Adi Skutta is a blogger and political activist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. His interests vary from self-sufficient localism and ethno-nationalism to Austrian economics and the various schools of Anarchism. He is a member of the Aranya Movement, a self-determined Afrikaner community that is opposed to government tyranny and violence.
00:01:19.920So stick around and find out what you've not been hearing in the mainstream news about South Africa.
00:01:23.820You'll also get to hear about a self-determined Afrikaner community called Aranya that is said enough to government tyranny and violence against the Afrikaner people.
00:01:35.480They're an inspiration for Europeans all across the globe who wish to preserve their way of life.
00:01:40.140And since Adi is an anarchist, we also explore problems of multiculturalism from an anarchist point of view.
00:01:46.020On another note, I have been to several countries in Africa, including South Africa, and it's pretty amazing to see the old European structures and infrastructures that are still being used to this day.
00:01:57.420Cape Town is by far the most beautiful city in Africa.
00:19:25.220But the other interesting friendship the town has formed is with one or two Cosa communities in the Eastern Cape.
00:19:31.220They've actually visited these black communities and tried to show them what we have done with the hope that they could do the same for their own community
00:19:41.680and perhaps repeat some of the community projects that we've run that was very successful.
00:21:22.400Yeah, I think also once you get past the layers of hate and bigotry the media has heaped upon the pre-1994 South African government,
00:21:30.620I think you can begin to realize they had at least a few things right.
00:21:33.540They knew a multi-ethnic democracy led by an angry communist-influenced black majority would result in a failed state like Zimbabwe, right?
00:23:39.460That said, however, I've seen video clips in North Africa, in mid-Africa, where there's civil wars, where people do revert back to that sort of thing, which is absolutely horrific.
00:23:50.200But the culture clash is just world views that differ.
00:23:57.900My idea of freedom and my idea of how I view the world and the functions that government should perform is completely different from what Africans, a lot of them, see in government.
00:24:13.820You know, for me, freedom is something that's from the government, you know, away from them.
00:24:19.420And for them, and it's written like that in our constitution, we have a lot of what people call second generation rights, which is economic rights written into our constitution.
00:24:28.700And for them, freedom is government giving housing, government giving education, government, you know, providing this, that, and the other.
00:24:38.640Unfortunately, I think many people, and probably many white people, too, miss the point that in order for government to give anything, it has to take it away first.
00:24:51.540There's no such thing as free education or free health care or free housing.
00:24:56.440Whatever government spends, it has to take it away from productive forces and then employ that capital in unproductive ways that will have less economic growth.
00:25:09.260So it's just these world views that differ a lot.
00:25:12.340Look, I mean, culture clashes, in a way, Afrikaners really keep to themselves.
00:25:20.860We work, I personally am a minority at my place of where I work.
00:25:27.320So what you will have is a very much a multicultural setting, maybe at a factory and at offices.
00:25:35.440But afterwards, when people socialize, they socialize with their own, you know, people who speak their own language and have the same customs and culture.
00:26:57.920Although we can understand each other sometimes.
00:27:00.520Sometimes it's easier for me to read them than to hear them.
00:27:03.800I can't always understand what they're saying.
00:27:07.220And I think the same would go vice versa for them.
00:27:10.920So we became culturally united here, people of European extraction.
00:27:18.860And when the Cape was taken over by the English, many of the Afrikaners were not happy with the transition.
00:27:27.140And we went out on what became known as the Groot Track, the Big Track.
00:27:33.180And with ox wagons, basically just moved into the wilderness, outside the borders of what the English controlled, into the Midlands of South Africa.
00:27:43.480First Natal, then the Free State, and eventually founding two republics.
00:27:47.140The Republic of the Free State and the Transvaal Republic.
00:27:50.560And I think with the whole ordeals that we made through in that movement, a strong folksgefühl, a tribal feeling arose out of that.
00:29:13.800I think many Afrikaners feel a little bit…
00:29:17.120One intellectual actually put it very interesting.
00:29:19.980He said, for Afrikaners, because we're also like Europeans, we're in a demographic downward turn, you know, with lesser children than the generations before.
00:29:31.420And even if it goes economically good with South Africa going forward, being marginalized, being part of an identity group or cultural group that is seen as…
00:29:44.980The feeling could be that it's negative even when it is positive.
