To quote a friend of mine, "Interesting, non-original ideas for a society that will never accept them."
I wonder who the intended audience of this book is? All the worthwhile truths, predictions & observations in here would already be well known to any "ethno-nationalist" minded individual or group whereas the mere assertion of these facts or mentioning of these subjects cannot "convert a normie" and what's the point anyways? That's either preaching to the choir or barking up the wrong tree. This work is heavily focused on the author's vision of government, or lack thereof, and of course that ruling audience has no interest in this and by their very nature never will either. My conjecture is that W.R. was a smart, caring man that saw important trends happening and took a scholarly approach to discuss these in the public space, but to no avail or larger significance. Principally, the Ethnostate amounts to W.R.'s idealistic/utopian view of a restructuring of the world and its inhabitants that has a near zero chance of happening. 2.5/5
"Jews, who usually do well financially and politically when their host countries put the quietus on nationalism, have reservations about the ethnostate concept, except when it applies to Israel. At first glance the Zionist state is the realization of age-old hopes and dreams of those Jews longing to return to the homeland their ancestors left nearly two millennia ago. ...require the driving out and confiscating the property of a million or more inhabitants.
Israel was foisted on a land of non-Jews by force of arms and money." "Israel, however, is only part of a broader problem that faces world Jewry. The international dispersion of Jews, their presence in high places in so many countries, runs counter to the ethnostate concept. A political philosophy that emphasizes human differences does not sit well with a people long dedicated to the promotion of internationalism.
Ironically, almost everything Jews strenuously oppose in their host countries- racial or ethnic discrimination of any kind, civil rights violations, terrorism, nationalism, state-supported religion, majoritarian rule- flourish in Israel.
There is little doubt that Jews, wherever they are found, would be in the front line of the opposition to any serious ethnostate movement. Many influential Negro leaders would likely join the Jews, believing, but not admitting, that blacks, left to their own devices, would be sorely pressed to establish a successful ethnostate or any state on the Western model at this point in time."
"Despite some occasional anti-Semitic outbursts by black radicals, Jews and Negroes are either willing or unwilling allies. Jews, it will be recalled, played a leading role in financing and directing the civil rights crusade that lifted American Negroes out of political obscurity and transformed them into a powerful minority. Jews were in the forefront of the campaign to lift long-established immigration quotas, to open the gates that filled American cities with fellow Jews, Southern Europeans, Hispanics and Asians, that filled British cities with West Indians, Asian Indians and Pakistanis, German cities with Turks and French cities with Algerians and black Africans."