Putin Is Attempting to Center Russia as a Hub of the Global Right Wing
Ivan Ilyin is the most obscure and most important [of three prominent Russians
Putin had reinterred in Moscow] today. Ilyin was a Russian nationalist
philosopher in Lenin’s time who turned fascist, even moving his work to Germany
under the Nazis in the 1930s. Putin now has his officers studying Ilyin, along
with Ilyin’s follower today, Alexander Dugin, a modern Russian fascist and
favorite of Steve Bannon, formerly of team Trump. Both Ilyin and Dugin are
theorists and advocates of “Eurasianism,” a worldview asserting that dominance
of the central land mass “homeland” of both Europe and Asia is the key to world
hegemony. By Carl Davidson and Bill Fletcher, Truthout, March 28, 2022
Ivan IlyinIn exile, Ivan Ilyin argued that Russia should not be judged by what he called
the Communist
danger it
represented at that time but looked forward to a future in which it would
liberate itself with the help of Christian
fascism.
A number of Ilyin's works (including
those written after the German defeat in 1945) advocated fascism Ilyin
initially saw Adolf
Hitler as
a defender of civilization from Bolshevism and
approved of the way Hitler had, in his view, derived his anti-Semitism from
the ideology of the Russian Whites. In
1933, he published an article titled "National Socialism. A New Spirit" in
support of the takeover of Germany by Nazis.
Ilyin was accused of anti-Semitism by Roman
Gul,
a fellow émigré writer. According to a letter by Gul to Ilyin, the former
expressed extreme umbrage at Ilyin's suspicions that all those who disagreed
with him were Jews.
Ilyin has been quoted by Russian
PresidentVladimir
Putin,
and is considered by some observers to be a major ideological inspiration for
Putin, who
was personally involved in moving Ilyin's remains back to Russia, and in 2009
consecrated his grave. Wikipedia article
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