Thank you so much! I work for Queer Svit and we are utterly grateful for your shoutout ❤️

I came here from Vlad’s chat channel. I haven’t yet seen his response as I thought I should first watch the video to which he was responding. So far, so good!

Thanks for recommending Vlad Vexler! He's great. And thanks for your Videos! Are you in Vienna? Who are you?

So very informative, thank you so much and thanks,for the mental stamina to read all you have.

Being a big fan of Vlad Vexler and having seen his response. I think this is a very astute connection between the writings and ideals of Ilyin and the reality of the Russian regime today. Obviously we cannot know exactly what is going on within Putins head... but I think this is a great analysis of the current situation.

of course!

@@Kraut_the_Parrot mad lad

I need a 1000 page essay on how Liechtenstein controls the world

No stone unturned, no detail missed!

@@Arkantos1900 ooooook really it’s totally not luxembourg that controls the world yeaah

same

As soon as I heard that. I just gave up on believing that that guy was not batshit insane and was merely grifting people.

Scary thing is that the dude in charge of the biggest nuclear arsenal on earth believes that theory.

“No offense, but that sounds like a load of fucking commie gobbledygook” -Esteemed Canadian thinker, Norm Macdonald

it sounds less like a philosophical quote and more like a indie techno album

Goes kinda hard ngl.

Sea of corn

.. i hate that phrase -it makes me think of unhygienic women

Novorossiyska and Murmansk don't count, because...

@@Poctyk Anything on the coast of the Black Sea doesn't count mainly because ships have to pass through the Bosporus strait (not owned by Russia), but you are right; Murmansk does count, but it still does not take away the fact that Lev Gumilev comes off as coping for a lack of ice-free ports with full access to the sea

@@KevinFu5100 > because ships have to pass through the Bosporus strait Okay this argument always bugged me a bit. Danish straits are owned, well by Denmark. This means that Russia has to fight Denmark to be able to use it, right? Another strange thing that always bugged me is that Bosphorus doesn't drain into Atlantic/Indian ocean it drains into Mediterrenean sea, which is blocked by Gibraltar on the one hand and Suez on the other. So if Black Sea was an extenetion of Mediterrenean sea, like Aegean (for example) it wouldn't count because world markets are blocked but this time by Suez/Gibraltar?

It’s more similar to blood and soil rhetoric from the Nazis. Land and Sea civilizational distinctions is also Schmittian. But it should be pointed out Schmitt originally got this from Hitler in 1922 from his speech on a German Monroe doctrine according to historian Brendan Simmns. All Schmitt did was expand it to justify Lebensraum and Prussian militarism. In the case of Russia Mongolian/Asiatic authoritarianism and Eurasanism.

It is the blood and soil rhetoric....

And art student, then before u know, u end up in France studying French.

Just like how Chemistry used to be, at some point you'd have to learn German

In Indonesia, history Student needs to learn dutch because a lot of Indonesian Archives, especially during colonial era, are in Dutch.

Some knowledge isn't worth the price to be paid, like learning French 🤮

@@kylegonewild ahahahah

Who the fuck is this dude?

@@jurgenparkour9337 Nazi jurist who became Nazi to advance in his career. Wrote political theory before joining the party.

His writings are fairly valuable and well known from what I know.

@@jurgenparkour9337 to be VERY simple : Carl Schmitt basically said that sacralizing rule of Law is stupid, because laws are made by politicians and/or people in power, AKA by a state. For a state to enforce itself, it needs to be able to change the law however it wants, therefore, *a state is absolute or is not* . Its kinda similar to Hobbs, but it's more focused on the philosophy of law.

@@jurgenparkour9337 He was a nazi philosopher.

Absolutely, Ilyin's Christianity is barely Christianity, honestly it looks more Gnostic to me. Really if it were up to me I wouldn't call it Christian Fascism (especially since Italian and especially Spanish Fascism were already quite religiously heavy) I'd call it Heretical Fascism.

​@@moritamikamikara3879its not even religious fascism. Its just fascism. Religion is used just a tool to manipulate (which religious priests, roman pope or other same type of specialists practices for millenia and encouraging crusades against muslims and fighting each other because god is catholic or protestant)

Sweden is Protestant and Russia is ORTHODOX!

"Lukee kuin piru raamattua" as we say here in Finland. And my god Ilyin seems to have some fucked up ideas hidden behind the curtains of "religion". And Putin just went and copy pasted all of that shit

To me it sounded like: " Russia is here, to commit global suicide with backwardness and wishful thinking." Like seriously, who would serve regime who's end goal is not global dominance but destruction of everything that they think as "Gods mistakes".

"Special Needs"

a special military operation for a special country

Russia isn't disabled. It's just augmented 😎

No, we are not wrong!! We can never be wrong!!

mans political spectrum went through a gymnastics session more intense than an olympics athlete

@@Eagle-od1im the political soup

Normal to Schizo Speedrun IRL 0_0

Kanye West type beat

What studying Hegel does to a mf...

dude, now tha tyou say it outloud it makes fucking sense

you need to listen to his segment on Smidt again. Slowly then think about what he's saying for a bit. Like im serious, think about it for a bit and reflect on what you're hearing and it's implications then look around you. I do not exaggerate when I tell you Schmidt might be for the 21th century (especially the right), what Marx was for the 20th century left. The amount of times he pops up in any analysis of emerging modern politics is ridiculously alarming Everything form Imperialist Neoliberalism, Antiimperialist Marxism, Modern populism, right wing and left wing and even Neo conservatism are VERY Schmidtian.

