Aleksandr Dugin Fourth Political Theory Lecture

[@MoiLiberty]

Liberalism reminds me of the ancient Greeks: once they defeated it’s foreign enemies, they fought themselves.

[@nahumflores7182]

Yes, to me it reminds me of what it meant democracy for the Greeks. Liberalism for who?

[@nahumflores7182]

Liberalism for the multinational corporations so the can have free reign to loot and exploit people. That's what they fighting for, not that they want to make the world a better place for everyone!

[@Ger-Ben]

A Greek friend once told me: 'I don't understand why they always refer to the ancient Greek origin of democracy and fail to record that after democracy the system turned into tyranny.'

[@Polit_Burro]

*Right wingers who try to "do history" make me laugh.* They act as if "ancient Greeks" (as if there were such a thing) were not fighting amongst themselves even while they fought the Persians. It's like they never heard of the Achmaenaeds and the Ionian/Aeolian vassals who fought in the ranks of the Persian army.

[@Polit_Burro]

It's also ironic that you take such a modernist view of the hellenic world (assuming unification was something that even concerned these people, and not their local lives and communities) while salivating over the boots of a self-proclaimed "critic of radical modernity from the right" LOL

[@samn8309]

There is something extremely terrifying but transcendent about Dugin's theories. Modernism and the void of meaning, being, and roots has become increasingly intolerable in the west. The more we push our universal western values on the rest of the world the more we lose our sense of self. It feels like he is opening the door to another possible future which is perhaps inevitable if we are to carry on as humans rather than automatons with no future at all (hence the end of history which Dugin proposes if liberalism prevails).

[@waynevanrensburg8037]

Knowledge is power. Who is watching this in 2022.

[@johnisaname]

Watching it now after having watched the Keith Woods video on the same subject which just came out.

[@platoscavealum902]

ℹ️

[@nelidaferraz6497]

I am. I’m always searching new ideas which should lead us , the mankind , out of this stupid senseless global society. We must be transcendental as Heidegger teaches us. Holzweg ! Why not ?

[@Ykpaina988]

I’ve known about this theory for a while turns out he is genocidal but in the final analysis the orthodox world will prevail in the decadent west Glory to Sultanine and God in the highest arch angels and peace to his people on earth

[@matthewsargent9497]

2022

[@minator1277]

You always cover people not really talked about commonly in west philosophy and politics, keep up the great work!

[@Wallyworld30]

Funny this was true when you posted it but now everyone is talking about Dugin.

[@BobHooker]

Dogan gets way more coverage than his pathetic ideas deserve

[@PulsatingShadow]

*Nick Land has entered the chat*

[@abhimanyukarnawat7441]

Based Russian Monk.

[@kosherwhitewine5879]

Hype for this

[@solarowl88]

Неожиданно неплохо изложил. Моё уважение.

[@simpinainteasy680]

It seems so, good to see a real slav chime in on it.

[@BeyondSeraphim]

Wow this was very insightful. Would love to see more content exploring these ideas

[@canteluna]

From what I've heard of and from Dugin, he sounds very influenced by Hegel and Heidegger in particular - and, to a liberal like me, I am disgusted by his views. Unfortunately, they seem to be infecting liberal countries, at least coming in through the back door of populism, and even the return of authoritarianism, mostly through racialism. Dugin is essentially a monarchist and has no concern for Truth, objectivity, or the individual. He belongs to the Russia of the middle ages, and his ideas, if implemented, will simply return societies to feudalism and everything that comes with that. Look at Russia's history until after the fall of the USSR. Almost non stop wars - hot or cold. Dugin and Putin are not unlike the Islamic fundamentalists, who also want to turn back the clock to 900AD. Not only is this not possible but, as we are seeing now with Ukraine, the attempt will leave a bloody mess. Dugin and Putin don't care about the bloody mess, the suffering of individuals, because the people are only pawns in a social order where they, the powerful, STOP time and force everyone else to accept their eternal order of cycle, not progressing (their is certainly hubris in progress as we see in out of control tech and the woke left) via the "natural" dynamics of the liberal order, where individual autonomy and equality under the law, enable culture to be far more dynamic. It is the dynamic that is important, far more than the idea of progress. Liberalism is simply a social order that emphasizes the rights of the individual being equally applied. There are valid criticisms of the liberal order and progress, which, through its enlarging of the consumer middle class throughout most of the world has resulted in an unexpected dynamism in culture the likes of which we've never seen. But even that dynamism needs constant maintenance, constraint and order to keep in check the excesses of individualism expressed as libertarianism and its dumb cousin, populism. The egalitarian impact of the information and knowledge made available to everyone now through the internet threatens to sweep liberalism to the side in the name of the rights of the individual to an extent that creates a diminishing return and ultimately leads to less freedom for all. We are seeing this now with the assault on elites - much of it deserved - but there is a real concern with throwing the baby out with the bath here. The uneducated populace choosing their leaders - in the age of global information - is turning out to be a major problem for the liberal order. So far, the uneducated populace (I mean uneducated in the sense of not being educated on policy issues and geopolitics in general) is ahead of the political class in certain respects and lagging behind in others (ahead in the sense of SOME of the extreme right and left positions having some validity not shared by the political class, but behind, as I said, in geopolitics, and even what it means to be a cohesive nation rooted in liberalism). When we all used to get our information from more or less the same sources, choosing political leaders wasn't as risky as it is now. But now, with the explosion of information on the internet - much of it dubious, cherry-picked, conspiratorial, etc. - the electorate simply creates its Frankenstein monsters to represent them, rather than leaders actually leading and appealing to the electorate with sensible policy prescriptions and an honest representation of issues - especially geopolitics and what the post war era with US leadership in the world has produced. The US hasn't had a real geo-political "leader" since GHW Bush and, since he happened to be the leader at the time of the fall of the USSR, subsequent presidents and political leaders in the US and Europe have placed geopolitics further down on their list of concerns. Remember Romney pointing out to Obama in a debate the threat posed by Russia and Obama dismissing this concern arrogantly and out of hand. This attitude, taken by many on the political left, has made it possible for the Putins and Dugins of the world to get a leg up and appeal to people via grievance about the democratic system, mainly through "elite" bashing - the old "divide and conquer" strategy. This highlights the problem with an uneducated electorate (and I am not blaming the electorate solely, they need to be better informed, but they have a responsibility to not simply seek out info that they prefer - which they too often do) and its threat to the liberal order.

[@no.stache.nietzsche1635]

Found this introduction really helpful and well laid out, ty!!

[@cobrastriesand7693]

Amazingly clear and well-organized. Every couple of months I think to myself “maybe there’s a new video about Dugin that will finally make sense to me”, and I could never find anything that I could follow, or that I enjoyed listening to, until now.

