This article describes and characterizes European Nazism as an unfinished historical phenomenon. It argues that Nazism will persist as long as the concept of the global West exists. The author points out that Russian society still has not developed a coherent and systematic concept of fascism. From the author’s perspective, Nazism does not represent an “affective” reaction to the culture of modernity, as theorists of the Frankfurt School argued, but rather constitutes the most radical and overt manifestation of modernity itself. According to the author, fascism is the generative ideology of the European modernist enlightenment project. He considers it necessary to reject the myth of Nazism as an allegedly unforeseen historical “breakdown” within Western democracy. A contemporary concept of Nazism must be resilient to liberal narratives and discourses, in order to avoid reproducing false constructs aimed at rehabilitating the core Nazi myths under altered linguistic and stylistic forms. The author emphasizes the need to lift the taboo surrounding the West’s responsibility for fascism and colonialism. This critical reorientation is essential for returning humanity to a Biblical system of values.
A. V. Shchipkov (Tue,) studied this question.