence of the wage-laborer was translated, through the labor contract, to a more personal form of servitude to the employer. After all, the contract was an agreement of obedience in exchange for wages. It was an agreement to alienate control over one’s own activity in exchange for the privilege of having enough money to buy necessities, and perhaps a few luxuries. Indeed, even if the wages were fairly high, the point of the contract was to become subject to the will of a specific owner or his manager. As one anonymous author put it, in the Journal of United Labor, “Is there a workshop where obedience is not demanded – not to the difficulties or qualities of the labor to be performed – but to the caprice of he who pays the wages of his servants?” As nearly every scholar of republican thought has noted, the language of being subject to the caprice of another is one of the most enduring rhetorical tropes of the neo-Roman theory of freedom. It is no accident that it would feature so heavily in labor republican arguments about domination in the workplace. |
It was for this reason that the Knights of Labor believed that the only way to ‘republicanize labor’ was “to abolish as rapidly as possible, the wage system, substituting co-operation therefore.” The point about a cooperative system was that property was collectively owned and work cooperatively managed. Only when the class differences between owners and workers were removed could republican liberty be truly universalized. It would, at once, remove the structural and personal dependence of workers. |
As William H. Silvis, one of the earliest of these figures, argued, cooperation “renders the workman independent of necessities which often compel him to submit to hectoring, domineering, and insults of every kind.” What clearer statement could there be of the connection between the republican theory of liberty, economic dependence, and the modern wage-system? Here was a series of arguments that flowed naturally from the principles of the American Revolution. |
To demand that “there is to be a people in industry, as in government” was simply to argue that the cooperative commonwealth was nothing more than the culmination and completion of the American Revolution’s republican aspirations. |
A little secret ... * Looks around * Here is Truth: The People Make the Place into a Homeland. |
Places do not make People. |
The Majority people of the United States of America, made the United States of America. |
We the living Majority People are America. |
Blood Draws to Blood. |
America is US and we are IT. |
Stated Plain: Diversity is NOT a strength; 'diversity' is not our equal at building up a great nation in any way what so ever; People build places; places do not build people. |
This being so, Tolerating Diversity is irrational because diversity brings Poverty, Squalor, and Crime everywhere in the West it resides. |
Diversity, tolerance, 'equality' are all just commie buzz words that describe NO real world items or events when used in a praiseful manner, or that are used to cover up the True Nature of this Blight upon Our People, Nation and Culture. |
Diversity is the Death of the First World, Tolerance is Timidity, Mass Immigration is an on going gang rape of our People, and Multiculture is NO Culture at all! All else is PC-Liberal-Commie Fantasy. |
This is the cold stark reality of the matter. |
It cannot be undone by social programs or 'education' or any other human effort as it is part of hard wired biological fact. |
The fools can lie to themselves but some kinds are not equal to others at the task of building and maintaining a FIRST WORLD CIVILIZATION. |
It matters WHO we import: First World People build First World Nations ... Barbarians build NOTHING worthy of being called a 'nation'. Accordingly if political correctness, through mass immigration replaces the Majority First World American with Barbarians and makes them a minority among alien and competing hordes of barbarian minorities, it will keep the shell, the forms of America, but all of its life, substance, vitality, and greatness will be gone. |
What one will in fact have is Detroit, Camden or Gary Indiana writ large, and frankly an example of a once great people going mad and building up their own funeral pyre. |
Thus, America will become, Somalia if enough of those primitive backward persons are imported into the Midwestern heartland. |
It will cease to be a productive breadbasket and become a Fully Dysfunctional Basket- case, there is no doubt about this. |
Reason? Because, unequivocally: The People Build the Place in their own image. |
Therefore: Somalians will rebuild SOMALIA not Sweden. Simple really. No equality about it. |
'Who' is the paramount question of history. |
Any rational person must see that the obvious and foreseeable result of importing third world barbarians will be third world feuds, violence, savagery and over all barbarism here, not a 'richer' America but a degenerate backwards third world state, here in what once was the former USA. |
If one conceptualizes Northern Ireland or say 'The 40 years Wars' you are onto the truth of what this curse will be like. |
This is our slated future if the PC Diversity Mass Immigration Tolerance Horde get their way ... If Now ... Unless you fancy the idea of being overran by a horde of barbarians and giving up the Land Our Fathers Built, You must get your mind right and leave the Color Blind Plantation that keeps you tied to PC. |
You must reject the false and embrace the True. |
Say the Following: We reject the false notion that Humans are mere economic beings. |
We affirm that natural human societies form from families and are thus built upon the duties and rights of the members of those familiesor put differently, Society exists so that families can produce living offspring that will be 'Society' in the future. |
We reject the liberal-PC-anarchist (communist) ideal of individuals with no loyalty, duty, and no higher morality than mere pleasure or material gain. |
We affirm that man finds his highest expression when he does his duty to those he owes loyalty to and when those in return do their duty to him. |
Duty and loyalty are the basis for all rights, not happiness, not material gain. |
