Civilisational Approach
Alexander Dugin argues that Russia faces a crucial choice: adopt a civilisational stance as a sovereign entity or concede defeat.
To effectively confront the West in the war of civilisations that Russia is already waging, it is necessary to take into account the hierarchy of plans.
The highest level is identity:
What is the identity of the enemy? (Who, by and large, are we fighting?)
What is our own identity?
What is the identity of the remaining civilisational actors?
We must start with such a civilisational map. Already at this level we will be faced with a problem: the enemy has penetrated so deeply into our own civilisation that he has partially intercepted, like a hacker, the control of meanings and mental structures to determine who is who — not only from outside Russia but also from within it. Therefore, we must start with clearing the mental field and sovereignising consciousness.
Here is the next problem: the so-called civilisational approach. The enemy managed to impose on Russian socio-humanitarian science that the civilisational approach is either incorrect, marginal, or optional. However, rejection of the civilisational approach automatically means only one thing: full recognition of the universality of the paradigm of Western civilisation and consent to external control of the consciousness of Russian society by those with whom we are at war.
In other words, anyone who questions the civilisational approach automatically becomes a foreign agent — in the most literal sense. It does not matter whether it is intentional, out of stupidity, or out of inertia. But now it is just one way and nothing else. Only a civilisational approach allows us to talk about sovereign public consciousness and therefore about sovereign science and sovereign education.
This is the last call for Russian humanities: either we are rapidly moving to the position of a civilisational approach (Russia = sovereign civilisation), or we are writing a letter of resignation. Sometimes the increase in scientific knowledge is achieved by subtraction, not by addition — if one subtracts nonsense, toxic algorithms, subversive epistemological strategies, in a word, the liberal virus of Westernism.
(translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister)
These translations are treasures.
This article compels me ask what American civilization actually is. If we are to join in a civilization, we must ask this question and the answer is unfortunately everything Dugin despises. The Revolution of 1776 was a Liberal revolution vs aristocracy and monarchy to create a "city on a hill" through persistent Liberalism i.e. change and "progress". And this, we certain did, although the city has become more a forward artillery observer base than anything else.
A better solution may be to consider the Patriots as having fought for what they believed their rights as Englishmen to have been which King George had violated. Edmund Burke was prescient on the subject (and reminds me of Clare Daly today)
Castlereaugh mitigated vengeance at the Congress of Vienna to create a lasting peace after Napoleon. Gladstone may have over rated his own country's parliamentarianism but parliaments have become global. Even Tsarist Russia had a Duma.
The Scramble for Africa began as America's frontier closed and our expansion turned to South America. Industrialization and the increased needs for raw materials and markets caused it all but that is over. So are the world wars which were largely about just that more than ideologies although the two most "progressive" regimes inherited the Cold War whole Europe's empires disintegrated.
Maybe, this leaves us one collapse short of the Russian Federation, at this point, before we, too, might recover our civilization.
One learns more from mistakes than success although it is a lot more costly.
O respeito e a consideração que tenho pelo Professor Alexandr Dugin e este pequeno artigo deixam-me terrivelmente desconfortável. Não tenho nivel intelectual para falar sobre esta matéria, acho que entendi tudo e agora fico em suspenso. Há de facto uma invasão avassaladora dos vicios do Ocidente que são apenas e só vicios nada trazendo de bom para ninguém. Fico a aguardar mais noticias Professor Alexandre Dugin. Que fará o Presidente Putin?