Astute observers of my FB Page Might Know: I Share Lots of Pro-Life and Lots of Chesterton

If you are friends with me on FB and actually look me up and have not noted this, astute is probably not the best description you can have for yourself. I mean, if I spend 30 min. on FB, I'm probably sharing at least five of either Chesty* or Lila Rose (or related) or both.

Unless I'm arguing on a FB group for Creation and against Evolution, for Flood and against Deep Time. For Angelic Movers and against Deep Space. For Freewill being real and against it being an illusion of law bound deterministic matter. That happens too.

Some who knew my MSN Group Antimodernism before it shut down in early 2009 will also know that I enumerated four authors who led me to the Catholic Faith in my youth, I can add from ages 9 to 25, to be precise ("don't be!"), these being in chronological order of my becoming their reader:

• C. S. Lewis
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• Hilaire Belloc.

And the most obvious convert to the Catholic Church among these is Chesterton. CSL converted ... back to the Anglican Church he had stopped believing in after his mother died. JRRT actually did convert to the Catholic Church, but this is little known. He was too old to be received simply when his mother converted** so he had to go to Catechesis in order to convert. I think it was at age 12 he was received. Hilaire Belloc was a cradle Catholic, from an Anglo-French couple. The one person of the four who was first some kind of High Churchish Protestantism and then a Catholic, like my own case, was Gilbert.

So, if you have ever concluded he had sth to do with my conversion, you are right. He did not absolutely determine it, it was actually Tollers who gave me the clue when speaking of Anglicanism in the essay on English and Welsh, and it was in my case a matter of Church history: if the Church of England (that of CSL) or Church of Sweden (my own) were split off from the Catholic Church, I either had to defend splitting off, somehow, and it wasn't restorationism, like Joseph Smith would have defended it, or I had to sooner or later join the original Church.***

However, unlike Newman of whom I back then read only one book, the Apologia, Chesterton both accompanied my conversion and became a constant companion through my reading. So, here is on his conversion:

Why Chesterton Became Catholic: The Argument He Couldn't Escape
Catholic Frequency | 10 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1pp_TiUuN4

One part of my own argument was actually parallel to his, about agreeing with Catholicism, and this was the pro-life issue:

Thomas Aquinas Appears To A Pro-Choice Doctor... Then This Happens
Cameron Riecker | 9 May 202
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMISqjS4FxE

The video is slightly inaccurate in implying that Communist Yugoslavia was part of the Soviet Block. In economics, Tito was continuing while Stalin was discontinuing the NEP, the pro-Kulak policy, which as a Distributist I like. This also led to a rupture between Yugoslavia and the Warszaw Pact, I think even before it was actually formed. However, in lots of other areas, like abortion, like anti-Christian compulsory education, like secret police, it was Marxist, which as a Christian I totally abhor. Like Social Democracy has worked roughly speaking like a Fascism in economics° (also to my liking) but also has loads of Marxism, not unlike Yugoslavia. Both economies obviously functioned better than the Soviet Block, but that doesn't mean the societies were necessarily all that human. Man has other sides to his being than pure economics.

But the point is, I was already abortion banner before joining the Catholic Church. When I say abortion is murder, I'm not simply submitting to the authority of the Church, I already knew that before I accepted this authority. It was one of the reasons for accepting it. Dito for my deep hatred of contraception. Chesterton shared these, but I already had these from mother before coming to him.

And as I was also a Young Earth Creationist on the day of my reception into the Church°° (or what I took to be such), you may imagine that my take on the Galileo trial was to a high degree caught by St. Robert Bellarmine defending Biblical inerrancy. I was OK with being allowed to be Deep Timer and Evolutionist if I wanted, I was OK with being allowed to be Heliocentric. I was even more OK with not being obliged to either. The book by Sister Broomé had recommended Heliocentrism as proven scientifically by parallax, but not presented this as obliging the conscience of the faith. At least, Heliocentrism wasn't proven in Galileo's day. Since 2001, I add: nor has it been proven since.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Sts. Philip and James, Apostles
11.V.2026

Natalis beatorum Philippi et Jacobi Apostolorum. Ex his Philippus, cum omnem fere Scythiam ad Christi fidem convertisset, tandem apud Hierapolim, Asiae civitatem, cruci affixus et lapidibus obrutus, glorioso fine quievit; Jacobus vero, qui et frater Domini legitur et primus Hierosolymorum Episcopus, e pinna Templi praecipitatus, confractis inde cruribus, ac fullonis fuste in cerebro percussus, interiit, ibique, non longe a Templo sepultus est.

* Not sure I should call him that, many who do are girls. ** When he was 8, I think. *** In my teens I simply didn't doubt that Caerularius split off from St. Leo IX rather than the inverse, in some of my adult years, I did have such a doubt and became Romanian Orthodox between late 2006 and Pentecost of 2009, when a sermon by an Orthodox priest or bishop drove me back to Old Rome, that sermon endorsing contraception, at least implicitly. ° Specifically, the Swedish Fascist Engdahl, admirer of Mussolini and of Perón, said one of his men (Nysvenskar) was also a party member, a high ranking one, of Social Democrats, and helped form the Saltsjöbad policies. While the technical solution is different, both Fascism and Swedish Social Democracy have as obvious at least short to mid term goals that Employers and Employees should get along and the state help out so they didn't make a civil war or attempts of Revolution over wages. °° At this point, in 1988, there was not yet any CCC with its § 283. Sweden was not France and did not have Pierres vivantes. Also, converts were not required to profess an obedience and acceptance of current positions of the magisterium, a profession "John Paul II" introduced in 1990, in a wording that doesn't make the adhesion conditional on its being a traditional position, unlike Trent Session IV (sententiam quam tenuit et adhuc tenet). I professed to accept what the Church "believeth, teacheth and proclaimeth to be revealed by God"

J'ai vu une affiche anonyme

Quentin, est-il mort ? · Quentin (quelques mises au point) · J'ai vu une affiche anonyme · Suis-je d'accord avec les tweets du feu Quentin Deranque ? Pas tout à fait.

Pourtant, elle était bien présente dans le mur en question.

Elle met deux côtés comme "en bilan".

Les fascistes détestent (longue liste). Les antifascistes détestent : les fascistes.

Je ne vois pas l'utilité de détester les Roms pour être (plus ou moins) fasciste, ni de le faire avec les pauvres. Pour moi, des mots prononcés sur Dollfuss* résument un peu mieux que cette liste de détestations ce que c'est un fasciste, notamment un Austrofasciste.

Zerschlagt was uns noch hemmen mag
und nach dem Gestern weist.
Die neue Zeit steigt in den Tag
und will den neuen Geist.
Christlich, deutsch, gerecht und frei
von Klassenhaß und Tyrannei.

Cassez CE qui nous pourrait encore coincer et ce qui tourne vers l'hier. Le nouveau temps va dans le jour et exige le nouvel esprit : Chrétien, allemand, juste et libre de haine des classes et de tyrannie.

Vu qu'il est écrit "ce" et non "celui" il n'y a aucune obligation de casser une gueule par la force de ces mots.

On veut le Christianisme, la nationalité (en Autriche** allemande), la justice ET la liberté de deux vices, haine entre classes et tyrannie.

On ne veut donc pas des grévistes ferroviaires qui occupent le bâtiment avec fusils et tirent sur des passants parce qu'ils ne savent pas cibler les seuls soldats qui viennent pour eux, et on ne veut ni la tyrannie de Lénine / Staline, ni celle de Hitler.

Entretemps, sur les côté pour les antifascistes, on évoque que Manouchian était panthéonisé en 2024. Le poster le décrit comme ayant tué 150. Je me demande, à part d'être Juif ou Rom, si les Français par ci et par là ne souffraient pas davantage par ce genre de résistants que par les Allemands. Parmi les gens tués par les gens de Hitler, je préfère Dollfuss à Manouchian.

Je note que le poster reprend sans commentaire de ce fait, l'affiche rouge. Son texte est "La LIBÉRATION par l'armée du crime !" Par contre, l'affiche demande la solidarité avec les antifascistes de nos jours, héritiers de Manouchian.

Et par la liste donnée, elle fait appelle à pas mal de groupes de se solidariser avec l'antifascisme aussi. Mon problème avec certains de ces groupes, c'est qu'ils ont été un peu trop sensibles à cet appel, ils deviennt quelque part une armée de légionnaires pour l'antifascisme.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Victor d'Arcis-sur-Aube
26.II.2026

In territorio Archiacensi, in Gallia, sancti Victoris Confessoris, cujus laudes sanctus Bernardus conscripsit.

* Voir "Lied der Jugend" aussi connu comme "Dollfusslied":

Lied der Jugend - Anthem of the Austrian Patriotic Front
FalangeBall III | 13 Dec. 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtrfC3Jods

** Qu'on veut pourtant pas frêlatée avec le Protestantisme courant en Allemagne à l'époque. Pas d'Anschluss.

Fascisme, c'est quoi ? (Non, je ne parle pas de national-socialisme allemand, ni des Oustachi, je n'aime pas les ethno-persécutions !)

Prenons deux citations de deux discours* par José Antonio Primo de Rivera :

1) Notre mouvement ne serait pas entièrement compris si l'on croyait qu'il n'est seulement qu'une façon de penser; ce n'est pas une manière de penser, mais une façon de vivre. Nous ne devons pas seulement nous proposer l'édification d'une politique, nous devons adopter dans toutes les manifestations de notre existence, dans chacun de nos gestes, une attitude profondément et entièrement humaine. Cette attitude, c'est l'esprit de sacrifice et, de service, le sentiment spirituel et militaire de la vie. Ainsi donc que personne ne croît que nous venons faire des recrues afin de nous permettre d'offrir des prébendes; que personne ne croît que nous nous groupons pour défendre des privilèges, Je voudrais que ce microphone devant moi porta mes paroles jusqu'au dernier coin des foyers ouvriers pour leur dire : oui nous portons des cravates; oui, vous pouvez dire de nous que nous sommes des señoritos. Mais justement nous apportons un esprit de lutte précisément, pour ce qui ne nous intéresse pas en tant que señoritos; nous entrons dans la lutte pour que beaucoup de notre classe s'imposent des sacrifices durs et pénibles, et, nous entrons dans la lutte pour qu'un Etat totalitaire puisse répandre ses bienfaits aussi bien sur les puissants que sur les humbles. Tels, nous sommes, ainsi que furent toujours les señoritos, d'Espagne. Ils parvinrent à la hiérarchie des seigneurs véritables parce que dans les terres lointaines comme sur le sol de notre Patrie, ils surent faire face à la mort, s'adonner aux tâches les plus rudes pour ce qui, du seul fait qu'ils étaient señoritos, aurait pu ne pas leur importer.

