Have you ever felt lost, alone, maybe you had no goal or collective bonds in life and you feel the need to be part of something greater while also having no actual redeeming qualities and want to just be part of something just for being born. Well I’ve got a hot new option for you, have you considered white nationalism? Yes its true, white nationalism lets you be part of a larger hole, a massive gaping hole leaking with the pride for your race and people, gloriously trailing down your legs giving you the feeling of belonging you deserve because you’re too much of an intellectual coward and tribalist to actually do something of merit for the people you quite clearly hate.

Just take a look at one of white nationalism’s more unsung golden boys, David Hilton, also known as Moses Apostaticus which I can only assume is Latin for logic owns the SJW/Feminist/Special Snowflake or any other vague straw man the right has concocted from its hollow skulls this week. And before any of you cry doxxing please note that his name is public information which is what I will be using, given his attempts to dox other left wing sites such as Slackbastard (1) and even myself (2). Out of some unwarranted notion of respect I will only be drawing up publicly available information. It’s important to be the better man, not like that’s difficult.

Now you may be asking, who is this man, he looks like Richard Spencer if his wife’s boyfriend told him to sleep on the couch, and why should I care about what he says? David Hilton’s online presence came to my attention when Brisbane ANTIFA publicly revealed his involvement in online far right circles while also working at a local university (3). His output includes his Moses Apostatiticus brand which consists of a Youtube channel (4), whose content is best described as like watching Stefan Molyneux if he was locked in a room and forced to read Spengler, whose delivery is so dispassionate that it could put a meth addicted toddler into a catatonic state. Then there is his website Traditional Nationalism (5) that includes a blog which if it had more traction would likely increase the national suicide rate ten fold, and his manifesto, which like practically every manifesto written by a mentally unhinged white man, is awash in a desperate fear of modernity, how the west is dying around him and how Muslim “barbarians” and cultural Marxists are responsible for the fall of his prelapsarian utopia in which he never lived but somehow thinks he can return to, like an infant screaming to the wind, too afraid to live in this world and take their first steps towards something new, and instead wishing to reenter the womb.

Then there are the obligatory social media accounts whose only real notable point is his interactions with #dingotwitter which is to your twitter feed what battery acid is to your genitals and his interactions with the far right Australian Antipodean Resistance, in fact name dropping them when threatening to dox and sue me (2). This being especially hilarious given his right wing libertarian leanings which simply shows that he will decry the state while using it like how a child uses a safety blanket when he is challenged. But as tempting as it is to go through his personal and political history as a sheer act of spite in a blaze of probably lawsuit baiting glory I have to ask what it would gain? What I feel would not only be far more intellectually stimulating and far more important in the Australian leftist discourse is an understanding of what his and by extension the Australian far right’s talking points are and to utterly dismantle and expose it is for the infantile mewling that it is.

We will begin this journey into the ideological septic tank that is the australian right by attempting to decipher the monic scribblings of his work from Cultural Marxism, his fear of the west’s destruction and his simultaneous hatred of it and closing with his general political views and how it ties into the larger right wing sphere.

Cultural Marxism

Now I bet you’re wondering, what is cultural marxism, what does it mean, what does it do and is it sexually transmitted? According to David’s manifesto it sounds utterly terrifying

“Key to the destruction of white identity over the past 50 years has been the takeover of the education system by a cultural Marxist elite. This cult of anti-white hate, which first took root in the humanities and language courses, has progressively spread throughout all of the university disciplines… Western Marxism is an identity cult, Unlike in the east, Western societies proved resilient against the spread of Orthodox Marxism following the Russian Revolution. Western capitalism and Christianity proved too strong for Marx’s religion of class envy and violent struggle…By taking control of the campuses, the cultural Marxists have been able to indoctrinate the entire ruling establishment of Western nations. Over the last 50 years they have been pumping their noxious anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian bilge into the minds of the future elite. That is the elite seeking our extermination today.” (6)

I mean as tempting as it is to list every attempted revolution that occurred in the west and the world at large both before and after the Russian Revolution that were successful before being crushed by the state and fascist paramilitaries, I won’t, just to keep this nightmarish hallucination somewhat on track. What is more important is that in his manifesto he doesn’t really provide an actual description of the theory of cultural Marxism so I’ll have to do his job and explain it for him.

