Dan Roodt, Special to AR News, November 26, 2007
Thanks to its 15,000 percent inflation rate, which is the current world record, many people on our planet have now heard of Zimbabwe. As it happens, the former leader of the ex-Rhodesia, Ian Smith, just died in Cape Town, South Africa. Smith was betrayed by Britain in the late 1970s so that Robert Mugabe could take over what was once the most successful country in sub-Saharan Africa—apart from South Africa.
It may sound bizarre, but when I read up on Hillary Clinton recently, her life story reminded me of Zimbabwe. A nice, conservative girl from Park Ridge, Illinois, gone wrong and turned into a virago of liberal and multi-cultural politics. During her freshman year, Hillary Rodham served as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans. At the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami, however, she developed an intense dislike of Nixon, being a Nelson Rockefeller supporter and she also claims to have discerned “veiled racist messages” at the convention.
The multi-cultural tide engulfed not only poor Hillary, but also entire regions of the world. In Southern Africa, the “struggle against racism” has led to the most discriminatory systms ever seen—directed against whites, however. The conservative, pro-Western governments previously dominated by whites have been replaced by radical, Africanist regimes intent upon spearheading a worldwide Third World revolution against the West.
In Zimbabwe, economic, educational, transport and healthcare systems are fast collapsing, as the economy slips back into the stone age. Schools have all but ground to a halt and according to a recent report in the London Telegraph, parts of the University of Zimbabwe are being turned into brothels. As one female student put it: “What would you do if you were given a paltry Z$2 million (about $2 at the black market exchange rate) per semester?”
To most Americans or Europeans, Zimbabwe belongs to a vague collection of Third-World countries not easily found on a map. And yet Mr. Mugabe’s rabidly anti-white system is only the more extreme manifestation of the international multi-cultural movement.
Zimbabwe is to multi-culturalism what Cuba is to communism: the purest expression of the faith. The Marxist secular religion reduced Cuba to an ailing Soviet client state. So pure was Fidel Castro’s vision of communism that not even the collapse of the Berlin wall and the liberation of Eastern Europe could shake Cuba.
The Eurocrats of Brussels are laying on an African summit in Lisbon from December 8 to December 9, where Mr. Mugabe will be one of the invited guests, along with a host of other dictators and mass murderers. Surprisingly, the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has objected to Mr. Mugabe’s presence.
One wonders why. It was Britain that imposed economic and military sanctions on the old Republic of Rhodesia, and dearly wanted to see Comrade Bob run the country. Historian Thomas Pakenham expressed the British consensus in his 1992 book The Scramble for Africa: “In the last ten years, Zimbabwe has continued to confound the croakers. . . . Disciplined by adversity, in prison or in exile, the rulers of the new state have handled their minorities, white and black, with upredicted restraint.”
It is said that in Africa, as in the world of multi-culturalism, there are no failures, only varying degrees of success. To loot your state, ruin your economy, practise ethnic cleansing against your white citizens, and reduce your own population to famine and disease is progress, so long as it contributes to the demise of the West.
Many people have by now said that multi-culturalism is another form of communism, but recently I have begun to think that multi-culturalism might be worse than communism. After all, the East Europeans managed to educate their people, train them in ballet or classical music and in a way, albeit perversely, contributed to the advance of civilization. Multi-culturalism tends to relapse into the barbarism we see in Zimbabwe and South Africa right now. Unlike communism, which left us Prokofiev and the pleasing socialist-realist architecture of Nowa Huta in Cracow, Poland, multi-culturalism is purely destructive.
Dan Roodt is an Afrikaner author and activist.
(Posted on November 26, 2007)
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Historian Thomas Pakenham expressed the British consensus in his 1992 book The Scramble for Africa: “In the last ten years, Zimbabwe has continued to confound the croakers… . Disciplined by adversity, in prison or in exile, the rulers of the new state have handled their minorities, white and black, with upredicted restraint.”
What a lovely statement! It’s both wrong and right at the same time!
First off, “historian” Thomas Pakenham couldn’t be more wrong; the croakers, the people who predicted doom, were dead on and Pakenham was dead wrong. But there is a way in which he is so right! If we take croakers to mean the current inhabitants of Zimbabwe, then yes indeed, many of them are confounded! They obviously can’t figure out how to keep themselves from starving to death (croaking!) or having to leave their country, nor can they fix their country; and what’s more, with an average IQ of 66, they aren’t going to!
