Alexander Dugin

Alexander Dugin.

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin (born January 7, 1962) is an influential anti-liberal Russian Eurasianist author, politician, and analyst. He is often considered "Putin's Brain".

Dugin was a dissident in the Soviet Union, who was arrested by the KGB and expelled from his studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1983. He continued to support his private studies in traditionalist philosophy by working as a street sweeper. He later became a journalist and joined Pamyat, the first fascist party to emerge during the twilight years of the Soviet Union.

He became a supporter of National Bolshevism and a main organizer of the National Bolshevik Party, together with founder Eduard Limonov, more recently founding the Eurasia Party. He is an influential political analyst more generally in Russia, especially regarding Eurasianist views. He is an informal advisor to Vladimir Putin.

Background

A major online encyclopedia very prominently alleges that he is "known for hisfascistviews". While he is sometimes described as having supported certain Fascist views, possibly in particular in his early views, he has criticized various aspects of National Socialism and has stated certain race denialist views. His book The Fourth Political Theory (2009) states a Theory intended to supersede liberal democracy, Marxism, and Fascism. Moreover, he has supported the recent "Denazification" of Ukraine, has labeled gender a social construct and associated with pro-Gender-Ideology individuals. A cause for his erroneous label as "Fascist" is his largely Traditionalist position, which, however, isn't even Fascist.

Moreover, the Russian government officially supports civic nationalism, has banned and imprisoned individuals/organizations/books associated with fascism, White nationalism, anti-Loxism, and "Holohoax denial". One example is that the "Federal List of Extremist Materials" has banned manyfascistbooks, both by non-Russian and Russian fascists. There are strong laws against Hate Speech, Crimes and Holohoax Denial within the Russian Federation and over 6000 Fascists are jailed within its prisons.

Dugin has had associations with the Conservative Revolutionary movement and the European New Right and has published a journal titled Elementy (compare Éléments).

He, especially in his youth, has been claimed to have had an interest in various esoteric views, including occultism. He has been influenced by the Traditionalist School and supports a form of the Russian Orthodox Church, but has also been claimed to have associations with Russian paganism and, to a much lesser extent, satanism.

Dugin is the author of many books, with several having been published in English by Arktos.

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin (Template:Lang-rus; born January 7, 1962) is a Russian philosopher, analyst, and strategist known for views widely characterized as fascist.

Considered by some in the West to be "Putin's brain," or "Putin's philosopher," Dugin is believed by some to have been the brains behind Russia's annexation of Crimea as part of Dugin's advocacy for Ukraine becoming "a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state", which he refers to as Novorossiya. Dugin is also believed to have laid the ideological groundwork for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Dugin calls for a Russian Empire to administer the Eurasian continent.

He was the main organizer of the National Bolshevik Front, the Eurasia Party and, togeTher with Eduard Limonov, Their forerunner, the National Bolshevik Party. He also served as an advisor to the State Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov and a leading member of the ruling United Russia party, Sergey Naryshkin. Dugin is the author of more than 30 books, among Them Foundations of Geopolitics (1997) and The Fourth Political Theory (2009).

Biography

Dugin was born in Moscow, into the family of a colonel-general in the Soviet military intelligence and candidate of law, Geliy Alexandrovich Dugin, and his wife Galina, a doctor and candidate of medicine. His faTher left the family when he was three, but ensured that they had a good standard of living, and helped Dugin out of trouble with the authorities on occasion. He was transferred to the customs service due to his son's behaviour in 1983. In 1979, Aleksandr entered the Moscow Aviation Institute, but was expelled. Afterwards, he began working as a street cleaner and used a forged reader's card to access the Lenin Library and continue studying. However, other sources claim he instead started working in a KGB archive, where he had access to banned literature on Masonry,fascismand paganism.

In 1980, Dugin joined the "Yuzhinsky group", an avant-garde dissident group which dabbled in Satanism and other forms of the occult. In the group, he was known for his embrace of National Socialism which he attributes to a rebellion against his Soviet raising, as opposed to genuine sympathy for Hitler. He adopted an alter ego with the name of "Hans Siever", a reference to Wolfram Sievers, a researcher of the paranormal. Studying by himself, he learned to speak Italian, German, French, English and Spanish. He also discovered the writings of Julius Evola in the V. I. Lenin State Library, and adopted the beliefs of the Traditionalist School.

