Alexander Dugin: The Eurasian Oracle The Eurasian movement, which seeks to restore Russian power and prestige,

is a f orm of National Bolshevism based on the geopolitical theory that Moscow, Berlin, and Paris form a natural political axis and potential power center. Alexander D ugin, the founder of the Eurasian Party, writes: The new Eurasian empire will be constructed on the basic principle of opposition to the common enemy: Atlantici sm and the American New World Order. A multipolar world must replace the current unipolar world currently dominated by the United States. Much has been written over the past several years about the Russian university p rofessor, Alexander Dugin, who has become a prominent Putin advisor although he has no official government position, nor in fact does he have the academic crede ntials to head the Sociology Department at Moscow State University. His advisory role as resident intellectual without portfolio appears to be based on his expe rtise in matters dealing with political philosophies and forms of government. Al though the Russian Federation has a Constitution, the Government is quite new an d untested in many regards. An intellect like Alexander Dugin could certainly be helpful in advising the President on the fundamental laws and principles that p rescribe the nature, function, and limits of both the Russian and foreign govern ments. Dugin, we are told, is an autodidact who has learned nine foreign languages and has immersed himself in 20th-century history and political philosophies as well as a few, rarely mentioned arcane subjects. He has to date associated mostly wit h the proponents of a broad Red-Brown coalition consisting of Russian communists and admirers of certain aspects of German National Socialism. Dugin, despite hi s informal and unorthodox background, is a highly erudite and intelligent indivi dual, seen by most as a political pundit and activist, a geopolitician, a public ist, and spokesman for Russia s Eurasianists. Others, fewer in number, dismiss him as a mystic, an occultist, and a former member of a privileged family of the fo rmer Communist regime.

For several centuries the Russian Empire and later the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the largest empire on Earth with contiguous borders. The British Empire was worldwide, but scattered. Throughout Russia s history, which in many re spects paralleled that of the United States (both nations are outgrowths of Euro pe, Russia s empire expanded to the East as far as California while the United Sta tes expanded to the West and the North to Russian Alaska). Both peoples Russian and American have a sense of manifest destiny, namely that they are somehow predes tined to occupy a special place among the nations of the world. The Russian people have always been divided on which path to follow to reach tha t special place in the world. Those who have favored close cooperation with the more developed West and a rapid pace of modernization in Russia have traditional ly been referred to as Westernizers. Peter the Great, one of the first, was desp ised by his contemporaries as an antichrist for daring to change some of the old er traditions. The common Russian folk, if not the Eurasianists, for the most pa rt despised the Communists, the most recent proponents of immediate and ruthless modernization, for their large-scale unpopular industrialization projects. Beca use Jews are among the world s most avid modernizers, i.e., enthusiastic critics a nd denigrators of the European past, and because they were so prominent in the C ommunist leadership, they attracted the animus of the common folk for their supp ort and promotion of sometimes reckless modernization projects. Dugin, however, is not an anti-Semite in the familiar sense of the word although he has an abidi ng interest in the Jewish question, especially in Russia, and has written about it extensively.

