By Aleksandr Dugin
The West is clinging to the
impossible dream of hegemony, Russian
philosopher tells RT
March 17, 2023:
Information Clearing House
-- The conflict in
Ukraine is the world’s “first multipolar
war,” in which Russia is fighting for the
right of every civilization to choose its own
path while the West wishes to maintain its
totalitarian hegemonic globalism, Aleksandr
Dugin told RT in an exclusive interview on
Friday.
Multipolarity is “not against the West as
such,” Dugin said, but “against the
claim of the West to be the model, to be the
unique example” of history and human
understanding. The current Russophobia and
hatred of Russia, he argued, are a relic of Cold
War thinking and the “bipolar understanding
of the architecture of international
relations.”
When the Soviet Union self-destructed in
December 1991, it left the “global Western
liberal civilization” in control of the
world, Dugin noted. This hegemon is now refusing
to accept the future in which it would be
“not one of the two, but one of [the] few
poles,” put in its proper place as
“just a part, not the whole, of humanity.”
Dugin described the West as “pure
totalitarian liberalism,” which pretends to
have the absolute truth and seeks to impose it
on everyone. “There is inherent racism in
Western liberalism,” the philosopher told
RT’s Donald Courter, because it “identifies
the Western historical, political, cultural,
experience [as] universal.”
“Nothing universal exists in
multipolarity,” Dugin insisted, explaining
that each civilization can and should develop
its own values. Russia specifically needs to
overcome centuries of Western ideological
dominance, he said, and create something
“new, fresh, creative” that would
nonetheless stand “in direct refutation of
the Western liberal hegemony, against open
society, against individualism, against liberal
democracy.”
He rejected the “dogmatic”
approaches of Marxism, fascism or liberalism to
politics and economics, saying that Russia ought
to strive for a “holistic” approach in
which the spiritual would be more important than
the material. Obsession with material goods ends
up enslaving people, Dugin told RT.
Dugin lamented the December 1991 collapse of
the Soviet Union as a “suicide”
perpetrated by the power-hungry bureaucrats in
Moscow. He echoed Russian President Vladimir
Putin’s description of it as a “geopolitical
disaster” and described it as a major
victory for “Sea Power.” While the USSR
was the polar opposite of the Russian Empire in
terms of ideology, he explained, in geopolitical
terms the two were one and the same, the
strongest power in what English geographer
Harold Mackinder described as the global
Heartland.
While some Western observers have dubbed
Dugin “Putin’s brain,” the 60-year-old
philosopher and author has
no official relationship with the Kremlin.
He is an outspoken supporter of the current
military operation in Ukraine – whose
independence he considers a Western imperial
project aimed against Russian sovereignty.
Dugin’s daughter Darya, 29, was assassinated
in August by a car bomb planted by Ukrainian
agents. Though Kiev has officially denied it, US
intelligence officials
later said they believe someone in the
Ukrainian government was responsible.
- December 31, 2022 at 03:40AM - RT
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