Degrelle received the Knight’s Cross with oak leaves from Adolf Hitler for the heroic Waffen-SS breakout in Cherkassy.

From the 34th issue (“private correspondence”) of the “Circle of Friends of Léon Degrelle” (February 2020)

Summary: – Social Revolution by Léon Degrelle – Quotes from Ernst Jünger – La Phalange Africaine; – Last interview with Léon Degrelle ‘: – The political police of Léon Daudet by Joël Laloux; – In Memoriam; – Presses, books; –

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SOCIAL REVOLUTION
by LÉON DEGRELLE

26 December 1940

Since May [war with Germany], the Belgian working class has been living in stagnation. The material or sentimental ties which still united him to the old Marxist parties have been broken. It floats, with
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the secret desire to recover from a hope, to participate in a faith. Because it remained, with the peasantry, the healthiest element of the nation and the most able to participate tomorrow in a real revolution. Some are sometimes surprised to see so many bourgeois mentally lost to the boastfulness of Mr. Churchill’s agents. The opposite should surprise you.

It was the bourgeois who was the most foolishly “off-to-war” before May 10. It is he who, quite naturally, with two large hams above his head and starchy foods stacked in the pantry, is today the most fierce “fight-to-the-end-er,”  at the moment, of course, as his valiant opposition [to Germany] is confined to prudent rhetoric.

The average bourgeois has only a veneer of culture, but thinks he knows everything because he was an assiduous reader of [Establishment prestige newspapers such as]  Paris-Soir and The Last Hour and an auditor of Mr. Louis Piérard or Mr. de Laveleye.

To tell the truth, he does not know anything, has no exact idea of ​​international realities and lets himself fill his head as he fills his shopping bags. This bourgeoisie, which prides itself on knowing everything, has proven that it lets itself be led by the tip of the nose by all the talkers of nonsense: it showed the depth of its stupidity by supporting a Van Zeeland in 1937 [Establishment politico who beat Degrelle after the Catholic Church’s cardinal viciously condemned him], starting again with great strides behind the old parties in 1939, following, apoplectic with enthusiasm, the Daladiers and the Reynauds [war-mongering, anti-German, political leaders in France] of early 1940.

It is therefore absolutely normal that the bourgeois should find so tasty today, like fruits of vast wisdom, the nonsense of English propaganda. It is a serious confirmation of the approaching crushing of England. If the bourgeois in the democracies bet on Mr. Hitler, the Führer’s fate would immediately seem much less certain!

The bourgeois is always deceived, because stupefied by a social environment often without horizon. He has lost all personality in contact with the primacy of the press and the politics of the Ancien Régime. It will take him a decade of rehab before he is able to judge, compare and even, simply, look again at the truth.

For the moment, his nose glued to his bastard newspaper, he is out of the game. The new Europe will be made without him.

The worker, on the other hand, has retained a much more complete personality. Socialism had led him to take a keen interest in political and social problems. It aroused in him an often remarkable curiosity, naive certainly, but which expressed a deep desire to know, to believe in something, to give of himself to someone. The disillusions brought to the working masses by the betrayals of the democratic parties have not killed this popular need for ideals, faith, and giving onself.

The working mass is certainly the most open to the revolution which is already boiling from one end of Europe to the other. For a long time, it was antihitlerian, antifascist, and antirexist [against his large Rexist movement], because a hundred professional politicians, relentless in defending their prejudices and their privileges, lied to the people and painted a distorted picture of the social program and the social achievements of the [fascist & NS] innovators.

But, today that the corral of the old parties is broken, millions of workers, seized by a curiosity to know more and the need to act, are ready to quickly pass from their momentary disarray to a powerful collaboration, collaboration of masses and collaboration of souls.

These people, in a time of general decomposition, remained upright, morally robust, generous – infinitely more generous than the bourgeois – having acquired, because of the hard struggle for their daily bread, a moving and deep sense of community. The national revolution should not be afraid to focus its efforts on it; he will be infinitely more loyal to him than the squads of undecided half-intellectuals who dream of revolution only to get cushy government jobs.

The bourgeois hates risk because he has something – money, comfort, honor – to risk.

He is timid in advance, constantly raising a wet finger to know where the wind is coming from. As long as he is not sure that the wind is in our sails, we may flatter him all we want. He will remain where his interest command him to stay: in silent expectation.

But let our victory come tomorrow, with energy and power: the bourgeois will immediately rush behind our advancing tank, even if before that day we beat him with sticks. His interest will push him after us, as, in the days of risk, his interest keeps him behind the curtains, cautious, on the lookout, ready to slip away or rush forward, depending always on whether luck flees us or helps us.

This does not mean that he will not be useful to us then, while deploying the skepticism that gives us knowledge of the virtue of men. But, meanwhile, the revolution is not being prepared with heroes who always have one foot facing forward and the other one in the direction of retreat!

The revolution will be won with the hard and with the pure. Hard and pure — those who have followed us through five years of struggle and persecution. Hard and pure, these immense virgin forces of the proletariat which, because of the monstrous selfishness of hypercapitalism, have nothing to lose and will follow us with enthusiasm starting from the day they see that we are leading them to the conquest of a status of social justice and dignity.

The opportunity is there to build this social status. The working class, exploited by the high bank, mistress of the factories, deceived, betrayed by the Marxist parties that had corrupted the money and the political mediocracy, this working class can, if the rebuilders of the country want it, finally obtain an unprecedented set of social reforms. Obstacles are now being removed. The stifling past is dead. Extraordinary solidarity is uniting the new forces of Europe, thus constituting a block of hundreds of millions of men determined to achieve social justice. Everything tomorrow will be possible: a decent salary, a salary to raise a family on; healthy housing, sports for workers ; paid holidays; accession of the most interesting elements of the people to the highest participation in the destinies of the new state.

Finally, we will be able to knead a powerful dough, instead of having to work, according to partisan passions, on mini-reforms, which are immediately sabotaged, because they are not part of an overall plan, do not participate in any mystique, and are not dependent just on wishes.

A huge social revolution — far more important than this war — is being born. The people must resume hope. The thankless days of the present war are preparing for this liberation. Tomorrow, the warriors will have finished the excavation work.

And the social revolution will be able to rise, grow, and flourish. It is up to you, hardworking people, with a pure and strong heart, to understand and follow us. Your future is at stake. Come to our ranks and build it yourself!

Léon Degrelle December 26, 1940