We affirm that We have a Unique Identity based upon Our Majority ruling this Land and that We value this identity, Majority and Land. |
We therefore reject the idea that we are just one among many that should 'share' this land, or that we have no right to Our Land and Our Majority. |
Having affirmed the above: We must Unite Behind Our Identity, Our Majority and Our History! We must unite, behind our rightful Majority; we must reject becoming a purposeful minority in our own lands; we must rally behind our Identity proudly. |
We must unite around those things we love! We we must loudly proclaim that we object to our families, homes, communities being trampled, downgraded, and destroyed by barbarian out-landers. |
We must and we shall unite around Our hearths, heritage, history! We shall unite around our people, and our unique identity! We shall unite behind Our hearths, our homes, our heritage, our history, our homeland. |
We shall unite as One nation. |
We shall unite. |
We. |
Shall. |
Unite. |
Say. |
It. |
We. |
Shall. |
Unite. |
We shall Stop PC from Displacing Us. |
We shall stop PC from destroying our identity. |
We shall put an end to its aiming to subvert and harm us while degrading us in our own homelands. |
We shall put an end to its attempts to divide and destroy the family, confuse the genders, as well as stop its attempts to poison our youths minds by means of indoctrination fronting as education. |
We shall stop cold its attempts to break down our people morally spiritually, ethically, and destroy their false system of thought, replacing it with a morally sound ethic that is in line with OUR values, and that serves Our ends. |
We shall unite as One Strong Whole Majority and push aside their false 'two party' binary, as we can surely do better. |
We shall do this. |
Us united as One majority. |
We affirm, Our Minimum Demands to Be: One people in One land under One law with One way of life living by the lights of One culture! Unitary! Strong! Whole! One! United as One Nation! |
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The single cell vs. the whole body. The liberal individualist single happy cell model was always doomed to failure, right from the start. The failure is inherent in the idea that people are 100% complete unto themselves and have no need for anyone else. If this cellular basis for society is allowed, doomed follows close by on the time line. |
Shortly Swiftly, and Surely. The simple reason is that humans operate as groups of families, of communities, as peoples, not as individual cells. There is no individual cell that can long survive in nature. And so it is with people. Humans operate in groups of at minimum a family unit. These groups of persons (families, communities, the People as a whole) not the single individual are the vehicle of human history. If the individual is taken from the context of these groups they become sterile and lifeless – man and women alike. |
Culture, Commonality and History are a group effort. The liberal world order in its relentless quest to atomize and singularize all things, has been breaking down these group bodies for quite a long time. Like a greedy and mindlessly destructive virus that invades a cell, so the liberal order has invaded and destroyed the people, community and family units among the Western World Order that was once Christendom. It also like a virus uses the now lifeless bits of its hosts to replicate more virii which act to further weaken the host(s). This is all liberalism – both economic and social – from Smith to Mises, Mills to Popper, it is known by its corrupted fruit and denuded landscapes. |
Worse, yet for the Western Peoples, Liberalism paved the way and opened the door for Marxism, which is merely liberalism striped of all romantic notions and taken to the logical extreme implied from the start – Materialist, Determinist, and Atheist. Thus attack the Liberal root and you take out the Marxist branches as well – fall this rotten tree must for it has no substance. |
The reality is that the modern hyper-individualist hedonist world is alienating, and empty of true joy, fulfillment and satisfaction – for everyone of all ages by and large – even among the plentiful goods and shallow shows the masses find but temporary escapes, which leave them lacking, always needing more, never sated. Among all these material goods there is NO sense of The Good, community or anything like working towards a common good that transcends merely personal gain. |
The entire consumer matrix is designed to stimulate us all to always want more, more, more, and to never at any time find our fill, want as we might. It thus is logical since it promotes atomized people as individuals that it leads to alienation person to person, and because it has nothing of substance to offer it must empty all it touches as the cold bleeds away the heat. Logically it is no wonder that many of Us feel as we do that something is terrible rottenly amiss with this completely upside down system. |
And this my dear readers is because to arrive here as a collective whole, we have forsaken much that once filled these voids in men of former ages – ethics, heritage, traditions, communities, families, trust, goodness, God himself, and not least our own honor. All this in exchange for beer, sports, soaps and shopping malls – TV Circuses and Bread Crumbs! |
Let us be as a light in the materialist, atheist, determinist, darkness. Let us Be the Heralds of a return to |
normalcy, Let us enforce Life by teaching a History about our Common Past that will motivate the Majority to make a life affirming Future. |
After all, History is the knowledge of the past – it is NOT a science; it is an ART – a knowledge that we shall wield without SHAME to our ends. A knowledge that is Power; A power that will bring the Single Cells back into a Whole Body! A body what is our collective lives. Lives that Matter! |
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A strong stable society is based upon strong families, who are based around the male and female lifelong bonding pair. Our pseudo society has effectively destroyed this base, by means of feminism, sodomy, the destruction of traditional morality, and with legally enforced no fault divorce. This destruction of our society, has left an awful lot of men, in the rubble. These men, are bound to pay for a family who has no loyalty to them. These men are legally in effect serfs. These men are the most obvious first demographic that nationalists in the West should appeal to, for these men have no illusions about the system's benevolence nor do they believe in any of its lies. |
