While the world reacts with horror and revulsion at the killing of 94 mostly young people in Norway by the conservative "Christian" terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, some on the Right have actually read his 1100 page manifesto (pdf warning!) 2083 A European Declaration of Independence and found much to admire.
Kevin MacDonald, Professor of Psychology at Cal State Long Beach, writing on the conservative eZine Alternative Right, admires Anders Breivik for his analytic skills and clarity of thought:
In general, however, it must be said that he is a serious political thinker with a great many insights and some good practical ideas on strategy (e.g., developing culturally conservative media, developing youth organizations that will confront the Marxist street thugs, gaining control of NGOs).
To be sure, Professor MacDonald has some quibbles with Breivik for failing to call out the "Jewish media control" in Norway (and in Europe and America) , but in general the attack on multiculturalism is spot-on:
In any case, he is certainly right in characterizing multiculturalism as an ideology of hate. Note particularly his anger at the action of the Labour Party in England in opening the gates of immigration in order “to humiliate the right-wing opponents of immigration.” As he notes in several places, multiculturalism is hatred of Europeans and their culture masked by humanism.
Professor MacDonald is fan of Anders Breivik's manifesto, but what about his actions? What about the massacre of of the scores of young Labor Party activists? Again, MacDonald is clear in support of the "conservative Christian knight":
It remains to be seen what the long term effect of his actions will be. There is certainly great revulsion at the murder of young people. However, I suppose it is possible that in the long run European elites will understand that the glorious multicultural future will not be attained without a great deal of bloodletting and realize they will have to change their ways. Indeed, one of his insights is that in the long run “the multi-cultural neocolonial regimes will either have imploded or have become very Stalinist.” I agree.
Much of
2083 A European Declaration of Independence will sound familiar to anyone who has read the books of Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin or Jonah Goldberg's
Liberal Fascism. There is the same relentless assault against liberals, egalitarianism, Islam etc. But in reading the manifesto I was struck by Breivik's obsession with the
Frankfurt School as the root of all evil in postwar society:
The Frankfurt School blended Marx with Freud, and later influences (some Fascist as well as Marxist) added linguistics to create “Critical Theory” and “deconstruction.” These in turn greatly influenced education theory, and through institutions of higher education gave birth to what we now call “Political Correctness.” The lineage is clear, and it is
traceable right back to Karl Marx.
Breivk keeps coming back to the writings of Georg Lukacs, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer as intellectual treason against "Western Civilization." This obsession with the Frankfurt School also sounded very familiar, so I went back to my bookshelf:
WIth their tentacles affixed to the institutions of higher education, the Frankfurt School began eking its way into every crevice of American culture. Horkheimer's "critical theory" became a staple of Philosophy, History and English courses across the country. Horkheimer himself took the show on the road, from Columbia to Los Angeles to the University of Chicago.
-Andrew Breitbart,
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World
UPDATE: Hey, thanks for the Rec List. I'm still making my way through the manifesto. Breivik sees the US as a threat in that the Western European nations are "slave states" that the US needs for it globalized capitalist system. He is worried that the US might intervene if Norway and the rest of Europe became serious about eradicating the Muslim populations in their boundaries. And then there is this interesting statement:
Let us hope that the US (Democratic and Republican party) allows us, their European cultural and economical crown vassals, to liberate ourselves and deport the Muslims without them militarily intervening. We shouldn’t forget that we have many allies in the US including a sizable faction of the Republican Party. There are signals that might indicate that the US will not intervene militarily after we begin liberating ourselves in the coming decades. We must continue to work close with our US allies to prevent this from
happening.
