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> On Jan 23, 2019, at 2:43 PM, A.R. G via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > wrote: > > ARR's article, which isn't about any of these people, takes the association > game to a new extreme. I’m starting to think ARR didn’t actually read the article, at least not very closely. I’m going to paste a few paragraphs and then a couple of links: With the fall of the Soviet Union, Limonov joined fellow National Bolshevik, Aleksandr Dugin, to promote that dream of a Eurasian “large space” premised on fascist geopolitics and based in the Kremlin. Committed to the total destruction of what they perceive as the liberal and weak West, the National Bolsheviks asserted the spiritual greatness of Traditionalism found in the “Heartland” of the Asian continent. While Dugin became the philosopher of this fascist ideology, influencing everyone from the Communist Party to the so-called Liberal Democratic Party of Russia to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Limonov developed his role as a leading propagandist of the Russian far right. According to professor Markus Meili <https://books.google.com/books?id=kne26UnE1wQC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=%25E2%2580%259Cdecisively+influenced+the+emergence+and+growth+of+the+Russian+skinhead+movement+in+the+mid-1990s+by+propagating+a+fascist+style+and+corresponding+dress+code.%25E2%2580%259D&source=bl&ots=ErBVHJ82o6&sig=zWnu_RVHTI_H4Y6s1jGCPe59E8M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiih-Og68DcAhVLr1QKHeH7AMkQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ>, Limonov “decisively influenced the emergence and growth of the Russian skinhead movement in the mid-1990s.” Despite this, firing on Sarajevo with war criminal Radovan Karadžić <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/2445534/Radovan-Karadzic-from-small-time-swindler-to-war-criminal.html>, and calling for a “Serbian solution” to challenges against Russia, he was indulged as a misunderstood performance artist. … Politically, The eXile came to follow now-familiar rules: criticize Putin, but reserve the most obscene tirades for Western media hypocrisy. They would level criticisms against Putin on tough issues, such as his stony response <http://prince.org/msg/105/206224?pr> to the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, but turn those articles back against the US. Ames seemed to oppose Putin and the oligarchs, but downplay the threat of fascists like Dugin, while publishing his comrade-in-arms, Limonov. For this reason, scholar and author of Russian Fascism <https://www.routledge.com/Russian-Fascism-Traditions-Tendencies-and-Movements-Traditions-Tendencies/Shenfield/p/book/9780765606341>, Stephen Shenfield, argued that “ways should be found to put the eXile out of business” (according to Ames’s account <http://www.exile.ru/old-exile/vault/ames/ames42.html>). … Limonov rejoined Putin’s side after years on the opposition, enraptured by the convergence of ultranationalism and Soviet nostalgia. Limonov’s former close comrade, Dugin, exhorted pro-Russian forces in Ukraine to “Kill! Kill! Kill Ukrainians! <https://books.google.com/books?id=SjZyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT209&dq=dugin+%22kill+kill+kill%22+laruelle&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrlvW5tYzfAhUZGDQIHbl1AvkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dugin%20%22kill%20kill%20kill%22%20laruelle&f=false>” and his close associates <https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/148882790.pdf> took leading roles in the Kremlin-supported “civil war.” Limonov and Dugin <https://4threvolutionarywar.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/alexander-dugin-eduard-limonov-the-crimea-video/> appeared on Russian TV together, a symbol of the power of the invasion of Ukraine to reunite old comrades. ARR subsequently links to: This 2013 tweet from Ames: http://archive.li/Cc9ca This 2014 white-washing piece for NPR by Taibbi: https://www.npr.org/2014/10/21/356988666/who-is-limonov-not-even-his-biographer-really-knows What Ames and Taibbi are doing here is pretty far from simply failing to disassociate themselves from an odious figure. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
