Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:04:18 -0400 From: Paul Kneisel <tallpaul-AT-nyct.net> Subject: FASCISM AS A NECROPHILLIC PHENOMENON FASCISM AS A NECROPHILLIC PHENOMENON tallpaul (Paul Kneisel) The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 25 May 2001 Vol. 5, Number 40 (#558) Miguel de Unamuno was a philosopher that lived most of his life in Spain. [In a confrontation with fascist General Milan-Astray at the University of Salamanca on October 12, 1936, he proclaimed] 'At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right'." Milan-Astray shouted in reply, 'Death to intelligence! And long live Death!' whereupon he drove the elderly Unamuno out of the university at gunpoint." -- Rich Geib's Heros < http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/unamuno/unamuno.html> In "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" social-psychologist Erich Fromm presented a theory of biophillic life-affirming and Necrophillic death- obsessed personalities. The metaphorical Necrophillic aspects of fascism can be easily noted in the black uniforms of the SS and their deaths-head insignia. But referring to a "necrophillic personality" after Auschwitz is like referring to "moisture" after a tidal wave. Between the necrophillic deaths-head as metaphor and the unmediated necrophillia of the death camps lies necrophillia as ideology and nowhere is this seen more than through Milan- Astray's slogan. Evidence for this rests not with the fact that one fascist general uttered the words but rather that the words have been adopted as a slogan by some many other fascist groups. The slogan is most often found within that fascist tendency known under various names like "The International Third Position" (so-called because it claims to support neither capitalism nor communism), "National Bolsheviks," "National Anarchists," "Strasserites," and even "Libertarian Socialists." But the necrophillic cry "Long Live Death!" is common to them all. It is found even among the cultural ostensible heroes of the ideology, like Boyd Rice.[1] The slogan is presented at their "clubs" on the net,[2] related foundations[3], journals like "The Final Conflict,"[4], and specialized discussion lists.[5] "Liberals, reactionaries and other full time losers have often scoffed at the N[ational] R[evolutionary] 'greeting' Long Live Death!," writes "Final Conflict."[4] The journal goes on to proclaim "Let the liberals and morons take note! 'Long Live Death!' is not the advocacy of genocide. It is the fraternal salute, the greeting which acknowledges that Revolutionary Nationalists are prepared to sacrifice all in service of their noble cause, unlike the career politicians and corrupt bureaucrats of the political parties whose only interest is flattery and finance. It has been cried over battlefields, pronounced in jails and daubed on walls throughout Europe. Long may it continue to do so!" This rationalization for the slogan is clearly at odds with Milan-Astray's argument against Unamuno's biophillic appeal to "Reason and Right." Fromm's neo-Freudians was largely based on his notion that the unconscious material first described by Sigmund Freud was metaphorical rather than literal. The net, however, creates or permits situations where very raw material from the unconscious can be presented to the world. Non-clinical psychoanalytic research from the net lets us look at this and, in this case, see that the necrophillic propensities of the fascist movement are far from metaphorical. Let us use the fascist group "Black Vanguard" and its web site as an example.6] We are greeted with a photo ostensibly of Elizabeth Bathory[7]. According to Black Vanguard's sources she was "was alleged to have raped, tortured and killed over 650 young girls, and then bathed in their blood to preserve her famed beauty. Her reign of terror lasted thirty years until she was eventually brought to book and walled up in a room in her own castle, where she remained until her death in 1613. Cool!"[8] Black Vanguard also directs us to additional information on Bathory, informing us that "Elizabeth's sadistic nature had long been known in the castle. One of her favorite punishments was to have servants dragged outside during severely cold weather and pour cold water over them until they froze to death. It was during one of these fits of temper that Elizabeth first became convinced that blood had the power to improve health and stave off aging. Beating a maid who attempted to fix something wrong with Elizabeth's attire, the Countess became so enraged that she beat the girl until blood flowed and splashed onto Elizabeth. Wiping it away, she noticed that the skin beneath the blood was younger and more vibrant. This is where her fascination with the power of blood begins. "It is said that Elizabeth's victims were all from peasant stock, however, some historians also say that she also preyed on high born women. She conducted her ritual murders until 4 corpses were discovered near her castle. Soon official investigations began. It is generally believed that authorities could no longer 'cover up' her crimes because now members of the royal family were missing."[9] Bathory was not merely a necrophillia but engaged in lust murder according to other Black Vanguard sources. "The murders were not as simple nor as straightforward as you might think. Bathory did not deal in simplicities like slitting the throats of the young girls she killed. Most of these servant girls were tortured by Bathory for weeks or even months before they were killed. They were cut with scissors, pricked with pins, even prodded with burning irons onto sharp spikes in a cage hung from the ceiling to provide Bathory with a 'blood shower'."[10] Furthermore, "Equipped with her husband's heinous silver claws, she generously indulged herself, whiling away many lonely hours at the expense of forlorn Slav debtors from her own dungeons. The more shrill their screams and the more copious the blood, the more exquisite and orgasmic her amusement. She preferred to whip her 'subjects' on the front of their nude bodies rather than their backs, not only for the increased damage potential, but so that she could gleefully watch their faces contort in horror at their most grim and burning fate" according to a source otherwise cited by Black Vanguard."[11] The fascists in Black Vanguard also reveal that "Long Live Death" is far different a slogan than others in the tendency claim. As Black vanguard simply states "There is no compelling reason not to destroy Society."[6] The web site provides links to advice for readers in this area from simple suicide[12] to the issue of making atomic devices.[13] We are not sure if the instructions on atomic weapons are made to be taken seriously -- as paranoid grandiosity -- or simply as necrophillic fantasy. But between Bathory's necro-sadism and the instruments of mass murder, we see how accurate the notion of a strong necrophillic propensity is in modern fascist ideology. * * * * * [1] Long Live Death! <http://www.longlivedeath.com/> [2] "Long Live Death"[2] <Yahoo's Thirdpositionist club> [3] "Long Live Death"[3] Manifesto of the Abraxas Foundation, 8 Feb 01 <http://www.skyeklad.com/wwwboard/messages/867.htm> [4] "Final Conflict: Against Capitalism and Communism!", <http://ds.dial.pipex.com/finalconflict/a11-4.html>, associated with "International Third Position" [5] http://classicals.com/music/Futurismhall/cas/43.html [6] <http://www.pornonationalist.ws> [7] bathory.gif [8] Adam Baron, "The Secret Of Eternal Youth," Spike Magazine, <http://www.spikemagazine.com/spikeblo.htm>, n.d., d.l. 25 May 01 [9] no author, "Infamous Females," <http://www.paganvillages.com/Goddess/fairraven/infamous.html>, n.d., d.l. 25 May 01 [10] Angie McKaig, "Who Is Elizabeth Bathory?" <http://www.pathwaytodarkness.com/facts/who_is_bathory.htm>, n.d., d.l. 25 May 01 [11] no author, "Erzsebet (Elizabeth) Bathory," <http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/bathory.html>, n.d., d.l. 25 May 01 [12] Captain Hack, "Suicide Guide," <http://www.blackplague.org/methods.txt>, 9 Oct 01 [13] Outlaw Labs, "How To Build An Atomic Bomb," <http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/atomic.html>, n.d., d.l. 25 May 01
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