Excerpt from FOUNDATIONS OF EURASIANISM – VOLUME I, forthcoming from PRAV Publishing:
“The Eurasianists are representatives of a new beginning in thinking and life; they are a group of figures actively working to radically transform hitherto predominant worldviews and life-systems, and to do so on the basis of a new approach to the root questions that define life…
The Eurasianists are close to those thinkers who deny the existence of any universal “progress”… If the evolutionary line moves differently in different fields, this means that there is not and cannot be any common upward movement, any gradual, steady, common “perfection,” insofar as one or another cultural environment, or a whole number of cultural environments, while “improving” from one or another point of view, might often be declining in another. This postulate is applicable to the “European” cultural environment in particular: its scientific and technological “perfection” has been bought, from the point of view of the Eurasianists, at the price of ideological and most of all religious impoverishment…
In the practical sphere, for the Eurasianists, the problem of “right” versus “left” political and social solutions has been annulled. This subdivision is irresistibly important to those who, in their ultimate ends, cling solely to the limited realities of human existence and have lost their minds amidst the notions and facts of political and economic application. Whoever relates to these questions in this manner has no other values beyond concrete political and social resolutions of “left” or “right”…for beyond such resolutions and himself, like of the spiritual heights, nothing remains…This is not the attitude to practical decisions of the Eurasianist. For the Eurasianists, religious reliance is essential, and it is acquired beyond the sphere of political and economic empiricism…
In all practical decisions, the demands of life are, beyond any prejudice, the guiding principle of the Eurasianist. Hence in some decisions the Eurasianist may be more radical than the most radical, while in other cases more conservative than the conservatives. Historical perception is organically inherent to the Eurasianist, and the sense of continuing historical tradition is an integral part of their worldview. But this feeling is not regenerated into a template. The Eurasianist is bound to no templates whatsoever – only the sheer essence of the matter, with a full understanding of the historical nature of the phenomena, shines through to them from the depths of each problem. ”
– Petr Savitsky, “Eurasianism” (1925)
