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    ALEX  BATTLER

Address to readers

 

       

    The main reason why I started my own website is the need to show the readers just how inadequately the West perceives the realities of the modern world - Russia in particular. I read many journalistic and scholarly works by Western authors and found not a single one that gave an objective evaluation of events in Russia - whether those that are history, or contemporary. This isn’t because Western researchers are “deficient in the head”; it’s simply that they are so engaged ideologically that they are unable to understand one thing: what is good for the West may be bad for Russia, and vice versa. This approach applies not just to Russia.

    The Western man, in justified indignation against the actions of terrorists, doesn’t consider that the current terrorism is an extremist form of the struggle by the poor against the rich. The winner in this struggle will not be fairness, as the modern “humanists” write and say, but rather elementary Force - that Force which always determined, determines and will determine the course of world history, i.e. the progress of mankind’s development. Force and progress in world politics is the second topic that will be presented in the pages of my website.

    Lastly, the third topic is the problems of the West itself, in particular the problem of culture.

The thematic scope of my research is rather broad, but all of it is ultimately subjected to one purpose: the debunking of myths or certain established clichés in social sciences and their replacement with scientific truths that are adequate to this or that historical reality. Perhaps this is why my works are written in an attacking style.

The specificity of my approach to all problems is this: as a Russian – I am Russian by origin (see my website www.olegarin.com) I proceed from Russia’s interests, from the perspective of its socialist future; as a citizen of the West I proceed from the interests of the Western world - and likely its most conservative part at that. There is no contradiction here: it is obvious to all that the evaluation of any phenomenon depends on the angle of view or on the values system. The latter emerge and develop on a concrete national-historical soil, in a certain climate and space. All the indicated components differ too much between the West and Russia, therefore their respective world-views are different. 

It is almost impossible for Russians to understand this “bifurcation” due to their characteristic irrational type of thinking. They almost never use concepts and categories; words and vague terms suffice for them. I hope, though, that this “bifurcation” will not seem strange to the Western reader, due to his rational type of thinking; I may be mistaken, yet I do count on it. After all, Kant and Hegel, Smith and Marx are phenomena of the West.

Alex Battler

www.olegarin.com

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