Disclaimer: I do not endorse the Putin regime or the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was recorded before Russia-gate, and my views have since evolved.

Recoded: March 2016.

Aleksandr Dugin is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia. In addition to the many books he has authored on political, philosophical and spiritual topics, he was the Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations at Moscow State University.

Topics include:

-How Dugin was a political dissident during the Soviet Era-How Dugin rejects both Communism and Western Liberalism-How Dugin’s core values were based on traditional Czarist Russian society-The Yeltsin Era and the import of liberalism into Russia-Why Dugin supported Putin as neither a communist nor a liberal-Dugin’s view that the United States represents Carthage, a mercantile money based empire while Russia represents a Third Rome-How both nations back each other’s political dissidents in ideological proxy wars-How the key confrontation is not between Russia and the United States but between a globalist oligarchical elite against tradition and populism -Dugin’s book, The Fourth Political Theory-How Liberalism represents radical individualism, materialism, linear time, and the absence of the sacred-How radical individualism denies the individual the right to participate in a collective identity-How the end result of liberalism is totalitarianism-How Fascism and Communism emerged as a reaction to Liberalism but were flawed in their own right-Western Cultural Imperialism-The right of every group to have it’s own identity but not to impose theirs on others-How mass immigration is a strategy of the globalist elite to destroy societies-Why Dugin views Nationalism as a modern concept-Dugin’s statement on Donald Trump and the US election-Dugin’s view that Donald Trump is closest to the values of the American populace of any major candidate

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