367: European New Right pt. 2 - Against Equality, For Racism (Teaser)

0:00So totalitarianism can be either A, a logical communist conclusion of a liberal odyssey, odyssey, that's first option, okay. The other option is a Nazi totalitarian option, which is a violent and panicked reaction against this communist conclusion of the liberal odyssey. So in both of these options of liberalism will be attacked. In option A, it will be attacked for not running its full egalitarian course. Okay. And in Nazi option, it will be attacked for destroying traditional social ties and provoking social anatomy and then Nazi totalitarianism will be a strong integrating force that is needed in such an optimized society. A strong integrating force.

1:02Yes, this is what Nazism is because liberalism and communism are forms of totalitarianism that destroy traditional social bounds. Okay. And then you have a panic reaction of trying to reforge some social bounds. Okay. With often for this strong integrating force, which is Nazism. So really is Nazism so bad. I mean, it is a form of totalitarianism, they say, although you have many of these other options here like Salazar, but it's an understandable. It's a panicked reaction. Okay. What were they to do? Yeah, they were like, oh, we lost our own social bonds because of these Jews. We need a strong integrating force. Yeah, I need to invade the rest of Europe. So yeah. So sorry, you needed to create another European order. Yeah. Of stability.

2:10Yeah. Yeah. So like it's everyone's fault except that there's like like it's the Jews, Christians, liberals, communists who are, it's their fault. And then fascists have, you have majority of fascists who are not even totalitarian, which is Italian fascists, Francois, Salazar, all of those guys are not totalitarian. Okay. You have Nazis who are famously not true. Okay. And then Nazis who had this panic reaction because all of their social bonds were destroyed. And so that's the new right theory of totalitarianism. Brilliant. And then just at the end, he has a chapter called Homo Sovieticus. And he writes, people really got to do, stop doing the Homo whatever thing. It got played out a long, long before even 1990. Yeah. But this is interesting because he, this is mostly the whole chapter is a quote over a Russian guy. I mean, I knew

3:15about this guy before I didn't read so much about him. But it's someone is Russian biographies are like you get dizzy. Well, like the 20th century, like so this guy, Alexander Zinoviev. Okay. Not. Yes. So there's another famous. That's not this guy. But yeah. No. So he soon writes about him as he is basically because the whole chapter is about him. So, but I don't know, is he like a European, you write guy? I don't think so. But maybe he lived in the West. So I guess maybe there was some interaction between them. I think he lived in France as well. So possibly yes. But he these are the chapters about his theories or what the Soviet Union was and what that system was. So I mean, you get this because like this guy, like he was born in the 20s, he died in 2009 or 2006 or so. And he he was like, you know, it's someone who's obviously like very like educated smart. Like he he wrote already as a young person before the Second World War.

4:18Then he was he participated in the Second World War. He was like some kind of an anti-stalinist Marxist communist, something like that. Okay. Then some kind of a dissident, he became an academic, I think a philosopher. Then he went in the West, became an anti-communist, had meetings with Pinoche and like all kinds of crazy shit. And then in the end became like a crazy Russian nationalist who thought that Stalin was the only great politician. Russia had a 20th century. Like what the fuck is going on? This is not somehow not a super unusual trajectory for some Russian thinkers. If you want access to this full episode along with hundreds of other hours of assorted weirdness, subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com slash tenipod and help us out a little bit.