Alexander Dugin argues that Russia must cast off Western imitation and restore its Greco-Slavic identity.
In our society, very important processes are taking place. We are gradually freeing ourselves from our addiction to the West. This has been Russia’s condition since the era of Peter the Great: Westernism, imitation, and admiration of the West. Such an attitude paralyzes the inner strength of the people, blocks sovereign development, and undermines identity. We measure ourselves by alien and external standards.
It is necessary to be rid of this affliction, to be cured of it. Trubetzkoy and Savitsky called it the “Romano-German yoke.” An apt description. Our civilizational code is Greco-Slavic. It has its own order, its own structure. It is Plato and Aristotle, followed by Christianity, Byzantinism, the transmission of the imperial mission, and the role of the Katechon.
No materialism, no atomism, no nominalism, and no individualism are contained in the Greco-Slavic identity. These came from the West, which proclaimed its own history to be the universal model, the obligatory path of development for all of humanity. Yet this was nothing but colonial seizure, a mental occupation. Westernism is collaborationism — cooperation with the occupiers. Westernism is the voluntary acceptance of the Romano-German yoke and the renunciation of our own Greco-Slavic civilization.
(Translated from the Russian)
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"Yet this was nothing but colonial seizure, a mental occupation. Westernism is collaborationism — cooperation with the occupiers." - This is the exact point!
I can confirm it from a standpoint of a Slavic nation which was enslaved when absorbed into Western/Roman Catholic sphere around 10th century, it came with agressive (bloody) Christianization, from Bavaria. The irony was that many people on our territory have already been Christianized from followers of Konstantin/Cyril and Methodius. They were invited by Moravian prince and their followers went on missions in all directions where Slavic people lived. (We know that from scriptures in Glagolic alphabet, mostly carved in stone.)
Polish king in Gniezno (I think it was Mieszko I.) also had the option to chose Christianization from Bizantium or Rome, but he chose Rome because he wanted to "belong to Western civilization". In my interpretation: he thought he (and other Polish nobility) would be accepted into the club of masters - but now we can see what Poland has become: a puppet, a proxy. Poland lost its sovereignity 1000 years ago, thanks to a stupid king. Orthodox Christianity was violently forged from terains around Krakow, and also Moravian and Czech territories.
Since then, half of the Slavic people have been stuck in the Western sphere of influence, and we keep getting shattered into smaller and smaller nations - brothers are easily to be set against each other. This is what we saw in 90s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and this is exactly how Ukrainian ultranationals were manipulated against their brothers. And slowly, they are cutting us of our roots, trying to persuade us that we are someone else. Recently, someone was trying to convince me that Slovenian people are actually Germans! (I know German, and therefore I exactly know what the difference between us is. Language is the mirror of our roots and our national soul.)
Powerful and true: “No materialism, no atomism, no nominalism, and no individualism are contained in the Greco-Slavic identity.”