Galloway in Moscow
Errol Musk (Elon’s father), is to speak at Alexander Dugin’s Tsargrad Forum for the Future in Moscow 9-10 June along with Sergei Lavrov, Matthew Groves, Alex Jones, Konstantin Malofeev and George Galloway (who gets top billing).
According to journalist Zarina Zabrisky: “Dugin’s projects and publications (in Russian and English) like Katehon and “Orthodox TV channel” Tsargrad are sponsored by Russian right-wing nationalist Konstantin Malofeev, the founder of Marshall Capital, one of the leading Russian investment groups.” Here is a thread from Zabrinsky laying out Putin and Dugin’s support for the alt-right in America and ultra-right and neo-Nazis in the West including Golden Dawn.
Alexander Dugin, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain” because of his ideological influence on Russian politics, endorsed the policies of Donald Trump in a CNN interview aired on March 30.
According to Kevin Riehle in the Independent: “Dugin lays a philosophical foundation for foreign parties that oppose the European Union and western liberalism, and that disrupt political unity. His views have been adopted by far-right political groups such as the German National Democratic Party, the British National Party, Golden Dawn in Greece, Jobbik in Hungary, and the National Front in France.”
Here he is with David Duke:
According to Wikipedia the Russian ‘red-brown alliance’ was forged by Dugin:
The red–brown term (Russian: красно-коричневые, krasno-korichnevye) originated in post-Soviet Russia to describe an alliance of communists and far-right (nationalist, fascist, monarchist, and religious) opposition to the liberal, pro-capitalist Russian government in the 1990s, opposing economic and social reforms such as rapid transition to a market economy through shock therapy, subsequent sharp increase in poverty and drop in living standards, and removal of many restrictions on people’s behaviour.[11] Such an alliance was first suggested by Aleksandr Dugin, an early member of the National Bolshevik Party and writer of the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) program.[12] As leader of the opposition, Gennady Zyuganov oversaw the partnership of the CPRF with Russian National Unity, a prominent Russian neo-Nazi party.[13]
The label ‘Communism’ needs to be reclaimed from the ludicrously reactionary morass of ethnic-nationalist Stalinism espoused by the likes of the CPRF, Putin, and their Western handmaidens.
Indeed Paddy.
It has become a false label for those who use it to shield obsessive capitalism,
and to put fear into those with small political minds.
We seem happy to continue accepting our exploration of capitalist variants.
IMO it is hard to see China or Russia as pure communist states,
but they are still lazily, but purposely, labelled that way.
Peter
I would not put Russia and China in the same basket, though. Russia had a counter-revolution and handed its economy over to a mafia of oligarchs, massively impoverishing its people in the process. And Russia’s current political leaders have bought wholesale into climate change denial, for example, and run the country in the interests of a kleptocratic elite. China’s leadership, in contrast, has overseen the development of the world’s fastest growing renewables sector and – I believe – still holds to the ideal of improving the life of its people, taking hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in a few decades. Though I very much agree that the label ‘communist’ does not exactly fit easily with China’s economic model.
I can’t for the world imagine China organising an event like the one the article is about, or seeking to have any kind of relationship with the likes of George Galloway…
I don’t think the West has had much if any control over control over China, other than buying its goods at a cheaper price than the West could produce itself. The huge improvement its people have seen in 40 years and if it continues, will see off internal pressure for the party to relax its control. It also endorses China’s foreign policy of building infrastructure for developing countries in return for raw materials and markets.
China has its faults, but what would we think of China if China had waged or participated in as many wars as the West?
Whereas with Russia the West could have been there as a support during and after the break up to ensure it would not turn into what it has turned into and to bring Russia into the fold.
The foreign policy experts and analyst’s employed directly and or listened to by Western government have been risible. They are supposed to predict the future relationships, they and the governments and politicians they serve have failed. Alternatively does the West always need a bogey-man to blame for its failures and Russia fills the bill!
Putin did not create Russia by himself, now he has become a real problem, a problem that funding is being shifted from health, education, social services, police, environment and infrastructure budgets to the defence budget to solve!
Never has the saying ‘judge people by the company they keep’ been more appropriate!
So Mr. Galloway, founder of the “Workers Party” in the UK, comes full circle. A seeming contradiction? No more than National Socialism–which some may recall. I truly would not have guessed this of Mr. Galloway, who over the decades, has said some reasonable things and spoke well and critically, in front of the US Senate. The circle seems to contain a swastika–or its equivalent. Alas.