The Russian Case

The Russian Case of Why We (the Russians) are the Best Hope for the World

[2022, May update: Russia is going hard on its southern neighbor.

CLARIFICATION: A dialectic is what happens when bisecting, or dividing, the THESIS and the ANTITHESIS. The middle choice, or path, is what Russian political scientists and artists from a hundred years ago would argue was the true way to arrive at truth, artistic form... If you saw this in a visual diagram, you would see two arrows point opposite of each other, but the dialectic arrow would be a compromise of the two. A third way.]

The rest of the world does not understand how right we are.

That is why "might makes right", in the case of the Commonwealth of Russia. Russia is mighty, and we are the true hope of right progress in the world. We have had some down times in the last couple of decades, but that is because our own people were being pulled between false theses...

Let me explain. Allow me to clarify. Permit me to expound, and please entertain what I say to you:

Russia is the reason humanity has hope. Because the answers are found in the middle.

Much of the world does not understand the concept of dialectic, or dialectic materialism, which is what Russia has been developing with mixed results since the days of Dostoevsky and Darwin. Or even before. The Age of Enlightenment had its bright stars, many Russians among them.

And Russia is the answer. Many Soviets (Russians and other proletariat comrades across our planet, from Chile to Laos) believed that the answer lied in Communism. We have seen this was not exactly true. But it was a necessary experiment to continue to arrive at, to evolve at where we need to be. The Chinese, and other cultures recognized that. World wide intellectuals and others with clear thinking still do. They have always recognized the power and virtue of eliminating the absolute and corrupting wealth strangle hold by the elite bourgeoisie. This mega-rich greed chokes and stifles all of us, the 99 percent who struggles to work and live. The workers need a chance, because we are all fed by the same sources. We all eat and breathe the same materials. One human (a super star celebrity or business magnate) does not deserve any more health care or favor than the lowest street urchin, or disabled senior, or physically or mentally deficient soul. We are all equal, the West proclaims, no? But they do not follow their own beliefs! The West is full of hypocrisy, as is the East...A sensible middle way synthesis is what is necessary, is empirically and logically sound.

In the Orient, nor does the antithesis have the correct way, which in the 21st century has been manifest as extreme Islam, or Wahabbism. It is the antithesis of capitalism and Westernism, because based on its fundamentalist interpretation of the Quran and hadith of the prophet Mohammad, there should be no financial interest of money and capital,  nor should there be principles of modern capitalism as we know it, nor should there be a democracy of the people, which is considered the ultimate good of the Western World. Or even education for the girls and women who make up half of our population!

The main thesis of the planet Earth in the last decades has been authored by the West, embodied in the United States of America with its traditional allies: Great Britain, France, Netherlands, the Scandinavian peoples and more begrudgingly Germany and Spain. And the other tag-alongs, of course: Canada, Australia, like much of Latin America and now Japan, and others. Even India seems to support this "capitalist thesis".

The Western thesis is what has forged much of the current capitalist model of the world, no argument.

And the current fighting and "Arab Spring" of the Middle East, plus the conflict of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the unrest across Muslim Africa is very much dealing with the tension between these two poles: Western "democratic" capitalism and Eastern Muslim wahabbism, which counters or opposes the basis of the former.

As we Russians know since Marx and Engels, and probably more importantly Vladimir Lenin, that the middle line, or dialectic, between the two theses that are the antipoles of the modern world, is the most proper way to achieve maximum positive results.

Russia understands this. In the 1800s, geniuses following in the human evolutionary chain like George Hegel, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Charles Darwin learned that the best will rise to the fore, the strongest survive. But unlike fascists such as Adolph Hitler or Francisco Franco, or misguided Socialists like Mao Zedong or Ho Chi Minh, or the delusional Western leaders like Winston Churchill or Dwight Eisenhower, or their more recent counterparts such as George Bush or Tony Blair, Russian leaders like Mr. Putin understand human history and interpret the results scientifically, rationally, and properly.

If Afghanistan had not been caught in the cross-hairs between the Western pro-U.S. mujahadeen and the Wahabbi extremists such as the late Osama Bin Laden (supported by both, ironically), this country would be a wonderfully productively place today, while currently in 2014 it is still a backwater and threat to all, internally and externally. As would all the former Soviet Socialist Republics in the USSR, if the Russians still had more influence in the Muslim "Stans".

But between greedy money grubbers and Muslim jihadi militants, the world is continually confused by the binary of false messages. East or West. Neither is best.

Only by recognizing and accepting the middle path, the Russian dialectic, as some Buddhists or Daosists claim the middle in word only, but by truly implementing the synthesis that is embodied in the Russian dialectic as the proper system of human advancement can the world be saved. Or at least the world will continue to improve, instead of digressing into worse misery than ever before.

And now Ukraine, in 2014, as Chechnya (Georgia, 2008) before and so many other places across the global map have fought and bled and sacrificed, confused by the ideological battle lines more than the physical and tactical ones, must figure out where Russia is the answer.

Still confused?

No worries. The truth will increasingly become evident. Why? Because we Russians are strong enough to prevail.

Blog it. Eduard S. Ruskiliya.