by starroute » Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:04 pm
I'm coming to the conclusion that "National Bolshevism" is a not-so-thinly veiled play on "National Socialism" and that the intention is to combine the <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> best <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> characteristics of communism and fascism in one ungainly package.<br><br>It does seem, at the least, somewhat tactless of Dugin to set up his own private brownshirts in a town that's already wracked by racist violence.<br><br>I found a couple of interesting quotes from Dugin on the subject of fascism. One goes back to his National Bolshevik days in 1996, and was only available in the Google cache:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:CSGebWfVGKgJ:www.sptimesrussia.com/secur1/151/neo.html+%22alexander+dugin%22+fascist&hl=en">64.233.161.104/search?q=c...cist&hl=en</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Local pop musician and showman Sergei Kuryokhin undertook yet another attempt to attract the city's youth to the extravagant theories and politics of the National Bolshevik Party at the St Petersburg State University last Tuesday.<br><br>About 300 students gathered for the event called "People Need Soul. A Metaphysical Show Program, featuring NBP's mystical philosopher and publisher Alexander Dugin -- the party's candidate for the State Duma elections in St Petersburg last November.<br><br>The viewers seemed to expect something like the last year's show "Kuryokhin for Dugin," incorporating noisy guitars, flaming crosses, a male striptease and the party's outrageous political leader Eduard Limonov, who ran for a Moscow Duma seat. What they got instead was Kuryokhin's typically elusive speeches delivered in his usual semi-jocular, absurdist manner.<br><br>Alexander Dugin was more to the point, having duly delivered the outline of the theory of the "Conservative Revolution," that he promotes.<br><br>"Communism did not fully satisfy us, on the other hand, we see that liberal pseudo-democracies lack content and life, so isn't it clear why people are interested in fascism," he said.<br><br>"The question is not if fascism will be in Russia or not -- it will be definitely. The question is what kind of fascism it will be," he added.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>The other is from Dugin's own site:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.arctogaia.com/public/eng-inter1.htm">www.arctogaia.com/public/eng-inter1.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"...Dugin, in the 'Knizhnoe Obozrenie' interview you managed to get away without answering the question, whether you are a Fascist or not. I have read you articles in 'Den'' and watched your TV programme 'The Mysteries of Our Age', where you have talked about Nazi mysticism. Now, would you please answer YES or NO? And stop confusing us..."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>(E. Podpol'tseva, Apreleka, 44 yrs.)<br><br> Dugin: I consider myself a Conservative Revolutioneer and National-Bolshevik. That is not exactly Fascism, or to say it more clearly, exactly not fascism. There were several periods during the history of fascist movements, and these periods were quite different from one another not only politically, but also philosophically and ideologically. In early Italian Fascism (which I happen to like, and I don't hesitate saying this aloud) there were many Avantgardist fronts - in social and economic spheres (Syndicalism, trade unions), in art (D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Papini, etc.), in right-wing Hegelianism that created the ideology of the Absolute State (Gentile), within esoterical seeking and Traditionalism (Evola, Reghini), and, finally, in the very Fascist way, where nihilism and anarchism ("direct action, romanticism, exotica" ) coexisted with the conservative ideals of nation, ethics, hierarchy, and military values. However, after the Mussolini-vatican pact and the re-established monarchy it all became rather dull, bureaucratic and uninteresting. For a while in 1943-5 the spirit of this left-wing republican Fascism resurfaced in the Salo republic (after the Conservatives betrayed Mussolini to the Americans), but that was something else.<br><br> There was also a period that I find interesting within the German National-Socialism: The early National-Socialism, which was still clearly Socialist, Avant-garde, full of ariosophic mysticism and deeply into philosophic problematics that were developed by Conservative Revolutioneers - Ernst Junger, Arthur Müller van den Bruck, Karl Schmidt, Werner Sombarth, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Wirth, Otmar Spann, Leo Frobenius, Friedrich Hilscher, Oswald Spengler, and others. I see this pleiade of Conservative Revolutioneers the most interesting phenomenon of 20th century Europe. However, practically all these authors were marginalized by Hitler's regime, or faced heavy repression.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>I looked up "ariosophy," and it refers to a particular brand of anti-semitism, based on Madame Blavatsky's "root races," which influenced Hitler.<br><br>Interestingly, the early Italian phase of fascism is the kind Michael Ledeen idealizes as well. <p></p><i></i>