Global leadership; American question and Russian answer”
A summary of the contents of an interview conducted by the famous American presenter Klaus Schwab with the famous Russian Philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.
Carlson initially introduces Dugin as a 62-year-old Russian academic philosopher. An anti-Soviet as a young man, he lives in Moscow and is no longer a political figure. The ideas of “Dugin” are deeply offensive to some people. Carlson does not identify Dugin as a close advisor to Vladimir Putin or as a military leader, but as a writer about ideas whose books are banned; by the Biden administration in the United States.
“Carlson” regards to the ideas of the English world: the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc., says that they have all decided to stand against this conflict, which is going on in Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. He wants to know where Dugin’s view comes from. Dugin starts with a theoretical view that everything starts with Western individualism, which he believes is a misunderstanding of human nature, because when you define individualism in human nature it means cutting off all their relationships with anything else around. “Duggin’s” idea, therefore, is that the philosophical matter as individual and all in the Anglo Saxon World began with the Protestant Reformation and with nominalism, before which there was no idea.
According to Dugin, individualism is a central concept at the heart of liberal ideology. According to Dugin, liberalism is a political, cultural, historical and philosophical process of freeing the individual from any collective identity that transcends the individual. This begins with the rejection of the Catholic Church as a collective identity of the Western Empire. This was an uprising against the nationalist state as a collective identity rather than in favor of a fully civilized society. After this in the 20th century there was a great war between liberalism, communism and fascism. Dugin reveals that “liberalism” will succeed once again by putting on a new cover, because after the collapse of the Soviet Union there was only liberalism, as Francis Fukuyama shows in The End of History that there is no other ideology.
Dugin first of all calls Putin a traditional leader. He believes that after coming to power, Putin began to remove Russia from global hegemony and influence. So “Putin” began to confront and oppose the global progressive agenda and the people who supported the Soviet Union who were ultimately progressive, so they feel that they are now dealing with someone who does not share this progressive agenda and tried to restore traditional values and state sovereignty.
That wasn’t obvious from the outside in the beginning, but as “Putin” insisted more and more on this traditional agenda, like spirituality on Russian civilization as a kind of global special zone that now bears very little resemblance to progressive ideals. So recently, a year ago “Putin” issued a decree for the political defense of traditional values. According to Dugin, this was a turning point because the progressive site in the West had understood Putin from the beginning of his rule. So, this hatred isn’t just a normal, moody thing he has against it. In the last prediction of “Dugin” in the main possibility of destroying traditional values, relationships and beliefs, on the other hand, someone who stands strong with nuclear weapons to defend traditional values that are going to be abolished, therefore he believes there is some basis for this Russiaphobia. So he doesn’t see it as a coincidence, and it’s not just an irrational shift from Soviet proximity to Russiaphobia, but something deeper.