00:29:49.980And, you know, like I said, Afrikaners have got a very strong forksful, a sense of tribe.
00:29:57.340Well, there's another issue that we have to cover, and it's really about the free market,
00:30:01.640because a prominent economist named William Hurt, as well as other voices, pointed out that…
00:30:07.340Racial policies in South Africa were not the result of capitalism, like the communists, I'd like to say,
00:30:12.900but instead we're the product of anti-capitalist government intervention to benefit and protect certain few from the potential competition.
00:30:20.800So, basically, like the crony capitalism that we have in America today, right?
00:31:27.140And I think today, it's something I think that comes out of World War I and World War II.
00:31:35.800You know, when people look, when you look at modern government, a lot of the policies we call socialist actually comes out of the fascist movements.
00:31:50.040There is similarities, a lot of similarities.
00:31:57.100The modern state is just like it's a fusion between fascists and socialists in a way.
00:32:04.160But mass democracy is nothing but that.
00:32:06.100People vote, like I said, emotionally, vote for a government that always promises things that they cannot really deliver on because they're trying to go against economic laws, which is impossible.
00:32:19.320And I myself, that's why I'm also very interested in free market anarchism and the ideas that the Austrian school espoused.
00:32:42.120Well, it's an unfortunate occurrence, but it's come about after the apartheid years and really the last, I would guess now, but I would say the last 10 years that it really materialized.
00:32:57.460But it's come about just people who has not kept up economically, who's lost out, lost their jobs for various reasons, and always there's social ills, you know, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and it happens.
00:33:24.380Well, there's another big elephant in the room we must address, and it's something the media has blocked out and refuses to cover, and that it's white genocide in South Africa, and we're talking about brutality and murder of the worst kind.
00:33:37.580I mean, I've seen these photos and had nightmares when I see what's going on down there, and not only includes farmers, but innocent children and the elderly.
00:33:44.240So since 1994, over 70,000 whites have been murdered in cruel and horrifying ways.
00:33:50.020Perhaps you can tell us what's going on down there, and why is this not headline news around the world?
00:33:54.380Well, I think the reason why it's not headline news is already, but we covered that one.
00:34:00.540You know, it's just, it would be such a politically incorrect statement to make overseas.
00:34:05.660I mean, they just, I don't think any, the journalists would bring themselves to write such a thing.
00:34:11.640I must say that crime, however horrific it is, is, it affects the black population more, because their numbers are just so much greater.
00:34:24.560And also, when we say genocide, I mean, I'm not gonna, and I don't think anybody can make the statement that it is, that it is orchestrated.
00:34:35.220And when we speak of genocide, normally people understand underneath, under that term, that it is a government-induced mass murder.
00:35:47.620And it's not as if government doesn't want it to stop.
00:35:50.200Government's not capable of stopping it.
00:35:53.200A big part of that problem, I think, came around 2003.
00:35:57.140We had a commando system of volunteers in the rural areas that used to assist both police or military.
00:36:05.620And this was just a voluntary commando service.
00:36:08.440And the then-president, Thabo Mbeki, actually stopped it and he said he's disbanding the commandos and they will be replaced by a – and then the police will – is going to bring new initiatives to replace it.
00:36:40.640I mean, that's one of the strange things I will never understand about – probably about especially American journalists and the mainstream media.
00:36:51.580You would go – and I remember reading that when the right-wing leader they had here in South Africa, old Eugene de Blanche, was murdered.
00:36:58.660And this is a man that probably – he made the case that white people should segregate.
00:37:22.180So, if you say, I should segregate from black people because they're going to kill me and then the black people kill you, then you go – you know.
00:37:30.800And then the journalists can't turn around and say, well, he deserved it because, in fact, the murder proved him right.
00:37:43.900I mean, I've seen pictures of little white babies, little infants who have been cut up in pieces and murdered.
00:37:51.440No, there was one or two such cases and especially the one girl, I think, Potgiter was his surname, who was two years old and just shot through the head.
00:38:06.960And anybody who – I don't care what tribe you belong to, what color you are, if you are talking good about murder, then, to me, you're the lowest scumbag there is.
00:39:09.480The problem at the moment is what you had is like in the free state province.
00:39:13.880If you would look at a map of South Africa, you see the free state province there.
00:39:17.380I read just a couple of months ago that by about 1800, the population in the free state was actually 70% white and 30% black.
