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+ As pointed out elsewhere, the tendency toward unlimited expansion and conquest was much more inherent in the old system of competitive capitalism than it is in the geopolitical concepts of Haushoferism. Whatever will be the ultimate outcome of present struggle between ideals as well as realities, it is a sad fact for capitalist Democracy that today it is attacked by its friends and foes alike, not only for the permanent conflict between its ideals and its realities but also for the increasing obsoleteness of its very ideals." — Karl Korsch, A Historical View of Geopolitics (1943)

"The ultimate creed professed by Mackinder seems to lead far away from the “realities” of geography and power with which, in the preceding chapters, he had contrasted the allegedly too lofty “ideals” of the Democratic statesmen. Yet the mental picture of a new and untried type of democracy which is here designed by a great scientist and statesman may still turn out, in a no longer remote future, to be more realistic than both the “ideals” and the complementary “realities” of present-day Democracy. There is no particular reason to expect that the “ideals” advanced by the leaders and spokesmen of totalitarianism will have a better chance to survive the test of practice than had the democratic ideals of the recent past. All the same, we must point to a peculiar resemblance which seems to connect MacKinder’s view of a world organized in well-balanced regions with certain leading concepts of the geopolitical creed of his authoritarian antagonists. +

"In this kind of a world states can survive only by a constant devotion to power politics." Spykman (1942) "The standpoint of the old materialism is civil society; the standpoint of the new is human society, or social humanity." Marx (1845) "What is needed is a new summons and a new refundatio, a relaunch of the system and a re-founding of our political essence... The eternity of authority and the eternity of the people must converge in an entirely new way." Dugin (2026)

— The struggle for setting up the extra-national model is the driver of our social development and our crises; because the bourgeois nation-state has been already realized, it is now a reactionary realm for the management of unfreedom. — It is also, simultaneously, the struggle to sublimate the current social relations of capitalism, instantiated in competition between states — that is, to realize the self-overcoming of labor beyond capitalism. — Class struggle is a world category, so the resolve is consequently global. Though, at domestic scales it has no more primacy than security set up in front of imperialism. Geopolitics is, a fortiori, primary.

"The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end." — Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784) "The very notion of Eurasia encompasses the idea of a synthesis of East and West, Europe and Asia, that point where the antagonistic forces of sacred geography can and must find balance." — Aleksandr Dugin, The Battle for the Cosmos in Eurasianist Philosophy (2020)

Painting is by Wilhelm Reich, bourgeois commie radical psychoanalist turned mad scientist and UFO hunter‼️🤔

Nick Land (2013): "The proletariat is too inert to build the future, the bourgeoisie too timid. For break out, both have to be secretly slaved to mad science."

"Сущность Империи Духа (и Империи как таковой), расположенной именно на этом уровне, в том, чтобы организовывать феноменальный мир в соответствии с божественной волей. Но при этом власти на сей раз приходится спускаться в материю, касаться ее непосредственно, чтобы придать ей нужную форму и нужную ориентацию. [...] Уплотнение состава проявленного мира — это естественное и логически необходимое условие творения. Бог творит нечто, что не тождественно Ему Самому." — Aleksandr Dugin, Бытие и Империя (2024)

Adorno: “To think dialectically is not to confront one proposition of whatever kind with some other contrary opinion from outside. Rather, it’s to drive thought to the point where it comes to recognize its own finitude, its own falsehood, and is thereby also driven beyond itself.”

+ The industrialist would say: we must slow up innovations now, because we have extremely costly installations which must first be amortized. They must become profitable, their installation costs must be covered, before we can start out on another phase of technological change. On the military level, no reasons are valid for putting an end to the research for new weapons. On the contrary, the omnipresent danger exists that the enemy will be the first to find a new weapon. There is consequently a real stimulus for permanent research, uninterrupted and practically without any economic consideration, so that the river flows on with virtually no obstruction." — Ernest Mandel (1967)

"In a somewhat “extremist” fashion, [I wish to underline] that most of the technological revolutions which we are undergoing in the industrial domain and in productive technique generally are by-products of technical revolutions in the military sphere. To the degree that we are involved in a permanent cold war, which is characterized by a permanent search for technical changes in the sphere of armaments, we have a new factor here, a so-to-speak, extra-economic source, which feeds continuous changes into productive technique. In the past, when this autonomy in technological research did not exist, when it was essentially a product of industrial companies, there was a major factor which determined the cyclical progress of this research. +

