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Party documents | Program of Eurasia Movement | Part 1| Dugin | 12.04.2001
Archivio de EURASIA the site of Martino Conserva (translations, publications)
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Program of the Socio-political Movement EURASIARussia has reached a relevant historical threshold. It is necessary to cast a look on the path behind, to realise its place in the present world, to mark the next steps. New challenges for Russia, new strategic orienting points, new purposes Russia faces a set of new historical
challenges. Today more than ever before it is necessary
to affirm in a new form priorities, purposes, constants
of the historical path of Russia and to correlate them
with the shapes of that new world in which we shall live
in the next millennium. Traditions. Fundamental directions of development of Russia as State, people, society Addressing to the future, we must give a pondered estimation of our past. This past more than once in Russian history has been rewritten in a favour of this or that ruling ideological group. Today, leaving the era of ideologies behind, we are obliged to sum up the landmarks of our historical path as much as possible objectively and impartially beyond ideological preferences, outlining the most important features and leaving aside the details. To this purpose there are today all reasons and conditions. This freedom from untouchable dogmas and obligatory clichés is possibly the most positive achievement of young Russian democracy. ` There is no doubt that Russia has its
own path. Its external forms constantly vary, sometimes
in dramatic turnarounds. But in every epoch a common
line is traced — the eurasist direction, the eurasist
substance of Russian history. Much can be questioned in
considering our past, future and present. But the
eurasist Idea is not subject to doubt. Russia is
Eurasia, and this predetermines its geographical,
cultural, civilizational, strategic and economic
life. Assertion of a special civilizational mission The eurasist identity of Russia
constitutes the substance of our historical mission.
Russia has its own image of the logic of history, of the
Truth of the world. The search for this Truth and its
affirmation is the content of national historical life.
Loyalty to this Truth was defended by our ancestors,
many generations of Russian people, Russians giving
their lives on the altar of Fatherland. To defend this
mission is our duty, also beyond the present moment. It
is our historical covenant. Russia has only an eurasist future Our future must be planned and built
according to the common landmarks of our history. Any
attempt to depart from this road, to refuse its
predestination, means the end of our historical being.
Russia has either an eurasist future, or none.
We are for idealism (cult of the truth) The cultural forms of national life vary
through the centuries. But the idea of a society of
Equity and Good was always saved as a constant. Cultural
feature of the Russians is traditionally the aspiration
to a high ideal and some kind of neglect of the sphere
of material benefits. A heightened feeling of idealism
and universalism can be distinguished at the most
different stages of Russian history. The ideal of
sacrifice was initially understood in Christian terms,
as a special liability of the Russians to the Christian
Tradition, entrusted to them. In the Soviet period the
same Russian idealism was understood in a secularised
way, as the ethics of heroical service to the principles
of social justice and universal equality. Is is
characteristic, that the basic conflicts in Russian
history passed not between supporters of idealistic
systems and pragmatists, but almost exclusively between
two idealistic camps, in different ways and with a
different degree of intensity defending idealistic,
sometimes even utopian models, variedly expressed and
formulated. The cultural style of the Russians through
the whole course of history is characterised by a
dynamic rethinking in a national key of aesthetic and
stylistic elements borrowed from different cultural
contexts, their creative and original elaboration, their
skilful insertion into a particular specifically Russian
context. Freedom of creative adapting and assimilation
of borrowed scales of values, doctrines and symbols
discovers the openness of the Russians to the ethnic
variety surrounding them. The loyalty to its own
national origin, reshaping anything borrowed into a
unique and unrepeatable typical Russian product,
vice-versa, demonstrates the constancy of the cultural
type, its national specificity and stability.
Our idealistic conformation implies that the set of
our ideals is also the set of our purposes:
Our ideal of own self-consciousness - We are a special people, a special world, a special geopolitical formation As an historical community (people), as a unique economic and social organism, as a special geopolitical formation, we represent a complete self-supporting system entered in the common planetary equilibrium of civilisations, cultures, peoples, religions and states. To affirm and to save our multivariate originality is our major task. - We are against the repetition of mistakes We are simply obliged to not retry the bloody mistakes of our ancestors, having taken in the new millennium all the best of our national history. In the new conditions, the limit to rough mistakes and sharp departures from our destiny has been reached. The fatality of some definite mistakes repeatedly made by our ancestors has become obvious. Our task is not retrying the most rough of them. We have to accept our destiny, to realise it and triumphally to affirm before the world the RUSSIAN TRUTH. - We are for succession The succession of civilizational
policies and strategies distinguishes wise peoples from
senseless ones, mature states from adventurist ones. The
most various classifications of the historical periods
of Russian history converge in saying that the Russian
people (being rather young in comparison to the majority
of the European ethnoses), nevertheless has left youth
behind, and is characterised by a deep attention to its
destiny, a more mature estimation of its position in the
world. The wise state reflects about its historical
predestination, about the combination of traditions and
vanguard innovative paths more and better than the
adventurist, temporary, transient state. Russia has
clearly approached to the necessity of a new deep
comprehension of its “ego». Our ideal of internal political construction: organic democracy, eurasist federalism The eurasist political model must be
founded on the imperative of participation of the
society in adopting the founding historical decisions,
on genuine people’s government. The participation of the
people to its own destiny — so is defined a genuine
democracy. This participation can be realised in various
ways. As Russia represents a massive strategic
formation, the management of its strategic potential
must be concentrated in the hands of a small group or
distinct personalities, no matter how they are called
— president, monarch, High council, leader etc.