Posted by at 6:17 PM on November 26
Zimbabwe Yesterday, South Africa Today and the United States tomorrow. When the West turned against Ian Smith’s Rhodesia in 1965-1966 is when the West decided to commit cultural suicide. Essentially, Britain and the US took sides with the forces of anti-Westernism and thus began the undoing of Western Civilization.
Posted by at 6:27 PM on November 26
Dan-
Great writing. Since you’re an activist, would you have any advice for those of us on Amren who have asked about helping or getting ideas to help South Africans/white Africans seek asylum?
Many of us would love to hear any ideas that would allow us to help.
Posted by J Smith at 7:33 PM on November 26
I know this comment doesn’t fit in here, but I gotta post it. Did everybody see the pic of Bush welcoming Gore to the White House? I swear to God, it looks like Otis and Barney from the Andy Griffith Show!!!!
Posted by at 8:03 PM on November 26
Multiculturalism is much worse than communism … for the simple fact that there is virtually no opposition to it. Communism produced a variety of “anti-communisms” (ie everyone to the right of and including the social democrats).
Multiculuralism, on the other hand, has been able to portray its serious critics as crazy people who want to grow funny mustaches, wear paramilitary uniforms and combat boots, practice slavery and last but not least gas six million Jews. All this has left the West totally unable to even define itself, let alone defend itself.
Posted by James Bennett at 8:22 PM on November 26
This is interesting. I will encourage all my liberal friends to move to Zimbabwe to enjoy the joys of multiculturalism. Ha Ha Ha!
Posted by flyingtiger at 8:32 PM on November 26
“Multiculturalism” in the non-white context is worse than communism; at least communism had a structure and its economic miscalculations required years to culminate in collapse; in the African context, especially the sub-Saharan African context, multiculturalism is merely “national self determination” or majority rule (a principle which goes back to Wilson’ 13 points); the problem with self determination and democracy when applied to groups who lack even a rudimentary level of cognitive ability is that they always quickly degenerate from “democracy” into mobocracy and violence, as is well illustrated by present day Zimbabwe.
Interestingly it is only in highly developed Western societies which place a high value on the individual that the principles of multiculturalism develop—-such principles are in fact weaknesses in the context of global demographic movements such as are seen today with massive immigration of third world peoples who have no such principles into the West. It makes little difference what part of the third world one is talking about; whether it is Mexico in the US case of Muslim countries in Europe’s case; the result is always the same, viz. the destruction of the host culture; it was the West with its idealistic notions of equality which allowed both Rhodesia and South Africa to pursue the road to national or ethnic self determination which have produced very predictable results. Open borders and massive third world immigration into the West will produce exactly the same results in the West.
It is time for all Westerners to awaken from their egalitarian dreams before it is too late and they are replaced by the third world hords they seem intent on embracing.
Posted by at 8:41 PM on November 26
“Many people have by now said that multi-culturalism is another form of communism, but recently I have begun to think that multi-culturalism might be worse than communism. After all, the East Europeans managed to educate their people, train them in ballet or classical music and in a way, albeit perversely, contributed to the advance of civilization. Multi-culturalism tends to relapse into the barbarism we see in Zimbabwe and South Africa right now.”
William Butler Yeats observed in his 1920 poem “The Second Coming” that:
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
Here nothing could more describe the situation today’s multiculturalism paradigm, places the West in!
Mr. Roodt is onto something, when he says that Multiculturalism is worse than simple Communism; that would be because it mutates to form an inbreeding of the Trotskyite and Stalinist models of this “socioeconomic” theology, into a perfected genocidal monstrosity for the West. By proposing a “revolution” without borders and internalizing anti-nationalism within them, it allows for a destructive intoxication in the West that makes a mere ideological wine tasting, into a potently dogmatic PCP and crack cocaine combination platter.
Indeed, while the best are officially dislocated and discouraged from all certainty in reason, the worst are officially buttressed and buoyant in their unrestrained fervor in irrationality!