In the past the opponents of Western modernization in Russia were called Slavoph iles because they believed that the very nature of Slavic identity itself was so mehow preordained to manage and control Russian progress. Great Russian national ism was prevalent and feared by Russia s neighbors as was the spread of pan-Slavis m in Europe. Westernization and modernization, especially when managed by non-Ru ssians, the Slavophiles believe, was always accompanied by corruption of the Mot herland. Yesterday s Slavophiles are today s Eurasians. Eurasians, including Dugin, find the American New World Order destructive of eve rything they cherish: their history, their sovereignty, mores, Orthodox religion , sacred traditions, and culture. They continue to respect Josef Stalin for keep ing Russia strong, separate, and special. Dugin was born in 1962 to a privileged Bolshevik family. His father, Gelizh, was a colonel-general in Soviet Military Intelligence and his mother, Galina, a doc tor. When Alexander dropped out of the Moscow Aviation Institute, his father arr anged a position for him in the KGB archives. It was there, this writer believes , that Dugin received his real education in intelligence work. Of prime importan ce to the development of his later geopolitical views, Dugin studied the works o f Halford John Mackinder, Carl Schmitt, and especially Karl Haushofer and their theories that world history has always been a continuous struggle between Land ( tradition, religion, collectivism) and Sea (progress, atheism, individualism) fo rces. It was Haushofer that had opined in the 1930s: The day when the Germans, Fr enchmen, and Russians unite will be the last day of Anglo-Saxon hegemony. It was this policy of trying to form a firm alliance between Russia and Germany that Ri bbentrop and Molotov, with the support of many high-placed Wehrmacht officers an d German foreign service officials stationed in Moscow, were pursuing in the lat e 1930s and early 1940s, knowing (or believing) that the UK and U.S. would be lo ath to wage war against an alliance of the two strongest Continental powers. After first joining forces with Gennady Zyuganov, Alexander Prokhanov, and Eduar d Limonov, all unrepentant Communists, Dugin helped form the National Bolshevik Front and eventually the Eurasia Party. But these associates and their political parties, although popular among the many Russians who favored the old Communist system over the Casino Capitalism introduced by Boris Yeltsin and his Harvard adv isers, were not part of the new government and therefore had little power. It wa s in this period that Dugin wrote a series of articles on Russian Jewry. As a follower of the Rene Guenon Traditionalist School, Dugin claims to be oppos ed to anti-Semitism, perhaps due to sharing a common ideological basis with the Jews in their Cabbala. He praises Gershom Scholem as the greatest Traditionalist thinker. Dugin on anti-Semitism: I just cannot believe it. Some imaginary masons , the Jews behind every single thing, paranoia, mania of being constantly followed (see here). As an Eurasianist Dugin is fully aware that parts of Russia, in the plains north of the Black Sea, were the ancient cradle of the Indo-European language-speakin g peoples of Europe and the Near East, the so-called Aryans. Jews arrived in Rus sia much later, but by the early 20th Century managed to usurp power over all-th e-Russias through the Communist Revolution. Dugin writes about the fundamental m etaphysical difference between the Aryan and the Jewish mentalities that have ca used difficulties in the past. Dugin: The Jews are the carriers of a religious culture that is deeply distinct fro m all historical displays of Indo-European spirituality from ancient Aryan heath en cults to Hinduism and Christianity. The voluntary or forced seizure of the Je wish diaspora from the Indo-European peoples was not a casual episode of history , and no Orthodox Jew will ever deny the theological underlying reason for Jewis h distinctiveness . The Jews are a community that keeps the secret of its radical d ifferences from other peoples. If we do not admit that distinction, then it is s

