1. The absolute misfortune of so many peoples fallen beneath the fearful yoke of communism, the multiplication of infernos of war and of civil war, the social unrest generated by an economy that is always disrupted, should be a warning to our contemporaries of the threat hanging over them. Yet it seemingly takes no account of this threat and blindly advances towards the abyss. The reason for this is simple. All its collective organs of reflection and decision are pledged to the capitalo-socialist system, which prevents it from grasping the situation and reacting accordingly.
2. Whom should we count on for a popular and liberating counter-revolution? Should we count on those who are excluded from the “legal country”, those who are its opponents and rebels? At the beginning of the 1980s, there existed both a revolutionary extreme left exasperated by capitalist oppression but refusing to enrol in the socialist movement and a conservative and national right, avid for just freedom and initiative, protesting against the stranglehold of a bureaucratic State, and against the stifling of free enterprise. Above all, there still existed a legitimist right, the only one free of all prior allegiance, the only one aware of the real economic and political oppressions, and the only one armed with a doctrine of restoration. Today, we are forced to admit that there is no longer any elite, which is endowed with a certain power, capable of overthrowing the capitalist system.
3. The counter-revolution demanded by the present time will thus result from the collapse of the impious present-day world and from the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who will also incline hearts and minds to return to the Catholic Truth in all its aspects. Fascinated by the power of the Immaculate, freed from the grip of Money, the people themselves, instinctively avid in their natural communities for freedom, property, and responsibility, will aspire to resume their legitimate economic powers by breaking the stranglehold of the capitalo-socialist State.
4. Nevertheless, there will be no true restoration of order without a counter-revolution or a national revolution, i.e. without the overturning of oppressive social groups and institutions under cover of a tremendous economic crisis accompanied by a political vacuum or by violent discontent among the people. This nationalist reaction could be triggered by statesmen already in power, by means of a military coup d’état or finally by the coming to power of a “charismatic” politician, capable of assuming the destiny of the nation. Obviously, the ideal would be the providential restoration of royal authority as soon as possible.
5. The national revolution will consist in evicting from economic and political power, occult and oppressive synarchic organisations, whether they be those of high finance, big industry, parties or their syndical offshoots. It ought to be carried out, however, without a spirit of revenge, without “purges”, and without class warfare. It should in no way touch or disturb the daily life of the people. Rather it must annihilate and ban the ideologies that were the mental and moral support of oppression, whilst opposing and proudly replacing them with the key ideas, the holy and wholesome laws, of our true Catholic and French popular tradition.
Then the nation’s economic forces will be generally mobilised. All skills will be turned to good account and will be re-employed, no longer for partisan ends, but in the general interest. In a climate of honest freedom, a long period of peace will begin when the natural communities and their spontaneous economic organisations can slowly be reconstituted.
1. There is no social revolution that is not national. There is no national revolution without the radical destruction of the atheist, materialist and decadent philosophies of capitalist liberalism and of democratic socialism. They are responsible for the lure of profit, the worship of money, and the frenzy for immediate and self-centred pleasure, resulting in the degenerateness of the race, the scourges of a low birth-rate and of immorality. Thus, no national revolution will take place unless the Church casts aside her Modernism and liberalism. For she alone has the power to denounce the crime of these false philosophies and to oppose them with the true doctrine, while giving the grace that will incline hearts to undertaking the efforts needed for the national recovery.
2. Given that, on the one hand, a national revolution supposes the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, and on the other hand, God gives us « life, movement and being », given that His Providence disposes the temporal goods needed for the nation’s prosperity and only gives peace to the human societies that are subjected to His Law, a national revolution will only succeed if it obeys St. Joan of Arc’s maxim: « God served first ». It can only be carried out in the name of the lone doctrine of fraternity that was traditional and familiar to us, that of the one true religious faith, proclaimed as the religion of the nation: the Roman Catholic religion.
Nevertheless, unless there is a miracle, which is indeed possible, this return to the Catholic religion will not be carried out by a decree within a few days. It will be a long work, which might last several generations. Thus, a certain tolerance will be necessary towards those who still are rebellious to the Catholic Faith, provided that they do not harm the national recovery. Little by little, as the age-old social fabric reconstitutes itself, far removed from the prestige of Money and the conflicts it provokes, a social climate very favourable to conversions will be created.
3. Since, however, the national restoration can only come about through a miracle even more dazzling than that whereby Saint Joan of Arc delivered Orleans and conducted the king to Rheims for his anointing, acts of thanksgiving will inevitably spring forth from the mouth of all true Frenchmen. It follows that, without awaiting everyone’s conversion, our God and the Immaculate Conception, Mother of us all, will be publicly and legally recognised and honoured by public liturgies on Their feast days, by the observance of divine law and Sunday rest.
