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       The present book, being a sequel to Dialectics of Force: Ontόbia, is dedicated to the topics of progress and force of society - topics which may appear trivial at first sight; a mountain of literature his been written on them. The author, however, having presented conscientiously the views on progress and force of all important thinkers of the past and the present, chose to follow a different way and formulated the criterion of progress based on entirely different scientific paradigms. Moreover, he dared to formulate the two Principles of social development, which are akin in their fundamental nature to the First and Second laws of thermodynamics. The result is a book that is very complex in content, yet the journalistic style of presentation used throughout most of the work makes it accessible even to those who never read Hegel.

The book is intended for instructors and students of philosophy and social sciences, and also for all those who are interest in problems of man and mankind.

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Who are we mourning, Russians?

February 09, 2009

Religion is one of the means of dehumanizing humanity.

The fight against religion is the fight for the future of mankind.

In early December of last year the chief cleric of All Russia “fell asleep in the Lord” – Patriarch Alexy II, born Alexei Mikhailovich Ridiger. This thing happens, especially to old people. Alexei Mikhailovich was a believer, though, and believers have every chance to be reborn in the aftermath of a double battle with the Antichrist. Even though, according to the Bible, it is practically impossible for a Russian to become included in the “144 thousand sealed ones from every tribe of the sons of Israel” to whom immortality is guaranteed, heaven is not ruled out to him. According to Russian mass media, the late Patriarch’s life was so irreproachable that heaven is guaranteed to him. I am therefore not worried about Alexy II’s fate after death. I wouldn’t have bothered with this article had it not been for the “universal-historical” resonance which rolled over Russia as a result of Mr. Ridiger’s death.

Russian-Georgian conflict: victory or defeat?

September  03, 2008

Euphoria

I track the Georgian-Russian conflict through American, English and Russian mass media. Naturally, the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians interpret the same events entirely differently. It is practically impossible to understand who is in the right and who is in the wrong. One thing only is obvious: the West is on Georgia’s side, Russia is on its own side.

Let us examine Russia’s reaction.

Integration or reunification?

October 01,2008

 

 Russian-Belarusian integration: playing games behind the Kremlin walls. By Alex Danilovich. Ashgate, 2006. 234 pages.

 

Alex Battler

 

Ordinarily Western authors writing about USSR/Russia – even more so when writing about Belarus – have difficulty remaining ideologically neutral. They slide involuntarily into plain anti-communism which impedes objective analysis of the object they are researching. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.     The work by Alex Danilovich may be considered such an exception – to a degree; he attempted to analyze from an objectivist position the problem of integration (or reunification) between Russia and Belarus.

President Putin’s address to the Russians

December 27, 2007

The people were listening to the Leader

in a fright-state of danger-fraught joy.

Andrei Platonov

Esteemed citizens of Russia!

So the year of the Pig is past – the year 2007, that is. It was not an easy year. I will give it to you straight: it was a destiny-making year for Russia, the year when Russia finally rose from its knees and proclaimed: we are a Great Power again! You owe this glory, dear citizens, to yourselves and to your President whom you respect and love, judging by the latest elections to the Duma.

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On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation,

Alex Battler

Philodoxy of the philistine and scientific thinking

February 22, 2008

In 2006 I published a book-sized essay titled On Love, Family, and the State (Moscow, KomKniga, 2006). I knew it was bound to annoy both professionals (specialists in “gender issues”, as they are called today) and regular philistines. The former (at one of their “gender institutions”) told me that the work is very interesting indeed, but controversial; many of the points made in it arouse objections. However, they never published their “objections” anywhere (not even on their websites), for in that case they would have had to build a system of counter-arguments and collect counter-statistics to refute my theory. They found none, so they should better keep mum.

Putin as a mirror of Russia gone mad

November 17, 2007

Many link today’s climate of paranoia in Russia to the approaching elections. This is not quite right, for Russia became ill back in the early 1990s. Back then the disease was of a “physical” nature in the sense that it caused more than half of the Soviet economy to be destroyed, the population to start shrinking, and especially the average lifespan of men to shorten.

In the current decade the disease switched to the Russian people’s brains, or, to use a foreign word, to their “mentality” – “umostroi”, in Russian. Obviously, there are brains and then there are brains. For example, there are the brains of the philistines; they are formed by “eyeing”, “feeling” and by the bullshit that is fed to them by the mass media – television first of all...

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On Love, Family, and the State (Philosophical-sociological Essay)

    The problems of love, family and state are topics that are widely discussed both in the West and in Russia. This essay, however, differs from all previous research work in that Alex Battler elevated the well-known words “love,” “family” and “marriage” to the level of concepts. This enabled the author to correlate them to the conception of force and progress he had substantiated in the book Dialectics of Force: Ontóbia, and ultimately to define the regular connection between the destruction of marriage and the collapse of state within the context of the law of entropy growth, or “the law of death.” ...