Eurasian Path Part II

Our ideal of cultural development: the conservation of heritage, the eurasist synthesis 

- conservation of variety of cultural heritage 

   A major task of the Eurasist Project of Russia at a cultural level is the affirmation of a pluralist, multilevel, differentiated pattern alternative to the schemas of unidimensional unification, offered by the supporters of «globalism under aegis of the West». The uniform consumer society, formed on the American stamp and based on individualism, inevitably results in the eradication of cultural, social, religious, ethnic variety. Russia must formulate across the globe its mission of guarantor of the «blossoming complexity», advanced watchman of the relations among the natural variety of human civilised ensembles. The affirmation and conservation of real historical variety of the cultural life of peoples and states is the highest purpose of the Eurasist Project of Russia at a civilisational level. 
- Eastern post-modern

The common feature of post-modern shows the intrinsic characteristic of development of a human civilisation, and for this reason the voluntaristic rejection of post-modern is impossible, as it was impossible at the time to ignore the call of the New Times (modernity) thrown to the traditional societies. This especially concerns countries and peoples claiming for active participation in the definition of the historical path of mankind (and Russia undoubtedly refers to the number of such «great powers» which are not indifferent to the destiny of all mankind). For this reason Russia must master the argument of post-modern, but using it for its own historical purposes, reformulating in post-modern the terms its historical mission (just as the Soviet period was the formulation of the same mission in the terms of New Times, of the modern). This newly born cultural direction, provided with a colossal perspective, is conventionally called «Eastern post-modern» (or «post-modern of diversity»), as against the «Western post-modern» (or «universalistic post-modern»). If the «post-modern» of the West represents «the end of history» and the extravagant overlaying of internally heterogeneous, meaningless ethical masses, in the absence of a centre of values, «Eastern post-modern» represents the return to a synthetic, integrated style recreating at a new historical level the wholeness, peculiar to the traditional societies. 

- new eurasist culturology 

   The new eurasist culturology must be based on the conceptual assimilation and development of the basic reasons of «Eastern post-modern» as a new synthetic method of cultural analysis recognising the equal dignity of cultures, belonging to various historical and geographical sectors. The new eurasist culturology rejects the «racist», «suprematist» division of cultures between «advanced» and «under-developed», «progressive» and «archaic», on «civilised» and «not civilised». Each culture must be valued in the system of co-ordinates peculiar to itself, instead of any abstract external pattern claiming for true in the last resort. Such eurasist culturology must become the antithesis to the veiled «cultural racism» practised by the atlantism. 

- polilogue of cultures as subjects 

   In the eurasist world system the basic historical acting figure is not the individual, but the community, ethnos, culture, social organic formation. Therefore the principle of cultural interaction among the various parts of Eurasia must be the complex, dynamical and open polilogue of cultures, acting not as incomplete formations, subject to abstract mechanical improvement on the basis of abstract schema, but as last and highest authorities forming in their interlacement the multidimensional fabric of the manifold, organic living world. 

- rejection of cultural levelling (smoothing out of cultural differences) 

   Russia must become the central pole of an enormous the cultural revolution representing alternative to atlantist cultural levelling into a uniform surrogate of style copying the «American way of life». The universal meaning of Russia’s cultural mission within the Eurasist Project is to contribute to the development of a differentiated, free and cultural multipolar world. In this sense, the continental project of Eurasia acquires world-wide meaning, as starting line of a global cultural alternative to the «new world order» and undivided domination of atlantism. 

- wide conservative pluralism

   The conservation and development of cultural plurality both within the framework of Russia, and on a larger scale — within the framework of Eurasia and within the limits of the whole world — is the specificity of the Eurasist Project, some kind of a conservative plurality. Such cultural plurality refers to the conservation («conservation») of the basic ferments of cultures, to the due correlation of dynamic development, in which the vital origin of the society is embodied, with the deep basic parameters of its traditional core. The basic feature of «Eastern post-modern» lays in such prioritary relation to Tradition. 
 