@@BasicLib I think this is because he drove intentionally or not, into some home truths, particularly with universalisation of morality, political systems and economy. Liberalism and Neo liberalism has been part of the problem by imposing standards.

Kinda like Byzantine Empire also make sense since they are also orthodox and in theory successor to the Byzantine Empire

Its insane how his ideology just boils down to rUssIa gOoD beCoz gOd saId sO. It's just plain old nationalism. It's utterly insane how anyone believes in it.

This video is is like a minute old how are you commenting 16 hours ago?

@@dorjbatchinzorig9817 Prob either earlier access due to Patreon or just that Ravignon and Kraut seem to be good friends.

I mean Putin is similar with Stalin either way you cut it, Putin is a generic strong man dictator who uses corruption to secure loyalties, stalin merely used fear and corruption.

He really do simp for the worst of the two

@@dorjbatchinzorig9817 I think he is a patreon and channel supporter so he gets some perks for his support such as early access to new channel videos 😉

I've made DnD final boss villain motivations less batshit insane than Ilyin

As many has pointed out in the past, fiction has to relate to some reality for the audience to base upon, what does reality have to base themselves on?

imagine being this stupid to make such parallels. why do you even have internet access

@@ArawnOfAnnwn I mean people bought into Mein Kampf. People bought into Trump. Why are we to expect Russians to be any better?

@@leonardotavaresdardenne9955 How can someone equate Trump with Mein Kampf and somehow drag in the Russians here, what is in people's heads?

i often think about it. for most of the people that are relatively good, it is hard to not take such words and actions as cartoonish because it seems unrealistic to them. who would do such a thing. ppl often associate with villains to understand their motives. and when ppl try to associate with a true evil, they don't resonate and thus ppl view certain words and actions as unrealistic. but unfortunately genuinely bad ppl exist and often are undermined

I know it sounds bizarre but I don't think the two scenarios you're describing are mutually exclusive. If Putin believes himself to be the Russian redeemer then he can do no wrong by extension of Russia's innocence and thus, his ideology backs all of his actions.

I love the private dictatorship of capital 😊

As far as ideology who knows exactly what runs through the head of another man? It is entirely possible though that a tyrant who saw himself as the "father" or "shepherd" of His country could comfortably hold this ideology and do all that Putin has done ( murder all his opponents, warmongering and killing innocents, robbing the country blind, not moving them forward as a nation, only moving HIS AGENDA forward and not the country and its people themselves.

It's not really smart of thinking of moral or ideology today. Putin is simply a nationalistic opportunist. He wants to make Russia a superpower and basically all his actions are based rather on the cold economical, political and military calculations. He's a KGB agent after all.

Does it matter if Putin has internalized any of this?

why?

@@ernstschmidt4725 idk something about your thesis paper’s topic being brought up unexpectedly. A mix of surprise and serendipity.

@@user-ef7hl4tu7k I wonder if law students have a general objection regarding Schmidt

@@ArcturusOTE lol definitely not. Most law students don’t care about democracy or value.

Not that surprising unfortunately, considering the influence he had on Nazi ideology

I'm curious about the lawlessness, though. What's the Russian term? The direct translation, беззаконие, means crime with impunity and only has strong negative meaning. Did Il'yin use that one?

Understand you. You are offended that in Russia during the last invasion only 27,000,000 people were destroyed. You and people like you would be happy if all Russians were destroyed. Hatred from the fact that you could not destroy us boils in you. But you will soon be able to try again. Just do not need to pour crocodile tears after and accuse the Russians of cruelty ...

The only thing I can think of that's close is ... North Korea.

@@alexcarter8807 Orbán's politics in Hungary are very similar in this way.

@@botondhetyey159 The same for Erdogan's Turkey, the Ayatollahs of Iran or Maduro in Venezuela. By now, it's a common trend already

what manifesto

I think the reverse: "anti democratic politics is just a means of organized crime" is also a pretty good phrase

Organized crime and an authoritarian government share numerous aspects. They require similar personalities, they share similar structures, they share the violence, and they share the motivation to be part of this organization.

@@karstenschuhmann8334 In the very authoritarian USSR, there was quite a bit of organized crime, much less than in the United States at the same time. In totalitarian North Korea, there is no organized crime at all, there is even almost no unorganized crime there.

@@sergeymanakov6267 Well, in this case, the government is the organized crime.

​@@sergeymanakov6267the US is stifled by a sort of capitalist authoritarianism of it's own. The power and leverage of rich individuals has been completely overhelming against the power of workers since Reagan

"Asian" is a pretty broad umbrella term. But why is that?

@@agarlicsorbet6482 i think because there are some examples of the prosperous countries without political liberties, china, singapore, i think malasya, sputh korea in the 50's and 60's

@@Mexa2105 to be fair, the chinese economy is essentially doomed, but absolutely makes the point currently.

@@Mexa2105 yea but the people live like shit so soon enough there will be civil war. Which means no you can't run it.

