Europe As Far As Vladivostok Jean

Thiriart 1992
October 30, 2015 1992, Europe as far as Vladivostok, Jean Thiriart

History and Geopolitics

History knew city states: Thebes, Sparta, Athens, later Venice, Florence, Milan,
Genoa. Today, it knows territorial states, France, Spain, England, Russia. Finally, it
discovers continental states such as the United States of America, China today, and the
USSR of yesterday. Europe suffers a period of transformations today. It must pass
from the more or less stable stage of territorial states to the stage of the continental
state. For the majority of people, this transition is hampered by mental inertia, without
speaking of the idleness of the spirit.

Although not larger than a piece of tissue, Sparta had a strong vitality, from a
historical point of view, living above all for its military aspect. Its dimensions and its
resources were sufficient to create an army capable of winning the respect of all its
neighbors. Here we approach the basic problem of the vitality of states. The historical
city state was supplanted by the territorial state. The Roman Empire supplanted
Sparta, Athens, Thebes. And without great effort.

Today the historical vitality of the state depends on its military vitality, which in its
turn depends on its economic vitality, which leads us to the following choice: First
hypothesis: the territorial states are obliged to become satellites of the continental
states. France, Italy, Spain, Germany, England only represent a fiction of independent
states. Because for a long time, since 1945, all these countries have become satellites
of the United States of America. Second hypothesis: these territorial states will
transform themselves into a sole continental state: Europe.
The Historic Failure of a Continental State: The USSR

The regrettable disintegration of the USSR is explained, in particular, by the

insufficient theoretical comprehension of the state by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and in
certain regards Stalin. Already in 1984, my disciple and collaborator, Jose Cuadrado
Costa, basing his works on Ortega y Gasset and myself, published a brilliant and
prophetic essay under the title: The Insufficiency and Obsolescence of the Marxist-
Leninist Theory of Nationality.

Concerning the understanding of the essence of the state, the Jacobins were manifestly
far more advanced than the Marxists. In this domain, Marx always remained limited
to the romantic period of the Revolution of 1848. Already at the end of the
18 century, Siys spoke of the manner of obtaining a homogeneous nation-state.
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The nation-state is the fruit of political will. Another example of Marxist idiocy,
coming from the romanticism of the 19 century, is the idea of the disappearance of
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the state. It is difficult to think of a greater stupidity. Its an old anarchist dream.

Thus Lenin preserved the formal existence of the republics. I intentionally write the
word in the plural. Because of the application of the principle of centralism to the
interior of the Communist Party and the particular personality of Stalin, this fiction or
this comedy endured until 1990. The weakening of the Party lead to the break up of
the USSR with problems recalling the epoch of 1917-1922. Fiction became reality.

In 1917 the Russian Jacobins created the Republic of Councils (I direct your attention
to the singular.) Lenin accepted and tolerated this fiction of a Union of Soviet
Republics (I direct your attention to the plural.) From 1946 to 1949, at the apogee of
its power, Stalin also preserved this appearance of independent states, extending
from Poland to Bulgaria. More theoretical imprudence.

The Political State by Opposition to the Ethnic State

In the Dictionary The Little Larousse, it is written that the conditions of ethnic
uniformity are its language and culture.

For the needs of this analysis, I will give my own enlarged interpretation of this
concept, having said that the unity of the ethnic state has its roots in the unity of race,
religion, language, common imagery, common memory, common frustrations or fears.

The concept of the political state (as an open system, expanding) is completely
opposed to the concept of the ethnic state (as an closed system, fixed). The political
state is the expression of the will of free men to have a common future. The political
state, or more precisely the political nation-state which I consider as the modern
theoretician, Ortega y Gasset permits individuals to preserve their personal
individuality (please excuse this barbaric and gross tautology) on the interior of the
framework of society. It has been less than two months since I gave my opinion on the
importance of the concepts of the Imperium and the Dominium. Since 1964 I have
never ceased to develop these concepts of Roman origin.

A political friend who called me Walloon (that was not sufficient for me!), I wrote,
as a habit, that I am neither Walloon, nor Flemish, nor German, nor Belgian, or even
European. I am me. The person of Jean Thiriart, thats Jean Thiriart, I wrote him. I do
not like at all to be classed in a category with other people, where it is said that they
resemble me. I want to constantly conserve my Socratic irony. A partisan of
totalitarianism when we speak of Imperium, I become an anarchist for the question of
Dominium.

