"Those who point out the poetic justice of ardent proponents of political violence being murdered for political reasons have no leg to stand on when criticizing the stabbing of a writer over his opinions on his own religion" is indeed a very dumb hill to die on.
Has there ever been a self-declared "third way" (let alone "fourth") political philosophy that was not actually just garden-variety fascist? If I ever start a fascist party I'm going straight for double or even triple digits, just to keep it rolling for more than 10 minutes.
“We’re here to unite and reconcile the competing interests of [insert long list of antagonistic social classes and groups] but in the end we will offer up a strongman, ethnic mysticism, labour suppression, technological utopianism, dismantling the regulatory state in favour of corporate self-policing, barefoot and pregnant women, cute uniforms, a dash of Christian theocracy in the justice system and, since this is the 21st century, some kind of hobbit reference. We’re the **th way and you’ve never seen it before!”
In the Nineteenth Century, there was a vogue for attempting to reproduce the receipt for Ancient Roman Concrete; in the Twenty-first, people wish to improve on Mussolini's Patent Ultra-Modern Ancient Roman Syncrete, but it keeps on being dense and initially formidable but (so far, and one may hope in future) too brittle to support its own weight..
Dugin obviously yearns for a mobilized-but-obedient Russian populace led by reactionaries whose primary mandate seems to be agreeing with Dugin and 'knowing' the 'historical destiny of their people'. Incredibly bizarre that people would try and pass him off as anything but a fascist, albeit one rather lacking in even a whiff of Promethean futurism. He's a blood and soil guy who cannot cite Darre because the pact fell through and the Eastern Front happened. This entire thing has been so dumb on the part of Compact. If these people really want to push back on American hegemony, then they should just appeal to something like pacifism and note that not every era is like the late 30s and not every war is World War II.
"Those who point out the poetic justice of ardent proponents of political violence being murdered for political reasons have no leg to stand on when criticizing the stabbing of a writer over his opinions on his own religion" is indeed a very dumb hill to die on.
I wonder if proto-fascist is being too kind to Compact.
"I previously wrote that Compact’s attempt...."
Bad link.
The link in that line leads to the wrong thing, i.e. just another copy of Compact's article on "when liberals tolerate etc."
https://johnganz.substack.com/p/compact-magazines-unholy-alliance
Thx!
Has there ever been a self-declared "third way" (let alone "fourth") political philosophy that was not actually just garden-variety fascist? If I ever start a fascist party I'm going straight for double or even triple digits, just to keep it rolling for more than 10 minutes.
“We’re here to unite and reconcile the competing interests of [insert long list of antagonistic social classes and groups] but in the end we will offer up a strongman, ethnic mysticism, labour suppression, technological utopianism, dismantling the regulatory state in favour of corporate self-policing, barefoot and pregnant women, cute uniforms, a dash of Christian theocracy in the justice system and, since this is the 21st century, some kind of hobbit reference. We’re the **th way and you’ve never seen it before!”
I may steal that 'since this is the 21st century, some kind of hobbit reference'.
In the Nineteenth Century, there was a vogue for attempting to reproduce the receipt for Ancient Roman Concrete; in the Twenty-first, people wish to improve on Mussolini's Patent Ultra-Modern Ancient Roman Syncrete, but it keeps on being dense and initially formidable but (so far, and one may hope in future) too brittle to support its own weight..
Dugin obviously yearns for a mobilized-but-obedient Russian populace led by reactionaries whose primary mandate seems to be agreeing with Dugin and 'knowing' the 'historical destiny of their people'. Incredibly bizarre that people would try and pass him off as anything but a fascist, albeit one rather lacking in even a whiff of Promethean futurism. He's a blood and soil guy who cannot cite Darre because the pact fell through and the Eastern Front happened. This entire thing has been so dumb on the part of Compact. If these people really want to push back on American hegemony, then they should just appeal to something like pacifism and note that not every era is like the late 30s and not every war is World War II.
Taking a first look now at Compact ... and finding Walter Kirn's name on its Masthead. Ugh.
Did you know there was a "debate" about this in 2005?
https://www.academia.edu/174269/Dugin_Not_a_Fascist_A_Debate_with_A_James_Gregor_6_texts_
that's a terrible argument