tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post7571115632135808044..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Making a Prophet of MussoliniMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-82143521586535837222017-03-14T15:39:35.612-05:002017-03-14T15:39:35.612-05:00Maybe with European immigrants, but I find it hard...Maybe with European immigrants, but I find it hard to believe that any intewar nationalist would support non European immigration.Gordyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07268991248231105861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-6772478488377463522016-03-31T06:00:50.321-05:002016-03-31T06:00:50.321-05:00There is nothing new in these identity politics ma...There is nothing new in these identity politics machinations. Again and again, the people are corralled into opposing camps of statist ideologies. Socialism vs. Fascism, again. The elites split the difference. Hegel takes his free kick, and we have a synthesis of statist solutions. As you've noted elsewhere, reasonable voices are drowned out in the ensuing fray. In the end government continues the trend towards authoritarianism. <br /><br />I appreciate Monarchy when in the context of strong private property rights. Where migrants are being invited in or are otherwise engaging in voluntary associations with individuals, there is no issue. The problem begins when the republican governments choose to subsidize them.<br /><br />Contrast this to a Monarch taking personal responsibility for refugees. It all comes back to private property rights.V. Chemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15761930178957626298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-73232037789274943472016-03-01T10:47:19.621-06:002016-03-01T10:47:19.621-06:00In a democratic system millions of people are urge...In a democratic system millions of people are urged coopted or otherwise shamed in to voting for the lesser of two evils, in a monarchy one man is urged to do good. You tell me which one is more likely to do good.<br /><br />I have looked in to the dark hole of nationalism and have found no light at the end of that tunnel like all other systems it places man on top of all things and therefore it can not be a lasting system. I will say however that nationalism and communism are the different sides of the same coin forever divided one way or the other but perpetually united as symptoms of the same illness loss of the true Faith. <br /><br />In the end however nationalism may be the road back to Monarchy as it was with Francisco Franco also nationalism was the first fever of Christendom which was exasperated by the protestant revolt. So if we must go back may be it is through the way we have already traveled. Giovanni A. Cattaneohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06349146033236890779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-64212579919277045052016-02-21T19:06:59.409-06:002016-02-21T19:06:59.409-06:00Are you voting for Trump, Mad Monarchist? You woul...Are you voting for Trump, Mad Monarchist? You would certainly be an interesting endorsement for our God Emperor. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07262167592265829566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-6960001094416435982016-02-16T08:24:52.279-06:002016-02-16T08:24:52.279-06:00"socialism (because even the people who thoug...<i>"socialism (because even the people who thoughts Germans were a superior race didn’t think they were capable of succeeding in a competitive free market)"</i><br /><br />Both Jacobins and king Oscar II (the one Bernadotte I respect most, more than usurping predecessors - but I do respect two Catholic wivers of them - and more than voluntarily powerless and near socialist successors) would have agreed with not being free traders.<br /><br />"Not free trade, but fair trade" said Oscar II in his mémoires adressed to successors.<br /><br />Cheap merchandise is attractive with poor people, even when they do understand why it might make them poorer. If we compete with Chinamen, we might be obliged to do so by accepting Chinese competitive wages. And working hours. Not quite recommended by Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno, no.<br /><br />That side of Nazism was shared by Austrofascism. I have not read father Ignaz Seipel's (SJ) Wirtschaftsethische Lehre der Kirchenväter yet, but I'd like to. And I presume it says things like "you may have border customs against countries who produce under slave wages". Just as much as Chesterton did.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-29756505176945921842016-02-16T08:15:05.121-06:002016-02-16T08:15:05.121-06:00"one mocking Islam gets them all shot"
...<i>"one mocking Islam gets them all shot"</i><br /><br />I do not share this analysis of Charlie Hebdo massacre.<br /><br />One caricature contest mocking Mohammed got their redaction burnt and therefore moved another year.<br /><br />But Charlie Hebdo massacre was 7.I.2015, the day after Novus Ordo Christmas season was officially over. Still no Christian had protested publically against the very vile caricature of Christ and Our Lady in Nativity moment (obstreticist view!) which was Charlie Hebdo's Christmas issue or Christmas extra issue (perhaps it was an hors série).<br /><br />A moment before the shooting it was known (per internet I think) they had published or were going to publish or republish what they had already published on internet as a cartoon featuring Ahmedinajad with a pipe giving new years wishes "et surtout la santé". But the shooters did not say they were revenging the Ummah (supposing they considered Ahmedinajad as part of it) or of the Sharia (supposing they considered pipe smoking as haram and Western New Years wishes as haram). They said they were revenging "our prophet". And they count "Isa Ben Miriam" as their prophet too, though as subsidiary to Mohammed in some ways.