00:39:29.700Now, you go from there over dramatic demographic shifts in 200 years where that white population of that area that was 70% of the population now becomes 10%.
00:39:43.460You can't argue that any land was stolen.
00:39:50.540In any case, like I said, the Boers, when they moved in to the inlands, the midlands, there was vast stretches of lands that was unoccupied.
00:40:04.520Private property as a concept did not exist in Africa yet.
00:40:33.340And that's the whole problem with – and when you let go of property rights, when you don't acknowledge property rights, you go to barbarism.
00:40:41.780You eventually end up with what we had in Russia under Stalin.
00:40:44.660And in land redistribution in Africa, all the – everywhere where it was has been tried, you see the type of situation you see in Zimbabwe, where it's a politician that's taking it away from the private owners, and it's the political cronies that get it.
00:41:21.380And, you know, when the environmentalists make the claim for – especially for animal protection, because here we have poachers shooting rhinos left, right, and center.
00:41:32.240These animals are very close to extinction.
00:43:02.500Look, that was something for the Australians and the Americans that they got to make peace with.
00:43:06.700You know, we always joked in South Africa.
00:43:09.140The reason they can talk so loud is they took their – they left their Bibles at homes and took their guns.
00:43:14.940We took our Bibles and forgot our guns.
00:43:17.260You know, so no, there was nothing ever of that sort happened in South Africa.
00:43:23.180The greatest mass murder in South Africa, as a matter of fact, was white people that got killed by the English.
00:43:29.420There was – after moving inland, the Boers, of course, started, like I said earlier, two small republics, Transvaal and Free State Republic.
00:43:37.720And by the late 1800s, the English had – gold was found on the reef.
00:43:44.760And, you know, the English basically sued for war eventually.
00:43:51.020And a big war was fought between the Afrikaners and the English.
00:43:54.380And it was some – it can be said that we fought the first real anti-imperialist war.
00:44:02.080But about 20,000 to 30,000 Afrikaner women and children was herded into concentration camps by the English, where all kinds of diseases broke out.
00:44:46.560I go to so many of these various chat groups and online forums, and you see all of a sudden free market anarchists and conspiracy theory people talking to each other.
00:44:57.920All of a sudden, I find small tribal nationalists for the first time talking to cynicalist communists who want a type of decentralized systems, secessionist movements everywhere, talking to each other, talking to these different ideologies.
00:45:12.460And I think it really opens up people's minds for the first time.
00:45:16.480We can now really get more of the truth out there.
00:45:22.020I also think communities like Aranya is an inspiration for Europeans to also revolt against their government and break off into these mini-anarchist types of nations and be self-determined in the days of forced multiculturalism and government corruption.
00:45:49.480It's not being exclusive in who we allow in.
00:45:53.240Anybody from any race can come in and take a look.
00:45:56.420What makes it so unique is that they only have only one policy, and that's the policy of own labor.
00:46:03.600It's for Afrikaners, and if Afrikaner wants to go live there, he has to do his own labor.
00:46:08.760I can't go live on a piece of land and expect a whole bunch of Russians to come do my dirty work for me, but they don't have any political say.
00:46:31.980We're in a diaspora type of situation.
00:46:34.780It's an internal migration plan, you can say.
00:46:38.360But I always thought for Europe the answer lies in localism and local revolts.
00:46:44.120I think what people should do in Europe and America and in Africa too is stop arguing about which ideology reigns supreme because when people argue about politics, they're not arguing for themselves.
00:46:58.400They're arguing for every other town, city, and village that they want to enforce their views on.
00:47:04.160And I always thought the best answer is for people to literally take out their town's flags, city flags, raise them once a week, and burn the national flag.
00:47:13.340That is a healthy nationalism, localism.
00:47:17.200Yeah, I see the way it's going now with the birth rates and the mass third world immigration into Europe where it might be one of those things where people have to find a new homeland and all get together.
00:49:07.540Look, what happened, right, I think when Nelson Mandela was released, one of the interesting things that Professor Carl Bossoff of Urania did at the time is actually invited him over for tea.
00:49:21.600And Nelson Mandela went to Urania, and he had a couple of cup of tea with Dan Bebsi Verwurt, which was Verwurt's daughter, and with Prof Bossoff.
00:49:33.360And, you know, they showed him their town and said, look, this is what we want to do.