Dugin's first wife was Evgenia Debryanskaya, a Russian activist. they have a son they called Artur, who they named in honor of Arthur Rimbaud.

Influences

• Benoist
• Evola
• Guénon
• Haushofer
• Heidegger
• Hobson
• Kalajić
• Kitsikis
• Lenin
• Mackinder
• Marx
• Niekisch
• Nietzsche
• Scholem
• Schmitt
• Spengler
• Stalin
• Ustryalov
• Weber
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• ru (Valeri Korovin)
• Limonov
• Spencer

Career and political views

Early activism

In the 1980s, Dugin was a dissident and an anti-communist. Dugin worked as a journalist before becoming involved in politics just before the fall of communism. In 1988, he and his friend Geydar Dzhemal joined the ultrafascist group Pamyat (Memory), which would later give rise to Russian fascism.

Stance on Ukraine

Dugin supports Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign policies but has opposed the Russian government's economic policies. He stated in 2007: "There are no more opponents of Putin's course and, if There are, they are mentally ill and need to be sent off for clinical examination. Putin is everywhere, Putin is everything, Putin is absolute, and Putin is indispensable". It was voted number two in flattery by readers of Kommersant.

In The Kremlin, Dugin represents the "war party", a division within the leadership over Ukraine. Dugin is an author of Putin's initiative for the annexation of Crimea by Russia. He considered the war between Russia and Ukraine to be inevitable and appealed for Putin to intervene in the War in Donbas. Dugin said: "The Russian Renaissance can only stop by Kiev."

Dugin stated he was disappointed in President Putin, saying that Putin did not aid the pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine after the Ukrainian Army's early July 2014 offensive. In August 2014, Dugin called for an eradication of Ukrainian identity.

Before war broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008, Dugin visited South Ossetia and predicted: "Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway." Afterwards he said Russia should "not stop at liberating South Ossetia but should move furTher," and "we have to do something similar in Ukraine." In September 2008, after the Russian-Georgian war, he did not hide his anger towards Putin, who "dared not drop the other shoe" and "restore the Empire."

On 10 October 2014, Dugin said, "Only after restoring the Greater Russia that is the Eurasian Union, we can become a credible global player. Now These processes slowed down very much. the Ukrainian maidan was the response of the West to the advance of the Russian integration." He described the Euromaidan as a coup d'état carried out by the United States: "America wishes to wage the war against Russia not by its own hands but by the hands of the Ukrainians. Promising to wink at up to 10 thousand victims among the peaceful population of Ukraine and actually demanding the victims, the United States led to this war. the United States carried out the coup d'état during the maidan for the purpose of this war. the United States raised Russophobes to the power for the purpose of this war."

Dugin said Russia is the major driving force for the current events in Ukraine: "Russia insists on its sovereignty, its liberty, responds to challenges thrown down to it, for example, in Ukraine. Russia is attempting to integrate the post-Soviet space." As Israeli political scientist Vyacheslav Likhachov states, "If one seriously takes the fact that such a person as Alexander Dugin is the ideologist of the imperial dash for the West, Then one can establish that Russia is not going to stop as far as the Atlantic Ocean."

In the 2014 article by Dmitry Bykov "Why TV, Alexander Dugin and Galina Pyshnyak crucified a boy", Channel One Russia's use of the aired story about the crucified boy as escalating the conflict was compared to the case of Beilis. On 9 July 2014, Dugin on his Facebook account reported an incident of a 6-year-old child who was nailed down to an advertisement board and shot to death before his faTher's eyes.

On 16 July 2014, Novaya Gazeta provided a videotape of correspondent (((Eugen Feldman))) supposedly walking along the main square in Sloviansk, asking apparently random "local old women" if they had heard of the murder of the child. they said such an event did not take place. Many denounced the video as "terrible acting" reminicent of old KGB propaganda. the website Change.org hosted a petition of citizens who demanded "a comprehensive investigation with identification for all persons involved in the fabrication of the plot."

