Inegalitarianism

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According to the philosopher Giorgio Locchi, the difference between ‘egalitarianism’ and ‘inegalitarianism’ amounts to a veritable war between conceptions of the world, as Nietzsche first noted. When ordinary citizens stop striving for achievement and reward in favor of a misunderstood egalitarianism, they leave positions of power to those elites who reject this rule by the weak.

Inegalitarianism describes the recognition of the diversity and inequality of all life forms, biological or social. Inegalitarian beliefs are not necessarily founded in the belief that not all should be equal (in the spirit of equal rights, but not the woke dogma to make everything uniform), but in the belief that individualism must be superior to the forced equality of humans which would mean a destruction of personal qualities, may they be strengths or weaknesses.

Definition

Inegalitarianism ought not to be confused with injustice, social oppression, or the establishment of caste privileges. Its vision of the world stems from the principle that humans are neither equivalent nor comparable (collectively or individually), that they are unequal by nature, whether by temperament or virtue. Solutions and morals cannot, therefore, be the same everywhere. Similarly, this implies that human beings and civilisations are not and cannot be equally capable or estimable.

The inegalitarian vision of the world is the basis of all justice and social harmony, because it respects the organic character of life. For Nietzsche, egalitarianism represented a ‘hatred of life’ and led to tyrannical efforts to create an artificial social universe. The democratic despotisms of the Twentieth century are excellent examples of this.

Inegalitarianism is a recognition of life’s diversity, it’s the basic logic of competition dominating the different life forms. Without this recognition, the results would lead to savagery — to the very opposite of order, equilibrium, and justice. There’s no need to limit inegalitarianism to diversity (as do our ‘ethnopluralist’ intellectuals, who are, actually, profoundly egalitarian), but to understand that unequal life forms imply notions of superiority and quality.

This raises the question as to how criteria of inequality or superiority (of men or civilisations) are to be judged. Is it a matter of wealth? Of force? Of power? No, it’s the capacity to endure and survive, which is the basis of domination. It therefore seems very necessary to challenge the "moral high plateau of egalitarianism" and suggest that a case can be made for inegalitarianism against the unity or uniform man (Einheitsmensch) because European culture in particular thrives on its diversity (including the many different religious and cultural identities).

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