Counterrevolution: Introduction
All men of the right wish one thing and one thing only: counterrevolution. To return to principles prior to 1789, to undo the subversion called Jacobinism, Liberalism, Bolshevism, and whatever other names that may come to us later on, this is the one wish of the right. How this wish is expressed differs according to temperament, religious creed, and nationality, but the core is the same: let us be governed by law, not popular whim; let us kneel before the altar, not public opinion; let us by ruled by gentlemen, not oligarchs; let us respect ancient privileges, not the supposed Rights of Man. Yes, some of us think back to Anglican England, others Puritan America, some Catholic France, and still others Orthodox Russia, but we all dream the dream of a post-revolutionary civilization.
Since the Jacobins began to, to quote Ion Mota, fire machine guns in the face of God, there have been plans, and attempts, to launch a counterrevolution. Two notable attempts were the Holy Alliance of 1815, and the national movements of the interwar years. Tsar Alexander I formed a front, in 1815, with Prussia and Austria to hold back the Jacobin hordes, and then the Napoleonic invasions of Europe, hoping that through this holy alliance, Europe may be brought back to throne and altar. Unfortunately, this attempt failed. After World War One, nationalism replaced throne and altar reaction. Mussolini, Hitler, Codreanu, Franco, Salazar, Metaxas, and Degrelle sought to bring their respective countries out of democracy, while avoiding the communist alternative, and into an autocracy supported by a corporatist economy. This, too, failed. Though these two moments in history were markedly different, not only in terms of circumstance, but also in spirit and tenor, both were attempted counterrevolutions.
In America, unlike Europe, there was never a violent overthrow of the old order, by which I mean the English system of governance that we inherited from Britain. Democracy, you have to remember that America was originally a republic, crept in slowly and non-violently. A significant moment in this gradual creep was in 1913, in which the seventeenth amendment was passed, allowing senators to be elected by the public, rather than by state legislatures. Since there was never a violent imposition of democracy and Jacobin prejudices, there was never a violent attempt to shake them off. From time to time there were people like Henry Adams, John C. Calhoun, Huey Long, T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound, who either tried to stem the tide of rampant Jacobinism, ameliorate democracy, or tried to present a more beautiful vision, and it is to such men as these that the American right can look for inspiration.
But here we are, in 2022 and no counterrevolution has succeeded. In this series we will be looking at why a counterrevolution has not succeeded, what obstacles present themselves, and how to overcome them. Yes, for free, I will give a basic blueprint for future counterrevolutionaries. In the next installments of this series, we will look at:
Why the Holy Alliance Failed
Why the National Movements Failed
Launching a Counterrevolution
Obstacle One: The Media
Obstacle Two: The Military
Obstacle Three: NGOs
How to Cement Power
Quite an offer, huh? A blueprint to a successful counterrevolution? I might need some extra coffee and cigarettes for this, so if you can chip in a bit for the lost cause known as Withered Rose.