Lest We Forget!

AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS UNITE!

There have been Nationalist student activities for three decades, but these efforts have been only pinpricks; however, as Australian Nationalism develops in the general community as a popular movement, the time has certainly arrived for a major campus push by our existing militants and by the new forces which will be mobilised.


The hour is late for Australia. The University is an important area for political struggle. We are urged on by our faith that the Australian Identity will not be extinguished on this Continent, that political and economic independence can be won for Australia, that a “Southern Nation” (Henry Lawson) will arise.


It is time for Nationalist students to acquire direction and begin to plan for the campus fight – soon to begin.


CAPITALISM, OPINION-MAKING AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION


The University is not simply a place where students ‘learn,’ get a degree and are thus prepared for the workforce.


The University is a centre of power inside our economic-political-cultural order.


As a power centre for the Australian State, the University has a specialised function: its aim is to produce graduates who are able to “serve” as willing links in the economic and political organisations of this society, who have the ‘correct’ political opinions and who have personal-cultural values which can be imparted to others: i.e., liberal, globalist, values. If we strip away the mask of our ‘free’ University, we can see it as an instrument for social control.


Just as the ‘principle’ of Australian liberal capitalism for the general community is: CONFORM, CONSUME, OBEY, so this ‘principle’ is also enforced upon the intelligentsia of our society, albeit with one variation: the system makes the promise’ of financial reward and occasionally – public recognition.


The link between the University and capitalism is demonstrable. Business and government fund various specialised ‘think tanks’; academics have their ‘findings’ published as epistles in the media; courses and specialised programs (and scholarships) interlink the University with local and international business needs. Detailed research needs to be done to document these open and subtle links such that an effective propaganda can develop. For example, research into the new American institute at Sydney University would demonstrate the point. A University administration seeks to create an atmosphere of academic achievement, of ‘normalcy’ in its operation, to convince the student that it is a ‘wise’ machine dedicated to the common good; if its intellectual bases are at no point ‘contested,’ the process of ‘adapting’ the student to its programs goes without opposition.


Essentially, the University governs the mind through establishing correct ‘opinions’ in the course material. Economics courses ‘discuss’ globalisation, economic rationalism, international banking and the multinational as if we did not live in an epoch where fractious nationalisms are refusing to yield to a global village. Politics teaches that liberal democracy has emerged the victor of twentieth century ideological debates, that globalisation is inevitable, and that Australia is a ‘part of Asia’; indeed, ‘Australia’ itself is a political lie given that Australia was ‘stolen’ in the first instance by Europeans who have since accepted their guilt in the most submissive and humiliating manner. New courses in ‘Asian Studies’ replace our own cultural heritage, and Language Schools have been more richly endowed to teach us the tongues of our new partners in capitalist ‘rationality’ rather than the languages and texts in which our own traditions are written. Studies in anthropology teach the ‘out of Africa’ mythos of human origins, a partial truth that establishes (sic) the globalist myth of human sameness.


Of course, free debate may occur in a University; we may debate philosophy or theology or aspects of any subject material, but we would fool ourselves if we took the illusion of ‘freedom’ for its substance. Whatever we may ‘think,’ the course material will remain the same. And students, like academics must be careful. Too much freedom will draw censure – as in the case of Professor Andrew Fraser of Macquarie University who found himself out of a job for his linking of race and intelligence, of ethnicity and crime.


The University establishes its political clubs, its campus societies, its academic rules (no sexism, ageism, racism, ‘bias’ in the language of academic ‘Papers’ or otherwise) to enforce conformity. Debate is to occur within particular parameters although a few Left sects may be ‘permitted’ to operate as a sign of University tolerance. Yet, the Left does not essentially challenge globalism, only prattles about who should benefit from it.


Nationalism, naturally, is anathema to such a system.


No more and no less than a University in an authoritarian state, is the Australian University a machine for the silent psychic terrorisation of the student.


It was Antonio Gramsci who explained the importance of the dominant class of a society establishing the HEGEMONY of its ideological basis over other social sectors and rival ideologies. Hegemony implies the de-legitimisation of other views and an effort to force such views onto a plane where all are compelled to adopt the language/style of the dominant ideology. The subtlety of such an approach does not belie its coercive nature; to ‘unlearn’ the brainwash can be as difficult in our ‘free’ society, as it would be for a student in formerly Stalinist countries. When control is not ‘obvious,’ its existence can be denied. Critics such as ourselves can be denounced as heretics, just as European scholarship was once greeted as a violation of religious teaching.


The Nationalist student is soldiering in a political wasteland whose national achievement can only be the destruction and despoiling of Australia. It is a situation which would cause the strongest of us to ponder whether we can overcome the power arrayed against us. Nonetheless, the recognition of what we are fighting is the first necessary step.

Nationalist Student Activism: New Perspectives On
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B. Knight.

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