Our ideal of social system: socially oriented community, deep ecologism

- eurasist  socialism 

   In contrast to the absolutization of the liberal pattern laying at the economic base of the «new world order», the Eurasist Project supposes the reference to a wide spectrum of the socially oriented patterns of a social system, which can be sometimes globally called as «socialism» or «socially oriented community». The social environment is the natural habitat of the man, and in his basic features man is defined just as in relation to a definite community. As against dogmatical Marxism, this community can be understood in very different ways —as a cultural type, as community collective unconscious, as ethnic identity, as religious faith, as a social-historical formation, as a class-professional belonging etc. All these social features can be taken into account in a common summary pattern, which, conditionally, it is possible to call as the «eurasist socialism», free from the dogmatists, creative, open, incorporating both traditional forms of social identification and new social forms growing in modern conditions. The social feature of Eurasism does not exclude at all the value of the  individual, and the more so it does not reject some definite elements of market management. It is a common spirit, a priority attitude toward the social system, where in the economic, social, scientific and political areas the models based on the principle of the general social subject are encouraged, and the major basic instance is the organic collective of an old or new kind. 

- new ecological consciousness 

   The eurasist society must be built on a deep consideration of the environmental factor. Peculiar to the modern epoch is the relation to the environment as to a passive, lifeless scenery, which the active man is free to arbitrarily shape; such relation has brought mankind on the brink of global catastrophe. Such approach is being inertially inherited also by the architects of the «new world order». Eurasist sociality must be based on the opposite reason: on the prioritary consideration of the factor of deep ecology. It means a special relation to the environment, as to a living, substantial reality meaningful, in which man is assigned a special place and given a special liability for preserving a fine balance among the constituting parts of the whole natural ensemble. The eurasist society must be built on the basis of an attentive reflection upon the natural environment, on the harmony with it, on the accurate intervention into existing ecosystems and their extremely delicate manipulation. Ecological consciousness must become the dominant kind of consciousness. 

- new safeguard and «conservative revolution» 

   The eurasist society must be based on a safeguard, conservative principle. But this refers not to political institutions — and specially to those which bear on themselves the mark of modern — but to deep cultural and psychological orientations, establishing the identity of peoples, states and communities. To careful conservation are subject the intrinsic deep settings of ethnic psychology, acting in the different historical periods in different, sometimes externally opposite forms. Such deep  safeguard does not at all contradict active social dynamics, as the objective course of history requires constant adaptation of the essential identification elements to varying conditions. The system itself, with the raise of new stimuli, requires active social creativity, but the ultimate subject of this creativity, changing and being transformed, must save the maximum of identity. Such combination of a safeguard principle (conservative) and a creative principle (revolutionary) is defined as « conservative revolution». 
 

 Our ideal of life of traditional eurasist religions (Orthodoxy, Islam, Buddhism, residuals of ancient cults) 

- discovering the ecumenical mission of the Orthodox Church 

   At a religious level the Eurasist Project of Russia implies conservation and «public» development of the spirit of Tradition, a new reference to religious sources of mankind. The religious mission of Russia, in its widest significance, consists in such «return to the sources». The axial form of Tradition in the eurasist Project is the Orthodox, Eastern Church, as depository of authentic Christian spirit preserving the universal dimension of Christian tradition. The mission of the Orthodoxy is not narrowly ethnical, limited to any concrete region or historical period. This mission is ecumenical. The Russians traditionally clearly realised the messianic character of their Belief, consciously or intuitively they followed the ecumenical drive to the universal affirmation of Salvation, Good and Just. For the orthodox consciousness the «new world order» is identified with the «coming of the anti-Christ». For this reason opposing to it, affirming a global religious, ethical and world-view alternative, is not a simply social, but a religious due of the Christians. The fineness of the eschatological identification of the «new world order» with the «prince of this world» makes Orthodoxy an axial reality of global religious resistance across the globe, as in other traditional religions the eschatological aspect is not so brightly expressed and stressed. Orthodoxy becomes the religious geopolitical pole of the eurasist Project. But such central place does not mean at all diminishing of value of other traditional eurasist confessions. 

