Fundraising

Editing AlternativeRight.com over the past two years has been a great pleasure. And I hope that it has played a small part in the intellectual awakening of Western men and women.   

Best holiday wishes,

As you read these words, O loyal AltRight reader, your humble correspondent dwells in a distant, exotic, and vibrant society (“vibrant” being the standard euphemism for “dangerous” these days). Yes, I find myself behind the Rainbow curtain, in the multicultural less-than paradise of South Africa, getting a fascinating sneak peek at what might just prove to be the future of the general Western world, should current political and demographic trends persist.

Three days ago, I endured a punishing 15-hour flight from Atlanta to Johannesburg, courtesy of a generous grant from The National Policy Institute, parent company to AlternativeRight.com. Having slept off one bitch of a case of jet lag, I am now rested and ready to take in and duly record the sights, sounds, and smells of the Rainbow Nation, in all of its perilous, many-hued, divergently-complexioned glory.

Needless to say, I intend to focus most of my attention upon the most prominent of the white stripes of that Rainbow, a group often overlooked these days now that their efforts at racial social engineering—that apparatus known as Apartheid—has been dismantled. Indeed, the purpose of my visit is to speak with numerous representatives of the Afrikaner people, and to observe, in some small way, how the former head honchos of this far-flung Republic have responded to nearly two decades of living under ANC (mis)rule. 

Of particular interest to me will be to spend some time in the mini-ethnostate of Orania, a burgeoning Afrikaner homeland of sorts, unassumingly nestled in the vast, desolate Western Cape—a tiny town that may yet prove to be hugely significant in years to come. Most Afrikaners, of course, don’t live in Orania, yet they all have a stake in Orania’s fate, as does the entire White West.

To subscribe to Radix, click here. To support Andy's journey behind the Rainbow Curtain, click here.

There are many things Alex and I enjoy more than fundraising…or at least how fundraising is usually done at sites like ours: Thermometers are brought out; Dickensian stories are told; and vague threats are issued that if readers don’t give money now, it will all go away. ‘Tis the Season!

Well, we think our readers deserve more than that. You shouldn’t just pay for something that’s already happening, You should help create something new and ambitious—a project that deserves to come into being but lacks capital.

So, this year, Alex and I aren’t just asking for money. We’re asking you to support such a project—one that is unique for our movement and which, we hope, will be valued for years to come.

We’re encouraging you to subscribe to a new print publication we’re launching in March of 2012. It’s called Radix, and we need your support in order to create it.

As always, your subscription, and additional donation if you’d like to make one, is tax-deductible via our host foundation.  

Radix won’t simply be “dead-tree AltRight.” It will include all new material, as well some web pieces that have been re-crafted for the page.

And Radix will be beautiful. It will include interior artwork accompanying the essays, as well as innovative typography. Radix will be something you’ll want to hold in your hands and display on your shelf.

Our goal is to get at least 200 AltRight readers to subscribe to our first two issues for 2012, at a discounted price of $20 a piece.

We also ask that you help fund a research trip that has sent contributor Andy Nowicki as far a field as South Africa, to report on White survival in the Rainbow Nation (more on that below).

To subscribe to Radix, click here. To support Andy's journey behind the Rainbow Curtain, click here.

Alex and I--along with all contributors to AlternativeRight.com--wish our American readers the best this Thanksgiving!

Maintaining AltRight is a struggle, to be sure, but it's also a joy. I'm particularly grateful for the emails--some encouraging, some critical--from readers and the thoughtful comments contributed by our most active AltRighters. And most of all, I'm thankful to our donors. They are the lifeblood of a site dedicated to forming a new intellectual Right.

In the coming weeks, Alex and I will be announcing an exciting new stage of AltRight's journey--indeed, we'll be launching a number of new projects.        

Until then, I remain faithfully yours,   

I would like to thank all of those who have already contributed toward Alternative Right during our 2011 fundraising campaign. It is gratifying to know that you appreciate the work we—the authors, the editors, and the developers—do here.

So far we are just under two thirds of the way to our goal of $25,000.  This means we are most of the way there, but not quite. A final push is needed to wind up the campaign.

As I mentioned not long ago, one of the things I liked most about Alternative Right when it first launched was that it was the most modern and aesthetically accomplished website of its kind. Another thing I liked was the fact that it was driven largely by a dynamic crop of younger writers, whose articles appeared alongside those of experienced professional academics and authors, like Paul Gottfried, Kevin MacDonald, Derek Turner, to name but a few. The liveliness of the website and its continuously growing readership over the past year attest to its winning formula. And I am sure many of our political enemies are exasperated—even if they try not to say it—by the fact that our camp is capable of presenting its arguments in an elegant, vibrant, and intelligent fashion.

