Ukraine and the Struggle to be Human
Document Type
Editorial
Publication Date
Spring 2022
Abstract
"Over the span of several weeks, I have published a number of articles on the war in Ukraine and with reference to Ukraine in several others dealing with structural racism, fascism and the American political scene. I have forcefully supported Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia’s fully-fledged mass-casualty invasion (it’s not an ‘operation’), stage-managed by its ethnonationalist and imperialist leader, ex-KGB agent and billionaire, Vladimir Putin. I have asserted, hammer and tongs, that Ukraine does not want to become one of China’s most popular client states but wants its future to be contemporaneous with that of Europe. Ukrainians don’t want their subjectivities to be spawned out of the ill-favoured dogmatist culture of neo-Stalinism (where Ukrainians are stripped of their identity and told they are really Russians and that their country does not actually exist), nor do they wish to be absorbed into Putin’s pretence of Russian traditionalism, as epitomised by the philosophy of an Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin or, indeed, Steven Bannon."
Recommended Citation
McLaren, P. (2022). Ukraine and the struggle to be human. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/ukraine-and-the-struggle-to-be-human/
Copyright
PESA Agora
Comments
This article was originally published in PESA Agora in spring 2022.