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=====Ivan Ilyin The obscure 'Russian Christian Fascist' philosopher motivating Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/9/2083736/-The-obscure-Russian-Christian-Fascist-philosopher-motivating-Vladimir-Putin-s-invasion-of-Ukraine Dartagnan March 09, 2022 The DailyKos] | |||
Little known in the West and largely forgotten in Russia until the early 2000s, Ilyin (1883-1954) had actually been expelled by the Bolshevik state shortly after the Revolution. His early writings, relying on a novel interpretation of the Biblical creation myth, demonstrated antipathy to secular human society and held that all efforts by mankind to impose a pluralistic political order were simply deepening man’s estrangement from God, and that this estrangement could only be corrected by the intervention of a unifying political leader. The means such a leader employed to “unify” the sinful, impure secular world were beside the point, as the end goal (generally speaking) was reunification with the original Divine plan. Since nothing could possibly be more important than that, any means to achieve it were permissible (including, presumably, violence, murder, and genocide). | |||
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