I'm currently reading The Theory of a Multipolar World. He's a bit of a giant, old dugin, and while I'm smart enough to read the long words I'm not smart enough to fully understand everything that he discusses at first pass. It's also quite a tough bedtime read, so I might stick to rereading Rape of the Mind at bedtime and Dugin in the morning.
I just finished a book of essays entitled Reflections by Evola. I am thinking this summer of reading Italian philosophers and capping Christmas with a re-read of Carlo Levi's book Christ Stopped At Eboli and Fear of Freedom. I'm reading The Theory too interestingly enough. Started on reading him today.
All this philosophy and psychology reading is something that I'm enjoying but it takes some getting used too. I used to read music mags and mountain bike maintenance manuals pre Covid.
I mainly read this stuff as a kid reading science fiction then in college and kept grazing on the green fields and rarely dived into magazines except now and then like New Dawn. :)
So here is my challenge. Dugin says “. Unipolarity proposes one hegemon and one center of decision-making; multipolarity insists on several centers, such that none has the exclusive right and must take into account the positions of the others.
Multipolarity is thus a direct logical alternative to unipolarity.
There can be no compromise between them: according to the rules of logic, the world is either unipolar or multipolar. At the same time, what matters is not how one or another model is legally formulated, but how it is de facto.
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Every nation on Earth is ruled de facto by Covid-19. Is this Uni-polar? If there is an apex to the largest pyramid of power to what secret lodge does it belong? Dugin's Multi-Polar power centers agree evidently not only on Covid-19 and measures to take but agree on a vaccine passport and global taxation and trends toward digital currency and Chinese style Social Credit scores. Or maybe China is the global Hegemony to come. Originally published by Quodlibet. Written by Giorgio Agamben. Translated by Richard Braude for Ill Will Editions.
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a totalitarian political regime. This is the historical significance of the leading role that China is taking on, not only in the realm of the economy in a narrow sense, but also – as the political use of the pandemic has so eloquently demonstrated – as a paradigm for the government of men. That the regimes established in so-called communist countries were a particular form of capitalism, specially adapted for economically backward countries and thus labelled ‘state capitalism’, was perfectly clear to anyone who knows how to read history; what was entirely unexpected, however, is that this form of capitalism, which seemed to have exhausted its function and was thus now obsolete, was instead destined – in a technologically updated configuration – to become the ruling principle of the current phase of globalized capitalism. Indeed, it is possible that today we are observing a conflict between Western capitalism, which used to exist alongside the ‘state of law’ and bourgeois democracy, and this new communist capitalism, a conflict in which the latter version appears to have emerged as the victor. What is certain, however, is that the new regime will combine the most inhumane aspects of capitalism with the most atrocious aspects of state communism, combining the extreme alienation of relations between people with an unprecedented social control
One of the issues that I have with Dugin's theory was indeed this. What's the difference between a unipolar world and a Multipolar World, when every pole in a Multipolar world is as shit as the next for the poor bastards that have to live as the proletariat. Sure, they might have slightly different approaches to their technocratic authoritarian regimes, but they still have a technocratic authoritarian regime. What difference does it make to us either way? The answer is not a Multipolar World. The only answer to this current world is the 90% half decent people of the world to recognise their own authority and to value their short life over the fear of inevitable death. Just start to recognise shit, and then stop accepting it.
“After the collapse of one of the two poles (the fall of the USSR in 1991), the bipolar system ended. This produced the preconditions for the emergence of an alternative world order. Many analysts and specialists in IR correctly started to speak about the “end of the Yalta system.”8
Recognizing de jure sovereignty, de facto the Yalta world was built on the principle of the balance of two symmetrical and relatively balanced hegemons. With the exit from the historical arena of one of the hegemons, the entire system ceased to exist. The time of the unipolar world order, or “unipolar moment,” had come.9
The multipolar world is not a bipolar world (as we knew it in the second half of the 20th century), since today there is no power able by itself to strategically oppose the might of the US and the NATO countries, and, moreover, no general and clear ideology capable of rallying a significant part of humanity to strict ideational opposition against the ideology of liberal democracy, capitalism, and “human rights,” on which the new, this time sole hegemony of the US rests. Neither contemporary Russia, nor China, nor India, nor any other state can[…]”
I'm currently reading The Theory of a Multipolar World. He's a bit of a giant, old dugin, and while I'm smart enough to read the long words I'm not smart enough to fully understand everything that he discusses at first pass. It's also quite a tough bedtime read, so I might stick to rereading Rape of the Mind at bedtime and Dugin in the morning.
