Well the short answer to the question “is any political or ideological movement Christian?” is quite simple. It is not. We should preach Christ crucified, and Christ alone. However, we need to be able to analyze the lies of this age.
I had an example on my watchlist from someone who is indeed Catholic but is no Anarchist. He is an old fashioned Tory: he believes in Authority, and in the structure of old Christendom. Which I have some sympathy for — but this system was destroyed during the wars of the sixteenth century, and the rise of Parliamentary rule, self rule. My instincts are not papist, but puritan: I tend to sympathize with the Roundheads, not the Cavaliers.
But Anarchopapist is correct. Those who claim to be the successors of the Roundheads, those who claim to be progressive, are now acting as if they are Hapsburg Bishops, with the office of the inquisitor at their right hand.
One of the key strengths of neoreaction is its fundamental premise of deconstructing how Progressive memetics operate. Progressive memetics operate primarily through a holier-than-thou dynamic, wedded to an egalitarian eschatology which hijacks social syntropy for the purpose of immanentizing the eschaton. Any who would tend to sway from assisting this project of apocalypse are in turn pwned, rendered useless or even harmful to the cause of rightism. Neoreaction has produced an antidote to this pwning effect, primarily by shedding the desire to gain moral status by how he chooses to associate. Freed of the need to impress Progressive superiors, he can begin to accurately chart reality without obscurantist fudges of dissociation from the source material.
Progressivism is a kind of prison, but even though an effective prison by tapping into base human desire, no prison built by lies can prevent exit in the long run. And once one prisoner is freed, it isn’t hard to give directions to the others who wish to be free. What are the prison guards to do? The possibility of exit from the paradigm discovered by neoreaction simultaneously disempowers their chosen weapons of control. The most they can do is try to reassure each other that the leave of the brightest from their system means nothing, and given they have a proven resistance to slaps in the face from reality, this can play into the hands of neoreactionaries.
The very attempt to inoculate society against neoreaction by the Cathedral must necessarily propagate the memeplex. It is a given that any attempts at refuting will be woefully beside the point, dominated by appeals to the bells which used to make the dog salivate. Those who take comfort in seeing us denounced were never worth trying to convert, and any who allow neoreaction to speak in its own voice are engaged by the territory. What to make of the ascent to reality? From Progressivism, there are two fates open. The first is the Lovecraftian vision of madness which dawns at the horror of perceiving the universe’s inhumanity; the second is Baconian, seeking if not to master Nature, at least to know how to appease her. Either way, an understanding of neoreaction begins with understanding how it frees itself from the Progressive idols of egalitarianism and universalism.
Excluding the language, there is some truth there. The ideology of egalitarianism is not reality: nor is it the places where we are equal. For we are not born equal, we do not live equal, but we find equality in the grave, and at the judgment seat before our God.
And our God is merciful. As Moses wanted all Israel to be prophets, so in Christ have the divisions between us become to be broken. We should worship as one. But in this world we will not be equal.
16So the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you. 17I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.
24So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. 25Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.
26Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!” 29But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!”
11So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision” – a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands – 12remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. 15He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 17So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; 18for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.
Joshua made an error here, and Moses corrected him. It was not the structure and the place that mattered, but that these seventy elders were chosen, and therefore they prophesied where they were. In the camp our outside the camp. Moses cared not: he wanted to share God and his word with all. The divisions that had been made by the structure of the tribal camps did not matter.
Paul was preaching to a bunch of Christians from two diametrically opposed cultures. The Jews had rebelled against their Macedonian rulers in the Maccabean wars: they stood apart from the Greco-Roman culture of society. They saw Greeks as degenerates. On a good day. Now half the congregation is greek. But Paul teaches them they are equal. Despite the culture: despite the fact that half of them were probably slaves: despite the fact many were women and many were men.
He said that there should be no divisions. That before Christ we will be equal. Equal in need of mercy: equally in need of the cross. As with Moses, his theology was driving his teaching.
But in this world we are not equal. We have different roles: as a man I cannot bear or nurse a child, but I can and do lift weights that mass more than most women. And I left my peak strength behind decades ago. Our talents and abilities are not equal: they are widely distributed.
And those who preach equality generally do not practice it: from the tribunes of the plebeians through the revolutionaries to the nomenklatura and the current academic elite that make up the modern cathedral the actions of the elite are not those they preach to the rest of us so that we will be equally dependant on them.
If neo-reaction is not Christian but a useful tool for analysis, then progressivism is worse: it actively opposes Christianity and refuses to remain but a useful tool for analysis.
And there lies the use of neo-reaction. It lays bare the heresy of this age: the elite want to be as God and obtain the worship of the masses. The religion of this age is the same as in the time of Stalin: the cult of personality.
Alinsky, in dedicating Rules for Radicals to Satan, did not comprehend that he would fall into that error: of demanding the worship that God alone has. For finally, in any confrontation with the living and righteous God, we are left with an overwhelming terror and awareness of just how grubby and evil we are. We therefore no longer plead for justice, but confessing our wrong, request mercy.