Tag: Alexander Dugin

[2016] One of Russia’s looniest far-right ideologues endorses Donald Trump

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Aleksandr Dugin’s neo-imperialist “Eurasianism” provided ideological support for Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
— Read on www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11142048/dugin-russia-trump-endorse

Dugin is no longer relevant to Putin!

But when I met with Dugin’s own allies in Moscow last spring, I found that they were isolated and despondent, and no longer considered Putin an ally — but rather saw him as their enemy.

It turns out that Dugin had been dumped by the Russian establishment in 2014, just as his usefulness ran out. Putin had stopped short of overtly invading Ukraine, infuriating Dugin and other far-right leaders who wanted Russia to take part or all of Ukraine. When those far-right leaders agitated for escalation, using their newfound public influence to pressure Putin, the Kremlin put them down.

In June 2014, Putin formally rescinded an earlier order that had granted Russia legal authority to invade Ukraine — indicating he would not invade overtly. The next week, as part of a larger crackdown on far-right voices, Dugin was expelled from his prestigious job at Moscow State University.

But in spring 2015, when I traveled to Moscow, I found the once-triumphant Duginists and ultranationalists no longer saw Putin as an ally, and even considered him a traitor to the cause. Some had been pressured by security services, which they took as a sign that their views were no longer tolerated. Meanwhile, Putin had largely dropped his grand Eurasianist rhetoric.

In retrospect, it seems likely that Putin’s short-lived embrace of Duginism was opportunistic and superficial.

[2016] ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ has lauded Donald Trump as a ‘sensation’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“I think his influence is greatly exaggerated — in the first place, by himself,” Dr. Daniel Treisman, a UCLA political scientist and author of The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev, told ThinkProgress. “There is a great temptation to find a ‘thinker’ behind every ‘political actor.’ If the ideas of a certain writer correspond to some of the actions of a given political leader, then that is often considered proof of influence. Inconsistencies are ignored. And then, purveyors of extreme political ideologies are often good at self-promotion.”

Dugin may have been one of a litany of radical right wing ideologues supportive of Putin’s annexation of Crimea — but it seems that when Putin stopped needing their backing, he turned on them. In mid-2014 Dugin lost his job at Moscow University, where he headed the sociology department.

Max Fisher, then of Vox, traveled to Russia in spring 2015 to meet Dugin’s cohorts; he said they were “isolated and despondent, and no longer considered Putin an ally — but rather saw him as their enemy.”
— Read on thinkprogress.org/putins-rasputin-has-lauded-donald-trump-as-a-sensation-8de320369bc1/

[2018] Russian and American Far Right Connections: Confluence, Not Influence

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

(PONARS Policy Memo) The current U.S. debate on Russia is shaped by conspiratorial narratives that see Russia meddling in almost every issue of U.S. political life. This frenzy is reinforced by the fact that Republicans and Democrats now share a relatively similar anti-Russia agenda that is inspired by Cold War “Red Scare” rhetoric. One conspiratorial narrative revolves around connections between Russia and part of the American far right.
— Read on www.ponarseurasia.org/node/9641

[2004] Alexander Dugin’s Foundation of Geopolitics – John B. Dunlop

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/Geopolitics.pdf

Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics Dunlop, John B. Demokratizatsiya 12.1 (Jan 31, 2004): 41.

John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His current research focuses on the conflict in Chechnya, Russian politics since 1985, Russia and the successor states of the former Soviet Union, Russian nationalism, and the politics of religion in Russia.

Modern Populism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The people is neither left nor right. The people stands all at once for order and for freedom, for a powerful state and for social justice, for strength and for continuous holiday. The people easily unites opposites without even noticing. The people lives according to a particular logic that has nothing to do with the norms of modern political science or sociology. The people is always not what others think about it. It does not lend itself to be calculated or counted. It proceeds from a different logic than that of the Enlightenment and societies of modernity. In some sense, the people is very ancient. It is nurtured by the juices of eternity.
— Read on eurasianist-archive.com/2017/03/17/modern-populism/

Alexander Dugin

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Below (in alphabetical order) are the works of Alexander Dugin (1962-) available at Eurasianist Internet Archive: “Baron Ungern: God of War” “Carl Schmitt’s 5 Lessons for Russia”  “Counter-Hegemony in the Theory of the Multipolar World” “Counter-Initiation: Critical Remarks on Some Aspects of the Doctrine of René Guénon” “Distributed Heartland: Towards a Multipolar Geopolitics ” “Dugin in Shanghai: International…
— Read on eurasianist-archive.com/alexander-dugin-2/

[2010] Alexander Dugin and the teachings of Traditionalism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

If only because of Evola’s influence on the far right, Alexander Dugin’s traditionalism seems highly incompatible with the socialist ideology of Doğu Perinçek. At the same time Perinçek’s Marxism and Kemalism must be among the modernist ideologies rejected by Dugin. However, both respect each other; did come to an agreement; and even share a political program. The magic word is (neo) nationalism, for this ideology is known for its power to build bridges between the most opposed ways of thinking. Even between the far right and the radical left.
— Read on www.conspiracyschool.com/alexander-dugin-and-teachings-traditionalism

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