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RIGHT AND LEFT IN STATE, SOCIETY, CHURCH, ECONOMY AND DAILY LIFE
ABBREVIATIONS: D = “Democracy” (National Democracy, Radical Democracy, Jacobinsim)
NS = National Socialism (Fascism)
SC = Socialism, Communism
Left (perspective)
LIFE
a) Slavery and Coercion
Equality is achieved by slavery and coercion (SC). Equality is only possible if we remove the mountain tops and fill the valleys. Full mobilization of envy to foster equality by taxation (D) or confiscation (SC) or “naturalization” (SC,NS).
b) Identity (Sameness)
Political equality of the uneducated and unexperienced (D), sameness of language, custom, way of life (D,NS), sameness of race (NS), sameness of class (SC—Theory).
c) Quantitativism
Moral conclusions are drawn from the moral or intellectual propensities of the many (D) at elections, plebiscites, polls, sex-investigations.
MAN
The individual is subject to the will of the majority (volonté générale). He is a mere number in the “democratic process” (D), who can be added or subtracted. He is embodied and personified by a “leader” (Führer, Duce, Vozhd) (NS) or by a delegate (D). The individual is nothing—the “People” everything (D,NS,SC). The individual is a mere fragment of the “collective masses” (SC). “Nobody is indispensable” (D). Man is a creature of the stomach and wallet (SC), the reproductive organs (NS) or of the larynx (D).
LIFE
a) Slavery and Coercion
Equality is achieved by slavery and coercion (SC). Equality is only possible if we remove the mountain tops and fill the valleys. Full mobilization of envy to foster equality by taxation (D) or confiscation (SC) or “naturalization” (SC,NS).
b) Identity (Sameness)
Political equality of the uneducated and unexperienced (D), sameness of language, custom, way of life (D,NS), sameness of race (NS), sameness of class (SC—Theory).
c) Quantitativism
Moral conclusions are drawn from the moral or intellectual propensities of the many (D) at elections, plebiscites, polls, sex-investigations.
STATE
The State as ultima ratio and end in itself:
Monolithic structure (centralized, unitary state), absolutism of monarchs, leaders, dictators but also of parliamentary majorities (D,NS,SC). “Politics.” The citizen is the subject (serf, slave) of the State (NS,SC).
The “interest of the State” takes the place of the common weal. Centralization, statism, geometrism and identitarianism in the administration (D,NS,SC). Opposition to all private spheres, to all “privileges.”
To be different as such becomes a crime (D,NS,SC).
SOCIETY
Structure: No estates, but “classes.” Tendency towards the amorphous, towards the static, the egalitarian or identitarian mania, or towards a new caste system. Mass movements: Dominion of the instincts and the passions. Bureaucratic reactions against tendencies leading to chaos and anarchy.
NATION
Nationalism of an ethnic order (D,NS) or racism (NS): Complete unity within the framework of the State. Antinomian reactions: Internationalism, grey worldwide uniformity (D,SC).
CHURCH & FAITH
Either complete hostile annexation of the Church (“Josephinistic” establishments under State control) or persecution of the Church by separation. Religion then is first removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The State will not tolerate any gods besides itself (D,NS,SC).
POLITICAL STRUCTURE
All problems, all matters of individuals and of groups are always left to the discretion of the central government, which cannot tolerate any autonomous developments. The end of all private and local enterprise, or at least of the spirit sustaining them. Repression of all “minorities,” of all dissenting groups (D,NS,SC).
IDEALS
Utopianism. The nihilistic tendency to recreate and refashion all forms of human existence after a tabula rasa of total revolution (D,NS,SC). Total planning and “social engineering,” methodical uprooting. Geometrism and symetrism instead of organic growth. Life as a “mathematical formula.” The expectation of a social and technological paradise on earth either after a series of revolutionary hells (NS,SC), with appeals to accept sacrifices for coming generations, or along the lines of an endless, evolutionary, humanitarian “progress” (D).
WELFARE
The material security of the individual is entirely in the hands of a provider state, which controls the material weal of the citizenry through a centralized agency. “Welfare” as opium of the people and as tool of the cold or hot totalitarianism. The controls are directed at the “weak points” of the defenseless individual: old age, unemployment, illness. Practical affinity between the provider state and socialism (D,NS,SC).
LAWS
Legal Positivism. The “law” in the service of a triumphant ideology. Laws are “made.” Justice is prescribed and fabricated, not “looked for” and found (D,NS,SC).
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Efforts to refashion all other nations after one’s own image. Eternal crusades motivated by the spirit of a (usually only subconscious) imperialism of structural forms (D,SC). Local crusades for the liberation of “underdogs” and other “enslaved minorities,” “democracy” (Wilson, Lloyd George, Roosevelt), national socialism and communism as modern “Islamic movements” engaged in Djihads, “holy wars.”
INSTRUCTION & EDUCATION
Uniform education according to a uniform scheme “for all,” thus coddling the worst and stultifying the most talented. State monopoly in education which tries to be education and not mere instruction, thus increasingly arrogating the rights of parents. Cutting or totally eliminating religious instruction (D,NS,SC).
