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Liberalism can only be understood in terms of negation. It is not a constructive force but a rebellion against the notion of authority. Its cornerstone, the much-touted idea of “freedom” (or “free-dumb” for the initiated), is inherently negative, representing freedom from constraints rather than a positive assertion of something beneficial.
Alexander Dugin reveals the deep state as a corrupt Western cabal, infiltrating the U.S. and Europe to manipulate elections, crush populist leaders like Donald Trump, and impose its liberal-globalist agenda by deceitfully posing as a protector of democracy while ruthlessly subverting the will of the people.
In order to assess Russia's role in the unfolding situation around the Gaza Strip, it is necessary to examine the schools of international relations theory (IRT) that prevail in the world today.
Michael Kumpmann examines the roots of liberalism, its connection to the American Founding Fathers, and the ongoing debate over human rights and societal responsibilities.
Russia now has an ideology: traditional values and historical enlightenment. Additionally, it asserts Russia as a state-civilization (the Russian world) in the context of multipolarity. This establishes a vertical, unchanging axis.
Alexander Dugin argues that the presidential debate between Trump and Biden resembled a fresh episode of Beavis and Butt-Head, highlighting America’s immaturity and unfitness to lead the world.
The upcoming presidential elections in the United States, scheduled for 5 November 2024, hold absolute significance. The outcome of these elections will largely determine the fate not only of the United States and even the entire West, but of humanity as a whole. The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war, a full-scale and total third world war between Russia and NATO countries, and the decision of who will lead the White House for the next term will ultimately decide whether humanity will continue to exist or not. Therefore, it is crucial to once again survey the two candidates in this election, understand their platforms and positions.
Liberalism embodies the dominant ideology of modernity. It was the first to appear and will be the last to disappear. In the beginning, liberal thought contraposed an autonomous economy to the morality, politics and society in which it had been formerly embedded. Later, it turned commercial value into the essence of all communal life. The advent of the ‘primacy of quantity’ signalled this transition from market economics to market societies, i.e., the extension of the laws of commercial exchange, ruled by the ‘invisible hand’, to all spheres of existence.
Realists believe that human nature is inherently flawed (a legacy of Hobbes’ anthropological pessimism, and even deeper, echoes of Christian notions of the fall from grace — lapsus in Latin) and cannot be fundamentally corrected. Therefore, egoism, predation, and violence are ineradicable. From this, it is concluded that only a strong state can restrain and organise humans (who, according to Hobbes, are wolves to each other). The state is inevitable and carries the highest sovereignty. Moreover, the state projects the predatory and selfish nature of humans, hence a national state has its interests which are its only considerations.
During the pandemic and politically tense year 2020 (which is now perceived almost as the last century), Alexander Dugin conversed with Dimitri Rode on Aurora Radio. Their text, now published as a book “Right-wing anti-capitalism. Paths of a Sovereign Thought”, was published in a different historical situation. It is even more interesting to reread and rethink these 22 conversations (the number, of course, is not accidental: its symbolism is well known to connoisseurs of Tradition). It would be more correct to call them philosophical dialogues: D.V. Rode (and in one of the conversations also A.V. Kazakov) do not act as passive interviewers, but as accomplices of Socratic maieutics, expressing their own opinions and contributing to the discovery of truth in a philosophical conversation.
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