@@Mexa2105 to be fair they are also not that prosperous, they're relatively wealthy but less so then most of their liberal counter parts.

They won't. Putin IS Russia to them and always will be. Western history is the history of names, simplified.

How do you feel about the fact the majority of westerners literally want you dead? 🙂

Would you consider it possible for Russia to change drastically given the active and persistent disinterest in politics by the general population? So for example if Putin were to fall out of a window due to his failure to achieve victory in Ukraine, could there be some engagement by the population to make things better? Or would the elites elect the next leader that suits their need without opposition by the population? If that is the case and an authoritarian regime is inevitable in the foreseeable future, I see no way the West goes back to appeasement and cooperation any time soon and therefore things won't get better in Russia for at least a generation. The hope that things will blow over for the Russian people and things get back to 2010 would in a way make sure that things will definitely get worse.

As munch as western like to see Russians as some orc horde, we have to remind ourself and clam down about the people who oppose this tyranny and many just wanted to live there life peace, like most people in world.

@@gregorhellmundt9559 I hope. In my opinion, the disinterest in politics has developed as a defense mechanism against attempts at indoctrination, and that resistance to indoctrination *could* actually be very beneficial for democracy, but it is key that people participate in politics despite the country's history. After the mobilization, many people see themselves forced to take a stance, and in my experience most of these formerly neutral people now despise the war and the regime. Also, another reason to have hope is that even over the last years before the war the education system was fairly independent from the government, with many young people receiving education much closer to other european countries than the propaganda Putin would have wanted. Of course, now they are trying to shut it all down much more than before, but you can't undo thirty years of progress with seven months of destruction, and much of the younger generation is strongly, if so far not openly, opposed to Putin. Once again, this might just be me inhaling unhealthy amounts of Copium™, but I really do believe that things could improve soon. Putin's regime relied on maintaining stability in exchange for power, and now that that's gone, it could crumble very, very quickly.

Muhahahaha. Nice one)

We have a similar joke in the United States, where we just leave out the last part. -Dad, I've decided that I will be a criminal when I grow up. -Public or Private sector? I really like the final part of your joke though. Really gets to the core of it

@@SBRtime69420I've never heard anyone make that joke

i mean freaked out

The CCP is an Eastern NSDAP. I like to call them ChiNazis

What you have said has just confirmed that my premonitions about China might just be true

@@bocchithean-cap3404 no he fucking isn't

@@bocchithean-cap3404 maybe true, but i doubt you want him to write a state's constitution or be in the supreme court

I should have known I'd find you around here 😂

Kiev

@@marysartr it’s called Kyiv (unless your Ruzzian)

Why? This video is full of misrepresentations of reality. Neither Gumilev and especially Ilyin are influential in either larger Russian society or russian ruling circles (if you ask a hundred Russians 99 won't know who Ilyin is, 30 will know who Gumilev is, but only because they heard something somewhere about his passionarii concept). It's just Putin who likes Ilyin, that's it. And he's not even into Gumilev. You can't just bring up random obscure Russian philospher of yore and then boldly (otherwise no one will unquestionably believe you) that this is what average Russian believes. This would be misrepresentation. Your friends are going to come out of this understanding less, not more. It's a biased and mangled and ignorant view.

@@LewisB3217 what's wrong with being Russian? Have you ever met a Russian? Spoke to them? There are many beautiful and interesting people in Russia. A lot of them. You know who are not beautiful or interesting? Racist regressives like you. Get the hell out of here, no single civilized community will accept a man of your kind. And it's "you're".

There are a lot of fascists in Ukraine lol

​@@Shoegaze-Yeah. And? There are fascist groups in almost every country in existence. The thing is that Russia is the only one in Europe right now that has an actual fascist leader. The thing with fascism is that it's not really an united ideology as every country's fascists have their own interests, which will almost certainly cause tension between two countries if both countries have fascist leadership. But that's not the case here as Ukraine's current government isn't fascist. The thing is that Russia is clearly overestimating (Possibly on purpose to hide their real goals) the amount of influence Ukrainian fascists have on actual Ukrainian government. And that's why I fear this war might escalate even further if they manage to win in Ukraine as they'll then try to invade yet another country with the excuse "Cause they have fascists"

@@RandomGuy37 Putin is not fascist you people just love assigning that label to people you don’t like such as Putin, trump, etc..

Majority of Ukraine is Banderite

@@Shoegaze- when people call someone who sights fascists & associates with ultra nationalists a fascist😱😱

Always funny that people writing things like this conveniently come to the conclusion their culture is superior.

Ikr that is so true. I think its partially why people in the right nowadays are so anti-intellectual. So many right-wing "intellectuals" are really just straight up racists or something.

What is even more terrifying to be is how far spread this is since every country has its far-right and/or far-left supremacists.

Or maybe u havent read the book and believing some strangers words on the internet.

@@dkin7685 some strangers words? Kraut is a good source of information, I wonder why we should consider your opinion though, since you're a stranger that brought nothing to the table with that comment.

"um ackshually he's not a nazi because he's russian" -Putin

For Putin and his followers, anyone is a Nazi except if it's a Nazi they like

He should be saying 'lets crush democracy and replace it with facism' What a POS Putin is

Pretty much double think

Hitler breathed, so we shouldnt, yeah no

Exactly. His analysis of Gumilyev is particularly skewed.