imply senseless to speak about the Jewish problem Judaism sees the world as alienated from God, as an exile, as a mechanical l abyrinth, in which wander the chosen people, whose real mission is found not in the famous victories of Joshua, son of Nun or the prophet Ezra, but in the tragi c upheavals of dispersion. In particular the diaspora rather exactly corresponds to the spirit of classical Judaism, drawing an impassable abyss between the Cre ator and Creation Indo-European traditions, including Christianity, which spread out mainly am ong the Indo-Europeans, insist on a completely different vision of the World. Th e Indo-European world is a living reality, which is connected directly with God or, at least, with the Son of God. Even in the darkest times, in the Wolf Age, a bout which the Nordic tradition speaks, the connection between Creation and the Creator, the inhabitants of Space and primal Chaos, is not broken. It continues through the miracle of the Eucharist. Indo-European religious consciousness is a predominantly indigenous consciousness, a consciousness connected with the soil instead of dispersion, with possession instead of loss, and with connection ins tead of separation. It was this fundamental distinction relating to their respective Weltanschau ung that initially drew a line of demarcation between the Judaic worldview and t he Indo-European understanding of the Sacred. Orthodox Jews, according to their own religious and mystical outlook, regard non-Jews as goyim . In much of their Eng lish language literature, Indo-Europeans are perceived as naive and infantile opt imists , not realizing the terrible secrets of the Abyss, the theological drama of dispersion and the terrible secrets of the diaspora The difference between metaphysical war and physical war is that the first a spires to a victory of the traditional synthesis of the truth and, secondly, whi le the second aspires to make one of the two combatant parties victorious. None of the physical methods are acceptable in this dramatic historical opposition. G erman concentration camps could destroy Jews, but they were not able to extirpat e Jewry. On the other hand, the Hassidic commissars could not, despite all their bloody genocide, erase the population of the eternal Russian Empire These examples alone show that neither the Jewish nor the Goyim question can be solved with phy sical force The world of Judaica is a world hostile to us. But our feeling of Aryan justic e and the gravity of our geopolitical situation require comprehension of its law s, rules and interests The Indo-European elite stands today before a titanic task to understand those who are not only culturally, nationally and politically, but also metaphysically different. And in this case, to understand means not to forgiv e , but to defeat to defeat with the Light of Truth . (To Understand Is to Defeat) In this paper Dugin makes the important point that Jews in general do not share the same sense of spirituality (respect, veneration, reverence, devotion) that Chr istians, Muslims, Hindus, and other religions do in their sacred religious belie fs and traditions because the Jews do not believe that there can be any personal connection between the deity and man. This fundamental metaphysical divide, Dug in believes, prevents Jews from sharing the beliefs of the goyim with respect to the sacred . In another booklet, The Jews and Eurasia, written during this same period, Dugin explains how it was possible for Jews to have been: largely responsible for both the birth and the death of Commun ism; to be both the enemies and allies of Capitalism; the founders and critics of Christianity, Trotskyites and Stalinists; and ha

ve representatives on both sides of almost every important issue. Dugin attributes this unusual ability to an innate duality in the Jewish nature an observation he shares with Jewish scholars Jacov Bromberg and Mikhail Agursky . These experienced Hebraic researchers hold that a sizable number of Jews may, on the basis of their actions and opinions, be referred to as Oriental Jews whil e the remaining Jews, owing to their very different and antagonistic beliefs, ma y be called Occidental Jews. Among the traits of the Oriental Jews are: the Hassidic-traditionalist attitude, mysticism, and cabbalism, religious fanaticism, extreme idealism, anti-material ism, and a tendency to abstraction and theorizing. It was members of this group, mostly East European Jewry that became communists, Marxists, revolutionaries, S talinists and national Bolsheviks the true believers. The second group (often German Jews), strongly opposed to the first, may be call ed Occidental Jews. Characteristics include: rationalism, bourgeois tendencies, Talmudists, the Aristotelian-rationalistic line in the Jewish religion, business and economics oriented, strongly attracted to money. It was, according to Dugin, mostly poor unworldly Oriental Jews who established, enforced, and perpetuated Stalinism with religious fervor and terror. Of course some more worldly and better-educated Occidental Jews (bankers, university prof essors, misguided altruistic types) did support their poor cousins from the East in propagating Communism. Conflict between these two Jewish groups existed in t he Soviet Union throughout its history, finally culminating during and after Wor ld War II when the Oriental Jews consorted with and shared their views with thei r richer kinsmen in the West. The absolute turning point, Dugin maintains, came in 1948 when the State of Isra el was established. Bourgeois traits like nationalism, patriotism, desire for be tter living conditions, appreciation of freedom of speech and press, better food , and the rest infected the Oriental Jews to the point that Stalin could no long er rely on their loyalty. When Stalin conveniently met death in 1953, the system he and his followers foun ded and built to superpower status collapsed and disintegrated. Ironically, as D ugin notes, a sufficient number of Soviet Jews, now occidentalized, remained in place and continued to cooperate with their brethren in the West, especially the United States and Israel. The result was oligarchic control of Russia s natural r esources.

