In the interests of brevity, I'll leave aside the points I made which were avoided by non-argument responses and focus on those that are still in contention.
Quote:It's absolutely not "indefensible". Your opinion is over-used propaganda that can only be stated from the position of a politically motivated armchair general.
As I before stated, this logic would only hold if you can apply it to a hypothetical British loss in WWII and still admonish them that their participation in WWII was indefensible.
That WWI was an avoidable disaster for Germany is not propaganda, but rather observable fact. I have no interest in placing sole blame on Germany for starting the war, since it was a confluence of many things. However, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the German government crucially gave assurance to Austria-Hungary that it would give military assistance in the case that an invasion of Serbia would be followed by a Russian declaration of war against Austria-Hungary; from that moment on, it had effectively committed itself to the prospect of a two-front pan-European war, a possibility which was made all the more likely given that Austria-Hungary now had a much stronger geopolitical position. Austria-Hungary then pursued war with Serbia, invaded even after Serbia offered considerable concessions, which then brought everyone else into war through treaties. It wasn't Germany's fault alone, but the German government had the chance to quell the crisis and did not take it.
With regard to the western front (which is what really bled Germany into defeat), Germany violated Belgian neutrality, giving Britain formal casus belli; pre-war German plans counted on passing through Belgium, and persisting in this even after Belgium and Britain made their positions clear was highly unwise, and in the long term it turned out to be ruinous. In the end, as Bismarck predicated, disaster came from "some damned foolish thing in the Balkans".
Was this all Germany's fault? Of course not, but it was also not in her interests (even formally, the war was fought for Austria-Hungary's interests, not Germany's). In truth, the war really wasn't in anyone's interest except the radical revolutionaries who gained power as a result. As for British participation in WWI and WWII, I think British involvement was ill-advised, and in both cases they were far worse off for their pains despite ostensibly being on the winning side. This disproves your assumptions about my views.
Quote:Explain to me the political framework of "tradition", including how it incubates political power for the populace.
This is a good example of how utopians reflexively invert the national interest. In conservative philosophy, tradition (defined as the intergenerational cultural, social, religious, civil, linguistic and artistic inheritance of a nation and people) is not meant to serve politics; instead, politics is meant to serve tradition.
You, on the other hand, think that traditions (previously defined) that encapsulate a nation's character are worthless except when they further your political purposes...which means your objective is not the good of the nation but rather
the good of your ideology.
Thus, your view isn't nationalist, but rather abstract theory that pretends to be nationalist when convenient while undermining the nation to serve itself.
Quote:The communist-globalist political framework is well documented. It's even logical, in its blueprint for social evil. I bet we could even merge it with the undefined "tradition" because of the latter's inherent vagueness.
Wrong. Marxism denies the value of tradition, and reduces the importance of national character down to political efficacy. This is indiscernible from what you've written above.
Quote:If it varies, it does not exist as a political framework, and it does not offer a political framework that can defend itself against the very specific, and politically strong framework of communism.
Simply, if it varies, it offers no coherent way to incubate political power.
And since you view tradition with the same hostility as Marxism, your self-justification is essentially saying that you wish to trample and destroy the national character yourself so that communists can't.
After this, we find another self-defeating line of reasoning. The German language varies...does this mean there's no such thing as German? Clearly, variation does not imply nonexistence, and the variation in nationality necessitates a variation in nationalism. Nationalism is an inherently contextual viewpoint because nations are variable contexts, and your hostility towards contextual politics once again leads one to the conclusion that your ideology isn't nationalist.
Quote:The nobility and the military leadership were obviously routed by the Globalists after WWI.
Even momentarily accepting this naive oversimplification, it begs the question of why you're still arguing for that war when the German leadership only accepted it after presented with a fait accompli, and when it ultimately did nothing but damage Germany permanently. That aside, the nobility and military leadership did not disappear but persisted, and what you continue to ignore is that both of these manifestations of the German body politic became opposed to the Third Reich because it was increasingly clear that Germany's leaders were in it for themselves and their ideals, not for the good of Germany.
A mass socialist party imposed upon traditional German institutions was never in the interests of Germany or her people, and quite deservedly earned their enmity.
Quote:The German people's true pillar was always its natural, genetically determined ability to create its society. That's the ability that was dusted-off in lieu of a false worship of the internationalist Church and its other weakened leadership.
"The proletariat's true pillar was always its natural, historically determined ability to create communist society. That's the ability that was dusted-off in lieu of a false worship of the capitalist Church and its other bourgeois leadership."
Perhaps you could explain why your vision for Germany seems to display so many similarities with Marxist paradigms. The fact that utopian political programs share a common philosophical root might be one observation to make.
Moreover, your argument is again self-defeating. If Germany's "true" political pillar was always innate, then on what grounds do you object to any form that Germany might take? How can one distinguish between a good German government and a bad German government, given that your purely genetic rubric would apply equally in any case?
Additionally, the fact that you've cast aside any possibilities for variation in this theoretical "true" German society means that this has nothing to do with the will or history of the German people, and everything to do with the ideal of Germany you've formed in your imagination. In this way, you confuse your utopianism for Germany, just like the Jacobins confused their theoretical perfect republic for France.
Lastly, you think the churches that had helped build Germany from the time of Charlemagne (before there was a Germany) were un-German, but a socialist party invented in 1920 is the true voice of Germany? Laughable. The NSDAP was hostile towards traditional German institutions because, like you, it scorned German tradition, which proves my point.
Quote:No it isn't. You just made that up. Utopianism can be nationalist, and the largest utopian ideology, still in the world, is hyper-nationalist. You obviously haven't a clue about utopianism, its manifestations, nor its history.
Utopia literally means "no-place", and as there is no nation called "no-place", utopianism and nationalism are incompatible paradigms. One begins with the living nation, her organic identity and institutions created by generations of shared existence (the way that nations take form in the real world); the other begins with speculative ideals in the heads of would-be revolutionaries.
Thus, utopianism seeks to impose its abstract theories
upon the nation, invariably crushing much of the nation and her national character in the process. In this regard, German fascism is indistinguishable from Jacobinism or Bolshevism: the nation, subjugated and silenced, is forced to serve and suffer for the ideal of the revolutionary; this is contrary to nationalism, which seeks to formulate ideas capable of serving and ennobling the nation.
As a result of these categorical differences, nationalism and utopianism are not compatible, and you've made it quite clear which you prefer.
Quote:Maybe you should begin with noting that your examples are those of the victories of internationalists and communists, in Paris over the reign of the "Traditionalists" and in Berlin, after they were forced to fight the entire West and almost successfully did so, in alliance with the communists.
What we have in Paris 1794, Berlin 1945 and Moscow 1991 (all three of which you seem to possess little to no understanding, since you erroneously describe Jacobins as "traditionalists") is the inevitable failure of utopian ideologues who brought once-great nations low in pursuing their ideals. In chasing after their imagined German empire that was supposed to stretch from the Irish Sea to the Urals, the Third Reich betrayed what Germany in actual fact was and ruined her through their unhinged hubris.
In the relationship between the nation and ideology, Jacobinism, Bolshevism and Nazism are functionally analogous. German fascism was nothing but abstract utopianism dressed up in nationalistic clothes: Jacobins wearing lederhosen.