While it is completely possible that these points and theories are just justifications for Russian geopolitical ambitions, it can't be disregarded that the teaching of these theories, as shown by their vindication in Russian education, feeds and informs the extremist movements and leaders. So it affects global diplomacy and stability.

Then please enlighten us how Gumilyev should be interpreted.

While I am not qualified nor knowledgable enough to criticise the interpretation, i did notice how zealously the Russians believe in their absurd theories, just look at Putin and his speech. He really think he is telling the truth. And Kraut provided an explanation (with good citations and references of Putin mentioning of the "philosophers" in each of his speechs) of why Putin and the Russians think this way

@@JN-wr9he yeah actually please elaborate. If you think Kraut was unfair to him I’d be interested to know why

Who came into power on the heels of a terrorist attack, the assassination of his dad

​@@PejmanMan Yup, Alexander II aka "The Liberator" which is quite the ironic title. He proudly claimed that he abolished serfdom in Russia yet instead replaced it with a debt trap which put the populace basically back into serfdom-in-all-but-name. He introduced new capitalistic measures but limited access to them so the lucky few who got in early were allowed to run as corrupt proto-oligarchs unopposed. I definitely think revenge for the murder of his father played some role in III's behavior, but I wonder how much since a lot of his policies in clamping down on liberties were pretty extreme. I guess his mindset was "If this is how people act with freedom then they deserve none."

Your assessment of Alexander III is reductive.

Alexander the III was also uniquely Anti-semitic.

@@blugaledoh2669 nah my ancestors who were forced out by him would beg to differ.

lol that's true russian conservatives and nationalists are mixing economic socialialism and social fascism

Sounds good to me.

@@jarekkish5515 yes, it sounds really tempting for inexperienced populace

Which pretty much ties with Kraut's video on the origins of Russian authoritarianism.

@@AmirSatt Well, I've only ever known liberalism my entire life, and I hate it.

Literally me

Bro that just happened to me

*objective failed successfully*

Same :(

well in a way you have spent your time studying, havent you? :D

Same. It’s frankly disturbing to hear all of the deranged ideas that these fascists came up with, to know that they are fundamental precepts of fascism, and to see their implementation in the leadership of modern Russia.

🙄

Fucking mindblowing. There were a bunch of pieces of information from the video (I've actually heard the name of Carl Schmidt before, no idea on the context) that I'd heard and knew of but having it all come together into a single picture of "WHY" things are the way they are inside of the Kremlin is just mind-boggling. People throw the word fascist around a lot these days but holy shit did this bring it all into perspective.

What a dummy😂, you just heard what you ALREADY wanted to believe. Critical thinking fool, critical thinking!!!

Is Lauren Southern a fascist though? I think not.

I constantly get angry messages by other liberals who do not understand why I, as a liberal, hate Pinochet. The fact that there are so many Pinochet apologists in my political corner truly is one of the big failures of modern democratic liberalism. Pinochet was a fascist piece of shit, he should be reviled, and condemned, and his political legacy ought to be deconstructed and removed from Chilean institutions.

@@Kraut_the_Parrot it mostly people who think that he was the only alternative to communist rule, that was generally worse than fascist one. Not saying that there are right to think that.

@@Kraut_the_Parrot Really, liberals like Pinochet? I never knew that. Pinochet is absolutely despised by most people here in Sweden. When I learned about Pinochet in school my teachers basically outright called him a violent fascist dictator. We have a lot of Chileans here, a lot of them specifically fled the oppression of the dictatorship so I've never heard anyone say anything positive about his regime.

You mean a text created by the International Bankers. That is why people prefer the Pinochet Constitution. Schmitt understood the fundamental flaws of Liberal Democracy and how it always devolves in to rule by Bankers. In Russia that happened almost immediately, which is why the Russian aversion to to Liberal Democracy is so strong. In much of the West it was a slower, more gradual descent in to hell and so only now are you staring to see the mass discontent with the system starting to boil over in the West.

@@Kraut_the_Parrot Most modern liberals everywhere /I am Asian, and it is the same in my country/ worship every left-leaning political figure. It has become infuriating and frightening

he read the wikipedia page of Ilyin, jesus Christ can you do any independent research, it hurts my brain that some idiot virgin can sit behind a camera, probably extremely obese, tell you that Russians are fascist and bigots, and you believe them. Read Ilyins work.

@@freedomwhenneeded Ilyin actually gives a direct justification for the fascist model of the state: “The Germans have managed to get out of the democratic impasse… What is happening is a great social stratification; but not property, but state-political and cultural-driving... The leading layer is being updated consistently and radically... On the basis of a new mindset... Those who are clearly unacceptable to the "new spirit" are removed... This spirit is, as it were, the substance of the entire movement; in every sincere National Socialist, it burns in the heart, tenses his muscles, sounds in his words and sparkles in his eyes ... Unjust slandering and slandering him interferes with correct understanding, sins against the truth and harms all mankind."

@@National-Democrat.Ukrainian he doesn't give a justificaiton for it, he talks about how fascism works to unite mass amounts of people in a tolatarian way, making a cult of personality, destroying traditions, and all in reaction against bolshevism and liberalism. Ilyin has spoke out against tolatarianism, he wishes for authority not full on tyranny.

