Eurasia and Hungary

 

Eurasia and Hungary

Claudio Mutti

Interview with Claudio Mutti

Source: https://www.4pt.su/hu/content/eurazsia-es-magyarorszag

Claudio Mutti is the editor-in-chief of the review "Eurasia, Rivista di studi Geopolitici" and an eminent researcher of Central European folklore, including Hungarian folklore. Many of his studies are available in Hungarian. He is an excellent Italian translator and appreciator of Béla Hamvas. His collection of essays, Hamvas Trees (Alberi), was published a few months ago, translated by Claudio Mutti.

Q. - The Italian translation of the new Fundamental Law of Hungary has recently been published on the website of the online edition of "Eurasia". According to them, the current political changes are also significant in some respects. How do you see Hungarian political life developing?

A. - After the new Constitution came into force, certain political and ideological forces maintained by the Western banking power launched a shameless lawsuit against Hungary, thus creating Eurosceptic or Europhobic feelings among the Hungarian people. This situation may cause the Hungarians to look elsewhere, in fact even the "Washington Post" sees the possibility of Hungary becoming a Russian bastion. In any case, Hungary has the opportunity to establish a constructive relationship with the Eurasian core, born of the Russian-Belarusian-Cossack alliance, which will soon include the territory of Ukraine. Hungary could play a leading role here in Europe in building a new Eurasian order.

Q - As we know, Hungarian and Central European folklore has been the focus of your research. How did this become your interest?

A. - While studying Hungarian language and literature history at university, I became interested in Hungarian folk songs. This was prompted by the writings of Guénon and Coomaraswamy, who argued that the memory of the people preserved, even if only in a partial, residual way, elements that originated in traditional forms, such as the fairies and fairy goddesses of fairy tales. The Hungarian ethnographic tradition preserves themes and symbols of shamanic origin, which can be traced back to the pre-Conquest period and a large Eurasian cultural area. The case of Romanian folklore is analogous, as Mircea Eliade points out, with its roots in a universe of ancient spiritual values that underpins the fundamental unity not only of Europe but also of the territory stretching from Portugal to China.

Q. - He is a prominent advocate of a Eurasianist worldview, which is inextricably linked to anti-globalist, anti-imperialist (anti-American) politics. Please clarify for us some concepts on this issue.

A. - The conditions for a Eurasian vision have already been set out by Mircea Eliade when he reminds us that there is a fundamental unity not only within the European territory, but also within the area from Portugal to China and from Scandinavia to Ceylon. On a geopolitical level, this concept corresponds to the plan to link up 'large spaces'. Within this, the Eurasian continent is structured as follows: the Russian Greater Space, the Extreme Eastern Greater Space, the Indian Greater Space, the Islamic Greater Space and the European Greater Space. Some of these megaspaces are already grouped around a 'geopolitical pole' (such as the newly born Eurasian Union), while others lack this unity or political and military independence, either partially or completely. And the latter is the case of Europe, which has close ties with the United States of America within NATO. And at the same time, its political leadership, cooperating with them, can only express a precarious economic and financial unity.

Q. - To what extent do you consider the above geopolitical strategy and worldview to be compatible with the extreme or ultra-right? To what extent are you opposed to them?

A - The European extreme right is a mixture of contradictory tendencies. Between 1945 and 1989, it sought its main enemy in communism and took a position in favour of the so-called 'defence of the West', so that it automatically declared its solidarity with American imperialism. After the fall of communism, the European extreme right found a new enemy in the East and the South, concentrated almost all its energies on the emigrants and then launched a campaign against the 'Islamic threat' or the 'yellow peril'. Ascribing unconditional value to the 'white race', a section of the extreme right was doomed to play a pawn on the chessboard of the 'clash of civilisations'. Other groups, in their further regression, have moved from petty nationalism to localism, and still others have been paralysed in the carnival of neo-spiritualism or pseudo-pagan carnival. There are, of course, laudable exceptions, but the overall picture is despairing.

Q - Given recent events, what does the future hold for the Middle East? I am thinking in particular of the situation in Syria and Iran.

A.- Aggression against Iran has long been urged by the Zionist government. It began with a terrorist attack on Syria, supported and patronised by Western allies and Western forces. In fact, it is a new phase of US strategy, part of a geostrategic plan developed by Nicholas J. Spykman during the Second World War. According to him, the United States of America should control the outer rim of the Eurasian continent (Rimland): from the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe to Japan and Korea, passing through the Middle East and the Middle East and the Asian Southeast, the Philippines and Taiwan. Only by encircling and suffocating the Eurasian 'Heartland' can it conquer and hold firmly on to world power. Today's economic crisis, which has severely compromised US unipolar hegemony, is forcing them to accelerate. Besides, they have resorted to military force in the past to solve their economic crisis. And so this time we are on the brink of another world war.

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