Dugin: Putins nasjonalkonservative ideolog

I vårnummeret av World Affairs skriver Andrey Tolstoy og Edmund McCaffray om Alexander Dugin og hans ideologi - Den Fjerde Politiske Teori, som har stor innflytelse i Putins Russland. Dugin fremstiller dette som et alternativ til marxisme, fascisme og liberalisme, men selv finner jeg fint lite av liberalisme og desto mer fascisme hos ham.

"Dugin’s solution is for Eurasia to consciously become a Grossraum(“great space” in German), analogous in scope to the Atlanticist world. Within this Grossraum, Dugin proposes a complex distribution of power between a “strategic center” and various subdivisions, based on culture and history, known as “autonomies.” This center is responsible for basic economic and military coordination between the autonomies, which are otherwise left to organize their internal affairs in accordance with their own unique traditions. Thus there is room for a range of different political, economic, and social systems, though it seems clear that Dugin imagines most will adopt a basically conservative and corporatist structure. (...)