Marx and Engels knew absolutely nothing of this fundamental Imperium/ Dominium
dichotomy, that is why they wrote The German Ideology against Max Stirner. The
vision of the Imperium by Stirner (federative free choice, right to secession, etc)
always remains utopian and inapplicable. On the contrary, his vision of internal
liberty, in the question of Dominium, will always be interesting. I am a Bolshevik,
Jacobin, Prussian, Stalinist, as soon as we speak of Imperium and of its civil
discipline, but my tastes and intellectual interests concerning my private life, my
internal life in the framework of the Dominium, go to the Odyssey, to the Cynics, to
Diogenes, who in response to the question: Could you see a brave man in Greece?
responded, Nowhere, but I see some brave boys in Lacedemonia

We know that Diogenes and the other Cynics admired the Spartan system because the
Spartans were partisans of discipline and austerity and enemies of luxury and sloth.
Thus, as Diagoras, I am against religion. In the private domain, certainly!

Certainly, I am known as the messenger of the united Europe, from Dublin to

Vladivostok. But this united Europe, that I describe and invoke, is bound to the
domain of the Imperium. And my opinion is that such an Imperium must be a power,
dynamic, merciless to be effective.

For personality, it is bound to the category of the Dominium.

My cultural personality forbids me to chose between categories. It is unique, as much

as my genetic code is unique.

Biologically, each person is the incarnation of a unique code. He is unique. In the

domain of culture music, architecture, literature, painting, etc I claim for myself
the status of an unshakable individualist.

In the political state there cannot be minorities, because that does not concern
individuals, then only collectivism concerns the Imperium.

These links represent the limitations that I have already mentioned above.

Recent Misfortunes: Federalism, Confederalism

As soon as the twin concept of the Imperium-Dominium is introduced in the
construction of perverse solutions like federalism or still worse, confederalism, lose
all meaning and all utility.

I cannot restrain myself from citing here an American author, of whom I only know a
sole citation, but very pertinent:

Every group of persons, whatever their number and the reciprocal similarity, and
whatever the degree of firmness in the affirmation of their opinion every group
finishes by breaking into smaller groups adhering to different variants of the same
opinion; in these sub-groups emerges in turn sub-sub-groups, and thus it follows, until
the last limit of such division: the isolated individual.

These words are attributed to Adam Ostwald, author of the book entitled Human
Society.

The anarchists of the 19 century and many others, including Proudhon, persisted in
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the enormous error that the conflicts and the tensions on the interior on LARGE
groups could always disappear, by finding a solution in LITTLE groups.

That is the social harmony of the 19 century: the harmony of the little group, opposed
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to the horror of the intolerable domination of the large group.

Even Lenin invented a historic stupidity in the framework of the absurd concept of
the little harmonious group always marches better, that later obligated him to speak
of the disappearance of the state, and also the support it and predict it.

Europe as far as Vladivostok: The Minimum Size

The nation-state, if it wants to be independent, is obliged to have adequate military

means. The possession of this means depends on demography, autarky for raw
materials, and the industrial power of the state. Between Iceland and Vladivostok we
can unite 800 million people (enough to balance the 1.2 billion Chinese) and also we
find with Siberian oil, all that is necessary to satisfy our energy and strategic needs.

I affirm that, from the economic point of view, Siberia is the most necessary province
for the viability of the European Empire.

A great union between Western Europe, highly industrialized and at the forefront of
technology, and Siberian Europe, full of nearly inexhaustible energy resources, will
permit the creation of a very powerful republican Empire, with which everyone will
find an accord.

The Limitations Imposed by the European Empire

This state will be unitary. It will not know and it not tolerate horizontal division
(regional autonomy), nor vertical division (social classes).

Its superior principle will be a uniform citizenship: in any place in the European
empire, the citizen will have the right to vote, be elected, and work. He will be
absolutely free to change residence and work. His professional qualifications will be
recognized across the entire Empire: the doctor who received his diploma in Madrid
could practice without any limitation in St. Petersburg.

All regional corporatism will be excluded.

The separation of any territorial region will be excluded by virtue of a superior

principle postulated. We make a new use of the Jacobin principle: The Republic is
unitary and INDIVISIBLE I would be imprudent to repeat the error of Lenin
concerning the right to self-determination.
The region or the ex-nation state is bound forever. The unity of this state is
irreversible, consolidated by constitutional law.

On the contrary, this empire could extend itself, not by annexations, but by the
adherence of those who wish to join it.

The army will be popular and integrated. A military caste can not enjoy a monopoly or
privileges under the pretext of professionalism. This army will be completely
subordinated to political authority.

During the first 25-50 years of existence, this integrated army will be the object of
special attention so that recruits from the different regions of the Empire serve
together.

It is not necessary to suppose the existence of Croatian regiments of French divisions

or German or Russian armies.

There will be a single currency. Possessing foreign currency or utilizing it as a means

of payment will be punishable.

Is it not humiliating, shameful, that it is possible today to go to Russia with only

American dollars?