⬆️dialectical insanity‼️🤔❓☢️

Dugin (02/2026): "Мы победим на Украине, если сами совершим идеологический рывок, отвергнем капитализм и его ложное сознание, и провозгласим высшей ценностью именно Народ и его Дух. Главное, чтобы эта инициатива исходила сверху. Если снизу, то мы все только разнесем и ничего не выстроим. У нас далеко не все так запущено, как на Западе. Есть ориентиры - монархия минус капитализм, и социализм минус атеизм, материализм и русофобия. Вроде как традиционные ценности и историческое просвещение, а также реформа гуманитарного ядра в ВУЗах это как раз об этом. Да, об этом. Но действовать надо намного решительнее, быстрее и жёстче. Вообще стараясь без лжи. Нам нужно пробудить настоящее народное сознание, а не манипулировать суррогатами. С капитализмом в России пора кончать."

"As the earth, fixed ground and soil, is the condition for the principle of family life, so for industry the outward enlivening element is the sea." (1820)

"There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery. They require the efforts and energies of men and women, the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion. [...] Today, energy prices still burden producers and consumers alike, and the grid remains precarious. Over the past 30 years only three commercial nuclear reactors have been built and 10 have been closed. [...] Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly. Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong. Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along. But we are capable of so much more. Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/04/remarks-by-director-kratsios-at-the-endless-frontiers-retreat/

"The passage Universal → Particular self-negates into Particular → Universal. Through history, social relations develop, refine themselves and expand. So does our freedom — necessarily, so do not believe your eyes. That must not be mistaken to an eschatological “the veil is thinning” sort of predicament, given that it would still constitute an engagement with entelechy by the denial of practical agency in civil society — freedom in the collective. Freedom is not concretely bound to a transcendental object (at the end of time), but to thought; therefore it must be conceptually unbound. The subject acts within and through society; so does society through the subject. The negation of the negation, per Hegel, culminates in the Singular. A livable, singular actuality that fully counts on the subject’s own centerlessness, but one that firstly has to go through the way of recognition of social powers." https://nukesinspace.substack.com/p/the-absolute-prole

‼️👇🤦‍♂️smh https://nukesinspace.substack.com/p/quaestio-rossica-europaea

"At a meeting of the Cabinet’s Foreign Policy Committee on 16 May 1939, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, who would later become minister for the co-ordination of defence, offered the most striking strategic analysis regarding the importance of Russia. He opposed Chamberlain and Halifax’s avoidance of an alliance with Russia, saying, ‘…failure to reach an agreement with Russia might result in Russia standing aside in a future European war and hoping thereby to secure advantage from the exhaustion of the western nations’. He emphasised that the greatest danger lay in a German rapprochement with Russia, as ‘…Russia should not, in any circumstances, become allied with Germany. From the military point of view, such an eventuality would create a most dangerous situation for us.’ To lure Russia, Chatfield suggested offering some ‘quid pro quo’ to the Soviets regarding Poland. Similarly, German commanders viewed the Soviet Union's standing aside while Germany was engaged in a war of attrition with the UK as an imminent threat. As both sides bled out, the Soviets would simply await their moment to march through Europe. Delivering the first blow to the Soviet Union and exhausting its forces in war was the only way to prevent the Bolshevisation of Europe. In this case, German military leaders reached the same strategic conclusion as Lord Chatfield, though from the opposite side. Joseph Goebbels, who had no influence over military matters, was probably the only major figure in Germany who defended prioritising the war with the United Kingdom and was willing to offer concessions to the Soviet Union. After Hitler informed Goebbels that he would soon attack Russia, Goebbels immediately became convinced that war with Russia was necessary, as the Führer told him the Soviets were merely waiting for the opportune moment to launch their attack on Europe. Interestingly, though, in 1944 and 1945, Goebbels repeatedly wrote in his diary that he expected Stalin, as a pragmatic man, to offer a peace deal to Germany, and that negotiating with Churchill and Roosevelt was useless, since they were fanatics. Hitler, at least as Goebbels recorded him, shared this late-war search for a diplomatic reversal, which more often pointed towards an accommodation with Stalin against the West. The idea of a separate peace with the British and Americans while continuing the war against the Soviet Union was also in the air, chiefly espoused by Himmler, Schellenberg, and the SS-intelligence circles around them. Just as Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield and German commanders predicted, Europe exhausted itself through war. Chatfield’s country lost its global empire by winning the war it so willingly fought. The Soviet Union, also devastated in the war, could not advance beyond Berlin. The last men standing, who sacrificed very little in the war and built their global empire afterwards, were the Americans, and very few predicted what a disaster an American-led world order would be for Europe and civilisation in general."