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ARE THERE LEVELS TO TOTALITARIANISM

How many industrial generations was Germany ahead of Russia?

From the so-called average, we can infer the population’s self-reflection level. Which level was it – zeref, zeremid, or remid?

The remid level, as we have found out, gives the informal elite of civilization a chance to stay alive.

After all, Germany still was a country of tradition, something that all nations feel as a phantom pining for the past. This manifested itself most clearly in Italian fascism. But the Italian fascists didn’tannihilate the local socialists until 1920. Russia was close in all ways to agrarian Italy. For that reason, in 1919—1920 the Italian socialists seized factories in the industrially developed central and northern Italy, following the example of Russia’s proletariat. Italy was a country of active anarchism, meaning it didn’t need the state.

With that said, Italians had spent 300 years fighting to free their homeland and unify it into a single state. The state meant ownership; the state scale, remids. Italy’s statism took the form of fascism. In

two years, all socialists, advocates of a socialist community, were killed off (with some help from the residents). That left the upper bourgeoisie, factory owners, and latifundistas pleased. The local administration sided with the fascists. In Russia, the proletariat and the peasantry followed Lenin, not Savinkov; in Italy, the former socialist Mussolini (precisely because of the Risorgimento). The Italians wanted order: they had suffered for centuries because of the lack of a single state.

The Witch-Hunt

In the Middle Ages the Inquisition hunted down witches. This kind of hunting – searching for scapegoats – is something typical of all times. Someone must be called to account for epidemics, disasters, crop failures: the practice of declaring the innocent guilty has existed since ancient times.

The Inquisition chose not to reinvent the wheel. Women didn’t love women. So what reason was there for the Inquisition to love women, even the most beautiful of them? After all, when some kind of misfortune happened in a village or even across a whole city, it was all because some woman had evoked evil spirits. This is the zeref level. It doesn’t rely on facts or need evidence. The zeref level is

one of conjectures and black thoughts, of loathing and envy.

The zeremid level is one of wider practice. This kind of hunting involves someone specific and even logic, going from the specific to the general. Even though the specific here borrows a lot from the subconscious. But the zeremids name the perpetrator’s name. They even have the temerity to call the ruler the culprit, even though they do so at the instigation of liberal refags and, often, other revolutionaries. The thing is that traditional practice has several idols – ideals it lives with as people grow old and die. When saints’ names are secularized, people, it seems, no longer have a reason to

live. But if people – soldiers, for example – don’t want to die for their king or fatherland – this level is that of zeremids. Zeremids have primitive designs. They invariably want to stay alive. That wasprecisely why the Bolsheviks lay the blame for their troubles on soldiers going to their deaths and on

the tsar and his henchmen. The tsar wasn’t a witch – he was the people’s saint, the God’s Anointed.

But they lay the blame on him all the same. This qualifies as the zeremid level, with the entire ethnos

declared guilty. This fits right in the middle of the dark tribal subconscious, which looks for the enemy

without, as in primitive times, while the enemy is actually within. Cunning? Cunning. Antisemitism

can attain a remid scale. But it is second-generation zeremids and remids that bring it to that level.