That is in effect humiliating at the same time for the Western European tourists and
for the Russians

It is a symbol of our common fall: the Europeans of the West have been colonized
since 1945, the Europeans of the East balkanized and colonized since 1990. It would
be wiser to pay at the Moscow hotel in European ECUs, in the place of foreign
dollars.
English will be the common language. I did not say American. That is my
inevitable, pragmatic choice.

The civil laws, the criminal laws, the laws of work, and the commercial laws will be
uniform. The interpretation and the application of the law will be identical
everywhere.

Dominium and its Limitations:

Everyone knows the formula where the liberty of one person ends where that of the
others begins.

In a preceding article, I indicated the general domains of the Imperium, those where
the unitary Republic never backs out. As to the Dominium, it supposes an unlimited
liberty of choice, permitting any personal liberties that bear no harm to the Imperium.

These liberties will be guaranteed in the framework of private life.

In the old (used, sick) systems and political regimes, private emotions, sentiments,
fears inevitably attempted far too often, alas to enter into political life.

The Imperium must remain an elaborate domain, structure and directed by the neo-
cortex alone.

To understand the comportment of a person, it is necessary to study the mechanisms

of this brain.

I will repeat here my favorite pleasantry: I dont have a soul, I have a brain. In fact,
like all other people, I have three brains, that is:

-The original cortex, the oldest (the old part of the brain), that permits us to walk,
climb, crawl, or throw a ball into a basket.
-The intermediary brain (meso-cortex), that contains all my logical, emotional
programs necessary for survival. Sergey Chakhotin, specialist of Pavlov, has described
these passions and these emotions in the past. The survival of the individual is favored
by impulses of combat and nutrition; the preservation of the species by (associative)
sexual and parental inclination.

-And finally the most modern of our three maintenance programs is the neo-cortex,
this magnificent tool of the human being. A tool insufficiently used.

The oldest part of the brain is already 200 million year old. The neo-cortex was only
formed a million years ago. This doctrine (or thesis) on the three types of brain
superimposed on one another, or on a triple brain, as the French translator Roland
Guyon wrote it, was advanced by the American physiologist Paul D. MacLean. It was
then popularized by Arthur Koestler.

In the book by Otto Klineberg, Social Psychology there is a long discussion on the
question of the emotional comportment of a person.

Two centuries before the birth of the scientific work of Paul D MacLean, Siys had
anticipated this modern thesis of the superposition of three brains.

Bastide, in his dissertation of 328 pages, mentioned the manuscript of Siys On the
Brain and Instinct.

Long before me, Siys was surprised and irritated by the pseudo-manifestations in
political language.

If I must impose this digression on the reader, it is only to show that a great part of
acerbic and aggressive political discourse come from our super-emotional middle
brain.
A good study of political discourse is only possible by knowing the mechanisms of the
functioning of the human brain.

In this case it is easy to detect the reason of introversion, of hate towards something.
That becomes a simple clinical problem explained by the physiology of the brain.

During the years, I must have debated with so many writers treating politics as a
reflection of the comportment of the meso-cortex, that I gave all my forces to
describe a Republic of the neo-cortex!

One of my critics said I was a cold and rational monster.

I agree with him, and I prefer this condition to that of the irrational Bacchic
monster, so appreciated by post-Nietzschean miscreants.

I obstinately recommend to the informed reader, who is interested in politics, to

familiarize himself with the works of Paul D MacLean.

The absurdity of pseudo-rational discourse pretending to be persuasive (the lawyer

persuades, the scientist proves) clearly appears after this declaration of Marc
Jeannerod: the indirect character of relations between the subject and the external
world. The subject creates his own representation of this world, and this
representation guides his action. In this perspective, action does not rest on a external
SITUATION, but is the consequence of the product of the particular
REPRESENTATION.

Any primitive wandering on ethnicity is explained very simply by this concept of

representation (fictional) of a rejected reality (projection of reality.) A rejection of
reality, necessary for everyday dreams.

But let us return to the three type of brain of MacLean.

When we observe the orbit of satellites, the trajectory of space probes, the resistance
of steel, the optical corrections introduced to fabricate a lens, we only use our neo-
cortex.

During a quarrel between drivers, ending in a brawl, we use the so called reactive (of
the archaeo-cortex) and emotional (of the meso-cortex) mechanisms of the brain and
we behave like mammals and reptiles.

In a brawl between drivers, the aggressive impulses take over, gradually suppressing
the regulatory function of the neo-cortex. Sexual inclination, often unbearable, forcing
us to desire the neighbors granddaughter.

The same person always functions with the aid of this double program: the
programs of impulses-passions-feelings-emotions, and the program of absolutely
rational thought.

This digression was necessary as a transition to the question of the government of

peoples

Religion depends on the domain of the Dominium.

