Alexander Markovics interviews Alexander Dugin about how Platonic philosophy shaped Europe, why liberalism is rooted in atomistic and feminist metaphysics, and how the Fourth Political Theory offers a path beyond modernity to a transcendent and hierarchically militant political order grounded in eternity.
Alexander Markovics conjures a war map of spirits where Atlantis and Athens rise again within every soul, calling each to choose between the rooted hero of the land and the drifting trader of the sea in a world torn between sacred geography and globalist dissolution.
There is an apparent paradox linked to the question of environmental apocalypse that needs to be addressed: the dominant logo within the framework of technocapitalism in the new millennium not only fails to remain silent in the face of the dilemma of impending disaster, but elevates it to the object of a hypertrophic discursive proliferation.
Reason, individualism and secularism are important components of civilisational development, although they are not the only components. The key focus for discussions about the development of civilisation should therefore be the limits of reason. Is the pre-modern heavy luggage slowing down development, or is it the foundational building block of civilisation as the primordial instincts of human nature cannot be transcended?
If one wanted to express with the immediate power of images the condition of the current West at the mercy of nihilism and, to put it à la Hegel, of the “fury of disappearing” (Furie des Verschwindens), there would be no more appropriate work to refer to than The Parable of the Blind (1568) by Pieter Bruegel.
Peter Nikolaevich Savitsky was born on May 28, 1895 in the family of a full state councilor, the leader of the nobility of Chernigov Governorate (province). It is known that he studied at gymnasiums in Chernigov and Gomel cities, although their family estate was located in the Krolevetskii uiezd [district] (now the Sumy region of Ukraine). Since childhood, Peter Savitsky was interested in Orthodox architectonics and even prepared a monograph on the subject, but the entire print run of the already printed book burned down (the Civil War had already begun at the time). He received his higher education in St. Petersburg and became an economist and geographer. Moreover, he was a polyglot and knew European languages.
The so-called “rules-based international order” aims to facilitate a hegemonic world, which entails displacing international law. While international law is based on equal sovereignty for all states, the rules-based international order upholds hegemony on the principle of sovereign inequality.
Financial turbo-capitalism could be described as an extractive industry, albeit sui generis. It is, in fact, a powerful apparatus for abstraction, centralization, and capture of common goods and social value, in accordance with the concept of “accumulation by dispossession” evoked by David Harvey in A Brief History of Neoliberalism, in reference to the neoliberal paradigm and the transition from bourgeois-manufacturing capitalism to post-bourgeois-financial predatory capitalism.
Ideological fundamentalism refers to when ideology convinces the public that politics is a struggle between good and evil. People no longer assess states based on what they do in the international system but on the political identities assigned to them.
As in the cave of The Republic by Plato, the media system of the totally administered civilization proceeds according to a specific “one-way ‘distributive’ mode,” as McLuhan has defined it: the flow of information, by means of which manipulation is determined, is rigorously directed in a univocal way, according to the dichotomy of the transmitting pole and the receiving pole. It operates a permanent counter-revolution by prevention.
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