[@hithere4719]

I have only ever heard about him as a Boogeyman so I have just imagined him as a new Rasputin…it is swell and quite refreshing to get a straightforward perspective 👍🏻

[@RobBCactive]

If you find Dugin's idea "a special kind of truth .. one you must accept" puzzling, then the talk "Evaluating Russia by a Finnish Intelligence officer" explains cultural outlooks which are alien to Western thinking.

[@AmadeusDR]

@@RobBCactiveThank you for this reccomendation. A year on and I'm glad to have found this comment.

[@patricelauverjon3177]

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist." Eisenhower

[@si-zelotes]

Fantastic exposition of material I've been struggling to get my head round. Thanks for this you've saved many hours of brain aching study. 😅 ( I will get the book tho!)

[@khulgarulfsson8067]

For someone claiming to be against fascism, he definitely seems extremely fascist. 😂

[@RoninTF2011]

Well, he is not pro fascist national-socialism. He is pro fascist-nationalistic feudalism.

[@tombirmingham7033]

The only created the Bolshevik fascist party. What makes me think that he's actually a fascist? His followers are just the dumbest group of people I've ever had to deal with.

[@quinnvids]

can you explain why you think he seems fascist? after watching this video, i just dont understand that POV

[@khulgarulfsson8067]

@@quinnvids To me it seems like he’s advocating the restoration of former glory through struggle and an ethnocentric, authoritarian state with subjugation and sacrifice of the individual as a virtue. The criticism he levels at fascism is so paper thin as to be easily written off as either disingenuous or woefully naive. It’s virtually identical in all the ways that matter to the outcome and only slightly different in how it presents itself. The only differences I see are exactly and only the kind of differences that would be necessary to rebrand and market fascism to Russians. New name, slightly different slant, same results and core tenets.

[@quinnvids]

@@khulgarulfsson8067 what about the core value of harmony instead of expansion? isn't that the reverse of fascism?

[@Exiled35]

Dugin on time: he is explaining and adopting Heiddeger “being in time” not creating a philosophy of time

[@nazaren45]

Не ожидав на англском видео про дугина

[@Pllayer064]

Слишком злодейский персонаж, чтобы его игнорировать.

[@davydacounsellor]

Lots of people read Dugin I found the forth political theory a philosophical view of the world, my take away from the book was there is a difference between the west and east, one point I felt was as we in the west could always jump on a boat and move away from aggression and war, like here in Ireland, but the east land people would have to work and think harder before aggression and war. Land people neighbors are close and you just can't jump on a boat and run away. So the east does produce deep thinking philosophers.

[@eastelamonius4001]

As soon this guy Said "DUGIN IS ANTI WESTERN" I STOPED. PEOPLE YOU TAKE IN WORDS FROM DUGIN HIMSELF. PRESENTATIONS LIKE THIS ARE PROBABLY DELIBERATELY MISLEADING.

[@wassabekil]

Brilliantly delivered. Answered a lot of questions and raised a multitude of others to meditate on.

[@AhmedOmar-ul6wc]

i think i agree with dugin

[@ALLHEART_]

12:00 I'm not sure James Burnham is a neocon. He's more of a paleocon, no?

[@VVeltanschauung187]

Zzzzzzz

[@kamelame9633]

Funny, I just looked at this guy a day ago

[@nardi493]

Me too

[@physicalremoval24]

Same lol

[@lukman013]

Me too wtf lol. We’re getting spied on 😂

[@mj011n1r]

amazing lecture. I have been looking for a crash course on Dugin and you delivered it.

[@raakareiska9804]

Pretty nice science fiction but fir real geopolitics more like a joke

[@jdlflagstone6980]

@@raakareiska9804 🤦‍♂️.. "you can lead a person to info, but you can't make him think" -canadian prepper

[@raakareiska9804]

@@jdlflagstone6980 "You can larp imagination geopolitics but beware of car bombs" - Sun Tzu

[@pinklady7184]

Wait till you read the book "Hyperborean Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin. In the first chapter, he describes all black people as "non-humans," "the bestial race," "dumb and stupid." In next chapters, you want to read what he says about Arabs, Latin Americans, non-white Asians.

[@mattholsen7060]

So Dugin thinks that Russia needs a philosophy that isn't based on anything from the outside? When has such a thing ever existed, anywhere?

[@AlbertoMonroy-lq2vw]

I don't think he means that, since the philosophy to be created, is precisely created from the counter-distinction of existent philosophies from other countries. What he really believes is that this philosophy must have a unique identity based on ideas prevalent in Russia and having their foundation in the platonic universals.

[@craigwillms61]

Interesting enough - but I'm not convinced he has anything I would want. Liberalism has its problems, I'd be the first to agree - but I believe in the supremacy of the individual, anything else devolves into statistics.

[@LectionesInterbellum]

I hate the fact that people always put fascism and national-socialism on one pile, because it’s two different ideologies. In Italian Fascism ‘race’ didn’t play any serious role at all until the alliance with Nazi-Germany. Also Mussolini stated multiple times in his speeches: “these northern barbarians that couldn’t even read and write while we were already building the colosseum”, so you see that this obviously isn’t in line with Nazi-Germany’s racial hierarchy. In Italian Fascism ‘the State’ was the all encompassing idea, whereas in National-Socialism the state is just the vessel for the content: the Volk, the people (from which the most valuable racial element is to be individualized and brought to a leadership position). Also nazism is a German phenomenon, ‘fascism’ however, people use to describe all kinds of things (often unjustly) causing an indescribable harm to Italy indirectly.

[@NenadVukicevic]

Another awesome lecture. Thank you!

[@MrHappy702]

I don't recall the exact arguments, but I heard from many thinkers in the national right space claim Dugin may be an intellectual trap, a "honeypot" to capture possible thinkers that might actually serve as a threat to the system. Is there any additional information around this idea?

[@cobrastriesand7693]

Supposedly, at one point, Dugin said that in order for the multipolar world to emerge, The US Empire had to be neutralized, and that Russia, and other civilizations who are in conflict with America, should pursue this neutralization by exacerbating America’s racial and ideological conflicts. The implication (to people who think he’s a “honey trap”) is that wants Russia to fund white nationalists organizations inside the US , not to restore America to some type of folkish past, but just to make trouble, and eventually end up dead or in jail. I should say, if there was any evidence that Russia really was funding US white nationalists, I think we would have heard about it by now.

[@MrHappy702]

@@cobrastriesand7693 This makes more sense. Thanks!

[@lynlee6861]

@@cobrastriesand7693 not necessarily funding, but influencing

[@cobrastriesand7693]

@@lynlee6861 From what I’ve seen of the controversy, Dugin really did write that Russia should cultivate American white nationalist, along with other kinds of malcontents, in order to weaken America - though again there is no evidence this actually happened. A few years latter, reactionaries (particularly Keith Woods) started critiquing white nationalism from a Duginist perspective, so the white nationalist (particularly Greg Johnson) shot back that “Duginism was a Russian scheme to sabotage white nationalism”, which to me personally, seems like a willful misreading, but WNs have a bad habit of assuming that anyone who disagrees with them, is doing so in order to hurt them. Whereas it seems to me like Dugin simply doesn’t care about the future of the “white race” in North America Anyway, that’s the controversy that I’m familiar with.

