Wyatt Kaldenberg
Wyatt Kaldenberg (born 1957) is an author of three books on Odinism. Kaldenberg began publishing Pagan Review in the 1990s which was described as "a voice of Eurocentric polytheistic communities."[1]
Wyatt Kaldenberg was born to a working class Mormon family in a small California town in the Mojave Desert. As a teenager he was associated with the Young Socialist Alliance, a Trotskyite organization.[2] He continued his ideological/spiritual search joining the Ásatrú Free Assembly and the Odinist Fellowship in the 1970s. Kaldenberg became associated with Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance and was the managing editor of their paper WAR.[3]
Controversy
Kaldenberg has sparked outrage in the mid-2000s onwards by openly attacking National Socialism and Fascism, as well as mocking Adolf Hitler. His arguments against these sound like a strange mixture of American libertarianism and anarcho-primitivism. He attacks "big government" and the "socialist state" in particular, as well as "gubinment" in general. He uses the word socialist in a derogatory fashion when speaking of the glorious authoritarian collectivist European liberation governments of the 1930s, not presenting fairly the difference between in-group ethnocentric socialism and the out-group, cosmopolitan international jewish Bolshevism of the foe. His rants against National Socialism as a "murderous cult", guilty of "democide", sound like something Alex Jones would say. He tries to wriggle out of this by saying that he supports families over both statism and individualism, but under a social fascist ethnocracy, which places a central focus on the well-being of the race, the state is the folk and the folk are an extended family connected by common ties of blood.
Works
- Odinism: The Religion of Our Germanic Ancestors in the Modern World (2011) 156 pages
- Odinism in the Age of Man: The Dark Age Before the Return of Our Gods (2011) 168 pages
- Perceived Heathenism and Odinic Prayer: A Book of Heathen Prayer and Direct Contact with Our Living Gods (2011) 182 pages
Notes
Links
- Home page at WyattKaldenberg.com
- Why I am Against National Socialism by Wyatt Kaldenberg