Speech by Alexander Markovics at the European Conference on Multipolarity

Speech by Alexander Markovics at the European Conference on Multipolarity

Dear Lorenzo, Dear Prof. Dugin, dear organizers! 

My homecountry Austria is at a crossroads:
Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the relations between Russia and Europe are at an all time low. Whereas most European countries joined the West in sending weapons to Ukraine, my homecountry Austria focused on somehow upholding it's neutrality, which is part of the Austrian constitution since the end of Allied occupation in 1955. On the one hand Vienna refrained from arming the Zelensky regime directly and sending it's soldiers to fight for an objectively evil regime, on the other hand it sent money to Kiev and declared it's solidarity with it's goons. 

In contrast to our Globalist government, consisting of so-called “Conservatives” and the “Greens”, which is well informed about it's economic dependency on Russia, the Austrian population is in it's majority against the Western war in Ukraine and for peace with Russia. Nevertheless the government prevails and not a single party inside the parliament has a vision for Austria as a part of multipolar world. Even the Populist FPÖ doesn't have any vision besides “keeping neutrality” which in our current time means a state more or less aligned to the West. But how can Austria follow it's Tradition and  become a constructive part of Multipolarity? 

First, in order to become part of an intellectual pluriverse, Austria would have to leave the West first and foremost on an intellectual level. This means the abandonment of Western Universalism, Capitalism, Materialism, Chauvinism and Cosmopolitanism, but first and foremost the adaptation of the Christian idea of empire. This idea of empire, derived from Ancient Rome, sees the emperor as katheon, as hinder of the Anti-Christ. What the Anti-Christ is in our times is quite clear I think: The forces of  postmodern West, especially the current United States of America with it's Democrat leadership, Globalism and it's allies from Neoliberals to Neofascists. 

In the Austrian/German tradition, this task was fulfilled by the Hapsburg empire, which from the 15th century on were leading the casa d'Austria, the house of Austria. As of now, Europe is, as George Battaille and after him Prof. Dugin noted, in the heart of hell. Europeans nowadays abandoned their faith in God, ridicule their own heroes and history, even actively destroying their own families through LGBT propaganda. Fulfilling the role of katehon would mean for Austria to oppose all these developments of open society in the sense of Karl Popper and George Soros. Instead we'd have to follow our spiritual roots back to the time from the 15 – 19 century, when Austria was still following it's katheonic mission. Back in these times Austria was the political center of the Holy Roman Empire, which aspired to be an heir of the Roman Empire, like Russia did. But from the 16th century on, starting with the Burgundian inheritance and the fall of the Hungarian empire against the Ottomans, Austria focused more and more on the Balkans in order to defend itself and Slavic peoples there against the advance of the Ottoman empire. The katheonic mission of Austria from the 15th to the 18th century consisted in fighting against the advance of Islam on the Balkans and the German heartland itself. 

As Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini mentioned at the imperial diet in 1455, this confrontation between German-Italian Christianity and Islam was back then to be understood as a punishment by God which could only be averted, when Europeans find back to a faithful life and fight against evil. In order to join forces against the Ottomans, the Austrian nobleman Sigismund von Herberstein, an aristocrat from nowadays Slovenia with German as mothertongue who also spoke the Slavic language, went to Moscow in order to form an alliance with Russian orthodoxy to battle the Ottomans together. Von Herberstein didn't consider the Russians as “Northern Barbarians” like Europeans did before him, but as Christian brothers, which is astonishing since he himself was a member of the Western church, whereas Russia stood true to Orthodoxy. Whereas during the first siege of Vienna in 1529 Austria and the German dukes were mostly on their own, thanks to von Herberstein efforts, not only did Cossaks fight together with the German and Polish troops against the Ottomans at the second siege of Vienna in 1683, but Russia joined forces in the Holy League in 1686 and conquered the fortress of Azow. Finally in 1699 the joint efforts of Europe and Russia stopped the Ottoman advance in Europe. Prince Eugen von Savoyen, besides other heroes of the military and spiritual sphere, became the embodiment of this katheonic mission. With it's victory on the Balkans, Austria finally became a multinational and multi-religous empire, defining itself through it's Christian mission, being the katehon of vast parts of Europe from Northern Italy to southern Poland, from Bohemia to northern Serbia, which encompassed a territory we nowadays call “Mitteleuropa”, united by the figure of the emporer and Christianity. 

