While I don't deny an interest in Faye's proposal of Euro-Siberia, I find that it doesn't build upon solid (read real) foundations. See here:
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We need to imagine a federal, imperial Grande Europe, ethnically homogenous (that is, European), based on a single autonomous area, and inseparably linked to Russia. I call this enormous continental bloc "Euro-Siberia."
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This is an error which one sees often in the theses of the Identitarians. Not the only one, but one of much importance.
It is, in its essence, not much different to the pan-Europeanism of the European Union. Little surprise here when both argue for a pan-constructionist view of Europe.
Euro-Siberia seems to me as if it is constructed upon a flawed view of Europe: an ethnically homogenous Europe?
This error is of a bigger magnitude than what it may seem at a glance. It does not stop at constructing Europe over a flawed conception.
This is not the only point in the foundations proposed by the Identitarian movement is flawed. But this would be an issue for a later discussion.
Its magnitude is increased by the fact that, in order to give an impresion of likeliness to it, the true foundations of Europe have to be deconstructed: the ethnic-national identities which conform Europe.
I must wonder, where is the defense of the Identity in the Identitarian movement?
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