https://americanfuturist.net/repeated-mistakes/
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Ever since the disbandment of the Atomwaffen Division six-and-a-half years ago, we have noticed the establishment of a not insignificant number of “AWD copycat” groups. Most of these “groups” are hardly worthy of the name – they typically consist of roughly half a dozen underage males who seem to spend most of their time feuding with similar organizations, coming up with low quality AWD ripoff propaganda, or engaging in ineffective efforts to promote their groups on telegram. While the overwhelming majority of these “groups” are, frankly, not worth commenting on individually, the broader trend is worthy of discussion.
To some degree, we appreciate (and indeed feel a bit honored at) the fact that AWD has had such an influence on so many young people who weren’t around during its heyday, and we’re happy to see them attempting to carry on the metaphorical torch. However, in their efforts to do little more than copy Atomwaffen 1:1, we feel like they’ve misunderstood the ethos that made AWD noteworthy in the first place.
Atomwaffen was only exciting because it was different, it was new, it represented change. If we had been yet another NSM-esque brownshirted protest group yelling outside of Walmarts across America, we would have been either laughed at or totally ignored.
We entered the scene with a new mindset, a fresh aesthetic, and radically different propaganda. We captured people’s imaginations, and continue to influence people years later, precisely because we represented a clear break with the pre-2015 movement in the United States.
When people try to copy AWD, instead of feeling like our legacy has been honored, we feel that it has been misinterpreted. We don’t want to see today’s movement do the exact same things that we did. We don’t want to see people using slightly edited versions of our propaganda from eight or nine years ago, or repeating the same old lines that we said at that time.
And, before we are misunderstood, we want to make it clear that this isn’t being said out of some sense of possession – nobody has a copyright on any of our old propaganda or imagery, and we’re happy to see it spread far and wide. We simply do not believe that AWD copycat groups are any kind of a way forward.
Instead, we want to see the creation of something new, something dynamic, something not stuck in the past. In politics, or in the movement, a decade is a very long time – we need a new approach, a new aesthetic, something that can be inspired by, but absolutely can not be a copy of, past glories.
If you want to honor the AWD legacy, taking part in the creation of something unique and new is the best way to do it.
Posted by: Ryan Arthur