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Title: Dark Enlightenment for Ukraine Author: Dmitry Mrachnik, Alexander Volodarsky Date: 29 November 2017 Language: en Topics: Ukraine, nationalism, fascism Source: Retrieved on 5th February 2022 from https://www.nihilist.li/2017/11/29/dark-enlightenment-for-ukraine/
Recently we’ve published a series of texts about a techno-fascist
philosophy with the pathetically funny title Dark Enlightenment. This
philosophy born in the US, denies democracy and equality, preaches
racism, absolute market freedom, «traditional values» and the
subordinate position of women. It’s alternative self-name — neoreaction
— speaks for itself. The adepts of the Dark Enlightenment are sure that
they are creating an influential secret society that works to restore
the social foundations of the time of absolute monarchy, while promoting
transhumanism and other high-tech ideas about improving humanity.
Furthermore this is not the story of a couple of freaks — the philosophy
is successfully developing, there are influential intellectuals among
its creators and supporters, including it should be separately
highlighted Nick Land. He combines neo-reaction with accelerationism,
and in the formulation of his ultra-capitalist and misanthropic ideology
relies (this is not an abusive language, Land is an honest and open
misanthrope), among other things, on Marxist and Deleuzian theory.
However, Land himself repeatedly admits that the union of religious
fanatics, racists and neo-futurist technocrats is situational and
temporary — they will kill each other if they have to share one state.
He hopes for the possibility of separating different branches of
neoreactionaries for life in different states. However, it is much more
likely that he (like other adherents of the technocratic direction, who
are the driving force of the neoreaction) hopes to simply dispose of the
dull comrades-in-arms after his hypothetical victory.
Neoreaction does not have a political dimension, remaining rather a
concept, a philosophy. There are no parties and movements behind it,
however, it has a serious influence on the modern far right — Alt Right,
which is the breeding ground for their ideological base: white
nationalism and male supremacy.
It turned out that we publicised the criticism of the Dark Enlightenment
not in vain, since this philosophy found its followers in Ukraine. Thus,
the Kiev-Mohyla Academy allocated a platform for its propaganda — on
November 24, a lecture «Philosophy of Dark Enlightenment: A Conservative
Challenge in the 21^(st) Century» was held in the walls of the
wannabe-oldest Ukrainian University. It was none other than Eduard
Yurchenko, the former ideological member of the Party of Regions, the
most prominent speaker of the Ukrainian Monarchy Club (curiously, which
monarchy he plans to revive in Ukraine?), The follower of the
pro-Kremlin philosopher Alexander Dugin and a supporter of the
counter-revolutionary, «traditional» values. Now this person is in the
party National Corps, where he tries to play the role of an ideologist,
promoting in his own way ideas that are in vogue among Western far
rightists. Obviously, within the framework of the lecture it did not
critically analyze the dark enlightenment, but, on the contrary, its
enthusiastic apologetics.
The reasons that prompted Yurchenko to leave the party of former
President Yanukovych and join the far-right National Corps party, which
is connected with the Azov regiment, are obvious. Yurchenko found a new
force, which, in his opinion, would be able to embody his reactionary
utopia. Reading his texts, we can say with confidence that he has
remained completely faithful to the old ideas. Some of them can be read
on the website of the Ukrainian traditionalist club, where you will
discover a lot of interesting things about the need for friendship
between Malorussia («Little Russia» — russian chauvinist title for
Ukraine) and Russia, and about the horrors of revolutions that should be
countered by the lost values ​​of elitism and monarchy. UTC’s ideas in
this regard strongly echo Russian imperial nationalism, which has
similar positions, but does not rest on the abstract tradition, but on
the example of a very concrete Russian Empire.
Considering the values ​​of the Dark enlightenment, as well as the values
​​of Yurchenko himself, it is not difficult to imagine what nonsense came
from the rostrum, courtesy of the Academy. First, the lecturer scares
listeners with the nightmares of a decaying West, which absorbs our
homeland, and then offers medicine — the acceptance of the hackneyed
«traditional values», only in a slightly mystical science fiction shell.
The usual tactic of reactionaries at all times is to intimidate people
with progress and offer salvation in exchange for freedom. It’s
ridiculous that Yurchenko himself, with his naphthalene monarchic
values, in the event of the victory of the neoreaction (which is
impossible, but we will address this another time) will at best be fuel
for the bioreactor — born a few centuries too late those rigid
conservatives are only interested in Dark Enlightenment as a tool for
confronting the left. In the posthuman world of technical singularity
(as well as on the way to it) there simply is no place for the romantic
fetishes of traditionalists. Yurchenko looks just as miserable as an
anarchist engaged in the propaganda of Bolshevism.
It is unlikely that this lecture was very interesting for students — for
activities related to Ukrainian traditionalist club, it would have been
attended by Yurchenko himself and his clones. They profess a cockeyed
version of fascism that could seriously interest the students of
Kiev-Mohyla Academy. The proximity of Eurasianism and the Russian World
will frighten off a public brought up in national-democratic traditions.
State patriotism is more important for most of them than the «white
race», and the word «Tradition» is associated more with ukrainian ethnic
embroidery than with Dugin’s rehashes René Guénon and Julius Evola. One
could ask the leadership of Kiev-Mohyla Academy whether they were
ashamed to arrange such an event within their walls. But we will not,
because we know: no, not ashamed. Academy got rid of this banal human
feeling. The administration, which gave the title of honorary professor
to the out-of-the-way anti-Semite, Sergei Belokon, which invited far
right ethicist Irina Fariion. The administration, who has tolerated
violence in her territory (including far right attacks on it’s own
students and teachers), has long been able to overcome the pitiful human
sense of shame by approaching, thus, to the ideals of the Dark
Enlightenment.