Colin Jordan on Building National Socialism Now
by Colin Jordan
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Colin Jordan’s essay, “National Socialism: World Creed for the Future,” first published in The National Socialist, Number 3 (Winter 1981).
WITH THE gigantic tragedy of 1945, the greatest setback to human evolution in recorded history, still close behind us, its chilling and choking memory still omnipresent, and before us difficulties and disadvantages so gigantic as to deny us any immediate or early prospect in gaining power over our respective countries, what can be done?
One option it may instantly be stated with certainty we do not have in this doleful situation, and whereby it is vastly less doleful than otherwise, is to give up. This is something which a real National Socialist is by nature and by definition utterly incapable of doing because the will to struggle, which is the elixir of National Socialism, is in the very bones of his being. Without it he would not be who he is, but some spiritual eunuch of the living dead.
A real National Socialist is one who, in the last resort, even if it could be proved to him with mathematical certainty that defeat would attend all his efforts, would still go on fighting. He would do so, inflicting as much punishment on the enemy, and with a warrior’s song in his heart, because it is his nature to do so, and because a victory of the spirit is always won thereby.
But having ruled out surrender, what else? Is National Socialism to become at best a minute defiant echo of a bygone age, a barren exercise in nostalgia, or at worst the puerile mummery of morons and misfits; or is it to be subjected to cosmetic surgery which amounts to castration to fit the times? Or is there a way in which it can both respond to circumstances with hope of success, and yet retain its integrity?
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What we now have to concentrate on is what lies within our power now as the starting point in the chance of chances, and that is to maximize our own potentialities in accord with prevailing circumstances.
What does this entail? It entails the following six requirements, and far from being a matter of gloom, contemporary circumstances should be seen as providing considerable compensation. The ultimate advantage of activities in constraint of circumstances encourages in us a response to the exciting challenge of our great adversity. The lack of shortcuts, so prone to be illusory, should advise our slower advance to that the much more thorough.
Firstly, we have to purify and develop our creed, free from all compromises and omissions of expediency, all confusions and all contradictions. This is the starting point and matrix of the revolution of the future.
Secondly, instead of prematurely trying to mobilize the masses, we have to apply ourselves without this distraction to the prerequisite task, which is to build a real elite imbued, as its standard bearers, with our purified and developed creed, and trained as functionaries of the National Socialist state in microcosm in its propagation and implementation. Thereby, in the time of future opportunity, the essential cadres will exist to step forward, trained and dependable, to take charge of events. Thereafter, in the marshalling of the masses both for the attainment of power and for its subsequent utilization, those masses will not swamp us, and draw us their way, but instead will be harnessed and led our way by our elite.
The very futility of seeking to organize the masses in present circumstances and the necessity instead to concentrate on the elite should really be welcomed, not deplored, as a salutary discipline resulting not only in the development of that vital distillation of leadership, the elite, which hitherto has been impeded, if not frustrated, by the organization of a party campaigning for mass support; but the formulation for the future of a clear and exclusive division, whatever the nomenclature, between that organization which embodies the elite, and any organization that formally enrolls the masses who are by nature only meant to be auxiliaries. The folly of striving vainly against nature to make regular activists, a natural minority, out of the vast majority of people, and thereby creating a weakness by and from numbers in the illusion that quantity in itself means strength, is a vital lesson to be learned now. Given a real elite, the extent to which lack of numbers can be amply made up for by intensity of belief, harder work, greater courage, the acquisition of higher skill, and the employment of greater enterprise, is amazing. Far from a radical, uncompromising creed being injudicious to the present period, it will desirably frighten away the unsuitable many, and attract the desirable minority.
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