06-20-2016, 12:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2016, 01:14 PM by Eric the Green.)
(06-20-2016, 12:33 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(06-18-2016, 05:17 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-17-2016, 02:08 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: To be fair, there are some intellectuals who seem to now be tolerant of fascism. It is mainly the Duginist strain they are interested in. Their intense hatred of globalism, neocons and the late 20th century version of Western liberalism brought them to such a juncture. We even seem to have a few folks who think like this on this forum. Mainly they come from a Left Anarchist pedigree and in some cases are younger folks who in a past age might have associated with the New Left. But these are few. The typical mainstream Blue County person would have nothing to do with fascism in any form.
Duginism is a new notion to me. Seems a conflation of some left and right authoritarian nonsense. Those on the forum who "think like this" seem to include Cynic Hero for sure, and maybe Anthony 58 (formerly Flat 58) and Tussilago might flirt with some of its aspects, but none of those three could ever have associated with New Left anarchism.
Not all Duginists came from New Left pedigree. However, any former Leftist who is now a Duginist is highly likely to be of New Left pedigree. Make sense?
I don't know; I don't see any connection between those two mindsets. I imagine most Duginists are Russians, though, which have no relationship to the New Left. Any kind of violent nationalism in The West also has no relationship to the New Left.
The New Left was akin to the yippies and represented the sixties movements of anti-war, civil rights, ecology, etc., although many of them also embraced their interpretation of Marxism, which was not necessarily pro-Soviet; and some (but not most) were violent. But Marxism is itself anti-nationalist, and Duginists are primarily nationalists who admire the Soviet Union for its national power and not so much for its leftist ideology, such as it was.