2) [Après un résumé de Jean-Jacques Rousseau sur la liberté] Mais ceux qui pensaient de la sorte étaient plutôt des philosophes de boulevard, moins experts à sonder les âmes primitives qu’à courtiser les dames. ...

Y a-t-il une fausse note ? Oui, qu'on se sacrifie pour "un Etat totalitaire" ... Si totalitarisme est essentiel pour le Fascisme, je ne suis que demi-fasciste. Le paragraphe avant, ceci :

Mais dans la société comme nous la comprenons, disons-le dès maintenant, il ne peut y avoir de parasites ni de paresseux.

Blocquer un bon nombre d'occasions d'une vie oisive sur la dépense des autres, notamment sur-exploitation des ouvriers ou certaines opérations sur le marché financier qui sapent l'économie physique en privilégiant et gonflant l'économie en dévises, d'accord. Chasser le dernier oisif (qui n'est réellement pas moi, vous savez), non. Pas mal d'occasions pour sinécures ont quelque chose en commun avec les manières honnêtes de se faire une vie, et en chassant les sinécures on finit par nuir du travail honnête. Ceci irait dans le sens du totalitaire.

Par contre, trois choses sont très claires :

• José Antonio veut de la justice entre ouvriers et patrons, considérant les ouvriers de son temps comme des victimes réelles de malfaits ;
• il ne la veut pas par le moyen de la révolution ;
• et, il ne considère pas la femme au foyer comme victime, parce qu'elle n'a pas une carrière indépendante, ni la famille comme obstacle à la pleine dignité de la femme.

Points un et deux rappellent la social-démocratie des pays du Nord, mais attention, celle-ci est imbue du féminisme et de l'anticléricalisme. Citons le résumé de Rousseau :

« L’homme est né libre et partout il est dans les fers », écrivait Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Les premières vapeurs du romantisme étaient déjà montées aux têtes. Il était temps de penser à la bonté naturelle t à l’intelligence naturelle. L’homme – moins : l’individu – était en lui-même porteur de toute capacité de bien, de sagesse et de vertu. La société seule le pervertissait. Tous les instruments de vie commune – religion, Etat, droit – servaient à l’enchaîner. L’homme revenu à sa liberté primitive retrouverait en même temps qu’elle son aptitude à la perfection perdue.

La social-démocratie est trop rousseauiste. On l'a vu dans l'affaire Bodnariu** de 2016. Je viens de comparer Barnevernet à la Bastille (comme au cas Eustache Dauger) que j'avas évoqué dans l'article qui précède.*** Famille et religion étaient vues comme des obstacles à la liberté (due pour l'âge !) des enfants. La Suède n'est pas totalement différente de la Norvège.

Le genre de suerexcités d'idéologues pour qui c'était une bonne idée de comparer fondamentalisme chrétien à Breivik (ou de le taxer de tel comme l'avait fait la police norvégienne°). Et de persécuter les Chrétiens de convictions ou vies fondamentalistes en fonction de ça. Là, on a aussi un totalitarisme, probablement pire que celui dont rêvait José Antonio, et en plus un totalitarisme qui ne dit pas son nom.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts Cyprien et Justine
26.IX.2025

Nicomediae natalis sanctorum Martyrum Cypriani, et Justinae Virginis. Haec, sub Diocletiano Imperatore et Eutolmio Praeside, cum multa pro Christo pertulisset, ipsum quoque Cyprianum, qui erat magus et suis magicis artibus eam dementare conabatur, ad Christianam fidem convertit; cum quo postea martyrium sumpsit. Eorum corpora, feris objecta, rapuerunt noctu quidam nautae Christiani, et Romam detulerunt; quae, postmodum in Basilicam Constantinianam translata, prope Baptisterium condita sunt.°°

PS, I'm shocked to have misunderstood the Bodnariu case in August 2016. I thought they were out with their children. Unfortunately, four of the five children were kept away from the parents as long as to October 2019./HGL°°°

* Réédition : Deux discours de José Antonio Primo de Rivera à la Phalange.
http://rousseaustudies.free.fr/reeditionderivera.htm

** Entretemps, la Norvège maintient sa "Bastille" mais en pire!
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2016/01/entretemps-la-norvege-maintient-sa.html

Good News : Bodnariu Family is Out of Norway
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2016/08/good-news-bodnariu-family-is-out-of.html

*** 1789 et 1793
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2016/01/1789-et-1793.html

° deretour: Confusions sur l'idéologie ....
https://hglundahlsblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/confusions-sur-lideologie.html

°° À Nicomède, l'anniversaire des saints martyrs Cyprien et la vierge Justine. Celle-ci, sous l'Empereur Dioclétien et le préside Eutolme, après de porter jusqu'au bout beaucoup pour le Christ, convertit ce même Cyprien qui était mage et qui essayait de la rendre folle par ses arts magiques, à la foi chrétienne. Avec qui elle prit de la suite le martyre. Leurs corps, jetés devant des fauves, des marins chrétiens les ont pris par la nuit et rendus à Rome, et de la suite, transferés à la Basilique de Constantin, sont ensévelis proche du Baptistère.

°°° Norway Returning Stolen Children
Michael Donnelly, JD, LLM | October 03, 2019
https://hslda.org/post/norway-returning-stolen-children

Sweden and FSSPX

Do Muslims Get Their Info on Franco from Harun Yahya? · Sweden and FSSPX

Let's set the scene, a bit.

Two known and young Trad Catholics are Nick Fuentes and Connor Estelle. While they are known only as "Trad" Catholics, I don't have pretty much doubt their priests are from the FSSPX. If there aren't, there certainly are people like them at some FSSPX chapels and St. Nicolas du Chardonnet. You may have noted, Connor Estelle, in his interview for The Catholic Herald, came out as in support of Francisco Franco. At St. Nicolas du Chardonnet, I more than once went to the Missa pro defunctis mass for el Caudillo. I always felt a peace, wondering "is this really necessary, isn't he already in Heaven?" (I'm an ex-Palmarian, and Palmar de Troya have actually canonised him, so, to them 20 November is not a day for black, but for, I think red — I think they concluded he was a martyr, not just any saint). I reflected on it in words like "the Church keeps praying up to canonisation" ... a bit like a Missa pro defunctis for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, also still not canonised.

Meanwhile. Sweden involves quite a lot of people who fought in the International Brigades. Some of those might be prone to compare Franco to Hitler. I think most Swedes would unthinkingly qualify Franco as a Fascist, and in some of the jargons about movements and philosophies, you don't define Fascism as "Corporativism, Antiparliamentarianism, Street Fighting" but as "philosophy of Gentile, Rosenberg and Hitler". In other words Fascism is both defined as sth objectionable and criminal, and applied to things that are not necessarily so, including Franco. To give a taste of the atmosphere, in a parish I often visited, at the time an exclusively Novus Ordo parish, like my own, I knew a family from Paraguay, and once I accompanied the dad and mum to a countermanifestation against a Communist parade. The three of us stood there, he held up a cross, we chanted "we are the black forces" ... the slogans of the Commies were against the black forces. I was more scrupulous back then, confessed, and was reprimanded for that participation. My father confessor by "black forces" probably thought Fascists, and in fact, when I checked with the family from Paraguay, in their country it's the party colour of Christian Democrats. Gasperi or Adenauer, not Mussolini or Franco.*

Add to that, National Socialism was to a very high degree Protestant. And consequently authoritarian, as opposed to rectitudarian (who's commanding matter's more than what's right). The exact same thing is true of Sweden at large. So, what will happen to Catholics who swim in that culture? They will overemphasise the authority structures and Swedish Catholics are very prone to do this equation:

Martin Luther = did not obey the Pope (even when excommunicated)
Monsignor Lefebvre = did not obey the Pope (even when excommunicated)
Monsignor Lefebvre = Martin Luther

So, in Monsignor Lefebvre, they basically see "nearly a Lutheran" who, it being known he appreciated Franco, appreciated "nearly a Nazi".**

Again, when FSSPX say "we have a right to work here, because there is a case of necessity" it's not altogether clear that in Sweden there actually is one, on Lefebvrian principles. A Sedevacantist or a Conclavist or a Palmarian could say "the Novus Ordo is invalid, there is a case of necessity" but FSSPX tends to focus on other things, how Missa versus populum fosters an irreverent attitude, how clown masses and guitar masses destroy reverence altogether, how in some cases this could lead to priests having an invalid intention and therefore offering an invalid mass, especially because "for you and for many"*** was replaced by "for all" ... most of this part of a case of necessity doesn't exist in Sweden. The Swedish translation was "for you and for the many", clown masses and guitar masses don't exist, priests are usually pretty well aware of what Sacrifice of the Mass is ... Sweden is a bit of a mixture of Archdiocese of Paris in respect of World War II politics and Normandy or Var in respect of theology or liturgy. The devout Swedish mass goer who hears a Lefebvrian case for not going to Novus Ordo will say "if you just mean Extraordinary Rite is preferrable, that's not a state of emergency, and if you mean Novus Ordo is automatically invalid, you are Sedevacantists" ... the best actually Lefebvrian case for a case of necessity would be for some Catholics who want to honour Franco and be blunt to Protestants about the Reformation being wrong. I was as discouraged in that, as I was in my Franco admiration.

But they will have no problem saying between Catholics that the Reformation was wrong, insofar as they love telling Lefebvrians they are as wrong as Luther.

