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ok entitled ethnogenesis and the biosphere but before going on to that it s necessary to introduce a bit of historical background continue reading crackpot theory no 11 passionarity share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading konstantin leontiev putin uncategorized debating the new ethical reich february 13 2021 paulr 45 comments in my latest piece for rt which you can read here i discuss an inflammatory manifesto published this week in the liberal russian newspaper novaia gazeta by the highly respected theatre director konstantin bogomolov also well known as husband of the socialite and one time presidential candidate ksenia sobchak along the way i also mention an article by journalist dmitry gubin who has a show on the liberal ekho moskvy radio station if you read russian and want to read the originals of bogomolov s and gubin s articles they are here and here though gubin s is behind a paywall gubin s piece is an extreme but not unrepresentative example of russian liberal thought its essential message is that the west is great russia sucks and the russian people have a backward and slavish mentality if you gave the people freedom it would turn america into atomic dust bring back the death penalty and lock up the liberasts and anyone who s very intelligent in prison gubin writes bogomolov s piece on the other hand is something of a stab in the back of russian liberalism or at least that s how i describe it in my article the idea that russia should emulate the west is pretty much at the core of russian liberalism but rather than praising the west bogomolov lays into it as a new ethical reich that has established a totalitarianism that tries to enforce total compliance not just of what people say but also of what they feel using some highly offensive language bogomolov complains that the nazis have given way to an equally aggressive mix of queer activists fem fanatics and eco psychopaths who have an equal desire to totally transform society we have ended up in the tail end of a mad train steaming to a hell where we will be met by multicultural gender neutral devils he concludes adding that russia needs to get off the european train and instead create a new rightwing ideology in my article i paint this as something deeply reactionary and remark that it could easily have come out of the pen of someone like the far right thinker alexander dugin and so it could have more or less it very much gives the impression that bogomolov has gone over to the dark side it s quite remarkable that such a piece could be published in novaia gazeta but since writing my article a different explanation of bogomolov s manifesto has occurred to me bogomolov and sobchak someone told me have reputations as libertarians so rather than a conservative piece his manifesto could be seen as a libertarian one how well the ultra conservative really hates what bogomolov calls queer activists fem fanatics and eco psychopaths but one could argue that what bogomolov really hates is something different namely he hates being told that he can t say that he hates them citing the novel clockwork orange he argues that the beast within the human needs expression i demand the right to be obnoxious i demand to be allowed to be a hoodlum is what he appears to be saying you might say that that s not any better and you d be right but it is possibly slightly different it is in essence an extreme form of liberalism interpreted as denying any form of positive liberty and instead insisting on a very narrow interpretation of negative liberty that gives people the right to do any damn thing they please if bogomolov had truly gone over to the conservatives he d starting talking of moral values instead he complains that ethics are an inconvenience that get in the way of people s freedom the fact that the west is trying to enforce some ethical standards is proof that it s really just nazism 2 0 frankly i can t agree with this and having read both their articles i didn t come away feeling overly fond of either gubin or bogomolov no doubt they have other wonderful qualities but the forms of liberalism they seem to promote are not my own there was once a long time ago in the late nineteenth century a type of russian liberalism that did rest on some sort of transcendental moral values even if this was perhaps the purview of a minority of so called idealists within the liberal community this intellectual trend took inspiration in part from the writings of the philosopher vladimir solovyov who moved beyond negative liberty to demand that societies provide their citizens with the minimum required for a dignified existence and that they treat their citizens decently when liberalism re emerged in russia out of the dust of the soviet union this sort of thinking seems to have largely failed to re emerge with it instead the libertarian laissez faire screw other people i have the right to do what i please variant won the day bit by bit its negative effects convinced people that another approach is needed so when bogomolov says that he wants to return to the europe that used to be not the europe that is it seems to me that perhaps what he s lamenting is the loss of the libertine days of the wild 90s when anything went no matter how outrageous i don t know if this is a more accurate explanation of bogomolov s motives than the one that says that he s gone over to the side of the conservatives i just put it out there as a possibility maybe the reality is some strange combination of libertarianism and conservatism it would be interesting to hear what you all think regardless his manifesto is causing quite a stir in intellectual circles and with good reason share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading aleksandr dugin dmitry gubin konstantin bogomolov russian liberalism the west press article defaming veterans february 11 2021 paulr 24 comments i have written a piece for rt paralleling alexei navalny s trial for defaming a ww2 veteran with the arrest of someone in scotland on similar charges and link it all to the place of ww2 in national mythology you can read it here meanwhile my morning newspaper brought me this story of a fellow professor at the university of ottawa whom a polish court has just ordered to apologize for allegedly defaming someone long dead i believe in relation to ww2 is this a new trend share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading alexei navalny captain sir tom moore defamation jan grabowski russia second world war united kingdom veterans media talking about navalny on al jazeera february 9 2021 paulr 31 comments i joined a panel on al jazeera s show the stream today to discuss alexei navalny the video is embedded below the key moment for me was