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Alexander Dugin: “American Liberalism Must be Destroyed”

Alexander Dugin: “American Liberalism Must be Destroyed”

Do American students really need lectures from a person who believes that American liberalism must be destroyed?

This is exactly what Russian philosopher and Professor Alexander Dugin is going to teach young American minds on April 29, 2015 at Texas A&M University.

The title for this event: “American Liberalism Must be Destroyed: Insights from Professor Alexander Dugin, Kremlin Insider and Informal Adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin."

I think that the freedom of speech in America is getting abused now but people who instill in young generation ideas that will lead to major conflict and even wars in the future.

Facebook invite, organized by Preston Wigginton or Wiginton (there are two different spellings of his name in a text of the invite), calls everyone interested to join this discussion on the Internet.

According to Facebook, Mr. Wigginton/Wiginton has been to Russia 16 times. He went there to “find a wife and buy a land to start a cattle ranch or a dairy farm.” On his way, he “met with many Russian political leaders” and now he tells American students about Russia like no other American ever did.   

Professor A. Dugin wrote many controversial books. These two are the most prominent: “The Fourth Political Theory” and “Putin v. Putin.” He will be discussing these books with students in his online lecture. The current war in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimean will be also on the table.

There are tons of questions and articles written by the Western media asking one simple question why Putin does what he does and what his next move. It is simple. He feeds of Dugin’s ideology and his thoughts. He is under a great influence of people like A. Dugin who think that American liberalism must be destroyed. Unfortunately, the Western media did not pay much attention to Russian philosophers like A. Dugin but they are the core of Russian politics, especially nowadays. It is right to analyze Putin’s actions, but it is necessary to learn the causes of such actions, their roots. May be then it will be easy to prevent disasters.   

The “mission” of recapturing Crimea was also based on Duglin’s philosophy. Not so long ago, Dugin addressed America people in his “Letter to American People on Ukraine.” It is a long and shocking letter. Read the full letter here.

On March 31, 2014 Alexander Dugin was described by Foreign Affairs as “Putin’s Brain.” Where Anton Barbashin and Hannah Thoburn argued that “Russian conservatives advocate for state power and see individuals as serving that state. They draw on a long tradition of Russian imperial conservatism and, in particular, Eurasianism. That strain is authoritarian in essence, traditional, anti-American, and anti-European; it values religion and public submission. And more significant to today’s headlines, it is expansionist.”

On June 18, 2014 Robert Zubrin wrote an article where he analyzed “The Fourth Political Theory.” He concluded that “Dugin’s Eurasianism is a satanic cult”. Zubrin also said that that ideology was “behind the Putin regime’s “Eurasian Union” project. Without Ukraine, Dugin’s fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later Russia itself will have join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe.”

Zubrin stressed that “Most Americans don’t know anything about Alexander Dugin. They need to, because Dugin is the mad philosopher who is redesigning the brains of much of the Russian government and public, filling their minds with a new hate-ridden totalitarian ideology whose consequences can only be catastrophic in the extreme, not only for Russia, but for the entire human race.

Robert Zubrin brought up very important book “The American Empire Should Be Destroyed”: Alexander Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology, by James Heiser. Ed Dutton with Quarterly Review says: “... “The American Empire Should be Destroyed” provides a well-written history of the rise of Dugin and his influence on Russian politics. Likewise, it convincingly makes the case that the West needs to wake up to the threat which Dugin’s philosophy poses when it is advocated, in part, by the Russian elite.”

Read Robet Zubrin's full article here.

We definitely have a lot to think about. We cannot brush off these threatening warning signs any more.

I want to give you a direct quote from Facebook post about Alexander Dugin by Preston Wigginton/ Wiginton. It is long but it perfectly sums up current Russian politics and Putin’s thinking. It also gives a short description of Dugin’s two books.

“According to Alexander Dugin, the twenty-first century will be defined by the conflict between Eurasianists and Atlanticists. The Eurasianists defend the need for every people and culture on Earth to be allowed to develop in its own way, free of interference, and in accordance with their own particular values. Eurasianists thus stand for tradition and for the blossoming variety of cultures, and a world in which no single power holds sway over all the others. Opposing them are the Atlanticists. They stand for ultra-liberalism in both economics and values, stopping at nothing to expand their influence to every corner of the globe, unleashing war, terror, and injustice on all who oppose them, both at home and abroad. This camp is represented by the United States and its allies around the world, who seek to maintain America’s unipolar hegemony over the Earth. The Eurasianists believe that only a strong Russia, working together with all those who oppose Atlanticism worldwide, can stop them and bring about the multipolar world they desire. This book introduces their basic ideas. Eurasianism is on the rise in Russia today, and the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies are largely based on its tenets, as has been acknowledged by Vladimir Putin himself. It is reshaping Russia’s geopolitics, and its influence is already changing the course of world history.

"The Fourth Political Theory" states that all the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted. The world today finds itself on the brink of a post-political reality - one in which the values of liberalism are so deeply embedded that the average person is not aware that there is an ideology at work around him. As a result, liberalism is threatening to monopolize political discourse and drown the world in a universal sameness, destroying everything that makes the various cultures and peoples unique. According to Alexander Dugin, what is needed to break through this morass is a fourth ideology - one that will sift through the debris of the first three to look for elements that might be useful, but that remains innovative and unique in itself. Dugin does not offer a point-by-point program for this new theory, but rather outlines the parameters within which it might develop and the issues which it must address. Dugin foresees that the Fourth Political Theory will use the tools and concepts of modernity against itself, to bring about a return of cultural diversity against commercialisation, as well as the traditional worldview of all the peoples of the world - albeit within an entirely new context. Written by a scholar who is actively influencing the direction of Russian geopolitical strategy today, The Fourth Political Theory is an introduction to an idea that may well shape the course of the world's political future.

In "Putin vs. Putin" Prof Alexander Dugin thinks that Vladimir Putin stands at a crossroads. Throughout his career as the President of Russia, Putin has attempted to balance two opposing sides of his political nature: one side is a liberal democrat who seeks to adopt Western-style reforms in Russia and maintain good relations with the United States and Europe, and the other is a Russian patriot who wishes to preserve Russia's traditions and reassert her role as one of the great powers of the world. According to Dugin, this balancing act cannot go on if Putin wishes to enjoy continuing popular support among the Russian people. Putin must act to preserve Russia's unique identity and sovereignty in the face of increasing challenges, both from Russian liberals at home and from foreign powers. Russia is no longer strong enough to stand on her own, he writes. In order to do this, Russia must cooperate with other dissenting powers who oppose the new globalist order of liberalism to bring about a multipolar world, in which no single nation wields supreme power, but rather several major powers keep each other in balance. Russia is crucial to this effort, in Dugin's view, and indeed, its own survival as a unique and independent civilization is dependent on a geopolitical shift away from the unipolar world represented by America's unchecked supremacy.

With Russia in the news often lately, please take this opportunity to hear it "from the horses mouth" concerning current affairs and the future direction of Russia.”

I am not going to give you my conclusions. There is more than enough material here for you to make up your own mind about what going to happen next. I want to say only one thing that I highly doubt that an American professor can go to Russia and teach students that the West doesn't want to harm Russia and it is not the center of all evil.