Such personification of authority does not contradict
the principle of organic democracy in the event that the
communal vector of activity of the highest State
personalities (or group of persons) corresponds to the
reference direction of historical development, and is
based on the constants of national life. Thus, criterion
for evaluating the adequacy (or inadequacy) of the head
of the State must not simply be his efficiency in
fulfilling his functions and official duties, but first
of all his loyalty to the «great project» of the people,
his being at the service of the historical mission of
the State. - eurasist centrism The politological identity of Russia
predetermines that vector of political world-view which
must be accepted as an axis of the political Centre.
This vector supposes the combination of principles of
social justice rule and social economy (left-wing
economy, socialism) with values of conservatism and
cultural traditionalism in the pure political
orientation of the State (right-wing politics,
conservatism). This combination of “left» and
“right-wing» elements in the definition of the Russian
idea of political Centre is the opposite of the way
similar elements are combined in the liberal politics of
the West, where the political Centre is founded on the
combination of the «free market» (right-wing economy,
liberal–capitalism) with modernism, innovation and
antitraditionalism in the political sphere, but also at
the level of ethics, culture, religion (left-wing
politics, progressism). - third path The combination of moderately socialist elements in economy and conservative statalist traditionalist of the tendencies in politics is conventionally called as «third path» model, in order to distinguish it both from usual socialism (the Marxist version, which offers a combination of left-wing economy and the left-wing politics), and rightist dictatorial regimes (where political conservatism is combined with market mechanisms and absolute power of a financial oligarchy). The «third path», in its different interpretations, most exactly corresponds to the political history of Russia. Moreover, an attentive analysis of the shifts between the rightist and leftist regimes in Russian history finds that these revolutionary processes streamed around of a common axis, some of them departing from it, some of them turning closer. This axis represents just that absolute political Centre - until now never plainly manifest - whose politological the configuration is identical to the «third path» model. Hence, choosing the political system of the «third path» as fundamental shall be the thoughtful, responsible, fatal step toward the definitive adoption by Russia of its leading role as the most general, universal and all-inclusive alternative world-view in the political field. And if such transition to the theory of the «third path» will indeed take place, this will mean liquidating the basic reasons of the dramatic revolutionary confrontations, of the cruel destructive revolutions and extremist unrest which coloured Russian political history in a bloody tone. The «third path» is the only guarantor from forthcoming revolutions, civil wars and revolts, which again can divide Russia between conflicting camps in the event that such choice will not take place. The thoughtful and clear adoption of that model - which has been the hidden core of Russian political history - as the basic tendency of political Centre will mean real political consent, long-term stability and internal political peace. - eurasist federalism The scale of historical mission of Russia, necessary
to prevent the establishment of the «new world order»
and to oppose to it a global alternative, implies the
creation of such internal political system as much as
possible open for involving in the eurasist block other
peoples and states with diverse cultural,
civilisational, political, religious and economic
history. For this purpose the general political
structure of Russia must be as much as possible close to
the model of the forthcoming eurasist continental
formation. It means building the system of «eurasist
federalism», whose main feature must be combining
strategic unity at the level of central administration
and wide diversity of political, social, legal and
economic organization of the forming parts.
Our ideal of geopolitical strategy for Russia The highest geopolitical priority for
Russia in the forthcoming century (millennium) is the
creation of an eurasist strategic block — with a
flexible and differentiated world-view and a multilevel
membership — as a counterweight to atlantist and
mondialist tendencies on a global scale.
