Dugin: Trump’s Revolution | Phora Nova
Forward: Trump’s Victory over the Liberal Horror
Introduction
Part1: Decoupling
Part2: Donald Trump’s Conservative Revolution
Review of Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory trilogy | TBC
This thread will (eventually) review all three volumes of Dugin’s 4PT trilogy
– The Fourth Political Theory (v. 1, 2009)
– The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory (v. 2, 2017)
– Politica Aeterna: Political Platonism (v. 3, 2024)
His current work on Trumpism (_The Trump Revolution: A New Order of Great Powers _), and the emerging Multipolar World Order, is very much in progress as are the events defining it. It is thus more collections of recent articles, often of different vintage, than a mature, considered work of political theory.
I will start _in medias res_ with v. 2, because it is both recent and sets up the latest work — and together these works have not been as extensively reviewed and disussed as the 16 year old original publication in the series. At that point, we will be able to come back and review the work.
Here, to get us started, is a comparative chart of the four political theories — the first three are liberalism, Communism, and fascism, with the last including related ideologies as Mussolini or Peronism.
(more…)It’s been nine months now since I set aside the other preoccupations of this blog and launched a project I’d had in mind for many years—a discussion of the political and economic subtext underlying Richard Wagner’s vast operatic cycle The Nibelung’s Ring. All things considered, nine months ago was a propitious time for such a venture, as Donald Trump’s bombastic baritone and Kamala Harris’s fingernails-on-blackboard soprano rang out over a bellowing chorus of media pundits and election officials, while billionaires George Soros and Elon Musk frantically conducted competing orchestras of braying donkeys and trumpeting elephants. The only possible word for the cacophony that resulted is “Wagnerian.”
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The Return of the Eurasian Macro-State – by Alexander Dugin
Alexander Dugin argues that the restoration of a civilizational bloc in the post-Soviet and post-imperial space is inevitable.
When it became clear that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)1 could not fulfill the task of integration, the Eurasian Union2 was created. But it was founded solely on economic ideas. And since integration between countries cannot be achieved on economic grounds alone, this idea stalled once again. Only in the creation of the Russia-Belarus Union State3 have certain successes been achieved.
Now we have reached a moment where a global restructuring of the entire world has begun. In these conditions, only great powers capable of integration will be able to preserve their sovereignty. Small states are already being forced to choose which great power to align with. If they fail to make this choice, they face the grim prospect of being torn apart under the pressure of these great powers, which are now becoming the primary and sole actors in global politics.
This is the multipolar world, which we may have imagined quite differently. Yes, it is rather strict, with very rigid rules, and if you do not possess fundamental economic, political, military, strategic, resource, and territorial sovereignty, your fate is grim. One must choose a bloc to join. And the only reasonable path for the majority of post-Soviet states is to become part of a Eurasian macro-state.
This is being discussed more and more frequently at various levels. Of course, many small states still cling to ambitious illusions of building something sovereign and equidistant from both Russia and the West. But these illusions are gradually fading, especially against the backdrop of our steady progress toward final victory in Ukraine.
The creation of a macro-state, which is to emerge in the space once occupied by the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire, is a historically inevitable process. It is the only way to preserve sovereignty for all participants in this new cycle of state-building. This will make it possible to resolve not only the fate of our “new” territories, not only that of Ukraine, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, but also that of Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, and even Azerbaijan. All of these peoples will find a place within the macro-state — one in which they will not lose but rather strengthen their sovereignty.
(more…)The American Conservative Revolution | Page 3 | Phora Nova
Dear Mac,
The only way, in retrospect, that i can be alright with the American Revolution is that it was a seperation from Guelph rebels who had themselves turned against the Roman Imperium.
Anyway, happy Patriot’s day.
Remember that the entire hemisphere celebrates, with Russia, the outcome of 1812. The French Revolution had its good and bad points — as a peasant revolt by a Roman substrate population against their Frankish overlords, it makes a certain amount of sense. But then we have Napoleon… who uprooted Roman Civil Law (leaving only Scotland and Lousiana as relics of it), and of course invaded the Ukraine
I think what the Founding Fathers proved both by their Wisdom and their Folly is that Heretics cannot form a stable government in the long run, because they do not have a clear sense of what the ‘Salus Populi’ even is, because of a failed understanding of Anthropology and Ecology, etc.
Only Holy Orthodoxy can save this Hemisphere and Country, is my current understanding. A bit sharpened now by events of 2020-2025.
When Pascha is over, I will sharpen my points about Palamism implicit in my mention of Sherrard on this thread, but on which I have yet to expand: https://thephora.net/phoranova/inde…lism-in-orthodox-christianity-and-islam.1941/
Whigdev/Whitespace is down for the count | Phora Nova
I’m reconfiguring websites and in fact I’m reactivating my ‘web host reseller’ service from 10 years ago, that I used when sometimes hosting and web managing SI and TBB.
Current plans and timelines:
1/ whigdev will be completely rebuilt to prove safe to do so, using new infrastructure (ASAP)
2/ whitespace DB will be transfered and tested
3/ whigdev existing infrastructure, including whitespace will be destroyed and and DNS repointed to new home (by say Memorial Day)
4/ archive recovery from PHP breakage can commence, order of sites TBD (mine and those I’ve managed in the past, and requests I’ve received for archive recovery)
I’ve made enough progress rebuilding old LAMP stacks with MySQL/Maria DB (not usually the problem unless you are cutting edge) and PHP (very definitely a problem if your webhost changes versions on you and trashes your sites), for the above to be feasble. I hope to publish my scripts for building the sites and Docker Compose files etc.
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/russias-liberal-saboteurs
Alexander Dugin emphasizes that the true threat to Russia lies in liberal officials embedded within the state apparatus — agents of a defunct globalist dream — who, under the guise of loyalty, relentlessly undermine the nation’s sovereign revival and betray its civilizational destiny.
We have a powerful group of opinion leaders who believe that lifting sanctions would be disastrous. Because liberal-leaning officials would immediately try to roll back all the achievements in import substitution, in asserting the sovereignty of our economy and production, in ensuring security in those areas that are vital to the development of the state.
— Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov has essentially acknowledged what many experts, including myself, have written about for years: that in Russia there exists an entire class of officials left over from the 1990s who do not share the head of state’s orientation towards strengthening sovereignty. They dream of once again making Russia a part of the global world — a world that no longer exists. This is their phantom pain, but because of it, they take an entirely destructive stance, obstructing the process of sovereignization in all areas.
These stubborn individuals no longer merely want to reshape our economic system to fit the West. While formally maintaining loyalty to President Putin and nodding along with everything he says, they are in fact trying to destroy what has been built, acting in defiance of Russia’s interests. And this is precisely what Lavrov pointed out, referring to opinion leaders — something that already means a great deal.
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