"We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else"
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“Long-term interests” is the respectable suit Rockwell puts on an idea that’s fundamentally eliminationist. The line is built to sound like prudence - slow, strategic, above the messy churn of markets and alliances - while smuggling in a single, totalizing premise: the state exists to serve one “race,” and everyone else is a distraction, a cost, or an enemy.
Notice the rhetorical laundering. “Foreign policy” is the technocratic domain of briefs and maps; it makes racial supremacy feel like an administrative preference rather than a moral emergency. By listing “other races” alongside “economic considerations or anything else,” Rockwell flattens competing interests into mere special pleading. It’s a sleight of hand: economics, security, diplomacy, human rights - all the usual reasons nations act - are demoted to temptations that weaken racial loyalty. The phrase “must have” adds coercive inevitability, as if history itself is issuing orders.
The intent is movement-building. Rockwell, as leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1950s and 60s, needed to translate fringe ideology into policy language that could circulate in mainstream debates about the Cold War, decolonization, and immigration. He frames racial nationalism as “long-term” realism, positioning pluralism as short-sighted indulgence and international cooperation as betrayal.
The subtext is conspiratorial and zero-sum: if policy isn’t explicitly race-first, then it has been captured by outsiders. That’s why the quote works for extremists: it offers followers a simple diagnostic for complexity (someone else is benefiting) and a simple mandate (close ranks), while pretending it’s merely strategic governance.
Notice the rhetorical laundering. “Foreign policy” is the technocratic domain of briefs and maps; it makes racial supremacy feel like an administrative preference rather than a moral emergency. By listing “other races” alongside “economic considerations or anything else,” Rockwell flattens competing interests into mere special pleading. It’s a sleight of hand: economics, security, diplomacy, human rights - all the usual reasons nations act - are demoted to temptations that weaken racial loyalty. The phrase “must have” adds coercive inevitability, as if history itself is issuing orders.
The intent is movement-building. Rockwell, as leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1950s and 60s, needed to translate fringe ideology into policy language that could circulate in mainstream debates about the Cold War, decolonization, and immigration. He frames racial nationalism as “long-term” realism, positioning pluralism as short-sighted indulgence and international cooperation as betrayal.
The subtext is conspiratorial and zero-sum: if policy isn’t explicitly race-first, then it has been captured by outsiders. That’s why the quote works for extremists: it offers followers a simple diagnostic for complexity (someone else is benefiting) and a simple mandate (close ranks), while pretending it’s merely strategic governance.
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| Topic | Equality |
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