It's hard to agree with all the another things that I put up Alexander Dugin. Similarly, it is hard to accept with approval all the beliefs and claims of any another thinker or publicist. besides the excellent authors whose lyrics item “Think Poland”. With peculiar interest, I regularly read further publications, comments, but besides technological papers by prof. Adam Wielomski and Magdalena Ziętek-Wielkomska. 1 of the last, published in the cycle The matrimony Talks of the Multimarital "Think Poland" of 20-27.11.2022, however, prompts me to make any polemic comment. It concerns a individual personally known to me – mentioned at the outset by the Russian philosopher and geopolitics, whose book I late had the chance to translate and edit in Polish.
Reduced to ‘Frondy’
Magdalena Ziętek-Welomska's reflections on the creator of neo-Eurasianism are based on a alternatively simplistic thesis: "His actual views were presented by Dugin in an interview he gave to Grzegorz Górny in 1998.". Why these opinions, delivered before almost a 4th of a century ago, are to be “real” ones – the author does not explain. possibly red. advanced was the only interlocutor to inspire the trust of a Russian philosopher? There's no indication of that. Or is it just, like all of us, Dugin intellectually evolves, matures? In 1990. Alexander Dugin did not hide his inspiration with a number of the most prominent thinkers of European traditionalism (Julius Evola, René Guénon) and contacts with representatives of the European fresh Right (Alain de Benoist, Robert Steuckers). mentioned by Magdalena Ziętek-Wielkomska ‘The ideas of the spiritual first tradition’, including this pre-Christian one, were actually present in his reflection.
However, it is adequate to read prof. Dugin's last paper published in Polish (Manifesto of the large Awakening and Writings of War Time, Warsaw 2022), to see that Catholicism does not hold the leading position on the list of anti-globalist thinkers. On the contrary, he consistently recognizes all conventional religions as allies in the fight against the Manicheic-perceived evil of this planet – globalism, Davos, liberalism (not the classical, but the totalitarian, termed liberalism 2.0). Critics of Catholicism – not words, as well as criticisms of another religions, not only Christian ones. "Thousands die in the mediate East for Christ at the hands of extremist muslim fundamentalism behind which the United States and architects of the fresh planet Order stand. That is why it makes no sense to talk about unity, union, relinquishing our Orthodox identity, but we request to talk about developing a common strategy in the fight against the common enemy" – Dugin said in 2016, commenting on ecumenical concepts of rapprochement of Orthodoxy with Catholicism. All (perhaps apart from any Protestant denominations) Christendom's currents so lead, according to him, the conflict and conflict in the name of the planet of tradition, against transhumanism.
Dugin about Poland
Prof. Wielomski suggests that Dugin would like to convert everyone to Orthodox. In any of his writings in fresh years, however, specified a thread cannot be found. any processes take place spontaneously; with rising modernist currents, and even postmodernist currents in the Roman Catholic Church, any of the Polish national democrats or conservatives themselves chooses a change of confession and approaches Orthodoxy. A well-known Polish conservative student is right, however, that Dugin thinks in terms of an empire, not a national state. He cannot think otherwise, due to the fact that the national state would be the end of Russia as we know it, returning to the Hull Duchy of Moscow. In the geopolitical sphere, his supposedly naive belief in the Russian-German alliance is not, they consider historical experiences, not so naive. It is Berlin's cooperation with Moscow that fears the most classical Anglo-Saxon geopolitics. Dugin is simply a continentalist, which is rather close to me personally.
And finally: Dugina is worth reading not only to realize 1 of the current trends of Russian thought, but besides to realize the global nature of the present civilizational and geopolitical confrontation. The imagination of the multipolar world, Poland or anyone else, does not impose anything. It allows free choice of civilizational, political, economical formulas, consistent with local tradition. In an untranslated book in the series Noomachia (Eastern Europe. Slavic Logos, Balkan Navaya, Sarmatian style, Moscow 2018) Alexander Dugin writes: "Poland balances between the conservative and liberal-progress elements that intertwin in Polish society in various proportions and combinations. Traditionally based on Western Europe and the United States and playing the function of the ‘sanitary cordon’ blocking Russia and partially besides Germany, in accordance with the classical strategy of Atlantism, at the same time Poland is very distant from the politics of gender, postmodernism and Western ultraliberalism, as they are in deep contradiction with the conservative side of the Polish Logos’. The Russian philosopher thus notes the tear, the divided of the geopolitical dimension with the civilizational, political dimension with the metapolitical dimension, which is 1 of the basic unresolved dilemmas that we ourselves should face somehow.
He is not a Pole, he is not a national Democrat, he is not a supporter of a national state. Doesn't mean he's not a thinker worth reading and knowing. Not limited to a quoted interview 24 years ago.
Mateusz Piskorski