We live in a society unique for its velocity. Constant upgrades and innovation—technological, intellectual, aesthetic, lexical, informational—are key to survival in our ever more crowded, ruthless, and intensely competitive world. To remain relevant, to attract readers, and to be taken seriously, we have to both be and look as good or better than the competition. We cannot afford for those who are behind to catch up with us, and we cannot afford those who are in front to leave us so far behind that we are not taken seriously anymore. This means we must ensure we have the means to update the website’s design, update the software, add new features, add new modules, improve functionality, improve content, and upgrade servers, so that the website can cope adequately both with its steadily growing traffic and the occasional spike. This also means we must ensure that we can continue to attract both new and recognised talent.

One of my stated aims as an editor has been to make inroads into the mainstream. By making inroads I mean making more of the many frustrated citizens who look for an alternative aware that we exist, and that they will find here not only discussions, analyses, and information they will not find in the establishment’s media, but an edgy, serious, and professional website. The latter is essential if the former is to succeed, as obvious visual and intellectual excellence makes new readers more likely to share a link or recommend the website to a friend. Moreover, because people are sensitive to status, a website with obvious status markers exasperates the Left, who hate the idea of other people taking pride in rejecting their ideology. On the internet, status is displayed through sophisticated design, language, and technology.

Related to this is the need to offer professional and business opportunities outside of the dictats of political correctness. If we want to see more from authors and publishers who do not sell out to the system of White disprivilegement; if we want to make it possible for others to join them; and if we want new, talented writers not to feel they have to sell out in order have successful and remunerative careers, it is up to us to make it materially possible. Realistic career prospects are necessary if we are to reverse the brain-drain that has been engineered by the Left in its efforts to simulate legitimacy and outthink its opponents: without such prospects, our ability to recruit men of real talent and ambition will be limited.

One of the biggest factors preventing frustrated citizens from publicly and visibly speaking out against immigration and multiracialism in Western societies is the threat of economic sanctions—the fear that they will lose their jobs and therefore lose their markers of social status as a result of a politically incorrect remark or attitude. Indeed, economic sanctions is one of the establishment’s most commonly used tools to maintain submission. If we are able to offer legitimate professional and business opportunities outside the politically correct economy we can rob that tool of its effectiveness. In the media age, educating and opinion-making via the internet, such as we do here at Alternative Right, play a vital role in this process.

Richard and I understand that donors like to know that their money will have concrete and measurable results. What are, then, our plans for Alternative Right in the coming months?

One of them is a dedicated reviews section, covering books, the arts, and entertainment; this searchable tool will help many readers decode the perfidy of modern culture, high and low, as well as alert them to what is worth supporting. People are generally very engaged with popular culture, which, as we know, contains an ideological message but which is also consumed uncritically as entertainment; therefore, while it may be unpalatable to many of us, we have to ensure our perspective on what is being fed to the public is out there, turning up frequently in Google searches and landing readers on this website.

Another plan is to make Alternative Right iPhone friendly. This will enable mobile users to access Alternative Right’s content in an easy-to-navigate format. This is also a status marker, which reflects positively on the website, as it projects conscientious and technologically savvy design and development.

Yet another plan is for donors to have access to a private forum, where they will be able to interact with the authors of Alternative Right, participate in scheduled Q & A sessions, and get the inside scoop on events and developments relating to this website, its editors, and contributors. This will enable us better to connect and strategise.

This is for starters. We have numerous plans and ideas beyond these. The idea is for Alternative Right to converge technically with, and eventually surpass, the most advanced mainstream websites, and for it to provide more and even better content in the radical traditionalist mould. The more active we can be, the more material we can get out there, the higher the quality of our content and presentation, the more we will be able to build a wide and discerning readership, and the more we will be able to offer a like-for-like alternative perspective on what is pumped out by the present media, political, and academic establishment. Remember: revolutions begin with scribbles, so what we do, our opinion making here on the internet, impacts on attitudes and behaviour out there in the real world. By gradually showing the young, educated, professional classes and university students that they are not alone, that there are many other young, educated, professionals who share their frustrations with the establishment and its tired system, we can gradually drain the Left of brains, funding, and expertise—and also have some fun in the process. We have to get to the stage where it is embarrassing for ordinary citizens to say that they support the ideas of the Left—where Leftism is considered stupid, boring, and déclasé.

$9,000 is a small sum in the greater scheme of things. The Left, the neo-cons, would love to know that we cannot raise even that small sum from our tens of thousands of readers. Every hour that the thermometer on the right stays still is an hour that our enemies are smiling, their ovoid heads filled with smugness and self-importance. Gentlemen like Tim Wise, who only some months ago, blogged to tell us we are engaged in a battle the meaning of which we do not remotely understand,

Because you’re on the endangered list.

And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.

In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Opie-Taylor-Down-at-the-Fishing Hole cornpone bullshit that you hold so near and dear to your heart.

There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them, and so therefore, we’ll be able to teach about them accurately and honestly, without hurting your precious feelings, or those of the so-called “greatest generation” -- a bunch whose white members were by and large a gaggle of miscreants who helped save the world from fascism only to return home and oppose the ending of it here, by doing nothing to lift a finger on behalf of the civil rights struggle.

