Consciousness, Ethnic

The individual or collective consciousness of the necessity to defend the biological and cultural identity of one’s people, the indispensable condition for the longevity and autonomy of its civilisation.

This is what today’s European, deformed by bourgeois individualism and universalism, lacks the most.

Ethnic consciousness clashes with the prejudices of modern anti-racism and ethnomasochism, both of which afflict Europeans. The dominant ideology demonises ethnic consciousness and equates it with a racist perversion and a will to persecute. Europeans are thereby denied the right to an ethnic consciousness, a right which every other people has been granted.

Bourgeois individualism is the principal ideological obstacle to the rebirth of ethnic consciousness. This individualism goes hand-in-hand with forgetting one’s roots and identity. The absence of ethnic consciousness is a collective mental affliction, associated with the pathological refusal to accept that one is a product of a certain ancestral heritage — a refusal born of that narcissistic individualism of which the West is so fond. The notion of ethnic consciousness will dominate the coming century. Jews, Chinese, Arabs, and Indians understand this well. Europeans alone have failed to see its appeal.

Democracy is real only among an ethnically homogeneous people, conscious of its ethnic identity. Ethnic consciousness is the democratic foundation for justice and social solidarity between members of the same people, as the Greek tradition understood it.

(see democracy; ethnosphere, ethnic blocs; philia)