According to the racist doctrine, humanity, the human race, is an abstract fiction — that is, the final phase, imaginable only as a limit, but never entirely achievable, of a process of involution, disintegration, collapse. In the normal way, human nature is instead differentiated, a differentiation that is reflected, among other things, precisely in the diversity of blood and races. This difference represents the primary element. It is not only the natural condition of beings, but also an ethical value, that is to say something which is innately good and which must be defended and protected.
Racism, in this regard, presents itself as a will — which one could well call classical — of “form”, of “limit”, and of individuation. It exhorts us not to consider as essential everything that, representing the generic, the formless, the unidentified, actually counts as a “less”, as a residue of matter not yet formed. Everything common comes to the fore, as a “value” and as “immortal principles”, only in periods of regression and ethnic-cultural decomposition, where precisely “form” is relegated to the formless. In this way, “universalism” — understood, in a rather abusive sense, that has unfortunately become current, as internationalism and cosmopolitanism — should not be judged as one opinion among many others, but as the echo and almost the barometric index of a precise climate of ethnic chaos and distortion of types.
It is very evident that racism, in this respect, strengthens nationalism in its positive aspects. Both represent a healthy reaction against both the democratic and the collectivist myth, against the myth of the proletarian mass without homeland and without face; they have the meaning of affirmation of quality against quantity, of the “cosmos” against chaos and, as we have already said, of form against the formless.
From a political point of view, then, the awakening of the feeling of the nation and of race is one of the essential preconditions for the task of resuming in a well-articulated organism all those forces which, through the crisis of the modern world, were about to disperse and sink into the quagmire of a mechanical-collectivist and internationalist indifference. And this task is a matter of life or death for the future of the entire European civilisation.
~ Julius Evola
