Kerry Bolton - Babel Inc.: Multiculturalism, Globalisation, and the New World Order

Foreword

The New True Enemy

If a book is a tool that brings affective forces into the world, then one may measure a book by its strengthening or weakening affects; by whether or not it makes possible the will to attack ones enemies and to defend ones people; by how much purpose and resolve it provides those in the thick of a life and death struggle; and by how much territory it liberates from ones enemies. In light of these criteria, Dr. Kerry Boltons Babel, Inc. : Multiculturalism, Globalization, and the New World Order has the potential to be truly explosive.

Babel, Inc. continues the critical analysis that Dr. Bolton began in Revolution from Above (2011). But whereas that book on the close bonds between the power structure of global capitalism and supposedly oppositional Marxist ideologies and movements gave the reader a sense of distance as if reading about the machinations and absurdities of an alien species this book does not afford such a luxurious feeling in the reader. In fact, it affects a changing wind and a reappraisal of the forces aligned against the contemporary Right and the worlds peoples and traditions that face certain extinction.

For while it has long been common to read Rightist ruminations on race, immigration, and even ethnological characteristics, only recently has the Right devoted much critical thought to capitalism and the liberal State. Bolton, in his characteristically energetic style, not only makes it possible to know how the United States and its neoliberal allies are combining multinational corporate Money Power with the contemporary moral and truth regime known as multiculturalism to create a new type of human creature, but he also succeeds in making this arrangement the primary target of Rightist agitation and revolt. For unlike the Left, which is utterly complicit in the very State-sponsored liberalism that it purports to oppose, the Rights anti-liberalism and transvaluational tendencies have allowed it to remain free of the sense-and-capital making apparatuses of the liberal State.

Despite this freedom, though, the Right has said very little about the State or capitalism. Perhaps this is because both are darlings of Marxist ideologues, or because the Right has always been fond of nationalism and Statism and weary of homo economicus. In any case, Bolton has ensured that the State and its capitalist culture of death will no longer be ignored.

The Creation of Homo Globicus

At the heart of Babel Inc. is an expos of multiculturalism as a social control mechanism that scorches the earth in preparation for the coming of the rationale of global capitalism: homo globicus. This global man will be at home anywhere in the world because the world will be homogeneously liberal. If that idea seems farfetched now, perhaps at the conclusion of Babel Inc. it will seem less a possibility than a growing reality.

Homogeneity is the key that unlocks the ontological functions of multiculturalism. While globalists, corporate spokesmen, political leaders, and academics speak in glowing terms of a relativist multicultural humanism based on political and economic freedom, they are actively engaged in a two-pronged attack on human particularity and the defense thereof.

First, multiculturalism is a moral regime that links progressive liberal ideals of tolerance, ecumenicalism, and cosmopolitanism in order to aggressively condemn racism or pride in ones particularity. This moral and epistemological element links the liberal intelligentsia with Leftist ideologues and activists, not only against the worlds various media-created racist and fascist villains, but also in the service of the liberal State and capitalism.

Second, the State, having finally shed the pretense of existing as the will of a people, uses this moral regime at the bidding of the capitalist oligarchs that actually make the State possible to spread a monolithic culture of liberal politics, feminism, anti-racism, and identity-based hyper-consumption. It calls for one world, one race, the flip side of multiculturalism and actively undermines any attempts to preserve the standards, values, and traditions of local peoples, wherever they exist. Just as the State uses the World Trade Organization and World Monetary Fund to control the underdevelopment of the Third World, it uses global capitalism as a talisman to unlock any societies, peoples, States, or regions that remain overly local, xenophobic, or archaic, essentially capturing space for the purpose of its homogeneic valuation.

But when that talisman does not properly entice, war is an ever-present possibility. Indeed, Bolton provides an indispensible explanation of the wars in the name of homo globicus that have laid the foundation of the contemporary geopolitical reality. War and identity, then, are merely capitalism by other means. In this unipolar world, allies are merely markets, and people are merely consumers; most of who will gladly embrace the possibilities of unencumbered consumption, credit, and leisure promised by the global American man.

Join the Fight!

Others though will fight. They will fight homo globicus as homo insurrectus. They will fight to defend their particular values and traditions, their people, and, in a sense, their humanity. However, they will not fight to defend their State or nation, for, as Bolton demonstrates, these are the enemies of the people, being friends only of capitalist oligarchs and liberal humanist consumers. In place of Statist and nationalist solutions, Bolton posits new collective arrangements like the geopolitical vectors and blocs explained by Alexander Dugin and based in the ethnic and civilizational heritages being subsumed by liberalism, multiculturalism, and global capitalism.

Ultimately, however, the will to fight must be stirred and nourished in each man, woman, and child that understands the price to be paid for homo globicus. For the Afrikaner, Serb, or Basque the war has long since begun, but for others it is long overdue. The only certainty is that this modern Babel is coming to each and all. States will not fight it because they are beholden to its rewards; nor will bourgeois men and women because it is their inheritance and, more importantly, their instinctual constitution. The smooth spaces territorial, ontological, or epistemological that either resist being captured or extricate themselves from the flood of homogenization find themselves at the frontlines of a war. It is a war of ideas and concepts; of territory and space; but also of men and women. The enemy is in each and every one of us, but it is also in very specific States, corporations, and governmental agencies.

The failure or success of Babel, Inc. will be measured neither in dollars nor readers; it will not be because of the efforts of Dr. Bolton, even though he has identified our potential enslavers. Instead, the energies brought into the world by Babel, Inc. place the onus of the books ultimate value squarely on the reader, for it is his or her responsibility to do something to act! with those affective forces.

For all of the supposed inevitability of homo globicus, the United States, the global capitalist oligarchs, and the lackeys of both, are working extremely hard to ensure his victory: they know the power of ideas and the threat of even the smallest breach in the web that they weave. It is time that we follow suit and embrace the power of our ideas, to seek out and create breaches, and to become an enemy worthy of such a powerful threat.