Yes, under Communism, half of the West stumbled “forward” like a zombie, because it retained its more deeply rooted cultural mores; with Multiculturalism, these become the “unenlightened” vestiges of “Eurocentrism” or “white privilege.” One is (unless a wild eyed member of the cotton candy pink to dried blood crimson, “rainbow” cult) simply reduced to a member of the “reactionary” White Army, fit only for eradication in one way or another.
Up is down, black is white, Africa is Europe, Mexico is America, and 2+2=5 because we have always been at war with East Asia?
So says Big Bro and the Ministry of Keeping It Real!
As always, God help us all!!!
Posted by John PM at 8:44 PM on November 26
Purist anti-white ,anti-European , Marxist form. May the natives live in the squalor and not seek Western man’s culture and money to “bail ” out these ingrates over and over again.
Posted by Michigan patriot at 10:34 PM on November 26
MULTI-Culturism compared to Communism….Yes only before it was about the redistribution of money,…which they found would only have temporary results due to the fact that the smarter people would regain the money again.You can’t keep a good man/race down. So multi-culturism is the communism/redistribution of Genetics, to create a more permanent forced equality by encouraging mischegination and handi-capping whites…affirmative action, quotas,busing,hate speech laws….
Posted by Rex at 10:44 PM on November 26
Mr. Roodt is absolutely right on target - I know because I used to live in the Soviet Union. Of course, the average IQ of Russians is way above Africans, so we were able to build some standard living in spite of communism.
Posted by Thoughtful Russian at 11:01 PM on November 26
“It is said that in Africa, as in the world of multi-culturalism, there are no failures, only varying degrees of success. To loot your state, ruin your economy, practise ethnic cleansing against your white citizens, and reduce your own population to famine and disease is progress, so long as it contributes to the demise of the West.”
When speaking of blacks, I’m forever reminded of the quote from Paradise Lost: “Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven”.
For me, that sums up the black ethos.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 11:16 PM on November 26
Many people have by now said that multi-culturalism is another form of communism, but recently I have begun to think that multi-culturalism might be worse than communism.
Not exactly. Multiculturalism is one of the TOOLS, communists use. The idea here is to cause a state to fail. Once it fails, it is ripe for being taken over by communists. Or, at least, that’s the plan. However, what usually happens, is, all the communists are rounded up and executed, then the country falls into a condition of extreme depravity and evil. Classic example….iran. Russia trained a whole bunch of people to overthrow the Shah. But, the islamic revolution was barely over when all those people were rounded up and killed.
Posted by at 12:08 AM on November 27
The asylym question is most pertinent and the west is going to have to rescue the white South Africans and Rhodesions or lose all claim to being civilised Countries and will face a revolt in the elections if they don’t stand up to the Hitlerian cleansing of Africa. The first politician with the balls to say this will generate the most benefit from the program because if they are willing to let the kaffirs slaughter the whites then their own people will relise that their goverments aren’t going to protect them if things get hot. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again if you want to be elected you had better be willing to take care of your own.
Posted by pat at 12:29 AM on November 27
“Surprisingly, the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has objected to Mr. Mugabe’s presence.
One wonders why. It was Britain that imposed economic and military sanctions on the old Republic of Rhodesia, and dearly wanted to see Comrade Bob run the country.”
But Gordon Brown did not. It is to his credit that he objects to Mugabe’s presence, and it is not his fault that it came to this. To be charitable, perhaps this was meant as a backhanded compliment of Prime Minister Brown?
Posted by DK at 12:36 AM on November 27
Zimbabwe Yesterday, South Africa Today and the United States tomorrow. When the West turned against Ian Smith’s Rhodesia in 1965-1966 is when the West decided to commit cultural suicide. Essentially, Britain and the US took sides with the forces of anti-Westernism and thus began the undoing of Western Civilization.
Posted by at 6:27 PM on November 26
CORRECTION: The West committed cultural suicice when it turned its back on Christianity itself, as well as its values.
Posted by Commando at 6:06 AM on November 27
“it was the West with its idealistic notions of equality which allowed both Rhodesia and South Africa to pursue the road to national or ethnic self determination which have produced very predictable results.”
it was the West with its idealistic notions of equality which FORCED both Rhodesia and South Africa to pursue the road to national or ethnic self determination which have produced very predictable results.