Dugin s contempt for the current oligarchic system of exploiting Russia s mineral re sources to the benefit of Western businesses is evident in his recent comments o n the Mikhail Khodorkovsky case. Dugin: Khodorkovsky stands for organized crime in Russia. It is unimaginable that a man like Khodorkovsky, even in a Western country, would not be jailed. He is ju st as criminal as all the other oligarchs who became overnight millionaires Khodor kovsky increasingly took pro-Western positions like calling for a sharp drop in support of the Russian Army. He supported Western liberal forces in Russia. For Khodorkovsky the disarmament of Russia was an important way to open the country to Western liberal development. Russian independence and sovereignty would be ba rtered for greater ties with the West. As the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsk y announced that he could not only buy the parliament but the voting results as well. Khodorkovsky went even further. He blackmailed Putin by threatening to sel l Yukos, Russia s largest oil company, to the Americans. In effect, Khodorkovsky dec lared war on Putin. Putin reacted by bringing the oligarch to court where he was

convicted for his crimes, not for his political views. The West has made a hero out of Khodorkovsky because he wanted to make Russia a part of the West. (Zuers t interview, May 2012) It was only after Dugin became acquainted with Yevgeny Primakov and Vladimir Put in that his ideas gained greater popularity. Dugin holds Putin in the highest es teem. According to Dugin, Putin personally is a liberal, thoroughly pro-Western politician who believes equally deeply that Russia must protect her sovereignty and independence. Fruitful negotiations with the West are only possible when Rus sia s sovereignty, and the State s determination to defend it, is understood and res pected. If to this point Dugin s movement has been a strictly internal Russian aff air, it has recently sprouted international wings with plans for a Russo-Islamic Pact, including Iran and Iraq, and a Turkic-Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sph ere. Both the Arabs and the Turks still smart at the treatment they received at the h ands of the French and British after World War I and the dissolution of the Otto man Empire. As a result, they may be more amenable to better relations with Mosc ow. Moreover, the Eurasianists recognized that Islamists are already at war with the United States all over North Africa, the Near East, and down the East Afric an coast. Some Eurasianists have proposed uniting the entire Orthodox Christian world and encouraging them to join with radical Islam in confronting American ma terialism with Old World spiritual values and traditions. But, of course, Europe, especially France and Germany, remains the crucial focus of Dugin s Eurasian plans for a Paris-Berlin-Moscow political axis. After victory in World War II the Allies had blindly granted Stalin most of East Europe and a ll of Prussia as well as the Kurile Islands as well as contiguous borders with R ed China after Japan surrendered. The Soviets now use these territories as bait to lure Japan and Germany back under their control or to humiliate the former ax is powers as U.S. satraps. For example, ten years ago in his Principles of Geopolitics Dugin wrote: It would be wise to return the Kaliningrad region (Koenigsberg, East Prussia ) to Germany so as to eliminate the last territorial symbol of a horrible fratri cidal war. In order that this action is not seen as just another Russian geopoli tical capitulation, it would make sense for Europe to agree to make other territ orial changes and other ways of expanding Russia s strategic zone of influence (see Robert Logan. Terrorism, Eurasianism & Russo-American Cooperation, The Barnes Rev iew, No. 6, 2004. And more recently: Germany is an occupied country run by a foreign power. The Americans exercis e real control. Germany s own political elite is not free. As a result of this sit uation Berlin cannot act for the good of the country, as it should. In fact, at the present time Germany is being governed against her own best interests. We Ru ssians can help the Germans because we understand Berlin s predicament better and could improve it. For example, we are building Russo-German networks at many dif ferent levels. We can work together with different groups in the Federal Republi c and deepen our cultural relations. I firmly believe that one day there will be a free, strong, and independent Germany in Europe to play the role of an import ant intermediary between the East and the West. Germany s fate will not be that of a vassal of Brussels and Washington. (Dugin Interview. Zuerst. Germany, No. 10, 2012, p. 12)

To counter perceived U.S. provocative interference in Russia s internal affairs, D

ugin s closest advisor and colleague in the Sociology Department at Moscow State U niversity, Leonid Savin, the chief editor of the journal Geopolitika, has been m ade responsible for monitoring the activities of all foreign NGO (Nongovernmenta l Organizations). Dugin describes various U.S. sponsored activities that interfe re with and attempt to distort Russian life. The sole purpose of these groups, w hich are funded by the U.S. and European governments, is to destabilize the Russ ian State and incorporate it in the Western system. Dugin: The U.S. millionaire, George Soros, for example, whose foundations provide m assive support to pro-Western groups in Russia, plays an important role in such activities. In addition, other U.S. organizations like, for example, Freedom Hous e, that gets 80% of its financial support from the U.S. government, distributes U .S. politician Gene Sharp s booklet The Politics of Nonviolent Action which explic itly influenced the revolutionaries in Ukraine. The recent outrageous Pussy Riot publicity stunt was immediately presumed by the R ussians to have been supported by U.S. NGOs. In this unfortunate event, too many Americans including several celebrities, mistaking the smutty antics and politi cal acts of this particular group as demonstrations for human rights, applauded the performance.