- union of traditional religions 

   Eurasist confessions, being various from the point of view of dogmas and not reducible to a common scheme, have nevertheless a number of features which draws them closer. This concerns not so much dogmatic side, how much psychological type of eastern religiosity — more contemplative than active, more paradoxical than rationalistic, more linked to the eternal aspect of things, rather than to historical process. These common psychological features give the bases for the union of traditional eurasist confessions, without mixing their faith principles or missionarily imposing doctrinal theses, unacceptable by the others. The union of traditional religions of Eurasia must represent a geopolitical and cultural agreement based on the observance of the sovereign rights to confessional freedom of each people and each man. 

- Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Induism, Taoism, archaic cults 

   Christianity (Orthodoxy), Islam, Buddhism, Induism, Confucianism, Taoism and some local archaic cults prevail n Eurasia. The eurasist union of religions must be founded on 
- cultural and geopolitical co-ordination of these confessions in the issue of the sermons; 
-  joint settling of possible inter-confessional conflicts; 
- development of a common eurasist style of religious traditionalism, based on the respect of the rights of other eurasist religions. To the degeneration of the religious element in the West - from practical materialistic atheism, extravagant artificial cults (often totalitarian) and «racist» patterns of Catholic-Protestant fundamentalism based on open hatred toward eurasist religions - Eurasia must oppose a new traditionalism, a universal solidary return to religious roots. 
 

Our ideal of interethnic relations in Russia-Eurasia

- necessity of special policies of preservation of ethnoses, as the highest value of history 

   Peoples, ethnoses are the highest value and subject of human history. They live according to natural organic cycles, mutation waves etc. In some moments of their history ethnoses can blend with each other, in other moments they rigidly save their characteristics. This process is extremely delicate, and any interference in it — artificial mixture, artificial isolation, planned resettlement of the peoples etc. leads to enormous unrecoverable catastrophes. Thus the proposed mondialist pattern of universal mixture of peoples and races is as much dangerous as the discredited nationalist theory of «racial purity». In both cases such rough projects lead to ethnocide. The eurasist relation to the ethnos is of safeguard, emanating from the principle of necessary protection of each ethnic group from an outlook of historical disappearing. This refers both to large ethnoses, and to populations of a few hundreds individuals. In any cases ethnoses are subject to protection both from the dogmatic supporters of universal mixture and from xenophobic aggressions of the nationalists. Eurasism as a model supposes the assertion of ethnic differences, but for the same reason excludes any «mixophoby» (hostility to mixture). In a definite moment and in a definite situation, ethnic mixture is inevitable and positive (great-russians have arisen as a nation through the blending of the Slavs with Turks and Ugres). But its parameters and dimensions must be naturally and organically defined, with the highest accurateness. 

- creative differentialism and demography 

   The eurasist ethnic plurality must be creative. In the demographic issue, projects oriented to preserving positive or balanced demographic equilibrium must be realised in order to prevent the disappearing of ethnoses. The common responsibility of the representatives of the different ethnic, religious, state and social élites toward the continental destiny of Eurasia must be shown in flexible agreements concerning ethnic and demographic policies taking account all factors traditionally influential in each concrete region and within the framework of each concrete ethnos. The purpose is the joint effort to preserving that ethnic balance in Russia and, more widely, within the potential eurasist block, which existed up to the present day, together with the extraordinary amending of some catastrophic tendencies threatening with degeneration and fading the single peoples (especially the Russian people, axial for the whole eurasist construction). 

