LEARN more about the Russian political thinker Aleksander Dugin in this video, which is not well made (language warning) but contains many quotes from Dugin’s works. [Update: Apologies, but I have decided to remove the video because it’s just too hard to follow and contains a few vulgar words. See excerpts from Dugin below.]

It is important to try to understand this intellectual who exudes occultism and seems to cast a spell with his ideas. Russian subversion is active in so-called American patriot websites, including those which portray Western leaders over and over as “Satanic.” For these reasons, I recommend this amateurish documentary by way of introduction.

Dugin advocates the overthrow of the decadent West under a neo-Bolshevik banner which joins an imperialistic, racially supremacist Russia with a united Europe and parts of Asia. This is “Eurasianism.” He attracts some nationalists in the alt-right who reject multiculturalism and liberal intolerance. I don’t get why anyone would fall for him, but apparently people do, obviously more so in Russia than here.

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Lydia Sherman writes:

This America-hating is something I discovered about the “patriot” movement way back in the 1980’s when my husband and I were invited to one of their meetings. While they at first appeared to be constitutional advocates, concerned about the violations of the intent of the forefathers (you’ll see that quote often today by trolls that mess up online conversations) they were in fact a bunch of whiners and complainers that never had any solutions. We attended a couple of times and after seeing how messed up their own lives were, and how they messed with other people’s personal lives, gave it up. I have since noted that the alt-right is just as bad as the alt-left with their sour, dour, America-hating. Their mantra is “America won’t last” or “American is going down.”  This is been going on since the beginning. When the nation was first established, rumors were rampant overseas (and in the US) that it wouldn’t last and was doomed to fail. These sour, dour predictors of failure are still at it, and they in fact stage the fights, riots and fake shootings to keep the belief going.

Sophia writes from France:

Mrs. Sherman claims that, “This is been going on since the beginning. When the nation was first established, rumors were rampant overseas (and in the US) that it wouldn’t last and was doomed to fail.”

I have not read about these rumors overseas that America was doomed to fail. It is probably true that some figures believed this, but I bet that they were counter-revolutionaries.

I have read, however, that the opposite was true. I quote from the book The Enlightenment in France by Frederick B. Artz (a short book very much worth reading):

“Diderot, like the other Philosophes, looked to the American colonies as the great hope of mankind, where men could profit from the mistakes of the past and build a society on reason. And he welcomed the American Revolution when it came…”

The Philosophes were the revolutionary thinkers of the “Enlightenment.” Diderot left us with such quotes as, “I would sacrifice my life if I could annihilate forever the notion of God.”

Did you know that the immediate cause of the French Revolution was the monarchy’s bankruptcy, caused in part by its financial support for the American Revolution?

I know what side of history I want to be on.

Laura writes:

It is precisely because America is indeed flawed that this Russian subversion is effective.

Here’s an interesting piece about Dugin.

Laura adds:

From Dugin’s “Principles and Strategy of the Coming War:”

It is obvious that you can only wage war effectively with an external enemy if the society is quite consolidated and mobilized internally. It is desirable to be mentally prepared for the war. To do this, people must understand who is the enemy and who is not, and, most importantly, why this is the case and not so otherwise. You mustn’t demonize the enemy at the very beginning of the war. The image of the enemy must be formed in advance and deliberately.

Therefore, the first task to gain victory would be real fully-fledged company to create the entirely negative, monstrous, satanic image of the United States and the West in general. Therefore, the West is a place where the devil resides. It is the center of the global capitalist tentacles. It is the matrix of ​​rotting cultural perversion and a vice grip of falsehood and cynicism, violence and hypocrisy. Russia already does this, but since the Sixth Column is responsible for anti-Western propaganda, it is a caricature or something miserable and not very convincing. It is this sabotage that describes the essence of the Sixth Front. Its “soldiers” do not refuse to fulfill the government orders, even asking for more and more, but their execution has turned into a farce, stultifying and subtly discrediting all undertakings. Awkward and insincere propaganda often brings the opposite effect. Therefore, by creating the images of the American enemy and its satellites (which we actually have to fight), it would be logical to charge those who think exactly that way and punish them with maximum clarity and cogency to the sleeping masses. Meanwhile, the agents of influence of the West are entrusted to criticize the West. With predictable results. Such an approach is incompatible with the “strategy for victory” and i

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