[@nachoskyful]

@@cobrastriesand7693 The beauty of modern intelligence work is that you no longer have to transfer a pile of cash to have a foreign actor work toward your desired goal.

[@sanjam.4251]

Russia has very long and rich religious philosophy haretage. Dugin is one of its representatives today. To understand his points (which are brilliant btw) you need to know Slavic culture, history and Orthodox religion from inside. This was very nicely done episode! Thanx

[@GIhomie]

They aren't brilliant, they are just rebranded authoritarian neo-imperialist talking points

[@latviankhan2989]

@@GIhomie this just shows me how you don’t understand dugin or amything that is talked about in this video

[@GIhomie]

@@latviankhan2989 I have actually read Dugins work and not just watched some western Kids video about him. There is a reason why neo-nazis here in eastern Europe love him and his work. If you are blind to the blatant expansionist&imperialist agendas he has written about, the regressive authoritarian policies that are supposed to strip people of their basic rights gradually i see why you would be naive enough to say something as uneducated as that. You probably read Mein Kampf and tought it was brilliant work of political philosophy by some austrian dude who had a little weird thing towards the jews, but otherwise an ok dude.

[@sanjam.4251]

@@GIhomie Maybe, but thats not how I understood it.

[@GIhomie]

@@sanjam.4251 that is understandable as it is not meant to be an overly obvious agenda of his "philosophy" except in his book: Foundations of geopolitics, where the imperialist talking points are clear. But of course there are many more examples of these agendas in his works, some statements are of course more masks off than others. But over all his Works are regressive authoritarian propaganda pieces.

[@michaeldunn8972]

If Hitler was a Slav rather than a German Aleksandr Dugin would have been a big fan.

[@christophmahler]

"If Hitler was a Slav rather than a German Aleksandr Dugin would have been a big fan." If Jews were 'Aryans', Hitler would have commended their mercantile skill, outdoing the Romans - and if Arabs were Jews, the state of Israel would be a great power. What's the point of such statements when _national identity exists_ ?

[@allahpartyinfo652]

hey man, he only tries to copy hitler and national socialist germany and make it a fake agenda, infact fourth political theory is fascism in another form!

[@christophmahler]

@@allahpartyinfo652 "(...) he only tries to copy hitler (...)" So what does the 'Allah Party' think why Dugin isn't simply promoting 'fascism' like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a successful member of the Duma - instead of criticism German fascism for it's _Darwinism_ ?...

[@allahpartyinfo652]

@@christophmahler coz u know bro, dugin is part of the antithesis, it seems u dont know anything about the synthesis of the upcoming *false messiah* from antarctica with *ufos* !

[@christophmahler]

@@allahpartyinfo652 "(...) ufos !" Of course... May God have mercy on Your soul.

[@neurostory1988]

Baza & Goida

[@dr0mp507]

Started to study Dughin due to current events, what I find odd is that his (applied) ideeas that triggered the whole conflicts are based on an optimistic view rather than one realistic. Correct me if i'm wrong but for starters he assumes that small nationalities will be "eaten" up by older bigger civilizations and have no power in their choice, he also assumes that relative thruth can also be propaganda or manufactured truth (some discordianism here?), he also has an utopic view of the outcome (contradictory to his beliefs of time concepts). I'm not so smart about these subjects, i dive in and stop when it gets too hard but from a layman's pov I find that Dugin does not consider alot of things. I watched him in an interview on a national russian channel boasting and enjoying how they will establish a new world order by attacking Ukraine, finishing with a the conclusion that this has to go "all the way" or russian civilization will dissapear.... I mean what makes his ideeas different from fascism or nazism, if the outcome is basically the same, hurt life to impose a new way of thinking and if you loose everyone must loose?

[@jomo3564]

The American culture is dominating the world. So to save their cultures, ancient civilisations have to oppose to the young American McDonald's culture. And as a French, I agree with him. Americans can't understand with their 200years of existence China, Russia, Persia etc...

[@nk_9715]

exactly, this is what Dugin's glorifiers blind themselves into. In my mind it is the same pile of twisted vile intellectualised ideologies. Capitalism, liberalism aren't perfect systems for sure, but I still wait for someone to devise a strong doctrine that could solve these problems while simultaneosly not turning into authoritarian, radical far-right or fascist ideologies that in reality could easily result in humanitarian disasters. Until then, I can't take these attempts seriously, it seems dishonest.

[@richardfinlayson1524]

His views about time seem to be just stating the obvious

[@fokusnikfm]

U didn’t get it in that case

[@Mytyay_ShostaIV]

Good to see that lots of western people know Dugin

[@Mytyay_ShostaIV]

@Myname Isunavailable nah Dugin is not fascist. You're just politically uneducated

[@justintabatabai8063]

Just a rebranded neo fascist

[@ИванМаляров-ю4в]

@Myname Isunavailable But... He is not

[@StrangerByTheHour]

Really great job with this, thanks for making it

[@filenailedge4284]

Dugin's metaphysics seems heretical to an Eastern Orthodox perspective. Especially his ideas on the subject "manifesting" time, this he may be aware of because he specifically says the subject doesn't create time... He gives off a New Age and solipsistic vibe, though maybe his exposition in his writing is clearer than this presentation. Something about him just seems off.

[@firenuckle98]

The most suspect thing he's outright said with no qualification or further explanation is that he believes we must undo the anathemas against Origen and Neoplatonism and establish a new (neo)platonic Academy in the orthodox world, exactly the kind which St Justinian destroyed. Many of his ideas, like you pointed out, manifesting time, noomakhia (dark logos), and his chilliastic eschatology are all sketchy and should raise eyebrows but they're vague enough or qualified in such a way that they aren't immediately called heresy. His belief that we ought to revise an ecumenical Council however, is explicitly heretical. Then again, Dugin is an Old Believer in good standing with his bishop. Given Dugin's high profile and how controversial his beliefs have been in Russia, I find it difficult to believe that his bishop isn't aware of his views. Maybe the English translations lack the nuance of the original but there is still a lot that's problematic are best

[@filenailedge4284]

@@firenuckle98 That's definitely worrying. There has been a rise in Origenism lately and that heresy needs to be destroyed... again. It sounds like Dugin needs to go back and read the church fathers, as these arguments are older than he is and have already been refuted.

[@christophmahler]

"Dugin's metaphysics seems heretical to an Eastern Orthodox perspective" That's an interesting point and maybe he never reflected on this while being focused on opposing Westernization. There's 'progress' within the 'divine economy' of eschatology - but unlike liberal modernism which grew out of the Reformation - Christian religion is 'religio', an observance to the bond between man and his origin or 'archai'. A traditionalist believes in a final end of 'history', but not in the reduction of 'nature' into a mere mechanistic _expansion_ of secular civilization. We hope to transform ourselves in order to express the divine image we are constituted in - the purpose of an _apostolic life_ .