It happened in 1993, to me, when I lost friends over coming out as Lefebvrian. It happened again in recent news, as you will see from this video by Anthony Stine:

Drama Explodes Between The SSPX And A Mainstream Bishop
Return To Tradition | 25.VIII.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkBeXz2fWWM

I have my own issue with Arborelius°, whose name he mispronounced this first time, but I'm far from surprised by his ungenerous attitude to the FSSPX. I suspect his worst concern could be, in the FSSPX, people like Nick Fuentes and Connor Estelle aren't treated as excommunicated. Neither are they in Normandy, which liturgically and theologically corresponds better to Swedish mainstream Catholicism. It wasn't Germany, it wasn't Pétain, but the Allies that made thousands of homeless in 1945 by bombing Le Havre ... °° And obviously, if in Burgos you go to Mass every Lord's Day and vote Partido Popular, you are probably pretty friendly to Franco. I mean, Fraga was friendlier to Franco than Gasperi to Mussolini. But never mind all that. Arborelius has let so many Swedes down by accepting to "obey a foreign potentate" (the Pope), by bowing down to statues of Mary, by saying Calvary is made present in ever Mass, by saying if you use condoms you go to Hell, he can't also let them down by allowing one of his flock to praise the former Caudillo of Spain! Or by not demonising as best as he can the priests who will allow their flock to do so.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Lewis IX of France
25.VIII.2025

Apud Carthaginem sancti Ludovici Noni, Regis Francorum et Confessoris, vitae sanctitate ac miraculorum gloria praeclari, cujus ossa postmodum Lutetiam Parisiorum sunt relata.

PS, in case some misunderstand my words about Arborelius' conversion, I obviously also let down many Swedes by accepting to "obey a foreign potentate" (the Pope), by bowing down to statues of Mary, by saying Calvary is made present in ever Mass, by saying if you use condoms you go to Hell ...

And I don't regret it./HGL

* In fact, the Falange of Franco combined a blue shirt and a red beret.
** Monsignor Lefebvre also appreciated Adenauer, clearly an anti-Nazi, as well as Salazar and De Valera. Of these, De Valera was once mass server to Monsignor Lefebvre, well before Vatican II or at least before the Liturgic Reform.
*** pro vobis et pro multis
° Anders Arborelius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Arborelius
°° Φιλολoγικά / Philologica : Qui fut Dom Gaston Aubourg - et qui sauva Bayeux?
Mardi, 23 octobre, 2012 par by Hans Georg Lundahl à 7:14
https://filolohika.blogspot.com/2012/10/qui-fut-dom-gaston-aubourg-et-qui-sauva.html

Perhaps I Should Just Quit Calling Myself a Fascist, After All

Still Corporativist, still pro-life, but the following is pretty damning:

Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. ... The Fascist state ruled Italy violently, projecting its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination and other quotidian forms of coercion. ... Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror.

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy
https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/article/ordinary-violence-in-mussolini-s-italy

Syracuse University reviews:

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy
Michael R. Ebner, Syracuse University, New York | Cambridge University Press | print, 2010 | online, July 2014
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ordinary-violence-in-mussolinis-italy/72F9733BEA00C0574F68E9CC475F96F3

I note, to my defense, that March on Rome to 1926 was different, and that Squadrista violence initially had some reasons, in defense against the Biennio Rosso ... but stopped too late. Mussolini himself noted that in the Matteotti hearing on January 3rd 1925./HGL

Si on imaginait un futur lointain dans une société sans classes ou états ...

Répliques Assorties : Yann Bouvier discute Mussolini et Hitler · New blog on the kid : Si on imaginait un futur lointain dans une société sans classes ou états ...

... tout d'abord, on contredirait probablement l'eschatologie chrétienne.

À moins de parler de l'après la Parousie, et encore ce serait alors passer de côté la diversité entre bienheureux et damnés.

Mais, posons qu'on étudie pas l'accuratesse doctrinale, mais ce que cette imagination pourrait inspirer aujourd'hui même.

D'un côté, ça pourrait inspirer des communautés très locales de gens qui ne voudraient pas attendre. Des communes hippie, en gros. Je pense, que, grosso modo et pourvu que personne en âge adulte soit embrigadé contre sa volonté d'y vivre (les parents peuvent bien entendu obliger leurs progéniture pas encore majeure), c'est un bien.

Enfin de compte, les monastères sont quelque part un modèle chrétien de ceci, et il y a des "monastères" avec des familles, comme l'Église de Jérusalem en l'an 33 ou comme Iona. En tant que Catholique, je serais très mal placé de vouloir critiquer les monastères. J'ai beau ne pas avoir envie d'être moine, mais je respecte les moines.

Et pourvu que la communauté hippie ne vole pas à droite et à gauche, qu'elle s'installe très temporairement ou qu'elle s'installe en propriété privée lui appartenant ou qu'elle fait juste un peu de vols enfin du compte tolérés (Christiania a volé un terrain abandonné par la force armée du Danemark, et celle-ci n'essaie pas de recupérer le terrain, les conflits entre Christiania et le Danemark sont surtout combien la communauté de Christiania doit payer en loyer, et les règles de vie commune à l'intérieur de la palissade). Pourvu ceci, elle peut très bien vivre dans une société carrément pas socialiste, genre une société manoriale ou une société capitaliste.

Si on espère tourner usine après usine et ferme après ferme en commune hippie, contre la volonté des propriétaires, ça c'est autre chose, là on pourrait parler d'anarchisme dans le pire sens du terme.

Mais ceci pour ceux qui n'ont pas envie d'attendre. Que se passe-t-il si une mouvance politique à la fois pose l'idée d'une société sans classes ou repression dans le futur et veut faire quelque chose en attendant ?

Il y a le Communisme, aussi connu comme Bolchévisme. Il y a la Social-Démocratie. Le Communisme prône la dictature du prolétariat, quand il est au pouvoir, on a la dictature du prolétariat. La Social-Démocratie accepte la propriété privée, et le processus parlamentaire, mais prône des états de société autrement apparentés à la dictature du prolétariat.

Dans les deux, c'est difficile pour un ouvrier salarié de sortir du système salarial, sans de se ruiner. Dans les deux, certaines issues sportives, académiques, artistiques sont plus à la portée des petits gens que dans une démocratie classiquement libérale et capitaliste (les études en Suède et les études aux États-Unis, ce sont deux mondes différents). Dans les deux, vu que l'inégalité des femmes serait une des inégalités à abolir, on prône le féminisme, aussi de manière à détruire les familles ou la connexion morale entre sexe et expectation d'enfants. Dans les deux, on démilitarise en fonction de ce que permet la sécurité (en gros, pas grande chose dans les dictatures communistes, sauf les petites, où la Soviétique s'occupait de leur sécurité). Dans les deux, on prône la décolonisation des empires coloniaux des autres (mais la Russie n'a pas décolonisé la Sibérie, la Suède n'a pas décolonisé la Lapponie et l'Inde ne décolonise pas Goa, prise par immigration massive des aires entourantes donnant une vote falsifiée).

Pour le journalisme (dans les journaux qui sont déjà entreprises avec un SIRET) la social-démocratie est moins oppressive, de loin. Pour un journalisme d'opinion, sur internet, sans entreprise, je suis moins sûr. La Suède dont je suis issu est parmi les moindres pays dans mon lectorat. Elle n'avait jamais un état bolchévique au sens strict, et même les syndicats d'ouvriers sont plutôt social-démocrates que communistes. CGT en France est d'obéissance communiste. LO, en Suède, d'obéissance social-démocrate.

Pour les écoles privées religieuses, c'est à peu près kif-kif. La Soviétique n'en avait pas tout court. La Suède avant l'entrée en Union Européenne n'avait que très peu, une école des Adventistes Septième Jour, une école Waldorf, donc de la religion de Rudolf Steiner. À contre-cœur, la Suède en accepte davantage, une fois entrée en l'UE en 1995, genre une seule école catholique dans la région de Gothembourg, et une ou plusieurs écoles musulmanes, dont une, probablement pas la seule, à Malmö. Je ne me plains pas de la présence d'une école musulmane, je me félicite de l'école catholique.

Sortons alors du socialisme "classique" ... il reste le Syndicalisme, le Fascisme, le National-Socialisme peut-être en partie le Distributisme.

Yann Bouvier a voulu prouver que le Fascisme et le National-Socialisme ne sont pas de gauche, parce qu'ils se heurtent à la vision de l'abolition de l'état et à la vision d'une fraternité internationale. Je ne veux pas prétendre que les deux idéologies (qui diffèrent entre eux) seraient basées sur l'imagination d'une société future sans classes ou états. Mais je vais dire comment quelqu'un qui se range à cet imaginaire pourrait accepter le Fascisme en Italie ou le National-Socialisme en Allemagne. Certes, les deux systèmes ont "aidé" ce basculement par un peu de violence, la cure de l'huile de ricine chez les Italiens, la cure en camps comme celui d'Oranienburg au début de la Machtübernahme. Le basculement par violence squadriste diffère nettement du basculement par les camps, pas comme si les deux n'étaient pas violents, mais dans la méthode. Voici comment les Italiens romantisaient la prétendue "cure" :

Les mots en italiens sont "prima della cura / durante la cura / dopo la cura" et veulent dire : "avant la cure / pendant la cure / après la cure" ... ce serait profondement ignorant et naïf de penser que des Communistes n'aient pas fait de choses pareilles. Pour Oranienburg, ce sont Social-Démocrates (mais pas pour simple divergence politique caractérisée officiellement comme telle) ET les Communistes (une fois au pouvoir) qui ont fait pareil. C'est un truc disciplinaire qui se prête beaucoup moins à la romantisation ou à la carte postale. Regardons encore celle-ci un peu. Le rouge, qui devient un fasciste, débute en homme brandissant une bannière, et il finit en homme brandissant une bannière. C'est juste que la bannière n'est plus une bannière censée être révolutionnaire. Dans le sens désapprobé par les Fascistes. L'Italie du Risorgimento était aussi révolutionnaire.

Après 1922 et 1933, les Fascistes italiens et les National-Socialistes allemands recrutaient massivement dans les ex-affiliés du Communisme et de la Social-Démocratie. Et pas toujours avec le genre de méthodes violentes que je viens d'évoquer et qui différait tellement. Donc, on se pose la question si ces gens, qui, par définition, avaient rêvé d'un futur sans classes, avaient simplement abandonné tous leurs idéaux ?

