FATHER FRANK’S RANTS - Racism from Mars

Rant Number 471 5 January 2012

It is a truth universally acknowledged that racism is a heinous crime. A racism-bearer is an odious, loathsome, monstrous creature. A bit like the repulsive Martian aliens science-fiction used to portray. They disgusted you, they made your flesh creep, they turned your stomach. A racist is like that.

Yet, it was not always so. Martians walked the earth once. They lived in the heart of Europe. In perhaps the most civilised, cultured nation of all. Racism became enshrined in the very laws of Europe. It prospered, it thrived, it conquered – indeed, racism came very close to ruling the world. Prior to that, racism was a book, Mein Kampf. The Martian who wrote that was Adolf Hitler.

Martian Adolf followed almost literally the ideas of another Martian, that eccentric Englishman (groan...why is it at the roots of much mischief you usually find an Englishman?), Houston Steward Chamberlain. (To be fair, Martian Frenchmen like Vacher de Lapouge and Arthur de Gobineau also tilled the racist soil but it is the French’s sad lot to be pipped at the post.)Three races exist: races that create civilisation, races that ‘adopt’ a civilisation and races destructive of civilisation. The first are the Aryans, the second, say, the Japanese and any westernised races, and the third, alas, the Jews. Below that are dark, turbid races and peoples so inferior to escape classification, like the pariahs, the untouchables of Aryan India.

Hitler admitted there were no quite ‘pure’ races. There was a gradation. After the Aryans came alpine races, then ‘dinaric’ races, ‘vestids’, races of ‘redemption’ and some such peculiar taxonomies. Yet, miscegenation, race-mixing, the poisoning of Aryan blood for the Martian mind is the greatest danger. Mixed marriages must be forbidden in the new Martian state. Not national-socialism but national-racism should be properly termed the Martian ideal. The state is like a vessel containing that infinitely precious thing, the Aryan blood. The state is hence to be not an end in itself, Hitler says, but a means to an end: the defence of the Aryan-Martian race.

Martian concept of citizenship is radically at odds with the modern, Western concept. ‘We do not inquire as to a man’s race or religion, but only if he is a good citizen’ said C.M. Doughty to an Arab in answer to a question about the status of Jews in Britain. Hitler perceived that as a scandal. ‘Citizenship is not like membership of the Automobile Club’, he foamed. ‘No bureaucrat can turn a Zulu or a Hottentot into a pure German’, the Martian went on. Only race, birth and blood can give rise to citizenship, followed by an oath of loyalty to the Aryan community and the racist Reich. So, there.

This idolatry of an Aryan Reich based on pure blood annoyed even Martians of different ilk. Baron Julius Evola, for example, was disturbed by the claim in Mein Kampf that ‘to be an Aryan dustman in the racist Reich is a greater honour than to be king of foreign state’. Evola, Italian malgre lui, detected in that a ‘degradation’ of the race ideal. His own racism, like that of de Gobineau, was strictly confined to elites, to aristocratic strata. A snobbish type of racism, huh! Therefore Evola did not scruple to agree with Trotzky in calling national racism a form of ‘zoological materialism’. His own nebulous doctrine of ‘spiritual’ racism was the remedy for that aberration...

Hitler the Martian definitely did not like missionaries. (Muslim friends, pay attention, please!). For him, Christian missionaries neglected their Aryan flocks to convert inferior races in Africa. The result could only be further miscegenation, bastardisation and so on. A bizarre Martian God, however, is invoked to uphold a vision of marriage intended to generate creatures made in the Lord’s image, ‘not abortions half-way between man and monkeys’.

Paragraph 19 of the National-Socialist Party’s programme demanded that ‘Roman Law, servant of a materialistic world conception, should be replaced with German common law’. Yes, the Martians’ demand made sense. Roman Law was in principles universalistic. When Emperor Caracalla in 212 AD widened Roman citizenship to all the free peoples of the Empire, the universal afflatus of Roman jurisprudence was fulfilled. Christianity, a worldwide, non-racial religion open to all, perfected the vision. The Martian mind sought to reverse that. When Hitler came to power the Nuremberg laws on citizenship and race saw to it that the fatal shift from Rome to Mars was indeed implemented.

An indifferent and confused 60’s book, Morning of the Magicians, plugged the claim that Nazism was indeed like an invasion from another planet. Other, shrewder thinkers like George Mosse, drew attentions to many of Hitler’s harbingers and forerunners. They were not extra-terrestrials but men and scholars belonging to distinctly earthly and human cultural traditions. Martian symbolism may be apposite to express contemporary human feelings and emotions about the alienness of racist ideologies but it is intellectually inaccurate and misleading. Racists are not from Mars but from this human, all too human world. Thus, the priest’s use of Martian language is just rhetoric, no more.

Martians are dead. Racism is now universally execrated and illegal. Still, Brendan O’Neill, in a most provocative article in spiked-online, has accused the British indigenous cultural elite of ruthlessly exploiting the tragic case of Stephen Lawrence – the boy murdered 18 years ago in Eltham, a London working class district. The culprits have been sentenced as guilty at the trial’s end but O’Neill says the verdict was not justice but politics. A showtrial, no less. A case of British elites demonising the white working class. A ‘moral crusade against Old Britain and its foul, backward, inhabitants.’

O’Neill and his Spike fellows emanate from the Left of British politics and are hence above suspicion. Maybe there is something in what he writes. Nice white liberals who feels so morally superior to ordinary, grass-roots Brits and their ‘prejudices’ exist. But it is a curious argument. With strange echoes. Count De Gobineau saw a pure Aryan race predominant amongst the French noblemen while the working class descended from inferior strata. The French revolution for him was a racial rebellion of the low against their blood superiors. Racial snobbery ruled OK. Do we perhaps behold now another type of ‘inverted racism’ snobbery against working class Britons?

Domine libera nos! May the Lord save us from that.

Revd Frank Julian Gelli