I remember someone wrote this on a debate group. ''But if the family is thought of in naturalistic terms, or in the terms in which it presents itself today, the generating principle of the properly political communities must be traced to a context that is very different from the one typical of the family: it must be traced to the plane of the so-called Mannerbunde.
Among several primitive societies, the individual, up to a certain age, being regarded as a merely natural being, was entrusted to the family and to maternal tutelage, since everything related to the maternal, physical aspect of existence fell under the maternal-feminine aegis. However, at a certain point what happened, or better, what could happen, was a change of nature and status. Special rites, known as "rites of passage," which were often preceded by a period of detachment and isolation, and which were accompanied by harsh trials, generated a new being according to a scheme of "death and rebirth" who alone could be regarded as a "man." In fact, prior to this initiation, the member of the group, no matter what his age, was believed to belong to the same category that in-cluded women, children, and animals. Once the transformation occurred, the individual was incorporated into the Mannerbund. It was this Mannerbund, in which the qualification of "man" had simultaneously an initiatory (i.e., sacred) and a warrior meaning, that wielded the power in the social group or clan. This Mannerbund was characterized by special tasks and responsibilities; it was different from all other societies to which other members of the tribe belonged.
In this primordial scheme we find the fundamental "categories" differentiating the political order from the "social" order. First among these is a special chrism—namely, that proper to "man" in the higher sense of the word (vir was the term employed in Roman times) and not merely of a generic ****: this condition is marked by a spiritual breakthrough and by detachment from the naturalistic and vegetative plane. Its integration is power, the principle of command belonging to the Mannerbund... without an initiatory or sacred background, there no longer is a State or a political class in the specific, traditional sense'' ~Julius Evola, Men Among Ruins.
Fascists take the Mannerbund instrumentally in that the men in question in a society get to together and threaten upheaval and persecution of subversive groups in order to get them to stop doing doing what they are doing e.g if they are believed to be attacking the culture, the national interests, health and wellbeing of the dominant ethnic group, economic or political system. If these groups don't stop then the Mannerbund takes action and removes the enemies in question. The Mannerbund then take their role as the protectors of that society and establish a political system to support their role. Clearly for the fascists the Mannerbund is more political goal-oriented, while the former in its origin is spiritual or traditional that marks mans ascendance to higher political order - understanding and action through unique duties & responsibilities upon that awareness of their spiritual & masculine nature.
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