Christianity

Orthodox socialism and “images of the future”

Orthodox socialism and “images of the future”
13.02.2023

Modern critics of socialism sometimes resemble neurotics who have had a “childhood trauma” in their childhood, which they do not even remember (but of which they were informed by “benigners” like Solzhenitsyn) and to which they explain all their failures, which both happened and mostly did not happen (the phenomenon of so-called “lost profit”). But if there were no revolution - we would be 500 million, as Mendeleev said, but if there were no revolution - Russia would be a benign idyll as in Ivan Shmelev's “Summer of the Lord”, but if there were no revolution - Russia would get Constantinople, the straits and become a world power equal to Britain. The list of what would have happened “if there had been no revolution” is really inexhaustible....

The ABC of traditional values: Tradition

The ABC of traditional values: Tradition
20.01.2023

The First Russian TV channel Tsargrad launched a new TV project "The ABC of Traditional Values". A series of expert talks by three Russian thinkers on the foundations of Russian existence and the Russian future. Konstantin Malofeev, Alexander Dugin and Archpriest Andrei Tkachev analyse the Foundations of State Policy for the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Spiritual and Moral Values, approved by Vladimir Putin. The first, introductory section deals with Tradition itself.

Christianity and the Life Element. A short ecclesiological essay

Christianity and the Life Element. A short ecclesiological essay
17.01.2023

Today's Christians cannot help but have difficulties in their faith, not only because they live in an anti-Christian culture but also because faith is presented to them as something fragmented (e.g. a response to an existential challenge) or as a conceptual abstraction. Christianity lacks life. It is not completely lifeless, it is maladaptive, the life of Christianity is pale, which is why churches are half-empty, and even if they are full (on feast days), somehow they are not. Christian life is muted, muffled, muffled; it does not burn, but it ignites. It is a fact. There are exceptions, but they are extremely rare, and each case must be analysed carefully - whether we are talking about Christianity or whether the source of inspiration is somewhere else, or perhaps even somewhere else.

Russian Christmas

Russian Christmas
08.01.2023

Today, the Virgin Mary is the most vital and the one who brings the inviolable to earth. Angels and shepherds praise. The Wise Men travel with the star. For us the child is born, the Eternal God.

Why Turbo-Capitalism wants to de-Christianize the West

Why Turbo-Capitalism wants to de-Christianize the West
14.12.2022

In keeping with the theoretical framework outlined in my book, Minima mercatalia. Filosofia e capitalism [Small Business. Philosophy and capitalism], absolute-totalitarian capitalism or turbo-capitalism, as it has been implemented since the sixties of the “short century,” acts by annihilating every limit that can hinder or even slow down its logic of development and reproduction.

The novel Laurus as a manifesto of Russian traditionalism

The novel Laurus as a manifesto of Russian traditionalism
03.11.2022

The novel-life, a 'non-historical novel' as the author Evgeny Vodolazkin (doctor of philology, specialist in ancient Russian literature) calls it, is a description of the destiny and inner development of Arseny the healer. After receiving medical training from his grandfather Christopher, Arseny enters life with all its complexities, temptations and trials. From the beginning, Arseny's profile betrays a man called in spirit and marked by a special gift, an unusual charisma. He is mobilised by a higher power to serve people. He is not of this world, but he serves people of this world. Already in this we can see the plot of suffering and pain.

The apophatic tradition: the theology of Dionysius the Areopagite

The apophatic tradition: the theology of Dionysius the Areopagite
17.10.2022

The work of the famous Christian theologian and mystic, whose writings have entered the Christian tradition under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, is a unique phenomenon in the history of philosophical and religious thought. He has had an enormous influence on all Christian philosophy, eastern and western, and consequently on New Age philosophical thought in one way or another since the Middle Ages, where the Areopagitans played such an important role.