Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

THE ROMAN EXAMPLE OF EUROPEAN THOUGHT

by Francesco Principi (important)

The claim that the Roman Empire was a legally sanctioned multiracial state is another common rhetorical figure used by cultural Marxists to create an image of the West as a civilization that has long worked to create a universal race humanity mixed. This is a lie to which the patriots of Western Civilization must not yield.

Rome’s greatest contribution to Western Civilization was the development of a formal-rational legal order characterized by the logical consistency of its laws, the precise classification of its different types of law, the precise definition of its terms, and its a process that leads to the formulation of specific rules in which questions were asked, various responses from jurists were collected, and coherent solutions were offered. It was a legal system engaged in judicial decisions based on impartiality and fairness for all citizens.

Basically what the Romans did was to apply Greek philosophy, in particular the Aristotelian inductive logic of moving from experience to certainty, putting together the common elements in the particular cases observed.

However, it would be a serious mistake to imagine Roman citizenship as a conscious effort by ethnic Romans to recognize the common humanity of all ethnic groups. First, the extension of citizenship was part of the process of Romanization, acculturation and integration of the peoples defeated in the empire; it had been conceived as a political measure to ensure the loyalty of the defeated peoples, and the acquisition of citizenship took place gradually, with the promise of further rights with greater assimilation; and, until the end, not all Roman citizens had the same rights, with the Romans and Italics in general enjoying a higher status.

Secondly, it is worth noting that this process of Romanization and expansion of citizenship was effective only in the Western (Indo-European) half of the Empire, whose inhabitants were White; while in the East, in relation to the non-Italic inhabitants of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Judea and Syria, this had only superficial effects.

There is clearly a link between rationalization and universalization that generates an abstract language that reveals a common humanity. This is the reason why Western thinkers always write in terms of “man”, “humanity”, even if they actually think of themselves, be they Greeks, Romans, or Germans.

**Westerners have created a universal language in view of becoming the only people on this planet to employ their rational faculties in an autonomous way of legislating in terms of their precepts, passing over the particularities of time, custom, and lineage and learning to reason on universal issues. The Europeans are the true thinkers of this planet, the only ones who have freed their minds from extra-rational burdens and needs, to face the big issues “objectively” from the point of view of the “top view”, typical of no one in particular. But we must realize that it is the vision of the only European man.**

Therefore, it would be anachronistic to project on the Romans a program similar to our current reality of immigration / diversity, a projection implemented with the conscious aim of undermining European pride and identity and of creating a mixed-race population. Cultural Marxism in control of our universities are simply using deceptive arguments to make Europeans think that what is happening today is part of the natural course of Western Civilization. This form of intellectual manipulation of students is now rampant in academia.

Civic nationalism was uniquely Western, but it is important to be aware that the current pathological obsession of the West with diversity as dating back to the Greek or Roman era is a mistake. In an attempt to understand our immigration policies and obsession with diversity, we would achieve important results. The sensible response that should be reached in examining the debate between civic and ethnic nationalism is that historical research validates the idea that European nation-states were founded around a strong ethnic core, even if there were minorities coexisting with majorities. Western European states have developed liberal civic institutions within this ethnic core. The inclination of human beings is to have a preference for their fellow men.

To say that this preference is an irrational disposition imposed from above by a regressive elite is false. Ethnocentrism is a rational disposition compatible with civil liberties. Civil liberties are in line with a collective sense of ethnic-cultural belonging.