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Old Jan 23rd, 2006, 05:39 AM        The Meaning Of Kulturkampf
Kulturkampf's literally meaning is 'cultural struggle,' and historically is a reference to Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck's fight to make Germany a culturally united state and thus direct opposition to Catholic elements within the nation that threatened to divide it, and also in creating a secular education system so as to try to preach a sense of unity amonst all Germans independent of religious association. It climaxed with Pope Leo XIII openly noting in the encyclical Libertas that there should be separation of church and state.

However, the historical context is only symbolic of the modern situation, and carries no direct meaning.

Kulturkampf is a struggle for a society to not be divided by the elements which threaten a fundamental rift that could destroy something great, and kulturkampf is a call for a recognition of a sacred heritage and a carrying on of the flame.

In a Korean context, kulturkampf is the struggle for a unified Korea, against the Communists with an internationalist perspective and against the liberals that would recklessly abandon a Korean heritage for the sake of modernization & liberalization. It is a movement to remain Korean.

In an American context, kulturkampf is the struggle of the traditional people against a liberal backlash threatening the fundamental character and unity of Americans, and is a call to arms against historical revisionism & collectivism. It is a bid for Americans to be Americans, and to continue to hold dear the values of their nation.

In a European context, kulturkampf is the struggle for maintaining a European identity in a post-cold war situation where immigration & collectivism re-write histories and villainize traditional culture and attitudes, and go as far as threatening the majority of the European in his own native land.

There are a thousand other contexts of a kulturkampf -- the bid of the Welshman to continue to speak Welsh, the Taiwanese who refuse to succumb to Communism and desire independence and the practice of their traditions, etc.

The kulturkampf is the resistance to juvenile and misguided collectivism; it is the call for a cultural identity to be maintained in the face of a society that brashly abandons all rationale in the name of a perceived progress.

Kulturkampf sets faith in the people to live their lives independent of a collective-minded, all-encompassing state philosophy and to rather live their lives in the context of freedom. It embraces the idea that our society does not need to change, and that drastic cultural movements and revolutions -- such as the Islamist revolution of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran and the Communist cultural revolutions of Mao Tse-tung and V. I. Lenin.

It is not a cultural revolution, but kulturkampf is the dismissal of as much -- it dismisses the upheavels of collectivists and activists, and only sides with the doctrine that a man should live and die free. It is a fundamental rejection of the collectivist notion that:

"Society must change and it will be better."

Rather, a war on society makes everyone a victim -- remember that even Robespierre died at the guillotine.

The cultural struggle is the struggle of the people to return to the simpler times and simpler principals of governance: to a time when parenting did not require books & classes, and to a time when men weren't supposed to become metrosexuals.

For lack of a better explanation, kulturkampf is the support of the idea that we are what we are and trying to become something more than this is preposterous. Multiculturalism is more of an expression of self-hatred than of love of others. Kulturkampf is the movement to remain who we are, and ot not be sucked up into a vacuum that wishes to make us post-modern.

To believe in Kulturkampf is to understand that men are to be men and women are to be women, and that a family is a family and not a contrived union, and that history is not a nightmare we face but is a glorious past that encourages us; that 'God' belongs in the Pledge and that St. George's Cross is the flag of England, and that the Imperial Flag of the Japanese Empire is not a curse and the Emperor is a god; it is the belief that we are who we are, and we refuse to apologize and we refuse to collectivize.

We remain a people -- a people who are their grandfather's grandsons and grandmother's granddaughters, and who refuse to accept the sell-out of our parent's generation and refuse a Cold War generational rejection of heritage. We refuse to sell out a heritage forged through a blood.

We'll never bow our heads to false idols of a lost generation, and we'll never surrender a heritage under the collective pretense.

We remain a living culture and struggle against a society of prostitutes that frown on our ancestors and would sell them out.

The national identity will not be forfeited at the price of an economy, and the national identity will not be portrayed as xenophobic -- it is a struggle for blood & heritage and for roots in a time where mankind wishes to sever all connection with the past.

Kulturkampf is the embodiment of the struggle for the cultural identity of our society against a wave of Leftists & Immigrants who would villainize us and make us forget.

Kulturkampf is the only struggle that matters.

Culture is the embodiment of politics, and in the context of a culture of whores, any political victory is a victory only for whores.

In a time of moral relativity and economic collectivization, our commitment to the simple, historic truths will uphold us.
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