Non, pas forcément. Comme le réformisme de la Social-Démocratie, comme la dictature du prolétariat du Communisme, ainsi le nationnalisme pouvait paraître une avant-étape réaliste. "Voyons, tous les peuples ne sont pas mûrs pour notre idée d'égalité, tous les peuples ne sont pas prêts à vivre en autarcie idyllique, faisons ce qu'on peut parmi nous, en excluant, pour le temps, les peuples étrangères à notre vision" ... C'est à peu près le même réalisme que d'avoir un état dans les mains d'un parti cherchant à abolir l'état sur la longue durée, mais qui, en attendant, le durcit. Ou, plutôt, l'étatisme de Mussolini l'est, mais le nationalisme est nettement moins grave. Il y a des populations du dehors de l'Europe qui ont une vision de la société beaucoup plus capitaliste, et dont la présence affaiblit le Syndicalisme et affaiblit le Libertarisme. En plus, pour le Syndicalisme, le Bolchévisme est pire que le Fascisme italien. Je poserais le Fouriérisme allemand des DAF dans le milieu entre les deux.

Entretemps, je pense que les deux dictatures avaient une vision d'un international futur où d'autres nations seraient arrivées à un niveau pareil, permettant des échanges plus aimables entre elles et les dictatures de l'Axe.

Dans ce cas, la vision évoquée au début, c'est pour certains un mobile pour des mesures identiques à celles que des Fascistes, voir National-Socialistes ont en certains cas prônées pour d'autres mobiles. Cette vision n'est donc pas un démarqueur de la gauche de ces dictatures. Et pour ceux qui se sentaient trahis par les compromis, je pense que les marins de Kronstadt ont largément précédé la plupart des trahis dans l'Italie fasciste ou l'Allemagne NS, donc bien avant Staline, déjà sous Staline.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Veille des Saints Apôtres Pierre et Paul
et St. Irénée de Lyon
28.VI.2025

Vigilia sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli.

Lugduni, in Gallia, sancti Irenaei, Episcopi et Martyris; qui (ut scribit sanctus Hieronymus) beati Polycarpi, Smyrnensis Episcopi, discipulus fuit, et Apostolicorum temporum vicinus. Is, cum adversus haereticos verbis ac scriptis plurimum decertasset, tandem, in persecutione Severi, cum omni fere civitatis suae populo, coronatus est glorioso martyrio.

Je viens de dire que ce serait inhumain de me repatrier en Suède

Ce serait aussi inhumain si la France ou la préfecture où je me trouve privilégie les vues suédoises sur ma personne. Y compris à travers la psychiatrie.

Je suis un Suédois. Je suis aussi né en Autriche. J'ai quitté l'Autriche la dernière fois pour la Suède, à part une visite touristique, en 1980, quand l'Autriche était beaucoup plus réactionnaire que de nos jours. Conchita Wurst et un "Cardinal" Schönborn qui se réjouit de lui me reste assez peu compréhensible à partir de ce que j'ai vécu en Autriche.

Vu ceci, sans surprise, la Suède déjà à l'époque beaucoup plus moderniste ne m'allait pas bien. Elle m'insultait avec sa stupidité en scientisme et féminisme et antifascisme.* Elle m'insultait en ma personne en permettant des années durant des écoliers de m'insulter en brimades qui me mettaient en probable déprime clinique, quoique je n'ai pas consulté. Elle empêchait ma mère (avec une courte exception) de me donner une scolarité apaisée à la maison. Elle m'exposait à des Franc-Maçons plutôt qu'à des Chrétiens dans l'école qui était censé servir de refuge et où les insultes persistaient.

Et quand elles ne persistaient plus, c'est que j'avais perdu ma dignité en partie les derniers deux ans avant le bac. Ça m'a pris un temps de la retrouver, et une fois ça fait, la psychiatrie s'intéresse à moi.

Mais imaginez un enfant de cinq, érigé en psychiatre. Imaginez aussi un adulte sain piégé dans sa clinique. C'est comme ça que je vois une priorité à l'observation suédoise dans ma vie. Oui, la Suède est tellement incompétent sur les trucs culturels qui serviraient à me comprendre (à part la réconstitution historique) et tellement avide à dégrader une différence intellectuelle et culturelle en une pathologie personnelle, parce que TOUT est réinterprété de manière "personnelle" parce que les clefs culturelles pour me comprendre manquent à la Suède.

D'abord, les Catholiques sont très minoritaires en Suède. Ensuite, les FSSPX et sédévacantistes sont quasi absents. Ensuite, Le CEP est absent. Ensuite, parmi les Protestants, les églises prolifèrent, les charités prolifèrent, mais les collègues du CEP s'absentent. Prenons les CMI.

Australia | Canada | New Zealand | South Africa | UK/Europe | United States

Et si je clique UK/Europe ? Je trouve un seul Néerlandais, et quatre Britanniques. Aucun Suédois, Danois, Norvégien, ni un quelconque Allemand. Pourtant, les Allemands qui sont Protestants, il y en a. Je suis Catholique et je suis dans le Créationnisme-jeune-terre avec argumentation scientifique. Un Protestant qui n'est dans le Créationnisme-jeune-terre du tout ou qui refuse l'argumentation scientifique en élucidant les vérités bibliques, c'est quelqu'un doublement adversaire de ma position. Pourtant, le regard de la Suède va les privilégier comme piste.

Comme je viens de dire que la Fraternité St. Pie X et le Sédévacantisme sont quasi absents, c'est garanti qu'à part les gens bien établis dans un tel contexte dans une vie fonctionnant en Suède, automatiquement inaccessible à un Conclaviste, les Suédois ne vont pas chercher les bonnes pistes, ne vont pas voire un adhérent comme un adhérent. Toute autre explication, personnelle, peut-être pathologique, va être préférée. Les psychiatres sont pas vaccinés contre ce genre de malentendu culturel. Un suivi par un psychiatre suédois = une garantie que ma vie soit limitée par des malentendus fâcheux.

Je suis Conclaviste. Si je ne vais pas à la messe, c'est qu'aucune messe à Paris (ou en Suède) se celèbre "una cum papa nostro Michael"** ... c'est soit "una cum papa nostro Francisco" soit pas "una cum" tout court, et sans perspective sur comment et quand on aura occasion de célébrer la messe "una cum" quelqu'un. Pour un Suédois lambda, ce que je viens de dire c'est du charabia. Un Parisien avec un peu de culture catholique ou en connaissant quelqu'un qui l'ait peut comprendre sinon avec compréhension humaine, au minimum la signification immédiate de ce que je viens de dire. J'adhère à une autre obéissance que les obéissances loyales à "pape François", à une autre obéissence que la Fraternité Sacerdotale St. Pie X, à une autre obéissance que les gens qui imagient qu'on n'a toujours pas eu de pape depuis 1958 et qu'on ne l'aura pas avant la seconde venue du Christ. Certains de ces gens vont associer l'église St. Nicolas du Chardonnet à "des Nazis" ... inexact. Certains vont dire "fachos" ... plus probable, au moins une bonne dose de Pétainisme à côté d'une bonne dose d'apolitisme (les Nazis tout court existent mais sont très minoritaires). Me catégoriser comme "facho" (dans le sens Pétainiste sans réserve ou dans le sens Le Peniste) serait inexact, pas totalement à côté de la plaque.

Ici un Suédois interviendrait sans doute en voulant problématiser sur le plan personnel pourquoi un homme de quelques ascendances juives (si) deviendrait plus ou moins Nazi. Erreur. Pour moi, les Fascismes avec des camps de travail pour des catégories autres qu'ayant commi un crime étaient des criminels, la honte du Fascisme. Que Mussolini ait soutenu le camp La Rizziera est une honte pour moi. Que Geremìa Brizi, maire d'Assise pendant cette époque, ait imprimé des faux documents pour les Juifs, une gloire. Qu'il ait fait la marche à Rome aussi. 1) Autrement il n'aurait pas été maire d'Assise, 2) autrement il n'aurait pas eu des bons souvenirs des Juifs fascistes de cette époque, 3) mais en plus, ce n'est pas que question tactique pour le bien des Juifs (je disais ascendances juives, pas confession juive, d'accord !), autrement il n'aurait pas collaboré à défendre en même temps ou quasiment les petits propriétaires contre les Communistes qui s'inspiraient de la récente Révolution russe, et l'Église catholique contre les criminels de l'Italie libérale et anticléricale qui avaient été en place depuis 1870. Pour moi, cette défense est au moins aussi sacré que celle des vies Juifs, pour un non-Juif total et complet, ni même parentèles, elle devrait primer là-dessus.

Le débat*** avec GrimFabel, dans un forum qui largement me boude, prend et reprend des tours où il veut interpréter mes mots dans une subjectivité radicale. Sans trace de critère objective.

Je dis que LA perception directe est géocentrique. Il interprète comme si MA perception directe était subjectivement géocentrique. Non, LA perception directe, de tous, y compris Héliocentriques, est géocentrique. Nous voyons tous le soleil et la lune faire grosso modo démicercles au-dessus de l'horizon, ce qui équivaut à notre placement dans le centre géométrique de ce demi-cercle. Et vu que la terre est un globe, les observations se répètent un peu à l'Ouest avec un décalage, de ce cercle (dont les demi-cercles sont des vues imcomplètes). C'est la perception commune. Ce qui distingue le géocentrique de l'héliocentrique est de faire l'équivalence entre la perception et la réalité. Ce qui distingue l'héliocentrique du géocentrique, c'est de nier cette équivalence. Qu'elle ne soit pas là, c'est une possibilité théorique compréhensible vue la non-équivalence dans le cas d'un voyageur de train. Mais l'héliocentrique semble avide à faire l'équivalence entre possibilité théorique et réalité :

• soit parce que c'est plus subtil ("tänka längre") ...
• soit parce que Dieu et anges n'existent pas, et les seules facteurs newtoniens ne permettent pas un univers tellement complexe que le géocentrisme tychonien
• soit encore parce que la théorie newtonienne prédit très bien les orbites observés ...

Ce dernier point est aussi évoqué par GrimFabel. Il serait peut-être vrai et pertinent si les masses du soleil et des autres corps dans le cadre spatial du système solaire étaient connues de manière indépendante, mais la calculation des masses à partir des orbites rend la pertinence caduque. La correspondence est circulaire. Le newtonisme pur est imposé comme schéma d'interprétation à un ensemble de fait connus autrement. En plus, vus les problèmes de calculer les orbites dans un problème de plusieurs corps (déjà le problème de trois corps est délicat), il n'est même pas vrai. La connaissance des orbites est surtout obtenu par des observations (qui sont tous géocentriques, parce que c'est là que se situe le téléscope à peu d'exceptions près, et qui ne sont jamais héliocentriques, ni tatooino-centriques, parce que aucun téléscope peut être monté sur le soleil et même à supposer que Tatooine de La Guerre des Étoiles existait, aucune information d'un téléscope là-bas nous est parvenu (je sais, ça va decevoir certains peut-être, mais les films de George Lucas sont de la fiction). Autrement, Tatooine serait peut-être un point de vue indépendant depuis lequel vérifier lequel tourne autour de laquelle .... mais ce point de vue indépendant nous est inaccessible.

