A Review Of Myatt's Mythos of Vindex

David Myatt's tract The Mythos of Vindex - nally published in its entirety
this year {1} - is something of a hybrid text; a rather strange mixture of pro
National Socialist sentiment together with polemics not only directed at the
things - such as the State - that made National Socialist Germany what it was
and might have been had the Axis won the Second World War, but also
directed at the things that made the West what it is now: to wit colonialism,
industry, and technology.
For it is as if the author is torn between two weltanschauungen, as well he
might have been given the date of its composition (1998-1999) and the dates
of its revision (2002-2005). For the years 1998 to 1999 marked Myatt's
transition from a neo-nazi to a Muslim, while 2002 to 2005 were dominated
by his travels in the Muslim world, his overt support for Osama bin Laden,
the Taliban, and Hamas, and of course his strategy to bring neo-nazis and
radical Muslims together to ght their 'common enemy'. For the tract reads
as if it was originally intended for a specic audience - neo-nazis and those
belonging to neo-vlkisch groups - but with Myatt trying to oer something
for his Muslim readers; hence perhaps the passages about the colonialism of
the 'White hordes' (which are basically polemics directed at those foreign
devils), his mention of the treatment of Muslims by those foreign devils, and
his praise of the Mujahideen and of Mullah Omar.
There are also several apparent discrepancies in the text. For instance
regarding the British Empire with Myatt dividing that Empire somewhat
simplistically into 'the old Empire' (before the Victorian era, which began in
1837) and a later Empire, writing that "the true, respectful, civilizing mission
of [the British] Empire gave way to a brute Imperialism based upon nancial
gain." The old Empire he admires, the later one he lambastes even though he
goes on to write that "to make the world truely civilized we need another
Empire, created and maintained by honourable, idealistic people, who look to
the examples of the Roman, the Islamic and British Empires for inspiration."

Perhaps he should have written 'original British' rather than just 'British'.
Another apparent discrepancy is his praise for the tribal way of life in
pre-colonial Africa which he says, without providing any dates, was
"ruthlessly destroyed" by those damn "foreign devils" (the White Hordes of
Homo Hubris) and yet he later writes, again without providing any dates, of
British administrators ending "the bribery and corruption of oicials which
was endemic" in India.
Such quibbles aside, the main problem I nd with the tract is that Myatt
eulogizes the clan and the tribe, and rural life in general, and yet states
several times that the fundamental aim of the new Imperium is the
colonization of Outer Space. But just how would a society or societies
composed of clans and tribes, and presumably a mostly rural way of life,
achieve that without industrial factories, large corporations manufacturing
technological products, large-scale - government sized - coordination and
administration, and scientic, university based, research funded by a
national-sized government which by necessity would have to tax its citizens
to pay for such research, such universities, and such a complex
administration? In addition, if prot was not the motive for such factories and
such corporations then surely the only other option would be government
funding, which leads one to enquire where and how would a government nd
the money? To pursue space-travel surely a prosperous and wealthy society a nation-Sate, or several nation-States cooperating with one another - and
thus a government or governments would be required. {2}
Which returns us to National Socialist Germany - a scientic and
technologically advanced society with a national government - and what
might such a society have achieved, in scientic and technological and social,
terms had it been victorious in the World War Two. Which naturally leads to
how National Socialist Germany came into being: through a political
movement gaining political power.
Perhaps Myatt envisaged his Vindexian clans and tribes ghting and
overthrowing a government and then forming a new government, for he does
write of Vindex as "a modern and successful guerilla leader who devises new
strategies and new tactics to defeat the armed forces of the Old Order," and
that "it seems increasingly likely that the rst battles in the coming war
against the forces of the Old Order will be urban ones and develope as a
natural consequence of some urban gang gaining practical control of certain
urban areas such that they become the eective and the visible forces of law
and order in those areas."
If that is indeed what he envisaged, as seems likely, then he perhaps should
have spelled it out, as he did in earlier tracts such as his Practical Guide To
Aryan Revolution in which he wrote about how to ferment chaos and
insurrection and wrote of a guerilla campaign lasting at least a decade.
All that being said, The Mythos of Vindex has the potential to inspire a new
generation of native Europeans who, seeing the failure over the past fty

years of right-wing political organization after right-wing political

organization in places such as Britain, desire a new way to ght 'the system'.
At the very least it contributes, in a positive way, to the debate about
neo-vlkisch groups and their aims regarding reviving ancestral traditions
and alternative ways of living.
R. Parker
May 2016

{1} Myatt's tract is currently [May 2016] available as a pdf document at

https://regardingdavidmyatt.les.wordpress.com/2016/05/myatt-mythosof-vindex-v1.pdf
{2} It has been brought to my attention (kudos to Pasi R and Scott L) that in
two articles, dating from around 2009, Myatt theorizes about how a society
based on clans might develop a new 'acausal' technology that, in his words,
does not depend on "the unethical the abstraction of the modern nation-State
and the un-numinous ways of living which go with such an abstraction," and
thus does not "involve large national or supra-national industries", and is not
"reliant upon the usury, and the supra-national trade and commerce, which
all modern States and nations depend upon."
Extracts from the two articles are available at
https://regardingdavidmyatt.wordpress.com/clans-spaceight-and-acausalenergy/