{"id":439,"date":"2026-10-15T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/?p=439"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:49:35","slug":"isabel-peralta-replies-to-readers-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/2026\/10\/15\/isabel-peralta-replies-to-readers-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabel Peralta replies to readers’ questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At her new Instagram account<\/a>, Isabel Peralta yesterday replied to questions sent in by readers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: Do you think we should start an armed movement?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: If qui tacet consentire videtur<\/em>, then I shall remain silent<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: Would you be a monarchist if we had a king like Luis Alfonso de Borb\u00f3n? Or an anti-monarchist?<\/strong>
[Editor’s note: Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, is the Bourbon dynasty\u2019s claimant to the throne of France. He is known for conservative political views and connections to the \u2018right-wing\u2019 Spanish party Vox.<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014without 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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: What are your thoughts on the aesthetic poverty of National Socialism in today\u2019s Spain?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: I firmly agree with Nietzsche when he asserted that what is ugly cannot be Greek. I believe that our movement\u2019s 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 and are, therefore, essentially opposed to our worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: Are you happy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Clearly, I am not happy. But what is nobler in the mind \u2013 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 which preaches that the ultimate goal of life is happiness \u2013 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\u2019s honor, it strikes me as the most repugnant of all sensations.
Per ardua ad astra<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: What books do you recommend reading?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: The International Jew<\/em> (Henry Ford)
The Merchant of Venice<\/em> (Shakespeare)
Gott und Volk<\/em> (published as an ideological handbook for German soldiers in 1941 and translated into Spanish as Dios y Raza<\/em>)
Manifesto on the Abolition of the Shackles of Interest<\/em> (Gottfried Feder)
The Myth of the Twentieth Century<\/em> (Alfred Rosenberg)
The Iliad<\/em> (Homer)
The Antichrist<\/em> (Nietzsche)
Aristotle\u2019s Parva Naturalia<\/em> (\u2019Short Works on Nature\u2019)
Sparta and Its Law<\/em> (Eduardo Velasco)
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind<\/em> (Stephen Mitford Goodson)
El orden del ser<\/em> (an anthology of the philosophical thought of St Thomas Aquinas, published in Spanish in 2003)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: Why is there so much hatred directed toward poor foreigners, but not toward the wealthy? Just a simple question.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2013 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 that is, if individuals arrive with a work visa that grants them only the rights and obligations inherent to the dignity of labour.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: Which is your favourite painting?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Oath of the Horatii<\/em>, by Jacques-Louis David, conveying the spirit of the common good above the individual, and the fatherland above one\u2019s 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n