4. Faith in divine Providence will impregnate the whole of temporal life. Manifested by prayer, it will give to the new ecology its surest law, and to its natural prudence a superior guarantee. Thus our people will recover the sense of reality, of the possible and of the desirable, as opposed to the illusory utopia, the subversive criticism, the belief in an all-providing welfare state and its demagogy, abusive claims and social parasitism. The « return to reality » marks the exact measure of fundamental human virtue, which is humility, but it is only our trust in God, who is love, that gives it its incontestable nobility.
5. The legitimacy of authorities, the solidity of communities, the honesty and fidelity of contracts, and consequently the whole complex and happy sum of reciprocal rights and duties between persons, will thus find their solid support in the nation’s Catholic faith, the keystone of France’s order, both old and new.
For a national community the essential bond of which is the true religion, there is no need for any materialist, gnostic or racist « mystique ». France is not a goddess, neither is the State a god, nor any man an absolute. The goal and the centre of everything is not economics, politics or humanity, it is God! That is what simplifies, pacifies and quietens life.
1. The national community, in all its natural circles, welcomes, educates and protects its members, in the first place out of pure natural generosity, then in accordance with this « immense reciprocity of services » (Mgr Freppel) where each one’s rights and duties are spontaneously determined, without too much egalitarian calculation, for the greatest good of all, account being taken of the recognised supernatural vocation of each person and of the service required of him by the nation.
2. The law of work is sacred: « In the sweat of your brow shall you earn your bread. » Consequently, every duty fulfilled, all honest work, any service, becomes a source of merit and of right. Work and social service are protected, that is to say aided and favoured, and guaranteed as far as possible by the public authority, because they are the first and principal source of wealth, honour and authority in the nation, in contrast to speculation, intrigue and favouritism.
This law of work and of social service forbids the parasitism of rich and poor alike. It forbids claims to rights without duties and the excesses of a degrading social welfare system.
3. The charitable services needed by the national community will be created by the Church and by individual initiatives. « You are all brothers, you all have but one Father », Jesus Christ taught. Our common Father is not the State, but God. Of course, as an exception, the State provisionally making up for a lack of spontaneous devotion, may act, but these charitable services will fall to a great extent to the local and professional communities in direct contact with the hardships to be relieved, such as: the welcoming of immigrants, the reclassification of marginalised people, assistance for the unemployed, aid for the poor, and generally every possible care for those who have fallen through the net of the social fabric and are thereby deprived of all help.
For « the poor you will have always with you » and, perhaps you too will be one of those poor people who ask for help. It is for each to do to others as he would have done to himself in a similar distress, not out of justice nor for political reasons, but through charity.
The national Revolution will have to be strong and rigorous in its censure and repression of subversive intrigues, at the three levels of « anonymous and vagabond fortune », of intelligence and guerrilla warfare. « No liberty for the enemies of liberty », such is the totalitarian axiom that can and must be turned against its inventors. It is the proclamation of democratic freedom that brought about the enslaving of the nation by means of unjust powers. The return of the nation’s freedom involves, therefore, a solid protection established by the legitimate authority and guaranteed by force.
1. Anonymous and vagabond fortune is the main principle of all disorder and of all subversion, because it works for itself, for its perpetual and endless increase. With this aim in mind, its possessors conspire together to form secret societies, economic commissions and seemingly philanthropic groups, by means of which they dominate social life, buy consciences, corrupt thought, guide public opinion, and ultimately procure weapons for the misguided to go and destroy all that is opposed to their domination.
In order to thwart this hidden and corruptive power, it would be quite useless for the democratic State to seize hold of wealth. It would only substitute itself for the financial powers and impose the totalitarianism of the party and of the party men in power.
Thus, it will be necessary to outlaw not fortune but its anonymity and its irresponsible speculation. Likewise, secret societies and their philanthropic or cultural offshoots, as well as political parties and their syndical branches, will have to be outlawed. Foreign gold will have to be the object of particular vigilance, because France is not for sale, its soul even less than its goods.
2. Intelligence has become, in our plutocratic world, a slave to money through thousands of channels: the press, publishing, radio-television and Internet. This is particularly so with the invasion of advertising into every channel of information and into the whole of public life, intellectual and artistic.
It would be useless for the socialist State to take control of publishing, the press and television, because that would only aggravate the slavery of intelligence, which would be recognised and supported only in so far as it serves and flatters the party.
