British culturist should learn from Hindu culturists. Hindus
have been promoting their traditional majority culture in India, as well as
combating traitorous Muslims, since the 1890s. In particular, we should emulate their organization named the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), meaning the ‘Association of National
Volunteers.’ The RSS is said to be
the largest voluntary organization in the world.
The RSS is a grassroots culturist educational organization.
Culturism is the science that acknowledges, promotes, and defends traditional
majority cultures. As such, culturism is the opposite of multiculturalism –
which denies traditional majority cultures’ existence and status. Thus, as
culturists, the RSS teaches about Hindu culture and promotes the fact that
India is a Hindu nation.
The RSS was started by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in 1925. The occasion? During the annual Ganesha festival, Muslims complained that
restrictions against music in front of mosques were not being enforced. In the face of Muslim intimidation,
Hedgewar led troops of young men playing music in front of the mosques.
Hedgewar noted that Hindus were too easily cowed by the
Muslims. The RSS was started to
instill Hindu consciousness and strength into the timid Hindus. Thus from the beginning the all-male
RSS included physical exercise, military drills, marches and weapons training
along side Hindu ideological inculcation.[i] The youth wear uniforms. 5 – 6 million members
of the current Indian population have been educated by the RSS.
This video shows what the RSS looks like in action:
The RSS has some affiliated spin-off groups. The Rashtra Sevika Samiti is the RSS's women's group. It has 3,500 branches. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is the student wing. They combat leftist or 'polluting' influences in education. The Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram is the religious affiliate of the RSS. They help people convert back into Hinduism from Christianity and Islam. There is a teachers' council and an RSS affiliated organization dedicated to helping the poor.
Some detractors have likened the RSS to a fascist organization. For one thing, the RSS does not condone ethnic cleansing or genocide. Another difference is that the RSS is strictly non-political. Fascists wanted to control the state; the RSS does not even officially back candidates.2
Despite not engaging in politics, as the RSS was founded in 1925, many of its former and current members now promote Hindu culturism from positions of power. In fact, India's second largest political party, the BJP, came to power with tacit approval from the RSS, loaded with RSS members, and championing the RSS's culturist philosophy.
The RSS refrains from politics because politics corrupts organizations. Political parties have tried to use the massive RSS presence in India to get votes, and then turned their back on the RSS's culturist agenda. If the RSS became political, it too would have to dilute its pro-Hindu message. The RSS's founders understood that India needed to come to understand itself as a Hindu nation before culturist reform could happen via political channels.
India's government is aggressively multicultural. They call this position 'secularism.' But in practice, 'secularism' means that the government denies that Hinduism is India's majority religion and supports minorities rights – specifically in the form of subsidies for mosques and set-aside government seats for Muslims.
The 'secularist' (multicultural) Indian government calls the RSS 'communalists' – we would say 'culturists' – for promoting Hinduism and Hindu identity. As one book explained, "communalism is akin to racism and anti-Semitism."3 So the government calls Hindus, who wish to promote the traditional majority Hindu culture in India, "racist." Sound familiar?
The Indian government has banned the RSS several times, because they promote the idea that India's Muslims are a foreign and potentially dangerous group. Well, Islamic invaders ruled India – often with incredible brutality – for centuries before the British showed up. And Islamic terrorism intent on establishing Muslim dominance continues to this day in India. Cultural diversity is real! As such, it is neither unreasonable nor irrational to ask India to recognize Islam's violent propensities and basic historical facts.
The RSS calls Muslims foreign residents because the Muslim holy land is not in India. Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, the RSS founders noted, are a part of the larger Hindu community, because their religions are indigenous to India, while Islam's "holy land is far off in Arabia or Palestine."4 As culturists, the RSS wishes the Indian government would officially recognize that India is the one and only homeland of Hinduism and related religions.
Again, the RSS does not advocate ethnic cleansing or anything like it. The multiculturalists tactic of calling people a hate group for recognizing cultural diversity and noting traditional majority cultures is identical in India as it is in Britain.
Throughout many bans, the RSS has continued building character and Hindu identity with its educational programs. By coupling educational efforts with disaster relief, the RSS has won the hearts of many of the people. Thus, friends of the RSS win elections. And, as a result, the RSS, with its long-term educational vision, has assured that Indian culturists will continue to have a loud voice in India's multicultural government for the foreseeable future.
For those who worry that culturism promotes cultural relativism, please note that I am not advocating that British youth start promoting Hinduism. The RSS classes are run by men who take vows of celibacy and dedicate their entire lives to the RSS, based on the traditional Hindu Guru model. That would not work in Britain! However, indigenous western culturist youth groups, such as the English Defence League, might consider being better organized to promote their culturist agenda. In this regard, India's culturist RSS provides a very good model.
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1. Bhatt, Chetan, Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies, and Modern Myths, (Oxford International Publishers, Ltd., Oxford, 2001), p. 119.
2. Jaffrelot, Christophe, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 58.
3. Mukherjee, Aditya, Mukherjee, Mridula, and Mahajan, Sucheta, RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi, (Los Angeles: Sage, 2008), p. 19.
4. Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?, (Bombay: Veer Savarkar Prakashan, 1923), p. 113.
[i] Bhatt,
Chetan, Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies, and Modern Myths, (Oxford
International Publishers, Ltd., Oxford, 2001), p. 119
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