There is an interesting term (in psychiatry and political science): oikophobia. It means an irrational, deep-seated hatred of everything that is one’s own — one’s home, culture, family, people, state, and, ultimately, oneself. In psychiatric forms, oikophobia can escalate to hatred of ordinary things, fits of terror from familiar household appliances, spontaneous outbursts of anger towards close people, and so on.

In politics, oikophobia is often characteristic of liberals and the left, for whom love for home and family, patriotism, adherence to traditions, and any stable identity are inherently viewed in a negative light and polemically defined as “fascism.” In extreme cases of these leftist and liberal ideologies, oikophobia is expressed in the cultivation of a strategy of transgression, breaking all boundaries and limits and overthrowing all norms and rules. In postmodern culture, this trait is dominant — now transgressiveness, in turn, becomes the norm, while adherence to traditions and rules is condemned.

Macron has long said that for him, France is not a homeland but a hotel, a temporary stop. Hence, the aesthetics of the opening of the 2024 Olympics — this is pure transgression, relying on extreme versions of oikophobia. This also structures the psycho-political profile of most globalists, progressives, and supporters of the US Democratic Party.

Oikophobia is also widely inherent in Russian liberals, as well as some new currents of the Russian left, oriented towards a Trotskyist interpretation of Marxism and rejecting Soviet patriotism.

New research shows that oikophobia, at its core, is a mental pathology, either congenital or acquired as a result of psychological trauma (often in childhood).

Conclusion: liberals need to be treated.

Translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister