Update on National Bolshevism

There is something downright nasty about these guys, and I can't even put my finger on it. National Bolshevism is some type of Third Positionism.

Third Positionism is one strange beast all right, and I can't figure out what to make of it. Their Celtic cross symbol gives me the creeps; it reminds me of the Zodiac killer, and it looks fascistic.

It's supposedly some species of fascism that combines unspecified elements of the Left and Right, in particular, Leftist and socialist economics. As they have never held power anywhere, no one really knows how this plays out IRL.

I'm not necessarily going to oppose anyone that gets lumped into some Third Positionist "fascist" grab bag by political scientists, but so far, I don't like what I see.

The National Bolshevik Party is Russia is one strange beast. They support the Russian minorities in all of the former SSR's, which is theoretically a valid cause, but in many cases probably reeks of national chauvinism. But there's a lot of national chauvinist crap going on in those new states anyway, this time victimizing Russians.

They supported, and apparently still support, the War on the Chechen People in Chechnya and now generalized across much of the Caucasus to Dagestan, Ingushetia, Southern Russia, North Ossetia-Alania (When did they change their name?! Ok, 1994. The history of the Alans, especially as relates to the peopling of Japan and NE Asia, is an interesting one, if you like strange theories), Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Originally, their project was the usual fascist imperialist expansionist crap, envisioning a vast state encompassing all of the former USSR (which would have to be reconquered in some way) and all of Europe (I guess this would have to conquered too), to be ruled by Russians. That's actually kind of humorous. Well, since then, they have dropped that.

They are also anti-Semites, accusing ultranationalist Zhirinovsky of being a Jew, as if that is a bad thing (he has a bit of Jewish heritage, but I don't enough to go to Israel). They hate Putin and accuse him of being a fascist.

That's strange, but if you study fascists for a while, you realize that one of their fascist games is that fascists are always going around calling others fascists as a term of abuse. It doesn't make sense until you are around them a long time.

Lenin hated the precursors of the National Bolsheviks and said they were a class enemy, but he's not a God to me.

At the end of the day, I'm sorry, but I just can't get behind these guys. Ultranationalism pretty much sucks just about everywhere, without many exceptions.

National Bolshevik principles.

Update: R.M. Schultz of the Soviet Overseas Trading Company News blog, author of the principles above, stopped by the comments section and made some interesting points.

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