Eurasia Party
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Eurasia Party Партия «Евразия» | |
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| Leader | Aleksandr Dugin |
| Founded | 21 June 2002 |
| Split from | National Bolshevik Party |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Newspaper | Eurasian Review |
| Youth wing | Eurasian Youth Union |
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| National affiliation | International Eurasian Movement |
| Colours | Black & Blue |
| Seats in the State Duma | 0 / 450
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| med.org.ru eurasia.com.ru | |
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The Eurasia Party (
Eurasia Movement was established by Aleksandr Dugin
.
History and origins
Often seen to be a form of
civilisational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union". The party has been deemed neo-fascist by critics,[4] a label Dugin denies.[5]
The Eurasia Party was founded by Dugin shortly before George W. Bush's visit to Russia at the end of May 2002. The party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily Iran and states like Germany.
Eurasia Movement
The Eurasia Party is affiliated with the
The movement follows the neo-Eurasian ideology, which adopts an eclectic mixture of RussianAlexander Dugin, an exponent of neo-Eurasianism, initially followed the ideology of National Bolshevism. Expanding out of National Bolshevism, he brought into the existing ideology of Eurasianism the idea of a "third position" (a combination of capitalism and
neo-liberal" ideology he calls "Atlanticism". His most preferred form of government is a Russian dictatorship and a totalitarian state with complete ideological control over society. In the 1990s, Dugin criticized Italian fascism and German Nazism as "not enough fascist" and accused China of anti-Russian subversion. In subsequent years, he abandoned direct apology for fascism and called for collaboration with China, and began to refer to his positions as being from the traditions of the conservative revolution
and National Bolshevism. However, researchers typically refer to neo-Eurasianism (also known Fourth Political Theory and Duginism) as a form of fascism.
Ideology
Dugin states that the Eurasia Party is developing the foundations for an entirely new
political ideology, the Fourth Political Theory, which integrates and supersedes liberal democracy, Marxism, and fascism.[2] In this theory, the main subject of politics is not individualism, class struggle, or nation, but rather Dasein (existence itself).[13] According to Dugin, his aim is to take elements from all three, 'neutralise and decontaminate' negative aspects such as racism
(in the case of fascism) and incorporate them into this new ideology. He refers to this ideology as a 'timeless, non-modern theory' valid for all time.
Dugin views liberalism as having 'defeated all its competitors'. He refers to the derision of the past by liberals and the modern concept of 'progress' as being seriously flawed, going so far as to describe it as racism and even 'moral genocide against the past'.[2]
From the three other political theories, he discards the aspects he finds unacceptable and highlights what he sees as the positive qualities. He combines them to form a new political theory based on the 'ethnos', describing this as ‘the greatest value of the Fourth Political Theory as a cultural phenomenon; as a community of language, religious belief, daily life, and of sharing resources and efforts; as an organic entity’.[2]
Platform
The Eurasia Party is based around the following five principles:
- It is a .
- It is a nationalized.
- It is a traditionalist-communist party, founded on a system of Bolshevik values combined with traditional Eurasian confessions, namely Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.[14] The church is separated from the state in some degree from the society, culture, education and information and it is controlled by the state.
- It is a Kalmyk, Ingush and all the other ones—can find a way to express their political and cultural aspirations.
- It is a regions, where the people have saved their communist roots, the sentiment of the past and family values.
Foreign policy
With respect to foreign policy, the Eurasia Party believes that:
- A path the West has taken is destructive. Its civilization is spiritually empty, false and monstrous. Behind economic prosperity is a total spiritual degradation.
- The exceptional character of Russia, its difference from both West and East, is a positive value. It must be saved, developed and taken care of.
- The United States exploited sorrow of the Russian zone of influence and in the Commonwealth of Independent States. [clarification needed][vague]
- From the cultural, social and political points of view, Europe is close to the United States, but its geopolitical, geostrategic and economic concerns are on the contrary close to Russia-Eurasia.
Domestic policy
With respect to Russia's domestic policies, the Eurasia Party intends to:
- Reinforce the strategic unity of Russia, her geopolitical homogeneity, the vertical line of authority, curtail the influence of the .
- Promote Eurasist federalism by conferring the status of political subjects onto the ethno-cultural formations and by enforcing the principles of the rights of the peoples.
- Promote Eurasist economics by encouraging autarchy of the great spaces, economic nationalism and subordination of the market mechanisms to the concerns of the national economy.
See also
- Eurasianism, the ideology of the Eurasia Party, as developed by Dugin.
- Foundations of Geopolitics, an influential 1997 book by Dugin on geopolitics.
- The Fourth Political Theory, a 2009 book by Dugin on political philosphy.
- National Bolshevism, the original ideology of Dugin.
- Civilization state
- Radical nationalism in Russia
References
- Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ Dugin, Alexander(2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. pp. 1–50.
- ^ Saunders, Doug (22 March 2014). "Has Putin bought into these dangerous ideas?". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ Andreas Umland; Steffen Kailitz (2017). "Why fascists took over the Reichstag but have not captured the Kremlin: a comparison of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia". Nationalities Papers. 45 (2).
- ^ Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Mark Sleboda; Michael Millerman. Arktos Media. p. 213.
- S2CID 153557856.
- ^ "Alexander Dugin – A Russian scarecrow". POLISH MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE. NEW EASTERN EUROPE. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Russian nationalist thinker Dugin sees war with Ukraine". BBC. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- . Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Russian Nationalist Dugin Says Greece Briefly Detained Him At Border". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 18 May 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Putin's Brain Alexander Dugin and the Philosophy Behind Putin's Invasion of Crimea". Council on Foreign Relations. Foreign Affairs. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Burbank, Jane (22 March 2022). "The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
After unsuccessful interventions in post-Soviet party politics, Mr. Dugin focused on developing his influence where it counted — with the military and policymakers… In Mr. Dugin's adjustment of Eurasianism to present conditions, Russia had a new opponent — no longer just Europe, but the whole of the 'Atlantic' world led by the United States. And his Eurasianism was not anti-imperial but the opposite: Russia had always been an empire, Russian people were 'imperial people,' and after the crippling 1990s sellout to the 'eternal enemy,' Russia could revive in the next phase of global combat and become a 'world empire.' On the civilizational front, Mr. Dugin highlighted the long-term connection between Eastern Orthodoxy and Russian empire. Orthodoxy's combat against Western Christianity and Western decadence could be harnessed to the geopolitical war to come.
- ^ "Dugin's 'Fourth Political Theory' and Postmodern Rage". 26 May 2018.
- ^ "The Pan-Russian Social-Political Movement EURASIA: stages of our path". Eurasia. 1 March 2002. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
3. The EURASIA party is a traditionalist party. It is founded on a system of values elaborated through the centuries by the traditional Eurasian confessions – Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism. This is a very important point to us. We do not simply pay lip service to religion as to a cultural relic, as a tribute to polit-correctness. To revive the traditional faiths, to establish the dominant and founding role of religious values in the society, to fight for spirituality, intellectual development, higher ethic ideals – this the axial and main task of the party EURASIA. Our Church is separated from the State, and this is right; but she is inseparable from the society, culture, education, information. We stand today in a total crisis of moral and spiritual values. We resort to the traditional confessions as to a safe haven, we trust only them in this issue. The overwhelming majority of the members of EURASIA are believers, first of all Orthodoxes, then Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and so on.
External links
- "Theses of Dugin's address to the Political Conference of the Pan-Russian Social-Political Movement Eurasia" (1 March 2002).