ECONOMICS
Either paleo-liberalism, which leads to the concentration of wealth in very few, if not “one,” hand (monopolies), which then can be expropriated or controlled by totalitarian states and only theoretically continue to figure as “private property” (D,NS) or State capitalism (socialism), where the State owns everything. Currency completely controlled by (SC) the State (occasionally laws against private ownership of precious metals and coins). Robbing of the money-saving citizen by inflation and sly expropriation through excessive taxes (D,NS,C).
THE SEXES
a) Sexes: equal.
b) Family: relative and horizontal (therefore “generation gaps”).
Relativism due to the “sand heap” concept of society as simultaneously individualistic and collectivist: many grains, one heap.
HUMAN COHESION
Power. (Naked power, terror).
Fear and resentment.
Right
MAN
A person with an intransferable destiny, unique, created in the image of God, responsible to God, endowed with an immortal soul. A creature with “heart” and “reason” (ratio directed towards wisdom and knowledge). Enfeebled by original sin, but not just a “product of environment.”
LIFE
a) Freedom
“Equality” is merely accepted as an “administrative simplification” and as a fraternal attitude towards others, because we do not know exactly who is superior to whom, who stands nearer to God who alone knows the full truth.
b) Diversity
Joy in the diversity and in the richness of all forms of creation.
c) Efforts towards perfection and excellence
Realization of the “royal priesthood of all believers.”
Timocracy.
STATE
Guardian of the freedom and dignity of man:
“Mixed government” with an interior balance. Tendency towards a “patriarchal” (even hereditary) monarchical head. “Statesmanship.” The people always asked for their desires and these are seriously taken into consideration without being accepted as ultima ratio. They are not placed above knowledge, reason and experience. Primacy of quality over quantity. Administration of an elitarian, nonpolitical character. Church and State, State and society as separate entities—although cooperating. The State is the servant of the common weal, the servant of the people’s true interests. The federal principle and personal freedom are the guiding stars of its structure and function.
SOCIETY
Estates, not “classes.” An “open society.” The estates are functional. They are not hierarchic units, not castes. Demophily. Leadership of changing, but tradition-connected (not tradition-determined) elites.
NATION
Patriotism and Supranationalism. Unity in diversity.
CHURCH & FAITH
Church and State are separate, but cooperate as equals within society in all domains where their collaboration and mutual understanding are indispensable (school, legislation, spiritual care of the army, the prisoners, hospital inmates, care of certain art treasures). Such cooperation with several churches (or non-Christian denominations) is (by experience) as feasible as with a single one.
POLITICAL STRUCTURE
Principle of Subsidiarity. In state and society the larger (higher) unit only then becomes active and effective when the smaller (lower, more immediate) is incapable of coping with the problems: Where the person fails, the family takes action; where the family fails, society steps in; where society is powerless, small and then progressively larger political units come into play. The necessity of creating small “kingdoms” in which the person can be sovereign.
IDEALS
Development in the light of tradition. (Without tradition there is no progress, but endless fresh starts from zero.) Respect for the achievements of the past and institutions organically grown. Progress through additions, corrections, adaptations. Full comprehensions for the glories, but also for the limitations of man. “Sovereign,” which means objective and thoughtful, attitude towards the world “organic concept” of life.
WELFARE
“Social security’’ through general prosperity and respect for the independence of the person. Ideal climate for acquiring and retaining property which, except for the “saint,” is indispensable for his liberty. In the financial-material crisis of the person his primary sources of aid are the family, cooperatives, professional associations, charities. The State intervenes only where all other agents fail. Fostering of the natural virtues: saving, providence, planning.
LAWS
Legislation, the law, jurisdiction are based on the natural law, on revelation, on tradition, on intelligent differentiation. Motto: suum cuique.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Acceptance of the fact that the nations are different, ofter radically different from each other; that they have, therefore, different traditions, institutions and dreams. Nevertheless: distinction between the political genius of the various nations and political-ideological aberrations which might menace the well-being of the world.
INSTRUCTION & EDUCATION
The principle of the natural aristoi. Intellectual-moral selectiveness coupled with the effort to ensure the social rise of the more gifted and more laborious. Instruction and education for a full and noble life. Respect for the rights of the parents. Importance of religious instruction. Public, private and/or corporate education.
ECONOMICS
Free market economy with free competition but also protection for the free choice of the consumer. A sensible (not petty) intervention of the State to keep competition alive. Emotional attachment of the workers to their enterprises—affection for and pride in them. Facilities for acquiring capital. Absolute stability of the currencies.
THE SEXES
a) Sexes: Here too the principle, “to everybody his due.”
b) Family: Vertical, hence dynastic feelings tying together the generations. Absolute. The family as cell of society and State. It is also the frame for the development of the personality. Families are as different as personalities are.
HUMAN COHESION
Authority. (Direction through inner ties, not outside pressure.) Love and respect.