Hereditary Class Structures

Platonic and Confederate theories of class and ethnicity.

Class structures can be mono-ethnic or multi-ethnic. In a mono-ethnic class system, a single ethnicity will specialize into different roles, ranging from the economic, the priestly, and the military role. In a tribal society or economy, tribal segregation or hostility will prevent inter-ethnic cooperation and, by default, primitive societies often are mono-ethnic. The evolution of multi-ethnic societies allows for certain ethnicities to engage in class specialization.

One unique class specialization is that of the Aaronic, Zadokian, and Levitical priest class of Israel. The attitude of the Levites is a "second layer" of Judaism. Whereas Judaism is historically open to conversion from foreign ethnic groups, the Levitical priesthood is separated by a national, ethnic, tribal or sub-tribal distinction. That is, while Moses was allowed to marry an Ethiopian woman, Aaron was not. While theoretically anyone can become Jewish and intermarry into the

In the Rig Vedic culture, the Brahmin are described in the Laws of Manu as a similar class to the Levites. They are a priestly class, but also a sub-tribal distinction among the Aryans. Aryans were prohibited from intermarriage with non-Aryans, but for a Brahmin to intermarry with a non-Brahmin was even more taboo.

The Laws of Manu seemingly go further than Judaism in that they not only create an endogamous or sub-tribal priest class, but also a sub-tribal military class and hereditary economic class. There are two theories of how these class distinctions arise: the Platonic Theory, and the Confederation Theory.

The Platonic Theory, following Plato's Myth of the Metals, imagines a societal "blank slate," an undifferentiated mass, which then through a selective or even eugenic process becomes differentiated into specialized classes. The myth of the twelve tribes as proceeding from twelve sons who were assigned various roles seems to fit this general scheme. The Platonic Theory implies a conscious manipulation of breeding in order to produce differentiation.

The Confederation Theory, by contrast, assumes that the twelve tribes of Israel, and even the three classes of the Indo-Europeans, originate from multiple different ethnic sources. Agriculture was not native to the Indo-European culture, and it is possible that the Vaishya or economic class was a product of ethnic mixing rather than memetic adoption of a new technology.

To historically reconstruct this process, we can imagine that the Indo-Europeans who migrated out of their homeland constituted a pure warrior class. These would have been wild or exiled bands of pirates, adventurers, accompanied by charioteers. Whatever priest class existed in Indo-Europa would have been left behind. Then, when the Indo-Europeans smashed a state, and assumed leadership as a kingly or aristocratic nobility, they would simultaneously adopt or integrate pre-existing noble classes. Since these states were agricultural states, it is possible that the Vaishya would have been an ethnic mix between the pre-existing economic elite and the new Indo-European elite. Similarly, the priest class would also represent a syncretism between the Indo-European pantheon and the local traditions and priest class.

This Confederate or syncretic view would explain some of the differences in religious as well as linguistic substrates between different Indo-European cultures. The Confederate Theory of the Brahmin would state that there was an existing Dravidian or "Upanishadic" priest class in India. Following the Indo-European invasions, this priest class would undergo a brief, rapid, and forceful intermixing with the Indo-Europeans. Meanwhile, the Indo-European warrior class would remain relatively unmixed, since it would have effectively eliminated the local competition.

In this model, the warrior class would remain the most "pure" because it would seek to destroy any opposing warrior nobility, rather than interbreeding. The Vaishya would have the most native admixture, because the Indo-Europeans had no experience with agriculture and relied on pre-existing elites to supply this knowledge. The Brahmin would be an intermediate class, because there would be no Indo-European priest class to replace them (assuming these are purely warrior bands which migrated to India), which would force them to intermix with the native priest class.

Mythologically, the Vaishya tend to be the closest associated with the chthonian or Dionysian earth cults which predated the Indo-European invasions, whereas the Kshatriya remained more Apollonian and sky oriented, represented by Indra. The Brahmin, who worshipped Agni as a fire deity, seem to represent a compromise between the Indo-European cult of the sun, represented by Surya and the solar dynasty of Lord Rama, and the pre-Indo-European cults of the "burnt offering sacrifice," which were especially strong in the agricultural centers of the middle east. These cults metaphorically relate to the practice of metallurgy as symbolized by the volcanic Vulcan, and this metaphor of the "gold which is purified in the furnace" also shows up in the New Testament. The Indo-Europeans had knowledge of smithing, but the practice of crafting arms was considered an inferior Varna, at the level of Shudra. In Norse mythology, craftsmen are archetypally represented as a species of dwarves. This could have derived from the fact that the Kshatriya had higher levels of Gravettian ancestry, who were on average 6'0 - 6'2", while the average agriculturalist was only 5'4". Just as the Vikings raided Slavic and Celtic territories for slaves to work as Thralls, it is possible that ancient Nordic peoples raided agricultural areas and enslaved smiths to forge their weapons, keeping them as a separate caste.

