Nationalism vs Globalism / Cultural Communism

 

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

Translated from French

The Western world is not “under communist domination” in the sense of the 20th century. There is no Gulag, no Gosplan. Yet a collectivist and globalist ideology has captured a large part of our institutions, our elites, and our collective imaginations. In the name of universal values (climate, diversity, human rights, global governance), entire swaths of sovereignty have been transferred to supranational bodies, international treaties, administrative agencies, and networks of influence that escape the democratic control of peoples. Our governments have not been “sold” in a criminal sense: they have embraced a worldview in which the nation-state is seen as a dangerous relic and the legitimacy of power is increasingly located beyond borders. What is called “far right” today is not an extremist ideology. It is the natural reaction of men and women attached to common sense, concrete freedom, and the preservation of their way of life. Citizens who refuse to let bureaucrats in Brussels, at the UN, or in Davos decide for them: • who enters their territory, • what they have the right to say, • what economic and cultural model they must accept. They are fought with such violence precisely because they represent the last obstacle to completing a project of dissolving national sovereignties in favor of globalized governance. A project that, beneath the trappings of progressivism and “global responsibility,” mechanically leads to more centralized control, less democratic accountability, and a forced homogenization of peoples. Nationalism = assertion that sovereignty belongs to the citizens of a nation and that freedom is exercised first within a concrete and controllable political framework. Globalism / Cultural Communism = progressive dissolution of borders, identities, and responsibilities in favor of opaque structures and norms imposed from above. This is not a matter of “nice guys” versus “bad guys.” It is a matter of ideas. Collectivist ideas that, when applied on a large scale in complex systems, invariably produce the same results: loss of social cohesion, insecurity, relative impoverishment of working classes, and concentration of power in the hands of those who master supranational levers. History never repeats itself exactly the same way. But the deep logics—erasure of the individual and the nation in the name of an abstract collective good—remain the same. And that is precisely why the defense of national sovereignty and concrete freedoms is demonized today with such intensity: it is the only bulwark still standing against a form of control that no longer needs tanks to advance.