[@fabbeyonddadancer]

Where can one find in-depth works from an Eastern Orthodoxy perspective that addresses dugins works ?

[@ajdinekmescic2638]

I found this on Wikipedia : Since 1999, he formally embraced a branch of the Old Believers, a Russian religious movement which rejected the 1652-1666 reforms of the official Russian Orthodox Church.[58] Dugin's Eurasian philosophy owes much to Traditional Integralism and Nouvelle Droite movements, and as such it resonates with Neopaganism,[59] a category which in this context means the movement of Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery), especially in the forms of Anastasianism and Ynglism. Dugin's Eurasianism is often cited as belonging to the same spectrum of these movements. - this should shed some light on his religious views

[@PS-pp7kn]

It was nice to hear without having to watch. Though your lecture is clear in content, your american slang lacks the precision of english English. American strives to unprecise, lax formulations, a kind of Yokelish. Unfortunately I have heard no real alternative from Dugin in this lecture, though the acknowledgement that a liberalism without alternative is no liberalism any more because it lacks choice is correct.

[@ejws1575]

Baudrillard’s stuff on potlach and the accursed share is an interesting comparison on the global time thing

[@Dantto92]

Wow thanks so much for this insightfull lecture into dugins theory. I think something like this might be the future if we want to avoid the transhumanist future. I feel finding your individuality and identity in your civilization is better than loss of it in to the global world state. His ideas remind me about Sri Aurobindos vision of the future. He uses words like mental subjectivism and nations discovering their souls. Thanks!

[@revi.talose.8643]

what are you a liberal? The 4th position is against individualism, it hates liberalism due to the "individualism" or some shit idk this is all clown shit. I do agree a transhumanist future would very very bad, though I don't care for individuality and such when it pertains to this matter, more so the enlarged gap in power it would bring down upon civilization, a kind of power whose clutches might never be able to be gotten rid of when formed.

[@tyemich8820]

I see nothing bad about a transhumanist future as long as its a technocommunist one

[@revi.talose.8643]

@@tyemich8820 The main downside I see to transhumanism would be an extension of the human capability. Current every person who has ever lived would fucking *die* if you shot them in the head enough times. If humanity could get to a point where this is not the case the equality of death under which we all live will be disturbed. This could have some bad bad consequences due to the new imbalances in power that'd come about. idk this is just my perspective

[@tyemich8820]

@@revi.talose.8643 I see what you mean. Currently, the amount of wealth and power you get can depend on your capabilities. If people are born with grossly different capabilities, that will create a caste society, like in the movie Gattaca, but I'm hoping that by then it won't matter that much because Marxism would start making sense, and everyone would get according to their needs, because most work would be done by robots and there are free things.

[@revi.talose.8643]

@@tyemich8820 yes exactly, I've seen a lot of marxists praise transhumanism, or even a post human society as a potentially good thing, when I think the real dangers it poses of reifying class is very much underlooked. And this is an issue I don't think you could fix this by simply implementing a marxist framework, instead active anti-transhuman action might be needed.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Liberalism is democracy, rule of law, independence or State powers. It's included in "rule of law" but it's good clarify that it also includes "all are equal under the law".

[@jamesmiller2735]

That's what the make you to believe but the reality is that there is such thing as class and through out man's history we have had this sort of class struggle, so according to your thinking if all are equal why do your leaders always have to come from a certain class of people.

[@robscovell5951]

@@jamesmiller2735 Yes. "Rule of Law" is really "Rule of Lawmakers". Equality under the law is a theoretical position not borne out in reality.

[@bluemethetys9267]

TLDR: Dugin offers a perhaps renewed focus on the ethnos, but how that affects your political stance empirically, in what you do, should be put under a lot of scrutiny. Focusing on ethnos is only one step away from fascism or nazism, both distinctly bad for their complete dehumanization of what they view as "enemies". I'm not bold enough to criticize Dugin on philosophical grounds but at least on an empirical level: is an ethnocentrist position really any more emancipatory than notions of individualism? Is "authenticity" possible or strivable towards, and not just a postmodern construction of the worst kind? To anyone who chooses to read Dugin: please engage with his work either critically or in an otherwise pessimistic way. "Critical or pessimistic way" may come off as a coded way of saying "adhere to Capitalism Realism", but I reject this. There is great emancipatory potential, proportional to the dominance of Capitalism Realism. Simply, don't be naive.

[@christophmahler]

When You say _'emancipatory'_ and _'individualistic'_ , You are arguing from a _modernist_ perspective (e.g. 'Anarchism' in it's widest sense) - which may produce legitimate criticism of _traditional_ societies, but is foremost a _political ideology_ , itself. The best You can do is likely to compare these _opposing_ views.

[@mls_33]

Every day we are reminded of the fall of the USSR and its consequences, least of which is this hodgepodge ideology. My favorite part was his "critique" of Marxists; Orthodox and Social Democratic, neither of which represent the materialist conception of history that Marxists use. He failed to mention that everyone knows Marx was wrong about where revolutions occur, and theory was updated by Lenin, Stalin, Mao and others as history progressed. The point of communist worldview is that conditions change and societies must adapt to meet them. Dugin correctly asserts some of the issues with liberalism (capitalism), but what he comes away with is not too far removed from fascism, just focusing more on ethno vs national distinctions.

[@jamesmiller2735]

His is not wrong about humans being more ethnocentric than liberal, just imagine yourself been a white boy in a black locker room, won't you fell awkward or just look at what happened during covid-19 pandemic we literally closed our borders seeking to secure ourselves first before helping other nations, that is pure ethnocentric action and it's in our instinct.

[@off6848]

Dugin is right that’s why all of your Marxist Leninist heroes like Stalin and Mao were also “basically fascists” Because that shit don’t work and the only way to stand up against liberalism is to appeal to the ethnocentrism of a people with a past

[@ВикторияВаркиева]

The Ukrainian army has been training women and children for military operations more than 5 years. They are mixed in the army. AZOV Neo-Nazi group expanded, become part of Ukraine’s armed forces.

[@RoninTF2011]

parrot you cremlin drivel elsewhere please...

[@jvespalin]

as someone who would still consider myself a member of the "New Left" I still think Dugin's critique of us is fair.

[@lachlanmcdonald3016]

What’s the new left ? How is it different to the old left or current woke left ?

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

@@lachlanmcdonald3016 : Perhaps it's a misnomer to say 'new left.' I think a more apt description would be alternative left as opposed to the 'establishment left.'

[@soggybread5853]

@@lachlanmcdonald3016 Basically they’re progressive greens.

[@soggybread5853]

I’m a leftist and I fully agree with his critique of Marxist communism.