It should be noted that in the case of India, the Brahmin, not the Kshatriya, are noted as having the highest degree of R1a.¹ This may be due to the fact that the Laws of Manu were poorly enforced, generally, and that as a religious code, they were best enforced among the Brahmin, and least enforced among the Kshatriya. This would account for the fact that while the Kshatriya would have originally been the purest caste (1500 BC - 1000 BC), in the last 2,000 to 3,000 years the effect of religious adherence has reversed this relationship. It should be noted elsewhere that warrior cults have high rates of cultural assimilation, with the Normans losing their Viking language, becoming French within a few generations, and then becoming English over another few generations. The cultures which are best able to resist linguistic, cultural, or genetic assimilation are religious cultures. Seeing the Brahmin not just as a class but as an ethnic group with its own highly religious culture, in contrast to the Kshatriya who were necessarily less religious, would lead to this result.

Wilhelm Marr, the first racial antisemite, theorized that the twelve tribes did not result from twelve sons of Jacob, but rather, this was a revision of history.² Instead, the twelve tribes represented twelve entirely different ethnic groups which came together as a confederation, not unlike the Hyksos as described by the Egyptians, whose origins are mysterious, but may have included refugees from a general northern European expansion during that period, much as the Germanic migrations into Rome were forced by the Hunnic expansion out of Eurasia.

The origins of the confederations of the Hyksos range from Sicily to North Africa, and if the Ethiopian wife of Moses is to be taken as significant, then one of the twelve tribes may have been African, another Babylonian, as well as many native tribes from Canaan. Skeptics of the Old Testament claim that there is no archaeological evidence for Jewish captivity in Egypt, and no evidence for the Exodus. In this interpretation, the Exodus is a fabricated mythology, and the Jewish ethnicity is native to Canaan. Even if this could be proven,³ there is still the origin story of Abraham which suggests a Babylonian origin for Judaism.

There are similarities between Judaism and Zoroastrianism, especially with regard to the importance of fire-worship and fire-sacrifice. Zoroastrianism and Judaism also share a degree of iconoclasm, monolatry, and intolerance for polytheism. Genesis is notable, grammatically, for the term "Elohim," which is plural "Gods" rather than "God," and Yahweh is referred to often as the "Most High" among a counsel of Gods rather than being the only God. The Egyptian priests, for example, were able to perform miracles like Aaron, just not to the same extent. (Exodus 7:8-12)

The Silk Road during the medieval period left a Chinese genetic imprint on medieval Jewish populations.⁴ While this is not especially relevant to the actual constitution of the original twelve tribes, it demonstrates how mercantile people can become extremely genetically diverse.

Canaan is described in the Torah as containing seven nations: Amorites, Hittites, Jebusites, Hivites, Perizzites, and Girgashites. Taken together with Ethiopians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and Zoroastrians, this totals 11 tribes. The 12th tribe could either be the Levites as the "original" or "authentic" Jewish tribe, which then forced the conversion of the other 11 tribes through violence and circumcision. Although Judaism is no longer evangelical following the loss of its military power, there is good evidence to suggest that Judaism was evangelical during the period when it had a military or warrior class. It is also possible that the concept of the 12 tribes is relatively recent, if we accept a more recent date for the Torah (164 BC) rather than an earlier date (539 BC). A more recent date would allow for the inclusion of Greeks⁵ or Gauls as part of the "12 tribes," which may be more of a mythological genealogy describing the genetic diversity of Jewish origins rather than a conscious political covenant between tribal confederations. The issue of Jewish purity became paramount during the period of Rabbinical composition, and the myth of the 12 tribes may have helped resolve the inherent contradiction of an ethnically mixed group practicing strict endogamy.⁶

In summary, the Platonic theory of hereditary class structures implies that classes become differentiated by a political act of intentional selective breeding. In this theory, a political sovereign and lawmaker, like Manu, Moses, or Solon, foresees the utility of separating classes by marriage laws, and these laws lead to the development of certain traits. The other theory of how tribal, sub-ethnic, Varnic, or hereditary caste distinctions arise between different classes is the Confederate theory. The Confederate theory states that when multi-ethnic societies form as a result of invasion or religious conversion, that acts of intermixing create "identity" gradients. This ethnic mixing leads to an identity crisis, similar to the crisis of Hellenization which resulted in the universalism of Christianity. However, in the classic Confederate formation, rather than universalizing or eliminating ethnic distinctions, each gradient is sorted into its familiar function. The warrior invaders maintain their function, while the mixed priest class adopts a new syncretic religion, and the pre-invasion Vaishya class continues in its original role.