Dugin and his Eurasianists are fully aware that many Europeans also disapprove o f American dominance, the homogenization of cultures, and the loss of ancient tr aditions as fervently as do the Russians. As early as 1959 Charles de Gaulle dec lared: Oui, c est l Europe, depuis l Atlantique jusqu l Oural, c est toute l Europe, qui d a du destin du monde. (Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe that will decide the fate of the world.) And a s recently as 2002 Henri de Grossouvre wrote Paris-Berlin-Moscow: The Way of Pea ce and Independence, about which General Pier Marrie Gallois, France s foremost ge ostrategic thinker said: Europe would never regain its sovereignty until it throw s off American suzerainty and does so in alliance with Russia. (Michael O Meara, Re f. 2) During the past several decades aggressive U.S. diplomatic and military escapade s in East Europe and the Muslim world have caused sentiment in Europe to turn sh arply against American globalization adventures. For example, Alain de Benoist, founder of the New Right , a movement also referred to as Identitarianism, declared: What poses the biggest threat to collective identities today is the system th at kills the peoples, that is to say, the imposition of an across the board syste m of global homogenization that eliminates all human diversity, diversity of the peoples, of languages and cultures. The greatest danger is the rise of indistin ction, the erasure of differences, the destruction of popular cultures and lifes tyles in a globalized world in which the only recognized values are those expres sed by the price tags, that is to say by big money Like many Europeans, I am ama zed that American conservatives defend almost unanimously the capitalist system whose expansion methodically keeps destroying everything they want to conserve. (Alain de Benoist.. On Identity . Speech given at the meetings of the National Poli cy Institute, Washington, DC, on November 2, 2013) Thirty years earlier during the Cold War de Benoist made the same point but in a way that made every Frenchman s ears perk up, Better to wear the helmet of a Red A rmy soldier, than to live on a diet of Hamburgers in Brooklyn. While Alexander Dugin would very much appreciate being publicly associated and j oining forces with Europeans like those involved with the New Right, the feeling is not reciprocated. The French and most other Europeans simply do not trust th e Russians. Barring any unforeseen catastrophe, such as the social disintegratio n or financial collapse of the United States, the possibility of any grand Europ ean alliance with Russia is nil. Consequently, Dugin s philosophizing and theorizi

ng, a Russian specialty, will continue. In his The Fourth Political Theory, Dugin proposes that the best features of the three failed ideologies of the 20th Century liberalism, communism, and fascism be selected and joined together to form the political ideology of the 21st Centu ry. However, before the features of the failed ideologies found useful for the n ew Party are selected, other features, considered toxic, must be thoroughly expu rgated. Thus, all traces of racism are deleted from Fascism (Nazism); anti-spiri tuality ad economic determinism from Marxism (Communism); and individualism from Liberalism. What remains may be useful for the fourth political theory. The Eurasian Idea is presented as an alternative to U.S. global hegemony and place s a so-called Multipolar World in opposition to Western liberal universality. Dugi n insists that in the Multipolar World all peoples would have the right to form their own future with the roots of their own history intact. This would occur wi thin the framework of alliances among the different peoples of the Continent. On e such alliance is Eurasia. The Eurasian idea is a geopolitical concept develope d by Russian intellectuals like Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Piotr Savitzky, and Lev Gumi lov early in the last Century (Dugin Interview. ZuerstGermany. Nos. 8-9, 2013, p . 52-53). - See more at: http://www.4pt.su/en/content/eurasian-oracle#sthash.DRdsf5gF.dpuf