[@ethanlorenzo702]

@@soggybread5853 I'm confused about his critique of Marxism, I haven't read much Marx only the Manifesto amd Das Kapital, why is his critique of your ideas fair?

[@CandideSchmyles]

Fantastic! THANK YOU for a most comprehensible summary of Dugin's book.

[@zaxapitsa]

Magnificent video, thanks a lot! Just one thing, every single period of history has been ruled by unipolar power. Their reach was never actually global but it often applied to the "known world". What I mean is that a multi-polar world would be a first, so there's that.

[@jdlflagstone6980]

I think there's been periods of somewhat peaceful unipolar power separated by periods of countries fighting to see who gets dominance for the next period of unipolar power. With multiple powers, each one wants an advantage over the other and at some point one sanctions the other or take a key piece of land and the balance either gets restored or it tips to one side making a unipolar world again. Eventually it will always tip one way or the other. I suppose it's an interesting idea, but more likely what "multi-polar world" really just means "let's start the cycle again and see who gets to rule the next unipolar world". We will likely have a unipolar world, for a generation or two, but we will also likely have very hard times ahead for a generation or two beforehand... US isn't going to allow a multi polar world without a fight..

[@exapplerrelppaxe7952]

Under Duggins' system may I own my own property? May I own and operate an independent newspaper? May I home school my children? How would we select political administrators? How would we enact laws? Would the government be allowed to torture detainees? What would our foreign policy be? This isn't politics...it's metaphysical horseplay.

[@thegreatpretenderorale9965]

that's because Western and Russian perspectives are different to begin with. You have all the answers on those questions in Dugin's work, just not directly yet through the basket of common ideas among Orthodox/Slav people.

[@redmatters9318]

METAPHYSICAL horseplay and lots of puff from the magic dragon. Nice comment mate. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺 ,:)

[@newglof9558]

"Under Dugin's system, can I be liberal? Can I? Huh? Can I be liberal? Please? Pfft, metaphysical horseplay."

[@LectionesInterbellum]

To explain the different perceptions of time, one can take Germany as a perfect example, because in Germany there are two different “mental time zones” we could say, and the barrier is the Elbe river dividing the former DDR with West-Germany. Even 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall these differences are still very much real. East- and West-Germany think differently, have different views of the world and vote differently.

[@LectionesInterbellum]

The moment we can communicate with each other instantly and directly, from anywhere all over the world to any other place in the world, at any time of the night and day, we have nothing to communicate anymore -> absence of time.

[@ymb5468]

The definition of time and history is interesting

[@bgilmore62]

So he's for right wing authoritarianism? Nice, who wants to live inside that? That is what the Enlightenment did for humans. Gave them free will and free thought. Helped them discover evolving ways to look at life and progress.

[@Pllayer064]

Well he's obviously counting on being in the top 5% that would be well off under an anti-humanitarian regime like that. Typical.

[@francefradet2116]

LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GROWTH. We reached peak comfort in the 1950s and should have stopped "'growing" at that point, here in the West...

[@Polit_Burro]

LOL"Right Nationalists" against historicism *and* modernity? Precious! 😂

[@kahhowong3417]

Heuristic Teleologic Feedback Loop, debugged, defragged, repaired, normalised temporal contemporaneous teleological performance.

[@pichirisu]

The fact that he uses transcendentalism and specifically Kant basically nullifies literally all of his other beliefs he is trying to use to create a "fourth politics". Like literally arguing against himself. Naive.

[@Tulsaistalking]

Yeah also the highly partial views towards anti individualism

[@eg4848]

these kinds of people aren't really consistent. Consistency is key

[@ryancannella6386]

wow. thank you so much. I see our Global liberal democracy turning into a Technopoly. the end of time for sure

[@rodrigoferreira9527]

Are you sure you wanna believe in this?I mean...“end of times”,what times anyway?

[@ryancannella6386]

@@rodrigoferreira9527 the end of what was left of our republic for sure. the end of any type of illusion of freedom. total slavery

[@rodrigoferreira9527]

@@ryancannella6386 holy s$&#@ man...what a f$#@. Slaves for whom?...

[@ryancannella6386]

@@rodrigoferreira9527 well that's a good question.. much speculation about who or which group is at the top of the pyramid. jesuits, zionists, freemasons, committee of 300. more likely what I think. is we will be slaves to Artificial Intelligence

[@rodrigoferreira9527]

@@ryancannella6386 I don’t work with speculation,though I consider these kinds of possibilities out of the academical campus. The egipcians arians are behind of this hierarchical society,in my personal opinion.

[@quantummath]

Good job Chad 👌👌 Keep up the good work man. I started reading more about Dugin's ideas after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. You've summarized Dugin pretty well man. What you mention about Dugin's view of time was new to me. Even though I have some reservations about such an idea, I find it interesting. Cheers. 🍻

[@dkoz8321]

.338 Norma Marnum 915 meters per sesond velocity, 6580 lb/f muzzle energy. No Dugin , no problem.

[@hoooptie]

Good job explaining everything plainly but to Dugin...wtf are you talking about?

[@jordantsak7683]

If Dugin is considered a philosopher, then we must admit as philosophers also Genghis Khan and Attila.

[@RuiLuz]

It's the most ironic of ironies, he is an anti-intellectual pretending to be an intellectual.

[@hristiyanhristov2480]

Thank you, always feels good to find people with brain in such atrocities as "Dugin lectures".

[@AIainMConnachie]

Drive-by commentary. Don't quit your day jobs

[@Paul-yw4yr]

Sounds like fascism with extra steps

[@alexburke1899]

Yeah the list of things he doesn’t like about Fascism is just racism, then he lists a long list of good things about it lol. After Chechnya pretty sure everyone concluded these guys are racists and fascists but it’s taken a major escalation for the world to catch up.

[@stormburn1]

This honestly just seems like fascism. Like, the opposition to racism seems to be that it was unproductive, not that racism is morally wrong. It's just replacing the racism with a more abstracted form of nationalism, but still literally using the terms "ethnos" and "volk". I guess Dugin's not wholly anti-Marxism, but everything else seems in-line with fascist ideology. No consideration for values like democracy and freedom.

[@Marryatau]

The great liberalist Thomas Paine comes to mind specially during that time in late 18th century when the monarchies of the past chiseled an early capitalist industrial kleptocracy with slave ownership, international colonialism, and land rights from stolen land pegged to a Gold backed currency; pirate and merchant traders, and only 4 decades before China and England had their first opium war. This liberalist Thomas Paine lived during the beginning of the internationalization of metropolitan trade, contrast this with a modern digitalized global economy at a time after the exuberant, gratifying, socially degrading baggage of liberalism; of course Aleksandr Duggin makes sense.