No wonder Putin loves him

@@freedomwhenneeded Ivan Ilyin advocated for totalitarian Voshdism: “And whoever does not selflessly love his national Vozhd, and does not believe in him, and does not believe in him, does not send him his heart-willed ray of fidelity, strength and inspiration, he does not “accumulate” to him or in him, and therefore vitally and creatively loses it; that is why enemies always try to weaken and undermine the person of the leader and the Sovereign with suspicions, ridicule, slander and slander." "the people should not and do not dare to oppose their army". He advocated for the creation of a national dictatorship in Russia, which should be based on the exclusive role of the church, the army and paramilitary structures, and even states that white movement has the same spirit as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy: “In a word, this spirit that links German National Socialism with Italian fascism. However, not only with him, but also with the spirit of the Russian white movement.”

I guess democracy is when the people can whack back the politicians/thugs.

ci sono politici non criminali????

@@enricobianchi4499 well there’s Gorbachev.

Ci sono italiani che guardano kraut! Terrò questo sorriso da ebete per tutto il giorno

I think a lot of it has to do with fear of crime politics, especially in the US but also in a lot of other western democracies. Crime is portrayed by many conservatives as the result of personal evil rather than a systemic societal phenomenon.

how crazy must you be to listen to someone read a wikipedia page and believe it?

@@freedomwhenneeded no way we got a fashy in the replies

@@zachphelps3427 im not a fascist, my family members died fighting in the great patriotic war. Some of my family were jews who went through the siege of leningrad.

@@freedomwhenneeded idk if Lenin was your grandad you're out here defending a fascist

@@freedomwhenneeded Then it is even more sad that you would try to excuse something like this. There is nothing wrong with Wikipedia by the way.

I laughed out loud at this thank you

how pride and prejudice helped Putin conquer the kremlin

You know things are bad when a nation is acting weirder than what Orwell imagined.

This makes it even better

Go home Vlad.

@@stepanstepasha3538 ya no screw you, it’s his right to live in Europe. I can bet your one of those racists who hates everyone else because your life sucks

It’s a shame how Western Europe treats tyrannical regimes like Russia, China, and ones in the Middle East like they can be dealt with diplomatically... and how they still haven’t learnt our lesson from Russia concerning other ones

maybe as a russian you should educate these western people of what true russia is and that russian people themselves feed russia's imperialism, fueling further search for power that extends both through your government and through your community of blood seeking creatures

You're a pathetic Russian. It's obvious that you're going to the Second World War. But it began with the DEFEAT of Germany, with the Peace of Versailles, with shameful, humiliating measures: reparations, territories, the Ruhr, the attitude towards the Germans towards Europe and so on, which were imposed not by "dictators", but by "democracy". And then, allowing Hitler to cancel Germany's debts, carry out rearmament while the "democracies" approved of it, then annex territories and so on, but Hitler's plan was to conquer "lands in the east with the extermination of civilians and settlement by Germans", all this could have been avoided if the "democracies" were not blind as blind they are now pursuing a policy of Russophobia, economic sanctions, whipping up hysteria, arms supplies, including prohibited cluster munitions - all this inspires the Russians with a natural point of view, if we lose, they will grind us to powder, the country will be destroyed, everything will be taken out, huge reparations will be imposed, they will humiliate us as everywhere else. This is practically a one-on-one story of ordinary Germans, they did not want a war (ordinary people), but they started it and lost, remembering all the horrors of 1918 and subsequent years - it was the worst of scenarios. By the way, it would have been realized, the United States and the allies had plans for the deindustrialization of Germany, which they were going to accept, Stalin prevented this, who began to raise the GDR. And what will happen if Russia loses with the age-old Russophobia in the West, I'm not even going to think.

😂😂love the star wars reference

Literary burning his hands in hot oil does that to a person I guess

That's also why you shouldn't just label everyone you don't like as an "evil racist far-right white supremacist Nazi Holocaust denier".

Я надеюсь, что когда-нибудь мы сможем говорить о России в более хороших отношениях.

Here's something I'm wondering. Why is it that as a Westerner who has studied 19th and 20th century philosophers from Engels and Marx to Hegel that I am extremely cognisant of who Aleksandr Dugin is, but I've never heard of Ivan Ilyin before watching this video? He seems anything but obscure.

@@conserva-chan2735 Zamyatin is popular in which political circle? Im a social conservative. What name of book?

@@conserva-chan2735 Whats 'WE' to be summarised shortly? Or is this another 1984 or TNO types which I dont like. I dont like average dystopian novels. I just want a book about succesion and crisis and how it came to be(genres). I like novels that read like Crusader Kings. Any suggestions btw?

@@marny3559 He is well known because his book, Foundations of Geopolitics, was the blueprint for Putin's foreign policy. So it's not for his philosophy that he's known.

Lmao, that guy just called russians genetically lawless and you are ok with that.

@@user-rn2bj3dh6j Genetically lawless? Where tf did you get that from? The entire video focusses on how fascist ideologists have infiltrated and destroyed Russia's political institutions. Not how Russians are some breed of 'subhuman'.

@@user-rn2bj3dh6j culturally* not a single biological argument was made.

