The Ethnosociological and Existential Dimensions of Alexander Dugin’s Populism
Unlike the ethnos, the narod has taken on a historical mission. It is caught between “past paradise” and “eschatology in the future.” It has lost the integrity of the ethnos and seeks to obtain integrity as its fate. The narod is “tragic”: it wants what it can never have, the integrity of the ethnos. Its nature is therefore to be restless and discontent. It is also militant: “The narod sees the restoration of integrity only in the destruction of the ‘other’ as an external enemy.” In the narod, the gods, or the element of the divine, is also not integrated, as was the case in the ethnos: “distance is established between humans and gods.” Distance arises in the realm of thought, too, as doubt.