Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation
Pacifism is morally abhorrent and we must reject it.
Young Men, We Need a Factory Reset
For our entire lives we’ve heard schoolmarms, the media, liberal Christians and other subversives lecturing young men that “violence doesn’t solve problems.” Every time we have a public killing, we are told “political violence isn’t the answer.”
Now, anyone who has lived even a few years past the age of reason is aware that violence does, in fact, solve many problems. We publicly acknowledge this in that we have police, courts, penal institutions and the like. And we acknowledge this privately: when someone is attacked, they generally either try to defend themselves with violence, or they ask someone else to, whether a private citizen or the police.
The history of human civilization is the history of violence solving problems. A large portion of the population of the United States still believes, at least in theory, in self-defense and the corollary right to bear arms. The government bombs or invades other countries on a regular basis, which everyone treats as normal. So, we obviously do believe that violence solves problems.
At the same time, anyone who has thought about political theory for any amount of time understands that politics is violence. Stupid or dishonest people will sometimes do mental gymnastics to get around this reality, but mostly people who think about it for a couple of minutes acknowledge that political power is the active violent assertion of sovereignty, i.e., the right to initiate force in a given territory. This is the conventional definition of the state since Max Weber. It is not controversial.
And yet, the liberal Christian churches, the schoolmarms, the media and the influencer class continue to berate us with these nonsense slogans. And the indoctrination works, because people mindlessly repeat these mantras all the time without pausing to think about their implications.
The debunking, rejection and destruction of this propaganda is long overdue.
The Necessity of Violence
Violence is, obviously, the only thing that can enforce rights. Rights are only abstract notions without the practical application of force to make them real. Your right to self- defense, that most fundamental of rights, is useless if you don’t have the will to use it. It is likewise useless if you don’t have the physical ability to use it.
The right to property is meaningless if you can’t or won’t defend your property. At that point it is merely a social convention, a privilege you’re allowed to exercise up to the point someone decides to take it from you by force.
And who has the physical ability to carry out violence? To put justice into effect? To defend the weak and the innocent and bring retribution to the guilty?
Fighting-aged males. This is their sacred obligation, their calling.
We say that a man’s duty is to provide and protect. This is true. But there’s an important distinction to be made. While providing can in some ways be done by women and children in times of need, the role of fighting and protecting falls entirely on the men.
Consequently, violence is what makes a man a man, properly speaking. It is what separates him from a boy or a woman. A man is both willing and able to commit violence in order to protect and safeguard his family and community. Any male who does not meet this criterion at some point in his life is defective, a spiritual eunuch. He is in default of his obligations as a man, and cannot call himself one.
Men individually and as a group have an obligation to pass down the ability and willingness to
defend family and community to the next generation. This is the virtue we call patriotism.
Not some slavish obedience to an abstract and artificial entity which arbitrarily claims to rule you. No. A real loyalty to your flesh and blood kin and community that comes before anything else. A love for your own people and their land and history, and a fervent willingness to defend them at all costs.
This is the ethos of free men. A people with such an ethos can never be made slaves. And that’s why this ethos must be removed with early incantations about how we shouldn’t use violence.
The Deception
You see, the reason for the scolding of the schoolmarms and the hectoring of the liberal clergy and other regime apparatchiks is much more cynical than it at first sounds.
At first, because you are fundamentally a good person, you may assume that this pacifist doctrine is just a disordered understanding of the virtues of meekness or mercy, or that it is a symptom of people who have been removed from reality by too long a time in a safe, prosperous civilization.
You would be very wrong. This is an intentional virus that has been spread in the West specifically to debilitate its immune system and make it unable to resist.
The regime sycophants, liberal Christians, leftists etc do not actually have a problem with violence. In fact, they love it. They love the ubiquitous tyrannical state violence that pervades every aspect of our lives, stripping us daily of our property and our ancient freedoms. They love its accompanying criminal violence which you aren’t permitted to resist without being prosecuted by a Regime DA. They love the violence that is aimed at killing White people, at impoverishing them, at looting and redistributing their property, at tearing down the pillars of Western Civilization. They can’t get enough of it. They idolize the killers. They raise money for them. They make excuses for murderers. They slander the victims. They love every minute of the destruction of civilization.