- dual relation toward processes of ethnic mixture — openness at the level of élites, limitation at a mass level

   A flexible pattern of eurasist differentialism in its most general terms can be structured according to the following principle: tolerant toward ethnic mixture at the level of élites, and cautious attitude at a mass level. Thus let the choice always remain open in individual cases, according to the rights and freedom of each single citizen. Such specific attitude was typical of the ethnic approach in traditional societies, which in many respects formed social patterns of behaviour also for modern peoples. Such pattern is organic and natural. Besides, it will contribute to the universalism and cultural width of views within the administrative élites of Eurasia, able to encompass ethnic and culture variety; but at the same time it will contribute to preserving the vital creativity of ethnic centres, saving invariant traditional identities and forming new cadres for the pan-eurasist élites.
 

Our ideal of civilisational strategy for Russia 

- civilisational priorities must be placed above national, state, confessional ones 

   The Eurasist Project for Russia supposes placing geopolitical and civilisational criteria above all the other. At the beginning of the XXI century, Russia is entering a deciding phase of civilisational opposition, whose outcome will be definitively decided: will victory definitively and irrevocably go to the atlantist model of world system, with its whole aggregate of disturbing religious, cultural, economic, ecological and political tendencies? Or will Eurasia manage to affirm on a planetary scale a global alternative, having demonstrated its own historical rightness, having justified the Eurasist, great-continental predestination? For this reason the supreme end, the supreme task of the same historical existence of Russia acquires a distinct shape, and is reduced to the execution of a clearly formulated GEOPOLITICAL MISSION. The geopolitical and civilisational dimension must be the standard and criterion for all the remaining spheres of development of Russia — economic, social, cultural, political etc. If in the near future it will be possible to keep faith to this mission, to lay the bases of the global eurasist alternative to the «new world order», all the remaining levels will be step-by-step developed, normalised, ordered in optimal conditions. But during the first stages, everything will have to be subordinated to the very central geopolitical problem. From this follows – and it is necessary to take it into account - that even the rather efficient development of the economic, social, cultural or political sectors of Russia, separated from the realisation of the major geopolitical civilisational Project (or to the detriment of it), in the medium and long term will not bring any positive results and will only postpone for some time the final catastrophe, which will fatally come to Russia with the establishing of the «new world order». 

- structure of the eurasist Armed Forces

   The Eurasist Project can only be realised in the event that Russia will manage to save and consolidate its nuclear and strategic potential, taking a number of decisive steps in the field of elaboration and introduction of weapons of new generation. To realise the eurasist alternative in an evolutionary way, without involving mankind in planetary dictatorship, ecological catastrophe or total civil war on a world scale will be possible only as long as the military balance of NATO countries and Russia (including its military allies — Belarus etc.) remains stable, and the threat of using strategic weapons against NATO countries can effectively constrain the neo-colonial plans of atlantism. Nuclear weapons, the Russian anti-missile defence system, the most recent technological research of the Russian military-industrial complex: here are the major reason of the  possibility for Russia to fulfil its historical mission. By virtue of this circumstance, major tasks of Russia will be reinforcing the strategic sector of the Armed Forces, activating research in the sphere of high technology weapons of new kind, preserving the readiness to fight of the Armed Forces, strengthening their structure, modernisation of control systems etc. The Russian army and the Russian military-industrial complex, their structural reform, active consolidation and development must be the highest priorities of the eurasist policy. The destiny of Russia, of Eurasia, as a civilisation, depends directly on the quality of the Armed Forces. 