00:51:22.100He never knew a homogeneous Germany until he probably moved.
00:51:27.420He lived in a multicultural Austria where the Austrians were vastly becoming a sudden minority between various other ethnic groups that lived there at the time.
00:51:36.440Look, Austria at the time was a much bigger country.
00:51:38.460So, it is that that causes the hatred.
00:51:44.440But I don't think exclusivity is for everybody.
00:51:48.120Some things like tribe or nation or folk or race is not important to all people.
00:51:52.740There's always going to be people to whom it doesn't mean anything.
00:52:00.000We shouldn't enforce those to whom these things are important.
00:52:04.140We should not enforce those views on others to whom it is not.
00:52:08.200But the vice versa of that is just as important.
00:52:11.000Because when I think you have – you're going to use your country now as an example.
00:52:17.280You have a town there in your country that is 100% homogeneous.
00:52:20.660When strange Arabs and Nigerians all of a sudden move in there and some individual wants to discriminate on who he wants to serve in his restaurant, he should be allowed to do that.
00:52:34.620Because the moment government intervenes, then what you get is actually just another form of racial, cultural enforcement on people, which is wrong.
00:52:47.460Well, here in America now, they try and say race doesn't exist.
00:53:13.660So, you know, we have affirmative action for the 90% black population.
00:53:20.200Then we have on top of that, we have black economic empowerment, which means any company that wants to do business with government should have at least 50% of its shares in the hands of black people.
00:53:32.100Now we have broad-based black economic empowerment, which means any company that deals with government, all their suppliers must be BBE.
00:53:39.000So, you know, you can go on and on and on about these things.
00:53:45.520It's race-based policies and then race is a social construct.
00:53:51.160This is why I'm trying to get a lot of these free market anarchists to see the conspiracy behind multiculturalism and how it's government pushing all of these policies and ideas.
00:54:00.660Yeah, no, it's, look, I think that's important.
00:54:04.280That's why I enjoy, I see you had Keith Preston on your program.
00:55:28.000But simply making personal discrimination legal, just like what they call the war on drugs.
00:55:36.640You know, just as making marijuana illegal will up the price, you know, it has consequences.
00:55:45.340Everything government does has consequences.
00:55:48.100But when you look at how Mexicans are coming into America from the data and information I get, it looks like if they're going to – and a lot of them come in as manual labor.
00:55:57.780However, those neighborhoods might still feel American, but, you know, over time, it's going to change.
00:56:25.060And people say, oh, you deserve it because you stole the land from the Indians who stole the land from other Indians who stole the land from Spanish.
00:56:31.800But they always forget how many Indians committed genocide against other Indians.
00:56:43.880They just – they use collective guilt.
00:56:47.860I think it was Dr. Professor – I can't remember his name right now – who said it's actually a replacement theology when you look at political correctness.
00:57:00.920It has like – like Christianity has original sin.
00:57:04.960But political correctness, it has this replacement theology of, you know, if you're born a white male, that's the original sin.
00:57:23.620But I think, like I said, the Internet's a wonderful invention and people are now talking to each other and radicals from all sides, left to right, libertarian, are starting to learn each other's views better.
00:57:37.160And hopefully we'll see movements in the future come out of this that can actually reap some rewards.
00:57:42.180Because I still think the answer lies in secession, you know, local secession of any kind.
00:57:48.560I don't care if it's left-wing or right-wing.
00:57:51.700Seceding of government is definitely the way to go.
00:57:55.300And if it can be done building up city-states, that's probably, I would say, the best answer to the problems.
00:58:57.040And that's why I don't think that people should have a right to vote on how other people's social lives should be organized or how their economics, goods, and services should be distributed.
00:59:11.140I mean, if you wanted a really fair democracy, point number one should be that no government official should be allowed to vote.
00:59:17.000Any company that does business with a government should not be allowed to vote because they can vote themselves favors.
00:59:24.080And anybody who works for government from a school teacher to a postman should not be allowed to vote because he can vote himself favors.
00:59:47.240Yeah, that is, I find, that I find very odd when America runs into places like Iraq and Afghanistan and you look, and I use the term worldview because different cultures, different racial groups, different people have different worldviews, different individuals have different worldviews.
01:00:07.180But when you go into a place like Iraq and think you're going to turn them into a liberal democracy, then you don't know Iraq.
