By Adan Ismail
In the noisy modern age where clarity drowns in a flood of competing voices, a battle is unfolding. It is not the tired clash of civilizations, races, religions, or tribes, but a deeper conflict over the very blueprint of humanity itself. In every corner of the globe, this war is being waged between two opposing forces: the Global Socialists and the National Socialists.
Global Socialism: The Homogenizing Crusade.
Global Socialism, is a sweeping social project that seeks to dismantle unique national identities for standardized order where deep affiliations, inherited customs, and historical memory are homogenized. Through disdaining coexistence, it seeks a post-identity order where any form of traditions is liquidated because it is an obstacle to the caravan of collectivization. Loyalty to heritage is cast as regressive and even dangerous, while universalism is exalted. It demands from everyone the abandonment of peculiar identities for rootless associations perched on cross-cultural intermarriages, consumerism and conformity to one frame. The goal is a tradition-less, rootless and history-less humanity. It bears a facade of justice at the cost of the very textures that gives humanity its taste.
The manifestations of Global Socialism are both subtle and violent. The subtle operate through supranational institutions that enforce standardized global policies on economics, education, and health. The media amplifies too through one-sided narratives on gender, climate, and human rights so that entire generations are indoctrinated with globalism at the expense of nativism. While claiming to champion inclusion, it paradoxically fragments organic societies by diverting attention from species consciousness, and replacing it with hyper-individualists obsessed with external validations rather than inner growth.
Take, for instance, the pan-Islamist in Somalia, who zealously calls for the ‘unity’ of two billion Muslims but remains indifferent to, or worse, actively undermines, the unity of his own nation. This is misplaced form of nationalism—one that mocks rooted identities as ‘outdated’ in order to evolve people from global societies into a singular global society. Its advocates may differ in their methods, but broadly, they are united in spirit. There is little distinction between the 20th century communist Guevara, who died far from home trying to paint the world red; Osama Bin Laden, who died thousands of miles from homeland while imposing his heretical strain of Islam on others through reign of terror; the feminist who foments inter-gender antagonism in a crusade against patriarchy; and the activist who celebrates the global diffusion of queer identity. Each is an adventurist, in their own way, demands the world conform to a singular frame: “I am this way—and so should you be.”
National Socialism: The Resistant Rock.
National Socialism is the primary and most basic ideal that is the preserver of what the other seeks to dismantle. It deeply values the continuity of traditions, cultures and memory and most importantly, the rootness of people. Disparate identities are not seen as problems but heritage to be cherished and preserved. It envisions a world of egalitarian plurality where societies coexist through fair exchange of ideas and knowledge without the desire of any to overwhelm, patronize or deny others their unique being. National Socialism insists that true harmony comes only when the character of every constituent world individual is preserved and can relate with others from a position of secure identity. It disdains cultural editing as it disapproves erasure.
Crucially, it should not be confused with 20th-century fascism as it is not supremacist or expansionist but egalitarian and compassionate. This is a protective worldview rooted in the belief that just as individuals require boundaries to flourish, so too do different cultures of societies. Its beliefs are underpinned by the commitment that every national group on earth should exist to posterity without systematic or forced dissolution only possible when global monoculture or supremacist forces are resisted. Thus, National Socialism is the shield against the universalist utopia of any form.
This modern National Socialism is carried forward by those who fight for self-preservation and sovereignty. Say the Arab person, consumed by the dream of Arab unity in defiance of the global Caliphate zealotism; the white branded as “racist” merely for questioning the rationale of mass immigration; the Sinic preserving Confucian values from blending; the Turk who clings to Atatürk’s vision of distinct national pride over neo-Ottomanism; or the Somali who idealizes an ethnic nation over the Islamic Leviathan that Al-Shabaab and other pan-Islamists seek to impose. Their backgrounds may differ, but these are kindred spirits that reject global entanglements and stand for the sanctity of their national and historical identities. Though the intensity of their tones and the capacity of resistance may differ across regions, one rallying cry unites them: I am my nation’s soul, not the world’s whisper.
In sum, the true tools in the battle for the next world order are not weapons of physical destruction but the power to define who we are. This battle is timeless and constant. It is everywhere—across screens, keyboards, the Internet, friendships, books, and relationships. No matter how fiercely the flame of contest roars, it is the National Socialists who claim the moral high ground for preserving the natural order of things just as they were created and intended, thus aligned with the will of the Maker.
Adan Ismail
Email: aden.mohedi@gmail.com
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