I would like to start discussing more right-wing books, because I believe right-wingers nowadays read more than the leftists do, and it’s a great way to truly radicalize people with intense content. Such as It Cannot Be Stormed by Ernst son Salomon.
Von Salomon, the author, is remembered in Germany as a right-wing terrorist, as he played a small role in the successful assassination of the liberal industrialist Walter Rathenau (a Jew), somewhere around the 1920s, 1922, after World War I. Von Salomon recruited the hitcar driver for the machine-gun assassination.
The author also fought in World War I against the Soviet army and later joined Organization Council, a movement that wanted to create or start a conservative revolution in Germany, meaning to do away with the liberal socialist bullshit, and return people to more traditional ways of living.
And that’s what the book is also about. I won’t give you the full plot or the synopsis, but you have to imagine that the book starts out describing rural German populations who come into contact with the growing powers of the bureaucratic city. The city is simply represented as a faceless mass. And there’s a struggle.
The protagonist, which is really Von Salomon himself, ends up living in the city and he starts looking there for reactionary friends. He starts joining all sorts of organizations, even the National Socialist Party, of which he in real life was indeed a member.
But he finds out that all these urban parties, even the communists, don’t really care about the struggles of the farmers in the countryside. They just wish to use the farmer’s struggles as a way of winning power for themselves, but never with the intent of actually improving the situation of the farmers.
This all, in my view, fits a German tradition, namely: Germans never really liked living in cities. Some say the Nordic-Germanic human type does not belong to live in major cities, for the conditions are not conducive to our soul and body. For example, it wasn’t until the late 1800s that the city of Berlin reached one million inhabitants. Compare that to the city of Rome, which achieved this around the time of Julius Caesar, almost 2000 years earlier.
Germanic elites also used to think of cities as places so destitute that you wouldn’t even want to imprison your prisoners of war there. Nowadays, big cities are where we dump our massive African and Middle-Eastern populations. I think this is telling. The cities are a place for subhumans, not for the healthy “Aryan” who needs physical exercise in fresh air to thrive.
And I myself feel this also very strongly. I hate big cities and I can’t stand them. Cities are narrow, loud, and they hide the horizon. I prefer living somewhere I don’t need to pay a tourist fee to see the sun set at the horizon. I should be able to walk out into a field and see the sun rise whenever I want to.