Alexander Dugin is a Russian neo-fascist who co-wrote the program of the Zyuganov led Russian Communist Party. Leads a group called the National Bolshevik Party. Shame on Jared Israel's Bulgarian contributor, Blagovesta Doncheva, for heeding the words of this freak. (Albeit, a highly educated one!)
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----- Original Message ----- From: Blagovesta Doncheva <vjara at ivillage.com> To: <nerajov at EUnet.yu> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: War Is Our Mother! (rough translation)
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Alexander DUGIN
WAR IS OUR MOTHER
We published that essay more than two years ago but then only a small part of our readers understood its essence. Nevertheless, from the perspective of the time that had passed away that essay’s truth is getting more and more horrible. Because the utter defeat of Bulgaria, of both its past and future, of the social fabric of the Bulgarian national spirit - including the right to life! - confirm with tragic weight DUGIN’s essay. There is only one way out of the situation; there is only way to throw off the gang that has got hold of the power in our country; there is only one way to stop the Genocide against Bulgaria and the Bulgarians. That is the conscious resistance, that is the personal war of every Bulgarian, that is the inevitable way out, when all the other means prove to be useless
“Top Confidential”, a monthly newspaper, November, p.7
A prejudice exists that “peace at all costs” is better than war. Against the human history realities, against the pacifists utopias’ constant refutation, that most naïve position do not disappear. On the contrary. The apologists of “peace at all costs” base their arguments on the Gospel and the anti-militaristic character of the Christian ethics. But that is a free interpretation. Because the eternal peace of the heavenly world opposes to the basic characteristics of the down world, moved by the frantic violence of the elements. That is what Heraklit (?) writes about too: “The enmity is the father of all things.” The Upper World, the world of the true peace, is at war with the Down World, fallen under the Devil’s power. These two camps - these two groups - will be in a constant state of hostility, of war till the end of the world. The reconciliation between them is impossible. The appeals for such reconciliation are sacrilegious - blasphemous. There cannot be any consensus between the Good and Evil. That’s why to base the pacifism on the Christianity is incorrect from a theological view too. The preached love for the enemy cannot revoke the battle. One cannot escape from war. That world’s bases are built up on the war. They are its main quality. The moment we were thrown into the Earth World we were mobilized and called at the front. We should accept that fact. Without solving the problem with the war, without reacting to its appeal we can move to neither side of Life. At the moment of our birth we are doomed to a definite part of the Down World. Consequently, we are automatically mobilized to fight for its defense, to stand up for the community, society, their interests. On principle all people are in a state of constant war. They are forced to defend their roots, their land, their state, themselves, from the aggressive waves of the Earth realities. Man was born from the war, was constituted by it and tempered in its fire. It is strange that the more obstinately Humanity runs away from the war realism, the more terrible and inhumane the wars get, and the more deeply Humanity goes down the Spiral of Horror into Vileness. The Pharisaic juridical rule forbidding the war propaganda is based on that. What a hypocrisy! War is sn-wording at these pitiable attempts. And it revenges itself on us. It is irrevocable as Death. The one who is not getting ready for a participation in the Battle is not signing oneself among the deserters but among the victims. Sooner or later war overtakes him. But He will be caught up not as an alive and free being, capable to accept with dignity the challenge as a noble creature, but as a piteous inanimate doll, a passive thing, intending to cheaply slip out of the mighty challenge. It is impossible to run away from war. On the contrary. It is important to define our affiliation to our army and our military unit. It is not important if the war is declared or not. It will not delay too much. It is irrevocable. It is everywhere around us. But war has not only spiritually existential aspect. It has also another component concerning the common system of values. War makes man confirm with tremendous personal effort again and again his belonging to the community. War social, and even national, sense is hiding here. It is always a collective action, always directed to a common aim: to preservation of the people, the state - or widening of the life regions. War gives the existence sense of a people or civilization both in small and great matters. The moment always comes when that the enemy, striving to break it - to transform it - to steal it attacks cultural form. Or, the contrary: the moment always comes when the power, the might and the excess of inner energy need to burst out. That can happen only at the expense of somebody else. War has a beginning and an end as a historical period. But with its irrevocability, with its uniqueness, with the perseverance of its deep ontological reasons, it surpasses history, masters it to itself. If man does not defend his people and religious beliefs in a battle - at war! - he will lose the connection with this people, he will turn into stray atoms, and his belief will lose its rescuing force, will turn flat, unreal. The rejection of war, the flight from it are a proof of a deep degeneration of the nation, of a loss of its unity and vitality. That one, who is not ready to fight and die, cannot live in the real sense of the word. That is why everywhere, even in the most peaceful of the civilization: Christianity, the war cult has always been alive - the war that provides the nation with sense and substance. It is not accidental that the Orthodox Christians respect so very much Saint Gregory who is a warrior, protecting their religious Belief, defender of the Orthodox people, Savior of both Earth and Orthodox Kingdom. Peoples’ values, different cultures and societies prove themselves in war and through wars. Valuable is what is paid with blood. Wonderful is that one which base is built on a self-sacrificing feat. Sublime is what one can die for. Homeland is a concrete form, comprising all the values, covering all the transpersonal messages from the emotional word, penetrating through family roots and generations. Junger (?) writes: “Homeland wakes up such a primordial feeling that it is inherent even for the plants that categorically refuse to grow on a foreign soil.” Homeland is an epitaph, sublime justification for the perished. That sacred word is enough: war acquires a new sense, understandable not only for the noble volunteer, for the hero, but also for every simple man, whose inner nature voice reaches him in an intimate moment. “You might be afraid of the direct contact with Death and blood, but in the face of Homeland that is above all values you cannot say: “No”. You have to go to war. You have no choice.” All I have said thus far - so easily understandable, so logical - is in a wild contrast with the moods reigning today at home. As if the most important ties connecting the thought and reality, the ideology and psychology, the action logic and the channels for its thinking over, the assessments of the past and the choice of future roads are broken
Different diagnoses might be given. But all of them will be pessimistic, bitter, hopeless. The most indisputable one is that we have lost the will for war, that we have betrayed war. Either of shame, or of fear, or because we have lost our minds, but we refuse to do what all the peoples are obliged to do in the minutes of a stormy, fateful toll of a bell. And it is to fight. Big and small peoples, cultures and cults have thrown a deadly challenge to us. The Western civilization is denying us the right to be a different civilization - and that is war. Our ex-brothers refuse to respect our might and dimension - it is war. Our Western neighbors, encouraged by the Atlantists’ might, are waving threateningly their feeble, red-haired fists - and that is war. The Asian hordes are looking askance and badly towards our Southern and Eastern expanses - and that is war. Our SPIRITUAL DREAM, suffered through, wept over, enthusiastically fought for and won with much bood, now is spat at by other cultural forms - and that is war. We will vehemently dissolve in non-existence as a phantom, losing our unity, our solidarity, our original, unique, anxious and infinite “I” - and that is war. How long that nightmare can continue? How long it should be waited till our proud and noble spirit - the spirit of the courageous and loyal to Homeland people will wake up in the lair of the fast asleep temporary insanity? How long the tears and blood from our ancestors’ tombs are to appeal to us? They see everything and deeply suffer at the disgrace of their descendants, hypnotized by arrogant foreigners. All right, for them and for those that are fearfully murmuring now: “They want to turn us into a cannon-fodder again”, our declaration will be different. All right, War is not yours. It is ours. It is our War. Our Mother!
Note: Alexander DUGIN is a Russian esoteric writer
Translated into English from Bulgarian: Bl. Doncheva
Sofia, Dec. 26, 2000