when another guest roman dobrokhotov said that things in russia would be very different if millions of people protested and that is what is likely to happen it strikes me that these people are living in a world of fantasy in which they will be able to mobilize vast hordes onto the streets and bring about a revolution at the same time they are obviously rather isolated even within the opposition movement this became clear when dobrokhotov called yabloko party leader grigory yavlinsky putin s man who does whatever putin tells him to which is clearly not true anyway decide for yourself share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading alexei navalny roman dobrokhotov russia uncategorized navalny revolution collapses in mutual recrimination february 8 2021 paulr 18 comments last week i spent some time writing about the decembrists a group of disgruntled army officers who launched a failed coup in december 1825 in an attempt to overthrow tsar nicholas i the decembrists were divided into two groups the northern society and the southern society the former were considered more moderate and came up with a plan for a constitutional monarchy the latter by contrast plotted to murder the entire royal family and institute a republic the leader of the southern society was an officer named pavel pestel who wrote a sort of draft constitution for his proposed republic in which everyone was to be equal before the law citizens would enjoy full civil and political rights and the country would have a parliament elected by universal franchise it all sounded very democratic except that pestel made it clear that all of that stuff would have to wait for at least ten years in the meantime russia would be run by a dictatorship who was to be the dictator pestel didn t say but many of his colleagues felt that it was obvious that he had himself in mind according to his biographer pestel alienated many others in the movement by the perceived napoleonic scale of his personal ambitions the idea of the wannabe napoleon lurking behind a democratic façade was making headlines again this week with the publication of an article by the leader of the liberal russian party yabloko grigory yavlinsky in this yavlinsky denounced opposition activist alexei navalny who was recently jailed after returning to russia from germany where he had been recovering from poisoning after making some unsavoury comments about the putin regime yavlinsky condemned navalny s tactic of endless street protests saying that they couldn t possibly overthrow the government and would only lead to more repression he then cited at length the late liberal writer valeriia novodvorskaia who called navalny the future leader of the mindless mob with a nazi inclination if the masses follow navalny yavlinsky quoted novodvorskaia as saying fascism awaits the country yavlinksy made it clear that he agreed there is nothing positive in navalny s pretensions to participate in russian politics he wrote yavlinsky s suspicions of navalny aren t unique among russian liberals i get the impression that a lot of them don t like him very much but russian oppositionists have long taken the view that the only real enemy is the state and so you shouldn t attack others who are with you in wanting to overthrow it consequently it didn t take long for people to start laying into yavlinsky for having dared to break this taboo most notably the former mayor of ekaterinburg evgeny roizman declared that it would now be impossible for him to ally with the yabloko party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections russian liberals are divided enough as it is with several parties competing for what is already a small share of the vote rather than uniting the opposition it would seem that navalny s return to russia has served to split them into even smaller fragments this is not what was meant to have happened for weeks western media was crowing that something had fundamentally changed in russia and that the demonstrations against navalny s arrest which took place in cities across the country were a sign of a new mood of discontent that was bound to lead to an accelerating wave of protest navalny it was said had galvanised the russian population against the government yet after two weekends of demonstrations last week navalny s deputy leonid volkov called them off that was it the great wave of protests lasted all of two weekends all things told it can only be deemed a failure volkov then made things worse by declaring that he was embarking on a new strategy namely to mobilize western states to impose more and more sanctions on russia if he d wanted to endorse the kremlin s claim that navalny and his team are in the pay of the west volkov couldn t have found a better way meanwhile navalny dug his own grave a bit more this past week in an appearance in court to face charges that he had slandered a world war two veteran if you don t want to be convicted of slander one might imagine that you would avoid insulting the person you are accused of slandering in court you might but not if you re alexei navalny who took the opportunity to accuse the veteran of being a puppet putting aside the validity of the court process one can see that this wasn t the wisest thing to do there aren t many war veterans left alive and those that are have a sort of holy image that is wrapped up in russians sense of patriotic pride of the victory over nazi germany you insult that at your peril needless to say the russian media were all over the story painting navalny as treacherous and unpatriotic and disrespectful of russia s sacrifices in the struggle versus fascism if something like the modern press had existed two hundred years ago one can imagine how they would have covered the decembrist revolt regime in trouble failed coup marks first step in campaign of protest arrest of pestel further undermines tsar s legitimacy and so on yet nicholas i lived on as tsar for another 30 years and it took another 50 years on top of that before another serious attempt to overthrow the regime took place of course history never exactly repeats itself but for now it looks very much as if the navalny revolution has shot its bolt share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading alexei navalny decembrists pavel pestel russia posts navigation 1 2 next follow irrussianality on wordpress com rss posts rss comments august 2026 june 2026 may 2026 april 2026 march 2026 january 2026 december 2025 november 2025 october 2025 september 2025 august 2025 june 2025 may 2025 april 2025 march 2025 february 2025 january 2025 december 2024 november 2024 october 2024 september 2024 august 2024 june 2024 may 2024 april 2024 february 2024 january 2024 december 2023 november 2023 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