yeah

it was all the same game

for everyone

i dont think martial vs mercantile is good division

British were both martial, and undoubtedly seafaring and commecial

just best-fitting what you said

fair enough

The only difference is Athens appointmented a military governor above the city government

And Sparta just appointed a military governor

I just mentioned Dugins position, I do not necessarily agree with it, though it has alot of merit

But nothing could be done without him.

Or if he died, chaos ensured usually.

Oh and killing him meant the Garrison sacks the city from the inside.

https://4threvolutionarywar.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/dugins-guideline-islam-is-different/

I also don't think Russia today is an archetypal example of a continental idealistic nation, when i think of it, no nation is today

yes, Dugin is philoislamic

he is Eurasian after all

The vast majority of Muslims are not traditional anymore

As they gain literacy

They pick and choose like everyone else.

Compare Aceh to the rest of Indonesia

I like this essay by him but it rings slightly hollow

opportunistic

hahahahaha

They pretty much are fundamentalists and would just sack it

If the government fell

The rest saxkinf the fundamentalists who are unpopular.

Islam, just like Christianity, has passed the point of it's possibilities, this is the only thing that Evola perhaps didn't understand

Also most of the places were Islam thrived were never honest societies

nope

Which is unrelated to the religion

Both Christianity and Islam HAD traditionalist schools, however, these existed IN SPITE OF their non-traditional teachings, not thanks to

they were literally underground movements

what are you referring to

with traditionalist

Sufism, Bektashism, etc

Bektashism is heretical, it isn't Islam

That stuff isnt underground but describes religious practices.

In Christianity it's more difficult to distinguish, but basically look at gnostics

Sufism

you mean Tradition, the esoteric meaning