Both the Platonic and Confederate theories have practical application in the present day. The Platonic theory helps us understand modern religious groups, like the Amish or Mormons, which over a very short period have developed their own class relations and genetic signatures. On the other hand, the Confederate theory helps us understand the theory of "middlemen minorities," which will be useful as an element of minoritarian theory. Societies which force their minorities into a common identity form confederations or caste system -- the 12 tribes of Israel, or the 3 castes of India.

Medieval Europe, which is often thought of as being "purely Europe," had, at least, a binary caste system. Through the influence of Gregory VII in the 12th century, clerical celibacy was gradually enforced, which degraded the possibility of a hereditary priestly order.⁷ Protestantism also declined to resurrect a Levitical cult or hereditary priesthood.⁸ The two hereditary functions were the aristocracy, which was duty bound to warfare, and medieval Jewry, which was legally excluded from society and forced to double-down on existing specializations in trade, loans, and tax collection, while maintaining its own independent priest class. With the Napoleonic emancipation, Jews have been liberated from this binary caste system, and the Jabotinskyian concept of a Jewish warrior class has resulted in the foundation of the state of Israel. At the same time, the removal of Catholic restrictions on banking has led to the European abandonment of the warrior aristocracy and the embrace of priestly and financial functions as the sovereign power.

The Platonist and Confederate Theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but can exist as a feedback loop. Ethnicities can come together in caste systems, but those systems can be broken down and recreated. In the case of medieval Jews, the prohibition on land ownership forced that culture to specialize in other classes, and this could be described as a Platonic process, or a conscious religious prohibition which later shaped an ethnic culture. On the other hand, the present mass migration of elite Indian and Chinese immigrants into American universities may influence the development of future classes which are influenced by the ethnic experiences of those groups, as an example of the Confederate model.

Although each ethnicity has a class structure, not every class requires an ethnic structure, at least in the case of primitive mono-ethnic societies. However, given the nature of global trade and migration, the ethnic nature of class and the class-coding of ethnicity are inevitable. Despite fears over the extinction of certain ethnicities, ethnicity itself is not in danger of extinction, and ethnic mixing, at least in the short term, tends to produce more racism rather than less. Ethnogenesis also allows for the number of global ethnicities to increase, even if some ethnicities disappear.

Ethnic conflict is class conflict, and class conflict is ethnic conflict. The concept of "anti-whiteness" cannot be separated from the white priest class, academia, which fears and resents the white warrior class, "racists." "Racism" and "sexism" as sins are warrior virtues. Both race and sex are rooted in the body (even if only superficially), as opposed to priestly virtues, which seek to transcend the material (represented at the extreme by transgenderism, a recurrence of ancient eunuchry). James Lindsey calls this "Gnosticism," but this is a very superficial analysis which blames an obscure Christian heresy, rather than understanding the underlying class dynamics. Nietzsche was more correct than Lindsey to see Gnosticism as merely one particular manifestation of a larger and more fundamental priestly worldview.

1. "The Indian origin of paternal haplogroup R1a1(*)substantiates the autochthonous origin of Brahmins and the caste system." (Sharma, 2009: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19158816/)

2. Der Judenspiegel. (Marr, p. 46: https://keydocuments.net/article/bergmann-marr-mirror-jews)

3. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

4. “A genetic contribution from the Far East into Ashkenazi Jews via the ancient Silk Road.” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323646/)

5. There is speculation that the tribe of Dan refers to a Greek colony which was forcibly converted to Judaism. The tribe of Dan is coastal, and its main hero is Sampson, who in Greek would have been Herakles.

6. The number 12 likely originates from the Zodiac, which features prominently in Judaism, not from a strict genealogy.

7. The popes are largely descended from Italian noble families, despite usually not having children of their own, and thus the papacy is somewhat hereditary.

8. The Mormons seem to be an exception to this.