- the multipolar world In a long-term perspective it is necessary to be guided by the aim of creating a genuinely free and fair multipolar world, organically forming around different cultural, civilisational, social and historical centres. The riches of mankind is directly linked to the variety of civilizations, which must not only be saved, but also newly asserted. Eurasia itself, in the best periods of its history, was distinguished for this «imperial» variety, where strategic and geopolitical unity was combined with a constellation of organic and cultural autonomous parts. The eurasist pole initially must be formed as a civilisation stronghold of liberation, so that the forthcoming multipolarity becomes for Eurasia the natural and desirable result of the temporary return to the bipolar pattern. Hence, the same structure of the new eurasist block must initially bear in itself the germs of cultural pluralism, of differentiation, of variety, of «blossoming complexity». In such case the forthcoming advent of a genuinely multipolar world will be the organic continuation of the eurasist line, opposed to the unifying unidimensional logic of atlantism. - eurasist strategic unions The realisation of the eurasist project implies a series of steps aimed at increasing the strategic significance and the self-supporting weight of Russia. No other State, for geopolitical reasons, is able to become the axis of the eurasist block. Russia holds a geographically central place in Eurasia, and has a strategic potential, sufficient for ensuring the successful start of integration processes at the first stage. For Russia it is vitally necessary to be guided in external and domestic policy by the one and only imperative, to which all remaining ones must be subordinated — the creation of the Eurasist Union. - minimal size: the post-Soviet integration The minimal scale of the eurasist
integration, or its first stage, must become the
strategic reunification of CIS countries (former Soviet
republics) in a common strategic construction, united by
the consciousness of common geopolitical concerns and
common strategic and civilisational destiny. The
integration of CIS countries into a new, more solid
strategical formation must be based on global
geopolitical tasks, instead of momentary social and
economic interests or combination of forces within
political élites. The fatal meaning of the Eurasist
Project is so great, that it incomparably exceeds the
balance of practical pluses and minuses originating from
such integration, of obviously stands well above the
political and psychological portraits of contingently
ruling leaders and parties. - continental block The following stage of the Eurasist
Project, which can be realised of in a parallel way to
the strategic integration of CIS, is the creation of a
unitary strategic association with eurasist States
vitally interested in building an alternative to
autocratic planetary domination of the US and the
countries of the atlantist West. Such countries are some
Arabian states of Near East and Northern Africa, Iran,
India, China, and other Far Eastern countries included
in the Pacific zone. - union with Europe and Japan Integration within the framework of CIS,
the creation of the eurasist strategic block represent
the preliminary steps towards an active planetary
strategy of Eurasia, without which a strategic
civilisational alternative will not have sufficient
stuffing. - purpose: civilisation promotion of a new multipolar planetary reality The global geopolitical task of Russia
consists in the creation of a multipolar world, in the
strategic promotion of such world. The transition to it,
as to a pluralist and differentiated alternative to
unidimensional atlantist mondialism, will be possible
only in the course of the realisation of all three
stages of the Eurasist Project. A multipolar free world,
with a blossoming complexity of cultures and
civilisations — here is the highest geopolitical ideal
of Russia, its vocation, its predestination.
Our ideal of geoeconomic strategy of Russia: self-sufficiency of large spaces - eurasist principle of «economic pluralism» The eurasist economic model is based on
a principle opposite to liberal universalism, to the
postulates of the so-called «classical school» of
economics. Each historical community has its own unique
history of economic development, its own special
structure as economic organism. The system of criteria
according to one economic efficiency is valued, the
parameters of success or failure, cannot be
separated from the historical, social and cultural
context of a given society. The thought of the western
classic school of economics comes from the wrong
supposition of unidirectional economic development for
all peoples and states, only with miscellaneous paces.
On this belief is based the representation about «the
doubtless advantages of the western economic pattern, as
the most advanced stage in realisation of the economic
pattern common to all peoples». Being pushed by this
belief, the West felt itself legitimated to act as the
economic arbitrator across the globe, imposing to anyone
else that system of economic criteria, which reflects
the logic of development of economic systems of western
countries. - creation of advanced self-sufficient economic systems of the mixed kind (plurality of regimes) The economic vector of development of
Russia must be organically adjusted to the basic
geopolitical and strategic orienting point of its
development, i.e. with the Eurasist Project. It is
perfectly clearly, that following abstract dogmas of
purely economic ideologies — be it Marxism or liberalism
— withdraws Russia from its destiny in labyrinths of
scholastics and civil conflicts. - keynesism for Eurasia, «eurasist economic isolation» The economic pattern most suitable to modern Eurasia in view of establishing a civilisational factor is the keynesian pattern, centrally placed for respecting the strategic priorities of the eurasist ensemble of states and nations. In defining the orientation of economic reforms, emphasis must be put not simply on the achievement of the highest economic efficiency, but on the general civilisational and social context, in whose interest these reforms must be realised according to the logic of things. And since this context in its basic vectors is not simply different, but in many respects opposite to the liberal atlantist system, to the «new world order», a major problem is the creation of an «eurasist economic island», possessing relative self-sufficiency. It implies a paternalistic economic variant, indispensable through the whole period of economic development of Eurasia. Thus the development of the basic sectors of industry, information systems, agriculture and especially of high technology must be the main task of the central authority, responsible for strategic issues. Market elements, completely indispensable in a number of sectors of the economy — small and medium production, sphere of services etc. — must be combined with the public sector. The problem of employment must be solved at strategical state level, and not just at market level. The parasitic class of the rentiers must be marginalised to the benefit of productive social groups of businessmen and workers receiving a wage in the private and state enterprises (so-called «wage-earners»). - eurasist finance It is necessary for Russia to create its
own currency in a common planetary financial context.
