Re: [evola_as_he_is] Two 'mistakes' of National-Bolshevism (a third one)
Whilst my knowledge of National Bolshevism is thus-far limited to the occasional piece spam which arrives in my inbox, Dugin’s statement is simply ill-informed and absurd, indeed it almost surpasses there known boundaries of absurdity and boarders on being a blatant lie.
Vaiúya, the third of the Twice-Born castes is equivalent to ‘Tradesmen’, not only merchants, but also farmers, as seen in the Laws of Manu (330) ‘He must be acquainted with (the manner of) sowing seeds, and of the good and bad qualities of fields, and he musty perfectly know all measures and weights.’ A farmer is by no means the same as worker though.
Since Úûdra literally translates as ‘worker’ I fail to see how one can conclude workers comprise the third caste instead of the fourth. If one reads the Books of Manu, it furthermore becomes clear that the rendering of the word ‘worker’ here boarders on also adopting the definition of ‘slave’ and it is indeed a caste of composed of conquered peoples, as one should be able to see by the castes strong associations with the colour ‘black’ and the ‘soles of the feet’, both of which are strong symbols of impurity to the Hindu/Aryan.
I have not read the work in which Dumézil mentions ‘workers belonged to the third caste, and not to the fourth caste". In which of his books is this written?
Dugin does indeed sound like a victim of
Marxism.
evola_as_he_is <evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
Bearing this in mind, this passage of Dugin's 'Julius Evola e il tradizionalismo russo' ( http://www.centrostudilaruna.it/evoladugin.html ), which we mentioned a few weeks ago, is absurd : "(...) Evola has wrongly identified, according to the logic of the non revolutionary Right, traditional castes with the classes of Western society. In this respect, we should bear in mind the extremely important warning of George Dumezil about the fact that, in traditional Indo-European, thus Aryan, society, workers belonged to the third caste, and not to the fourth caste. Besides, merchants (that is proto-capitalists (sic)) did not belong in any way to the system of castes in that society and all the functions of distribution of goods and of money were the prerogative of the warriors, of the kshatriyas. This means that the merchants class does not
correspond in any way to the structure of Aryan society and was historically superimposed on it as a result of cultural and racial mixing. Therefore, the antibourgeois struggle of socialists has implicitly a traditional and Indo-European dimension."
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