Cultural Marxism historically has its roots found in the term cultural Bolshevism which was espoused by German nationalists, including Adolf Hitler (inb4 Godwin’s law) when attacking more subversive forms of art, especially those leaning towards nihilistic or postmodern forms of expression. The term later evolved into a general Nazi propaganda tactic targeting Karl Marx for being ancestrally Jewish and subsequently claiming communism was a Jewish plot, because of course. The more modern term of cultural Marxism has no clear academic point of origin and no this isn’t because the cultural Marxists are trying to cover it up. However the most likely explanation for its origin would be the manifesto written by another nationalist, Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik who accused social democrats of being cultural Marxists and causing a mass immigration of Muslims which result, according to him, a general societal decay. The term cultural Marxism as well as the popular conspiracy theory then reached common parlance among the far right with the the publishing of Andrew Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation which claimed that cultural Marxism was perpetuated by students of the Frankfurt school, which included writers such as Theodor Adorno, as a means of influencing modern liberal tendencies by challenging traditional American values, which led to the creation of queer, feminist and intersectional theories that would fall under the umbrella of identity politics that are popular with liberals of most stripes as well as the moderate left which usually take the form of social democrats. This seemingly seems to be enough evidence for the radical right to see an anti white conspiracy with the end goal seemingly being a rainbow flag draped vanguard party trying to put all cis hetero white men into gulags.

(Note this is quite strange due to his call to create a “pro white” identity politics movement in his manifesto, which again enforces my claims that he is a white nationalist and more than happy to use the same tactics his imaginary opponents use)

Of course you may be wondering at this point, does this actually have anything to do with Marx, Marxist thought, the Frankfurt school or any of its students? Short answer, no. In long this may take a while. Firstly there is the issue that traditional Marxist thought was primarily associated with class theory and gave little mention to race and other issues seen outside of economic oppression. The Communist Manifesto isn’t, as much as our friends on the right believe, just one page where Karl Marx claims that shit is expensive and we should kill all whites. Class theory isn’t ‘class envy’ where people just want participation medals. Marxism is actually about about how certain political and economic groups interact with each other in the economy, additionally class theory is not wholly associated with Marxism or socialism as whole and in fact originates from liberal class theory and the radical left as whole can be seen as a response to liberalism. (7)

Granted there are classical Marxist theorists that talked about social oppression such as Antonio Gramsci, whose writing relating to cultural hegemony has verbiage that may sound like a leftist domination strategy if your understanding was as robust David Hilton’s hairline. In reality cultural hegemony was a concept in which workers movements were suppressed by capitalism’s vice like grip on the state and its culture to keep them down, it does not call to keep poor defenseless victimized white men down. This can be seen in David and I’s shared Australian context with the constant attempts by the liberal party to hold royal commissions into ‘union corruption’ while finding what could charitably described as jack shit every single time, largely poisoning the movements reputation. Cultural Hegemony in its most extreme form would create a class of people called the subaltern, who are so oppressed that any form of effective social resistance and organization is impossible. An example of this being the landed African peasant, illiterate, isolated and largely landed having little in the way of stopping neo-liberal development strategies from destroying his home due to his isolation and inability to mobilize enough popular support to help him. Again to keep things local this phenomenon can be see in the Aboriginal people where they were so alienated from any civil support that it took decades before we stopped stealing their children to try breeding them out of existence and gave them a small fraction of their traditional land back, in fact it could still be argued that they are still a subaltern people because of how systematically they have been fucked by our government. Their communities are underfunded and abandoned while also being lampooned by conservatives, claiming that to live in these communities is a ‘lifestyle choice’, asking why they don’t ‘just move somewhere better while ignoring the aboriginal cultures attachment to the land and its importance, but apparently the preservation of non white cultures isn’t a high priority.

Then finally there are theorists like Theodor Adorno who apparently, once fleeing Nazi Germany and arriving in America, his writing led to the decay of American/ Western values. This is simply being ignorant of history given his living of an aristocratic lifestyle and being harshly critical of the free love movement and his writing on Wagner being praised by none other than Richard Spencer.

Cultural Marxism is merely just another slur, similar to social justice warrior or regressive leftist. The people that espouse this bullshit live in constant fear of their beloved ‘west’ changing or collapsing. This is obvious when observing his depiction of the left as “murderous, utopian and fanatical” (8) and seeking to destroy everything you hold dear and that the elites that have infiltrated us will suppress our freedom of speech. This being especially hilarious in David’s case because not only is he working for his PHD at a university, is a published writer (9), wrote several freelance articles for both the Australian spectator (before being removed once his personal politics were revealed) (10) and for prominent members of the American right such as Tucker Carlson (11.) The west is quite simply not being subverted by communists, as much as I wish it was.

