Political philosophy

Ten years ago, a small, provincial television channel in Canada (TVO) invited me — a graduate student at the time — onto their flagship political show to discuss the ideas of Alexander Dugin. The co-translator of Dugin’s first book published in English, The Fourth Political Theory (2012), I was there as a subject matter expert who could help a Western audience better understand the Russian mind.

In the 1990/1991 issue of the prestigious globalist journal Foreign Affairs, American expert Charles Krauthammer published a programmatic article titled “The Unipolar Moment.”¹ In this work, he proposed an explanation for the end of the bipolar world. Following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact countries and the disintegration of the Soviet Union (which had not yet occurred at the time of the article’s publication), a new world order would emerge in which the United States and the collective West (NATO) would remain the sole pole of power, ruling the world by establishing rules, norms, and laws, while equating their own interests and values with universal, global, and mandatory standards. Krauthammer called this de facto global hegemony of the West the “unipolar moment.”

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.

Exactly 2500 years ago, in 477/476 BC, the premonition of serious changes in the balance of power in the Old World was in the air. Whereas 500 years earlier Israel and China were the world leaders, the situation was now reversed. The Jews were now obedient subjects of the gigantic Achaemenid Persian Empire, at the time the largest in history in terms of area and power.