On October 2, 2014, Dugin described the situation in Donbas: "The humanitarian crisis has long since been raging on the territory of Novorossiya. Already up to a million, if not more, refugees are in the Russian Federation. A large part of the inhabitants of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic simply moved abroad." In the end of October 2014, Dugin advised the separatists to establish an administration in Novorossiya until they win in the confrontation.

Foreign groups

Dugin made contact with the French thinker Alain de Benoist in 1990. Around the same time he also met the Belgian Jean-François Thiriart and Yves Lacoste. In 1992 he invited some of the European Right-wing figures he had met into Russia. He has also has brought members of Jobbik and Golden Dawn to Russia in order to strengThen Their ties to the country.

According to the book War for Eternity by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Dugin met Steve Bannon in Rome in 2018 to discuss Russia's geopolitical relationships with the United States and China, as well as Traditionalist philosophy. Dugin also developed links with Right-wing and far-left political parties in the European Union, including Syriza in Greece, Ataka in Bulgaria, the Freedom Party of Austria, and Front National in France, to influence EU policy on Ukraine and Russia.Template:R Dugin is also closely aligned with Israeli journalist Avigdor Eskin, who previously served on the board of Dugin's Eurasia Party.

Fifth column

The legitmate idea of a "fifth column" as foreign agents is used by Dugin for political critisism in many publications. In his 2014 interview published by Vzglyad and Komsomolskaya Pravda, he says, "A huge struggle is being conducted. And, of course, Europe has its own fifth column, its own Bolotnaya Square-minded people. And if we have Them sitting idly and doing nasty things on Dozhd, Europe is indeed dominated and ruled by the fifth column in full swing."

Dugin proposes to deprive the fifth column of Russian citizenship and deport the group from Russia: "I believe it is necessary to deport the fifth column and deprive Them of Their citizenship." However, in 2007, Dugin argued, "There are no longer opponents of Putin's policy, and if There are, they are mentally ill and should be sent to psychological health examination." In 2014, Dugin in an interview to Der Spiegel confirmed that he considers the opponents of Putin to be mentally ill.

In one of his publications, Dugin introduced the term The sixth column and defined it as "The fifth column which just pretends to be something different", those who are in favor of Putin, but demand that he stand for liberal values (as opposed to the liberal fifth column, which is specifically against Putin). During the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Dugin said that all the Russian sixth column stood up staunchly for Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. As he asserts, "We need to struggle against the fifth and sixth columns."

According to Dugin, the whole Internet should be banned: "I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good." He added: "If we want to liberate ourselves from the West, it is needed to liberate ourselves from textbooks on physics and chemistry."

Dugin has characterized his position on the Ukrainian conflict as "firm opposition to the Junta and Ukrainian Nazism that are annihilating peaceful civilians" as well as rejection of liberalism and US hegemony.

Departmental head position

During the 2014 war in Ukraine, Dugin also lost the offered post Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of the Faculty of Sociology of the Moscow State University (while being Deputy Head since 2009). In 2014, a petition entitled "We demand the dismissal of MSU Faculty of Sociology Professor A. G. Dugin!" was signed by over 10,000 people and sent to the MSU rector Viktor Sadovnichiy.

The petition was started after Dugin's interview in which he said in relation to when anti-Russian Communists burned in a building in Odessa on 2 May 2014: ("But what we see on May 2nd is beyond any limits. Kill Them, kill Them, kill Them. There should not be any more conversations. As a professor, I consider it so"). While he was talking about "those who perpetrated lawlessness on May 2nd", media interpreted this as a call to kill Ukrainians.

Dugin was reported to have been fired from this post. the university later claimed the offer of the position of the department head resulted from a technical error and was Therefore cancelled, and that he would remain a professor and deputy department head under contract until September 2014. Dugin wrote the statement of resignation from the faculty staff to be reappointed to the Moscow State University staff due to the offered position of department head, but since the appointment was cancelled he was no longer a staff member of the faculty nor a staff member of the Moscow State University (The two staff memberships are formally different at the MSU).

