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Not to be confused with Ivan Ilyin or with Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin).

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Or with Ivan Ilyich from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Tolstoy [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich

That's the one I was more familiar with. (Is it the same name in some sense? On the one hand it rather looks like two different transcriptions of the same name; on the other hand Illich's father wasn't Russian and the names seem to be written differently in the Russian Wikipedia: Иллич, Ильич.)

Ильич is a patronym (son of Ilya). Lenin's father's first name was Ilya.

It's not clear whether Иллич (pronounced differently) is related, apparently it's used as a given name in some countries, or it might be an unrelated surname, or it might be a misspelling/mistranscription of the Russian patronym. Who knows!

Nor with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal

I was very confused for a moment why HN promotes russian fascism :)

Having some difficulty with the meaning of words, hm?

You're the one who complained about fancy vocabulary.

Illyin was a russian fascist. Openly so.

It was during these times when a significant chunk of American establishment and some members of British royal family were not less fascist leaning than him. I understand that they're also all not vogue now, but it still has to be reminded.

He moved to Switzerland before German fasicsm turned out real bad.

That explains why he wasn't shunned by western society back then, it doesn't explain why putin rehabilitated him recently, and it certainly wouldn't explain promoting his books on hackernews (which was why I was initially confused about this whole thread on hn).

I'm not sure that the stuff in Ilyin's books is any worse than stuff in any philosophy books of XX century.

French philosophers openly praised Mao and don't get me started on Heidegger...

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