Aleksandr Dugin on the Fourth Political Theory

Aleksandr Dugin is a Russian professor and author who believes that modernity and liberalism are highly destructive. He developed an idea known as the Fourth Political Theory. Alexander Dugin (b. 1962) is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia. During the 1980s, he was a principal member of the underground traditionalist movement in the Soviet Union, for which he was arrested by the KGB and expelled from his studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1983. He continued to support his private studies in traditionalist philosophy by working as a street sweeper. He later became a journalist and made his earliest foray into politics by joining Pamyat, the first nationalist party to emerge during the twilight years of the USSR. He is hated (and sanctioned) by the Western establishment; his books are banned on Amazon; and mentioning his name triggers polarised discourse. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Aleksandr and found myself agreeing with a lot of what he said. Ignore what the haters say and, instead, listen to our conversation in which he discusses modernity, liberalism, postmodernism, the West, tradition, and conservatism.