Declaration on the definition of a nation

The celebrations of Independence Day this year, and in particular the Independence March, sparked a wave of discussions around the civic and ethnocultural definition of the nation.
We speak out on this matter also because the media often misrepresented our position when commenting on the events in question. Furthermore, a clear definition of the nation is crucial for any nationalist movement.

1. A nation is a historically formed synthesis of the ethnic and cultural elements. Its identity therefore consists of culture, language, and its biological basis, which is a given ethnos.
In our understanding, the state is only an emanation of the spirituality and will of the nation, i.e., the will manifesting as the fundamental energy of every community and collective spirituality in each community distinct. The state is a form of the nation's presence in the political world and should under no circumstances be identified with the nation, nor should citizenship (state belonging) be equated with nationality.

2. Nationalism is a stance that assumes the primacy of the national interest (understood as the interest of a collective entity, not individual members thereof) over all other interests in
public life. It distinguishes between the state's interest (national interest) and the nation, as one can imagine a nominally own state that constantly and intentionally does not realize this interest (as in the case of
PRL). Nationalism is therefore not another form of patriotism (in the common sense, greater or exaggerated), nor a theoretically expounded patriotism, but something fundamentally different. Patriotism
emphasizes the care primarily for state structures while nationalism emphasizes the structures of the nation as an ethnocultural collective. Under no circumstances can nationalism be identified with chauvinism, i.e., blind adoration of one's own nation and deliberate ignoring of its flaws. We stand on the position that one is bound to one's own nation because it is one's own, not because it is the most perfect (similarly, we love our family despite the flaws of its members). Moreover, the Zadruga school strongly emphasized the flaws in the national character of the Poles and the necessity of eliminating both these flaws and their sources.

3. The necessary condition for the existence of a nation is its culture and language. Existing nations, in the course of their history, often assimilated individuals and groups, often due to the attractiveness of their culture.
foreign-origin groups. However, one cannot completely abstract from its biological basis. We consider both extreme attitudes to be incorrect - regarding the value of a collective as depending on
exclusively from its biological element (this constitutes the essence of racist concepts) as well as complete rejection of the biological element. In thinking about the nation, one must synthesize here and see the need to harmonize the cultural and biological elements.

4. National assimilation is a phenomenon observable in history, including the history of the Polish nation. Let us note that national assimilation means the complete shedding of one's previous
identity, which is usually spread out over time. This is necessary because the national community expects complete and unconditional loyalty in times of trial, which cannot be reconciled with
identity and thus also loyalty to two entities. It is not the same as accepting a person of a different nationality who is a citizen of the Republic of Poland, when that person maintains their cultural difference.
We have assimilated large groups of Germans, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, Lithuanians, and to a lesser extent Prussians, Yotvingians, Armenians, and Tatars into our national community (not just civic).
In all these cases, the process took place over generations, and for this reason alone it is demagogic to cite these cases by supporters of a rapid influx of migrants.
Let us note that in most of these cases we are talking about Indo-European peoples, which certainly facilitated this difficult process. It is conceivable that an individual from even a very exotic
of an ethnos, but it is a single case and concerns rather the descendants of such people within Polishness who were born and raised. The assumption that a stranger from another culture and civilization
It is extremely naive to assume that someone will easily become loyal to our community, even if such cases do occur. Relying on this is something extremely harmful and irresponsible in terms of policy.
We are advocates of a homogeneous and monocultural Polish society and consider the almost uniform ethnicity we maintain as a value worth defending. We have been advocating for a social policy favoring the separate existence of nations, cultures, and ethnoses since the inception of our association. This is supported by both the historical experience of our nation and the observation of the effects of multiculturalism policy in the contemporary Western world. We have no doubt that the loud campaign against the alleged "racism" of some banners at the Independence March on November 11, 2017 is hostility towards the idea of a nation with a homogeneous ethnic composition, not a desire to defend – by no one threatened – those few black people who would actually want to live in Poland as loyal citizens.

5. We are a Slavic, Western, Indo-European, and white people. Each of these factors defines our identity in some way, although it does not exhaust it entirely. Each is worth defending.
This also applies to the biological nature of our nation. The influence of genes is not fully known, but what we know indicates that it is powerful. For this reason, we do not object to slogans about "white"
Europe”, just as we do not object to the Republic of Haiti being called the "black republic".

6. A completely separate but worthy of note matter is the reaction of prominent figures in the nationalist community to Mateusz Pławski's rather common-sense statement about the need for
separate existence of ethnic communities (ethnopluralism). We interpret it as an attempt to curry favor with left-liberal elites, and therefore to ingratiate oneself with the enemy of the nation
Polish. Regardless of the motives that guided these leaders, their behavior in this matter after November 11, 2017, we consider to be compromising them as Polish nationalists.

The Main Board of the Association for Tradition and Culture "Niklot"