He wrote "Reflections of a Russian Statesman", which is essentially an apology for Russian Imperialism, written for the citizens of the British Empire (He says that he wanted them to read it, but he didn't translate it into English because lolrussia). He was the steel-handed statesman behind the iron-fisted unshakeable autocracy of late 19th and early 20th century Russia. Him losing power is, ultimately, why the Communists succeeded. He only lost power because he got so old he physically couldn't keep running the country.His ideology is a novel combination of Tolkien and Daoism. He believed that order and morality were ordained by Yahweh at Creation in an almost physical sense. Order was a physical, material thing, and once physically, materially, degraded, it could not be repaired by man. An incredibly powerful, rigid, state and clergy (that worked for the state) was necessary to arrest the decay of the world until Yeshua came back and fixed everything. The Russian state was justified in doing whatever the fuck it wanted, from enslaving the Russian populace to employing Muslims to genocide dissident Christian ethnic groups, in the name of preventing the further decay of the world (Russia was the last place on Earth that hadn't abandoned Yahweh's religion, and you physically could not be a Christian if you were not a subject of the Russian state).At the same time, he has a sort of Daoist view on politics, in that his autocratic police-state is relatively hands-off, bordering on laissez faire (he was a supporter of child-labor 1) out of the belief that the "Invisible Hand" of the free market is literally Yahweh setting the proper prices of goods and service and 2) it was very costly to send your children to public school because parents literally had to pay the state for the service of education). Furthermore, he was a firm supporter of what I would call "Romanovism"; the Romanov dynasty was chosen by the Russian boyars (the nobles) after the then-Czar died without heir because the Romanov dynasty's founder was completely worthless and easily manipulatable (as were literally all of the Romanovs with like three exceptions). In essence, this is the Christian re-tooling of the Daoist idea of the "empty throne sovereign", where the King is literally just a puppet for a powerful grise-eminence to rule in his name (the ideal would be the throne being literally empty of an actual human, but the dumbfuck peasants would never see the genius in this, so a real person is needed). At the same time, he was very critical of the power of the Boyars, leading to a sort of Taoist anarcho-monarchism, with (ideally) most of the country being slaves to the state living in extended family villages under the authority of a small yet powerful pater familias.
>>24700055Sounds schizo to be honest. Interesting though
>>24700055haven't read his book but I've seen it being published by Imperium Press this year, hopefully they'll also publish a copy of Leontiev's Byzantinism and Slavdom https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/reflections-of-a-russian-statesman/
>>24700091he makes de Maistre sound like a liberal
>>24700055>picks a "completely worthless" monarch to manipulate and do whatever the fuck you want>his heir turns out to be such a shrewd fuck that he enslaves your heirs to the point they are just glorified bureaucrats for all timeEpic one from the Russia nobility.At least after the Germans elected Rudolf I to the throne the princes of the empire retained semi-independent status until Napoleon dissolved the whole thing.
>>24700055>British author Arnold White, interested in Jewish agricultural colonisation in Argentina, visited Pobedonostsev with credentials from Baron de Hirsch; Pobedonostsev said to him: "The characteristics of the Jewish race are parasitic; for their sustenance they require the presence of another race as "host" although they remain aloof and self-contained. Take them from the living organism, put them on a rock, and they die. They cannot cultivate the soil."[13] He was also by 1894 credited (dubiously)[14] with illustrating the goal of his anti-Jewish measures as making "a third of Jews die out, a third move out, and a third dissolve tracelessly into the surrounding population" (Russian: "Oднa тpeть вымpeт, oднa выceлитcя, oднa тpeть бeccлeднo pacтвopитcя в oкpyжaющeм нaceлeнии").why were late pre-revolutionary russians like this...>>24700055