Mais détourner mon propos sur LA perception en propos sur MA perception est très loin d'être sa seule tentative d'ad hominem ou même de me destabiliser par gaslighting. Un certain "Riddim" a tout le temps parti de l'idée que je ne vis pas dans une réalité normale, que je me bâtis des illusions qui constituent une "réalité parallèle" impénétrable pour le commun des mortels, à la limite un peu moins pour un psychiatre ... GrimFabel communie avec lui, comme j'ai constaté aujourd'hui et mélangé aux débats scientifiquent, il me fait régulièrement des saynètes sur ma prétendu mégalomanie, incompréhension pour tous les autres et de la suite, choses pas forcément la folie dans le sens classique, mais certainement au risque d'être tamponné comme un cas clinique.

En d'autres mots, la Suède est une menace psychiatrique, ce qui leur était bien superflue à 21 ans après mon départ de la Suède. Et si la France aurait des intérêts tellement inhumains, à mon égard, elle prolonge juste les malentendus qui empêchent que je me vois lavé de ce soupçon. Quant à la cohérence de mes démarches, sans le soupçon psychiatrique, j'aurais déjà pu avoir un revenu comme écrivain (chose que je suis, mais encore à titre gratuit plutôt) et déjà avoir un revenu pour avoir un appartement et payer mes dettes envers le système boursier et impôts en France. Et avoir une femme et d'enfants.

Une autre inhumanité serait de me renvoyer à des Européens de l'Est (dont le système marxiste est officiellement chuté en 1990, et donc banquerotte, contrairement à celui des pays scandinaves) ou à des Tsigans, qui n'ont jamais eu la même culture que moi.°

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Amand
6.II.2025

Elnone, in Gallia, sancti Amandi, Episcopi Trajectensis, qui miraculis, cum vivus tum mortuus, gloriose refulsit; cujus nomine postmodum insignitum est oppidum, in quo ille monasterium exstruxerat et mortalem vitam absolverat.

PS, c'est possible en plus qu'on essayerait de mettre le méfait de Rickard Andersson au compte de ses réelles ou supposées conditions (diagnosticé Asperger) et ensuite prendre de mesures de sécurité autour de gens avec des conditions pareil. Je pense que ce serait une meilleure piste de se demander s'il était outré par quelque méfait commis par des Musulmans, ou s'il était Séculariste, comme Breivik et Tarrant. Mais non, ce pays n'est pas tellement distancé de son sécularisme de type grosso modo marxiste pour se poser cette question./HGL

PPS, selon les actus, Rickard Andersson a tué dix avant de se suicider. Comme Mohammed Merah n'a pas pu être entendu sur le rôle de fondamentalisme islamique dans son acte, Richard Andersson ne pourra pas être entendu pour le mobile idéologique opposé. Entretemps, certains préfèrent tamponner le fondamentalisme comme le danger, indistinctement entre Musulmans et Chrétiens, tandis que le sécularisme qu'on véhicule, de chaque école, assez évidemment en cause chez Eric Harris et Dylan Klebold, n'est pas prioritaire à mettre en cause, plutôt alors une maladie ou débilité mentale. Certains sont peut-être prônes à examiner des médicaments, comme le psychiatre Peter Breggin à propos de Harris, mais relativement peu, hélas./HGL

* Que ce soit illicite de cibler une ethnie avec des brimades déshumanisantes, comme les Nazis avec les Juifs (quelle que soit la vérité sur les chambres à gaz, à l'époque j'y croyais encore), je veux bien. Mais d'instrumentaliser ça pour faire tout un discours contre la dictature sur le plan constitutionnel, de moraliser contre des leaders uniques, pas forcément toujours élus et donc extoller la constitution démocratique, dont la suédoise est une forme, dans un pays où le parlement avait voté et maintenait encore : avortement, psychiatrie (dont une proche était ciblée), les "DDAS", l'obligation scolaire, toutes les choses que me faisaient souffrir (école publique et laïque, menace des "DDAS") ou faisaient souffrir des gens que je valorisait et valorise (psychiatrie, avortement), non, c'est abominable. Le récit de la Shoah, même à la supposer une vérité, n'a pas à servir comme base d'une quasi-religion, et cette religion n'a pas en plus de faire ses préférences constitutionnelles.

** Autrefois Michel I, ici en entrevue chez des gens qui le qualifient d'Antipape :

Pontifacts Interview with Pope Michael
Pontifacts Podcast | 2 Oct. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ0CYtplMnQ

Je pense que la première vidéo qui se basait sur l'entrevue était plus rédigée, celle-ci plus complète.

Aujourd'hui Michel II, dito :

"I am the REAL Pope"
Scholastic Answers | 28 Aug. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJ_0BFpqsI

*** På Svenska og på Dansk på Antimodernism: Gud heter intet sol eller måne
https://danskantimodernism.blogspot.com/2025/01/gud-heter-intet-sol-eller-mane.html

GrimFabel est une suécisation de "grim fable" en anglais qui donnerait "fable sinistre" ou "fable sombre" ... il m'a fait 19 remarques depuis le 30 janvier. Et il communie avec un "Riddim" (auquel il a dédié une 20:e reponse) qui s'était déjà avant démarqué comme un harceleur envers moi, depuis mon arrivé sur ce forum cette fois :

På Svenska og på Dansk på Antimodernism: Förfölgelse från Sverige är en verklighet
https://danskantimodernism.blogspot.com/2024/06/forfolgelse-fran-sverige-ar-en.html

° Exemple éclatant, dans le parler des deux, "Fasciste" ne renvoie pas à l'ensemble des mouvances anti-marxistes et anti-capitalistes des années 20' et 30' mais quasi uniquement au Troisième Reich avec des point de vue en partie calomnieuses en prime. Hélas, l'anti-libertarisme vis-à-vis les sdf n'était pas une calomnie. Mais elle n'était pas partagée par les Carlistes, ou pas tous. Cet antilibertarisme se trouve aussi chez les Marxistes à peu d'exceptions près, quand ils sont au pouvoir.

Happy News!

According to a vision of Edvige Carboni, Il Duce was in Purgatory, but when her confessor had offered every mass for his release for two years, she heard a voice that Benito Mussolini had gone to Heaven!
/HGL

Source, now that the livestream is over:

A Catholic Take | Catholic Doctrine Chief says Hell is EMPTY??? And persecution continues!
Joe McClane | 30.XII.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hb3cT_vhL4

I Thought That Decree Was by Franco

New blog on the kid: Tolkien's Politics · I Thought That Decree Was by Franco · Why I am Not Capitalist or for Unrestricted Free Market · Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Tolkien Supported Franco's Side in the 36—39 War · Prince Caspian · Lord of the Rings: Motivations for Fandom · Tolkienophobes, Buzz Off! · Tolkienophobe Identified? · J D Vance-Phobes? · Crooks' (or Yearick's?) Body Gone · Sharing On The Shooting

Perlasca worked with the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires, Ángel Sanz Briz, and other diplomats of neutral states to smuggle Jews out of Hungary. The system he devised consisted of furnishing "protection cards" which placed Jews under the guardianship of various neutral states. He helped Jews find refuge in protected houses under the control of various embassies, which had extraterritorial conventions that gave them an equivalent to sovereignty. They could provide asylum for Jews.[2][3]

When Sanz Briz left Hungary at night in November 1944, he did not tell Perlasca that he was going to leave,[4] and Perlasca chose to remain in Hungary. The Hungarian government ordered the Spanish Embassy building and the extraterritorial houses where the Jews took refuge to be cleared out. Perlasca immediately made the false announcement that Sanz Briz was due to return from a short leave, and that he had been appointed as chargé d'affaires for the meantime.[2] Throughout the winter, Perlasca was active in hiding, shielding and feeding thousands of Jews in Budapest. He continued issuing safe conduct passes as initiated by Spanish government, on the basis of a Spanish decree passed 20 December 1924 that granted citizenship to Jews of Sephardic origin (descendants of Iberian Jews expelled from Spain in the late 15th century), but it had been canceled in 1930, a fact the Hungarian authorities were not aware of.[3]

I thought the decree about Sephardic Jews becoming Spanish Citizens was by El Caudillo ... I only read briefly about this in a book mainly about Raoul Wallenberg.

So, it was in reality issused by Primo de Rivera (the elder), under Alfons XIII, revoked by Dámaso Berenguer, also under Alfons XIII, and the revocation was ignored by an Italian posing as Spanish Diplomat (with some right as Italian volunteer veteran in the Spanish war).

Giorgio Prelasca, bene fatto ... much as I like the Caudillo on some matters (like banning freemasonry or defending the Church), I'm happy to give credit where it's due.

To another, whether you prefer to call him Fascist or Ex-Fascist (he had broken with La Repubblica di Salò, I think very rightly so), mind you.

Who had joined the National Fascist Party, but obviously not the Republican Fascist Party. Who had fought under the high command of Franco and direct command of men like Gastone Gambara, in the Corpo Truppe Volontarie.

If some people love to give credit to the Red Army for liberating Auschwitz, I love to give credit to the mayor of Assisi (who had been in the March on Rome) and men like Giorgio Perlasca and Ángel Sanz Briz.

So, was Perlasca an Ex-Fascist? In a very banale sense, we must say he was, since he said so. At a certain point, he did not any longer believe in Italian Fascism ... pretty much coinciding with the point where I thought it had gone wrong (until I checked details about the Ethiopian war, somewhat earlier, and saw the great service to Austria was also earlier than I thought).

Perlasca grew disillusioned with fascism, in particular, due to Benito Mussolini's alliance with Nazism and adoption of Italian racial laws that came into force in 1938.