Posted by at 10:57 AM on November 27
“…the average IQ of Russians is way above Africans, so we were able to build some standard living in spite of communism.”
Exactly. Even under the worst conditions, such as a war or the so-called ‘Dark Ages’, Whites have always advanced even under hardship and adversity.
Blacks, on the other hand, even when given a pre-built city like Detroit or a pre-built nation like South Africa, manage to turn them into living hells within one decade.
No matter how much help you give blacks, in the long run, it’s always for naught. That’s why I consider it pointless to try to help blacks. They can’t be helped because they don’t have the innate ability to help themselves.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 11:04 AM on November 27
““veiled racist messages” at the convention.”
Those veiled racist messages were directed at Whites. Johnson’s affirmative action meant only a quota for black Americans, or 12 percent of jobs must go to black Americans.
Nixon turned affirmative action into hire anything but White.
Nixon created those 90 percent black government offices. Nixon acknowledged hispanics as a race and group entitled to affirmative action jobs as soon as they arrived in this country.
His EEOC was the one that granted affirmative action status to asians, filippinos and every non White group on earth.
Nixon also created section 8. Nixon was a major liberal, although he was hated by liberals. He was a total tool of the Rockefellers and Kissenger was the Rockefeller’s means of controlling Nixon’s every move.
Posted by at 11:27 AM on November 27
Many British call the annual Commonwealth Conference the Cannibals, Kelptomaniacs, and Communist conference.
Posted by at 11:30 AM on November 27
“Disciplined by adversity, in prison or in exile, the rulers of the new state have handled their minorities, white and black, with upredicted restraint.””
That is an absolute total and outright lie. Mugabe is a Shona. The other prominent tribe is or actually was the Ndebele. They fought the British together. But as soon as the British left, Mugabe and his Shona began to massacre the Ndebele, espcially the fighters.
The Ndebele were killed and loaded into caravans of trucks. The trucks were drived to Ndebele territory and the bodies were dumped at the crossroads and village squares where everyone was sure to get the message. Or they would line the highway with dead Ndebele men.
Ndebele who fled to the bush were hunted down. This was in the years after the British retreat. The Ndebele were pretty quiet by 1992 because there were few of them left and they knew resistance would bring death both to the fighting men and the women and children.
Communism always brings famine. And it is not natural famine, it is always induced by the communist government. It always seems to happen in the early days. Probably it is a way of inducing discipline for the next couple generations. Obey or starve.
Posted by margaret at 11:42 AM on November 27
Our nation is bankrupt and near collapse like the old Soviet Union. I for one think this may be a blessing in disguise because the result will be a smaller, more homogeneous nation where God, Family and Country are still valued.
It is a sad commontary that only the financial destruction of the United States will stop our political elites from pushing us into a one world government controlled by bureucrats in the UN.
The result of putting the United States under the control of UN bureaucrats would be predcitable and as destructive as the situation described above.
Posted by tacitus at 1:47 PM on November 27
I am confident that the day of judgement for the global Marxist traitorship, is not so very far away now.
During the course of the 20th century, the totalitarian creed of Cultural Marxism won out, not because such ideology possessed the moral highground, but because it made opportunistic use of racial and cultural divisions which it first created, all seed beds of eventual anarchy and genocide via the tactics of hit and run guerilla warfare - pure and simple.
The problem to date, however, is that this godless creed came up against an equally fanatical godhead creed like Islam, whose proponents and rank and file in turn, secured the upper hand due to the West’s dependence on oil. To the adherents of Cultural Marxism, it started to become increasingly apparent as to who had really usurped who hence the ‘if you can’t beat’em, join’em’, outcome we are at today.
The Communist New World Order machine had the brazen audacity to unleash a witch hunt on South America’s generals because of those Generals’ justifiable anti-Communist stance.
Well, what goes around comes around, sooner or later.
The rest of the 21st century belongs to international Nationalist movements and let the gods have mercy on the Marxist renegades whose names are already on file in each and every homeland of the civilized world.
I doubt if many will even see the inside of a court room, save a token few for media consumption, of course.