The Dying west

Screeching against liberalism in some form or another is common amongst fascists old and new. From Julius Evola’s cryptic ramblings to Richard Spencer’s admittedly valid critique of liberalism’s impotence. I myself am no defender of liberalism, primarily due to its inherently undemocratic nature and how its intertwined nature with capitalism leads to great oppression, suffering and exploitation. But the hatred that David Hilton is a unique beast, concerned, if not obsessed with the moral decay of man brought from enlightenment ideals (12). Frankly I don’t hold much of an interest in refuting his philosophical framework which can best be described as fanatical christian pseudo intellectualism, I could just quote pages upon pages of Max Stirner until I want to bleed from the asshole and I couldn’t care less. Long story short, I’m a materialist and an egoist and he’s a metaphysical quack and I lack enough of a background to adequately tackle this shit.

What I will be doing is attempting to string together some understanding of his views relating, to liberalism, the west and a general overview of some far right talking points that have emerged in his work. Again I apologize for any of my more philosophically minded readers, if anyone can refute his points on this, be my guest.

The first question is what he defines as the, The Dying West. This is something that has troubled me for sometime and I really would love a response on this, so David if you are reading this, before you try and fail to dox me, could you please explain what the west is because the right has been rather evasive on this.

You’re aforementioned fear of cultural Marxists and general anxiety about communists as well which include repeated claims that George Soros and the open society foundation are Marxists (13) despite the resounding evidence to the contrary, imply that the left wants to destroy the west. Given that Marxists and anarchists want to abolish capitalism and the liberal state that would imply that the west is liberalism and capitalism and that is what defines the west. This does not make any sense to me, because by that definition the west would include virtually every modern nation state and region outside of Rojava. China would be considered a pinnacle of western values due to its aggressively neo-liberal nature, so would the middle east especially the UAE. This of course does not make any sense on any level and is not conducive with your views on modernity.

Is the west a series of values like equality or reason? Well given your outright dismissal of them calling them cults that doesn’t appear to be the case either, this does not even include the obvious point that if we are following that definition the west didn’t exist until the last three hundred years with the rise of the enlightenment. That is nothing to say of all the reprehensible theories that emerged in the enlightenment such as race realism which I know you are at least partially supportive of but that’s neither here nor there.

Given that this whole section on The Dying West is just loudly screeching about the fall of the christian faith and how you in your works outside of the manifesto have defined race as a combination of language, culture, faith and ethnicity (14) and given your repeated counts of Islamophobia (15) (16) referring to Muslims as foreign “barbarians” and conquers I can only assume that you determine what the west is by these definitions. If I am wrong please correct me and I will respond to your definition accordingly

He thankfully provides an example of his definition of race in his video Don’t Fear Nationalism, Fear Socialism which has enough bizarre ideological points that it would give Slavoj Žižek’s a heart attack, such as attempting to compare the ring of power to big government in what could best be summarized as “Islam is like LOTR or something cause like global Marxism and the Orcs are Muslims and Soros is totally a metaphor for Sauron”. In it he shows an example of how his theory works in action describing how if a group of Africans moved to China, embracing the language, culture and faith of their new home, they still wouldn’t be Chinese because of their ethnicity.

This is flawed for several reasons. Firstly, because of their adaption to this culture even if the weren’t Chinese, (I would say they are but fuck it) they wouldn’t be African following your own definitions, they would be a synthesis of cultures which is typically how culture groups have formed over history, outside of maybe some pacific islander tribes there are no races and cultures that have developed in vacuum. This can be seen throughout history as tribes and cultures moved around, fucked freely and moved on or stayed for a variety of reasons. Even with the creation of nation states there are still numerous different racial groups that exist under your definitions. Examples of this are numerous, are both native and white Americans American? They have different ethnicity and but have an entwined cultural history, but both are born in the United States. What about aboriginal and white Australians? One clearly was first and the other came much later and attempted large scale genocide on the other, but does this matter you? Given that you’re a white nationalist I can assume what that answer would be. Even excluding arbitrary race bullshit what does this mean for different religious groups that exist in a country that are defined by a different religious background? Are white people that convert to Islam later in life and have white children that were born and raised Muslim in America, Europe or Australia not their nationality? This is just indicative of the arbitrary tribalism that has defined the right for for quite sometime. They will call themselves true blue while spitting on those that don’t match that homogeneous framework, with the Australian right in particular having a seeming desire to return to the Menzies era of white Australia where we were nothing more than the trailer trash of Asia.