I definitely agree with those two points. So, in my terms, he grew disillusioned with Italian Fascism about at the right moment. He didn't express regret over having fought for Franco, nor should he have. He didn't take a distance from what I take to be the core value of combining Christian tradition and Economic justice of Corporativist type (also used for the economy of Sweden, but Social Democracy there has other, darker, more Marxist sides as well). It's somewhat of an exaggeration when I tend to call myself a Fascist. Apart from this core value, there are two other parts, common to pretty much all Fascisms of the thirties, namely Squadrismo (organising street fighters) and Antiparliamentarianism. I'm half and half Antiparliamentarian, considering what evils Parliaments have voted, but not to the extent of fighting to abolish Parliaments, nor am I Squadrista. But I think it had its place in the Biennio Rosso and when José Antonio (son of previously mentioned Primo de Rivera) fought Caballero.

When I say Christian tradition, I'm aware that some Fascisms, worst of all perhaps National Socialism, or probably or probably certainly, were just playing around with it, much like Social Democratic Broderskapare or the part time Orthodox Church under Stalin. But this was not the case in all Fascisms, the Spanish ones got Freemasons out of and Catholic priests back into schools, and were defenders against Church looters and killers of bishops, of priests, of religious, also rapers and seducers of nuns. I don't think Perlasca regretted that part, defending the Church against those evils.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. William of Guleti
25.VI.2024

Too Much Psychiatry in Some Fascisms : Italy

Benito Albino Mussolini was abducted by government agents and was told that his mother was dead. In 1931, he was adopted as an orphan at 15 by the fascist ex-police chief of Sopramonte. Initially educated at a Barnabite college in Moncalieri,[4] he enrolled in the Italian Royal Navy and always remained under close surveillance by the fascist government. Nevertheless, he persisted in stating that Benito Mussolini was his father and eventually, he was forcibly interned in an asylum in Mombello, Province of Milan, where he died on 26 August 1942 after he was repeatedly given coma-inducing injections, at the age of 26. Ida and Benito were officially described as “a danger to themselves and others” but hospital records show that both of them were lucid.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Dalser

If Il Duce basically killed his son through shrinks, that reminds of the US, where the Kennedys destroyed the life of Rosemary.

I think every 20th C. régime, with few and small exceptions, had some evil side. Even Fascism.

Mussolini treated his political opponents (after the street fights ended in 1922 and before the Salò Republic) with more delicacy than his own son./HGL

What Do I Mean by Fascist?

New blog on the kid: Swedes are Not Likely to be Anti-Black Racists · What Do I Mean by Fascist? · Φιλολoγικά / Philologica: "Most Enlightenment Thinkers Were Christians"

If I call myself one, perhaps I don't agree with Umberto Eco's 14 points.

I think that a certain anti-Fascist on the right (more like an US Republican) made a valuable distinction.

• Italian Fascism, National Socialism, Social Democracy are all related.
• Italian Fascism is not more related to National Socialism and National Socialism not more related to Italian Fascism than each to Social Democracy.

So, what do all of these have in common? Following the first part of the distinction.

They have in common to reject both Capitalism of the extreme Manchester school, or even too uncomfortably close to it, and instead emphasise workers' rights, while at the same time also rejecting Communist expropriation and instead emphasising property rights. Or to put it shorter : all three try to conjugate respect for workers' rights with respect for property. Me four.*

So, where do they differentiate? Or where does Italian Fascism differentiate from the other two?

• Italian Fascism as well as National Socialism reject the feminist heritage of Social Democracy, like promoting free sex without consequences, first promoting contraceptives, then later on even abortion.**
• Italian Fascism as well as Social Democracy (at least previously) rejects mercy killing of the disabled.
• Italian Fascism up to 1934 as well as Social Democracy reject Racism, while Italian Fascism from 1938 on, as well as National Socialism embace Racism.

On the last one, I'm with the early Mussolini, not the late one.

That's also the case with Spanish and Austrian Fascism, as well as with Portuguese and at least some Brazilian versions***

To be fair to Umberto, he doesn't list Racism as a feature of Fascism. Parts of what he does list are to me unfortunate accidents in Il Duce's version, specifically Il Squadrismo .... I was fortunately not involved in a civil war, like Il Biennio Rosso, so, I can definitely live without features like

3) The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4) Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
...
9) Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10) Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

But I definitely like points 1 and 2, though not the way he spells it out:

1) The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2) The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

Syncretistic and occult elements are within Christendom very much the opposite of traditionalism. The Nazi Gnosis was less important in Nazism than mostly dechristianised Protestantism.°

Rejecting the Enlightenment is very much not irrationalist, because the Enlightenment itself was less rational than the Catholic "Superstition" it rejected. And remains so to this day.

I totally agree with the Inklings on that point, however much they may have agreed with Eco in exaggerating how important Nazi Gnosis was for National Socialism.

As to n° 6 "appeal to social frustration" — what ideology isn't doing so the last few centuries since the Enlightenment?/HGL

* Pun on "me too" sounding like "me two" ...
** My grandparents who were Social Democrats were so early enough to be it well before the abortion part, and to actually be disgusted by the change.
*** O Integralismo may have been regretted by Dom Helder Cámara as a "sin of youth" ... I'm not so sure. Except, of course, I'm not a fan of Gustavo Barroso's antisemitism, especially if he went further than Drumont.
° Statistics for the Waffen-SS corroborate what I said, on a video seen last month or two months, I got a break-down : c. 25 % each of Catholic and Gottesgläubig (that Nazi Gnosis was officially called so), c. 50 % of Evangelische, which unlike US Evangelicals in the German context doesn't mean very fervently Christian Protestants, but more like very moderately Christian and fervently progressive Protestants.

Preparing a Response to Claims on Italian Fascism 22 - 36

Contacted a certain Pavan Ilaria Pavan, and while preparing the email, the session, here at Georges Pompidou Library, was cut off, with a message it was being cut off for "abusive activity".

Saying Italian Fascism was pretty OK 22 to 36 would normally not be insulting to for instance Jews or any other ethnic group.

The Carta della Razza, from which I have more than once taken vehement distance, was in 1938.

So, Ilaria Pavan claims, what was happening 22 to 36 should still have warned Jews to leave.

She is cited by someone else, and her own paper I could not access. I sent her a mail asking if it and especially how it was in her opinion that bad. What certain very general enumerations of areas in the paper citing her actually mean.

Stating candidly "I never called myself Fascist before reading of the Mayor of Assisi" - she would know perfectly well he helped Fr. Ruffino Niccacci save Jews and he was a first hour Fascist - can not in any way, shape or form be taken as incitation to hatred againt Jews, very much the contrary, and with my Marrano background, except it's Nordic, such a thing would be inappropriate too.

However, some Jews over here seem to get collectively hysteric about my favourable view of early Fascism. Hence they may have taken my adressing this letter or Professor Pavan as an insult to her. They are also regularly not well read on topics like early Italian Fascism or like the Mayor of Assisi - but I have some confidence Professor Pavan is.

So, their hysteria could have led to the shutting down of a session, with results for which I asked Professor Pavan to excuse me.

Or, some security guard who is not a Jew. Or ... but this would not be possible, since I just wrote "Fascist" without the session shutting down ... automated shut down for use of that word. I think that can be eliminated, since lots of antifascists use it too and are arguably not censored over here.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Bpi, Georges Pompidou
Cathedra of St. Peter
in Antioch
22.II.2020

Antiochiae Cathedra sancti Petri Apostoli, ubi primum discipuli cognominati sunt Christiani.

In Antioch, Cathedra of St. Peter Apostle, where first the disciples were called Christians.

Who Provided Refuge to Jews in Europe?

Here is a quote proposing Sweden was best:

By contrast, much of Protestant Europe heroically resisted. Tiny Denmark fought off the Third Reich to the utmost of its abilities, protecting its Jewish population by evacuating them to neutral Sweden and elsewhere. Finland successfully defended its independence in the face of both Soviet and German machinations. As for Sweden, home to Scandinavia’s largest Jewish population, few if any countries did more to oppose the Holocaust. Swedes provided sanctuary to over 7,000 Danish Jews and over tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews.

Remember When Fascism Was a Catholic Problem?
A historian’s perspective on religious dogma
Ben Freeland Jul 14, 2018 · 10 min read
https://medium.com/@benfreeland/remember-when-fascism-was-a-catholic-problem-ba3602d34437

As Hungarian Jews were mentioned, that refers to Raul Wallenberg.

However, when I bought a paperback about this hero, I noted that in Budapest, he and the Spanish diplomats were dividing the Jews between them : Ashkenazim to Sweden, Shephardim to Spain. It's years ago, but I have not forgotten.

As I don't recall the title of the book, here is a confirmation from elsewhere, via wiki, that Spain indeed did so. Franco's Spain.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), the synagogues were closed and post-war worship was kept in private homes. Jewish public life resumed in 1947 with the arrival of Jews from Europe and North Africa.

In the first years of the World War II, "Laws regulating their admittance were written and mostly ignored."[71] They were mainly from Western Europe, fleeing deportation to concentration camps from occupied France, but also Jews from Eastern Europe, especially Hungary. Trudi Alexy refers to the "absurdity" and "paradox of refugees fleeing the Nazis' Final Solution to seek asylum in a country where no Jews had been allowed to live openly as Jews for over four centuries." [72]

Throughout World War II, Spanish diplomats of the Franco government extended their protection to Eastern European Jews, especially in Hungary. Jews claiming Spanish ancestry were provided with Spanish documentation without being required to prove their case and either left for Spain or survived the war with the help of their new legal status in occupied countries.

Once the tide of war began to turn, and Count Francisco Gómez-Jordana Sousa succeeded Franco's brother-in-law Serrano Súñer as Spain's foreign minister, Spanish diplomacy became "more sympathetic to Jews", although Franco himself "never said anything" about this.[71] Around that same time, a contingent of Spanish doctors travelling in Poland were fully informed of the Nazi extermination plans by Governor-General Hans Frank, who was under the misimpression that they would share his views about the matter; when they came home, they passed the story to Admiral Luís Carrero Blanco, who told Franco.[73]

Diplomats discussed the possibility of Spain as a route to a containment camp for Jewish refugees near Casablanca but it came to naught due to lack of Free French and British support.[74] Nonetheless, control of the Spanish border with France relaxed somewhat at this time,[75] and thousands of Jews managed to cross into Spain (many by smugglers' routes). Almost all of them survived the war.[76] The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee operated openly in Barcelona.[77]

Shortly afterwards, Spain began giving citizenship to Sephardic Jews in Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania; many Ashkenazic Jews also managed to be included, as did some non-Jews. The Spanish head of mission in Budapest, Ángel Sanz Briz, saved thousands of Ashkenazim in Hungary by granting them Spanish citizenship, placing them in safe houses and teaching them minimal Spanish so they could pretend to be Sephardim, at least to someone who did not know Spanish. The Spanish diplomatic corps was performing a balancing act: Alexy conjectures that the number of Jews they took in was limited by how much German hostility they were willing to engender.[78]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Spain#Spanish_Civil_War_&_World_War_II

All footnotes from 71 to 78 are referring to:

Alexy, Trudi. The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Oral Histories Exploring Five Hundred Years in the Paradoxical Relationship of Spain and the Jews, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. ISBN 978-0-671-77816-3, hardcover; ISBN 978-0-06-060340-3, paperback reprint.

