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Why We Fight
by William Pierce, Ph.D.
1972
When they are desperate and have their backs against a wall, most men
will fight, if they can see a chance thereby of relieving their plight.
In America today, desperate men are scarce.
We complain about taxes and about rising prices, but we are not
desperate about either, despite imaginative rhetoric to that effect
heard occasionally.
We denounce the treason in our government and the alien monopoly over
our information media, but neither have made us desperate.
Discontent, Yes; Desperation, No
The busing of school children into integrated blackboard jungles makes
us angry, but few have become really desperate as a result of even the
most outrageous busing edicts.
Those who felt a strong attachment to their church or to some other
traditional institution of our people which has been debased -- or has
debased itself in recent years have responded with sadness or a sense of
frustration rather than desperation.
Because we are not hungry, we are not desperate. Because we are not in
immediate peril of our lives, we are not desperate. Because America,
wallowing in the grossness of her decadence, in the stench of her
corruption. In the vileness of her materialism and her liberalism, can
yet provide bread and circuses aplenty we are not desperate:
Where desperation is lacking, other incentives for fighting must be
found, but there are few which serve so well.
Alienated Are Bought Off
Alienation can sometimes be pressed into service, in a negative way. But
today even the alienated are so sated with material comforts that they
fight only for a diversion, for excitement. Their destructive impulses
toward a society and a civilization to which they feel no fundamental
commitment are held in check by their continuing greed for the pleasures
that civilization can supply them.
Almighty Public Opinion
The pressure of the herd can also make men fight. In the trenches of
World War I, when the sergeant shouted, "Over the top!", men who only
wanted to find a safe place to hide nevertheless swarmed out to do
battle. Fear of the opinions of their fellows was stronger even than the
fear of death.
The same thing can also be made to work on a mass scale. The fighting
energy of a whole people can be mobilized, if there first has been
created the public sentiment that each and every citizen should join the
effort against a national enemy - real or imagined.
Pressure to Conform
One needs not feel a sense of persona] commitment or duty in order to be
compelled to fight; he merely needs to feel that that is what is
expected of him.
Herd pressure works equally well to prevent people from fighting or
opposing a thing, by holding out the threat of public disapproval of
those who do so. Exactly such pressure today serves as the first line of
defense for the System which is destroying America.
Power of Materialism
The lure of booty has always provided a powerful motive for men to
fight, whether that booty was in the form of the spoils of a medieval
city or the high salary, status and privileges which modern states
provide for their elite secret policemen.
Special agents of the FBI are generally recruited from the finest stock
in the U.S., but, because they are paid handsomely to do so, they
enthusiastically defend the System and wage relentless war against
patriots who would throw off its shackles.
Patriots face, in addition, the negative prospect of losing whatever
material possessions they might otherwise hope to
acquire by going along with the destroyers of their nation.
In times when treason doth prosper, the opposition to treason seldom
does.
Why then, since we are neither desperate -in the ordinary, physical
sense of the word - nor alienated, nor urged by public opinion, nor
lured by the promise of riches, do we fight?
Extraordinary Motivation
In order to carry on a demanding and unpopular activity over a long
period of time; an activity which requires long hours of hard work with
little or no financial reward and presents the constant danger of
physical injury, imprisonment, or assassination; an activity which often
alienates friends, neighbors, relatives, business associates, and
employers and can result in loss of present employment with blackballing
for the future - one needs an extraordinary motivation.
Since the ordinary physical rewards and threats which provide the
incentive for ordinary activity are ruled out, the motivation must be of
an idealistic or spiritual nature. It must transform one's whole outlook
on life, so that ordinary temptations cease to tempt, and ordinary
deterrents cease to deter.
Racial Idealism
We fight when others will not because we have recognized values and
meanings that they have not.
Our central value, that which gives meaning to all the rest, is race.
We understand and love the greatness which is in our race. We are
determined that those who want to drag that greatness down and smother
it under alien
filth shall not succeed.
The contributions of our great thinkers and creators, the beauty from
our great poets and artists, the heroism and daring of our great
warriors and leaders, the sacrifices of our martyrs - the sublime dreams
of the millions of our outstanding men and women through the ages - must
continue to have meaning and to give inspiration. Their lives must not
have been in vain. The heritage they have or created for us must be
guarded and passed on.
Genetic Treasure
Even more important than this spiritual treasure is the biological basis
without which it could never have been created. What God and Nature have
wrought through millions of years of upward evolution is stored in the
genes of our race. There is no treasure more precious, more profoundly
significant, in the universe.
The life of any individual - the lives of all men now living - are of
insignificant value in comparison.
Sense of Identity
In such an attitude will be recognized a sense of racial identity. We
understand that our own lives have real meaning only because we are
parts of an infinitely greater whole. If the race dies, then no man's
life has meaning or value. So long as the race continues to live,
however, every member of the race, even those who have been buried ten
thousand years, continue to share the life of the race.
In the race - and there alone - is immortality for those who will
partake of it. If a thousand years from now, is the race no longer
survives, then the life of all those now living will have been wasted,
meaningless, in vain.
Serving Nature's Purpose
Of what significance are all our bodily pleasures, all our
satisfactions of ownership, of accomplishment, of status - a thousand
cocktail parties or banquets, a hundred seductions, a dozen expensive
automobiles, credit cards, bank accounts, luxurious houses -- what do
all these things count when compared to the privilege of being a part of
the same immortal race as Arminius and Newton and Shakespeare; more so,
of being a part of Nature's great upward striving toward the Infinite?