[@josboersema1352]

Liberalism: how about this idea. In one sense it started with Geert de Grote (1340-1384) nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Grote This became later the movement “Modern Devotion”, which became the Iconoclasm and Dutch 80 years war against Spain and Catholicism, which became Capitalism and a return to the Roman Republic (State/army), which became the English Glorious Revolution, which became the English world Empire, which became America and the spread of Capitalism, which became Liberalism. In it I see this development, but let me know what you think: It started with the demand to be free, in order to be good. Due to the repression, they could not be good. They demanded personal freedom to be good. They took their morality and consciousness back to themselves, and stood in opposition to the drunks and criminals who where the Catholic power structure. They where highly religious and considered themselves the most loyal Catholics. _The freedom to be good._ Now we always see that a new impulse slowly gets corrupted over time. What started as _the freedom to be good_ seems to have become _the freedom to do wrong._ I don't necessarily mean _criminally wrong_ yet, but it could mean that, or soon come to mean that. Makes sense ? I thought that could be an interesting observation. This is what America is increasingly about: _the freedom to do wrong._ In all kinds of ways, America does wrong, celebrates wrongdoing, decay, bad social norms, bad dress, bad music, bad food, evil wars, extreme decadence, celebration of roughness, even celebration of criminals (which has a history in the USA). You kindof are back even to the idea that Dugin proposes: Liberalism can give freedom to build a more just traditionalist society, or in other words: the freedom to do good (or what he thinks is good). P.S. I wrote a book, rather thick if you don't mind but it is totally free download (market.socialism.nl), and I also call this “the 4th way Socialism” (not any Socialism an American would understand at face value, it is free market based, it is quite contrary to American vocabulary, sorry (!)). Also the 4th way because it has 4 main points (Democratic State, free land for all, law against plutocracy, and pushes a degree toward co-operative businesses). Historically we are at the 4th wave of opposition to Feudalism. First wave was Capitalism, second wave was Communism, third wave was social-democracy (which just stopped the whole debate in favor of immediate detail action), and that's where we are today. We have had the social-democrats also achieving a lot of things, but still it isn't enough (evidenced the state of the world). This does not mean I agree with Dugin however (only see this video, never heard about Dugin). Have a great day. Just thought it interesting that this is the same usage of “4th”. Maybe there are even similarities here. I also note a difference between my program all of this political secular ideology, from all sides (Liberal, Fascist, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist (especially), etc.). You don't have any detail, you don't work things out. It is one cloud against the other, vague and general. Result and reality demand attention to detail. None of you have it, and therefore what is left is “populism”, sloganeering, _the mob._ This is also why things corrupt so quickly, I guess. I work things out in extreme detail, so that they become practical. That is where the power is, I believe at least. Since I work things out beforehand, I think the program is going to be _much_ stronger than all of yours, literally all of what you've ever done since the last ice age. Yeah, I guess make a bold claim, why the … not. It will be so much better, also thanks to you, because now you can critique the detail and make it even better, _before_ anyone gets their hands dirty and turns out demoralized due to various mistakes. There certainly is something to debate. But, they don't care. Too much work to care I guess. Then again, the coming tyranny will motivate you all to care. If you survive it. Such is life. § Heh, no there won't be a split between USA gangsters and Saudi Arabian gangsters, unless they are fighting about the money. It is only about the money. Ideology is fodder for the masses.

[@pierren___]

Excellent apport. I also know that Mandeville was one of the first to coined the good evil, which will become a key for Adam Smith and hes good vices and to the Marquis de Sade.

[@andrewmarkmusic]

Agreed. As a lowly blogger I thrash some of the details out in my Four Pillars Of A New Earth Commons and What Does A Healthy Spiritual Economics Look Like?

[@josboersema1352]

@@andrewmarkmusic Hello. Don't stop now. What does it look like ?

[@andrewmarkmusic]

@@josboersema1352 Well, in distinction to Marx I don’t call for the overthrow of the oligarchs. I suggest that THEY voluntarily withdraw predatory and usurious economics in four areas: homes, food, education, and healthcare. So they can keep their grift economic model in all other areas. Maybe a city country divide or what I call a residential commercial divide. A small piece of private property allotted to all as a birth inheritance (enough for a tiny house). A new education model focusing on self-reliance and small community ethics. A non-debt means of exchange for the residential economy. See Distributist ideas, Henry George, the original Social Credit of Alberta Christians (a small step in the right direction that was perverted). People should be able to search andrewmarkmusic and enter the names of the blogs.

[@josboersema1352]

