The Counterrevolution
Up until know we have looked at failed counterrevolutions, those of The Holy Alliance and the National Movements, and now we are tasked with the following question: what would a successful counterrevolution look like?
First, a successful counterrevolution would not be a mass movement. Joseph de Maistre tells us, “The people count for nothing in revolutions, or at least they enter into them only as a passive instrument. Four or five people, perhaps, will give to France a king.”1 The counterrevolution will be a radical shift of government, a complete rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement with something else. Radical shifts in government are engineered by the few. A contemporary example is George Soros’ criminal justice revolution, conducted by one man dolling out tens of millions of dollars to progressive district attorneys and sweeping major cities across the United States. Was this a change of government? A shift from one system to another? Not in the strict sense, but it is an example of one man significantly changing the political landscape of a very large country. Imagine, to use de Maistre’s numbers, four or five right-wing Soros’. We could imagine that, after enough planning and enough rubbing shoulders with donors, a whole cohort of counterrevolutionaries sweeping the House and Senate. Because of the way America’s elections are set up, a majority would not be possible, but a plurality of counterrevolutionary candidates would be. A plurality would not be a bad thing, because it would be able to bully other members of Congress into supporting their policies.
Sounds nice, but where do you get the money to do this? The answer is donors. There exists a whole class of people who spends most of their disposable income on elections…and by income, I mean serious money. For every policy you can think of, there exists an institution specifically dedicated to advancing that policy and that is a good place to start looking for donors. A second place to look is the donor list of past candidates (follow the money and open secrets are good resources). Besides this, you have to get your feet wet in the politicking business and make personal relationships. If you are serious about counterrevolution, you will know where to go from here.
But how do we sell the product to donors? It is good that you used the word “product”, because that is exactly what you are selling. There are two things that get donors excited. First, if you can demonstrate that your candidates win. Donors love proximity to power, and giving money to a winning candidate, money that wins elections, is a sweet sweet taste. Winners get money, so either rack up some wins first or be capable of demonstrating that you are likely to win. Second, if you can advance a donor’s pet issue then you will bathe in a money shower.
The next question you have is probably something like this: what is the product? What is the platform? Since this series is on counterrevolution in general, and not what Withered Rose would want the counterrevolution to look like, I will not give specifics but guidelines. Your platform should be economic rather than social. Our economy is, and I know the internet fascists will tar and feather me for this, corporatist. Private companies are subordinate to, but subsidized by, the state. Despite the libertarians, the only problem with this arrangement is who is being subsidized and for what state goal. As it stands in 2022, the American people have been pushed aside in favor of a cabal of multinational mega corps who are tied to together by their alliance with usury. If the arrangement was altered so that the American people were subsidized for the purpose of national strength, you would 1) gain an electoral supermajority (even for just advocating this), 2) be received as a post-partisan hero, and 3) have the political capital to enact more radical changes.
This economic realignment does two very things at once. First, it creates an American economy: an economy centered around the small businesses that built America. Second, it strips away economic power from the current regime. As outlined here, the current regime, which is more or less synonymous with the current economic situation, is entirely the product government subsidies…and can be broken by removing those subsidies. Our people are empowered, while our enemies are disenfranchised.
As the economic realignment is being brought in, the completion of which will leave our enemy’s institutions destitute and our people strong, governmental change can be ushered in. What this looks like is up to the counterrevolutionary of tomorrow. Whether monarchy, republic, autocracy, or some new form or government, it does not matter. What matters is how it is implemented. Establishment politicians and D.C lifers will be made to confess how democracy is actually the rule of money, not the rule of the people. How it will happen will be analogous to Kai Murros’ description of red academia being ousted in the coming English national revolution:
“For this historic task an entirely new type of shock troops should be created: the Nationalist Khmer Noir commandos. Raised from the ranks of the working-class, clad in black hoodies, covering their faces in black and white checkered scarfs, the young fanatics of the movement will storm the universities, break into the classrooms, and tear the academics from their podiums!
The red academics will be forced to admit their crimes against the English people in mass rallies. They will publicly confess how they have always conspired against the English people, how they have always hated the English people, and how they have always fantasized about hurting the English people. After this the red academics will be forced to face the wrath of the masses.
The parasite intellectuals will be, at all times, forced to carry signs declaring their evil schemes against the English people. They will be forced to explain, in detail, the methods and techniques they used in deceiving you. You will make them describe again and again how they dreamt about England’s death, how elated they were when they could see everything turn into ruins, and, especially, how they rejoiced seeing the desperation of the English people. After this you will throw them to the raging masses.”2
Murros believes in the mass movement, himself a student of Mao’s revolution (he did his master’s thesis on Mao and later wrote a book updating Mao’s theses for the 21st century), whereas I side with de Maistre in thinking that only four or five committed men are needed for counterrevolution. Because of this difference, instead of the Khmer Noir I would recommend a standard police arrest. Essential to Murros’ description is that justice is a people’s justice, even if that simply means the crowd calling for the political establishment’s imprisonment. Partisanship cannot be allowed, the people, not the counterrevolutionaries, must be responsible. If it were the other way round, it would be perceived, and perhaps rightfully so, as partisan coup d'état.
Following the people’s justice, the members of Congress brought in by the counterrevolutionaries will use this event to call for governmental reform. As January Sixth is being used by the Democrats, so this event will be used to justify all measures. The people will be better off economically than they have been in over a hundred years, they will be enraged by the revealed secrets, plots, and hatred confessed by the establishment, and our enemies will be completely bankrupt. It is at this point that governmental change can occur, and it is only at this point that governmental change can occur. This counterrevolution will be favored by the whole of the people, even by those who formally considered themselves on the left or conservative.
Let us end with another quote from de Maistre:
“But when man works to restore order, he associates himself with the Author of order; he is favored by nature, that is, by the ensemble of secondary forces which are the ministers of Divinity. His actions have something of the divine in it, being at once gentle and imperious; it forces nothing, and nothing resists it; in arranging, it restores health; as it acts, we see disquiet calmed, that painful agitation which is the effect and the symptom of disorder; just as, under the hand of the skilled surgeon, it is apparent by the cessation of pain that the dislocated joint has been put right.”3
Joseph de Maistre. Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Major Works, Vol. 1. Considerations On France. Imperium Press 2021. 121.
Kai Murris. Collected Speeches. Antelope Hill Publishing, 2021. 86
Joseph de Maistre. Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Major Works, Vol. 1. Considerations On France. Imperium Press 2021. 126