Revolution is a Spirit

The Unholy Trinity of Revolution - liberalism, nationalism, and communism

The Rise of the Revolution

On January 21st, 1793, the world would be changed forever when no-name peasants and spiteful academics would team up to decapitate the head of their absolute monarch, King Louis XVI — ending a just over two-hundred year reign of the Bourbon Dynasty. With this one act, that was not uncommon throughout history — pretender rebels or peasant uprisings being historically ubiquitous — the meta politic of Europe, and soon the world, would be shifted into permanent revolution.

Just a decade later after the liberal revolutionaries’ power had been righteously seized by Napoleon, yet another aspect of this permanent revolution would be embraced. Not in a specifically liberal form, though; a nationalist one. And not even half a century after the deposition of Napoleon’s power at the hands of liberalizing coward monarchs, revolutions would break out for a span of two years in Europe — seemingly out of nowhere. The Revolutions of 1848. Not coincidentally in the same year, an unemployed Jew by the name of Karl Marx would embrace this pervasive spirit in his Communist Manifesto.

These communists weren’t angry at the lack of freedom of thought and expression, nor the nationalists’ ethnonarcissism. They finally got it! Everyone should just set aside their differences, because what matters is the material life itself, and maximizing our unity in this new industrial paradigm to push back against the eternally oppressive state, clerics, and capitalists!

And the following century would be one of revolution. If the 19th century was for the dissolution of the kingdom and the unity of peoples towards the breakup of community for the individual and identity for deracination, then the 20th century would be the material manifestation of the revolution in all three forms. The unholy trinity of revolution: liberalism, nationalism, and communism.

All three complement one another, and all three are one but of different personhoods. Yet, nationalism and communism both proceed from their father of lies: liberalism.

The spirit of revolution is the active principle of liberalism. It is without potency. It is the act of liberalism, and liberalism the first mover. Revolution happens, and emerges from the notion that all must be free, but not in truth. It is that all must be freed from truth. That truth is a burden on the self, and the self must immediately remove itself from objectivity for the sake of fulfilling liberalism’s equivalent of nirvana: material utopia. Revolution arises just as memes do, just as the increase of drinking at a party becomes a rapid feedback loop until everyone is shitfaced.

But it takes a thought first. It takes the intention. Revolution doesn’t just simply come from nothing, just as nothing can’t be something. However, in an ironic twist of fate, the harbingers of liberalism’s intentions are to void everything into nothing. Fortunately, that just can’t be done.

Disobedience

“Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God.”
Romans 13:1

The desire for disobedience against worldly authorities is precisely the spirit of the antichrist. Only evil could have the conceit to desire itself having all the answers to evil. Opposition to flat out tyranny is only righteous when attacks on the faith are made. When that isn’t the case, as Christians we owe it to God to follow this commandment of obedience.

However, likewise with the left, the right is a liberal manifestation. It desires for constant economic progress and submission to worldly authority. Before liberalism, “nationalism” was unheard of. No one went around identifying with more than their community, family, or village. Nobles would identify with their house or region. Walking around calling yourself a “proud Englishman” or especially “German” or “Frenchman” would have been bizarre. The nationalist is a product of a deracinated people and a poor conception of history, place, and time.

But what does the righist want? What does the nationalist yearn for? Revolt against the disorder he sees manifesting from liberalism. To slay and submit every shitlib to their power. No idea on how they will maintain their power as now being an enemy to worldwide liberalism and usury which will subjugate them in due time. It is a spirit that arises from disobedience. Just as with communism and liberalism, nationalism does not operate in a framework of rationality. It cannot define the evils it wants to destroy, or the good it is for. All it can lay a finger on is its own insecurity of being surrounded by the children of the breakdown of family and religious order. In the same stead communists replace their unjust despots with diabolical bureaucrats, the nationalist replaces his foe with an unpopular tyrant who will no doubt be replaced within a couple decades with a fitting neoliberal head.

The meta politic is entirely subjugated by the spirit of permanent revolution, of movement and action. Rather than the frame of desiring peace and civility throughout Christendom’s history. And as this revolution continues to dig its heels in political thought, as all the new heroes rise up only to commit the same failures of the last century, numerous people groups will be displaced from Truth in favor of a type of being that is lower than even beasts. A being as close to nonbeing as possible.

Resistance to Evil

By the time of the mid twentieth century, communist revolutions were en vogue. A young man coming from a rich Argentine family who had travelled South and Central America on a motorcycle and saw a lot of poor people being poor in rural areas was righteously indignant, and mightily insecure about his own meaning in life, led a revolution with a mouthdrooler in Cuba. They would learn from Mao’s tactics of conscripting rural peasants to fight in their war against evil capitalist dogs in power.

By now, the communist revolution has gone out of fashion. Only white people revolting against mommy and daddy are even half-seriously calling themselves communists. And what is more outspokenly revolutionary than communists? Their concerns are always so immediately appealing to anyone with a conscience, but their moral appeals fall flat as they are always atheists. That is a prior necessary for being a communist, anyway, as they are “dialectical materialists.” They want poor people to have stuff! How sweet.

And no one in history could be responsible for more unrighteous killing than them. More irony?

However, unlike liberals or nationalists, the sentiment of the communist is coming from a specific place of helping the downtrodden. However, this is never means to start chucking javelins at the king. But in the mind of the modern political animal, it is essential to their political framework. There can be no winning without more violence, more change, more false hope. This is the object in separation from universals, from absolute truth.

The form in which truth reprimands falsity; order reprimands chaos, is with society prioritizing truth above all else. That is simply all it starts with. Not race, not freedom, not rights, not discerning ownership based on a secular notion of “class.” Society’s health will be remedied when it orients itself entirely to God, which means removal of anticlerical sentiment, the outright banning of lifestyles and beliefs that are only empowering heresy (as in, the preeminence of of individuals choosing for themselves what is truth), and destructive institutions immanent to liberalism such as usury. The goal of a society is to be the body of Christ. We are meant to operate in community and giving ourselves entirely to one another.

Nationalism offers a blurred sense of identity in a fuzzy “nation” or worse in a “race.” Communism does this for the same but without any individual identity at all past their connection to their labor economic value. Liberalism is at the top of all of this in which its answers are to have no answers at all, but to choose for oneself. In all of this, the spirit of revolution thrives, and no universal truth can be achieved as it actively resents the power of God to lay claim over the hearts of man, rather it yearns for wrath and pride to harden our hearts and seek for only the city of man.

In the coming century, the battles will no longer be revolutions. Likely, these will come to a screeching halt as all the children of the revolution have nothing more to revolt against. Whether it be due to the standardization of culture and language, the imminence of both AI and resource depletion, or a nuclear meltdown, no one can seriously partake in another fantastical utopian revolution as the spirit can do nothing for a people who have already been spiritually pillaged already by nationalist, communist, and liberal revolutions. Just as Protestantism has run its course in Europe, globalist capitalism has run its course over the globe, the revolution will die a hard death, and the appetites of the people will return to God.

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
Aristotle