A Reply to Criticism

David Myatt

My writings concerning the spirituality and the religion of National-Socialism have aroused some criticism, so it is fitting that I reply to these criticisms, most of which are well-meant.

I have written what I have written because I regard it as necessary and indeed vital for the future and very survival of our race and civilization itself. I have tried to express the essence of National-Socialism and to give a truthful and reasoned overview of the life and work of Adolf Hitler, he who founded the National-Socialism I myself believe in and uphold, and who led his followers to victory in a political struggle against his enemies. Thus it is that I have emphasized the noble personal value of honour and the noble principle of triumph of individual will. I understand personal honour and the triumph of individual will as the very foundations of National-Socialism - without them, there is no real National-Socialism and I make no excuse for saying and writing that anyone who believes otherwise is, quite simply, wrong.

I have striven to return National-Socialism to where it rightly belongs - among the serious ethical philosophies of the world. The ethics of National-Socialism are unique, based as they are upon the noble ideals of: (a) duty to the folk and its continued evolution before self-interest and personal "happiness", (b) personal honour, and (c) personal loyalty.

Among the criticisms made against my writings are the following:

1) The criticism that my writings are "mystical" and "other-worldly" and so are unhelpful and even counter-productive.

What I have written is neither "mystical" nor "other-worldly". I have expressed the spirituality of National-Socialism itself and this spirituality is founded upon the reality of Nature, manifest as Nature is to us, as reasoned human beings, in the diversity of race and in the diversity of individual character. The reality of the cosmos - of a supra-human Being behind Nature and the order of Nature which is evolution - is manifest to anyone who knows Nature and who has experienced the struggle, hardships, joys and beauty of life.

Listen to a great piece of "Western" music - say a piece by J. S. Bach, or Beethoven - and you can if you are truely human feel this joy, this beauty, this hardship of life and this very Being who lives in us when we are noble and reasonable! Watch the face of a newborn baby and you can if you are truely human feel there is something wonderful there! Walk in some isolated unspoilt part of Nature (or sail a sailing boat or ship upon the high seas) and you can if you are truely human feel there is something beyond us, as individuals, something awesome of which we are a part.

I have re-expressed the truth that National-Socialism is anti-materialistic and profoundly organic - that is, an expression of life itself and thus of the evolution toward the order and beauty which Nature produces. All other philosophies and religions are profoundly against the beautiful and natural diversity of Nature so evident to us in race and individual character. Even the laws of National-Socialism are based upon the reality of Nature, and the civilized ideal of nobility which creates more order and beauty, and not, as with other philosophies, upon some abstract idea which is anti-evolutionary and ignoble.

In brief, I have tried to express the humanity of National-Socialism - evident in its real socialism, its real care and concern for the race; evident in its real care and concern for Nature, as Nature actually is; evident in its fairness, based upon honour, and evident in its joy, its life-enhancing vitality. For it is this noble spirituality - this concern for things beyond ourselves, beyond our baser instincts and needs - which makes us human and thus civilized.

This is neither "mystical" nor "other-worldly" - rather, it is the basis of being human and civilized and thus is the point we as individuals must start from. Because of this, these writings are profoundly practical - emphasizing as they do the need for us to be honourable, loyal and do our duty to our folk and thus to Nature herself. They are profoundly civilized - emphasizing as they do the need for us to be fair and reasonable, and thus express our own noble nature as rational, thinking beings.

2) The criticism that my writings are somehow "nostalgic" and dwell upon the Third Reich, and upon the life and work of Adolf Hitler and the struggle of his NSDAP.

On the contrary, they are futuristic, and again and again emphasize that we must struggle to create a new Reich based upon the values and ideals we believe in. They are particularly futuristic in expressing the inspiring ideal of creating a Galactic Empire - of fulfilling our evolutionary Destiny by exploring and settling the star-systems of the cosmos itself.