But I can hear you wondering, how would the Australian right save our great nation, well David Hilton has that covered as well due to listing his policies explicitly, being a former vice president of the Australian Sovereignty Party (17) and allegedly being involved with The Australian Traditional Nationalist Movement.

As forewarning it is not confirmed that David Hilton is involved in the The Australian Traditional Nationalist Movement, but given that name of his written blog is the Traditional Nationalist, they use similar iconography and have remarkably similar political goals and name I can only assume either that David is behind this or the Australian right is so ideologically incestuous that they keep making the same points or both. If I can find more concrete evidence either way I will update this article accordingly. Either way this just saves me time by taking two intellectually dense birds with one stone.

So the shared goals of the ASP and ATN are mostly economic, leaning heavily on the side of right wing economic libertarianism and protectionism from external markets which is displayed by the ASP’s most interesting points being the withdrawal from free trade deals and replacing it with “fair trade” (18) and the abolition of all tax (with the exception of customs and excise duties) and replacing it with a flat 1% debit tax made on all purchases made (19). Additionally as a side the ASP does also explicitly mention the importance of online privacy.I just thought that was funny given David’s previously mentioned respect for people’s privacy (20)

Conversely the ATN has a flat out withdraw from all free trade agreements and the abolition of all taxes with a flat raising of the GST so that you “so you are only taxed on what you consume” (21). The latter is economically insane for numerous reasons even to the untrained eye. Especially considering how the a raising of the GST would impact those that have little in the way of financial stability. This is a common trend throughout comparing the ATN and ASP. The ATN is merely the more radical and to put it charitably batshit crazy follow up to what has come before with both sharing an overall theme of an economic protectionism which is a common theme amongst most of the Australian right in general. This is likely the case because the ASP was running for government, while the ATN has no such pretensions and can as hard as it wants and exposes itself as a blatantly ethno nationalist group, these policies include

“Deport all known terrorists, deport refugees previously excepted (this is not a typo this is how it was spelt on the page) by the traitorous government.”

“Deport migrants with a criminal history in Australia”

“Remove any and all Islamic studies from all educational institutions.”

“Permanently shut down all mosques in Australia, refurbish them as shelters, maternity clinics, or other useful spaces”

This makes up the majority of the immigration policy and looks like the bastard child of Tony Abbott and Reclaim Australia playing the biscuit game with Pauline Hanson’s face and it gets even worse. The civic policies are where we transition from white nationalism to out and out authoritarianism, the highlights including

“The death penalty will be reinstated for all convicted rapists, murderers, traffickers and/or persons who commit the most heinous of acts.”

“Enforce that all non-Australian owned businesses be forcefully sold to the Australian government (if no Australian private individual purchases first) within 12 months of office.” (again carrying over the theme of protectionism)

“Provide sterilization of criminals in return for a reduction in their sentence.”

“All future policy making will be done through a unanimous family vote, one vote per Australian household.”

One shudders to imagine a world of this design, where prisoners are sterilized for a shot at freedom which should rightfully be their own. Non Australian’s (which given the looseness on defining nationality makes this even more troubling) having their livelihoods stripped from them as they are forced to leave their homes. Democracy itself being stolen from the people he claims love as executions make their return while those lucky enough not to die struggle to afford to make ends meet under greater economic strain and the less said about the acts likely performed against our Muslim comrades the better. It is best described in the words of David Hilton himself “murderous, utopian and fanatical”.

Now, does all of this make him a fascist? Good question that thankfully I don’t need to answer because the man himself has actually written an article explaining why he’s not a Nazi (22). Granted it’s not exactly the best sign that you need to explain to the world that you aren’t a Nazi and happen to associate with Nazi’s but lets give this man a chance, everyone can make a turn around.

First point worth mentioning is that he denies outright being part of the Australian Traditional Nationalist while praising them. Which I personally am torn on, Firstly Brisbane Antifa aren’t the only ones claiming this (23),and again considering how much members of the right tend to communicate with each other and my general distrust of the man, my original theory still stands. Either this is another project of David’s given their political and aesthetic similarities or the Australian far right is far less intellectually diverse than one would assume. Like I said before if anyone has any information to confirm or deny my claims I will make edits accordingly.

