by Alexandr Dugin
( December 11, 2018, Moscow, Sri Lanka Guardian)
The protests in France, symbolized by yellow vests, cover an increasingly large part of society. Political experts have already called this movement a “new revolution”. The scale of the “yellow vest” movement is already so serious that it is absolutely necessary to analyze this phenomenon in a detailed way.
We are dealing with a vivid manifestation of modern European
populism. The meaning of populism as a phenomenon rising from the political
structure in the societies formed in the wake of the Great French Revolution,
and based on the confrontation between right and left, are changing radically.
Populist movements reject this classical political
left/right scheme and do not follow any strict ideological attitudes, either
right or left. This is the strength and success of populism: it does not play
by the preset rules. Nevertheless, populism has its own logic: for all its
spontaneity, it is quite possible to trace some logic and even the beginnings
of a populist ideology taking shape before our eyes.
First of all, the fact that populist movements are directed
against the political elite as a whole, without making a distinction, whether
it is right or left-wing, is striking. This is the ‘uprising of the periphery
of society against its center’. In his famous work, the American sociologist
Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) designated the form of government that prevails
in modern Western society as the “elite revolution”.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was customary to
follow José Ortega y Gasset’s discourse about the “revolt of the masses”, whose
increasing influence on politics threatened, it seemed, to destroy Western
culture – the European Logos.
But Christopher Lasch noted a new political trend: it is the
elites that are destroying culture and European Logos today. These new western
elites, who have reached the pinnacle of power only by their resourcefulness
and immense will to power, are much worse and more destructive than the masses.
An ordinary person still maintains some cultural traditions;
it is almost impossible to find a “pure proletarian”. But the modern capitalist
elites, who have no aristocratism in their senses, are greedy for power,
position and comfort. At the same time, more and more marginal types began to
penetrate into the “new elite”, people not from peripheral groups, but from
minority groups — ethnic, cultural, religious (often sectarians) and sexual —
became dominant among them. It is this perverted rabble, according to
Christopher Lasch, that forms the basis of the modern globalist elite, which
destroys the foundations of civilization.
Accordingly, populism – including the populism of the
“yellow vests” – can be viewed as a retaliatory uprising of the people against
the elites, who have completely lost their connection with society. The elites
have built their own world in which double standards, norms of political
correctness, liberal demagogy reign.
According to these “new elites”, the people and society, in
their current state, have no place in this world. Therefore, the typical
representative of the “new elite”, Hillary Clinton, upset by the success of the
right-wing populist Trump, openly insulted ordinary Americans – as deplorables,
which in meaning means “shameful.” “Deplorables” have chosen Trump – not because
they loved him, but to respond to the “globalist witch” Clinton.
Macron is a representative of the same type of “new elite”.It is curious that on the eve of the elections the French newspaper ‘Libération’ published the headline ‘Faitesce
And now in France. And although in France there is
practically no political contact between the right-wing populism of the
National Front and the left-wing populism of Mélenchon, today it is united in
the heroic revolt of the “yellow vests”. “Yellow vests” are deplorables, both
right and left (but not liberal left, nor liberal right). The right-wing
populists are terrified by the insane new elite policies regarding immigration
and the destruction of the remnants of French identity. Left-wing populists are
outraged by the disastrous economic policies of the liberals, who defend only
the interest of big business: Macron is a protégé of the Rothschilds and that
shows on which side he is…
The “yellow vests” rebelled against Macron as against the ruling liberal elite. But today, it is already no longer a movement of theclassical right or left. Macron is left in support of migration, protection ofminorities, the legalization of degeneracy and so-called “cultural Marxism,”but right (liberal right) in terms of the economy, firmly defending theinterests of big business and European bureaucracy. He is a pure globalist, notdisdaining a direct declaration of his belonging to Freemasonry (his famoushand-sign, representing a triangle), even with direct satanic slogans: “Do whatyou want, vote for Macron.” The revolt of ‘yellow vests’ is precisely againstthis combination of liberal right and liberal left.
If Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen cannot be united politically,
being one – too left and the other – too
right, then the ‘yellow vests’ will do it instead of the political leaders
seeking to lead a populist movement. The “yellow vests” are not just against economic
policy or immigration — they are against Macron as a symbol of the whole
system, against globalism, against liberal totalitarianism, against the
“existing state of affairs”. The “yellow vest” movement is a populist and
popular revolution. And the word “people” (populus, ‘le peuple’) in the concept
of “populism” must be understood literally.
These are not abstract masses or an impersonal proletariat —
they are the last living people who have risen up against the world power of
globalist progeny,the rebels (as Lasch believes) of culture and civilization,
as well as on man as such, on people, on God. Today there is no more right and
left: only the people are against the elite. The “yellow vests” are creating a
new political history, a new ideology. Macron is not a personal name, it is a
label of the Matrix. To achieve freedom, he needs to be annihilated. Thus
sprach the “yellow vests”, and they speak the truth…
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a Russian philosopher,political analyst, and geostrategist, and author – best known internationallyfor his book ‘The Fourth Political Theory’. He has close ties with the Kremlinand the Russian military, having served as an advisor to State Duma speakerGennadiy Seleznyov and key member of the ruling United Russia party SergeiNaryshkin. He resides in Moscow, supervises the work of Geopolitika, andinspires the work of the Eurasian Movement.
Translated from Russian (RT) by Geopolitika minor edits by
J. Flores for FRN.
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