Preface: Towards a New Era of Nation-States

The foremost issue of our time is Western globalization. Dispensing with a great deal of useless chatter about the economic advantages or disadvantages of globalization, let us get to the main point, which is political power. Shall we aquiesce to global hegemony by financial oligarchy or shall we oppose this dangerous concentration of political power?

The implications of globalization for the European nation-states are fairly obvious. They are to gradually disappear. At present, 80 percent of the laws passed by national parliaments originate in the European Commission, which is part of the machinery of international control. The national parliaments are permitted to exist so that ordinary Europeans might believe that they still enjoy democratic rights.

The EU technocrats are determined to implement an open border regime for the European nations. The ultimate goal is the fusing of European nation-states into a EuroAfro-Arab conglomeration. In 2015, German Chancellor Merkel arbitrarily opened the gates to 1.5 million impoverished inhabitants from Middle-Eastern and African countries. The popular uproar in Germany over this sudden, massive influx of poor people was such, that the authroties have since then scaled back the intake of migrants to a tenth of the 2015 rate; but they are still allowed to come.

The open border regime with regard to presumed refugees also applies with varying levels of rigour to the other European states. Of note is that the newly-installed Biden administration is also embarking on a Merkelesque immigration policy that will allow millions of poverty-stricken migrants to cross the US-Mexican border.

The implications of globalization for the material welfare of the individual, however, are not as apparent as the consequences for the sovereignty of the nation-states. In this book I have tried to illustrate how the globalists‘ ambition to integrate billions of Third World inhabitants into their global economic space has resulted in a massive drain of jobs and wealth from Europe and the US to the developing world. A major redistribution of wealth has been in progress since at least 1970, but ordinary Europeans and Americans have not been invited to express their position in this connection.

Fortunately, organized opposition to uncontrolled immigration and EU federalist ambitions is emerging in many countries in Europe. I have outlined some ideas on how the new opposition forces might proceed in their struggle against the destructive influences of globalization.

In particular, I emphasize the need for a modern ideology of nationalism. The time remaining to us before the globalists inflict irreversible damage to the European nations must be used to develop a new and more durable concept of political life. The world as we know it rests on specific political institutions, established political practices and a certain way of conducting economic activity, which are grounded in principles shared by the elites and tolerated by broad masses of people.

If we want to escape from our current troubles and find a better life, we need to thoroughly understand the flawed ideas which underpin the present world order – their origin, development and ultimate failure. We need to replace these outdated notions with more rational concepts regarding the nature of man and society, the individual’s needs, and the role of the state. Paraphrasing Nietzsche, we must re-evaluate the values which have up to now decisively shaped our lives. If we are uncertain as to ultimate aims, our opponents will take advantage of this confusion and lead us astray.

Nationalism is the antithesis of universalism. It assigns to the individual service to his particular national community, and not mankind in general, as the highest necessity. Universal doctrines dissipate energy through indiscriminate advance into unending space, while nationalism consolidates force by directing outward thrusts back to the point of origin.

Internationalism is obliged to pay tribute to individual liberty both to mask its thirst for world domination and to undermine the basis for group consolidation, which could threaten its hegemony. Nationalism calls for solidarity, which must limit individual freedom to a certain extent, but ultimately makes him strong in a real sense.

Modern nationalism would define meaning in life as the search for the strong and durable through the pooling of individual power in a national community. The individual, no matter how well endowed with health, intelligence and experience, cannot consider himself as the ultimate purpose of his life-long exertions, if only on account of the consciousness of his mortality.

He must realize that nature places limits to the growth of individual organisms, no matter how highly developed. As the repository of a tremendous accumulation of past energy, acquired through years of study and experience, the mature mind is the prisoner of very powerful forward momentum. The thought that years of study, labor and striving will come to a complete end after death is unbearable, even inconceivable.

The mind therefore needs to find an outlet, which inevitably leads to the human associations that the individual has established or joined. The same instinct which impels the individual to magnify force through attachments to other people and which requires the recasting of individual consciousness into a collective outlook also provides a bridge of continuity into the future. To merge one’s aspirations into a unity of wills means to mitigate the sense of futility inspired by the prospect of death.