A Walk Down Memory Lane: The Australian League of Right’s Classic Bookshop and Race! By Brian Simpson

Once upon a time, before the internet, people read books, the Australian League of Rights had splendid bookshops. It was there that I first met Eric Butler, and went and had a beer and a steak sandwich with him, maybe about 1988. The bookshops were impressively stocked with every social credit book available, plus Eric’s own tremendous pamphlets. But, I was a biology teacher and interested in race, which I felt from university studies was being downplayed by the Boas constrictor of early cultural Marxism. And, there in the bookshop was the counter, the old-school books that the Left has removed from the university libraries.

One would be impressed by the massive tomes by L. A. Waddell. His masterwork of 646 pages was, The Makers of Civilization in Race and History, (1929, edition by Christian book Club). His thesis was common in that time, but was rejected by the rise of the Left after World War II, when Boasian cultural Marxism had been victorious. The thesis was that the Aryans, what we now call the Indo-Europeans, were developers of civilisations across the world. He said in the beginning of the book that the “Aryan” or “Nordic” race is “disclosed to be the oldest of all the civilised races and the parent of all the other civilizations.” (p. vii) He identified the Aryans with the Sumerians, being the same people, and argued that the ancient Egyptians, while Egypt was a great civilisation, were white, something Arthur Kempt has argued for more recently in The Children of RA, discussed at this site: L. A. Waddell, Egyptian Civilization: Its Sumerian Origin and Real Chronology and Sumerian Origin of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

The Phoenicians were also Aryans, “the fair, long-headed North European race” (p. v of L. A. Waddell, The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons (1924). Waddell agreed with T. Huxley, that there was an Aryan race, and quoted Huxley’s paper, “The Aryan Question,” Nineteenth Century, 1890, p. 766: “There was and is an Aryan Race, that is to say, the characteristic modes of speech, termed Aryan, were developed among the Blond Long-Heads alone, however much some of them may have been modified by the importation of Non-Aryan elements.”

Waddell also published The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet (1927), that challenged the usual Mediterranean origin, and the remarkable British Edda (1930). While the Eddas were taken to be Icelandic creations, long after the end of the Viking age. Waddell argued that the Eddas, with the story of King Thor (c. 3380-3350), were British, not mythological, but historical. I have not made up my mind on that one yet.

Many little booklets were available, such as K. R. McKilliam, Our Nation is Being Destroyed: The Conspiracy to Destroy Western Civilisation, outlining the history of globalist control, especially on race and immigration issues. D. Watts, The Dangerous Myth of Racial Equality: Genocide for the White Races? (1982), has an introduction by our Eric Butler, who gives a summary of what is now called “the Great Replacement,” using the destruction of Rhodesia as an example. Prophetic indeed.

One interesting booklet in my league collection is Sir Arthur Keith, The Place of Prejudice in Modern Civilization (1930). Professor Keith saw prejudice as natural, inborn by evolution, for “the production of higher and better races of mankind.” (p. 35). He concluded that “the heart of modern civilized man is still alive with the instinctive longings, desires and prejudices of tribal man.” (p. 39)

We continue this work today in the blog, but we follow a League tradition.