That is a domain of private activity, that should have no possibility of exercising an

influence on public life (with the consequent risk of seeing how the Islamists have
defied the authorities in Yugoslavia). It is ridiculous to suppose that religion should
interfere with reasonable political life, in the Imperium. That is precisely because of
the contempt for this principle that ignoble and stupid massacres have taken place in
Lebanon, in Palestine, in Armenia, in Yugoslavia, and in Moldova.

Those who mix religion with politics are the sorcerers apprentices of today. He is
criminal, who created this situation of strained relations, but, from a historical point of
view, he is also criminal who turns his eyes from the fact that religious passions can
be utilized in a political context.

In the laic Imperium of the united republics of Europe, religious liberty will be
accorded (I would rather write admitted) in the framework of the Dominium, and
mercilessly suppressed at the first attempt to interfere in the domain belonging to the
Imperium. The shameful and hypocritical racists have invented the theses of so-called
ethno-differentiation and so-called ethno-cultural identities. Resulting from these,
veritable wars arose in Moldova, in Yugoslavia, in the Caucasus wars lead by
common criminals or, to be precise, by gangsters.

More than theft, prostitution, gambling, and narcotics trafficking, the criminals and
the thugs have shown a grand interest in the question of oppressed minorities for at
least twenty years. These religious and ethno-differential follies were duly
manipulated first by charlatans, and then by gangsters these named follies, based on
desperadoes with arms in their hands, will lead us so low that we will return to the
thousand tribes of New Guinea, to head hunting.

In summary, I would say that the Dominium means the near unlimited freedom of
opinion (even the most stupid opinion), but that the Imperium of unified laic republics
will never admit, even for an instant, the freedom to do what you want. Since 1945,
history gave to us clear and bloody examples of what must NOT be done. There is no
right to reproduce them tomorrow.

When Moscow appealed to the Experts

What happened in Russia since the last two years is completely mad.

The economy should have been liberalized step by step, from the bottom to the top,
resting on each step two or three years.
In place of that, the worst adventurers of international finance were admitted to
Moscow. The product of the work of three Soviet generations was put to auction.

The sharks of Wall Street began to interest themselves excessively in the economy of
the ex-USSR. It should have not weakened its political core, consenting to the
separation of peoples, even if Lenin, in his political illiteracy (a heritage of the birth of
Marxism in 1848) conceded (very hypocritically and imprudently) the right of self-
determination.

The political and military partition of the USSR is and will always remain an
unpardonable historical error. An event fatal and irreversible.

The centrifugal force destroyed in five years what the centripetal forces had created in
four or five centuries.

It would have first been better to refill the shops with sausage and bread, favoring the
creation of a million small businesses (with between one and five employees).

Simultaneously, it was necessary to reinforce the political repression AGAINST all

these combatants for separatism, independence, and autonomy.

Another example of the suicidal comportment of the new Russian rulers is that of their
voyages to Washington in place of accepting economic aid from Western Europe.

From the historical and geopolitical point of view, the United States are the particular
enemy of the USSR. The historic strategy of the United States is to divide and
partition the USSR.

For four centuries, England lead the same politics against the kinds of Spain, against
France, and Germany.
Today England has lost its place to the United State. But yesterday it indefatigably
aimed to destroy the principal continental force, capable of uniting the European
continent in a federation: the Spanish Habsburgs, Bonaparte, William II, Hitler.

Russia alone is a Future Brazil of the Snows

The partition the USSR is irreversible, the great Russia no longer has any change of
being a great power.

At present Russia alone is a country without a future, like Germany since 1945, and
France since 1962.

From the historical point of view, Germany was stripped of all significance in 1945.
Although it is today a great industrial power, it is completely passive, absolutely
without influence in the international arena.

Yes, 47 years have already passed, since Germany had any foreign policy.

In itself, that is not so bad for European unity.

The nationalist hysteria has caused much harm to Europe: two suicidal wars, in 1914
and in 1939.

If some dreamer still hopes that Russia will become again the great Russia, a power
of the first order, he knows now that Washington already has at its disposal many
weapons.

Washington cynically played the card of Baghdad against Tehran, and then the card of
Riyadh, and that of its accomplices in Damascus and in Cairo, against Baghdad.
Washington still has plenty of arms in reserve to finish, in the necessary case, the
partition of the USSR, and then to occupy itself with the partition of Russia itself.
If necessary, Washington will play without the least doubt the card of Beijing or the
Islamist world (from Pakistan to Morocco) against Moscow.

Today, France, England, Germany, are only a historical fiction of independent states,
parodies.

All the so called great countries no longer have a foreign policy.

The war in Iraq showed that Washington only needs France and England as providers
of Senegalese sharpshooters.