The main purpose of this essay is not to argue against left-wing anarchism, which is in decline at this moment anyhow, but rather to expose the anarchic nature of Nazism. As Stalin clarified, communists should never neglect the task of exposing anarchism’s anti-socialist nature, even though anarchism itself is unable to capture the masses; though it can’t win the people, it is capable of misdirecting the most advanced among the masses. And this principle still applies today; except now the anarchist threat has taken on a different form than the one it had during Stalin’s time, or even just a few years ago. At this stage, the leftist form of anarchism has been de-boosted by our ruling class, and the main ideological danger has come to be anarchism’s other form: Hitlerism.
The idea that Hitler was an anarchist has largely been popularized by the theoretician Haz Al-Din, who’s now the chairman of the American Communist Party. When Haz made this argument, of course leftists reacted to it with incredulity; because according to the standard liberal framework that these leftists follow, anarchism and fascism couldn’t be more different. One is anti-authority, while the other is extremely pro-authority. But as Haz points out: “the reason fascists and anarchists appear different is because fascists are just anarchists at the reins of state power.”
Not all who identify with the anarchist label fit within this proto-fascist category, but that’s because many of the people who may be attracted to anarchism’s ideals aren’t aware of what anarchism actually entails. The most important thing to know about anarchism is that it is not a doctrine; it’s a way of responding to society’s contradictions that’s fundamentally non-ideological. And it’s this open-ended nature of anarchism that makes Hitlerism compatible with it. That makes the “Jewish question” narrative, which the Hitlerites present as the highest mode of analysis, nothing but another manifestation of the same infantile leftist mentality which JQers claim to be above.
It was Proudhon, a theorist whose work continues to be a core part of anarchist thinking, who would write out the most over-the-top anti-Jewish rants imaginable. Who viewed Jews as the ones to blame for all the institutional contradictions which he so hated. “The Jew is the enemy of humankind,” wrote Proudhon. “They must be sent back to Asia or be exterminated.” We need to keep this in mind while looking at every other part of what he wrote. This was the mindset he was coming from when he stated that
…the Government and the factions, are, reciprocally one to the other, Cause, End and Means. They exist for each other; they have a common destiny: it is to call the populace to emancipation each day; it is to energetically solicit their initiative at the expense of their faculties; it is to mold [façonner] their minds and push them continually towards progress by prejudice, by restrictions, and with a calculated resistance to all their ideas, to all their needs. You will not do this; you will abstain from that: the Government, no matter which faction reigns, has never known how to say anything else. Interdiction has been, since Eden, the educational system of humanity. But, once man reaches the age of majority, the Government and the Factions must disappear.
When Proudhon articulated this standard anarchist thinking about the state, where the existence of authority is in itself seen as the source of the problem, his motivations and reasoning were inseparable from his anti-Jewish bigotry. That he viewed Jews as a malign force was a core part of why he viewed authority in this way. The same applies to Bakunin, another defining anarchist theorist, and to Sorel, who directly influenced Mussolini’s ideological journey. All of these figures within anarchist thinking were JQers, and this absolutely matters to how we should think about both anarchism and Hitlerism. It was their infantile understanding about how power works, where all the contradictions of capital can be blamed on a racial conspiracy, that directly informed their idealistic understanding of political struggle. And it was this same framework of analysis that informed what the fascists did.
The anarchist nature of Hitlerism can be explained quite concisely. To paraphrase Haz, even though Hitler didn’t identify as an anarchist, Hitler and the Nazis came from the “punk rock” cultural trend which anarchism represents. They embraced the mentality that the existing social order needs to be burned down; which comes from the belief that the capitalist state’s essential problem isn’t capitalism, but the mere reality of the state’s existence. Within this framework, the solution is not truly class struggle, but a struggle against the very essence of modern civilization, i.e. reactionary socialism.
“These religious, political, and judiciary institutions, of which we are so proud, we must respect and obey until, by the progress of time, they wither and fall, like fruit falls during its season,” wrote Proudhon. “They are the instruments of our apprenticeship, visible signs of the governance of Instinct over humanity, the weakened, but not disfigured remnants of the bloody customs that signal our base age.” A sentiment like this wouldn’t necessarily have a sinister meaning if it were to come from a different type of revolutionary theorist; getting rid of the old order is a fundamental within revolutionary thought. The problem, again, is the racial motive behind the sentiment.
