Review: Blood and Politics

In the next decade…a mass membership White advocacyorganization will finally emerge for sane and normal people. Thecultural ground has been prepared for it.

Leonard Zeskind’s Blood and Politics is a history of the White Nationalist movement from 1974 to 2004. Although I have owned a copy since its publication in May, I have only recently sat down and read it cover to cover. It has received multiple reviews (from within and without the racialist community) which contain a fairly accurate summary of its contents.

The book tracks the evolution of old fashioned Jim Crow “white supremacy” into modern White Nationalism over a thirty year period. In presenting his case, Zeskind draws an analytical division between “vanguardists” and “mainstreamers,” radicals and respectables, reformers and revolutionaries that has characterized the modern pro-White movement since its earliest days.

The “mainstreamers” believe in moderation and an electoral path to victory. The vanguardists believe in creating small, often violent organizations of the elect few and waiting for a general social/economic collapse.
Throughout the narrative, Zeskind uses the stories of William Pierce(revolutionary) and Willis Carto (reformer) to illustrate these twoconflicting tendencies within the movement.

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2009-12-15