The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis

There‘s a lot to like about Dr. Tomislav Sunic’s little book: Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age . Firstly, it is exceedingly rare nowadays to read a contemporary author who passionately argues against both democracy (in its parliamentary form) and its twin, equality. Prior to the Second World War political theorists who advanced similar (socialist and aristocratic) ideas from the Right belonged to a school of thought often called Revolutionary Conservatism; today, kindred ideas can sometimes be found among the more daring writers of the European New Right. However, by and large, the post-World War II bien-pensants commissars of the international Left and extreme Left, in Europe as well as in North America and elsewhere, have been very successful at quickly stifling all voices that deviate from the established parameters of what is and what is not permissible (for an analysis of this phenomenon I recommend Mario Consoli’s Introduction to Jürgen Graf’s Holocaust or Hoax? The Arguments).

The list of what ails the (formerly) White West is long and complex but two factors stand out for Dr. Sunic: laissez-faire market capitalism and Christianity. Dr. Sunic in essence accepts Alain de Benoist’s thesis that it is beyond ironic to watch so-called conservatives oblivious to the fact that the inevitable result of unrestrained, laissez-faire, savage capitalism is the total annihiliation of everything that traditional conservatives are supposed to hold dear (I am assuming that most of today’s conservatives want to conserve something else beside the size of their wallets…but one never knows anymore). Let us not forget that globalisation and mass migration are largely fueled by international capitalists and deracinated corporations (only the bottom line matters!).

Another villain on Dr. Sunic’s list is Christianity. For those living in post-Christian Western Europe this might seem like beating a dead horse. Nonetheless, the point Dr. Sunic is making is much broader than mere church attendance or how many people today accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. In essence, Dr. Sunic writes, centuries of being force-fed Christianity has made the White man weak, completely destroying his immune system, rendering him unable to resist and fight againt various societal upheavals and for his ethnic genetic interests (Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints remains the best fictionalized account of how a White nation cannot face down the challenge of Third World immigration because of its archaic vestiges of Christian morality deeply embedded in its post-modern psyche). However, Christianity’s replacement in the form of secular humanism is in many ways even worse than the initial disease, since secular humanism basically offers the European man effete Christian ethics only without a belief in a deity.

The only flaw that I can see in Dr. Sunic’s monograph concerns his passages regarding America’s never ending world crusade for democracy. It is quite astonishing to see an intellectual of Dr. Sunic’s calibre and sophistication take Richard Perle’s self-serving nonsense at face value. The United States is not interested in promoting democracy around the world…that is for the brids! What America wants today is what she has always wanted since at least the days of Woodrow Wilson, obedient slave governments around the world that always do what America asks of them. American governments are not interested in democracy if democracy means anti-American, protectionist, socialist, or otherwise rebellious polities. (George Galloway made that very point in a debate with the ultimate Jewish neocon (to be redundant) Richard Perle here.) The so-called crusade for democracy is a phrase masking America’s rapacious geopolitical aggrandizement and territorial conquests.

But this is a rather small flaw in what is a thoroughly enjoyable read!