Starting with the French Revolution in 1789, Austrias katehonic mission now consisted in stopping the modernist and revolutionary ideology of Liberalism. Together Austria, Russia and Prussia stopped the onslaught of Liberalism on the European continent in 1815 and created the Holy Alliance, which sought to suppress  One of the most important politicans of this period was Clemens Wenzel Fürst von Metternich, who tried to build up a global Anti-Liberal alliance of land powers from Brazil to Russia, in order to stop the spread of Liberalism. Whereas the Hapsburgs and Metternich were successful in stopping Napoleon and the French Revolution, they themselves where shaken up by the Liberalist revolution in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy itself from 1848-1849. This time, Austria defeated under the leadership of Marshall Radetzky, who was immortalized by Franz Grillparzer, Liberalism in Northern Italy, whereas Russia came to the rescue to quell the Liberalist uprising in Hungary. Ultimately, the Hapsburgs weren't able to uphold the Holy Alliance during the Crimean War and unfortunately betrayed Russia by staying neutral. From thereon, the monarchic powers in Europe were step by step overwhelmed by the forces of Nationalism and Liberalism and ultimately forgot their Christian-katheonic mission and were dismantled at the end of World War I. These events of course lead to the catastrophe of World War II and the ultimate loss of European sovereignty and land power to Modernity and it's forces.

Nevertheless, the legacy of Austria's katheonic mission and Mitteleuropa live on. Whereas Intermarium in it's current form tries to transform the idea of Mitteleuropa into a pro-American alliance, countries like Hungary still hold on to their Christian-European identity in defiance of the transatlanticist onslaught of Globalization and sea power. And still Austria and especially it's katheonic mission and monarchic idea are held in high esteem by some of the former parts of the Hapsburg monarchy. 

As Prof. Dugin suggested, Austria could revive these ideas and become again an important force in Europe. Together with Hungary, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and also Italy, we could take up again the idea of monarchy and katehon, in order to organize the great space of Mitteleuropa and wage and uprising against the forces of Globalism in the spirit of Clemens Wenzel von Metternich. Following the example of Sigismund von Herberstein, we need to again understand Mitteleuropa not as fortress against Eurasia, but as a bridge connecting the Western end of the Eurasian penninsula with the East. If we accept the multiplicity of heartlands, Austrians, Hungarians, Western slavic and southern Slavic peoples and Italians could again join forces and hinder the arrival of the Anti-Christ in Europe. Therefore European civilization would consist not only of the Austrian-katehonic block, but also out of a Latin empire and a German empire in the north, each driven by their own katheonic mission as Prof. Dugin has highlighted in a recent article, which of course would presuppose these peoples also destroying the shackles of Globalism. All in all, these geopolitical and spiritual developments will culminate in the recreation of the Holy Alliance form 1815, but this time on a continental scale, encompassing the Eurasian landmass from the West to the Far East. 

Speech by Alexander Markovics at the European Conference on Multipolarity

Dear Lorenzo, Dear Prof. Dugin, dear organizers! 

My homecountry Austria is at a crossroads:
Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the relations between Russia and Europe are at an all time low. Whereas most European countries joined the West in sending weapons to Ukraine, my homecountry Austria focused on somehow upholding it's neutrality, which is part of the Austrian constitution since the end of Allied occupation in 1955. On the one hand Vienna refrained from arming the Zelensky regime directly and sending it's soldiers to fight for an objectively evil regime, on the other hand it sent money to Kiev and declared it's solidarity with it's goons. 

In contrast to our Globalist government, consisting of so-called “Conservatives” and the “Greens”, which is well informed about it's economic dependency on Russia, the Austrian population is in it's majority against the Western war in Ukraine and for peace with Russia. Nevertheless the government prevails and not a single party inside the parliament has a vision for Austria as a part of multipolar world. Even the Populist FPÖ doesn't have any vision besides “keeping neutrality” which in our current time means a state more or less aligned to the West. But how can Austria follow it's Tradition and  become a constructive part of Multipolarity? 

First, in order to become part of an intellectual pluriverse, Austria would have to leave the West first and foremost on an intellectual level. This means the abandonment of Western Universalism, Capitalism, Materialism, Chauvinism and Cosmopolitanism, but first and foremost the adaptation of the Christian idea of empire. This idea of empire, derived from Ancient Rome, sees the emperor as katheon, as hinder of the Anti-Christ. What the Anti-Christ is in our times is quite clear I think: The forces of  postmodern West, especially the current United States of America with it's Democrat leadership, Globalism and it's allies from Neoliberals to Neofascists. 

In the Austrian/German tradition, this task was fulfilled by the Hapsburg empire, which from the 15th century on were leading the casa d'Austria, the house of Austria. As of now, Europe is, as George Battaille and after him Prof. Dugin noted, in the heart of hell. Europeans nowadays abandoned their faith in God, ridicule their own heroes and history, even actively destroying their own families through LGBT propaganda. Fulfilling the role of katehon would mean for Austria to oppose all these developments of open society in the sense of Karl Popper and George Soros. Instead we'd have to follow our spiritual roots back to the time from the 15 – 19 century, when Austria was still following it's katheonic mission. Back in these times Austria was the political center of the Holy Roman Empire, which aspired to be an heir of the Roman Empire, like Russia did. But from the 16th century on, starting with the Burgundian inheritance and the fall of the Hungarian empire against the Ottomans, Austria focused more and more on the Balkans in order to defend itself and Slavic peoples there against the advance of the Ottoman empire. The katheonic mission of Austria from the 15th to the 18th century consisted in fighting against the advance of Islam on the Balkans and the German heartland itself. 

As Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini mentioned at the imperial diet in 1455, this confrontation between German-Italian Christianity and Islam was back then to be understood as a punishment by God which could only be averted, when Europeans find back to a faithful life and fight against evil. In order to join forces against the Ottomans, the Austrian nobleman Sigismund von Herberstein, an aristocrat from nowadays Slovenia with German as mothertongue who also spoke the Slavic language, went to Moscow in order to form an alliance with Russian orthodoxy to battle the Ottomans together. Von Herberstein didn't consider the Russians as “Northern Barbarians” like Europeans did before him, but as Christian brothers, which is astonishing since he himself was a member of the Western church, whereas Russia stood true to Orthodoxy. Whereas during the first siege of Vienna in 1529 Austria and the German dukes were mostly on their own, thanks to von Herberstein efforts, not only did Cossaks fight together with the German and Polish troops against the Ottomans at the second siege of Vienna in 1683, but Russia joined forces in the Holy League in 1686 and conquered the fortress of Azow. Finally in 1699 the joint efforts of Europe and Russia stopped the Ottoman advance in Europe. Prince Eugen von Savoyen, besides other heroes of the military and spiritual sphere, became the embodiment of this katheonic mission. With it's victory on the Balkans, Austria finally became a multinational and multi-religous empire, defining itself through it's Christian mission, being the katehon of vast parts of Europe from Northern Italy to southern Poland, from Bohemia to northern Serbia, which encompassed a territory we nowadays call “Mitteleuropa”, united by the figure of the emporer and Christianity. 

Starting with the French Revolution in 1789, Austrias katehonic mission now consisted in stopping the modernist and revolutionary ideology of Liberalism. Together Austria, Russia and Prussia stopped the onslaught of Liberalism on the European continent in 1815 and created the Holy Alliance, which sought to suppress  One of the most important politicans of this period was Clemens Wenzel Fürst von Metternich, who tried to build up a global Anti-Liberal alliance of land powers from Brazil to Russia, in order to stop the spread of Liberalism. Whereas the Hapsburgs and Metternich were successful in stopping Napoleon and the French Revolution, they themselves where shaken up by the Liberalist revolution in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy itself from 1848-1849. This time, Austria defeated under the leadership of Marshall Radetzky, who was immortalized by Franz Grillparzer, Liberalism in Northern Italy, whereas Russia came to the rescue to quell the Liberalist uprising in Hungary. Ultimately, the Hapsburgs weren't able to uphold the Holy Alliance during the Crimean War and unfortunately betrayed Russia by staying neutral. From thereon, the monarchic powers in Europe were step by step overwhelmed by the forces of Nationalism and Liberalism and ultimately forgot their Christian-katheonic mission and were dismantled at the end of World War I. These events of course lead to the catastrophe of World War II and the ultimate loss of European sovereignty and land power to Modernity and it's forces.

Nevertheless, the legacy of Austria's katheonic mission and Mitteleuropa live on. Whereas Intermarium in it's current form tries to transform the idea of Mitteleuropa into a pro-American alliance, countries like Hungary still hold on to their Christian-European identity in defiance of the transatlanticist onslaught of Globalization and sea power. And still Austria and especially it's katheonic mission and monarchic idea are held in high esteem by some of the former parts of the Hapsburg monarchy. 

As Prof. Dugin suggested, Austria could revive these ideas and become again an important force in Europe. Together with Hungary, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and also Italy, we could take up again the idea of monarchy and katehon, in order to organize the great space of Mitteleuropa and wage and uprising against the forces of Globalism in the spirit of Clemens Wenzel von Metternich. Following the example of Sigismund von Herberstein, we need to again understand Mitteleuropa not as fortress against Eurasia, but as a bridge connecting the Western end of the Eurasian penninsula with the East. If we accept the multiplicity of heartlands, Austrians, Hungarians, Western slavic and southern Slavic peoples and Italians could again join forces and hinder the arrival of the Anti-Christ in Europe. Therefore European civilization would consist not only of the Austrian-katehonic block, but also out of a Latin empire and a German empire in the north, each driven by their own katheonic mission as Prof. Dugin has highlighted in a recent article, which of course would presuppose these peoples also destroying the shackles of Globalism. All in all, these geopolitical and spiritual developments will culminate in the recreation of the Holy Alliance form 1815, but this time on a continental scale, encompassing the Eurasian landmass from the West to the Far East.