@@ennuiii you still can understand what he is implying

@@user-rn2bj3dh6j Kraut didn't make any claims on Russian lawlessness. I just pointed out that he was correct in focusing on Ilyin and not on Dugin

Your experiences is just that. An experiences of one man. Nothing more then that. And its far from the real truth of how Russian government is running or what is happening, but ofc simple minded person would never understand it.

Дурачок ты Александр 🤣

Bruh Russia on this ideology would be literal nightmare fuel, it’s already bad enough. Saying that God chose this nation as the saviour of Christianity and that it can commit any crimes they want is insane. There are special places for people like him in hell. Btw, I’m from Eastern Europe so I think you understand how bad it would’ve been for people like me

Мы двигаемся в верном направлении, а вас , мой друг, мы найдём и избавим Россию от таких паразитов

@@shieldwallclonetroopers145 russia has had that ideology in one form or another for *over 1200 years* the land of Rus is the special nation, special people, Rus transcends christianity, it is its own deity, at least conceptually. and for the record, clonetrooper, you don't much come off as someone who's actually from or spent any time in eastern europe. it has been a very bad time for people from eastern europe, the balkans, and eurasia because of the Russian for *quite some time*

I really like it when Americans justify all their invasions with the "defense of democracy

@@shesanicon7411 good, because they’re right

@@shesanicon7411 consider how in Pro Putin Russian fallacies about Ukrainians holds the same weight as "respect for democracy" for American. They're like alt right Americans

@@FretfulClown95 who said it? Who gave them right to judge?

@@shesanicon7411 Unlike the Ruscists, the USA isn’t denying the identity of their neighboring countries, their history, culture, language and heritage. The US isn’t trying to wipe out their sovereign states or annexing their territory. As if one Ukrainian genocide (Holodomor) wasn’t enough. You people (supporters of the fascists in the current kremlin regime) will be judged harshly by history for looking the other way while your government continues to ethnically cleanse the temporarily occupied territories and implement their ruscist policies.

Но в 2008 вы хотели уничтожить Осетию с Абхазией, вопреки их воле. И только после этого Россия вмешалась

TBF, THEY Didn't do anything to Georgia in 2008, since those regions had already took up arms way before Putin even came to power. What happened to Georgia has to do with the toxic nationalism they decided to adopt after the breakup (under not so smart people such as Sakashvili)

@@user-gm1mk7st8g Ах да. Точно. Как же я об этом забыл. Благодарю, что поправили.

@@LionKing-ew9rm It's way deeper then that. But that's your opinion nevertheless.

@@desatta I like hear both sides of a conflict, so please provide evidence of your claims. Otherwise I will think you are just another brainwashed russian. If Russia had not attacked in 2014, there would have been way fewer atrocities. Why would neo nazis elect a jew as their leader? And how is Russia less antisemitic than ukrainians? Russia hates all minorities, and they send those less desirables to the front line to suicide into ukrainian fire because other russians will shoot them if they try to retreat. Russia is responsible for destroying every city they conquer or retreat from. This is exactly like the terror tactics of the mongols.

He won me back

what character arc?

Well kraut started as a another skeptic anti-sjw, but kraut did realized how it was going really downhill and after arguments and break ups, he took a hitaus and reboot his channel

Yeah, his slow transformation into a milquetoast red baiter and russiagater has been fantastic.

I really wonder how Kraut justifies being on the same side as the Azovs.

It's about Trotsky, what do you expect...

@@mnk9073 I mean even American scholastic history books portray him as basically Stalin's opposition that got bested and ran to Mexico with his tail between his legs. Even us 7th graders that learned about the axing thought that was a bit too much.

I mean I saw it on Netflix about 2019, I only watched 10mins of it before switching it off. So bad.

after all, to recognize something, you have to have seen it in the first place

The fact it was on Netflix though was still an aspect of failure by these self appointed "guardians of pop culture" doesn't matter if it wasn't popular

These kinds of thoughts are exactly what forces people into extremism

@@user-cd4bx6uq1y please explain why

@III I mean, it depends on the creator. Kraut is a great jumping off point to explore other aspects of any given topic.

@III as a russian let me say this: fuck Putin. He is destroying Ukraine and has basically already destroyed Russia. Yet people still support him for some reason

@III Isn't a biased view better than no view? Another question, isn't the first step to learn something to aquire a starting bias? Oh, and isn't the true knowledge a negative sum of widely biased statements?

@@HistoryforThinkers No, he isn't. He very often spreads misinformation to support his views and presents no sources or citations, just cool graphics

@III found the fascist

Yeah, I think you given an good director, you can do a good tragic movie of Trotsky and to extended Lenin.

At least it was not boring, which makes it 10000000 times better than Gods and Generals.

See, like, you could make the exact same movie about stalin tho. Trotsky wasn't special in needing to make sacrifices. Sadly.

@@SolarFlareAmerica I don't know, Stalin eliminated all dissent within the party and in the country while Lenin and Trotsky frequently had debates and conversations with other intellectuals like Rosa Luxemburg.

Know of a way to watch Trotsky online? I'm curious to watch it too.

Artsakh and Nachivan belong to Hayastan!

What's it like living in Azerbaijan under this regime?