This is possible in three ways: - fourth zone, pragmatical involvement in world virtual economy Major economic task of Russia is the creation of a self-supporting, autarchic, closed economic zone within the limits of Eurasia. The eurasist fourth zone — along with the existing three: American, European and Pacific — must reunite in a common economic space the territory of CIS countries, and a number of East Europe and Asian countries interested to strategic independence in front of the economic pressure of the «rich North». Potential participants of the fourth zone can be countries with various economic systems, which implies an economic integration at miscellaneous paces depending on the specificity of the given region or country. The fourth economic zone must be guided by prioritary interaction with the neighbouring economic spaces — European and Pacific - with the long-term purpose of opposing American hegemony across the globe and normalising the economic balance on the territory of the whole planet. Even the first steps toward the realisation of the fourth zone will change the economic balance between highly technological, industrial regions and regions richly endowed with resources, breaking the univocal domination of the «rich North» and the colonial exploitation of the «poor South». - involvement in planetary geoeconomical processes with the purpose to give them an eurasist civilisational direction The financial and economic system of
Russia can not ignore the forming of a virtual economy
at a world level, the translation of economic potential
into the sphere of information technology and electronic
stock exchanges. In a distant perspective, the eurasist
policy course must result in the relativization (and
even deletion) of such virtual financial system and in
the returning to the priorities of real sectors,
long-term investments and concrete production of
material goods, to the transition from virtual capital
to real, creative and organising management. But at a
transitory stage Russia must participate in the world
virtual economy, by delegating to special broker groups
under strict strategic control of the highest state
authorities, in order to assimilate the most recent
technologies and whenever possible to readdress global
trends in a direction strategically amplifying the
positions of the eurasist geoeconomy. Our ideal of strategy of industrial development of Russia - informatization The creation of the fourth zone requires a radical modernisation of the domestic industry, the large-scale and systematic introduction of advanced technologies in key spheres of strategic production. At the roots of such modernisation must lay the system of informatization, communication and transport, which constitutes the axial reality of the post-industrial stage of development of the economy. Due to large-scale informatization, many organisational problems of production, merchandising and allocation, and also processes of economic integration and work allocation within the framework of the eurasist zone will be successfully solved. Thanks to technological flexibility, informatization can be introduced both in hi-tech processes and in some traditional spheres of the economy, everywhere multiplying the efficiency. Planned and universal informatization must become a strategic priority of the State. In the issue of creating a solid system of eurasist customs union, informatization will play a central role, and the success of such union will depend to no small degree on it. - regionalisation Integration processes in the eurasist economy must be accompanied by increasing significance of the single regions and increasing extent of their administrative and economic independence. Industrial zones must be integrated in a communal eurasist economic field not by way of decrees, but through organic and natural horizontal connections reproducing on an economic level the federative system. The control from the centre must encompass exclusively the strategic spheres, set general economic parameters, but the concrete ways of accomplishing the general tasks of industrial development must be decided at a local level. - creation of self-contained industrial cycles linked to local spaces The allocation of work within the framework of the fourth zone does not imply the centralisation of production management. The large industrial areas must be based on the use of local infrastructures and resource potential. Such organisation of partially self-contained industrial cycles linked to local systems is indispensable for increasing the solidity of the pan-eurasist economic pattern and raise the level of industrial safety. The industrial complexes in such situation must become the core of social ensembles in view of the ethnic, demographic, religious and cultural specificity of the population. - ecological qualification of industrial productions The environmental factor must be included among the basic priorities in expert estimation of industrial projects, and its evaluation is also indispensable in the issue of restructuring existing productions. The probability of an ecological catastrophe in the present conditions increases, and in this situation the conservation of the eco-system becomes a major element of strategic safety. |