Together with Platon Body Builder’s critique, this is one of the most rigorous recent analyses of multipolarity, from both the fascist and National Socialist perspectives. I myself stand as a Prussian Socialist, very close to Nazbolism (I admit it) pand my critique of Dugin proceeds from the Prussian Socialist tradition or from the original Nazi-Bolshevism of Ernst Niekisch and his circle.
The theme of racism in Dugin’s work is deeply ambiguous. I agree with him that modern biological racism is a colonial and universalist phenomenon; it is in the colonies that the European becomes racist, out of a raw struggle for survival. In Europe proper, biological racism erupts as a mass ideology only in the 1920s and 30s.
Fascism believes in a racism of the soul and of the spirit: a kind of Platonic aristocracy of types. National Socialism, by contrast, insists on biological racism, but sees biology as the outward expression of a very exclusive spiritual form that only certain Germans and Nordics can embody. Nazism reached such a level of supremacism that the war against the Soviet Union was justified almost in Platonic terms: Hitler called the Slavs inferior, natural slaves to the German Aryan, and from this the entire Lebensraum mythology was born. Regarding this, Dugin assumes a type of anti-nazi position.
And here we must pause because paradoxically Dugin absorbed the Lebensraum idea, and thus this imperialist logic mirrors Russian expansionism, the idea of a “civilizational pole” in Eurasia that absorbs and subordinates weaker neighbors. But such expansionism is not "multipolarity" but a simply a new unipolarity, a Muscovite empire replacing Washington’s. Multipolarity, if it is to be a true order, must rest on the recognition of limits and spheres, not on their erasure through conquest. But since we aren't the same there will be always civilizational struggle.
It is precisely this contradiction that will lead to the great clash of this century: when China inevitably expands northward and begins to reclaim the territories seized by Russia in the 19th century (Outer Manchuria, Vladivostok, the Amur region). Multipolarity without restraint leads to collision, not harmony.
Coming back to Dugin’s racism: in the Russia and the Mystery of Eurasia the mytho-historical currents that shaped the SS are assumed as valid. One of these was the Oera Linda Book, an "historical" Frisian chronicle allegedly dating back to 2193 BC. Dugin Adapter the Oera Linda to the Russian spirit.
The Oera Linda describes a lost Aryan matriarchal civilization, its wars, migrations, and eventual fall. Although dismissed by mainstream historians as a 19th-century fabrication, it was embraced by certain SS circles as evidence of a primordial, Nordic-Atlantic origin of Europe. It was reportedly part of the material studied at Wewelsburg Castle, where Himmler sought to create an SS “order castle” and an alternative mythic history for the Germanic peoples. Read nothing if you have the time.
I myself own a copy of this book. These books served as doctrinal material for officers (although my grandfather was not SS, his brothers were). Dugin takes the Oera Linda seriously, treating its vision of history as compatible with his Eurasianist narrative and Russian racial supremacy.
Dugin defends an aristocratic racism, and here I agree with him: biological racism is plebeian and mass-oriented. Only someone who understands aristocratic racism, racism of the spirit, can grasp the mystery of race and the mystery of the people.
In The Fourth Political Theory, Dugin claims that the political subject of the coming age is Heidegger’s Dasein, being-there, the historical existence of a people rooted in its destiny. This is a powerful insight, but it is not neutral. Dasein is not merely “multipolar,” not merely an abstract actor among civilizational poles. Dasein is racial. It carries the seal of a concrete historical people, its blood, its mythos, its soil. If multipolarity ignores this, it dissolves Dasein into a planetary neutrality, reducing it to a mere statistical variable in the chaos of civilizations.
From my Prussian and kinda "Nazbol" perspective, the problem with multipolarity is that it is defined too vaguely, as if the Asian, Indic, and Islamic worlds could simply declare themselves “poles” and thereby create order. Every summit between Beijing and Delhi is hailed as proof of the “death of the West”; an overreaction bordering on the grotesque.
But Eurasia is not order: it is chaos, quite well defined by Niekish. And what we currently see is not a multipolar order but a multipolar chaos. Only if one power assumes the role of sentinel of the balance of power, a kind of Eurasian arbiter, could we speak of order. But if you want to expand... you cannot be a civilizational sentinel, like Bismarck' Prussia was, but an hegemon. In this sense I believe in the balance of power instead of hegemony.
For me, the Unipolar order ended on September 11, 2001. That was the moment when the United States began its decline, China began to rise, Russia began to win wars and ceased to fear NATO. Even Europe launched the euro, which collided with the dollar. But this multipolar chaos ultimately benefits the West: China and India are not sovereign nations, but defeated postcolonial states, dependent on the very West they claim to oppose. None of the multipolarists seem to remember when China was closer to Biden than to Putin, or how China indirectly sponsors the war against Russia in Europe through its economic leverage.
Calling Islam a “civilization” when its tribes and clans are still killing each other is a daring move. Dugin even elevates Iran, the only major Shi’a power, hated by nearly everyone else, as the “pole” of Islamic civilization. This is a profound misreading: which Sunni country would accept that? None! In truth, none of these powers have openly challenged Anglo-Saxon supremacy through formal war except Russia. The rest remain silent, Westernized, perfect subalterns, or attempt to infiltrate the West through other means, whether China’s economic power or Islamic demographic growth.