So to hell with you and all who revere you.

By then, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Nothing, Senõr Tancredo.

Nothing, Senõra Angle, or Senõra Brewer, or Senõr Beck.

Loy tiene muy mal, hijo de Puta.

And

You will have gone all in as a white nationalist movement—hell you’ve all but done that now—thus guaranteeing that the folks of color, and even a decent size minority of us white folks will be able to crush you, election after election, from the Presidency on down to the 8th grade student council.

If you care to wipe the smile off his face, if you care to see him rage in his little office, if you care to crush his hate-filled visions of White fear and capitulation, make that thermometer on the right explode—today,—right now; push the mercury skywards, don’t let it stop, and turn up the heat in Tim’s fevered brain—give him a pounding headache and then rattle his cage until he screams. Let him see that we will not suffer his taunts in silence; that when we’re bitten, we bite back, harder and deeper than his ilk ever dared; that we will continue to push forward and upwards, fearless and relentless, and that nothing will stop us—not now, not ever.

I wish AltRight readers all the best in the New Year—may your victories be glorious and may your enemies retreat in shame and humiliation!

Fundraising is definitely not my favorite activity—but it’s a necessary one.

Alex and I—and, I presume, all AltRight writers—don’t do it for the money. And that’s a good thing, of course, because opinion making isn’t particularly lucrative, especially when you’re on the lunatic fringe. And we’d all probably continue to scribble even if confined to the poor house or some SPLC sensitivity center.

But if you take the time to read AltRight everyday, you recognize the importance of the existence of a site like this—one that’s edited, attractive, and professional; one that brings together established writers—like Paul Gottfried, Peter Brimelow, James Kalb, Kevin MacDonald, and Christian Kopff—as well as young voices that are getting published for the first time; and, most of all, one that articulates the unspeakable in today’s stifling politically correct environment.

Before embarking on a new year, it's worth revisiting some of the intellectual ground we covered during AltRight's inaugural 10 months. I wouldn't call what follows a "Top 10" list, since I definitely left out some gems -- and especially since it includes more than 10 items -- but the catalogue is representative of the breadth of our ongoing discussion at AlternativeRight.com. And each of these pieces is worth re-reading.    

• Why I’m a Pagan – Stephen McNallen, March 25

• Paper Tiger – Colin Liddell, April 19

• Wanted: Something to Dream – Alex Kurtagic, April 30

• Rape of Europa – Mark Hackard, July 22

• Social Class (lower, working, upper middle, and upper) – Scott Locklin, July 21 - August 25

• The IQ Allergy – Bruce Charlton, September 14

• Carnival of Repentance – Elizabeth Wright, September 18

• How To Win – The Whistleblower, September 21

• Carl Schmitt (part I, II, III, IV) – Keith Preston, August 27 - September 29

• PC: The Cultural Antichrist – James Kalb, October 24

• White America’s Last Bender – James Kirkpatrick, November 4

• How the Left Won the Cold War – Paul E. Gottfried, November 5

• The Wilders Syndrome – Kevin MacDonald, December 27

I encourage readers to create lists of their favorite AltRight pieces in the comments section. 

All the best in 2011! 

It’s with great pleasure that I announce that beginning in January, Alex Kurtagic will join AlternativeRight.com as my partner and co-editor. Alex is, of course, no stranger to AltRight readers, as his articles have been defining documents for the webzine’s image (not to mention some of the most widely read pieces over the past year.) Alex has an ability to write perceptively on a wide variety of issues, including culture, politics, ideology, and economics—not to mention the subject for which he’s probably best known, Black Metal. Alex is an entrepreneur, publisher, producer, and novelist, and I’m very pleased to now call him my colleague.

I’ve long thought it important for the alt right (writ large) to not only give “our take” on the passing news items of the day but to—more radically—develop a culture and meta-politics of our own. Few are as well suited to this task as Alex.

I trust that Alex will be a welcome addition for AltRight readers. I trust as well that you will appreciate the importance of supporting our fundraising campaign. Alex, myself—and everyone else who writes for AltRight—don’t do it to get rich. But put simply, this website needs money to survive.

According to GoogleAnalytics, we have thousands and thousands of readers who log on to AlternativeRight.com some 100 times per year (!). Why don’t all of our most dedicated readers contribute what you’d otherwise spend on a night out drinking, your monthly cable bill, or a trip to the movie theater and push us over the top. We could soon be done with all this unpleasant fundraising business and all take a sigh of relief!

Since its inception, AltRight has used PayPal.com to take online donations. PayPal, which is currently weathering cyber-attacks by the partisans of Julian Assange, is a useful service, and it certainly saves me hours in processing time.   

That said, PayPal charges a fee for every transaction, and with large donations, it can be a big sum.

So, if you're making a small donation, or are in a hurry, or would like make a recurring contribution, PayPal is your best bet. 

But if you'd like to make a substantial contribution, a check would be much appreciated.

All checks should be made out to "Alternative Right" and mailed to: