Dugin was an early member of the Communist ‘National Bolshevik’ (NazBol) party.. I've seen him referred to as fascist, nationalistic, anti-imperialist, anti-liberal, pro-Christian (specifically Orthodox), traditionalist (capital-T Traditionalism of René Guenon and Julius Evola), somehow beneficial to White nationalists and so on but I'm not so sure.

'Foundations of Geopolitics' (FoG) is Dugin’s political strategy document, in which he outlines highly detailed plans on how to create a Eurasian empire by subverting foreign nations, it was written for Eurasianists, to benefit Eurasianists. The basic idea of Eurasianism, which is an ideology/movement dating back to the early 1900s, is that Russia belongs to neither Europe nor Asia and, therefore, must expand to conquer both. Eurasianism wasn’t necessarily synonymous with Bolshevism but there was a lot of crossover between the two. Not all Eurasianists were Bolsheviks but all Bolsheviks were Eurasianists.

Main aims in FoG:

• Create chaos in the West (especially America) to cause its collapse.
• Promote pro-Russian and pro-Eurasianist attitudes in White countries.
• Increase globalism via the creation of superstates (like the European Union).
• Promote Islam in a positive light.
• Promote relationships and alliances with Muslim countries.
• Cut off “Atlanticist” (Anglosphere) states from other White countries.
• Create a “Multipolar World” – AKA, move the power base from the West (Atlantic, USA) to the East (Eurasia, Russia).
• Utilizing racial minorities (but also racists) to cause disruption and chaos within “Atlanticist” territories.
• Isolation of the Anglosphere (or the “Atlanticists”) from the rest of their European brethren.
• The merging of various (mostly European) countries to create larger geopolitical blocs.
• The necessity of a Russo-Islamist alliance.
• Absorption of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe into Russia itself.
• The creation of a “Third Rome.”
• Dugin really hates Ukraine for some reason.

The 'Fourth Political Theory' (4PT) has been heavily marketed to Westerners by Arktos Media (which publishes and translates Dugin’s work for Western consumption) and other “New Right” or “Alt-Right” influencers. This is where the confusion comes from in the West regarding Dugin. 4PT is not designed for Russian consumption, but to be read by Western nationalists. Dugin’s aim with 4PT is to ideologically subvert nationalists in the West, making them more malleable and likely to assist (passively or actively) him in achieving the political goals he laid out in Foundations of Geopolitics - particularly notable is the manner in which Dugin mutated and completely inverted the Traditionalist School of thought.

• "4PT expands the critique of racism to not only biological racism and nationalism, but into all forms of the acceptance of inequality in human societies, whether based on cultural, religious, technological, or economic grounds. "

• "The dividing line between the European 4PT and the third way [Fascism, Nationalism, etc.]: the refusal of any kind of nationalism, chauvinism, Eurocentirsm, universalism, racism, or xenophobic attitude."

• “One must learn to build an international system on the basis of broad and thoughtful social and cultural anthropology and not on the basis of Western-style American-European cultural racism”

• "Thus, modern Gramscianism calls for a counter-hegemonic bloc, a Global Revolutionary Alliance, that brings together all […] those who oppose the hegemony of Euro-centrism and racism." - Antonio Gramsci was a communist who invented the ‘Long March through the institutions of power’ form of political entryism favored by the Frankfurt School and utilized by Communists in the West from the 1950s onward.

-Dugin, Putin vs Putin: Vladimir Putin Viewed from the Right, 2014

• "Every westerner is a racist… Western civilization is a racist, ethnocentric civilization…" - Dugin via Der Spiegel, Every Westerner is a Racist, 2014

• “If in Ukraine energy in the Maidan was Russophobia of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, without which Maidan would not acquired such a radical form of staging a coup, in Europe the same fuel of hatred will become the hatred of nationalists towards immigrants, to Islam and to LGBT.”' -Dugin, Horizons of our Revolution. From Crimea to Lisbon, 2014

• “human rights is a classic racist theory, because in this theory of human rights, the Western concept of the human is taken as a norm.” -Dugin via 4PT, Vladimir Posner Interviews Alexander Dugin, 2014

• “I can’t defend the concept of the nation, because the idea of the “nation” is a bourgeois concept concocted as a part of modernity in order to destroy traditional societies (empires) and religions”

• Dugin, in Foundations of Eurasianism, 2015: “An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.” -Dugin, On “White Nationalism” & Other Potential Allies in the Global Revolution, 2013

FoG = Mask Off = Duginism-For-Me (For Eurasianists) = Influential among elites of Russia.

4PT = Mask On = Duginism-For-Thee (For the enemies/subjects of Eurasianists) = Promoted in the West by the Alt-Right, New Right, and Identitarians (specifically European Identitarians).

Dugin is a bolshevist LARPing as a far-right nationalist.