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Babel, Inc. Multiculturalism, Globalisation, and the New World Order by Kerry Bolton Contents Foreword Introduction No Colour, No Country: the Nature of Capitalism Decolonisation as the Prelude to Globalisation Apartheid: Lest We Forget (Or Never Knew) ‘One World, One Race’ Multiculturalism as a Process of Globalisation The Global Me The Jewish Factor Cultural Imperialism Wars in the Name of ‘Multiculturalism’ Target: France De-Europeanising Europe ‘Hip Hop Diplomacy’ Purse Strings Conclusion: Foreword The New True Enemy If a book is a tool that brings affective forces into the world, then one may measure a book by its strengthening or weakening affects; by whether or not it makes possible the will to attack one’s enemies and to defend one’s people; by how much purpose and resolve it provides those in the thick of a life and death struggle; and by how much “territory” it liberates from one’s enemies. In light of these criteria, Dr. Kerry Bolton’s Babel, Inc. : Multiculturalism, Globalization, and the New World Order has the potential to be truly explosive. Babel, Inc. continues the critical analysis that Dr. Bolton began in Revolution from Above (2011).[1] But whereas that book on the close bonds between the power structure of global capitalism and supposedly oppositional Marxist ideologies and movements gave the reader a sense of distance – as if reading about the machinations and absurdities of an alien species – this book does not afford such a luxurious feeling in the reader. In fact, it affects a changing wind and a reappraisal of the forces aligned against the contemporary Right and the world’s peoples and traditions that face certain extinction. For while it has long been common to read Rightist ruminations on race, immigration, and even ethnological characteristics, only recently has the Right devoted much critical thought to capitalism and the liberal State. Bolton, in his characteristically energetic style, not only makes it possible to know how the United States and its neoliberal allies are combining multinational corporate Money Power with the contemporary moral and truth regime known as multiculturalism to create a new type of human creature, but he also succeeds in making this arrangement the primary target of Rightist agitation and revolt. For unlike the Left, which is utterly complicit in the very State-sponsored liberalism that it purports to oppose, the Right’s anti-liberalism and transvaluational tendencies have allowed it to remain free of the sense-and-capital making apparatuses of the liberal State. Despite this freedom, though, the Right has said very little about the State or capitalism. Perhaps this is because both are darlings of Marxist ideologues, or because the Right has always been fond of nationalism and Statism and weary of homo economicus. In any case, Bolton has ensured that the State and its capitalist “culture of death” will no longer be ignored. The Creation of Homo Globicus At the heart of Babel Inc. is an exposé of multiculturalism as a “social control mechanism” that scorches the earth in preparation for the coming of the rationale of global capitalism: homo globicus. This global man will be at home anywhere in the world because the world will be homogeneously liberal. If that idea seems farfetched now, perhaps at the conclusion of Babel Inc. it will seem less a possibility than a growing reality. Homogeneity is the key that unlocks the ontological functions of multiculturalism. While globalists, corporate spokesmen, political leaders, and academics speak in glowing terms of a relativist multicultural humanism based on political and economic freedom, they are actively engaged in a two-pronged attack on human particularity and the defense thereof. First, multiculturalism is a moral regime that links progressive liberal ideals of tolerance, ecumenicalism, and cosmopolitanism in order to aggressively condemn racism or pride in one’s particularity. This moral and epistemological element links the liberal intelligentsia with Leftist ideologues and activists, not only against the world’s various media-created racist and fascist villains, but also in the service of the liberal State and capitalism. Second, the State, having finally shed the pretense of existing as the will of a people, uses this moral regime at the bidding of the capitalist oligarchs – that actually make the State possible – to spread a monolithic culture of liberal politics, feminism, anti-racism, and identity-based hyper-consumption. It calls for “one world, one race,” – the flip side of multiculturalism – and actively undermines any attempts to preserve the standards, values, and traditions of local peoples, wherever they exist. Just as the State uses the World Trade Organization and World Monetary Fund to control the underdevelopment of the Third World, it uses global capitalism as a talisman to unlock any societies, peoples, States, or regions that remain overly local, xenophobic, or archaic, essentially capturing space for the purpose of its homogeneic valuation. But when that talisman does not properly entice, war is an ever-present possibility. Indeed, Bolton provides an indispensible explanation of the wars in the name of homo globicus that have laid the foundation of the contemporary geopolitical reality. War and identity, then, are merely capitalism by other means. In this unipolar world, allies are merely markets, and people are merely consumers; most of who will gladly embrace the possibilities of unencumbered consumption, credit, and leisure promised by the global American man. Join the Fight! Others though will fight. They will fight homo globicus as homo insurrectus. They will fight to defend their particular values and traditions, their people, and, in a sense, their humanity. However, they will not fight to defend their State or nation, for, as Bolton demonstrates, these are the enemies of the people, being friends only of capitalist oligarchs and liberal humanist consumers. In place of Statist and nationalist solutions, Bolton posits new collective arrangements like the geopolitical vectors and blocs explained by Alexander Dugin and based in the ethnic and civilizational heritages being subsumed by liberalism, multiculturalism, and global capitalism.[2] Ultimately, however, the will to fight must be stirred and nourished in each man, woman, and child that understands the price to be paid for homo globicus. For the Afrikaner, Serb, or Basque the war has long since begun, but for others it is long overdue. The only certainty is that this modern Babel is coming to each and all. States will not fight it because they are beholden to its rewards; nor will bourgeois men and women because it is their inheritance and, more importantly, their instinctual constitution. The smooth spaces – territorial, ontological, or epistemological – that either resist being captured or extricate themselves from the flood of homogenization find themselves at the frontlines of a war. It is a war of ideas and concepts; of territory and space; but also of men and women. The enemy is in each and every one of us, but it is also in very specific States, corporations, and governmental agencies. The failure or success of Babel, Inc. will be measured neither in dollars nor readers; it will not be because of the efforts of Dr. Bolton, even though he has identified our potential enslavers. Instead, the energies brought into the world by Babel, Inc. place the onus of the book’s ultimate value squarely on the reader, for it is his or her responsibility to do something – to act! – with those affective forces. For all of the supposed “inevitability” of homo globicus, the United States, the global capitalist oligarchs, and the lackeys of both, are working extremely hard to ensure his victory: they know the power of ideas and the threat of even the smallest breach in the web that they weave. It is time that we follow suit and embrace the power of our ideas, to seek out and create breaches, and to become an enemy worthy of such a powerful threat. Mark Dyal September 2013 Mark W. Dyal is a cultural anthropologist specializing in Western European resistances to globalization and the homogenizing forces of liberal modernity. He has a PhD in Anthropology and a Masters in Black Studies. In his short time writing for New Right journals and websites, he has demonstrated a wide range of philosophical and historical interests, from contemporary artisan production to post-modern anti-philosophy, while remaining focused on the Nietzschean critique of modernity. His most recent series of essays seeks to move the New Right toward a more revolutionary stance against the liberal State. His essays can be found online at Counter-Currents (www.counter- currents.com), Attack the System (www.attackthesystem.com), and his own site (www.markdyal.com). He publishes essays in academic presses as well, and has just signed with Arktos Media to publish his first book later this year. The book will be on Ultras (a very political Southern European version of soccer hooligans) and the fight against globalization, Americanization, and liberalization in Rome, Italy. [1] Kerry Bolton, Revolution from Above: Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order (London: Arktos Media, 2011). [2] Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory. Mark Sleboda and Michael Millerman. trans. John Morgan ed. (London: Arktos Media, 2011). Introduction If Hitlerism allegedly aimed at the creation of a ‘master race,’ the ‘one world, one race’ ideology is its mirror image: the elimination of all distinct peoples and their replacement with a homogeneous, dumbed-down global slave race, without attachments to any land, culture, lineage, or ethnicity. That this drive for global uniformity is being undertaken in the name of ‘celebrating our differences’ and ‘respect for all cultures’ (other than the European) is fooling the masses into thinking that the aim is quite opposite to what is really intended. It is what we can call deconstruction for the purpose of reconstruction: The deconstruction of a cohesive cultural or national entity in the name of multiculturalism, for the purpose of reconstructing a society that has no ethno-cultural foundation at all, but has been reduced to a produce-and-consume society, with the aim of a global factory and a global shopping mall.

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Babel Inc. is an essential primer on the politics of globalisation and multiculturalism. Bolton demonstrates that conventional distinctions between the political left and right have been transcended by transnational corporations who regard the remnants of the nation-state as the last hurdle for glob
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