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Imagine if the French Rioters Were Hard Right!
I checked with Google Search, planning to enter “france school riots” but noticed that when I got to “france school “ it filled the rest in with “protest”. And needless to say the top three entries were from Reuters, BBC, and AP News.
Imagine if “hard right” groups had been “protesting” in France over, say, woke school indoctrination. You know how that would have been reported. The reports would describe the events as violent riots and emphasize that the groups organizing the protests were neo-fascist insurrectionist paramilitaries, worse than the KKK: Literally Hitler.
Is not AntiFa a hard-left insurrectionist paramilitary force?
Look, let’s not get our knickers in a twist, and just understand. When the media reports “mostly peaceful protests” it means that the rioters are basically part of the ruling class community. When the media reports on the right, PBS…
Five years ago on Friday, extremists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia in a violent demonstration that forced the city and the nation to confront the growing threats of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
Yes, the tiki-torchers at Charlottesville were all about “extremists” and “white supremacy and domestic terrorism.” But I am not seeing the same attitude towards the widespread violent and arsonist riots in France this month.
Because? Because, we are to understand, the French riots are being run by “student groups like the Union Syndicale Lycéenne (USL), teachers’ unions such as SNES-FSU, and broader civic coalitions.”
Only in a later paragraph do we read that:
French intelligence briefed government crisis meetings that the hard-left political party La France Insoumise (LFI), led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and its political proxies have helped organize and fan the flames of the urban unrest[.]
Conspiracy theorists believe that Muslim terror groups are involved as well.
Here’s a thought. Suppose the riots are indeed being run by the hard-left. What is the purpose? Does the hard-left think that riots in the streets will persuade the French voters not to vote for the hard-right and the National Rally?
I have an idea. The hard-left is rioting because that is all they know how to do, to funnel the money, to organize street protests and print the protest signs and bus the protesters and rehearse the slogans.
As Björn Merker says, the left are “partisans of overthrow.” The only thing they know is to overthrow the current regime and create a better world. Only, of course, all the student organizations, all the employee unions, all the protest groups are in fact “adjacent” to the ruling class.
What are they thinking? Answer: they are not thinking. They are just doing their thing, and their thing is street protest.
But why? I like to say that the current regime is an alliance of the upper, educated, class and the lower, migrant, class. So, the scions of the upper class spend their youth organizing the lower-class migrants for Justice. It’s all part of their “political formula”, the justification of their power. They call it Allyism, that they are the Allies of the Oppressed in their fight against the hard-right neo-Nazi Oppressors. In fact, of course, the hard-right neo-Nazi Oppressors are merely the ordinary middle class that’s not really into politics and protest and street action.
How does it all turn out? Nobody knows. But what I feel is that the current ruling class has no idea what to do, other than doing what it does already, which is to lambast the “hard-right” and rile up their supporters to protest against Injustice, and keep the programs and grants and fraud going.
I suppose the big question is whether our rulers are prepared to go to the lengths reached by the CCP in 1989 in Tienanmen Square or the Iranian regime in the January 2026 riots. Or just sit there letting the country go to rack and ruin like the Castro regime in Cuba.
But, really, my guess is that our educated-class rulers really have No Clue, and all I know is that things will get worse before they get better.
| Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:13:12 GMT |
On Individualism, Collectivism, and Community
America’s leading Ugandan-American philosopher said last year that
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
And I say “that’s a lie”, with all the sincerity of George Bailey.
Let’s line up the guns.
Just a few days ago, I saw a piece titled:
The Collective is the Enemy of the Community.
Why? Because “socialism’s coercive collectivism destroys the voluntary relationships that sustain” community.
And that aligns with the message in Björn Merker’s book Perishing Promise, that the voluntary organizations that weaved through Victorian England created a vibrant community, while the “partisans of overthrow”, the fans of collectivism, were devoted not just to overthrowing the political status quo but abolishing the community of ordinary people in England.
Today I got to read a piece about Cuba. There are only “a few hours a day of electricity” each day, and the “the average worker pulls down $16 per month”. After 65 years of socialist rule, the country is so flat broke that it ain’t funny. The current Cuban GDP is around $100 billion using the official exchange rate of 24 Cuban pesos per dollar. Which would be about $9,000 per capita. But if the exchange rate is really 700 pesos per dollar, the GDP would be about $300 per capita. Let’s see: a wage of $16 per month rounds up to $192 per year.
I wonder which is closer to reality.
And yet the Cuban military rules Cuba with an iron fist. Like the IRGC in Iran. Strictly speaking, they don’t have socialism, because the Cuban military owns GAESA, and GAESA “owns the ports, the hotels, the gas stations, and most of the other large commercial entities in Cuba”. You wonder what it would take to get regime change in those two benighted countries.
That makes me wonder: what made the Soviet Union break up in 1991? Because as long as the government has all the guns and doesn’t hesitate to use them…
Anyway, whatever the philosophers say, I wouldn’t say that there is any warmth in the collectivism in Cuba. It would be more accurate to speak of the frigidity of rugged totalitarianism. And “The Collective is the Enemy of the Community”: see above.
On the contrary, if you want to talk about “warmth”, how about the spark of creativity in the Greek notion of “thumos”? Greek scholar Marco Rubio put it this way.
The thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it – the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride – is the heart of great civilization.
Get it? Thumos is fire: “passion, strength, courage, pride”. And fire is warm. Hot even.
Let’s reset the temperature graph from the misleading ideas of our Ugandan-American friends. But first, let’s remind ourselves what community looks like as described by Björn Merker in Perishing Promise. It means a universe of voluntary associations, including:
self-help and mutual-aid societies… charity schools, ragged schools (for destitute children and orphans), Sunday schools, societies to promote piety and virtue, others for the relief of aged widows, penitent prostitutes, the dear, dumb, blind, and otherwise incapacitated, mothers meetings, soup kitchens, maternity charities, crèches… working men’s associations, slate clubs, medical clubs, lending libraries, natural history societies… holiday funds, penny banks, saving banks, visiting societies, temperance societies, pension societies, and more.
The point is that, if everyone in society is doing their bit in some voluntary association, what you get is “the warmth of community”.
So let’s understand the world this way:
Thumos, the fire of individual passion and strength and creativity, is HOT.
Community, the universe of people volunteering together, is WARM.
Collectivity, the broken world of serfs under government domination, is COLD.
This really is not hard, is it.
| Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:24:55 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Politician: follow me or you will all be killed. Priest: follow me or you will go to Hell.
When a political movement achieves its objectives it doesn’t go home.
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: The Human Rubble from the Rulers' Failures
