In Memoirs of a revolutionary (Criticism, 2009), Piotr Kropotkin describes nihilism, a social movement that marked Russian youth around the 1860s, in these terms: “First of all, nihilism declared war on what can be considered as conventional lies of civilized society. A absolute sincerity was his distinctive feature (…) With his affirmation of the rights of the individual and his condemnation of all hypocrisy was nothing more than a first step towards a type of men and women who, being equally free, live to progress a great cause ”.
It was a generational revolt that, under the flag of the individual’s rebellion, fought the tyranny of tsar and domestic despotism, in addition to promoting female emancipation. The young women with lenses and round garibaldina cap managed to create instructional institutions and formed societies of translators, editors, printers and binders. Before the refusal of Tsarism to admit women in universities, they went to study Heidelberg, Berlin or the Zurich Polytechnic.
One hundred years later, the 1960s marked another generational revolt in combat against conventionalism and the hypocrisy of their elders. It is years that the JD Vance and the Trad-Wives They want to bury them by presenting them as a kind of apocalyptic cafem. Toni Morrison, the late Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote in The source of self -esteem (Lumen, 2020): “Killing the sixties, transforming it into an aberration, an exotic disease full of excess, drugs and disobedience aims to bury its defining features: emancipation, generosity, deep political consciousness, and feeling of living in a shared society and with mutual responsibility. ” If what matters is the story, there is nothing more important than taking over the past, especially the one that is still alive and cooling.
In those two youthful revolts, separated by one hundred years, the awareness of that there was an end to pursue and that the best was yet to come operated as a substrate. A dream of human redemption. “A Jour Tout will be good, Voilà Notre Espérance”(Voltaire). Time was an open dimension fed by hope. It was certainly a progressive theology. Ernst Bloch and Jürgen Moltmann They took it so expressly. A total rationalization of existence is neither possible nor desirable. The sacred tree always produces fruits. The question is whether it is sweet or bitter fruits.
A very different policy of time is what we have before our eyes. If something characterizes our time is the cancellation of the future and the reduction of expectations. The idea of social progress has been eradicated with fury. Moreover, the networks expel historical consciousness from their scope and feed an illusion of the present without past or future, a Nunc Stansas if time were suspended in the cloud. The only theology that remains is technological and even that is usually presented in the imagination of our time under the aspect of dystopia.
Yes. We have seen a huge turn in the spirit of time, to get Hegelians. The labor movement, which marked the story between the mid -nineteenth and end of the 20th century, was left behind. In fact, capitalism, today, has no exterior: there is nothing outside of it. Not in China. Biopolitics: The most conspicuous right of the worker is to let himself be exploited more and better. The illustration, the spine that models our societies, is in crisis, replaced by the noise and fury of the networks and the plain of culture mainstreambanal and enemy of complexity. That disappearance of the future as Novum It makes pessimism, as a fundamental mood, eat the horizon, create dread and feed chaos.
In fact, to these two progressive generations we can oppose two reactionary generations: those of the speaker of the last century and the one we have before our eyes. And both the conservative flowering of a hundred years ago and that of today’s Alt-Right have their center in what Roger Griffin He has called “Paning nationalism.” Nothing better describes the feeling that encourages them that Oswald Spengler’s book title The decline of the West. The anxiety of the loss of the object. It was the French fascist intellectuality – the Céline and Drieu La Rochelle – that had been preceded in that vision by Maurras and the people of “Action Française”.
They were the protagonists of the German conservative revolution, the Jünger, Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger, or was the Italian esoteric Julius Evola- one of Alexander Duguin’s referents- all of them were encouraged by the notion of decline. In Spain, of course, the crisis of 98 and the loss of the empire encouraged a similar spirit, which is reborn today in Elvira Roca, but also of more sophisticated and apparent ways in books like “Madrid DF” by Fernando Caballero that virtually contemplates in the current Global city a reincarnation of Felipe II and the imperial stage or affirms that liberal anticlericalism faded in the nineteenth century to the Intelligentsia Spanish – to clergy and religious education centers.
And in the face of decay, the time policy of the Alt-Right consists in the restoration of the past. Maga: Make América Grande again. “Back to the Golden Age,” Trump said. The same applies to France. Or Russia. Or Spain. Everywhere, what resonates again is the idea that there was a better past to relive again, not necessarily in the form of a neotradiction. The apogee of the technique can be another form of expression of the new right, as it was already a century ago and today it is embodied in the Musk and Thiel, authentic Russian plutocrats in the USA. There is a conductive thread between Italian fascist futurism or Heidegger’s phrase of 1935 about Nazism “such as the encounter of the technique determined planetarily and of the modern man” and the technological messianism of both.
For the rest, it is not strange that this new extreme right, which has no empacho in restor it Woke. And that his great battle horse is to demonize immigration and abjure the pluralism of identities.
If, in a new avatar of the purity of the breed and the Eugenic project, what is intended is to restore an imaginary German, French, Spanish ethnic identity, or the one that is, nothing is more harmful than any sample of diversity. The ghost of the “great replacement” stirred by Houellebecq and induced anguish before what is perceived as the possibility of the decline of European civilization are nothing that would not have been seen a hundred years ago. Simply Africans and Muslims have replaced Jews as an object of hatred.
Actually, there is no empirical basis to sustain such a thing: together, against the most widespread perception, emigration is not uncontrolled, no matter how much Spain has gone from being the exporting country of people to the receiving country. Which, on the other hand, denotes economic success. But induced panic, and the manipulation of deep tribal fears, is very profitable for the success of brutality policies. Seen at a distance, it is surprising to consider how little the speech of the extreme right has changed over time.
It happens, however, that it is difficult for this regression to be successful because the world is very different from what was one hundred years ago. More than arrogance, modesty and humility would be convenient to avoid major evils. To argue that the West is no longer the one, nor will it be again, since it lacks the omnimous power that it possessed in the past, and that, therefore, we are attending a reconfiguration of the world (and that this reconfiguration leads to his redefinition) perhaps he would not be very successful. But we must remember that the twentieth century was that of decolonizations: that other balances of power are and that the self -absorption and replication of our societies does not lead to anything positive.
The possibility of progress happens to the attempt of the regression, which brings us closer to the catastrophe. But, by the way, prevailing how they prevail the banality, conventionalism, selfish Lamboeating in Dabiz Muñoz and stir in the nonsense itself -, it would not be uncommon for the new generations to be fed up with so much stultic of holy men and women without attributes to demand a little, just a little, of authenticity and generosity. The flowers can also open in winter.
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