Tsargrad TV

Dugin was named Chief Editor of Tsargrad TV by businessman Konstantin Malofeev soon after the TV station's founding in 2015.

Sanctions

On 11 March 2015, the United States Department of the Treasury added Dugin to its list of Russian citizens who are sanctioned as a result of Their involvement in the Ukrainian crisis; his Eurasian Youth Union was targeted too. In June 2015, Canada added Dugin to its list of sanctioned individuals.

On 3 March 2022 the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned the outlet Template:Interlanguage link due to its alleged control by Dugin. Additionally, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Dugin's daughter Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina on the basis of her work as chief editor of the website United World International (UWI). According to the United States Department of the Treasury, UWI was developed as part of Project Lakhta, owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is held responsible for part of the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Dugin's works

Several of Dugin's books have been published by the publishing house Arktos Media, an English-language publisher for Traditionalist and New Right books.

• The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset, Arktos (2021)
• Political Platonism, Arktos (2019)
• Ethnos and Society, Arktos (2018)
• Konflikte der Zukunft – Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik, Bonus (2015)
• Noomahia: voiny uma. Tri Logosa: Apollon, Dionis, Kibela, Akademicheskii proekt (2014)
• Yetnosociologiya, Akademicheskii proekt (2014)
  • Ethnosociology, Arktos (2019)
• Martin Hajdegger: filosofija drugogo Nachala, Akademicheskii proekt (2013)
  • Martin Heidegger: the Philosophy of Another Beginning, Washington Summit (2014)
• V poiskah tiomnogo Logosa, Akademicheskii proekt (2013)
• Geopolitika Rossii, Gaudeamus (2012)
  • Last War of the World-Island: the Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia, Arktos (2015)
• Putin protiv Putina, Yauza (2012)
  • Putin vs Putin, Arktos (2014)
• The United States and the New World Order (debate with Olavo de Carvalho), VIDE Editorial (2012)
• Chetvertaya Politicheskaya Teoriya, Amfora (2009)
  • The Fourth Political Theory, Arktos (2012)
  • Die Vierte Politische Theorie, Arktos (2013)
  • The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory, Arktos (2017)
• Evrazijskaja missija, Eurasia (2005)
  • Eurasian Mission: An Introduction to Neo-Eurasianism, Arktos (2014)
• Pop-kultura i znaki vremeni, Amphora (2005)
• Filosofiya voiny, Yauza (2004)
• Absoliutnaia rodina, Arktogeia-tsentr (1999)
• Tampliery proletariata: natsional-bol'shevizm i initsiatsiia, Arktogeia (1997)
• Osnovy geopolitiki: geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii, Arktogeia (1997)
• Metafizika blagoi vesti: Pravoslavnyi ezoterizm, Arktogeia (1996)
• Misterii Evrazii, Arktogeia (1996)
• Konservativnaia revoliutsiia, Arktogeia (1994)
• Konspirologiya (1993)

External links

Arktos

• Former Professor and Advisor to the Kremlin
  • Ethnos and Society
  • Ethnosociology
  • Eurasian Mission: An Introduction to Neo-Eurasianism
  • Last War of the World-Island
  • Political Platonism
  • Putin vs Putin: Vladimir Putin Viewed from the Right
  • Theory/ the Fourth Political Theory
  • Theory/ the Rise of the Fourth Political Theory

Motpol

• Huntington, Fukuyama, and Eurasianism
• Theory-in-europe-by-alexander-dugin/ Some Suggestions Regarding the Prospects for the Fourth Political Theory in Europe
• the Nation-State and the Multipolar World

the Occidental Observer

• Alexander Dugin: the Eurasian Oracle, Part 1 of 2
  • Alexander Dugin: Eurasian Oracle, Part 2 of 2

Eurasianist websites

• Eurasianist Archive
• Journal of Eurasian Affairs
• Movement Eurasia
• PaideumaTV
• the Forth Political Theory