Prussian Socialism Episode 37: Spengler and Russia

Spengler and Russia

Oswald Spengler is known for pessimism. In Decline of the West he argued that European civilization had exhausted its philosophical and artistic potential. In the coming centuries, the only fields of endeavor for truly creative men would be applied, not theoretical. Politics, technology, law.

But Spengler did leave open one possibility. Not for Europe itself, but for the rise of a new culture “between the Vistula and the Amur”. Russia.

Greg Conte and Romanized Visigoth discuss Russian culture and history and how it fits in with that of Europe. Is Russia an exciting new frontier, or a deadly threat to our ailing civilization?