- military pacts 

   The axial significance of the Russian Armed forces (and especially of their strategic sector) must entail the creation of a serial of military pacts, which are required to provide steadiness to the eurasist block along its strategically relevant borders. Major of these pacts is the Russian-Iranian military alliance, which for the first time in history could open to Russia an exit  to the «warm seas», and allow the disposition of Russian strategic weapons on the southern shores of Eurasia. As Iran is strategically oriented against West domination and is guided world policy by eurasist priorities, objective reasons for such military do exist. In a medium term outlook just the Moscow-Teheran military axis is able to organise a strategic power space countering the West in the Near East, in the Caucasus and in Central Asia. 
   Among the Arab countries, military pacts must be concluded with Iraq, Syria and Libya, that will allow Eurasia to receive a major lever of control on the Mediterranean space. 
   In Eastern Europe a military pact with orthodox Serbia is relevant, and also it is desirable to neutralise (even better, to attract on our side) orthodox countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Macedonia etc.), contributing to their distancing from NATO. 
   Other major pact is the military alliance of Moscow with India and China. (Though it is hardly possible to hope for strong geopolitical ties with China, since between Moscow and Peking there are too many strategic contradictions, and in a critical situation China will probably act as a coast base of atlantism). 
    In a parallel way to the conclusion of military pacts within the framework of Eurasia, it is necessary to actively cooperate to splitting the unity of NATO countries, and to contribute to the strategic neutralisation of the Central-European region (more widely, of all Europe) and the Pacific region. 
   Very important to the conclusion of these strategic pacts will be to demonstrate, that the issue is not about the religious, ideological, political likeness of the participants of the Eurasist Block, but about unity of common purpose — the opposition to atlantist hegemony, to the autocratic establishing of US «new world order» and to the oligarchic «world government». Hence, any given military alliance pursues a defensive and, most important, liberation purpose, ensuring geopolitical conditions of sovereignty to all states and peoples before the planetary offensive of the mondialist pattern, which means depriving them of this sovereignty. 

- eurasist intelligence-community of a «new kind» 

   To the efficient execution of eurasist policies, Russia requires a deep reform of its system of military information offices, and especially of intelligence and counter-intelligence services. It is necessary to establish a new kind of intelligence structure (analogous to the geopolitical intelligence services of atlantism), acting also on supra-statal and supra-national level, guided not simply by the concerns of Russia as a State, but by the geopolitical and civilisational priorities of the creation of  a large Eurasist Block. Reference directions of activity of such geopolitical intelligence services must become: 
1) Creation (or reconstruction) of an eurasist geopolitical lobby in the foreign countries and in the West (with the interaction of all social, political, cultural, religious and ideological forces, for this or that reason disagreeing with the establishing of the «new world order», with the  totalitarian supremacy of the «liberal ideology» etc.) 
2) Organisation of a constant pro-eurasist, integrationist trend in the environment of political, cultural and economic ?lites of countries being potential allies of Russia in the Eurasist Block. 
3) Operative definition, identification, isolation and elimination of groups of geopolitical atlantist influence acting within Russia, and other friendly eurasist powers. 

- manipulation of chaotical (random) processes 

   The future probability of chaotical processes across the globe, linked with social, ecological, technical, psychological catastrophes, is valued by the atlantist experts as a spectrum of «new challenges» to American domination and the stability of the «new world order». The random  chaotical factor, in this way, becomes a relevant instrument for the accomplishment of the eurasist strategy. The artificial manipulation with this factor and its monitored and limited use to strategic purposes represents a major direction of strategic elaboration of the Eurasist Project in its crato-political (force) component. 
 

Our ideal of operation of mass Media: the eurasist mass-media 

- mass-media under control of Eurasia 

   The factor of mass-media influence in contemporary reality is so significant, that this area becomes a major strategic factor. For this reason the Eurasist Project to a large extent depends on depth of control of the eurasist strategic centre upon the system of Russian mass-media and mass-media of the potential participants of the Eurasist Block, and also from an effective diffusion of the eurasist line in the general informational space. In the conditions of the «new world order», just mediacracy plays the central role in the social programming of the population for the introduction of the establishing civilisational setting of mondialism. Thus the mondialisation of the mass-media precedes the establishing of the «new world order» at a political level, preparing it. 
   The eurasist mass-media must play the opposite function, consequently creating the psychological bases for the adoption of the alternative Eurasist Project, and then projecting it both on an internal audience and outside. The eurasist mass-media must have planetary scale of broadcasting. 