Thank you for inviting me to read this piece.
Together with Platon Body Builder’s critique, this is one of the most rigorous recent analyses of multipolarity, from both the fascist and National Socialist perspectives. I myself stand as a Prussian Socialist, very close to Nazbolism (I admit it) pand my critique of Dugin proceeds from the Prussian Socialist tradition or from the original Nazi-Bolshevism of Ernst Niekisch and his circle.
The theme of racism in Dugin’s work is deeply ambiguous. I agree with him that modern biological racism is a colonial and universalist phenomenon; it is in the colonies that the European becomes racist, out of a raw struggle for survival. In Europe proper, biological racism erupts as a mass ideology only in the 1920s and 30s.
Fascism believes in a racism of the soul and of the spirit: a kind of Platonic aristocracy of types. National Socialism, by contrast, insists on biological racism, but sees biology as the outward expression of a very exclusive spiritual form that only certain Germans and Nordics can embody. Nazism reached such a level of supremacism that the war against the Soviet Union was justified almost in Platonic terms: Hitler called the Slavs inferior, natural slaves to the German Aryan, and from this the entire Lebensraum mythology was born. Regarding this, Dugin assumes a type of anti-nazi position.
And here we must pause because paradoxically Dugin absorbed the Lebensraum idea, and thus this imperialist logic mirrors Russian expansionism, the idea of a “civilizational pole” in Eurasia that absorbs and subordinates weaker neighbors. But such expansionism is not "multipolarity" but a simply a new unipolarity, a Muscovite empire replacing Washington’s. Multipolarity, if it is to be a true order, must rest on the recognition of limits and spheres, not on their erasure through conquest. But since we aren't the same there will be always civilizational struggle.
It is precisely this contradiction that will lead to the great clash of this century: when China inevitably expands northward and begins to reclaim the territories seized by Russia in the 19th century (Outer Manchuria, Vladivostok, the Amur region). Multipolarity without restraint leads to collision, not harmony.
Coming back to Dugin’s racism: in the Russia and the Mystery of Eurasia the mytho-historical currents that shaped the SS are assumed as valid. One of these was the Oera Linda Book, an "historical" Frisian chronicle allegedly dating back to 2193 BC. Dugin Adapter the Oera Linda to the Russian spirit.
The Oera Linda describes a lost Aryan matriarchal civilization, its wars, migrations, and eventual fall. Although dismissed by mainstream historians as a 19th-century fabrication, it was embraced by certain SS circles as evidence of a primordial, Nordic-Atlantic origin of Europe. It was reportedly part of the material studied at Wewelsburg Castle, where Himmler sought to create an SS “order castle” and an alternative mythic history for the Germanic peoples. Read nothing if you have the time.
I myself own a copy of this book. These books served as doctrinal material for officers (although my grandfather was not SS, his brothers were). Dugin takes the Oera Linda seriously, treating its vision of history as compatible with his Eurasianist narrative and Russian racial supremacy.
Dugin defends an aristocratic racism, and here I agree with him: biological racism is plebeian and mass-oriented. Only someone who understands aristocratic racism, racism of the spirit, can grasp the mystery of race and the mystery of the people.
In The Fourth Political Theory, Dugin claims that the political subject of the coming age is Heidegger’s Dasein, being-there, the historical existence of a people rooted in its destiny. This is a powerful insight, but it is not neutral. Dasein is not merely “multipolar,” not merely an abstract actor among civilizational poles. Dasein is racial. It carries the seal of a concrete historical people, its blood, its mythos, its soil. If multipolarity ignores this, it dissolves Dasein into a planetary neutrality, reducing it to a mere statistical variable in the chaos of civilizations.
From my Prussian and kinda "Nazbol" perspective, the problem with multipolarity is that it is defined too vaguely, as if the Asian, Indic, and Islamic worlds could simply declare themselves “poles” and thereby create order. Every summit between Beijing and Delhi is hailed as proof of the “death of the West”; an overreaction bordering on the grotesque.
But Eurasia is not order: it is chaos, quite well defined by Niekish. And what we currently see is not a multipolar order but a multipolar chaos. Only if one power assumes the role of sentinel of the balance of power, a kind of Eurasian arbiter, could we speak of order. But if you want to expand... you cannot be a civilizational sentinel, like Bismarck' Prussia was, but an hegemon. In this sense I believe in the balance of power instead of hegemony.
For me, the Unipolar order ended on September 11, 2001. That was the moment when the United States began its decline, China began to rise, Russia began to win wars and ceased to fear NATO. Even Europe launched the euro, which collided with the dollar. But this multipolar chaos ultimately benefits the West: China and India are not sovereign nations, but defeated postcolonial states, dependent on the very West they claim to oppose. None of the multipolarists seem to remember when China was closer to Biden than to Putin, or how China indirectly sponsors the war against Russia in Europe through its economic leverage.
Calling Islam a “civilization” when its tribes and clans are still killing each other is a daring move. Dugin even elevates Iran, the only major Shi’a power, hated by nearly everyone else, as the “pole” of Islamic civilization. This is a profound misreading: which Sunni country would accept that? None! In truth, none of these powers have openly challenged Anglo-Saxon supremacy through formal war except Russia. The rest remain silent, Westernized, perfect subalterns, or attempt to infiltrate the West through other means, whether China’s economic power or Islamic demographic growth.