This is an outright lie. Ilyin never wrote anything like that. I am very familiar with his work, especially the legal ones. But how is it all pulled on Putin .. Putin, who for twenty years sculpted Ukraine piece by piece, who carefully prepared textbooks of the classical Ukrainian language for the friendly denazified Ukraine, having previously given the order not to touch Ukrainian flags dear to the heart, who surrenders Russian cities only to sit down at the negotiating table without any conditions, who tries inside Russia to invent a few more Ukraines under other flags, it turns out that he is an Orthodox fascist who crushes unsuspecting crests with his tarpaulin boot and destroys the middle class, because its existence is not determined by the divine hierarchy ... As for the negotiations and Armenian diplomacy, it can be noted separately. The part with Carl Schmitt is devoted to this issue. The doctrine of international law, or rather, of its absence, is taken from Schmitt. Schmitt really believed that there is no international law, there are only sovereign interests, the interests of the hegemon and their conflicts, and law appears only between equals. And in this Schmitt is absolutely right. It remains to be seen how this relates to Putin's Foreign Ministry, for which the UN and international law are two sacred cows. The part about Gumilyov was not at all interesting, I won't retell it. It's funny, by the way, how they omitted Dugin in the video. Previously, he was portrayed as an ideologue of the Kremlin, but now it turned out that he rolled everything up with Ilyin, Gumilyov and Schmitt. It's true - rolled up verbatim. Open Schmitt's "Nomos of the Earth" and compare it with the contents of Dugin's Wikipedia page, you'll understand everything right away. But there is a paradigm shift. The Kremlin is controlled not by a bearded sectarian, not by the new Rasputin, as was previously believed, but by Russian nationalism multiplied by eschatological messianism. God, what nonsense.

"I am a Mongaloid! It is what I am! It is who we are!"

Rather mis-represented

I think he is literally only talked about among Russian stalinists, the ones that support putin and spit on actual leftists in Russia for being JEWS.... I doubt any american or european tankies talk about him.... I think this mention might be more kraut putting bad pseudomarxism as the norm of communist thought than the exception, a little propagandistic if you will. I mean gumilev's solar power civililization philosophy what? It is true that Marx did write about oriental despotism, maybe Krauts implying that link between Karl and this mad man.

No one in broader Russia is influenced by any people he mentioned. Just because some guy likes them doesn't mean all Russians like them. **Putin is not Russia, and Russians are not Putin**

@@Kraut_the_ParrotThe meme is a reaction to constant western racism from neo-con, white supremacist types. Some liberal westerners become so fanatical they start believing that absence of an electoral process in some countries as well as poverty makes the citizens effectively subhumans. Naturally some 3rd worldist anti-imperialists start calling themselves "mongols" as a part of a kind of dick measuring contest.

Russian communist believe Putin is pro-Ilyin 100% and hate him for it

Putin admires no one except for himself. But he uses those particular philosophies to his advantage.

He recently had appearance on Sam Harris's podcast, that people should check out. Sam Harris is definitely problematic to me, but he really redeemed himself in this episode, going as hard as he did on fascism. And specifically against Putin's version of fascism.

He's currently teaching a Yale course on Ukrainian history called "The Making of Modern Ukraine" of which the lectures are available free on the YaleCourses channel. Exceptional stuff.

Snyder went crazy after 2016.

@@julesroy Are you a fascist? It's OK, this is a judgment free zone.

@@lylewalker5681 Fascism hasn't really existed since the 1940s. None of the serious scholars of fascism (Payne, Gregor, Marrus, Nolte, Gottfried) would disagree on that. Since you use the word so casually I'm going to guess you get your history from TV & KZfaq videos.

Sound like an album from a psychedelic band

Im glad you’re trying to tether yourself to reality, at least a little bit.

I don't think you need to completely discard pop culture analysis, you just need to read some historical analysis on who and what shaped right wing nationalist sentiment and how it can get systematically made popular

@@Yuvraj. your rhetoric is childish and useless. basically just looking for seals to clap for you I see

Good luck

To me, pop culture has always been this consumerist... thing. Too ingenuine. And activism get replace with cultural representation.

The words of Dr. Maya Angelou will forever remain relevant.

Sinclair Lewis said that it's hard to make someone understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it. Merkel and many others (e.g. Bush Jr, even to some extent Obama) didn't want to understand that Russia was rotten because it would have forced them to take positions that would have been harder, lifestyle-wise, with their domestic audiences. If Russia was rotten, then Russian energy was clearly not OK - but Germany wanted cheap Russian energy, so it spun a story of Russian being not quite rotten. This is, in some way, just a variation on Lenin's dictum about capitalists selling the communists the rope used to hang them - immediate pecuniary interest sometimes overwhelms long-term self-interest.

@@cv990a4 You are simplifying and ignoring something very important for the era, that the dominant ideology at the time was neo-liberalism, which now saw itself as the Truth to the point we had reached The End of History. Just like Marx declared Communism the natural development of human society, the neo-liberals believed free trade and deregulations of all markets would inevitably lead to political freedom as well. This mentality also explains why Russia's shift towards market economy became such a traumatic experience. Rather than a controlled transformation, the advisors listened to the the prophet Friedman and decided that the Market would solve everything for the best. Combine that with a culture of institutionalised corruption and the end result could just as well been a failed state.

