New Aristocracy
To recreate a new aristocracy is the work of every true revolutionary project.
Definition
What are the qualities of a true aristocrat? Attachment to one’s people, who are served with courage, impartiality, modesty, creativity, taste, simplicity, and stature.
The figure of the bourgeois is very unlike that of the true aristocrat. The decline of European aristocracies, then their disappearance, came once they merged with the bourgeois dynasties. An aristocracy is not juridicially hereditary, for a hereditary aristocracy always decays, and eventually becomes extinct. Every generation of aristocrats, through their acts, must prove that they are worthy of their status. In an archaic and futurist inegalitarian vision of the world, aristocrats would have more rights than others, but also more duties. The principle of heredity is acceptable if it facilitates the selection of elites: that is, if it weeds out the incompetent and helps incorporate capable newcomers. Today, the mere idea of aristocracy is incompatible with the dominant ideology. But every people needs an aristocracy. It’s an integral part of human nature and can’t be dispensed with. The question then is not ‘For or against aristocracy?’ but ‘What kind of aristocracy?’
The ‘nobility’ of today’s media is a caricature, a total renunciation of the aristocratic spirit, a bourgeois instrumentalisation of the tattered remnants of the ‘great families’. A true aristocracy embodies a people’s essence. It’s not formed by money, but in service to and in leadership of its people. Its rule is one of disinterest, courage, efficacy. Every aristocracy, such as those we have in Europe, is bound to become confused with an ‘economic elite’ once it degenerates. What’s most needed today is the creation of a new European aristocracy. The only possible workshop in which such an aristocracy can be created is war. Aristocrats are born of war, which is the most merciless of selection processes.