The new order will procure for the intellectual world a security and a corporative manner of prosperity that will free it from plutocratic and socialist slavery. The honesty of information will be particularly guaranteed. Any return of finance and of industry into the world of the press and of information will be closely watched and severely judged, just as all degrading control by ideologies and parties will be brought to an end.
3. Terrorism will be harshly and immediately repressed by courts and a police especially conceived for this form of conflict, according to adapted procedure. It, however, will be the purveyors of money and weapons who will be the principal ones to be tracked down. Once unmasked, there possessions will be confiscated. Their money and property will serve to relieve the nation’s widows and orphans. For the fact is that every guerrilla war is the cruel instrument of powerful financial backers, whose economic and political aims have nothing in common with the people’s freedom and happiness.
The wretched terrorist agents will be sanctioned as is fitting, in the hope of their amendment, but their much higher masters will be ruthlessly punished, so that high financiers, party men and shady agents in foreign pay will relinquish the habit of extending their power over the earth in the blood and tears of innocent victims.
The repression of the subversive intrigues of anonymous and vagabond fortune, of the media and of terrorism, will aid the restoration of the authority of the State and consequently will bring about a return of confidence at the heart of the national community.
1. It will not be totalitarianism, primarily because the plutocracy in this country only represents a tiny minority, who will suffer no great harm anyway. This minority will be obliged to give up its unjust speculations and its manoeuvres for world domination. Thus corrected, this financial and business minority will be protected against itself, and its abilities and activities will be useful to the country.
As for the parties, they will no longer exist, having no further raison d’être. It will be the end of their ideological, financial and administrative oppression. The members of the republican legal country will have to join the ranks of the real country, and if they wish to work for the common good, they will have to place their aptitudes and ambitions at the service of the national State.
2. It will not be an intellectual totalitarianism; on the contrary, it will be deliverance from the current totalitarianism of error, absurdity and impiety. It will be sufficient to ensure total freedom to the truth and to suppress the voluntary spread of atheist materialism, of error and lie, of slander and defamation, so that freedom of thought may once more be a good and salutary thing.
The Catholic Church, in fact, does not impose her Creed through coercion. On the contrary, she forbids the forcing of souls and of consciences. Deprived of all social rights, error and evil will certainly be repressed when they constitute an aggression, a provocation or an unjust seduction for the Christian people for, in that case, they would be seriously damaging to human and divine order. They can, however, be objects of tolerance on the part of the public and even of the religious authorities, if they are the cause of no social harm. In many cases this tolerance seems to be preferable for the good of peace and as an expression of fraternal charity.
3. Nor will it be a police totalitarianism, because the end of extortion, at whatever level, is an absolute good for the people. The shock of the necessary rigours will only be harshly felt by the small number of criminals and by those oligarchies unknown or detested by the majority. The effect of security, honesty and peace, however, is universal. Thus, the sense of human community will be reborn and the activity of the human community will be resumed under a thousand forms wherever fraternity is the rule. For it is more prudent, more expedient and more refreshing to be wise rather than mad, to be an honest man rather than a thief, to be generous rather than disagreeable, quarrelsome, ambitious and violent.
Once this salubrious work is done, the « convivial society » will recover of its own accord.
For the restoration of Catholic ecology to be done in full, it will therefore be necessary for the Church to cast aside her apostasy by means of a Counter-Reformation and for the State’s sovereign authority to be restored independently of capitalist powers. These two conditions themselves suppose the prior triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We, however, must not wait until these conditions are fulfilled to work towards it, for two reasons:
1. The national revolution will answer the aspiration of the people suffering from the baneful consequences of capitalism. The more “pockets of Christianity” that exist, where Catholic ecology is already practised within the limited freedom that is left, the more models people will have before their eyes that will fuel their criticism of the capitalist system and dispose them towards major reforms.
2. The measures to be taken for the national revolution must be prepared. They can only be effected by intellectual groups free of all attachment to these ruling and dominating classes, who have to be unmasked and denounced before they can be overturned. Therefore, it is necessary to denounce them while they still hold in their hands money, political and coercive power, the means of information, party and trade union systems.
For this, a heroic Phalange is needed. Since it is necessary to effect the revolution cleanly – without allowing the liberating movement to deviate towards objectives of no importance or of calculated diversion, such as the progressivist clergy, the conservative bourgeoisie, the immigrants – there will need to be a wise Phalange. The prodigious marvel of a successful liberation, however, merits great effort and the utmost discretion!
3. Even now, a true social, Catholic and national action must therefore be implemented. Its long-term mission will be to « restore natural harmony among patrons and workers in enterprises and to create systems of agreements that will have immediate results. These peaceful havens will prepare the vast and rich system of national economy, with which a new legitimate State will endow the country. » (Amicus)