>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
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>>Lord. Why would Zyuganov bother? The RKRP-RPK are so small they barely
>>exist. Zyuganov's problems are with Seleznyov.
>
> Pg. 198 of, "Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements, " by
>Stephen Shenfield, M.E. Sharpe publishers, 2001, chapter on the National
>Bolshevik Party, says that that Dugin is an advisor to Seleznyov.
Lord again. Dugin is a centrist pro-Putin guy. He rights very interesting articles for Rossisky Zhurnal. Dugin was a) never a fascist and b) dropped his NBP act years ago. And it was an ACT. Really, the ease with which Dugin and Zhirinovsky manage to con gullible Westerners never ceases to amaze me.
A McFaul in Hitler's Clothing by Mark Ames
Of all the bogeymen in Russia that the West has created, none has earned as many scary-fascist-points as Alexander Dugin, the former ideological guru for Edward Limonov's National-Bolshevik Party. Dugin is the Dr. Evil that Western academics dreamed of. In him, they finally found a bogeyman who wasn't the typical NAMBLA pervert in a Darth Vadar getup like RNU leader Barshakov, a cheap drama school villain far too easy to dismiss even by Beigeist American academic standards. But Dugin was a different story. He could make a professor or grad student who cites Dugin actually appear to be both morally brave and intelligent. Dugin's dense, allusive prose, mixed with carefully-"hidden" shock-value stances on violence and race, made him the West's choice as the "conscience" of Russian neo-fascism.
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When Limonov first told me that Dugin had turned coat, I could barely believe it. So I double-checked it with Maxim Balutenka, an analyst for Panorama, which is perhaps Russia's leading think tank in terms of documenting fascism and extremism in modern Russia.
"It's true, Dugin did say those things," Balutenka told me.
Why? What led Dugin to do it?
"You have to understand, Dugin's just role-playing," he went on. "He does it all for his Western audience, and now he's looking to expand that audience. Already in this week's issue of Litsa, he's going back in another direction. It's all a role to keep Westerners guessing and interpreting him, that's all."
You mean he's not the big scary fascist threat to Russia that Western academics make him out to be?
"Not at all. His audience in Russia is extremely small. It always has been. His only real audience is in the West. He's taken much more seriously there."
Why?
"Because he's the kind of villain that Westerners were looking for all along."
That is to say, according to one of Russia's leading experts on Russian fascism, Dugin was created by neo-liberal academics in the West. He exists only in their minds-and academic journals. Which means the "conscience" of Russian fascism... was created by Western liberals.
http://exile.ru/ames/ames42.html
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