In arrivo settimana prossima, dopo una lavorazione di oltre un anno, *Filosofia verticale* di Natalia Melentyeva (consorte di Aleksandr Dugin e madre di Darya Dugina). A cura di Davide Gonzaga, revisione (con integrazione di appropriate note) di Alessandra Colla. Prefazione di Paolo Borgognone.
Eclatante il primo capitolo (non che gli altri sedici siano da meno) dedicato allo “stile” fascista dove l’Autrice, nel primo dei diciassette capitoli, titolato “Filosofia della politica radicale” elabora la tesi di Armin Mohler pubblicata in Italia da Edizioni Settimo sigillo nel 1987 con il titolo *Lo ‘stile’ fascista*, capitolo che non mancherà di far venire il sangue verde a intellettuali di destra e sinistra, di sopra e di sotto, sopra tutto a chi è intollerante alla nuova saggistica russa di matrice tradizionale cui nega dignità e capacità analitica.
Insomma, 440 pp. di dolore, per liberali, paleofascisti un tot al kg, paleocomunisti scaduti, etc.

— Maurizio Ulisse Murelli

Sovereignty and War

Alexander Dugin argues that true sovereignty, and thus freedom, begins with the state’s right to choose war or peace.

Read the full essay here:

https://www.multipolarpress.com/p/sovereignty-and-war

Question: So the philosopher’s relationship to the state can radically change?

Alexander Dugin: Consider Socrates. He ascended to truth, returned to share it with society, and was killed by a society unprepared for that truth. A true philosopher, revealing to society the truth about itself, always bears something of Christ — the martyr and the sacrifice.

Therefore, the philosopher cannot serve the state. He serves humanity and truth. Yet the state urgently needs such servants of truth, just as the Church needs martyrs and saints. But the state must dare to raise philosophers knowing it cannot control their minds. On the contrary, the philosopher who returns from contemplation will himself judge what in the state is good and what is bad — at the highest level. He will not overthrow power, but play a role akin to Merlin at the side of King Arthur or a patriarch beside an emperor. The philosophical sphere is a unique domain within the political system — it does not claim power, but it claims truth.

If power wishes to govern according to truth, it must listen to the philosopher. If its aims are confined to force or self-interest, it has no need for him. Yet if the state aspires to be a state-civilization, philosophers must occupy a high and special place within it. This always carries risk, for a true philosopher cannot be controlled. A controlled philosopher ceases to be one — he becomes a propagandist or ideologue. The philosopher is not the one who proclaims what pleases the prince; rather, it is the prince who formulates his decrees in accordance with certain philosophical visions. Hence, cultivating a philosopher is a dangerous enterprise.

Our philosophical institutions over the past hundred years have merely served power and the dominant ideology — first Soviet, then liberal. Today, neither ideology remains, and these institutions persist by inertia. And precisely now, as the urgent need for civilizational philosophical sovereignty emerges before our eyes, profound reform of these institutions is required. We must build pathways that enable chosen individuals among our people to ascend toward contemplation. This can and must be ensured.

For now, however, our institutions remain captive to the inertia of alien ideology and mundane concerns. Institutionally, we are nowhere near the creation of a sovereign philosophy. Perhaps everything depends on the appearance of at least one true philosopher. Together with the state, such a person could create an authentic philosophical institution and establish education capable of recognizing those with a calling, helping them to unfold, and preparing them for this path.

Philosophers cannot be trained like technical specialists. Yet we can create the conditions — intellectual oases in the form of institutes, departments, even philosophical circles.

Read the full interview here:

https://www.multipolarpress.com/p/philosophical-sovereignty

Photo: Nikolai Malakhin / Nauchnaya Rossiya (Scientific Russia)

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VALORI e REALTA'
Eticità, tradimento, spiritualità, lealtà, verticalità, onestà, coraggio, stirpe, solidarietà, appartenenza, famiglia, onore, sacralità...
Pronunciate queste parole!
Pronunciatele ancora una volta....
Ora ascoltate con attenzione il suono che emettono.
Ascoltate ancora, liberate come una eco lontana la loro musicalità...
Ascoltate nella vostra mente l'estensione dei suoni corrispondenti ad ognuna di esse, dai toni più alti a quelli più bassi...
Ora provatele ad accordarle al modello sociale in cui stiamo vivendo, alla mediocrità che ci circonda, alle miserabili figure che ci incontrano o che ci invitano a danzare con loro nel vuoto pneumatico delle proprie sopravvivenze, allorquando attraversano la nostra quotidianità.
Questo passaggio, questa esperienza, è preliminare per riconoscersi cavalieri erranti nel postmoderno. Del postmoderno.

VALUES and REALITY
Ethics, betrayal, spirituality, loyalty, integrity, honesty, courage, lineage, solidarity, belonging, family, honour, sacredness...
Say these words!
Say them again...
Now listen carefully to the sound they make.
Listen again, freeing their musicality like a distant echo...
Listen in your mind to the range of sounds corresponding to each of them, from the highest to the lowest tones...
Now try to tune them to the social model in which we live, to the mediocrity that surrounds us, to the miserable figures we encounter or who invite us to dance with them in the pneumatic void of their own survival, when they cross our daily lives.
This passage, this experience, is preliminary to recognising ourselves as knights errant in the postmodern. Of the postmodern.

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关于特朗普对待中国的反复态度，我们应该先看到一点：​
特朗普还没能控制住西方——既没控制住美国，也没控制住北约。他的敌人试图让他放弃这项任务。其中一种方法就是说服特朗普，让他相信他应该先控制住中国、俄罗斯和世界。这完全是错的。他们试图诱骗他认为自己可以继续充当“世界之王”，随心所欲地对待和干预所有其他人。
而在特朗普的阴影下，“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）正在形成，就像一个意识形态独立的政党。“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）是真正“西方之王”的政党，拥有其意识形态和地缘政治愿景。
所以特朗普如果继续用以前的方式对待中国，就不会取得任何成果。特朗普不再是“西方之王”（MAGA的美国），也无法再变成“世界之王”（新保守主义者的美国），更不代表全球主义者，而会变成“混乱之王”——也就是只会沦落为成为小丑和骗子。