Posted on 04/08/2018 3:10:23 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
Alexander Dugin is the intellectual who has Vladimir Putins back in the emerging ideological conflict between Russia and the West. At home, Putin uses him to create a nationalist, anti-liberal voting bloc, while abroad Dugin is the lynchpin of numerous irregular networks of anti-liberal political resistance and sabotage. No individual better represents the tactics of the current Russian regime.
Since the late 1990s, Dugin has organized his views into a geostrategic ideology and a complex political metaphysics known respectively as Neo-Eurasianism and Fourth Political Theory. The former posits an ongoing archetypal clash between land and maritime civilizations and holds that there is a struggle between, on the one hand, harmonious, land-based societies organized around history and tradition and, on the other, inherently liberal, Atlanticist empires of the sea, whose capitalistic drive abhors and undermines tradition.
According to Dugin, the United States leads the latter.
Finally, synthesizing national and foreign policy, Dugin provides Putin with a Eurasian master narrative of Russias historyencircled and subordinated by Western liberalismthat provides a rationale and an imperative for expanding territorially at the expense of his neighbors.
Dugins ideology already resonates with both high intellectuals and the conspiratorial fringe. His ideas seem tailor-made to exploit continuing economic stagnation, distrust of EU bureaucracy, anxiety at the continuing influx of immigrants, and, crucially, the anxiety of those immigrants themselves, who fear the assault on their traditions that comes as a part of their resettlement in the West.
In a notorious incident on his social network page, he posted the fabricated story of a Russian-speaking boy allegedly crucified in Ukraine by pro-Western militants and released a video in which he declared that the time had come to retaliate and kill, kill, kill. Flashing his academic credentials, he added soberly, I say this to you as a professor.
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A review of Dugin's "Last War on War Island"
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I have read Dugin’s books and there is no doubt that he wants the destruction of the west. I strongly suggest that you read “The 4th Political Theory” and “Eurasian Mission” if you haven’t read them already. There is no doubt that he believes that we are in the end of days and that he will help usher in the Eurasian Empire. Putin was an early student of Dugin and this theory. I am not sure if he still has that kind of influence over Putin, but Putin has not veered from that plan. The annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Eastern Europe were the first step and ultimately he intends on confronting NATO and causing the breakup of Europe and the West.
Ping. I worry you’re a fan...
The entire Eurasian idea is well-known in Polish nationalist circles
My thoughts on this:
you haven’t replied why you think I’m a fan
sent you private message
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