No, the intention of their forked-tongue calls for peace and mercy and tolerance is to create moral confusion in the minds of young males around their primary duty. To obscure true moral clarity so that they are de-fanged and castrated, and so that the political class and their clientele can have their way with the country without fear of just retribution.
Non-Violence Means Surrender
Because what does this doctrine of non-violence mean in practice?
If violence truly is “never the answer,” then you shouldn't defend your wives and daughters against rapists. If “violence is not the answer” you should appeal to the better angels of the gang of animals kicking a senseless old man on the ground.
If “violence is not the answer” you must lay down and bare your throat to the hordes of invaders that pour into our land and let them kill you and rape your women and loot your patrimony.
If “political violence is not the answer” then you must tolerate absolutely every violation of your sacred rights and liberties that your ancestors fought and died for. Why? Because “democracy.” Because your elites brought in hordes of foreigners who don’t share your values, and gave the vote to women who are easily manipulated, and used these voting blocks to strip you of every right enumerated in the Constitution or under common law or in the Magna Carta.
And how did they do it? With political violence. If you don’t pay them the tribute they demand to redistribute to third world biomass, they’ll kick in your door and shoot you in front of your children.
When blacks riot in the streets and murder white people, well that violence is actually ok because they are oppressed you see. When Antifa does it it’s ok because they’re resisting “fascism.”
That violence is acceptable.
You see, the very term “political violence” is a dishonest sleight of hand. What it means is that when the political class or their clientele attack you, that’s perfectly ok. But if you dare fight back, it’s this especially bad category called “political violence” and maybe even gasp “terrorism!”
You see, it is only you, White man, who are not permitted to use violence. It is you who must be stripped of your ancient right of the sword, who must turn the other cheek, who must endure a thousand wrongs unanswered. This has been the purpose of the cultural and educational programming they poured on you since before you could speak. You have imbibed it subconsciously. You were castrated without even realizing it. Your manhood was gradually removed by the ceaseless lectures of people who hate you.
This is what they want. They want you to be powerless. They want you to “trust in a higher power” while they seize your patrimony.
Because if you internalize the false doctrines of pacifism, you will never ever ever offer any armed resistance to the state, no matter how tyrannical it is. You will tolerate unlimited violations of your land and your people. You will allow your sisters, wives, daughters to be raped and murdered. You will meekly capitulate to the illegitimate state monopoly on violence, and let them get off or receive a light sentence because of a racially sympathetic judge or jury. “Oh well, we have to go through official channels.”
The Masculine Ethos
Your ancestors would be disgusted. And indeed, this doctrine of non-violence should arouse the most visceral disgust in the heart of any man worthy of the name.
To denounce “political violence” is to declare yourself a slave and make known your intention of limitless capitulation to whatever evil your enemies can dream up for you.
Your enemies are already at war with you. Whether or not you are at war with them is simply a matter of whether you are a slave or a free man.
If you reject violence, you reject manhood. You reject your ancestors. You reject your sacred duty to your kith and kin, your community, your people.
If you refuse to accept the responsibility of doing violence to protect your people, you are a vile, execrable coward and a traitor and deserving of all the contempt that mankind can throw on you.
The rejection of “political violence” is the rejection of any political agency.
Before we can make any decisions, before we determine a course of action, before we can achieve any political outcomes, we have to get moral clarity on this first. We have an obligation to provide and to protect, and this very often requires violence. We have to get comfortable with that reality.
We have a grave moral obligation not only to defend our families, our communities and our people, but to preserve our Western patrimony for our grandchildren and great grandchildren. It is not ours to abandon. We borrow it from our progeny and must render it to them intact, and better than we found it, or die in the attempt. This is an obligation in justice.
So as for the moral argument, there can be no question of the moral legitimacy of so-called “political violence." The only question is when, where and how to exercise it.
A Redress of Grievances
First, let’s get some clarity on where we are in history.
In the 20th century, subversive forces tore Europe to pieces in two world wars to ensure that Western Civilization would be crippled beyond repair.
In Europe, communist and communist sympathetic regimes took power, dismantled the colonial structure that gave order to the developing world, and brought in hordes of the resulting foreign migrants to Europe to act as foot soldiers to terrorize and enslave the native White population.
