Russia and Latin America: a common civilizational type as a spiritual and ideological basis for cooperation

According to the author of the article, the expansion of the sphere of interaction between Russia and the countries of the region south of the Rio Grande del Norte observed in recent decades is due to a certain (despite all the numerous specific differences) commonality of the deep spiritual and value foundations of the civilizations of Russia-Eurasia and Latin America. The main one is belonging to the same, “borderline” civilizational type, the defining characteristic of which (the dominant feature of diversity while maintaining unity sui generis, generating a type of sociocultural systematicity that is qualitatively different from that which is present in the great civilizations of the East and West), in its turn, is determined by the same way of forming the dialogical basis of sociality, embodied in the “inclusive” discourse. The work traces the main stages of the formation of this discourse in Russia and Latin America. The author shows that the presence of these initial common characteristics is manifested in the same (despite specific historical differences) type of rationality, the absence of antagonism between faith and rationality, an essentially identical approach to the problem of modernization, and finally, the same geopolitical orientation towards the formation of a polycentric world order.

civilizations of the “borderline” type, “inclusive” discourse, “exclusive” discourse, polycentric world order