Neo-Reactionary Thought
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its own enemies (rule by committee)
AKA - Dissident Right, Post-Libertarianism
Major Thinkers:
- James Burnham
- Robert Conquest
- Julius Evola
- Robert Michel
- Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug
- Nick Land
- Pete Quinones (formerly Free Man Beyond the Wall, now the Pete Quinones Show)
- The Total State | Auron MacIntyre | Substack
- The Distributist, The Distributist - YouTube
- American Ostrakon
- Charles Haywood - The Worthy House • Toward A Politics of Future Past
- Paul Gottfried - Paul Gottfried - Chronicles
Publications
Starting Points:
- A Brief* Overview of Right Wing Thought | with The Distributist
- Being Post-Liberal W/ Alex Kaschuta
- A Genealogy of Liberalism - YouTube
- To be “right-wing”... (in 9 points) - YouTube
- Changing The Right's Mentality with@Auron MacIntyre - YouTube
Big Ideas
The Octopus/ The Cathedral
- Conquest's Laws of Politics
- Elite Theory
- Everyone is conservative about what he knows best
- Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing
- The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its own enemies (rule by committee)
- Things get too large to be run by one person and a bureaucracy is put into place
- The org starts with a singular vision/focus, but once the bureaucracy arrives, it develops interests of its own and they eventually become at odds with the original purpose
- Any time there is a disagreement within an organization, there is an opportunity to "win" and gain power within the org. Bureaucrats are then drawn to those issues and develop power structures within the org to maximize their power. These issues get magnified/wedged open
- Decisions stop being made based on the interests & health of the org and are instead made based on increasing power or carving out places for people within the bureaucracy
- the interests of outside parties and the bureaucracy end up cannibalizing the organization and putting it's leadership at odds with its own goals, hence looking like it is lead by enemies
- The idea of a "neutral institution" is a myth
- There are those who specifically and doggedly fight for their conservative interests and
- Those that are in decline/decay and moving to the left
Mosca's Law: The organized 100 will always defeat the unorganized 1000
Iron Law of Oligarchy (Robert Michel) - "Who says organization says Oligarchy"
- [[Accelerationism]]
- The Dark Enlightenment
- [[The Friend-Enemy Distinction]]
Public Opinion Doesn't Matter: 5 Lessons
- Politicians are just the most visible layer of the unaccountable managerial elite
- All revolutions are astroturfed from the top-down
- All successful movements are funded and supported by elites.
- It is a lie that there can be a populist movement
- Public opinion doesn't matter and is subordinate to official discourse, which everyone fakes, even if few genuinely believe it.
- Elites don't need public approval, disillusionment in the system increases their power
- Threats and resistance to the system can be exaggerated and used to strengthen the power of the system
Strategies
No Enemies to the Right? DC Miller vs Charles Haywood — @im_1776
Main article: [[Post-Libertarianism]]
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Tags: #right #nrx