@@andrewmarkmusic Thank you for your reply & provided details. In general it looks like your proposal goes some steps in the same direction as my proposal. Perhaps the main difference between your proposal and mine, is a matter of extend and force (perhaps also: logical “force”), where your program is going much less far compared to my program. I'll try to run by your points. Marx does call for the overthrow of the Oligarchs, and you just want to ask them to voluntarily give up their power in certain areas. How come you think they will comply with your request ? What if they will not comply ? In my program I have a varied approach to Oligarchs. This is one issue with my program: it is detailed, multi faceted. It runs over multiple lines at the same time or depending on need and will, some harsher, some easier. To try to find overlap with your proposal: my program would call for people to buy fair trade, and set up co-operative small businesses and their funds, and to also start buying back our land. These methods do not directly touch Oligarchs, although they do indirectly. While this is a weak side of the program, nevertheless it could rule the world if enough people had a heart and brains. To this extend, we are agreeing. Compare the Communists/Marxists, who have historically not had the heart, discipline and will to support small/local fair trade / ecological businesses. I think the Communists have basically said: we are poor and we have solidarity with the poor, and therefore we will buy groceries, clothes and everything we want from the lowest slave run businesses. Was that their excuse ? This is how it came accros to me. Another side of their mistake was that they showered small business owners with hatred, as being the so-called “petty bourgeoisie”. Why didn't they at least try to live their own ideal, set up co-operative businesses, small democratic companies ? Some did, that is true. It didn't really succeed though, which is sad. I think it may have had to do with the obsessive anti-trade nature of Marxism, with the common problems with human interaction on the other hand. This is in part because they reject trade/markets entirely, and this is basically the biggest mistake they ever made, and it has cost them every Revolution eventually. I also could think that the Communists merely wanted power for themselves, they where going to be the new Oligarchs. That's why they didn't support small and co-operative businesses, because that would mean “getting your hands dirty” with common work, and setting something up which could have a future. Nope, they “want it all”, and then they will live in the Palace as “The Party”. Small and co-operative businesses would at that point become an obstacle to their totalitarian control. Therefore I see something dark, even evil, in the Communist system, which most of them are oblivious about. Lenin made the whole thing even more dictatorial than it already was. I guess we agree on this, and a lot of people potentially agree with it. History itself might agree with it, at this point. Then however, I also would delete the Oligarchs in other ways, using the political democratic process. With that is said a lot though, because “the democratic political process” can be as vicious as open warfare, or as neglectful as “it just didn't get a majority”. Be that as it may, I would enter the following proposal (by having already made it) to the democratic system: there will be a maximum on company size (2000 persons), the land will be distributed to all (only rental markets in land set aside for productivity remains), companies larger than 10 persons and no longer run by the starter will be democratized by law, limits on lending money into the economy, a maximum on private wealth at 30 times the average in that Nation, and more such things. This is force, obviously. Oligarchs who do not comply with the law, would be dealt with by police, courts, punishment, confiscation, and the like. The goal is to create an economic environment, in which Oligarchy and Plutocracy cannot (find it hard to) re-emerge. Example: to make people slaves, you only have to own all the land. However if everyone owns the land by right and all you can do is rent it at their proposed price, the tables have turned. It becomes too expensive to become a Plutocrat, so to say. You will probably not make it to that level. This in turn means that politics will run less encumbered by criminal and bribery methods, because the criminals simply don't have the money for enough bribes anymore. The politicians get more exclusively influenced by the voters, which is their proper job. Homes: I find your idea sympathetic, a great improvement over the current order. I wish it would be done right away. Personally, I would go further, after we have achieved your aim here if you like. Land does not function correctly in a market _of perpetual ownership,_ because markets are functioning based on _effort._ People do not make planets, we just took possession of the bounty of the Earth. If you allow a market of permanent ownership, it will centralize, because in the eternal term, the value of land is infinite. The land belongs to all people by right: land for farming, ranching, but also land to set up businesses, factories, workplaces and anything else someone might want to do in order to work, trade or just … _live._ The market element can come back in through renting the land out, but only if the rental contract can easily be changed and a fair amount of practical problems with this are solved (which I think I probably did solve, but I'll not get into all those details here for the lake of length). What I also see with you (it seems), is that homes are a special thing in the market. Homes are a special and difficult issue. Your solution seems ok to me. My solution was, besides general land distribution, to give the person living in a house the right to obtain the land that house is standing on without cost, and level this extend out with his land right. We are both trying to solve the same problem, in the same kind of way. Since this is getting too long, I'll get a bit more pointy and short. Why do you want to let the Oligarchs retain their “grift” model in all other areas ? What does it mean that food will be excluded ? Do you want a centrally planned system for food production ? What is wrong with privately operated farms (ideally co-operatives if they are large), where the land is owned in a distributed way ? Healthcare is also a difficult topic in the economy, so I am guessing we will have a fair amount of overlap here as well. I agree that schooling of children would be more interesting if it had survival and farming elements, such as reliving the past of humanity and learning a variety of such skills, which seems to be natural to children. I don't see another method for implementing such a plan, than to simply suggest it and maybe someone wants to start schools based on such ideas, if they haven't already (they have already, more or less). Since I propose a model of small election circles (a so-called Council Government), which absolutely requires _small community ethics_ to function, I guess we are thinking in the same direction here as well, but again my program seems to go possibly further than yours, unless you also wish to see it go that far. I have proposed a detailed model of a Council Government, which will hopefully avoid some of the problems of 1917. However, I have seen how people behave, and therefore I am skeptical about their performance. Humanity suffers from stupidity and a lack of heart. These are bombs under such a system. I think the chance for it to fail thanks to the bad behavior of the common people, is high. Because it will probably fail, we shall have to stumble on with some sort of lesser democratic protocol (such as Parliament), in the hopes that humanity wishes to become human. This process will likely take many generations, if not tens of thousands of years. I once read something about “Distributism” which (horror of horror) seems to be associated with perhaps the worst criminal group in history: the Catholic system. I once read that they wanted to use the right to land as a claim to money or something. It makes some sense that some Catholics favor “Distributism” because after all, it is the law of Mozes to distribute the land to all. What I don't comprehend about them, is why they want such a sick system of ideas (idolatry to Jesus and this Catholic tyranny) to centralize political and other control, which makes that it is _not_ a Distribute-ist system, but a Central-ist system. I even once proposed that the public worship of Jesus should be outlawed in a Republic, mainly for the reason that you cannot have a Republic with people who are below a certain level of intelligence. By outlawing this absurd behavior, perhaps the Republic will attract wiser people, who can maintain the Republic over a longer period of time. Since I would propose quite small Republics, small perhaps compared to todays Empires at least, the Catholics can live in their dictatorships elsewhere. I would propose the implementation of such a law to take 100 years, and of course require a separate vote. Such long implementation periods makes for things going a lot smoother for the people. It also gives the people who are suffering from idolatry and absurdity, to repent from their bizarre ideas. If not, there is generations time to start migrating and separating. I also wouldn't even outlaw this behavior in private, so as to not become too repressive. It's more like … a dampening effect, rather than too brute force, to try to make this bizarre behavior smaller and smaller in each generation. You see how Marxism became a religion with idols all over again. The statues where huge. Outlawing idol worshiping religion only created another one.

[@jan-martinulvag1953]

To anyone who find this hard to understand, don't worry. Its just bullshit completely . That's why you don't get it

[@jan-martinulvag1953]

And thanks to the guy making this video, for making it easy for me to realize this is nonsense.

[@astronak3333]

This just sounds like fascism with extra marshmallow fluff. Or, a brand of fascist chips with extra air pumped into the bag. A word puzzle, if you will, where the word "fascism" is embedded within a grid of random letters.

[@notexactlyrocketscience]

against: progress, rights for: primitive, uncapable societies

[@bookiankhoo8786]

Can someone explain and summarize the gist of this in ordinary layman language without jargon in one page?? It’s v confusing.

[@joannastanden5816]

Interesting especially for right now.

[@danieldavis6288]

This is brilliance. I need this book. Here may be the logical conclusion of the work of Nietzche and Evola. I really suggest a comparison of Dugin and Guiillaume Faye.

[@hyperboreanarchives7299]

Are you kidding? This guy is a self-avowed 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝 and tendentious extremist. I seriously doubt 𝑬𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒂 would associate with the likes of him.

[@danieldavis6288]

@@hyperboreanarchives7299 Did you and I watch different videos? I'm pretty sure he argued AGAINST communism at several points. Mere collectivism does not a communist make.

[@hyperboreanarchives7299]

@@danieldavis6288 He was a founding member of 𝑵𝑨𝒁𝑩𝑶𝑳 and just because he claims to renounce it now in order to subvert and infiltrate does not mean his abjuration is genuine. So forgive me if I remain Incredulous and advise you to do the same.

[@danieldavis6288]

@@hyperboreanarchives7299 I have no idea what that is or means, but the context isn't lost. I'll take it under advisement.

[@hyperboreanarchives7299]

@@danieldavis6288 That's all I could expect, thank you for hearing me out. Best of luck on your journey and remember to stay skeptical.

[@CyberSamuraii]

4th political theory is an unanswered question. Intelligent has thousands of those but don't write books about them.

[@AgrippaPetronius1903]

What tremendous offering and phenomenal insights am currently watching your entire list namaste

[@tubodd]

The hyperborean nightmare... An empire ruled by a mafia system, like present Russia, would be intriguing to say the least...

