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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#ff0000>Actually, I'm</FONT> <FONT
color=#ff0000>interested in talking about Dugin and national ideas like
"Euroasianism" on this list.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>Here on this list we talk about
relations and misunderstandings, about cultural differences etc. In many
such dialogues, it is hard to take any stand except for cultural relativism
because people from the outside are told "they don't understand" some special
conditions. But in my experience, this "you don't understand what we
collectively understand" stuff is the bullshit that people use to pass off
nationalistic and irrational ideas as something else.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>So it's very interesting why in some
places in Eastern Europe, trying to find some alternative national
identifications, or trying to resurrect old-time slavophile-westernizer debates,
giving them new twists or redefing their boundaries and participants is common
and how these ideas, which would be seen as bullshit in the western
context, are given more tolerance when proposed by the other, supposedly
downtrodden people.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>Dugin is of course a totalitarian.
And yes, he meets with "new right" people all the time, like the meeting in
London.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>This link is mild, but the pro-Putin,
pro-empire message is clear.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><A
href="http://eurasia.com.ru/dugin0103_eng.html">http://eurasia.com.ru/dugin0103_eng.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>To get a better feel for what Dugin
is saying, you probably have to read many texts. Here is a small
collection.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><A
href="http://www.arctogaia.com/public/eng/">http://www.arctogaia.com/public/eng/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dugin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dugin</A></FONT></DIV>
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