Mar 19th, 2006, 11:42 PM
Why Nationalism?
I was recently asked the incredibly broad question... "Why are you a nationalist?" I tried to answer it. This is what I wrote:
Originally I was content with the title of Neo-Conservative, and bore that title for quite sometime, but as of about July of last year I started caring a lot less about economic conservatism -- one thing that motivated me was noting that some countries have the cards already stacked against them. You cannot ask a country whose natural resources consist of exotic timbers and bananas like Nicaragua to become free trade, give all of the banana ranching rights to Dole, and try to make money off of peasants harvesting exotic woods in the jungle and act like this is going to solve a much graver economic problem.
Nationalism is sort of the form of conservatism that practices a national capitalism or mercantilism or socialism in a sense, pending on each situation of the nation and what resources are brought to the table. I see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
NOTE: 'national Capitalism' as defined by Mao Tse-tung was capitalists that would put up tariffs on foreign states to try to harvest their own nations' economy better, which sometimes is a very appropriate economic tactic i. e. if you tax foreign liquor and make it more expensive, then domestic liquor manufacturers will actually have a job and ownt be driven out of competition, but sometimes in other market sectors like electronics, automanufacturing, etc. these domestic markets simply cannot compete with foreign producers because it is such a high end product.
I can see the great wonders of free trade for some nations, but planned economies have done economic miracles -- Japan in 1871 literally was living in the iron age. In 1872 the Mejji government started industrializing rapidly, and by 1905, their plan economy resulted in an Asian power defeating the Russians (!!!) and subsequently fighting a prolonged war against the world's sleeping giant (USA). Nazi Germany went from the most economically destitute country in Europe where currency literally was not worth what it was printed on, but when the NSDAP took control in 1933 and put Dr. Schacht at the helm of the economy, literally they had upwards of 20% GDP growth annually and by 3 September 1939, when Germany went to war with France and UK after invading Poland on 1 September, the Germans were more than ready to engage us in combat due to their planned economy.
I fundamentally disagree with some of the economics, and feel that it must be handled situationally.
Furthermore, my interests in nationalism have now become very clear as I have seen the reality of certain threats in the world. In Korea and USA, there are leftist nutjobs, everywhere, and many Koreans are giving up any sense of a Korean identity. I merely thought that Americans collectively never had an identity, but when I saw things here, it become extraordinarily scary.
Countries are killing their individual identities, and international leftism is taking root basically everywhere. There must be a cultural struggle, on an international level, to combat European leftism -- the concepts of right and wrong are being turned upside down and being replaced with moral relativity, stagnant culture, and suicide of national identity and self-esteem.
The things that are happening are disgusting.
Nationalist is a more appropriate title because on issues concerning the environment and the economy, I am not at all a textbook conservative, as with issues on education and what have you. I feel that schools should be run entirely differently and morality should be taught, ethics should be at the forefront. I feel government should fund cultural events.
Nationalist is also more appropriate because all of my largest issues pertain to fighting the European leftists and their international counterparts; they are trying to bring down the fabric of every single culture and society through some bizarre post-modern metrosexual morally relative orgy of idiocy.
I think that the culture of the Left wing is a culture of defeatism, a culture without real morals, a culture that tries to castrate men and make everything politically correct.
I am working with a guy right now and we might make some documentaries in English about some hot, Korean political issues and the threat of Korea losing the culture war, or try to produce some writings on it in English to promote Korean nationalism.
I do want to note that I feel every single countrie's struggle for maintainng national identity and integrity against the influx of leftist culture is a reflection of what we have to do on a greater level, and that by informing other Nationalists around the world about the struggles of Korea, people would understand what we are facing exactly.
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This is a New Nationalism. Before, Nationalism did mean sole allegiance and interest in one's own nation and often came off as outright imperialism.
Now, the state of the world has become so grave in its' self-destruction of culture, identity, and morality that Nationalism means organizing a society to protect its' most vital interests and preserve the uniqueness and beauty of their state.
Each Nationalist group has different goals it needs to tackle, but there is one, underlying principal that has to be upheld: that the Nation is an institution of the people to create a better society that is servicable to its' citizens -- it is the vehicle of the identity and culture of a people, and it should be treated as such.
Through Nationalism, we can restore identities of people, have ethics taught in our schools so kids grow up with backbones, and we can organize ourselves to deal with what it means to be a modern person living in a time of decadence and relativity.
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