(by Giovanni Ramunno) In the Russian tradition, the ability to influence societies and their decision-making processes is a vital strategic function. The Russian aggressive manipulation of international and domestic opinion in support of national (governmental) goals has long been recognized as a substantial threat to democratic nations.
The so-called world "antagonist", First communist and then post-modern, were the tools of the manipulators of public opinion, who used them to support theories questioned by their own politicians, promoting dubious moral postulates based on fallacious philosophical theories or even just polarizing the public on anything that could confuse the uncritical public opinion of fragile democracies, sick with populism.
Entering into the merits, it will be remembered how in the second half of the twentieth century, the communist bureaucrats read the "Law of the Soviet State"of Vyshinsky, the European intellectuals, in the name Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and Heidegger, not only promoted a communist philosophical theory, nihilistic and violently opposed to any metaphysics, but also debased the most precious and difficult to achieve that our parents had proposed to us: a true democracy.
Paradoxically, the most aggressive censors of communism were beyond the curtain. In particular, the secretary of Stalin, Boris Bazhanov, expressed himself in perfect McCarthy terms with his merciless critique of communism entitled "Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary". The same on the Marxist theory was peremptory: "as a science it is nonsense; as a method of revolutionary leadership of the masses, it is an indispensable weapon. "
However, Soviet sirens gradually transformed aideology in a "culture" in an anthropological sense, which in its own existence had a value that had to be defended at all costs, well beyond the demands of truth or morality. The events in Budapest, Prague and the collapse of the Berlin Wall represent an intolerable and absurd revolt by the parties against the whole, a senseless violation of the ontological hierarchy.
This political culture has profoundly affected Russian minds and political culture and, in the West, has guided many useful idiots who did not understand why Soviet politicians would manipulate their actions, prompting them to support the unfortunate initiatives of the gulag dictatorship and not to notice. how harmful these actions were also for democracy.
In the 70s a group of post-structuralists in France, in particular Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, referring to Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard e Heidegger, developing a radical critique of modern philosophy, they allowed oriental manipulators to re-present themselves on the Western political scene with a new mask, while maintaining the same philosophical foundations. This morphism will be referred to as by Jean Francois Lyotard postmodernism, through its "The postmodern condition"(1979).
Meanwhile, populisms have taken permanent plebiscitarism and the direct relationship between the masses and the new to extremes "leader", Requiring the"community”A molecular political mediation, as well as ideological pressure and patronage by the political movement of the moment.
There are those, such as Gianni Vattimo, sees in the social and political initiatives of Hugo Chávez, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva ed Evo Morales in South America traces of hermeneutic communism.
A multiplication and deconstruction of perspectives, however, did not have the emancipatory results and radical liberalization that the philosophers imagined, on the contrary the germ of Tsarist and Stalinist chauvinism has been exacerbated, through a tenant autocrat of the Kremlin, who daily reinterprets the principle of Nietzsche "there are no facts, only interpretations"And rediscovers the true meaning of Nietzsche's saying:"The reason of the strongest is always the best ".
Listening to the follies of Jacques Derrida which proposes the Heideggerian invitation to the destruction of the concepts of metaphysics, without realizing it, we affect the historical and conceptual systems closest to us, once again providing an argument against democracy and freedom, promptly ridden by the Russian neighbor in search of useful idiots.
His ambassador, the Russian far-right ideologue Alexander Dugin and leading exponent of neo-Eurasianism, is the proponent of a new morphism called this time la Fourth Political Theory.
It is no coincidence that the new prophet, while not presenting a prepackaged ideology, fiercely criticizes liberalism. Dugin postulates his "Fourth theory" distinguishing it from the three main ideologies of modernity - liberalism, communism and fascism - arguing the need to overcome them in order to oppose hegemonic neo-liberalism in postmodernity, proposing a more violent totalitarian regime than that of Kim Jong-Un.
The Russian philosopher surrounds himself with a pseudo-intellectual aura drawing on the Marxist philosophical bestiary and thus proposing the Heideggerian concept of Dasein and, like the old communists, instrumentally recruits useful idiots in the West who rediscover presumed values such as social justice, the community of people , the freedom of the person from the point of view of a new cultural project.
The West, prisoner of a fallacious perspective of emancipation by insisting on erroneous philosophical premises that deny any metaphysical thesis, accepts a potentially destructive totalitarian movement at its borders.
In the meantime, Dugin meets in Serbia, with Jim Downsonfounder of Britain First, the former leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin and other European far-right activists who share the future project of unlimited and red fascism, under the smug gaze of European Maoist-style Marxists.