Please support my Communist People's Republics on the grounds of ethnonationalism and national self-determination.

No, as a Communist I hold ethnonationalism and national self-determination in contempt. So those arguments won't work on me.

But if I use them on you, maybe you'll do what I want.

Please support my multiracial empire on the grounds of ethnonationalism and national self-determination.

Of course, ethnonationalism and national self-determination are against the law here, because they would threaten the empire. So such arguments would not work on me.

But if I use them on you, maybe you'll do what I want.

In response to Keith Woods below, I think he is missing my point. The question in my mind was whether we are wrong to frame this in terms of ethonationalism and national self-detemination when on the ground it is often Russians vs. Russians fighting over matters of ideology not ethnicity.

https://t.me/keith_woods/2495

Collin Cleary's essay on Fichte's striving to abolish the distinction between the real and the ideal — and on how in some ways he was the quintessential modern man — has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/02/fichte-as-avatar-of-the-metaphysics-of-presence/

Jim Goad on the bizarre sight of once fanatically anti-war hippies now frothing at the mouth out of the desire to kill Russians, an empowered black womyn gunned down over a bowling ball in Atlanta, the dangers of the rest of the world going off the US dollar for trade, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/the-worst-week-yet-73/

Morris van de Camp presents various lessons about ethnonationalism from the Old Testament that remain valid today. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/a-bit-of-the-good-book-from-an-ethnonationalist-perspective/

New writer James A. lays out the facts about the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine in 2013-14, as well as the events leading up to it, which set the stage for the present war.

https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/the-truth-about-the-euromaidan/

Adapted from James A's Rants and Presentations channel on Telegram. You can follow his channel here: https://t.me/JamesArants

❗️Important update about the debate!

New time: We'll start two hours earlier.

Debate: Greg Johnson vs. E. Michael Jones
Topic: The War in Ukraine
Place: Telegram (private group)
Time: Saturday, March 26th:
3pm New York / 19:00 London / 20:00 Stockholm

Register here.

Remember, what happens in Fight Club stays in Fight Club. This unique debate will only be available LIVE. / @guidetokulchur

Czech sociologist Petr Hampl has some words of advice to Americans who truly want to make their country an example to the rest of the world again. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/letter-from-a-czech-sociologist-to-the-americans/

Dominique Venner's "Homer: The European Bible" is now in German translation. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/homer-die-grundungsepen-oder-die-bibel-der-europaer/

Beau Albrecht on Congress at last stepping up to deal with the real problem plaguing America today in its time of crisis: the need to protect the civil rights of black people who keep their hair in dreadlocks. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/the-next-civil-rights-cause-du-jour/

John Gordon reviews Counter-Currents writer Guillaume Durocher's new book, The Ancient Ethnostate, which is a survey of how ethnicity was understood and defended in Ancient Greece. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/guillaume-durochers-the-ancient-ethnostate/

Tuuka Kuru, leader of the Sinimusta Liike political party in Finland and organizer of the Awakening series of conferences, was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc to discuss the Finnish perspective on the Russo-Ukrainian War, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-426-the-writers-bloc-with-tuuku-kuru-on-the-russo-ukrainian-war/

Coming in one week: The Jonathan Bowden Memorial livestream

On Tuesday, March 29th, at noon Pacific, 3 pm Eastern, 7 pm UK, and 8 pm CET, Greg Johnson will host a two-hour livestream on Jonathan Bowden to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his untimely death. The guest list is secret at present, but it will feature many of Jonathan's friends and comrades sharing their favorite memories of Jonathan and their thoughts on his accomplishments and legacy. So please join us!

https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/the-jonathan-bowden-memorial-livestream/

Some men are born stupid.

Some men attain stupidity.

And some men get paid to post stupid shit on the internet.

The Based Poland meme is no longer ironic and somehow they don’t need “Based Russia” to save them from globohomo. Funny how that works.

Ukrainian geopolitics

People love to talk about "grifters" without defining the term. Anyone who raises as much as one cent from donations, endorsements, or sales is called a grifter. That's not fair.

Is a grifter someone who collects money for political projects that might fail? That's too broad a definition as well -- because even if we try our best to win, we still might fail.

Here's a better definition of a grifter: collecting donations for a political struggle that *you yourself believe is hopeless.*

If you think your political efforts are doomed to fail, presumably you are not telling your donors that. You are promising them progress toward victory, which implies that victory itself is possible. So you are deceiving them. You are taking their money under false pretenses.

If you think your efforts are doomed, you will not try your best to win. Thus you are just wasting the time, efforts, and money of your donors.

If you think your political efforts are doomed to fail, then in your heart, you are just using your supporters' money to pay your own bills.

Mark Gullick reviews Simon Renyolds' Rip It Up and Start Again, a history of the post-punk era of music that in many ways exceeded the achievements of punk. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/white-music-post-punk-revisited/

Anthony Bavaria reviews Zero HP Lovecraft's short story "Key Performance Indicators," about a dystopian future governed by an all-encompassing social credit system. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/zero-hp-lovecrafts-key-performance-indicators/

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