This was a motive that would lead many of Proudhon’s philosophical successors, including Hitler, to fight against the old order through the use of nakedly violent force and authority. Which is the logical conclusion of everything Proudhon preached; Proudhonism says that the state’s contradictions can only be solved when the “Jewish question” is solved, which the Nazis agreed with. And they sought to solve this question by introducing anarchy; by getting rid of the old restraints upon state power, and exercising open genocidal dictatorship.
With all of this in mind, consider the similarities between Proudhon’s statements and this statement from Hitler, which he made well into the Holocaust:
We want to build up a new state! That is why the others hate us so much today. They have often said as much. They said: “Yes, their social experiment is very dangerous! If it takes hold, and our own workers come to see this too, then this will be highly disquieting. It costs billions and does not bring any results. It cannot be expressed in terms of profit, nor of dividends. What is the point?! We are not interested in such a development. We welcome everything which serves the material progress of mankind insofar as this progress translates into economic profit. But social experiments, all they are doing there, this can only lead to the awakening of greed in the masses. Then we will have to descend from our pedestal. They cannot expect this of us.” And we were seen as setting a bad example. Any institution we conceived was rejected, as it served social purposes. They already regarded this as a concession on the way to social legislation and thereby to the type of social development these states loathe. They are, after all, plutocracies in which a tiny clique of capitalists dominate the masses, and this, naturally, in close cooperation with international Jews and Freemasons.
Also consider this proclamation Hitler would make in 1941, when he was prematurely gloating about Nazi Germany’s strengths in the war effort: “What the world did not deem possible the German people have achieved…. It is already war history how the German Armies defeated the legions of capitalism and plutocracy. After forty-five days this campaign in the West was equally and emphatically terminated.” What I notice about this statement is the LARP-y nature of it, where Hitler positions himself as a punk rock fighter against big business. Hitler didn’t play any role whatsoever in fighting capitalism and plutocracy; he was created by the British, as well as by Wall Street, as part of a plan to counter the Soviet Union and crush the workers movement. Hitler claimed to be anti-capitalist because he treated capitalism as synonymous with Jews; and by this reasoning, the more anti-Jewish you are the more “anti-capitalist” you are.
It’s as idiotic as when Netanyahu, the modern Hitler, says that the Zionist entity is fighting against genocide. Yet it’s a logic that’s compatible with anarchism, because anarchism should not be thought of as a coherent ideology which can be cleanly separated from Hitlerism. Anarchism is a vibe, an aesthetic that can be adopted by anyone who shares its idealistic attitude towards what “justice” means. It was through taking on this mystical and metaphysical view of rebellion, where the core problem is not class but rather the concept of authority itself, that Hitler could appropriate the “socialist” label while acting as a tool for global capital.
From the types of anarchists who truly embody anarchism’s essence, we are increasingly going to see these same kinds of tactics. We’re going to see a rise in “counter-gang” activity, where the ruling class mobilizes pseudo-revolutionary groups to inflict violence against the authentic revolutionaries. This is where the left-wing kinds of anarchists continue to pose an actual danger, because even though left-wing anarchism is being pushed to the margins, anarchism’s “antifa” wing still has the potential to produce counterrevolutionary terror. If the state were to use the far right for this purpose, that would expose the state’s Nazistic nature, so the radlibs are the best ones for this task.
The purpose of the Hitlerite anarchists, like Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, is to create a controlled opposition towards the antifa crowd; to funnel the most disillusioned among the masses into anarchism’s Hitlerite version, while selling them the narrative that Hitler is anarchism’s antithesis. In reality, Hitlerism is anarchism put into practice. This is not an idea that will be accepted by the radlibs, or by the hardcore JQers; but it is something that a large section of the people can come to understand, if we bring our arguments to them. By exposing Hitlerism’s anarchist nature, we will defeat the JQ psyop.
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