In the U.S., leftists have used the state to disarm and disenfranchise Whites for the last 70 years, forcing integration at bayonet point so that White children had to endure the most unspeakable violence in schools and in their neighborhoods as they grew up, until they could afford to flee to the suburbs, shattering community.
As a result of the Civil Rights Act, forced integration, and the refusal to enforce law and order on non-Whites for fear of disparate impact, the black population has inflicted on US cities a murder rate comparable to, and in some cases worse than, in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The political class persecutes right wingers and loots our property to give out to their clientele in the criminal underclass.
The Regime sacrifices our boys and loots our property in unjust and foolish wars all over the world that benefit only the political class and Israel.
The political class have destroyed our standard of living with inflation.
They have weaponized the justice system against conservatives, violating our ancient rights and liberties.
They locked down the country under false pretenses for years, and took and tortured political prisoners who dared to resist.
They imprisoned grandmothers for praying near abortion clinics, and resisting the murder of the innocent.
Racial violence against Whites is ubiquitous in every American city, and many non-whites celebrate this openly. Whites are not permitted to defend themselves, or they will be relentlessly persecuted by Soros DAs. We are made second-class citizens in the country our fathers built.
And most recent and most visceral of all, Charlie Kirk was just murdered in front of his 3 year old daughter, and ordinary leftists all over the country couldn't contain their jubilation.
Fellow American patriots, we are at war. There can be no doubt of this fact. The only question is how we will respond.
What Can Be Done?
This is not a call to random spasmodic violence. We do not chimp out like Third World biomass. That is rarely if ever effective to achieving right wing objectives. Right wing men exercise force in one of two ways. Either by cold calculated individual vigilante action, or in very organized groups with clear objectives. In both cases, we do not commit violence simply to indulge our own emotions. There has to be a clear moral justification, and a clear tactical and strategic objective.
I do not pretend to have all the answers to this question yet. I do not possess any political power, I am not a military officer, I do not have a following, I do not command a militia.
For those who do have political power, who are in a position to do something, now is the time. Every offramp, every exit which we miss on this path makes the next potential exit much more radical. The longer this problem festers, the greater bloodshed will be required in order to solve it. If we continue on without a severe and decisive resolution, the 21st century may end up dwarfing the 20th in violence.
For those of us who do not currently possess power, what are we to do?
For starters, we need to think long and hard about all the lies we have been told since we were little children, and disabuse ourselves of them. The entire liberal project has failed completely and utterly. Every part of it is a lie. Blank slatism, egalitarianism, democracy, the whole thing. Lies and manipulations. Every doctrine of liberal Christianity is heresy. If you're not sure what I mean by that, I mean essentially every utterance from institutional Christianity, from the Vatican down to Protestant pastors, for the last 70 years. It’s all subversive garbage.
We must get moral clarity. Think about your obligations as a man. What are the limits of what you were willing to tolerate? What is the point at which you will use force? If we have to project force, who is a legitimate target?
And the corollary of what happens after: What are you willing to die for? What is important enough that you are willing to die, even if that means that your family will suffer?
What is the line, Western man? Which line will you not suffer to be crossed?
These questions cannot be answered with glib bravado. You need to sit with them and understand the implications. Most people are not used to thinking like this. This is literally life and death. You need to get in the right headspace, and pay the psychological price in advance.
And then, you must train. You must prepare. You need to be physically ready to defend yourself and your loved ones and your community. You need to be able to project force when necessary.
You need to be able to do this individually, but even more importantly, you need to be able to do it in coordination with other people. We need to get organized. Quietly, in small groups in every community all over this country. Those who are now awake or have been awake must band together quietly. And they must help to awaken those sleeping brethren of ours who can still be awakened at this late hour.
If the powers that be fail to contain the situation, and continue to let it spiral out of hand, we need to be ready. This is, in fact, the most likely scenario. There is little hope that the Trump administration or anyone inside of it will do the needful to prevent an escalation. We cannot count on them.
So train. Train your body. Lift weights, do metabolic conditioning, do combat sports. Do them hard.
If you don’t have weapons, get them. Train with them. Train under as realistic conditions as you can manage. Train with others.
There are lots of resources online demonstrating how to do small unit drills. Use them. If possible, find like-minded men in your community who have been to war and ask them to train you.
Buy plenty of ammunition. More than you think.
