{"id":365420,"date":"2018-06-14T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ancient-sparta-the-first-self-conscious-ethnostate-part-1-educating-citizen-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2018-06-14T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:06:34","slug":"ancient-sparta-the-first-self-conscious-ethnostate-part-1-educating-citizen-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ancient-sparta-the-first-self-conscious-ethnostate-part-1-educating-citizen-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Sparta: The First Self-Conscious Ethnostate? Part 1: Educating Citizen Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Guillaume Durocher, The Occidental Observer, 12 June 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If in Athens we have ethnopolitical aspects, insofar as the democracy was tempered by Hellenic virtue, in Sparta we have a State wholly dedicated to systematic organization of the society according to a biopolitical ideal. Sparta\u2019s mixed system of government and fiercely communitarian and hierarchical customs were supposed to have been created by the semi-legendary lawgiver Lycurgus, who perhaps lived in the ninth century B.C. Virtually nothing can be said for certain about his life. Lycurgus was, in later ages, rumored to have traveled to Egypt, Ionia, Crete, and even India, where \u201che talked with the Gymnosophists,\u201d[1] before establishing Sparta\u2019s constitution. What is clear, in any case, is that the basic law and way of life attributed to Lycurgus, and credited for Sparta\u2019s success, were emphatically biopolitical.<\/p>\n<p>Spartan law and culture were obsessed with systematically ensuring good breeding, martial education, and group unity. Spartan ethics and law considered that what was good was whatever was good for the community. During a debate as to whether a commander had abused his authority, the Spartan king Agesilaus argued: \u201cThe point to be examined . . . is simply this: has this action been good or bad for Sparta?\u201d[2] Kevin MacDonald has argued that the law instituted by Lycurgus \u2013 featuring in-group altruism, relative egalitarianism, separation from and unity in the face of out-groups,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/ancient-sparta-the-first-self-conscious-ethnostate-part-1-educating-citizen-soldiers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guillaume Durocher, The Occidental Observer, 12 June 2018 If in Athens we have ethnopolitical aspects, insofar as the democracy was tempered by Hellenic virtue, in Sparta we have a State wholly dedicated to systematic organization of the society according to a biopolitical ideal. Sparta\u2019s mixed system of government and fiercely communitarian and hierarchical customs were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}