Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 59, Issue 20

["Thomas Campbell" <avvakum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

I don't understand how you arrived at the conclusion that Russian
neo-Eurasianism is "generally a lot less extreme tha[n] Solzhenitsyn's
brand of Slavophilisim." The leading exponent of neo-Eurasianism,
philosopher Aleksander Dugin, is a Third Position fascist  (as well as
a co-founder and ex-member of the National Bolshevik Party). It's not
much to look at but the Wikipedia article on him at least gives some
fruitful links, including a decent paper from the Kennan Institute:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dugin

You may be right that Dugin's vision is more congenial to "Plan Putin"
than Solzhenitsyn, but this is hardly cause for rejoicing. Especially
because Dugin is now a media celebrity, regularly appearing in the
Russian mass media, where he presents his fascist views minus the
arcane references to Julia Evola, Carl Schmitt and Co. (although
putting across their "content" as insistently and popularly as he
can). If, like me, you had had the opportunity to listen and watch his
speechifying hundreds of times and read his books and articles, I
think you'd retract your "mild" appraisal of neo-Eurasianism.

To reiterate: neo-Eurasianists are fascists. And this is a judgement
that, I doubt, they would argue with.

And what do you mean by "Westernization"?

>  Message: 9
>  Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:12:05 -0400
>  From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: Re: [Marxism] Assessment of Solzhenitsyn in the Weekly Worker

>  I think that in its contemporary form, Slavophilism
>  in Russia tends to take the form of what is known
>  as neo-Eurasianism, which is generally a lot
>  less extreme that Solzenitsyn's brand of
>  Slavophilism (i.e most neo-Eurasianists don't hanker for
>  restoring the monarchy), but like his brand, it
>  still attempts to caution Russians
>  against Westernization and becoming
>  too closely tied to the West.
>
>  Overall, I think its a better fit with
>  Putin's plans for restoring Russia
>  as a leading world power than
>  Solzenitsyn's brand of Slavophilism.

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