01:00:20.540And the best answer you probably had, as far as I understand this, about three, what you can call ethnic groups, although these are more, the ethnic groups are more religious in nature.
01:00:32.020So you have the Sunnis and the Shunis.
01:00:36.520And the Kurda, to the north, if you really wanted an answer, the best answer was probably to give each one of those three a separate country from the start.
01:00:47.280And then ensure somewhat of rights for border towns and allow independent towns.
01:00:54.760Because what you would have is, and that's one of those paradoxes of nationalism when you do it state-wise, not when the nationalism is not tied to an identity or folk.
01:01:19.480And you can even take the East Ukraine, cut it off, and say, here's the Russian portion.
01:01:25.660But you'll always find towns that are Ukrainian on the Russian side, Russians on the Ukrainian side, and towns that are mixed to various degrees.
01:01:38.780And that's why I think to try and get it as homogeneous as possible, but then always allow independent cities, independent towns, independent city states, so that we can kind of avoid the kind of rampage, murder, and bloodshed.
01:01:56.360It's foolish that these globalists, basically our governments, have been hijacked, as you know, and they're trying to bring in this one-world monoculture.
01:02:06.200So part of that, what's standing in the way, is those nations.
01:02:55.340And when they run into countries like Iraq or wherever, then they obviously don't understand why this nation speaks different languages and don't want to live together.
01:03:06.600It's also this foolish notion that we're all the same and we can all get along in our rainbow new world order together and hold hands and sing one song together.
01:03:17.100You're always going to have people with different views.
01:03:19.800And like I said, the problem is that with the modern states, it's unfortunately that whatever view is in the majority gets enforced on the rest.
01:03:59.400Then you take a country like India, which is the world's biggest mass democracy, and you take one vote per the total number of votes, and your chance of winning the lottery is a lot better than actually making a difference.
01:06:30.200So when I – especially, I mean, even conservative groups in Europe, like I used French National, the French Right Party,
01:06:40.600who's pandering to all kinds of leftist economic ideas.
01:06:43.560When they – when the right wing – even if you get a bunch of nationalists together, of any grouping, I don't care where in the world,
01:06:52.280if it's India or somewhere in Africa, and they were to get their own state,
01:06:58.680if they were to enact the kind of socialist policies, you'd simply get a repeat of the problem.
01:07:07.620You're either going to get people that you don't want, or you're simply going to bankrupt the country before it's capable of producing any wealth whatsoever.
01:07:17.240Why can't they have more of a libertarian or free market nationalism?
01:08:29.480Well, but, you know, people, Lana, unfortunately, like I said, weapons of mass distraction.
01:08:35.740They would watch football and cricket and what you call it, baseball in your country and not really understand the problems.
01:08:43.880Just the other day I read – I think it was the Mises Institute that put something on Facebook there where they shared it and it was some woman in Texas who said she doesn't understand what's going on.
01:08:57.840She voted for the best rails in the city.
01:09:01.040She voted for government to build this and government to build this and she voted for government to do this and now she just can't afford to live here anymore.
01:09:08.700And I thought, you know, you would think that she could kind of like figure out those two things are somehow related.
01:09:49.340You don't necessarily want to go to them.
01:09:53.440And, yeah, we have a new party called the Economic Freedom Fighters who don't believe in economic freedom.
01:09:59.640They're a socialist party who call themselves Economic Freedom Fighters.
01:10:02.300And I've read their page and it's for government to start a construction company, for government to have a cement factory, for government to do this, government to do that.
01:10:11.720But when government does these type of things, eventually, you know, there's just – and then they don't understand why there is so much joblessness, why people don't have jobs.
01:10:23.180Because government is taking all that money out of the productive economy and putting it unproductively into the free housing, the free education, the free hospitals, the free whatever.
01:10:51.540Because every second day you're going to meet somebody who's going to say, you know, we need higher minimum wages.
01:11:00.580And then you first have to explain to them, you can't do that.
01:11:04.020When you do that, this is what happens.
01:11:07.100Next one comes and you have to explain it to them.
01:11:10.420Like I said, I think the nationalists, a lot of them, ethnic nationalists worldwide, can learn a lot from the libertarian movements.
01:11:16.680And libertarians on their side must just be a little bit more open to people who don't want to live with people who are different from them.