National- Bolshevism as a concept prompted by the victory of liberalism Philosophically, National-Bolshevism coincided with the parallel shift of paradigm that arrived with Post-Modernity. Post-Modern authors, coming mainly from the far left, became very critical of Soviet and partly Chinese style communism, and thus adopted the strategy of an ideological alliance – always more and more “anti-fascist” and as well anti-NB – with left liberals. So, Post-Modernism was established as a kind of common ground for ex-communists to become more and more liberal (individualist, hedonists and so on) and for left liberals to adopt the avant-guard epistemology of radical thinkers promoting extreme theories and practices of liberation – from rules, norms, stable identities, hierarchies, borders and so on. Here is where liberalism 2.0 has its roots. But in order to become explicit in the form of the new version of liberal political ideology, this took 30 more years of dramatic political life. The Tru...
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