A White Survival Community
A White Survival Community is a commentary by Dr. William Pierce which appeared in tbe National Alliance Bulletin of June-July 1981.
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A White survival community for tbe Alliance is a project whose time may be at hand. Several members have expressed strong interest in various aspects of such a project during tbe past two years: for some tbe principal attraction has been tbe prospect of providing a White education for their children; others simply want a White alternative for themselves to increasingly Judaized life they are forced to lead in America’s cities today.
The National Office has shared this interest, but tbe Alliance’s relatively small size and lack of resources--in particular, tbe lack of money to acquire land--has kept tbe interest academic. In tbe near future, however, there may be an opportunity to begin translating tbe interest into concrete reality. As a preliminary step, tbe National Office would like to hear from every member who may wish to participate in a White survival community in some way. Write down you ideas and send them in--and be sure that you include a completed copy of tbe green Membership Skills and Resources Inventory with your letter, if you haven’t already sent a copy of tbe form to tbe National Office. For this project tbe National Office must know what potential skills, talents, and resources will be available.
In order to further crystallize ideas for this project, one of tbe workshops at tbe General Convention in September will deal with it. Even at this time, however, a few general guidelines may help interested members better understand tbe prospects for tbe future:
- 1. The Alliance does not want to encourage a “grab your guns and head for tbe hills” mentality in its members. The principal work of tbe Alliance must remain in America’s cities for tbe foreseeable future, because that’s where tbe people are we’re trying to influence and recruit. Furthermore, despite tbe continued worsening of racial, social, and economic conditions, it seems unrealistic to expect that there will be a general breakdown of American society, to tbe point that tbe Alliance is unable to function in tbe cities, any time soon; almost certainly not in this decade.
- 2. A White survival community, therefore, will initially involve only a selected minority of Alliance members and will not take tbe place of any current activity.
- 3. Although it might be challenging and a lot of fun to do tbe sort of thing many non-Alliance “survivalists” are attempting these days--i.e., getting “back to Nature” and learning to live off tbe land without dependence on modern conveniences--we don’t have time to indulge ourselves in neo-primitivism or anything else that is not clearly related to our task. A White survival community must--eventually, if not initially--be independent of tbe larger society, both so that it is not subject to external pressures and so that it can survive when things break down on a large scale elsewhere, but it must nevertheless take advantage of everything which enables it to perform its task more effectively. That is, while a White survival community should give a relatively high priority to being able to function indefinitely without externally supplied electricity, water, sewer service, food, etc., it nevertheless should use every available modern tool, material, and technique which does not carry with it an essential dependence on tbe larger society. In some cases stockpiling can reduce or eliminate such dependence, and in other cases tbe skills of community members can maintain essential tools indefinitely. Even so, of course , there will be many things to learn and adaptations to make.
- 4. There are three principal; benefits which tbe Alliance should aim at gaining from a White survival community, namely:
- a. Survival insurance. Although we don’t expect an economic collapse in this decade, we may have little or no warning prior to a major disruption which might leave a number of our most valuable members around tbe county--or ever tbe National Office--without incomes. In such a case tbe existence of a National Alliance survival community would allow unemployed members-- and, perhaps, tbe National Office--to continue advancing our program while riding out tbe disruption.
- b. New facilities and capabilities. There are several types of activity which will be important in tbe future and which require a base where specialized training and other support depending on a number of members working together are available.
- c. A nucleus for a new order. This is a much longer range benefit than tbe first two, but ultimately tbe most vital. The values, principles, ideals, and institutions which tbe National Alliance wants to make tbe basis of a restructured White society in tbe future must have an incubator where they are put to tbe test, nurtured, and kept alive during a lengthy period--perhaps several decades--of continued decay and disintegration in tbe present society. Any parent who has had to complete with television, tbe public schools, and peer pressure in determining his children’s values and character development understands tbe necessity of isolation from corrupting influences. We must eventually have a small, structured society of our own which incorporated on a small scale all tbe features, from ethics to life-styles and from artistic trends to educational philosophies, which we believe are necessary for tbe survival and progress of our race as a whole. Now is not too soon to begin planning and carrying out tbe first steps toward building such a nuclear society.