Train your mind. Think about the nature of violence, and the nature of politics. Get comfortable with the ugly realities. Read about civil wars. Understand what they entail. Read about the Spanish Civil War, the Bolsheviks, the IRA in the 20s, the IRA in the Troubles. Read about Rhodesia. Read about Yugoslavia.
Read military manuals on guerilla warfare and counterinsurgency.
Kulak has an excellent list here: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-warlords-reading-list-by-anarchonomicon
Get prepared. Just go ahead and bite the bullet and do the gay LARPY prepper thing. If everything magically gets better, then in the worst case scenario you look like a dork. If they don’t get better, you will be happy that you prepared.
Have a plan for food, water, and power. Most importantly, building a network of friends and neighbors.
This is the most important thing and the hardest thing to do, depending where you are. If you’re in a place where this is impossible, you should seriously consider leaving now. A civil war will force self sorting, and you don’t want to be doing self sorting as the violence is happening.
If at all possible, find your people now.
But we also don’t know what the timeline will be. Perhaps the administration succeeds in clamping down to some degree and things go on simmering for quite some time, only occasionally bursting into low-level violence here and there. So we have to have a long-term mindset as well. Being aware of the problem doesn't mean we need to indulge in doomer-prepper eschatology. It’s not useful.
Young men, acquire skills, acquire like-minded friends and communities, acquire money, acquire power. So that when your time comes you will be able to act.
The best thing we can do to future-proof ourselves is to build community. This is the hard, somewhat boring and tedious work that is in fact the most important. We are social animals. Community is what allows us to survive through adversity.
I will have more to say on this in the future.
I do not want to give any credence to the impotent, effete “hopes and prayers” crowd that makes up the overwhelming majority of modern Christianity. But I do believe in God. The God of the Crusaders.
Pray for the strength to be a good man, a strong man, a noble man. Pray to have the courage to do your duty. Pray that you may be worthy of the good men that came before you who fought and died so that the West could endure. Pray that God gives us the strength to live up to our calling so that the West may not die with us.
In closing, I quote the words of St. Bernard of Clairvoux delivered to Crusaders in 1146:
“How can you not know that we live in a period of chastisement and ruin? The enemy of mankind has caused the breath of corruption to fly over all regions; we behold nothing but unpunished wickedness. Neither the laws of men nor the laws of religion have sufficient power to check the depravity of customs and the triumph of the wicked. The demon of heresy has taken possession of the chair of truth, and God has sent forth His malediction upon His sanctuary.
Oh, ye who listen to me, hasten then to appease the anger of Heaven. But no longer implore His goodness by vain complaints; clothe not yourselves in sackcloth, but cover yourselves with your impenetrable bucklers. The din of arms, the dangers, the labors, the fatigues of war are the penances that God now imposes upon you. Hasten then to expiate your sins by victories over the infidels, and let the deliverance of holy places be the reward of your repentance.
Fly then to arms; let a holy ire animate you in the fight, and let the Christian world resound with these words of the prophet, ‘Cursed be he who does not stain his sword with blood!’
If the Lord calls you to the defense of His heritage, think not that His hand has lost its power. Could He not send twelve Legions of Angels or breathe one word and all His enemies would crumble away into dust? But God has considered the sons of men, to open for them the road to His mercy.
Christian warriors, He who gave His life for you, today demands yours in return. These are combats worthy of you, combats in which it is glorious to conquer and advantageous to die. Illustrious knights, generous defenders of the Cross, remember the example of your fathers, who conquered Jerusalem, and whose names are inscribed in Heaven.”
This is the truest thing I ever read. I just witnessed a demonstration of the casual strength of young men in their prime, when some thirtyish guys were helping us with moving. Just ordinary white guys, one of them even looked kinda…puny, but he was able to lift big boxes of books, and throw them, and catch them in midair. I thought, WHY are young white men putting up with all this persecution, opprobrium, oppression, contempt—when the weakest among them could break any of the rest of us in half? They’re being wasted, threatened at every turn if they show or even boast of their strength, their birthright, just…stifled by the Wormtongues (❤️❤️❤️the LOTR still photo, BTW) until with time and age their power diminishes. Tragic. You’ve won me, you’ve won me, my Lord (Woodmouse)!
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