Soviet Overseas Trading Company News: Time to Face Facts in Afghanistan

National Bolshevism

National Bolshevism may be defined as a socialist movement that grounds itself, not in the internationalist, materialist, atheism of Marx, but rather in the traditional culture of the West. The call for the separation of socialism from its Marxist domination was most powerfully made by Oswald Spengler and he remains today the most important thinker of the National Bolshevik tendency. The dominance of Marxist thinking among members of the far left, as well as the acceptance of Marxism as being synonymous with socialism on the part of rightists, has obscured the fact that the genuine interests of the workers, and thus of socialists, might not be synonymous with internationalism, atheism, and social liberalism. In brief, a National Bolshevik program may be summarized as: Dirigism, Autarky, Socialism!

Best National Bolshevik Novels

1] “Gläserne Bienen” ( The Glass Bees) by Ernst Jünger
2] “Kleiner Mann, was nun?” (Little Man, What Now?) by Hans Fallada
3] “In Stahlgewittern” (The Storm of Steel) by Ernst Jünger
4] “Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben” (Farmers, Bombs and Bureaucrats) by Hans Fallada
5] “The Iron Heel” by Jack London
6] “Die Geächteten” (The Outlaws) by Ernst von Salomon
7] “Der Arbeiter, Herrschaft und Gestalt” (The Worker: Dominion and Gestalt) by Ernst Jünger
8] “The Money Changers” by Upton Sinclair
9] “The Pit” Frank Norris
10] "The Camp of the Saints" Jean Raspail

29 October, 2008

Time to Face Facts in Afghanistan

The current war in Afghanistan is not really about al-Qaida and `terrorism,’ but about opening a secure corridor through Pashtun tribal territory to export the oil and gas riches of the Caspian Basin of Central Asia to the West. The US and NATO forces in Afghanistan are essentially pipeline protection troops fighting off the hostile natives..

Both Barack Obama and John McCain are wrong about Afghanistan. It is not a `good’ fight against `terrorism,’ but a classic, 19th century colonial war to advance western geopolitical power into resource-rich Central Asia. The Pashtun Afghans who live there are ready to fight for another 100 years. The western powers certainly are not.

— Eric Margolis