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...by James Mason
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It seems like the entire estimation of the Movement– not only by the general public but by the members themselves– has revolved around the question, "How many?". Earlier we've spoken of "Phase One", or the days of the old American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell. In the comparatively short time Rockwell was running things he made a much bigger splash than have any of his followers... and I can't think of an instance where Rockwell was able to even put as many as fifty uniformed men on the streets for a single demonstration. One hundred troopers marched down the middle of Euclid Avenue in Cleveland in the fall of 1973 and the news blackout was such that it hardly made a ripple. The reason goes beyond the paper curtain of the Establishment media– it concerns real leadership, leadership-type activity, personal dynamism and true revolutionary spirit.
Though we sometimes call ourselves a "party" we are hardly that in the same sense as Democrats or Republicans. For the sake of comparison however let's compare ourselves with these two ruling bodies. I can make the comparison very short and sweet: taken altogether, how many millions of members or regular voters can they claim?? A lot, certainly. How large is their annual budget?? Certainly in the millions. Titularly they control the country. But with all the fine speeches and good hopes, etc., and with all their apparent power, the country's slide into hell gets more rapid all the time. In truth they are POWERLESS for they represent the dead weight of numbers, embodied in old habit and inertia.
James Mason in uniform in the mid 70's, when the American Nazi Movement came 'damned close to starting something".
The issue is truly quality over quantity. Rockwell had envisioned three, and at one point even four phases to the taking of power in the United States but he lived only to see the completion of the first of these: breaking the blackout, the news quarantine, and becoming widely known. He himself defined "Phase Two" as the gathering-in of trained, hardened, professional political agitators such as those the Reds are blessed with in good numbers. As he knew, any idiot can run out and get his face in the newspaper, but to back it up with something positive is another matter. The ill-famed "marginal types"– the heroes of "Phase One"– have proven a plague to us today. All show and blow, never any real go.
The man who claims to be in charge of carrying out "Phase Two" has done nothing but retrogress to the point at which things stood in 1973. His idea of "Phase Two" was a cadre of mindless "yes men" owing loyalty to him personally and basically going on the Führer principle in the stark absence of a Führer. Instead of building a core for the purpose of fomenting revolution, he didn't even succeed in building a decent personal cult around himself. What came out of this craziness was a thing that was termed the "eighteen month syndrome". A fresh recruit would come to the Party all set and ready for work, to contribute significantly of himself, to see action and to sacrifice. Instead he got bullshit. Mainly a lot of silly "do's" and "don'ts", restrictions on how to wear his hair, restrictions on his clothing style, demands for paying exorbitant dues and "tithes" which somehow never produced a single result, and generally was relegated to treading water. Ninety-nine percent could stand it for no more than about eighteen months. The number of precious volunteers LOST in this manner could have made up a revolutionary core had they been handled right.
That strategy has been self-defeated and that segment of the Movement has been, and shall remain, numerically– and in every other way– static. Whether you have a hundred or a hundred thousand, it doesn't matter if the strategy is all wrong and if the only authority being exerted is of a negative nature. It is the so-called "Mass Strategy" and its promulgators. A strategy based on falsehood that hasn't got a chance.
The old Party generally could claim about a thousand adherents (a little less most of the time). Usually when asked by the press or anyone else, we'd tell them in answer to questions of membership numbers, "Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know". Another snappy comeback to that embarrassing question was, "Not as many as we'd like to have but more than they'd like for us to have". That was the old numbers game– all quite useless and ridiculous. Tommasi's NSLF underground in 1975 had about 4 men. But those four men had the Reds and Blacks TERRIFIED and crying to the System (which they supposedly hated) for PROTECTION! That's because those in the NSLF underground were MEN, Tommasi was a LEADER, and his was an ORGANIZATION.
Those who think we need millions– or even tens of thousands– have no understanding. We don't desire merely to dominate or monopolize in the manner of Democrats or Republicans. We're not content with mere power if it means the continued decline of the White Race the way we are seeing it today. We have much
more than this to do: radical programs to be enforced, a huge but rotten System to be gotten out of the way first, etc. It can only be done by a sharp cutting edge, never by muscle-bound bulk. The ruling parties are monstrously huge, fat and rich but they are rotten to the core and threaten to pull the country down with them if they are allowed to do so. We are tiny but desperate and the conditions imposed upon us have made us hard as steel and sharp as razors.
Let me just jog your imagination by unequivocally stating that four men properly motivated and determined– could set this country on its EAR overnight! And what's more, we don't need to sit about like helpless old ladies and WISH it were so– we have them, and more, NOW! Shall you be with us in grappling with and mastering reality or will you remain among the useless dreamers and escapists wishing things were other than what they are? As revolutionaries we know only one compulsion: circumstances as we find them, the way they exist– in short, REALITY!
[Vol. IX, #5 – Sept., 1980]
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