Adolf Hitler, his NSDAP and NS Germany itself were but a beginning - the foundation we have inherited, and our inspiration. The most important thing about NS Germany is that it offered a brief glimpse of what we can do - of the type of noble society we can create when we as a folk are inspired by and uphold noble ideals and values. It showed us that we can triumph over our baser nature and our evil enemies. Thus it is that we honour and remember those who made that society possible, and those who gave their lives to create it and defend it against an evil, godless, materialistic enemy. This is particularly true of Adolf Hitler himself - I regard him as someone who embodied the personal ideal we should all aspire to follow. As such, he was a real hero, as the ancient Greeks used the term. There is in me, and thus in my writings, a profound admiration for Adolf Hitler, and indeed a belief that he was a good man - someone who embodied the very will of Nature and thus the will of the supra-human Being which is beyond Nature. He himself believed he was doing the will of the "eternal Creator".

3) The criticism that the ideal of personal honour (and things like duelling) while laudable, are impractical in this modern world, and that it is wholly unrealistic to expect people to live by some unyielding Code of Honour.

On the contrary, I believe it is practical to uphold the ideal of personal honour and to expect National-Socialists to uphold it, however difficult this may be in the modern world. It is practical because all it involves is us using our will - that is, achieving our own triumph of the will. This may be difficult for many people, but it is not impossible and since National-Socialism means personal honour and using our own will to change ourselves for the better, it must be done. Our aim is to change the present world - its peoples and thus its societies - to a more noble world; our aim is not and never will be to compromise our own values and ideals.

We do not seek some slight 'political' change - just a change of government. Rather, we seek to create an entirely new type of society which the world but briefly glimpsed in the splendour and glory which was National-Socialist Germany. From this new beginning, we aim to create a new type of person. This involves a total revolution, and this total revolution must start from within through a personal change in people. Anything else will simply not work in the long-term and does not represent real National-Socialism in action - that is, ideals like honour changing people for the better and thus continuing with our human evolution.

Of course, setting our aims so high makes things difficult, but perseverence and noble ideals are among the virtues which create and maintain civilization - without them, we are less than human. We must undertake this difficult task because, quite simply, it is the very meaning of our lives, as individuals. National-Socialism, correctly understood, shows that the aim of our own lives is not to achieve some kind of personal 'happiness', but rather to aid and advance the folk, the race, of which we are a nexus between past and future. Thus, it is up to us in these difficult times to set an example, to be or become the ideal which others are inspired by and so follow.

The people who say that upholding the ideal of honour is impractical in the modern world are simply tainted by the decadence of the modern world - they either do not understand the true purpose of their own lives, revealed by National-Socialism, or they lack the personal character, the will, the toughness, to try and live in an honourable way. It really is as simple and as hard as that.

4) The criticism that my writings are somehow "visionary" and the work of someone who does not live in the "real world".

My writings are indeed visionary - for we need ideals and a great and noble vision to inspire us, to motivate us to act and somehow change ourselves and the world for the better. Without vision, without noble ideals and dreams, we are not fully human - for it is a noble vision, a great vision, which can take us "out of ourselves" and which can reveal to us new possibilities and the greatness and glory of life itself.

Our greatness - our very humanity - rests upon us at least trying to follow something we believe in which is greater than ourselves. Vision, dreams of glory and greatness, and a belief in Destiny, are an essential part of National-Socialism - for they ennoble; they are the stuff of evolution, of us striving to achieve something against all the odds.

Contrary to what many of my critics say and write, I live and work in the "real world". I may be a visionary, but at present I spend my days toiling in the fields - working with my hands, outdoors, whatever the weather. I walk in all weathers - because I do not drive a car. Perhaps I live more in the "real world" than many people today, considering how many people do work that involves keeping the ignoble capitalist system and our materialistic society alive - and considering how many live an urban existence, comfortably cocooned from Nature and her changing weather. How many people, today, walk seven miles into the nearest town - and then walk back, not because it is a "leisure activity" but because they need to?

5) The criticism that National-Socialism is not a religion - it is something purely political - and that to make it a religion is to further destroy its "credibility" and make it seem "weird".

I maintain it is religious - that is, spiritual - because correctly understood it is a way of personal living rather than just the political programme of some political organization. Of course, National-Socialism is political as well - but the politics of National-Socialism derive from this spiritual way of personal living.

