Parallel Structures First — Infiltration Only as a Force Multiplier
The debate isn’t infiltration vs secession. Parallel structures are the core. Institutional positions are only useful if they serve that core and never become a new excuse for inaction.
A debate is unfolding again on nationalist X. It flares up every year or two, usually triggered by some clip making the rounds. This time, one of the sparks is a call from Nick Fuentes urging young nationalists—“groypers,” in his branding—to enter state institutions, get inside the agencies, and try to steer the machine from within. On the other side, Eric Aarvoll’s response—echoing a wider current focused on land, community, and tangible parallel life—captures the opposing instinct. They are not debating each other directly, but they’ve come to symbolize two strategic impulses within the movement.
They’re both right, and both wrong. The question is not whether we should infiltrate institutions or build alternatives. The real question is: what is primary, and what is auxiliary?
The Illusion of Capture
The belief that you can “take over” modern institutions from the inside rests on a premise that these institutions still exist to serve something other than their own inertia and the managerial class that feeds on them. They don’t. Western states are no longer neutral instruments waiting for anyone strong enough to seize their levers. They are metastatic organisms with self-reinforcing bureaucratic immune systems. The moment someone with the wrong metaphysical assumptions steps inside, that immune system activates.
Ask anyone who made it into the police, military, public sector, or corporate management. They don’t get to transform the institution. What happens instead is that the institution begins to transform them. It demands ideological compliance first, then behavioral submission, then personal loyalty. It’s not just about rules—it’s about the shaping of a personality type.
So yes, infiltration has limits. If you enter without a support structure behind you, you won’t infiltrate the system. The system will infiltrate you.
The Fantasy of Retreat
But there’s another fantasy—equally dangerous. The idea that everything can be solved by homesteading, starting a homeschool group, or growing a beard and moving to the woods. Parallel structures are absolutely necessary, but they don’t exist in a vacuum. Law still exists. Banks exist. Courts exist. Enforcement still exists. The managerial state will not ignore you just because you planted kale and opted out.
If you cut all ties with the system while it still has operative power, you are not building independence. You are building vulnerability. This is why Beyond Collapse repeatedly says: don’t disappear, decentralize. Remain visible enough to be politically inconvenient to ignore, but resilient enough to not depend on their logistics.
The Strategic Hierarchy
Here’s the hierarchy viewed through a Beyond Collapse lens:
Primary — Build our own networks, economic loops, cultural centers, educational nodes, legal defense structures, places to gather and train loyalty. These must be real, not aesthetic. People must know where to go. Money must circulate inside. Trust must be earned by deeds, not usernames.
Secondary — Develop high-competence individuals who can do what most nationalists refuse to do: become accountants, lawyers, IT security professionals, logistics managers, doctors, engineers, high-level administrators. Our parallel structures will need these skills. Without them, they fail at scale and collapse back into hobbyism.
Tertiary — Occupy positions in legacy institutions not to reform them, but to extract resources, intel, protection, and to buy time. A nationalist lawyer inside the administrative court is not going to “redpill the judiciary”. But he might stall a case long enough for our people to relocate assets. A nationalist in local government won’t stop demographic decline. But he might ensure that our cultural center doesn’t mysteriously fail safety inspections.
Infiltration is not a revolution. It is reconnaissance and supply theft. Treated this way, it becomes useful. Treated as a path to political restoration, it becomes delusion.
Roles, Not Spectators
A movement that tells every young man to become a farmer will fail as surely as one that tells every young man to become a lawyer or a YouTuber. Division of labor is not just for economies, it is for survival. Some must become builders. Some must become merchants. Some must become legal shields. Some must go behind enemy lines and learn how their machinery works.
But all of them must be anchored in a living parallel network. Otherwise, they drift into individual careerism. Without our own structures, any talk of infiltration is just begging to be reabsorbed by the system. Without infiltration where tactically useful, parallel structures become easy targets and die in their infancy.
This is not a debate between two opposing strategies. It is a debate between core and periphery. The core must be ours. The periphery can extend into theirs.
The Coming Vacuum
Beyond Collapse analysis rests on a simple forecast: the state will not collapse uniformly. It will retreat selectively. Services, investment, protection, and order will be withdrawn first from hostile or politically low-priority zones—meaning white rural areas, struggling native towns, and dissident enclaves. These regions will still technically exist under state jurisdiction, but practically they will be left to fend for themselves. This is already visible in municipal bankruptcies, police “no-go” admissions, and collapsing healthcare availability outside metropolitan zones.
When that vacuum opens, whoever has prepared parallel structures will become the de facto authority. If our people are not ready, some other force will fill it. And other forces are always ready.
This is why Aarvoll’s emphasis on land, community, and real-world building resonates. And this is why Fuentes’ emphasis on gaining institutional competence should not be dismissed. The correct synthesis is simple: We build the village, but we also train someone who knows how the zoning laws work.
Your Position in the Coming Order
Stop waiting for orders from anyone. If you are suited for construction, then build. If you can handle legal texts without falling asleep, study law. If you are good with numbers, build businesses that finance our people rather than Amazon. If you can stomach bureaucracy, infiltrate and learn how it works. But none of these roles matter unless you are tied into something living, local, and ours.
Parallel structures are the spine. Infiltration, finance, and professionalism are the muscles. Online discourse is just noise unless it feeds one of those limbs.
This is not a debate about which path is morally superior. It is a question of which path gives our people actual resilience. The answer is clear: we build our own world first, then exploit theirs while it still exists.
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Väldigt sant, vägen framåt behöver använda sig av bägge strategier. Både kontra-ekonomi och infiltration som metod för att säkerställa parallella samhällen.