Things get immediately more interesting when he states the following “I don’t deny the Holocaust happened. The arguments I have made are that it has been given an outsized significance in our culture and is used by Jewish lobbies within Western countries and Zionists in Israel to advance their interests against ours. The 20th century was full of massacres, by many races. Pinning the guilt for the Holocaust on all white men is ridiculous. We fought the bloody Nazis. Get over it.”

This statement is basically akin to ‘I don’t fuck dogs, its just that if we weren’t meant to fuck dog they shouldn’t have been given all those nipples you cultural Marxist cuck’ by not denying the holocaust, while underplaying the sheer cruelty that made it so notable and claiming it is being used as a Jewish plot to advance Zionism. He’s denying Nazism while actively espousing one of its most popular talking points, it seems like shooting yourself in the foot. This combined with his claims that IBM being involved in the holocaust wasn’t a bad thing (10) doesn’t exactly put my concerns at ease.

The remainder of the article then immediately dives below the low bar it set itself, going on what could charitably be described as a deep dive into the depths of his blackened soul where it goes completely off the rails and crashes straight into ‘what the fuck’ junction. With such intellectually stimulating quotes as “While I’m not a Nazi though, Antifa are communists” like yeah, no shit dumbass no one’s really hiding that, calling them authoritarian (shorthand for they’re the real fascists), bringing up the standard communism killed 150 million people argument (which is a topic I may address in the future), writing about the global oligarchs and how George Soros (who coincidentally happens to be Jewish but I’m sure that has nothing to do about why they keep bringing him up) and how the open society foundation are coming for us. This in addition to jerking himself off for being on several prominent right wing sites as mentioned previously and providing a link to a ‘race realist’ database (24) which for those that aren’t aware attempt to explain why the races are different which just also happens to explain why people of European descent are usually the best (which is again, something I may go into in the future) all the while claiming communist are delusional. Maybe I’m just the real fascist, but this article doesn’t really paint him as a blameless victim of the evil ANTIFA menace

So is he a Nazi? Fuck me, maybe, probably?Is he a thundering dumbass almost certainly, is he worth getting dressed in all black and giving him the Richard Spencer chin rub, honestly he’s not worth the risk of bruising your knuckles and I think the worst punishment he can receive right now is to watch his hairline get progressively worse

As easy as it is to laugh at these people it brings up something of a deep concern of mine and many others, this rise of the far right and fascism that is beginning to hang over this world like a pasty white cloud with a bad haircut. This abstract, existential dread where anyone I know and maybe even trust could secretly, or in David’s case, quite openly and proudly proclaim this toxicity. I have to wonder where the final destination for this is. Brisbane is a very small scene politically speaking, fascism even more so, but the spectre of it is what concerns me. Will there need to be armed comrades outside of synagogues and mosques? Will they soon follow in the steps of the American right and engage in ‘leaderless resistance’ (25) and prey on the weak, the defenseless, the poor, the different? How long will be it before we have our first Heather Heyer (who David insulted and called a Bloated Bolshevik Bitch, just so you know (26)) With the machine of capitalism bleeding to death with us all inside we may well see things come to a head in our lifetime.

But most of all I sincerely fear for people of colour in this country, I fear for all good people. I fear losing something that I have come to love. I’ve seen this thing of beauty, I’ve walked amongst its streets like a single blood moving through its veins and seen so much beauty. A great capacity for kindness and love in the hearts of many. These people no matter their, race, religion or creed and the cultural melting pot that comes from this mixing, this exchange of ideas and beliefs, what these troglodytes call degencery, is the one thing I fear to lose most of all. I and I hope all of you reading this would be willing to fight to protect this.I hope to one day I see this country undivided, free from the shackles of the state and capital, united out of mutual aid and respect under a new symbol of Australia, flag where the southern cross stands hand in hand with the red, yellow and black of its original owners, a symbol of how we have moved on from an imperialist prison colony to something greater. New people arriving on our shores, bringing new cultures and beliefs to synthesize into something new. David Hilton is ultimately right about one thing, a change is going to come and it is inevitable, but we have the power for it not be the dark future that him and his ilk advocate for, where all deviants are expelled and the degenerates sterilized in a pathetic attempt to live in some prelapsarian utopia. They will see this wonderful future that all good people long for, while they, angry and alone hang from the same meat hooks that hoisted their fascist forefathers, that is a tradition worth preserving unlike, their fetid ideology which will rot with them on these hooks.

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