Politics is but a means to maintain, or to change, or to create, a particular type of society, just as a political organization and its political programme are a means. People today do not want yet another ordinary political organization with its empty promises and its dishonourable leaders. The spirituality of National-Socialism is today its greatest asset - for it reveals National-Socialism to be both truely revolutionary and truely noble. People will come to understand this - if we do our duty and try and convert them to our high and noble ideals.

Of course, National-Socialism is not a religion in the conventional sense, with Churches, temples, rituals, prayers and such like, and thus it is not "weird". It is a new and natural religion which expresses and answers the fundamental questions in a rational and thus civilized way. It involves us, as individuals, in only striving to change ourselves for the better by upholding honour and doing our duty to our folk and thus to Nature and to that Being which created Nature - nothing else is involved.

6) The criticism that some of my writings are too conciliatory toward non-Aryan races, and thus do not reflect the dire "racial realities" - the dire racial hatred - that exists in many places.

This criticism derives from such things as the Chapter "The Duty of Aryans Toward Other Races" in my The Divine Revelation of Adolf Hitler. The truth about National-Socialism and other races is that National-Socialism desires the creation of ethnic nations - that is, the creation of separate and independent homelands for the different races of the world where each people can live in freedom according to their own culture and where they can develope in their own unique way. This is a noble, civilized ideal, and the only way forward which is in accord with the will of Nature - the only way which maintains the special racial diversity Nature has created and which allows that diversity to increase and evolve. In the ideal world which we are striving to create, these free homelands would be led by honourable leaders, who would care for their own people, just as these separate homelands would co-operate together when necessary for their own mutual benefit.

On the personal level, when we come in contact with members of other races, we should be civilized - that is, fair and honourable. As it says in the National-Socialist Code of Honour: "A man of honour treats others courteously, regardless of race, and women gallantly, and is only disdainful and contemptuous of those who, by their attitude, actions and behaviour, treat him with disrespect or try to harm him, or who treat with disrespect or try to harm those he has personally sworn loyalty to or whom he champions."

Honour implies a high standard of behaviour, both in public and in private. A strong individual strives to uphold these standards whatever the circumstances and whatever the provocation. It is such people - who set high standards, who uphold them even under difficult circumstances - whom we admire and try to emulate. Thus do we admire the noble warriors of the SS , as I myself admire, for instance, the Japanese Samurai.

A true National-Socialist knows or feels that some things are honourable, and other things are dishonourable. It is dishonourable, for instance - cowardly and unfair and uncivilized - for several people to attack and try to injure or kill a single individual. Thus, if several Caucasians attack one Negro, they are acting dishonourably - they are being uncivilized and cowardly. A true National-Socialist would never do such a thing. They would always want to see, or take part in, a "fair fight". Furthermore, I myself - a life-long National-Socialist - would go to the aid of a Negro if I saw him being attacked by several Caucasians, for that would be the just, the fair, the honourable, the civilized and the National-Socialist thing to do. That so many people today who adhere to 'political National Socialist' organizations do not agree with this just shows how far these so-called 'National Socialists' are from genuine National-Socialism. [Which, incidently, is why I always write 'National-Socialism' rather than 'National Socialism'. I talk and write about the genuine variety: National-Socialism.]

Our way forward lies in steadfastly upholding our noble ideals and earning the respect of our own people, and other races, by doing so. Only then can we hope to win majority political and social support and only then can we begin to build the new, civilized, society all decent people yearn for in their hearts.

We must uphold our noble ideal of personal honour; we must uphold our noble, civilized, ideal of separate and free ethnic homelands - of the total separation of races. But above all, we must really love, and care for, our own people and wish to see them live in a better, a more noble and more just society.

It is this selfless love for our own people, and the noble ideal of honour, which will enable us to achieve the victory we so earnestly desire. We certainly can win, as Adolf Hitler has shown. But we must become like him - someone who cares for their people; someone who is resolute and honourable and who uses their will to triumph over themselves and adversity itself.

David Myatt

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