Aleksandr Dugin

[[File:Aleksandr Dugin 13981126000.jpg|thumb|200 px|right|The man behind the slaughter (the invasion of Ukraine).]]
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'''Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin''' (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин) {{lived|1962}} is a [[Russian]] [[third positionist]] who claims to have created a "fourth political theory" beyond [[capitalism]], [[communism]], and [[fascism]], combining the [[bullshit|best]] elements of all three.<ref name=fourth/> Dugin's fourth political theory is just a rehashing of third positionism, something that was described long before Dugin was born.

Most people (except for [[alt-right|a]] [[tankies|few]]) deem him as a hatemonger and [[Nazbol]] who rhetorically promotes [[irredentism|expansionist wars for reclaiming Mother Russia to its former glory]] [[chickenhawk|without ever having gone to any actual wars himself]], despite being (or, much more likely just claiming to be) one of [[Vladimir Putin]]'s pet ideologues.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372353/eurasianist-threat-robert-zubrin The Eurasianist Threat] by Robert Zubrin (March 3, 2014 9:00 AM) ''National Review''.</ref> The [[Nazi]]-[[Stalinist]] part is actually true: his stated political position is [[National Bolshevism]]. Dugin's influences include a variety of [[Antisemitism|anti-semites]] and Nazis: {{wpl|Miguel Serrano||,}} {{wplang|fr|Jean_Parvulesco|Jean Parvulesco,}} and Nazi Party [[philosopher]] {{wpl|Carl Schmitt||.}}<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|89}}

==Ideology==
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Dugin's irredentist view of Russian nationalism is based on the concept of '''Eurasianism''', a concept that he developed from {{wpl|Lev Gumilyov||}} (or Gumilev) by adding Nazi ideology.<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|88}} Eurasianism in Dugin's conception does not regard [[Belarus]] or [[Ukraine]] as independent entities from Russia.<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|93,141}} Dugin's Eurasianism is opposed to the [[rule of law]]; it is opposed to the [[European Union]] and "Atlanticisim" (the US-UK alliance) in principle not based on specific actions; it views the rule of law and Western alliances as [[Jewish]] and is, hence, inherently anti-semitic.<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|89-90}}

Dugin dismissed fellow fascist and Putin's most influential philosopher {{wpl|Ivan Ilyin}} {{lived|1883|1954}} as an inferior philosopher. Despite this, according to [[historian]] Timothy Snyder, "much of Dugin's writing reads like a parody of Ilyin."<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|90}} Putin has referenced all three of them (Ilyin, Gumilev and Dugin) in his attempts to justify his [[autocracy]].<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|88,91}}

In 1993, Dugin co-founded with {{wpl|Eduard Limonov}} the {{wpl|National Bolshevik Party}} of Russia.<ref name=unfreedom/>{{rp|89}}

His most significant accomplishments and notable moments are:
* Writing a book on geopolitics (titled, [[Dunning-Kruger effect|appropriately]] enough, ''Foundations of Geopolitics''<ref>''Основы геополитики: геополитическое будущее России : мыслить пространством'' by Aleksandr Dugin (2000) Арктогея-центр. ISBN 5818600041.</ref><ref>[https://agdugintranslate.gitbook.io/foundations-of-geopolitics/ Foundations of Geopolitics] by Aleksandr Dugin. Machine translation into English.</ref><ref>{{wpa|Foundations of Geopolitics|''Foundations of Geopolitics''}}</ref>) derived from obscure [[Radical traditionalism|radical traditionalist]] and other [[reactionary]] ideologues such as [[Julius Evola]] and Nimrod de Rosario (a believer in {{wpl|Esoteric Neo-Nazism||,}} a weird blend of [[Nazi occultism]], neo-[[Gnosticism]] and [[Theosophy]], claiming that [[Hitler]] was some kind of [[Bullshit|divine being who incarnated to purge the world of degeneracy or whatnot]]), claiming that "tellurocracy" (land-based politics, partially based on [[ley lines]]), is inherently more stable than "thalassocracy" (sea-based politics based on [[pseudohistorical]] [[Atlantis]], and reincarnated as the Western European seaborne [[empire]]s, and then [[NATO]] and the [[US]]-[[UK]] alliance known as {{wpl|Atlanticism}}<ref name=unfreedom>''The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America'' by Timothy Snyder (2018) Tim Duggan Books. ISBN 0525574468.</ref>{{rp|89}}) because the former promotes [[totalitarianism|peace, stability, tradition, and family]] while the latter promotes "[[degeneracy]]" (a.k.a., [[human rights]], [[democracy]], and small-l [[liberalism]], which are somehow bad);
* Writing out his batshit-insane ideology in a book titled ''The Fourth Political Theory'',<ref name=fourth>''Четвертая политическая теория: материалы семинаров и конференций по политологии и политике в современном мире'' by Aleksandr Dugin (2011) MGU. ISBN 536701089X.</ref><ref>{{wpa|The Fourth Political Theory|''The Fourth Political Theory''}}</ref> in which he mixes the philosophies of [[Martin Heidegger]], Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, and the [[Situationism|Situationists]] to outright demand [[World War III]] so that… something or other will prevail;
* Writing a slew of other batshit-insane books where he exalts glorious Mother Russia,<ref>See the Russian Wikipedia article on {{wplang|ru|Дугин,_Александр_Гельевич|Александр Дугин.}}</ref> longs for the [[good old days]] of both [[Stalinism]] ''and'' [[Tsar]]ism, and fiercely denounces the ''very idea'' of [[Ukraine]] (in a very {{wpl|Cosmo Kramer|Kramer-esque}} fashion);
* Enthusiastically endorsing [[Donald Trump]] for [[President of the United States]].<ref>https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11142048/dugin-russia-trump-endorse</ref>
* Meeting and getting interviewed by [[Lauren Southern]] and [[Brittany Pettibone]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180626123600if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbWxA2D_9M Meeting Aleksandr Dugin] by Brittany Pettibone (Jun 8, 2018) ''YouTube'' (archived from June 26, 2018).</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2--OHvxK4 Aleksandr Dugin on Millennials, Modernity and Religion] by 
Lauren Southern (Jun 19, 2018) ''YouTube''.</ref> two [[far-right]] [[pundit]]s who were banned from the UK.

==See also==
*[[Vladimir Putin]] - his supreme leader and who borrowed some of his ideas
*[[Joseph Stalin]] - one of his many idols

==References==
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