@@johanmetreus1268 This is silly. When the Western European peacekeepers ran away from the Srebrenica safe haven, thereby allowing the Serbs to perpetrate their atrocities, it's not because the peacekeepers thought "hey, neoliberal ideology tells me this is going to be OK because we're at the end of history." They ran away because they were feckless - either at the local or institutional level, they weren't willing to put themselves on the line to prevent what was clearly going to be something bad from happening to people who were fellow Europeans (except not as rich and speaking a weird non-Romance/Germanic language). The only appropriate reaction on the part of the peacekeepers to the Serbs was "the only way you get in here is through us - your move". Instead, they ran away. Given a choice between doing the right thing and the thing that was comfortable for them personally, they picked themselves. Statements like "You are simplifying and ignoring something very important for the era, that the dominant ideology at the time was neo-liberalism, which now saw itself as the Truth to the point we had reached The End of History." If you really believe this is why the Western Europeans were unable to man up and defend their way of life on their own continent, it indicates you've build a conceptual ideological castle in the air, and then moved into it, departing reality. Either that or you've simply never read much history.

It reminds me of a play I read in school once, Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Fire Raisers) by Max Frisch, in which an arrogant man (Biedermann) allows two *very* suspicious men to stay with him despite reports of arsons in the area, because he's too smart to allow arsonists to burn his house down! In the end, he gives them the match, despite them proclaiming at dinner earlier, "Wir sind Brandstifter/We are the arsonists." It was an allegory for the rise of European fascism, and I thought it was very effective

I think it's a little unfair, to be honest. I don't think people missed Russia's emerging fascism because they were too busy engaging with cultural analysis. I think it's cause they just weren't fuckin' paying any attention to Russia! One of the things I've been blown away by when I was looking at this stuff is how obviously and overtly fascist it is, to the point where it can demonstrate hard to explain concepts like the cult of the hero. During Putin's 1 Year Anniversary Block Party, there was a famous Russian anti-war song turned into a patriotic anthem. It's from the perspective of a soldier writing home, asking for luck and hoping he won't die. He didn't want to go to war, but his government decided this was what he was going to do so he had no real choice. The anti-war reading is super clear. So why was it sung during the rally? Because the idea of going to war and dying is heroic in fascism. That's what heroes do, seek glorious death in battle. It's not a tragedy that he was forced to fight and die, it's an inspiring thing that despite his understanding of the dangers ahead, he's still there and going to fight. It can be hard to explain that concept since so much of our understanding of soldiers' deaths in media is through the lens of respect for their suffering and sacrifice. It's sad that they have to do this, it's terrible what they've gone through, we should honor how hard their experiences were. That can feel like turning the troops into heroes and hero worshipping them. But that's not the same as the specific type of hero cult that fascism has, where being ABLE to die for your country is a good thing. It's not about respecting difficult experiences, but rather relishing in the beauty of the ability to become a hero and die. I can't imagine anyone who looks at the political implications of culture missing the obvious fascist propaganda in that Trotsky movie. It's PEZ stuff. I think people missed it cause they never saw it. Nobody thought of Russia as being dangerous anymore. That was old cold war shit, that period of time is over. Even as they became a clearly hostile nation, there wasn't much need to pay close attention to Russian media or Russian culture, we knew about it already; it was soviet era stuff with big statues and workers. This just never got challenged, since a lot of people who might be interested in it don't speak Russian! They couldn't pay attention if they wanted to. All the wild shit that I've become aware of is all new to me, even when it's completely within my sphere. Russia has its own deep-seeded reactionary internet culture. It's got its own 'conspiracy theorists in government' problem. Its propaganda videos look like MAGA twitter did. All this would be of vital interest to the people who view politics through a cultural lens, and they would've picked up pretty quickly on Russia's fascism. They just never learned about any of it until Russia invaded another country and suddenly everyone started paying WAY more attention to them, and all the giant warning signs that we just never looked at became obvious to us.

Why nations fail is truly a masterpiece.

Я вообще впервые узнал о идеях ильина из этого видео)

Without a doubt one of the great works of the 21st century

US: no direct voting, no strict identification of voters - democracy! Russia: direct voting by identified people, all voting sheets essentialy have a serial number and are stored for several years after - authoritarian! How this even fits in that cabbage of yours?

Не удивительно. Я про Максима Каца. Какой анализ у тех, чья позиция «Путин плохой». Кстати, ти путин.

Bro same with my friends. I live in America and some people ik that have russian parents basically gone pro-putin aswell. It really is wierd.

​@@honkhonk8009 I've been wondering if the supposed "Russian Identity" is practically engineered to create the kind of susceptibility to "Russia Right! Russia Good" no matter WHAT direction that might be even if it's reverses upon itself. It only need identify itself as "Russian."

@@honkhonk8009 this is partly because they saw how Russia fell into near anarchy, especially during the Yeltsin regime from 1992 to 1999. So many people died that time. Would be recommending the recent BBC documentary TraumaZone by Adam Curtis for more context.

@@ianhomerpura8937 I know about Yeltsin and such. Shitty time for sure. But lets be honest. That was simultaneously the best time too cus of all the opportunity and such. All the bullshit Putin just brought on Russia tho gonna be 10x worse than anything Yeltsin's alchoholic ass could dream of