[@armandosalinas5946]

We are at acrossroad,but the indivitual must prevail,with a collective goal...

[@davidleahy6141]

Hard to attack Dugin's logic and analysis.

[@hristiyanhristov2480]

What? How is it hard to? It's literally rebranded fascism - he does admit he is a fascist and a bolshevik, his party was called "National-Bolshevik". Guys, please, head out of the sand. It's blatant Russian propaganda, this is the guy that whispers in Putin's ear.

[@justintabatabai8063]

Not really, god isn’t real so there’s no logical basis for theology therefore the Orthodox Church nor is Russia in the imperial context a singular race or existence. His own philosophy is built on this contradiction by drawing a contrast between a lack of historical foundation for the Russian people in the past, and then simultaneously claiming one does exist / should exist.

[@torbenzenth5615]

Brilliant, thank you

[@offBeatRock777]

Wow, what an excellent explanayion

[@peterbaktay4460]

poverty for historicism makes a very strange argument against historicism (basically bickering about how to predict the future and why sociology or something like that is better) it's very obvious that he is not going for obvious angles of attack because that would leave him open aswell

[@a145m20]

Thank you for covering people that are not taught as widely as they should!

[@raakareiska9804]

This guy is a joke in his "geopolitics"

[@bokkenrijder172]

FYI: the “V” in “Volk” is pronounced as an “F” in German.

[@akrobatish]

liberalism means freedom from the oppression of government? I think i just puked in my mouth a little and choked on it laughing.

[@chiukid]

I never heard anyone think about time the same way as myself before. God exists outside time and the past, present, and future is happening all at the same time for him. I'm still chewing on a lot of these things.

[@sandorfintor]

Great summary! Really enjoyed it.

[@vanhamies8512]

Dugin has never convincingly distinguished his political theory from fascism. He claims to be anti-fascist yet his "special Russian truth" is essentially fascist, and he sometimes acknowledges it and sometimes denies it. Unsurprisingly, he inspires KGB/FSB politicians and clergymen, imperialist adventurers, and aggressive isolationists. He wishes to be a foundational philosopher yet will at best be remembered for intellectual mendacity.

[@mls_33]

was looking for this comment. it's just rebranded fascism

[@hristiyanhristov2480]

He doesn't try to, this guy is basically Goebbels. It's pathetic and shameful that so many people follow him and believe his bullshit. He doesn't try to distinguish himself from fascism - his political party was called "National-Bolsheviks". He is out there calling himself bolshevik and people think this old fart is something new.

[@nunoalvarespereira87]

Yeah as a Third Positionist I think his theory is merely a flavor of 3P applied to the Russian reality.

[@mohammedzulk8485]

Americanism is great for those that had their dream come true.

[@Mercuryrising56627]

Puh. after 15 minutes I'm already "good", really not my cup of tea.

[@AmadeusDR]

Tragic to hear because it's more prevalent in todays modern world. His books helped me accurately predict everything happening in geopolitics today and I've made 1.7million USD dollars because of the specific partnerships he spoke about in many other books.

[@WattisWatts]

So, is the USA and Russia fighting a war out of the Frankfurt School?

[@TheAirSchool]

The deeper I understand Dugin the less I agree with him.

[@lubomirmazal9693]

…. And what does it really mean….. being anti west…..? In what sense?

[@nopasaran191]

He’s what we call a Nazbol

[@niggardlylad2008]

Nazbol gang

[@j3red321]

Thank you for making this video. I have looked at Aleksandr Dugin’s talks before and this was helpful as well. What always comes to me is his inability to actually understand the benefits of liberalism in the classical sense and its own self correcting nature due to its openness. Also I believe he truly fails to differentiate his own ideology from fascism. It appears to me that Dugin, as a Russian, tries to be clarify that he is not a fascist due to Russia’s history with fighting Nazism, but in reality he is a fascist and just tries to create a new version of it to make it more palatable for what he perceives to be society. He is a man stuck between his hatred of America and therefore the values we try to live by, even when we sometimes fail, and his own innate morality. His ideology is even more convoluted and illogical than nationalist communist parties.

[@jankragt7789]

Have you notice aggressive totalitarian Woke leftism? Try again.

[@dom4034]

@@jankragt7789 'aggressive totalitarian Woke leftisM' Good gravy....

[@BearTraderDan]

Well done , you made Dugin easy to understand , thank you .

[@pj_ytmt-123]

Well, thanks for concisely summarizing such a dense book. Okay, so Aleksandr Dugin is a smart guy; but I stopped paying attention around the 40 min mark where the content delved into time. I did enjoy his analysis on the different ideologies of the 20th century though. So he was basically theorizing about that age old question of _Free Will vs Determinism._ Which can also be framed as _Man's Will vs God's Will._ This question has been resolved by the Church eons ago: it is God's will to give Man free will to choose to worship and love Him; and because God is life, he who sins opposes God and opposes life, and thus reaps the wages of death. That is why all the ideologies he listed out eventually self-destructed; post-/neo-liberalism is on course to do the same, and so too will his "multi-polar, anti-western" coalition a.k.a. Fourth Political Theory because his theory (proposal really) embraces civilization-states that will persecute Christians at the drop of a hat. The only way he can explain that to the Orthodox russian people is by deepening the schism between East and West: to work at further dividing the One Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church, or at least prevent the schism from ever healing. The Age of the Antichrist is upon us, what has been prophesized must come to pass. Messianic times ahead! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@pj_ytmt-123]

P.S. There is another way to justify forming strategic alliance with antichrist nations, which is to elevate NATIONALISM above faith (as is happening under Putin).

[@ajdinekmescic2638]

Thanks for making this video 🙏🏻

[@thee-wastegamer4044]

Great lecture Really just seems like Dugin is trying to answer the dilemma of objet petit a. For my money he underplays the significance of capitalism's affect on temporality as a whole.

[@ajdinekmescic2638]

Dugin is influenced by Alain de Benoist who wrote a lot about the problems of capitalism and modernity in his book Manifesto for a European Renaissance

[@thee-wastegamer4044]

@@ajdinekmescic2638 i mean more so from the Deleuzean, ie Nick Land perspective. Only albeit

[@danielpincus221]

Just because I hate everything he stands for doesn't mean that I'm not curious to learn what he thinks about this disastrous aggressive war against Ukraine.

[@zoranbeader6441]

Russia is just defending itself. There was no aggression against Ukraine. Ukrainian territory invaded the Russian army. Russia is just defending itself.

[@gregorconnelly8311]

@@zoranbeader6441 ah right, bombing innocent civilians throughout an entire country after illegally claiming land on it equates to defending itself, gotcha

[@Daniel-gq1xy]

Very good video. Always good to take in views of others. Thank you. Excellent video.

[@TheMightyWalk]

Yo that time and dazine 😢 wow

[@mattwarrilow]

Anti-liberalism - rooted in religion / traditions