That is the meaning of everything and the worth of everything, our lives
included: being a part of the Grand Scheme.
Of all things in the universe, only men are able to choose, in some
degree, what that part shall be. What an awesome responsibility that is!
Poisonous Doctrines
The understanding of these fundamental truths may be badly obscured in
our times, when the cancer of neo-liberalism has eaten out the soul of
our people with its poisonous doctrines of egoism and equality.
In earlier times they were widely understood. A thousand years ago our
ancestors taught their sons a proper perspective toward life and death.
Say the old sagas:
Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And so one dies oneself. One thing I know
that never dies: The fame of a dead man's deeds."
As late as 1945 this outlook persisted in Europe, where youth learned
the same lesson, paraphrased in the motto: "Ewig ist der Toten
Tatenruhm."
The Long View
This is the long outlook, the impersonal outlook, without which the
self-denial and self sacrifice necessary for our ultimate victory cannot
be maintained.
If it seems too hard, we do not need to think in terms of eternity; we
only need to think ahead a few years, when each of us must face the end
of his individual existence.
What will the record show: a life of self-indulgence, without a
contribution to the race, without any participation in history, a life
without meaning or worth, just another human organism returning to the
dust whence it sprang? Or will it show a life of striving for those
things which, in the long run, are the only things which count - and,
hence, life which counts?
Seizing Greatness
How terrible that last moment must be for one who can see only emptiness
behind - and ahead! How much easier for one who, through a life spent in
striving for his race, can feel a sense of identity with that race and
can therefore look ahead into a future filled with a greatness and
achievement of which he has become a part, even if only an I
infinitesimally small part.
Shared Feeling
There are hundreds of thousands of our people in North America alone,
who, in a sense, share the feeling of racial idealism we have described.
If we include those who, even in this era of ironclad thought control,
have retained some feeling of Western racial identity who, despite the
incessant
admonitions of the brainwashers, feel a faint stirring of racial pride
when a Neil Armstrong walks on the moon or a slight flicker of racial
indignation when a Henry Kissinger announces a major foreign-policy
decision - the number is in the millions, perhaps as many as a quarter
of the White population of the continent.
But this. for the vast majority, is racial idealism only in a very
restricted sense. It does not dominate their lives. It is a largely
passive part-time sort of thing. It remains subordinated to self
interest.
Idealism Must Dominate
Racial idealism can only serve as the incentive for building our
movement, for carrying on our struggle when it has filled and
transformed our lives, when it has excluded every other feeling and
consideration and determines our every thought and action.
It must possess us; it must drive us: it must allow us no rest and no
peace.
Then, although we retain all our human imperfections and weaknesses of
will and character, these things cannot keep us from the fight, however
much they may still slow and hinder us in that fight.
No Alternative
A single, burning sense of our mission allows us no choice; it has
robbed us of the privilege of a deciding whether we shall fight or not:
it has destroyed any
possible alternative for us. We can no longer decide: I will quit,
because this fight is too difficult; I will go back to enjoying life's
material and sensual pleasures again, because I am too weak to resist
their temptation; I will
give up, because so few are willing to help me.
We keep up the fight because we must, otherwise life loses its meaning
and its value.
American Tragedy
If it were not so, how could we retain our resolution when we see tens
of millions of people - and not just the credulous, the venal, the
depraved, but also the perceptive, the idealistic, the upright -
enthusiastically supporting as their "leaders" scoundrels so base and
corrupt that they would be summarily hanged in any healthy society:
Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower: the
Kennedy gang, Johnson, Nixon, McGovern and the rest? Even Hubert had
among his followers a number of otherwise sound and decent young people!
Or when, addressing an auditorium full of students, we see in the front
row two or three interracial couples ostentatiously fondling one another
in order to "rattle the racist" while, smirking behind them and
whispering instructions is some swarthy, alien creature with a nasal
accent whom we learn the other students have freely chosen to be
president of their student government?
Garden of Man
Idealism is hard to keep under such circumstances. If it were possible
to give up - if there were any way out - we would run.
Instead, we fall back on our long view. We remember that we are not
fighting to save a single generation, but ten thousand future
generations; that the garden of weeds around us there are a few flowers,
and that the garden consists of those flowers rather than the weeds. We
see, in our mind's eye, that garden as it can be some day, when the
weeding is done: a beautiful and
healthy thing, a credit to its creator.
Doing What Is Necessary
This, then, is the vision we keep before us: our people as they can be;
a people who, despite their present affliction, carry the seeds of
unlimited greatness; on whom, alone among all the creatures of earth,
has been bestowed the divine fire.
If we fail in our mission as keepers of the sacred fife, then the light
of the universe will flicker and die.
Thus, regardless of the difficulties, the discouragement, and the
sacrifices we must face, we know that what we do is necessary. That is
all we need know.
The greatest man of the West expressed this outlook when he said: "We
must not ask whether it is possible to attain our goal, but whether it
is necessary. If it is impossible, then we shall try our best and perish
in the attempt; but if it is necessary and proper, then we must believe
that it is possible."
WILLIAM PIERCE, PH.D.
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