<br /><br />So, if we Christians had taken our turn in sabotaging the rooms where Charlie Hebdo were doing their vile work, we might have saved the lives of men like Cabu and company.<br /><br />They might have said "oh, the Christians did avange the honour of their prophet" instead of "we have revenged the honour of our prophet". The killers, not Cabu and company, of course, would have been saying that instead of being killers.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-34593656370616765522016-02-16T08:04:23.908-06:002016-02-16T08:04:23.908-06:00"The only problem which they seemed to have o...<i>"The only problem which they seemed to have overlooked is that there is one group of people who do not mind being called Nazis and that is the modern-day Nazis themselves."</i><br /><br />Guess why they think I might be less frustrated as a Nazi than as the Austro-Fascist I am ...Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-17187594799376857862016-02-15T21:36:32.945-06:002016-02-15T21:36:32.945-06:00Brilliant commentary and we are so fortunate to ha...Brilliant commentary and we are so fortunate to have your return. We don't need to be consumed by hate, but affirm the love our own – our traditions, our people. The modern ideology of liberalism (especially embodied in Merkel) has duped us long enough. Ponocrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14768418263263048150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-45757453029026045112016-02-15T18:29:38.310-06:002016-02-15T18:29:38.310-06:00@Kaiser Louis-Philip V: I would go back further st...@Kaiser Louis-Philip V: I would go back further still, to the Protestant Reformation. I see little difference between desiring a "balance of power" between sovereign nations instead of an ultimate monarchy (like the Holy Roman Emperor), on the one hand, and desiring no monarch at the sovereign level but instead a "balance of power" in a republican sense within a nation.<br /><br />Frankly I suspect that desire for a "balance of power" is what prompted something like Napoleon in the first place. No one legitimately occupied the top position so he tried to seize it for himself. I mean, what's uniting Europe when there is no one faith uniting them, and when there is no universal monarchy but a "balance of power" which cannot be enforced from below--and therefore what's stopping wars like the War of the Spanish Succession, and other such wars that happened before the French Revolution?Michael E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03388855678756001137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-36596920768377584922016-02-15T16:04:45.623-06:002016-02-15T16:04:45.623-06:00I'm certainly seeing this and have been for a ...I'm certainly seeing this and have been for a while. As a wise Austrian once said, the truly educated man sees the problems of today as a result of the French Revolution, not the Great Wars.<br /><br />We need to resist the temptation to allow hate to consume us and strengthen our own base.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14148584087910957605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-60925716229165820282016-02-14T12:10:55.736-06:002016-02-14T12:10:55.736-06:00Ideology is bad. Keep posting. Thank you.Ideology is bad. Keep posting. Thank you.Merry Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08186295943921770340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-14269121824758194342016-02-13T03:58:31.444-06:002016-02-13T03:58:31.444-06:00MM,
I know your sentiments, I know them well. It ...MM,<br /><br />I know your sentiments, I know them well. It seems left from right has a stretch, a strong polarization, that they inevitably pull to the far sides until they just split apart. I know that you don't consider fascism/national socialism as the "far right", but people see socialism more viable these days. Especially with the "refugee" crisis, I feel that extremes are only justified. The internationalists do not stop, not at all, in approaching their goals. Nationalism, at core, seems much more as an answer. I don't see nationalism as a bad thing either, and I'm very sympathetic to nationalism in general. That's just how vilified it's become.<br /><br />You have been hinting at this, and I noticed a lot of buildup and concern for the future. I know what you mean, when addressing fascists/nationalsocialists, how conservatives/reactionaries can be pushed aside or repressed. Monarchists, somehow, seem to be involved with these groups. <br /><br />How about monarchies? I know they're on a sharp decline (hm?), but if the monarchy lasts what might happen? It's hopeful, but I like to imagine a new generation of royals that change with society. Education and tradition, if all possible, a guideline for them to value their roles as sovereigns.<br /><br />I have a feeling you're taking a dark turn for the future, though. Can't say I blame you.<br /><br />Another thing: Dislike constantly hearing jibber-jabber about modern royals and monarchies of today declining. Aren't there instances where today's monarchs are being influential or maintaining the tradition? <br />PositiveManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18015119153080963610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-36106461814445822792016-02-13T03:51:31.873-06:002016-02-13T03:51:31.873-06:00There is much to admire about Mussolini.
I'm ...There is much to admire about Mussolini.<br /><br />I'm not sure that if he was around today he would be supporting any of the kneejerk anti-immigration parties of Europe today. The issues of the 1930s were very different from the issues of today.<br /><br />I suspect his socialist instincts would make him feel that hostility to immigrants was a bit too bourgeois. He would have certainly wanted immigrants too assimilate and to identify as Italian.Matthew Celestinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02874430461346560520noreply@blogger.com