These men are simply waiting in the soup kitchens, underneath bridges, sleeping in their cars, for a glimmer of hope, for a light to guide their way. Essentially they are waiting to find new purpose, so that they can do what men do and that is to build the basis for social and political organization, by means of their economic cooperation organization. If this sounds complex but what it means is that men naturally work together to create value which value is then used as the basis for social and politic order thus the Men's economic efforts are the basis for social and political stability and society, just as the stable family is the basis for the man's ability to work and build value effectively. So in effect nationalists must go to these men and become their extended family. Then from this will flow the natural productive forces which come from people cooperating to a common end, if this family is giving even the most nominal organization, and understands that hierarchy and discipline are essential to any large scale organization affecting its long-term goals. Once nationalists have this family, drawn together from the outcasts of modernity then, they will need to organize to consolidate and to conceptualize a long- term plan(s). |
Organization is important because it teaches large groups of people how to work together for common interests. There are many different forms of organizations available different forms of charities nonprofits, for profit corporations, single proprietorship businesses, and a host of others, but the essential element of all of them is that there is a planning principle, which is able to save capital for the enterprise to use later upon long-term goals. For nationalists I would posit that a worthy goal that these men could save towards, would be to purchase rural and suburban lands that are unwanted or run down, move the new family there and then worked to build them up. This would allow their new family's to learn to work together and to learn to submerge their personal interest in the common cause. This work would also allow the family to produce wealth which could be exchanged or traded with the local population, in such a way as to gain goodwill with them and show that nationalist care about them and their interests. Or it could be used to provide charitable relief to them again to show by actions the Nationalist intent for the commons. The Goal will be to house, feed and cloth all the family members; make money; create capital; generate good will among the locals; and live successful lives. |
Once the family the nationalist family, has established itself, on at least one parcel of land and is doing economically and socially well then I would advise creating other corporate enterprises to expand its functional reach and to allow the family the room to grow it will need in order to become a great Nation. First is a Land Management Corporation to mutually manage the 'families' holdings and to assign various family members their parcel to work. The LMC will own the families holdings in total but members will posses and use them. From Many One. The Second (set of two) to function as a local market (Farmers market) and as a local regulatory agency (Producers cooperative ) this would allow for the family and for the local people to learn that their work and effort is the basis for all economic value. The Third a credit union, which would be capitalized by the labors of the family and the local people. This credit union organization would allow them, them being all the people who worked in this area, to fully capitalize upon the fruits of their own labor. It would allow them to invest in their own future, in the future of their children, and in the future of the community. In effect it would allow them to be free of the international market and the International Bankers. The fourth being a charitable nonprofit designed to help others while spreading the message by example not empty words. The fifth would be a political society with the goal of securing control of both parties at a local level and all non partisan offices available. Sixth a media corporation. It is essential to have control of Our own message from print to pronouncement. Nationalists cannot rely upon the internationalist media. Seventh an educational fund. The youth's education is the future. After all of the above has been established, now the family --who started as unwanted outcasts and has been's -- has a family of family's, in a functioning organic local community, who take care of their own economic/banking system, their own social order, and are well on their way to having full political power over their own destiny. The key is the first group of men becoming family who then work to become family toward the locals in their area of operations. The men will find women and have children, raise them to have respect for the values that allowed all this to happen and .... from this follows all the rest. From the Rubble cometh Forth the Family to Found a Great Nation! |
The things is to NOT provide them with a head or body to hit. Use names like 'X County Public Improvement Council' such as this .... BLAND AND HARMLESS. Wise and effective. Stay legal. Work Hard. Do not advertise! Work to build the base for politics in economics based on a tight knit community built from the ground up ... not pie in the SKY Charlie Brown Politics nonsense but steady real progress towards power over our peoples future. The things is to NOT provide them with a head or body to hit. Use names like 'X County Public Improvement Council' such as this .... BLAND AND HARMLESS. Wise and effective. Stay legal. Work Hard. Do not advertise! Work to build the base for politics in economics based on a tight knit community built from the ground up ... not pie in the SKY Charlie Brown Politics nonsense but steady real progress towards power over our peoples future. |
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