Paul Goble
Staunton,
December 19 – In Putin’s Russia, Igor Eidman says, “even fascism is fake” but the
brutality of the people, the chauvinism, the xenophobic hysteria and war are
unfortunately “completely real,” a threat to the country’s own people and to
all those who come in contact with it abroad.
This
is obvious to anyone who cares to look, the Russian sociologist who writes
commentaries for Deutsche Welle says. “Hatred of Western countries is promoted
by those who long ago took their children and money there; homophobia by not
terribly well concealed gays, and the cult of the traditional family by those
who divorce regularly” (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5C1B405ED267C).
Moreover, Eidman continues, Russian
nationalism is promoted by “participants of criminal groups of various ethnic
groups, and Orthodoxy by Chekists and Komsomol activists.” None of what is on offer is genuine. Instead,
it is invented by those who do not even believe in what they are saying and promoted
by others who do not understand what they are doing.
The Putinists, he says, go into
hysterics “about the attack of migrants in Europe but act so that there are
more illegal immigrants in Moscow than in any other European capital. They
condemn Islamists but themselves crawl on their bellies before Kadyrov; and
they tell horrific stories about financial oligarchic regimes (of various
Rothschilds and Rockefellers) bu themselves shamelessly serve the Russian
oligarchs.”
According to Eidman, “only one thing
in this ideology is genuine: its anti-liberalism behind which is concealed
anti-humanism, a deep contempt of the human personality, his worth, rights and
freedoms. This is of course fascism all the same, but it is at the same time
completely fake.”
It
is real in that it has many of the same consequences of genuine fascism even
though its authors believe in none of the causes that fascists do, only in the
ends that fascists both real and fake inevitably contribute to.
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