I just finished a book of essays entitled Reflections by Evola. I am thinking this summer of reading Italian philosophers and capping Christmas with a re-read of Carlo Levi's book Christ Stopped At Eboli and Fear of Freedom. I'm reading The Theory too interestingly enough. Started on reading him today.
All this philosophy and psychology reading is something that I'm enjoying but it takes some getting used too. I used to read music mags and mountain bike maintenance manuals pre Covid.
I mainly read this stuff as a kid reading science fiction then in college and kept grazing on the green fields and rarely dived into magazines except now and then like New Dawn. :)
A love of learning and growing intellectually came quite late to me. I'm playing catchup to you guys,but enjoying the challenge
So here is my challenge. Dugin says “. Unipolarity proposes one hegemon and one center of decision-making; multipolarity insists on several centers, such that none has the exclusive right and must take into account the positions of the others.
Multipolarity is thus a direct logical alternative to unipolarity.
There can be no compromise between them: according to the rules of logic, the world is either unipolar or multipolar. At the same time, what matters is not how one or another model is legally formulated, but how it is de facto.
xxx
Every nation on Earth is ruled de facto by Covid-19. Is this Uni-polar? If there is an apex to the largest pyramid of power to what secret lodge does it belong? Dugin's Multi-Polar power centers agree evidently not only on Covid-19 and measures to take but agree on a vaccine passport and global taxation and trends toward digital currency and Chinese style Social Credit scores. Or maybe China is the global Hegemony to come. Originally published by Quodlibet. Written by Giorgio Agamben. Translated by Richard Braude for Ill Will Editions.
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a totalitarian political regime. This is the historical significance of the leading role that China is taking on, not only in the realm of the economy in a narrow sense, but also – as the political use of the pandemic has so eloquently demonstrated – as a paradigm for the government of men. That the regimes established in so-called communist countries were a particular form of capitalism, specially adapted for economically backward countries and thus labelled ‘state capitalism’, was perfectly clear to anyone who knows how to read history; what was entirely unexpected, however, is that this form of capitalism, which seemed to have exhausted its function and was thus now obsolete, was instead destined – in a technologically updated configuration – to become the ruling principle of the current phase of globalized capitalism. Indeed, it is possible that today we are observing a conflict between Western capitalism, which used to exist alongside the ‘state of law’ and bourgeois democracy, and this new communist capitalism, a conflict in which the latter version appears to have emerged as the victor. What is certain, however, is that the new regime will combine the most inhumane aspects of capitalism with the most atrocious aspects of state communism, combining the extreme alienation of relations between people with an unprecedented social control
One of the issues that I have with Dugin's theory was indeed this. What's the difference between a unipolar world and a Multipolar World, when every pole in a Multipolar world is as shit as the next for the poor bastards that have to live as the proletariat. Sure, they might have slightly different approaches to their technocratic authoritarian regimes, but they still have a technocratic authoritarian regime. What difference does it make to us either way? The answer is not a Multipolar World. The only answer to this current world is the 90% half decent people of the world to recognise their own authority and to value their short life over the fear of inevitable death. Just start to recognise shit, and then stop accepting it.
“After the collapse of one of the two poles (the fall of the USSR in 1991), the bipolar system ended. This produced the preconditions for the emergence of an alternative world order. Many analysts and specialists in IR correctly started to speak about the “end of the Yalta system.”8
Recognizing de jure sovereignty, de facto the Yalta world was built on the principle of the balance of two symmetrical and relatively balanced hegemons. With the exit from the historical arena of one of the hegemons, the entire system ceased to exist. The time of the unipolar world order, or “unipolar moment,” had come.9
The multipolar world is not a bipolar world (as we knew it in the second half of the 20th century), since today there is no power able by itself to strategically oppose the might of the US and the NATO countries, and, moreover, no general and clear ideology capable of rallying a significant part of humanity to strict ideational opposition against the ideology of liberal democracy, capitalism, and “human rights,” on which the new, this time sole hegemony of the US rests. Neither contemporary Russia, nor China, nor India, nor any other state can[…]”
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The Theory of a Multipolar World
Alexander Dugin