Posted by A Swain at 4:34 PM on November 27
CORRECTION: The West committed cultural suicice when it turned its back on Christianity itself, as well as its values.
Posted by Commando at 6:06 AM on November 27
> I say that you are wrong. Christianity invaded and subdued Europe through murder and tortuous oppression. When the European mind broke through the superstitous backwardness of Christianity, Chrisitianity, namely Roman Catholicism once again performed the Roman trick of claiming ownership of that set of advancements that occured in spite of Christianity, not because of it. At great risk to themselves, the freethinking heros of the white race were not Popes or even Reformationists. They were essentially an underground of people like Galileo and Da Vinci, Hume, Hugo, Ashemole and the founders of the Royal Society in England. These men ran the gauntlet of relgious suppression. Most of the claimed evils perpetrated by white men real or imagined, was done in the name of Christianity.
And what of the values themselves? Turn the other cheek, love your enemies, do good to those who persecute you? No, I don’t read these Christian values espoused much on Amren. Most of the destruction visited upon whites today is based on Christian values. I read from time to time here how Jews and communists are to blame, but what is missing in a big way is the elephant in the room - Christianity. Christianity has used and abused white Europeans for centuries. And now that the white race is failing, it wants to be sure it will go on in whatever population remains. This is why I often write, when the subject comes up, that what we ought to be doing is rejecting Christianity as a Middle Eastern INVASIVE religion and taking back our ethno-centric views that were better suited to our survival as Whites and Europeans. At least admitting that we are warriors and our land is sacred to us is not hipocritical!
Posted by Whiteplight at 4:40 PM on November 27
“The Eurocrats of Brussels are laying on an African summit in Lisbon from December 8 to December 9, where Mr. Mugabe will be one of the invited guests, along with a host of other dictators and mass murderers.”
I’m sure theres a ban on Mugabe visiting any of the countries in the EU. Portugal being one of them…
Posted by IrishBlood-EnglishHeart at 5:07 PM on November 27
“Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” An apt citation, sbuffalonative. John Milton coined the word “pandemonium” to describe such a place.
Posted by Robert Binion at 6:07 PM on November 27
“Multiculuralism, on the other hand, has been able to portray its serious critics as crazy people who want to grow funny mustaches, wear paramilitary uniforms and combat boots, practice slavery and last but not least gas six million Jews. All this has left the West totally unable to even define itself, let alone defend itself.”
And when we are unable to define ourself as a nation or a people, we are no longer able to realize when we are being invaded. We cannot differentiate ‘us’ from ‘them’.
Posted by at 6:07 PM on November 27
The fatal mistake Whites in Africa made was assuming they could have countries in Africa with black majorities. They should have created smaller, homogeneous countries for themsleves. If in the 1950’s rather then introduce Apartheid, the Boer elites had begun creating a White homeland for their people based on the coast for trade and defence and ‘ceded’ the rest of the country to the various black tribal groups things would be very different in southern Africa today.
Posted by at 10:22 PM on November 27
“If in the 1950’s rather then introduce Apartheid, the Boer elites had begun creating a White homeland for their people based on the coast for trade and defence and ‘ceded’ the rest of the country to the various black tribal groups things would be very different in southern Africa today.”
I had this brainwave too late. The whites in South Africa could have been migrated en masse to the then South West Africa. Would not have taken too much to establish a white majority there. We would have been able to do something about the water scarcity situation.
Posted by at 3:41 AM on November 28
“The fatal mistake Whites in Africa made was assuming they could have countries in Africa with black majorities. They should have created smaller, homogeneous countries for themselves…”
Actually, they did - Holland, Belgium, France…
Posted by at 7:12 PM on November 28
Is multicult brought to US by USA government and paid for with our tax $ ??? I did not vote for or hear any elected candidate speak of such foreign invasive put upon my rights. Seems everthing is ‘hidden’ inside/behind the government. Alot of money is being spent for this operation. The bureaucracy is showing off its’ power. Elected reps mean nothing. The agencies/unions are running the USA/state/county governments. V
Posted by Vickie at 2:04 AM on November 29
“Many British call the annual Commonwealth Conference the Cannibals, Kelptomaniacs, and Communist conference”.
…and Beggars & Psychopaths.
Posted by at 8:40 PM on November 29
