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Alexander Dugin

Intellectual architecture

Dugin’s political theory combines Russian Eurasianism, Mackinder-style geopolitics, Schmitt's friend-enemy and spatial concepts, Heidegger's Dasein, Traditionalism, civilizational anti-universalism, and selected elements of Marxist criticism. Its organizing opponent is Atlanticist liberal modernity; its geopolitical alternative is a multipolar order of civilizational “large spaces,” with Russia leading a Eurasian pole.

Evidence boundary

Dugin is influential as an ideologue and transmitter, but “influenced by Dugin,” “resembles Dugin,” “shares a source with Dugin,” and “serves Russian state interests” are different claims. Do not use him as a proxy for every postliberal, nationalist, realist, or critic of globalization.

Rise of the Fourth Political Theory — Alexander Dugin.pdf (file not included in this release)
Rise of the Fourth Political Theory Vol. II - Alexander Dugin.pdf (file not included in this release)
DuginA-Fascism-Borderless-Red.pdf (file not included in this release)
Dugins-Vision-lecture-7.pdf (file not included in this release)
Foundations of Geopolitics — Aleksandr Dugin — 2019.pdf (file not included in this release)

The Philosophy of Politics - Part 2 - Peterson Academy > 7: Dugin's Vision
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Schmitt, Hegel, Marx, and the Fourth Political Theory

Schmitt is a direct source

Dugin does not merely resemble Schmitt. In Foundations of Geopolitics, he devotes a full chapter to Carl Schmitt, presenting The Nomos of the Earth, Land and Sea, the friend-enemy distinction, and Grossraum as central geopolitical resources. See chapter 8 (file not included in this release), land/sea and nomos (file not included in this release), and Grossraum (file not included in this release).

Dugin’s “common enemy” strategy operationalizes a Schmittian political logic: hostility to Atlanticism and American-led liberal order is supposed to unify otherwise different Eurasian peoples and regimes. See “Land and sea. Common enemy” (file not included in this release).

Multipolarity as civilizational Great Spaces

In The Fourth Political Theory, Dugin turns Schmittian “large spaces” into civilizational poles. The relevant political subject is no longer only the individual or nation-state but a civilization joined by a “community of fate,” common values, religion, culture, or geopolitical location. See “Toward ‘Large Spaces’” (file not included in this release). This pluralism among civilizations can coexist with hierarchy and coercion within each bloc; the autonomy of a great power is not automatically the liberty of smaller nations, minorities, or individuals.

Selective Marxism inside an anti-communist synthesis

Dugin rejects Marxist materialism, economic determinism, class as the exclusive historical subject, and unilinear progress. Yet he explicitly calls Marxism’s critique of capitalism, bourgeois democracy, alienation, and ideological mystification useful to the Fourth Political Theory. See PDF p. 37 (file not included in this release). “Beyond Marxism” therefore means disassembling and selectively reusing it, not rejecting every Marxist analytic move.

Hegelian history and empire

Dugin also invokes Hegel directly. In Foundations, he reimagines the Hegelian Absolute Idea as realized not in Prussia but in a Russian-Eurasian “Empire of the End.” See PDF p. 146 (file not included in this release). In The Fourth Political Theory, he describes liberalism, communism, and fascism as modern ideologies shaped by progressive, unidirectional accounts of history that ultimately draw on Hegel, then proposes an “unmodern” Fourth Political Theory that rejects irreversible progress. See PDF p. 52 (file not included in this release).

For the full influence map and its evidentiary limits, see It's Not All Hegel, But It's a Lot Hegel - James Lindsay.

Dugin and Islam

The Russian influence operations targeting Candace Owens and you
Alexander Dugin, a top Russian influence agent known as “Putin’s Brain” and advisor to the Iranian regime, is working to fix that dilemma. He is preaching that the Christian and Islamic End Times prophecies are compatible, and so the alliance should be permanent at least until the Battle of Armageddon is finished.

Dugin is suggesting that the apocalyptic final battle will feature a Zionist and Western coalition led by a Jewish Antichrist facing off against a coalition consisting of the Muslim world led by the Mahdi (Islam’s messianic figure) and the Orthodox Christians led by a mysterious figure or entity called Katechon that is prophesied to resist the Antichrist. Dugin believes Russia is Katechon.

Plan to Destroy the West

The Russian influence operations targeting Candace Owens and you
Dugin articulated his vision in his 1997 book, Foundations of Geopolitics:

“[Russia must] weaken, demoralise, deceive, and ultimately, defeat the enemy as much as possible. It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the US domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism, various ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, and actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist, and sectarian groups that destabilize internal political processes in the USA.

At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in US politics, the theses of those (often right-wing Republican) circles that believe that the US should confine itself to its domestic problems. This state of affairs is highly advantageous to Russia…”

The False Choice

The Russian influence operations targeting Candace Owens and you
Russia’s end goal is to make every American and every Christian question whether their patriotism or their faith comes first by presenting them with a false choice:

==Choose patriotism over faith by accepting pro-Western Christianity despite how our freedom allows immorality to increase and Christian values to decline, or choose your faith over your country by accepting a “Multipolar World” and a more authoritarian version of Christianity, perhaps even with a Tsar, that supposedly “rescues” the faith and society.

Book: Foundations of Geopolitics

Foundations of Geopolitics — Aleksandr Dugin — 2019, p.266 (file not included in this release)

Thus, at present, the geopolitical problem of the planetary West in the broadest sense is breaking up for Russia into two components: the West as America and the West as Europe. From a geopolitical point of view, these two realities have different meanings. The West as America is the total geopolitical opponent of Russia, the pole of the trend directly opposite Eurasia, the headquarters and center of Atlantism. The positional geopolitical war with America has been and continues to be the essence of all Eurasian geopolitics, beginning in the middle of the 20th century, when the role of the United States became obvious. In this regard, the heartland’s position is clear, it is necessary to oppose the US atlantic geopolitics at all levels and in all regions of the earth, trying to weaken, demoralize, deceive and, ultimately, defeat the enemy. In this case, it is especially important to bring geopolitical disorder into intra-American reality, encouraging all sorts of separatism, various ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist, sectarian groups, destabilizing internal political processes in the United States. At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in American politics, the theses of those (often right-republican) circles that believe that the United States should limit itself to its internal problems. This state of affairs of Russia is highly beneficial, even if “isolationism” will be carried out in the framework of the original version of the Monroe Doctrine if the US limits its influence to two Americas. This does not mean that Eurasia should at the same time refuse to destabilize the Latin American world, trying to bring certain regions out of US control. All levels of geopolitical pressure on the United States should be involved simultaneously, just as the anti-Eurasian policy of Atlantism simultaneously “sponsors” the processes of the collapse of the strategic bloc (Warsaw Pact), state unity (USSR) and further ethnoterritorial fragmentation, under the guise of Russia’s regionalization its progressive decay up to complete destruction. Heartland is forced to pay Sea Power with the same coin. This symmetry is logical and justified.

Handwritten Notebook Pages

Source

Open Alexander Dugin notebook pages — start at notebook p. 194 (file not included in this release).