https://archive.ph/aJPeR
Re Dugin's influence over president Putin:
"In reality Dugin’s proximity to Putin and the scale of his influence over him remains persistently exaggerated for reasons more to do with Dugin’s influence in the West than in Moscow, and the Western elite’s increasingly narcissistic and totalitarian character. Dugin is both the best-known contemporary Russian philosopher and among the most influential philosophers associated with the global reactionary Right. In connecting his positions to Putin the suggestion is floated that this whole school of thought, and ultimately all political dissidence, is directed from Moscow as a subversion strategy, without any real substance, or legitimate grievance, and therefore may be suppressed, as opposed to acknowledged and reckoned with.
For the same reason the 2016 election victory of President Trump and populist dissident movements in Europe are repeatedly connected to Putin. The objective is to refuse democratic legitimacy to what would otherwise register as democratic movements, operating in nominally democratic societies, to suppress them as issues of national security. Likewise the admittedly crass, kickboxing buffoon Andrew Tate is unilaterally and suddenly banned from all social media on the grounds he is becoming too popular. People can longer be trusted to think for themselves, in case they come to conclusions opposing the Western oligarchic elites. This self-incriminating consensus now defines an increasingly repressive and broken Western society."
Re Dugin - fascist:
"With all this in mind Dugin’s translator and political philosopher Michael Millerman’s recent identification of Dugin as anti-fascist is clearly erroneous, as various half-literate regime flunkies have recognised. Nonetheless, it is also true that fascism has a historical and not only a rhetorical meaning, and Millerman is correct to point out Dugin has criticised it. Yet ironically it is precisely the fact of this criticism which makes him especially dangerous. Not unlike Julius Evola, it is precisely because Dugin is not a fascist, that is, not committed to this obviously failed ideology, that there’s an exceptional need to destroy him — and for this purpose “fascist” remains the chief term of art.
Dugin himself criticises fascism along the same lines as Evola as a modern political ideology like communism and liberalism. Dugin rejects in particular the racism of fascism/National Socialism and the idea of superior and inferior races. In The Fourth Political Theory he states his position directly:
“We must definitively reject all forms of racism. Racism is what caused the collapse of National Socialism in the historical, geopolitical, and theoretical sense. This was not only a historical, but also a philosophical collapse. Racism is based on the belief in the innate objective superiority of one human race over another. It was racism, and not some other aspect of National Socialism, that brought about such consequences, leading to immeasurable suffering on both sides, as well as the collapse of Germany and the Axis powers, not to mention the destruction of the entire ideological project of the Third Way. The criminal practice of wiping out entire ethnic groups (Jews, gypsies, and Slavs) based on race was precisely rooted in their racial theory — this is what angers and shocks us about Nazism to this day.”
Nevertheless, Dugin also opposes the utopian liberal project to dissolve racial differences into a post-racial Western individualism, and claims the “ideology of progress is racist in its structure.” Liberalism, not communism or fascism (or what Peter Sloterdijk itemises as left and right fascism) constitutes the principal ideological enemy, for the self-evident reason that communism and fascism are both dead; today they survive only as farcical online delusions.
Liberalism won the battle for modernity in 1945 and 1989. What exists today as globalism is the final stage of liberalism after a millenium-long march, beginning with medieval nominalism, advancing through colonialism and modern capitalism, and currently accelerating into digital post-humanism. “You are still allowed to be human; it is optional,” Dugin told German magazine Deutsche Stimme in January 2021; “Tomorrow, being human will mean the same as being Trumpist or fascist.”"
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