The Fourth Political Theory

beyond left and right but against the center

In essence, we are changing our ideology for the third time in 35 years. Until the early 1990s, society was under the dictatorship of Marxism-Leninism. This was obligatory, and (even if formally) everything was built upon it — politics, economics, science, education, and law. Everything, really.

Alexander Dugin contends that Donald Trump’s rhetoric is reshaping the American political landscape by addressing the growing discontent with the Democrats’ destructive war-driven foreign policy, while Kamala Harris, lacking both vision and charisma, struggles to connect with an increasingly disillusioned electorate.

Dugin argues that the assassination of the Hezbollah leader is the beginning of the End of the World.

Alexander Dugin introduces the concept of “Westernology” as a critical framework to analyze and reject Western civilization’s claims to universalism, especially as Russia redefines itself as a distinct state-civilization in opposition to the liberal, globalist West, advocating an intellectual and cultural decolonization of Russian thought rooted in traditional values and the Russian historical experience.

Alexander Dugin applies Lacan’s three orders to US politics, arguing that while Kamala Harris and the Democrats seek to dismantle traditional structures, “psychedelic Trumpism,” influenced by figures like Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, and J. D. Vance, alongside the Alt-Right, counters from the right, with a warning that a Harris victory could spell the end of humanity.

Alexander Dugin argues that a union of true right-wing and left-wing forces is essential to combat the global influence of liberals, whom he views as inherently aligned with capitalist and Western hegemonic interests.

The pseudoscience of the modern age began with the elimination of three out of Aristotle’s four causes. Only one, causa efficiens, the cause of motion, was retained. As a result, the object lost its three dimensions — the eidetic, the hylistic, and, above all, the entelechial.

Mircea Eliade believed that among the Slavs, Vlachs, and Moldovans, Christianity acquired a completely unique character. This then influenced the Greeks as well, completing a full cycle — from the Greeks to the Slavs and back. Eliade called this phenomenon “cosmic Christianity.”

Alexander Dugin discusses the term “decoupling,” signifying a fundamental shift away from the West’s universal norms and a rejection of the interconnected global structures that have historically bound non-Western societies to Western values, technologies, and political systems.

Speed is a crucial factor in modern warfare, often referred to as “dromocracy” or the rule of speed. 

The opening of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is the final judgment on modern Western civilization. The West is cursed, and this is axiomatic. Anyone who does not immediately take up arms to destroy this Satanic civilization, unprecedented in its brazenness, is complicit with it.

Alexander Dugin argues that, despite their flaws, Western conservatives are strategic allies against Russia’s main enemies, the left liberals and globalists.

The assassination attempt on Trump was quite predictable. There is no doubt that everything is organized by the globalists with the backing of the part of the Deep State that supports them. 

Alexander Dugin argues that the world is nearing a point of no return with liberalism and calls for a radical shift towards traditional values and patriotic reforms to build a new Russian society.

This is an excerpt from Alexander Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory.

North Korea is a beautiful thing. Interestingly, the Korean word 'Juche' (주체) is a deeply philosophical term and means 'subject' or even the Heideggerian Dasein. It has everything else included in it: independence, freedom, civil sovereignty.

We Japanese have forgotten many things with the defeat in the war. While some ideas fade away with the passage of time, there are also many that must not be forgotten. To find them, we need to work like miners in a mine, going back and forth between the surface and the underground, searching for rough diamonds deep in the tunnels. This is the role of workers like me.

"BRICS is a dialogue of cultures," while the West is still outside BRICS because it insists that there are no cultures and civilizations other than the Western one, Russian philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin said at SPIEF-2024.

We will not be able to understand the full depth of the current confrontation without philosophical reflection. Philosophers have always interpreted war as something necessary. Heraclitus speaks of war as the "father of things": πόλεμος πάντων μεν πατήρ εστί, πάντων δε βασιλεύς. War has always constituted the world and space. Without war, without division, the world is impossible.

Alexander Dugin, in his exploration of Russian philosophy, examines how the Slavophiles and Westernisers emerged while focusing on the Iranian and Cushitic logoi.