Back to Ben Freeland.

The only Scandinavian country to truly succumb to fascist rule was Norway. Tiny Estonia and Latvia — which, like Finland, found themselves caught in the middle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany — were unable to muster much in the way of resistance to the Reich. Latvia was unique among majority Protestant countries for nearly annihilating its Jewish population. Meanwhile, over 75 per cent of Estonia’s small Jewish community succeeded in escaping to the USSR.

Could it have sth to do with fortunes of war, with how Latvia and how Estonia were placed in relation to German troops or near or far from Russian such?

Estonia was next to Finland's attackers, the Red Army. Latvia was next to German expansion East, troups trying to go to Moscow.

When it comes to Jews from either country, I have a special place in my heart for Latvia. There was a konversa who was still Jewish (of Israelite confession) while marrying whom I honour.

Even Germany itself, as much a Lutheran country as a Catholic one, has a paradoxically lower Jewish mortality rate than many of the countries it occupied before and during World War II. In his superb book, The Meaning of Hitler, German historian Sebastian Haffner argues that Adolf Hitler’s antisemitism was more typical of his native Austria and Central-Eastern Europe than of Germany proper, and that his anti-Jewish policies enjoyed less widespread support at home than they did in many of the occupied territories.

Nevertheless, votes for Hitler in 1933 were higher in Protestant parts, like 90 % or more in Berlin. Because they hated Jews? No, but because they loved Hitler's progressive manners and thought Antisemitism was a way to get votes in Bavaria (Austria was not involved) and that he didn't mean it seriously.

Also, Hitler openly announced Antisemitism in 1933, when getting to power, but didn't get started all that much with camps prior to the war, so the German Jews had plenty of time to get elsewhere.

Also, when the French film Rafle came, a news article (LeMonde, I think) stated that Laval (the guy who delivered Jews to German camps) had stated he was proud the Jews were going to get "if not the love, at least the habit of hard work" - in other words, many people who sent Jews to German camps had the impression they were sending them to a Lao Gai, not to a death camp proper.

And Laval was not a devout Catholic:

Laval was born 28 June 1883 at Châteldon, Puy-de-Dôme, in the northern part of Auvergne. His father worked in the village as a café proprietor, butcher and postman; he also owned a vineyard and horses. Laval was educated at the village school in Châteldon. At age 15, he was sent to a Paris lycée to study for his baccalauréat. Returning south to Lyon, he spent the next year reading for a degree in zoology.[3]

Laval joined the Socialists in 1903, when he was living in Saint-Étienne, 62 km southwest of Lyon. "I was never a very orthodox socialist", he said in 1945, "by which I mean that I was never much of a Marxist. My socialism was much more a socialism of the heart than a doctrinal socialism... I was much more interested in men, their jobs, their misfortunes and their conflicts than in the digressions of the great German pontiff."[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laval

Austrofascists may have had a greater dislike of Jews than National Socialists, but Austrofascists being devout Catholics, did not so much about it. Also, they defined Jew confessionally, so the few restrictions (no Lao Gai camps!) were not bothering konversos.

Freeman again:

Catholicism’s fascism problem did not go away at the end of World War II. While it did bring an end to the Nazi puppet states of central and eastern Europe, the neutral dictatorships of Franco and Salazar persisted until the mid-1970s.

And Franco and Salazar did not discriminate against Jews, and both had provided shelter for Jews. Freeman seems to like to jump back and forth between "fascism" and partifipation in German camps for Jews. As if they were equivalent, when they were not.

Also, Italy had few Jews deported to German camps, thanks both to first hour Fascists who did not like the turn to Racism in 1938, at least not as applied under Salò Republic, and, not least, to the Catholic population.

Get the book The Assisi Underground: Assisi and the Nazi Occupation, by Alexander Ramati. - I did not know about the Mayor of Assisi:

The rescue of Jews who sought refuge in Assisi, beginning in the spring of 1943, was organized by Bishop Placido Nicolini, his brother Ruffino Niacci, and Father Aldo Brunacci. Only Father Brunacci is alive today and was on hand for the ceremony of thanks. But the entire population of the village collaborated in the rescue, including its fascist Mayor, Amaldo Fortini.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency : Honor Townspeople of Assisi Who Saved Jews During World War Ii
[internet version of a bulletin from March 16, 1982]
https://www.jta.org/1982/03/16/archive/honor-townspeople-of-assisi-who-saved-jews-during-world-war-ii

I had never called myself a Fascist prior to reading about Amaldo Fortini. I do not regret it, since it involved lately also reading about Aldo Finzi. Ben Freeman is simply oversimplifying things to demonise more than can be tied to demonic behaviour, like putting Jews (or anyone else) into Lao Gai type or worse camps.

And if Jews seeking refuge started in 1943, this is because prior to 1943, Jews had not been in any danger in Catholic and Fascist Italy. Except of course the few who wanted to marry non-Jews, like when converting to Christianity, having to get somewhere else to do that since back in 1938. As I already stated elsewhere, Italian Fascism was at its best before Carta della Razza ... except for guys like Amaldo Fortini, of course.

I wonder where Ben Freeman earned his degrees in history ...? Wait, I have a hunch, he only studied Social Sciences to become a Secondary Education teacher. Such incompetence being encouraged is of course a wider, if less acute, argument against widespread near compulsory secondary schooling than Columbine High Shooting.

Riverside High School : FREEMAN, BEN - SOCIAL SCIENCE
https://www.lcps.org/domain/4743

"down by the Riverside, I'll study war no more"

Perhaps that school should quit studying World War II, until they get competent, if it is the same Ben Freeman - I'll ask.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Bagnolet
St. Henry, Emperor
Sts. Joel and Ezra
13.VII.2019

PS: I also read this on Canada:

Even in Canada, support for authoritarian and fascist ideas reached its pinnacle in uber-Catholic Québec. This was thanks in no small part to the ultramontane views of influential cleric-historian Lionel-Adolphe Groulx and the explosive rhetoric of journalist-turned-fascist-agitator Adrien Arcand. Even former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, that paragon of secular Canadian liberalism, acknowledged in his memoirs that his early education in the 1940s at the Jesuit-run Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montreal instilled him with a positive view of Mussolini and other European Catholic Fascists of the era.

So, liking Mussolini is supposed to have been a worse problem than sterilising, maiming, unmanning or unwomanning, hundreds if not thousands of people who happened to be the wrong ethnicity in Alberta and in British Columbia? Authoritarian is then worse than Totalitarian to that author. Not to me. To me, authoritarian is no big deal, sometimes good, but totalitarian is evil./HGL

PPS, that was Ben Freeman again. And, if you did not get it, sterilisation by force is part of what I count as totalitarian, and it did not happen in Italy from 1922 to 1937, and probably not even from 1938 to the end./HGL

PPPS, sorry, it is not "Raul Wallenberg" but "Raoul Wallenberg" - French spelling of first name./HGL

Rugy et l'histoire?

Mais ce dimanche, sur le plateau de BFMTV, François de Rugy a également voulu montrer les muscles et s’est livré à une attaque d’une rare violence. “Vous savez à qui il me fait penser? Un fasciste. Les fascistes se comportent comme ça. Ils discréditent les gens qui ne pensent pas comme eux au lieu de débattre”, a-t-il lancé en comparant les vidéos régulières du députés insoumis à celles de Jean-Marie Le Pen.

https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/la-canicule-a-fait-bouillir-les-tensions-entre-ruffin-et-rugy_fr_5d178218e4b07f6ca57e0cd9?utm_hp_ref=fr-homepage&ncid=tweetlnkfrhpmg00000001

Dans le cas Matteotti, pourtant, Il Duce a débattu devant une commission parlementaire, contre l'accusation d'avoir imité la Tchéca (orthographée Ceca en italien) et d'avoir ordonné l'assassinat de Matteotti.

Répliquer que les Russes, eux avaient une Tchéca, c'était alors de décrédibiliser les gens au lieu de se débattre?

Seulement si tous qui le soupçonnaient d'être le coupable derrière l'assassin reconnu coupable étaient des Cocos ....

Un autre fasciste vient déjà de dire (sous reddit) "en tant que fasciste, je tiens à me désolidariser de Ruffin, qui donne une très mauvaise image de notre idéologie" - que dire alors de Rugy qui donne une très mauvaise image de notre procédé?/HGL

If in Hendaye your reaction is "this is where Franco made Hitler feel uncomfy, serve him right" ....

... perhaps your Fascism is not National Socialism.

When I came up to Sysslebäck as teacher in Swedish and German for Autumn Term of 1995, I decided to keep quiet about being a Fascist of the Franco-friendly type. Why? People where alive who had fought in the International Brigades.

Some maths for now.

Suppose you are 100 years old, as very few are, how old were you in 1939? 20 years. Suppose you are 95, as some more, but still few, are, you were 15. If you were 15 in 1939, you probably were not a veteran from that war, especially not international brigades.

But in 1995, this was not so. There were people alive in 80's and 90's who had felt very strongly about fighting in those brigades. I have a mother who felt very strongly about geriatrics. A village is a place where things get out. I did not want to give old people a shock which might lead to a heart attack, just because they were fighting for a bad thing several decades earlier. Especially as Franco himself had not exactly wanted his international volunteers from England or Sweden to take part in arms : carrying the wounded or doing journalism was OK, but he didn't feel like bringing Spanish War elsewhere.

