At her new Instagram account, Isabel Peralta yesterday replied to questions sent in by readers.
Q: Do you think we should start an armed movement?
A: If qui tacet consentire videtur, then I shall remain silent
Q: Would you be a monarchist if we had a king like Luis Alfonso de Borbón? Or an anti-monarchist?
[Editor’s note: Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, is the Bourbon dynasty’s claimant to the throne of France. He is known for conservative political views and connections to the ‘right-wing’ Spanish party Vox.]
A: I believe the monarchy was the driving force behind the great missions carried out by Spain. I believe the crown of Charles I shone as imposingly as the sun. I believe the monarchy steered the nation toward the attainment of the most exalted moments in history. But I also believe that, today, the monarchy is a vestigial institution. I believe it has died with the subtlety of leaves falling in autumn—without a sound, and with no one willing to defend it. Because the engine of history requires a constant renewal of its motive force, and the monarchy has become sterile. Spain today does not need anachronistic institutions. It needs a leader.
Q: What are your thoughts on the aesthetic poverty of National Socialism in today’s Spain?
A: I firmly agree with Nietzsche when he asserted that what is ugly cannot be Greek. I believe that our movement’s ultimate goal is the creation of a state of the highest culture, built upon the pillars of virtue and excellence. Disorder and vulgarity are merely symptoms of a decadent society – of a people standing on the verge of disintegration. Unfortunately, we see this constantly within our own movements. This is not because National Socialism has lost the criteria and the aristocratic orientation that govern its principles, but rather because those who proclaim themselves National Socialists are, in fact, the product of persistent anti-NS propaganda – and are, therefore, essentially opposed to our worldview.
Q: Are you happy?
A: Clearly, I am not happy. But what is nobler in the mind – to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Europe is dying. The noblest blood, the most brilliant minds – they are rotting in the sun today, like a corpse. For many people, a good job, a lovely family, and a getaway during long weekends are enough. For us, that is not enough. I do not wish to survive in a world without Europe.
The hedonistic discourse – which preaches that the ultimate goal of life is happiness – cannot reach the minds of those who live for honour. Happiness is entirely secondary, purely circumstantial; and if it is attained at the cost of abandoning one’s honor, it strikes me as the most repugnant of all sensations.
Per ardua ad astra!
Q: What books do you recommend reading?
A: The International Jew (Henry Ford)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Gott und Volk (published as an ideological handbook for German soldiers in 1941 and translated into Spanish as Dios y Raza)
Manifesto on the Abolition of the Shackles of Interest (Gottfried Feder)
The Myth of the Twentieth Century (Alfred Rosenberg)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Antichrist (Nietzsche)
Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia (’Short Works on Nature’)
Sparta and Its Law (Eduardo Velasco)
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (Stephen Mitford Goodson)
El orden del ser (an anthology of the philosophical thought of St Thomas Aquinas, published in Spanish in 2003)
Q: Why is there so much hatred directed toward poor foreigners, but not toward the wealthy? Just a simple question.
A: We do not act out of hatred. Hating any race is foolish, as it runs counter to the rich diversity of natural law. Our rejection of an invasion and the displacement of our identity is, in fact, an expression of love for our homeland and our own identity. Immigration among the poor naturally creates more visible, superficial problems – such as the collapse of public services, a reliance on the welfare system, the degradation of the neighbourhoods where they settle, and, in some instances, an increase in crime. For these reasons, they provoke a much stronger rejection than immigrants who arrive with financial means – those capable of settling in an orderly fashion and contributing to public finances rather than living as parasites upon them. Even so, immigration is only beneficial if it is temporary and based on employment – that is, if individuals arrive with a work visa that grants them only the rights and obligations inherent to the dignity of labour.
Q: Which is your favourite painting?
A: Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David, conveying the spirit of the common good above the individual, and the fatherland above one’s own life.
This work captures the tragedy that engulfed the two noblest families of Rome and Alba Longa, when both cities sought to avoid war and systematic bloodshed through a fight to the death between the three Horatii and Curiatii brothers – men bound by strong civic ties. Nevertheless, both lineages were able to set aside their own private interests and commit themselves to combat, driven by the dictates of blood.
Q: What would be your first course of action if you were leading Spain with a substantial absolute majority?
A: I would strengthen the military through a two-phase structural plan: first, by purchasing existing, readily available systems; second, by establishing public or state-owned enterprises to produce drones, sensors, ammunition, and more. I would invest in technological development and professional training, while simultaneously purging the current ranks of political operatives and parasitic elements.
- I would dissolve the Cortes (parliament) and prosecute politicians who are corrupt or have betrayed the nation’s interests.
- I would enact legislation to punish usurious practices with the most severe penalties allowed under the penal code. I would prohibit private banks from charging interest rates that do not strictly account for inflation. Concurrently, I would establish a national bank with the authority to issue credit and mortgages.
- I would create public construction companies, positioning the state as a primary developer in the construction sector. I would provide financing to private firms and offer tax incentives to facilitate construction. Acting as the developer for up to 60% of all projects, the state would reclaim land and properties currently held by investment funds, and would take over construction projects that have been left stalled for more than a decade.
- I would gradually abolish the public debt.
- I would implement a multi-generational remigration plan and enforce a total closure of the borders.
- I would invest in positioning Spain’s public universities at the global forefront of scientific, technical, and artistic advancement.
(But they would declare war on me, and later, they would accuse me of committing a massive genocide.)
