Once relegated to the mere corners of some fringe political currents in Russia that nobody took seriously, we have had the misfortune of being subjected to Dugin in the English-speaking web thanks to the tireless efforts of the patsoc crowd, specifically the Infrared folks, who made it their mission to put communism and the revolution on hold to promote the word of Dugin.
With that in mind, and because I see some people uncritically accepting Dugin as this great figure to look up to (they never actually call him a Marxist) in the name of contrarianism, I figured I was gonna have to actually read Dugin. When the Internet was created and touted as a way to bring people closer together, I’m not sure this is what they had in mind.
Regardless, I have downloaded a PDF of Dugin’s foundational book, The Fourth Political Theory, and I can now look forward to a very good time for the foreseeable future.
Oh no what’s this
Oh shit shit shit
Oh fuck you at this point you’re just trolling
Not only does he offer an absolutely cursed reading of liberalism and communism, he doesn’t even know the history and context of WW2.
Are we sure this guy is actually a scholar? Are we really?
Look, I don’t know if there’s any point to reading more of this. Dugin has a very metaphysical view of the world, that communism, fascism and capitalism are mortal enemies and will always fight each other. He is not a dialectician, he is not a materialist, he is not a Marxist. He is worse than a liberal, he is a neo-fascist: dressing up what is mostly reactionary points of view (with the odd bits of wisdom here and there) in a way that makes it look new.