- advantages of interactive mass-media of new generation 

   The development of information systems in a short time will result in the universal diffusion of interactive communication facilities, such as the INTERNET network. In interactive environments the user receives an incomparably larger freedom of choice of sources of information, than in the case traditional mass-media. The technological development of interactive systems allows the receiver of the information to get gradually closer to the technical potential of the creator and distributor of the information - which was excluded by the operative conditions of traditional mass-media. The Eurasist Project must favour this technological trend, and along with the effective utilisation of traditional mass-media, it is clearly necessary to develop an eurasist networks of interactive information, preparing the logistic platform for the creation of «virtual Eurasia» — a system of interactive mass-media, steadily providing an informational-analytical, psychological and cultural introduction to the principles of eurasist consciousness, alternative in relation to the clich?s of the «new world order». 

- three stages of development of the eurasist mass-media 

   At a level of general strategy of the eurasist mass-media it is necessary to outline three stages, which can be realised in a parallel way to each other — 
1) opposition to mass-media mondialisation along the schemes of the atlantist order (to this purpose, efficient use of the specificities of the regional broadcasting and press, localisation, connection to the linguistic environment, direct opposition and sabotage of universalistic projects, such as CNN, BBC etc.) 
2) development of national mass-media, under control of state authorities linked to strategic planning 
3) creations of a planetary alternative system of mass-media, which would bring the eurasist line in the informational-analytical illustration of basic events. 
 

Our ideal of the juridical system: the «rights of the peoples» 

- transition to the concept of «rights of the peoples» 

   The Eurasist Project demands a massive revision of the basic juridical categories predominant in the Western world, and first of the concept of «human rights», axial for the atlantist civilisation. The juridical theory of «human rights» as the foundation of universal law is the closing stage of the affirmation of the philosophy of individualism in the West. The concept of «human rights» is inseparable from the other fundamental trends of the «new world order» and represents its juridical expression. The eurasist alternative is founded upon a considerably different juridical concept — the concept of «rights of the peoples» or «rights of communities». The concept of «people» must be chosen as the basic juridical category, as the major subject of the international and civil law. In such pattern there arises a completely new scheme of juridical mutual relations between the citizen and the supreme legislative authority, traditionally linked to the State -  but in the conditions of the «new world order» gradually offset by the authority of «world government». At the centre of the eurasist law there is the people, the basic juridical subject. The citizen, the individual is juridically responsible before his people and before the historically developed legitimate regime of this people on the account of many factors — religious, ethnic, cultural etc. Ethnic, religious and cultural belongings places the citizen in this or that different juridical context. Peoples themselves – in the person of their plenipotentiary ?lite authorities (defined also according to different methods, on the basis of tradition)- are juridically accountable to the supreme strategic government of the geopolitical block, to the Supreme body of the eurasist federation. Thus, the eurasist juridical pattern represents a combination of the federative law, where the full juridical subject of the eurasist federation is the «people» and of the «strategic law», settling mutual relations between the subjects of the federation, on the one hand, and between each of them and the central authority, on the other.. 

- «discriminating» jurisprudence 

   The eurasist juridical pattern is founded on a differentiated approach to the juridical civil and criminal code, depending on the national or regional context. Special attention is given to recovering the bases of religious juridical models, gathering confessional, social and moral standards and attaching confessional and ethical character to the legislative area. The variations of juridical establishments in the differing ethnic, cultural and confessional contexts can be most wide and varied. Only a minor part of papers of the juridical documents will touch the strategic level. The primary categorical imperative of each citizen, not dependent from its confessional and ethnic belongings, is to remain loyal to the eurasist State. 

- geo-juridical system, special codes for multi-confessional agglomerates and megalopolises 

   Besides the conditioning of ethnic and confessional differentiation upon the juridical system, juridical variations can appear also in the local laws of the single administrative units, in conformity to regional features. Besides, complex multiethnic and multi-confessional agglomerates and megalopolis, and also the sectors with special social-professional features can present in their juridical codes significant differences reflecting their concrete specificity. 

- eco-juridical system

   The environmental factors must receive a major place in the eurasist law, consolidating through the legislative way the rules of ecological approach to the environment. 
 
 

January 2001