Sam Francis died of a heart aneurism, at the early age of 57, seven years ago today (February 15). But his work is living on in the alt-right blogosphere and even figured in last week’s hysteria over VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow’s appearance on a ProEnglish CPAC panel (Sam was one of the alleged “white supremacists” that VDARE.com has published). Two collections of his works, Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America’s Culture War and Essential Writings on Race , have appeared since his death.
And, significantly, Sam’s key concept of Middle American Radicals (MARS) is very much alive today, in the form of the Tea Party movement. As Sam described the MARS concept in his book Revolution From the Middle :
Middle American Radicals are essentially middle-income, white, often ethnic voters who see themselves as an exploited and dispossessed group, excluded from meaningful political participation, threatened by the tax and trade policies of the government, victimized by its tolerance of crime, immigration and social deviance, and ignored or ridiculed by the major cultural institutions of the media and education.
His conservatism was not driven by an ideology such as the free market, democracy or anti-Communism. Sam cared deeply about the regular Americans who live, work and die in this country. Imperfect as they are, these were his people. And he tried through his columns, speeches and books to speak for them when few others would. (Of course, this is exactly the dichotomy that Charles Murray writes about in his just-released Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010).
For this, Sam Francis paid a high price. If he had held his tongue about black-on-white crime, anarcho-tyranny, the immigration invasion, endless wars that do not benefit America and other taboo subjects, he would likely have risen to become editor of a conservative newspaper or journal. He could have been Rich Lowry!
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