So, I happen to have some respect for the National Socialists who exist now in Sweden, on a personal level. I do not agree with their politics. I do not want to be confused with them, and they might not want to be confused with me.

Here is a homepage to a Swedish National Socialist movement*, not mine:

Nordfront : Det finns inga nazister
Av Henrik Pihlstrom, 2015-07-05
https://www.nordfront.se/det-finns-inga-nazister.smr

Here is a homepage to a Swedish Fascist movement, much closer to my position, though not mine:

Nysvenska rörelsen
http://www.nysvenskarna.se/enter.php?readmore&id=36

Back in certain times, the founder Engdahl was naive about National Socialism, he took his distance after learning about the camps, but he never took a distance from Mussolini.

The present day view of work, employment, wages, etc on this one has two huge references : Carta del Lavoro by Mussolini, 1927, and a similar policy statement by Juan Perón, Argentina. (Btw, to me "Argentinian fascist" means Perón, not Videla, and Videla I would rather class as something like a "Catholic" and Capitalist Stalinist, as "Catholic" as Stalin was Orthodox - except he went to Church, but I speak of his policies, and as Capitalist as the Commies are in China these days).

In 1992, I mourned for the demise of Engdahl. However, I take a certain distance, because Nysvenskar were not only involved in good aspects of Social Democracy, as Saltsjöbadsandan (in France that would be like "les Grenelles"), but also in one bad one, the eugenics program that lasted to the 70's. Germany can be thankful its eugenics program was in Hitler's régime, that way it ended 1945.

However, today the Nysvenskar do usually, like myself, take a distance from the eugenics program, partly because some of them are Catholic converts, like me.

I am afraid Nordfront might still advocate aborting a baby with Down's**. I only advocate getting fewer babies conceived with Down's by getting younger mothers, or, let's put it like this, if a woman starts getting children at 15 or 20 and has a baby with Down's at 40, getting more non-Down's babies first. That way the baby will grow up with older siblings that can take care of it.

Now, there are people in Paris who survived the camps. What Marcel Kling (if I recall the name correctly) went through was an atrocity. Should they feel ill about my preference for Franco over Azaña?

Let's put it like this, in a book about Raul Wallenberg, in Budapest, he gave Ashkenazi Jews Swedish passports, while Spanish Embassy (of the Franco régime, not of any Republican exile government), gave Sephardic Jews Spanish passports. You showed a key to a house in Spain which your ancestors had left 1492? You spoke some Djudezmo? Bienvenido a España, aquí el pasaporte. And they were not rigorous about checking.

So, no, I do not think someone who survived the camps should feel ill at ease about my support for Franco.

Back to 1995. No, I did not say to people in Sysslebäck I was pro-Franco. I told two people, both of whom very senior functionaries at the school. A little later, there was a rumour among some I was a Nazi and there was a rumour I was a paederast, a boylover. Both rumours were untrue. I wonder where those rumours came from. One possibility is one of the guys could have been ill at ease about my being pro-Franco and could have started a rumour cautiously and in a way so it could not be traced. Other possibility is, in Malmö it had been well known***, and there were freemasons both places, Malmö as well as Sysslebäck.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Monday in Pentecost Novena
3.VI.2019

* Legal up there. Actually not giving the front page, but an article polemising against the popular cultural usage of "Nazi", apart from the word, for which there is another article.
** Haven't specifically checked. A clearer case, they are against a Jewish "Folk high school", I am for educational liberties. They are also re-endorsing the anticlerical cult like near worship of Giordano Bruno. My answer is available on Nordfront försvarade Bruno.
*** The Franquista part.

If Asperger was a Wellfunctioning Cog, in a Deadly Machine ...

• ... what are other shrinks, later on? Must one physically kill to be deadly? Does provoking and sometimes forcing abortions count?
• ... why would it be so terrible to be an Austrofascist, when in fact Asperger and Jekelius could start no killing before the Anschluß? Because they came to the clinic before, under Austrofascism? Well, even good and half-good fascisms were a bit blind about the evils of psychiatry! And it was not foreseen they would become killers. Or simply because even now some guys can't see the difference between Nazi and Austrofascist, between after and before Anschluß? Why then the horror of the Anschluß, if you think the régime before it was basically the same as the one after?
• ... and third, do you know what "the cog" is in ASCII ...

T		84		080		04
H		72		150		06
E		69		210		15
C		67		270		22
O		79		340		31
G		71		410		32		442

Each of the six letters is lower case, add six tmes 32, and there is a space, add another 32. 7 * 32 = 224. So, for the very mathematically minded, what do you think 442 + 224 add up to?

For those not aware, I just read Russel Grigg's review mostly of a book called Asperger's Children, by Edith Sheffer.

Here is the link to the review:

Nazi child euthanasia and Hans Asperger
by Russell Grigg
https://creation.com/asperger

and here is the link to Edith's book, which I haven't read yet:

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna 1st Edition
by Edith Sheffer (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Aspergers-Children-Origins-Autism-Vienna/dp/0393609642

Again, I take pride in being Austrofascist rather than Nazi, and in being against psychiatry and in having called out "Asperger's syndrome" as a fraudulent diagnosis, based on rubber definitions, on diagnostic criteria where the fulfilment or not of it would be judged according to personal predispositions of the one judging./HGL

Sous Mussolini, les trains marchaient ...

... mais notons une chose : si Mussolini a fait cesser les grèves (y compris de trains), même par interdit, même par violence, il a aussi les fait cesser en éliminant des raisons des cheminots (et d'autres) de se plaindre.

Macron a fait l'inverse, il a enlevé un statut qu'avaient les cheminots, et par là provoqué une grève./HGL

Some Have Taken Tolkien for a Crypto-Fascist

While being patriotic, and while his son was fighting Italians in Ethiopia, he had some sympathy for Italians - but not for Hitler's Germany. He was a patriot for England - but not for British Parlamentarian Democracy. He considered in Hitler's Germany obedience was put to bad use, but he still considered it a virtue the English could learn from.

So, in a sense, even more if you extend "fascism" to include anything beyond Mussolini's original and its contributary Marinetti's Futurist Party (not quite Tolkien's glass of milk!), for instance Franco or Salazar, Tolkien was more or less fascist and not so crypto. He was against the Reds in the Spanish War.

The Orcs in The Hobbit (and later in Lord of the Rings) may well owe a thing or two to the Reds in Spain.

However, he also considered his books were not allegories. Some might take this as hypocritic, a bit like a record company accused of backmasking saying that in their record company all discs are turning one way only, forward - yes, but what about the magnetophone recordings before the actual discs? Well, I trust Tolkien for one, and for another, some who "decode" him are unusually inept at decoding allegories.

"Since their publication, many critics have labored to decode hidden allegories of real-world events in the adventures of the Fellowship. Because of its racial essentialism and black-and-white morality, Tolkien has often been accused of crypto-fascism."

• There is absolutely no racial essentialism in Tolkien's work, beyond the level like "negros are musically talented" - which is not a very racialist thing to say and also has very little to do with Fascism in the general sense.
  
  There is no "Gondoreans are good" or "men from Harad are bad". Men from Harad were misguided at the start of the war, but one task of Aragorn after it was helping them around in a peaceful way. Peaceful, a part from a decisive destruction of Satanism, that is. And men from Numenor have turned bad : the Ring Wraiths are all originally "Black Numenoreans", and black does not refer to skin colour, but to moral alignment, Denethor sank to Occultism, to Realpolitik and to despair, the kingdoms of the North became dominated by the Witchking Angmar, the foremost of the Nine Ring Wraiths. Hobbits too have sunk low, like Gollum and like Lotho Pimple, not forgetting Ferney. One part of the story is a Rosa Parks turn for the good of the people of Ghân-Buri-Ghân.
  
  It is just that Numenoreans are longer lived and more intellectually talented than some others (Aragorn being a young warrior at 80, like Abraham in Genesis 14), they had the talents necessary for colonialism, and some used it well, others very ill.
  
  Orcs and elves are not human races, and orcs are a twisted version of the elvish "race" or rather kind. No conclusions can be drawn from relation to Orcs or Elves to relations between human races.
  
  And "sorry for the word" (ok, not too much), but it was in use in his day and not everyone using it was ideologically a racialist and he was not.
  
  
• Black and White morality is certainly there in Tolkien - but that is the opposite of the Fascisms which went sour like curdled milk. Italian Fascism was beginning good mannered, up to O ... 79 years ago today, no, tomorrow, with the ban on mixed marriages between Italians (not Catholics) and Hebrews (not confessional Jews), against which, 79 years ago today, Pope Pius XI protested.
  
  Why did it change? Because it believed in an evolving, not in a Black and White, morality.
  
  Hitler's party North of the Alps had even less use for Black and White morality.
  
  By contrast, Franco was preserving Spain from things like Sterilisation and Euthanasia, precisely because he believed, as a Catholic, in a Black and White morality.
  
  So, in having this, Tolkien is actually, if not "antifascist" at least against the bad Fascisms. The nearly bad from start German workers' party, and the going bad Italian proto-version of it.

So, with yet another untalented reading of it as allegory about contemporary things, one can most usefully support Tolkien's aversion to allegory (at least to allegorical reading of his own works apart from Leaf by Niggle).

Nevertheless, while John Last is showing some ineptitude with the above quoted remark, I think that he is giving a not too bad story, which shows that Fascists doing Tolkien have some better inspiration than certain episodes of Mussolini or than Evola. A special bonus for pointing out a contrast between Tolkien and Evola:

"While Evola was theorizing a radical break with modernity, J.R.R. Tolkien was living it. After decades cloistered in the English department of a medieval university, rearranging the elements of Anglo-Saxon lore, Tolkien published The Hobbit, in 1937, followed, almost 20 years later, by The Lord of the Rings."

Mille grazie!

And as Evola might have dreamt of a Pagan antimodernity, Tolkien showed forth a Catholic Christian one, with no little Medieval tinge, not far from Pope St Pius X's Antimodernism.

I am much obliged. Due to this, I may simply state, I have been reading Tolkien for a very long time, especially in formative years and the last years before leaving my last adress in Sweden, I have not been paying attention to Evola and don't intend to too much.

Here is the adress to above story:

How ‘Hobbit Camps’ Rebirthed Italian Fascism
by John Last October 03, 2017
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobbit-camps-fascism-italy

Enjoy!

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Gertrude
16.XI.2017