As the unraveling of the old productive mode accelerates, the crises that come from this are impacting the two sexes differently. This was recently shown in dramatic fashion when men got only 2% of the jobs that were added in August, exacerbating the reverse gender pay gap that’s emerged for the post-Covid generation.
The usurers who created our unemployment catastrophe want men to react to this by embracing gender war politics, which has become their replacement for the racial divisions that our ruling class used more in the past. Every time the class enemy throws out this kind of bait, we must harden our focus on the real battle; the one that can actually bring today’s “excess men” the societal restoration they desire. This is the fight to unify the working class against our ruling institutions, and bring a new breakthrough in humanity’s advancement.
History shows what the path forward is when a civilization has been driven to decline by usury, corruption, and decadence. This path is not to take things to a previous stage, as “rightism” asserts we must do. The real answer, though it might look like a reversion on the surface, is always to leap towards a new phase; one where humanity benefits from the old traditions, while utilizing new productive powers.
This was what the German barbarians did when they replaced the Roman state, as pointed out by Friedrich Engels: “All the vigorous and creative life which the Germans infused into the Roman world was barbarism. Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization. And precisely the highest stage of barbarism, to which and in which the Germans worked their way upwards before the migrations, was the most favorable for this process. That explains everything.”
When we do the equivalent of what past barbarians did, what comes out of our new societal project will be the greatest forward leap in history, because now we have unprecedented gains to build off of. The German barbarians were at a stage where they could establish a new constitutional structure, one that would change the class power balance in irreversible ways. Their own society couldn’t last forever, but they did leave a mark on humanity’s future that couldn’t be erased, not even by the global liberal superstructure that took over. Observed Engels about this permanent change that the barbarians brought:
In return for liberating the Romans from their own state, the German barbarians took from them two-thirds of all the land and divided it among themselves. The division was made according to the gentile constitution. The conquerors being relatively few in number, large tracts of land were left undivided, as the property partly of the whole people, partly of the individual tribes and gentes. Within each gens the arable and meadow land was distributed by lot in equal portions among the individual households…the gentile constitution changed imperceptibly into a local constitution and thus became capable of incorporation into the state. But it nevertheless retained that primitive democratic character which distinguishes the whole gentile constitution, and thus even in its later enforced degeneration and up to the most recent times it kept something of the gentile constitution alive, to be a weapon in the hands of the oppressed.
It is this aspect of how barbarian rejuvenation works, where the arbiters of restored strength don’t re-create the past but rather build something without precedent, that refutes the essential thesis of rightism. And this is so relevant to the “excess male” question because among the men who are being left behind, there are many former Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro fans who’ve now begun studying how civilizations fall. This has been the trajectory of many of the men who’ve turned against the Zionist right, and are looking for explanations of why America’s collapse is only accelerating under the “Make America Great Again” government.
One of the most mainstream conservative intellectuals who these men have been turning to is Oswald Spengler, author of The Decline of the West. Spengler is so accessible in part because he rejected eugenics, which lets his theory about civilizational cycles be easily absorbed by regular people who just want answers. One of his ideas was that civilizations rise and fall in the pattern of four seasons, with us now being in “winter” due to how spiritual meaning has been drained from our daily lives. To the “collective west,” he said: “You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriages, your birth-control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains—I can prove to you that those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States—Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome.”
It’s certainly better for someone to be reading Spenger than to be absorbed in gender war stupidity; but Spengler’s diagnoses of our crisis still come from the same logical error behind gender wars, race science, and all other distractions from our task of class war. This is the fallacy that says it’s okay to not try to understand any ideas other than the ones you already hold, just because what you already believe has an internal logic. This is how you get the idea that we simply need to go back to the old. Behind these kinds of statements that treat secularism or social progress as being part of a greater degeneration, there is the implication that an answer to our crises can be found in returning to a past stage. The “reactionary socialists” commit the same fallacy by acting like doing away with industry would be a net benefit, or like this is a truly viable option.
This thinking looks at the disruptions that have come out of humanity’s productive advancements, and concludes that the answer is to freeze us in a particular part of the past. But this could never be done. You could criminalize all birth control, or orchestrate a global “degrowth” of industry, and humanity would still never be returned to the old era. Our ruling class, which includes factions who want to do these exact things, could succeed in bringing America to a drawn-out dark age; but the barbarians of the working-class movement would win in the end, like the barbarians took over after Rome consumed itself. We would still irrevocably be beyond the desired past moment, and history would continue going forward; it’s the same principle that makes the achievements of the past barbarians unable to be really erased, only sublated into what came next.
These alienated men are gravitating towards insights on collapse because they fully see through the rhetoric from our government about returning us to an idealized past. They see the DHS account posting 1950s boomer LARP slop aesthetics, or see Pete Hegseth try to sell fighting for Zionism as a return towards traditional manhood, and they intuitively know that embracing this politics would be the ultimate act of weakness. The path to barbarian rejuvenation is in defeating the decadent usurer regime, and unleashing the constructive potential that the usurers hold us back from.
Taking part in the barbarian restoration is the only way to gain real historical agency and vitality, at least in the political realm; another way is by starting a family, but the vast majority of our generation may never get the opportunity to do this. This potential cutoff from a biological legacy is an existential crisis that’s doing unique kinds of psychological damage to the “excess” males, and in the long term to society as a whole; this isn’t just a problem for some men, most of Gen Z are absolutely not on track to have children.
We shouldn’t give up hope to create families, but there is another way to gain life beyond our deaths. It’s to fight for the destruction of our socially engineered dystopia, and thereby allow for the next exponential leap in civilization’s development. As time goes on, ever-more of those who’ve been left behind are realizing this. For them, the remaining question is how to wage this fight effectively; and the stories of past barbarian victors are critical to answering this.
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