The picture above is from this article covering two Bell-Beaker burials in Britain, depicting related kindred buried together - in this case, we have a mother and son. I want you to take a moment and observe the picture for a while, the whole time remembering these ancient people, then return to the article.
Etymonline gives this as the etymology for “folk”:
Old English folc "common people, laity; men; people, nation, tribe; multitude; troop, army," from Proto-Germanic *fulka- (source also of Old Saxon folc, Old Frisian folk, Middle Dutch volc, Dutch volk, Old High German folc, German Volk "people"). Perhaps originally "host of warriors:" Compare Old Norse folk "people," also "army, detachment;" and Lithuanian pulkas "crowd," Old Church Slavonic pluku "division of an army" (hence Russian polk "regiment"), both believed to have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic. Old English folcstede could mean both "dwelling-place" and "battlefield." According to Watkins, from PIE *ple-go-, suffixed form of root *pele- (1) "to fill," which would make it cognate with Greek plethos "people, multitude," and Latin plebes, "the populace, the common people."
Here we find that the proto-Indo-European root for this word is “to fill” with direct descendants meaning “the people” and following descendants ranging from “nation, tribe, troop, and army” - all of these point to the deeper underlying definition. The folk are those who fill the nation with common tribes, a multitude of troops, and loyal armies. The folk are family, more or less. They are the generative force within the nation, the creative power and living energy, those people who fill it with families and children. Without the folk, there is no nation, no tribe, and no system for a family to rely upon - there is no army of uncles, brothers, and cousins to come save the abducted woman, there is no army of men to defend the people.
The folk are the backbone of society and civilization, unlike that hodgepodge melting pot of unrelated foreigners who simply dwell in an economic zone with similar cultures born from modernity. In modern societies, the folk are being abandoned for foreigners, which just means that the producers are being replaced with consumers. In fact, all folk are being turned into foreigners, both in their own lands and abroad - massive tribal displacement has made people foreigners in strange lands where they do not belong, while simultaneously turning the natives into foreigners in their own homelands, turning the host nation into something that resembles a chimera of different bio-spirits.
Folkism is a living ideology that is directly tied to the bio-spirit of the folk themselves. It includes the entire ancestral body and all of the experiences in all of the environments lived by the folk. It has its roots in paganism and heathenry, which in turn has its roots in the deepest foundations of our race, which are obscured to us. Folkism is the natural expression of the bio-spirit, and if someone is truly for their tribe, then they will be folkish. To be tribal is to be folkish. This does not mean wearing animal pelts and drinking blood - it means embracing and interacting with the folk and with the ancestral body of the folk.
As for folkism, it is still in its nascent stages, growing as a fringe worldview among pagans, Christians, and nationalists. It plays multiple roles in multiple arenas and has antecedents in various folkish cultural activities including the revival and recording of folk music and traditions. Wiktionary gives a long list of definitions for “folkism” and I think most of them are quite applicable to this growing movement. Here are the ones which I think are the best for Europeans:
folkism
Völkisch nationalism; the desire for a homogeneous population that excludes foreigners and the belief that different racial or ethnic groups have different rights.
An ideology that emphasizes racial or ethnic identity, especially when combined with nationalism.
A movement within the Heathen or neo-pagan community that states one cannot convert to Heathenry unless one has the appropriate ancestry.
An artistic aesthetic that is based on traditional practices that are passed on from individual to individual, such as folk tales, folk music, common cultural practices, etc.
I do not believe that you have to be Heathen to be folkish. If you are a Christian, folkism offers you two things:
A deeper connection with your ancestors, nature, and the creation of God.
The preservation of historical music, poems, and writings which often pertain to some form of Christianity.
Christianity may have its roots outside of Europe, but the religion was largely our religion until somewhat recently - of course, now Christians are outnumbered and the vast majority of White Christians who remain in the churches are now liberalized. Folkism offers the racialist and traditional Christian a route back to what they might deem “normal” for without those ancient folk traditions and cultural practices, the Europe they know and love would not exist. Most of those Christian traditions have clear pagan antecedents, but that does not negate this point - folkism is tied to all of the living experiences and environments of the folks (blood and soil) so it includes all traditions which were created by the folk. The entire ancestral body must be embraced.
The picture I started this article with made me quite melancholy when I found it. I thought this article would be an easy blurb, but it took me a long time to finish simply because I kept thinking about that woman and her son, and the society who buried them together. We need to have those folkish attitudes again, and although it is hard for those of us with broken families to reconnect with the folkish body, it is not impossible.
If you are a young man or woman and you are single, then you need to focus more on finding a spouse and having a child. Go to cultural events, get out of your shell, and connect with folkish members of the race.
We need to fill our nations with our folk once more.
Hail the folk! Hail the ancestors! Hail victory! Thank you, and good-end! o///
Good poast. IMO A lot of the Nationalist movement fails to emphasize the importance of finding a good woman earlier on in life to spend your youth with, too much hate and slander directed at our women who in many cases are great people wanting exactly what we do. Just gotta get out there and find her.
Worded differently, this is something Susan Sontag would write. America isn't a folx, it's a power. America was created by God to conquer the world and send us forth for greater conquest. Manifest Destiny will not be limited by petty clan struggles.