The American “new right” is really... the old left, says Italian writer Rodolfo de Mattei. The imagination of a state, nation and society promoted by people like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel has much more to do with socialism than with conservatism, convinces.
"According to the alleged "technology-right", inspired by British philosopher Nick Land and blogger Curtis Yarvin, known as Mencius Moldbug, the conventional model of the nation and state should be abandoned today. This thought is presented in the book-manifest of The Dark Enlightenment. This conventional model should be replaced by an innovative and more efficient "corporate state" model," Rodolfo de Mattei wrote.
It would be a state akin to a corp that's ruled by a monarch chief. There's no thought of a citizen. alternatively of citizens, there are customers who may at any time quit their participation in the state or terminate the contract – just like regular customers, according to the motto “satisfaction warrant or refund”. It is an thought of an entirely artificial state organization, completely different from the concept of a conventional national state, which is based on a human community connected to the earth, understood as the land of fathers, where families are rooted and developed in accordance with the natural social order.
This imagination of statehood can, according to Rodolf de Mattei, be described as ‘deterituralisation’, i.e. the deprivation or eradication of all social, cultural and economical relations from the territorial context. The roots of this concept, convincing Rodolfo de Mattei, lie in the French doctrine of the 1960s and 1970s, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari, nevertheless they came out of Marxist ideas, granted capitalism any merit – namely the liberation of human desires and the launch of the demolition process of all conventional schemes, hierarchy and limitations. In their view, the affirmative side of the capitalist libertarian dynamic "was precisely that it managed to initiate the process of deteritorianization of man, pushing him to confirm his own revolutionary desires and to break out of socially imposed social territories of superstructures specified as religion, family, school, in another words, tradition," Rodolfo de Mattei wrote.
"This possible of “deteritionalisation” lies at the root of the ideology of the American NRx movement, according to which all people should adopt the techno-liberal perfect of Silicon Valley and make bonds no longer based on state borders, but on economical flows and common interests, in order to build a fresh liquid identity determined by their own selfish goals," the author stated.
"Colonel, conquer fresh spaces and establish fresh communities by land, sea and air, all the way to Mars, is the motto of the techno-libertarian movement, whose flagship representatives are people specified as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, whose only regulation is to be free from the rules," he added.
Rodolfo de Mattei appealed to Elon Musk's words given at the Salvini organization conference in Italy. Musk then argued that "the country is the people who live in it, it is not a geographical concept." "If the Italians moved to North America, this part of land would already be Italian. If another nation had moved to Italy, this land would not have been the same," said Elon Musk.
According to the publicist, this approach denies, in fact, not only national borders, but is directed at rejecting all boundaries – natural, moral and divine. "In the end, this is simply a proposal for a technological combination of the slogan < not to be banned> from 1968 with the socialist utopia of Claude Henry de Saint Simon, who described society as a large company". Therefore, according to Rodolf de Mattei, it would be better to talk about the "old left" alternatively of the "new right" in the US.
Source: Corrispondenza Romana
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