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In reply to the discussion: The Plan To Carve Up the World Is Underway [View all]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
Dugin disapproves of liberalism and the West, particularly US hegemony.[15] He asserts: "We are on the side of Stalin and the Soviet Union".[50] He describes himself as being a conservative: "We, conservatives, want a strong, solid state, want order and healthy family, positive values, the reinforcing of the importance of religion and the Church in society". He adds: "We want patriotic radio, TV, patriotic experts, patriotic clubs. We want the media that expresses national interests".[51]
According to political scientist Marlène Laruelle, the thinking of Dugin, main manufacturer of a fascism à-la-russe, could be described as a series of concentric circles, with far-right ideologies underpinned by different political and philosophical traditions (Esoteric Nazism, Traditionalism/Perennialism, the German Conservative Revolution and the European New Right) at its backbone.[52]
Dugin adapts Martin Heidegger's notion of Dasein (Existence) and transforms it into a geophilosophical concept.[53] According to Dugin, the forces of liberal and capitalist Western civilization represent what the ancient Greeks called ὕβρις (hubris), "the essential form of titanism" (the anti-ideal form), which opposes Heaven ("the ideal formin terms of space, time, being" . In other words, the West would summarize "the revolt of the Earth against Heaven". To what he calls the West's "atomizing" universalism, Dugin contrasts an apophatic universalism, expressed in the political idea of "empire".[53] Values of democracy, human rights and individualism are considered by him not to be universal but uniquely Western.[54]
According to political scientist Marlène Laruelle, the thinking of Dugin, main manufacturer of a fascism à-la-russe, could be described as a series of concentric circles, with far-right ideologies underpinned by different political and philosophical traditions (Esoteric Nazism, Traditionalism/Perennialism, the German Conservative Revolution and the European New Right) at its backbone.[52]
Dugin adapts Martin Heidegger's notion of Dasein (Existence) and transforms it into a geophilosophical concept.[53] According to Dugin, the forces of liberal and capitalist Western civilization represent what the ancient Greeks called ὕβρις (hubris), "the essential form of titanism" (the anti-ideal form), which opposes Heaven ("the ideal formin terms of space, time, being" . In other words, the West would summarize "the revolt of the Earth against Heaven". To what he calls the West's "atomizing" universalism, Dugin contrasts an apophatic universalism, expressed in the political idea of "empire".[53] Values of democracy, human rights and individualism are considered by him not to be universal but uniquely Western.[54]
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Yes there is only one reason to put a psychotic, paranoid drug addict in charge of US health and welfare.
Irish_Dem
Dec 25
#14
And the charlatan Oz who will privatize Medicare completely and sweep Medicaid to the curb.
erronis
Dec 25
#15
What they say on T.V. and what they do in their own lives is usually very different.
erronis
Dec 25
#19
It is already like all genres rolled into one: comedy, tragedy, science fiction, etc.
Irish_Dem
Dec 25
#39
Appears that way. Not sure they can succeed but they'll inflict a lot of pain trying.
erronis
Dec 25
#24
Actually makes about as much sense as anything. Emperors want an empire. n/t
Liberal In Texas
Dec 25
#33