Glenn Greenwald interviews Alexander Dugin

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This was an interesting 21-minute discussion about the importance of multi-polarity, multi-civilizational humanity. Dugin points out how the globalism that we’re seeing trying to take over everything has deemed itself the winner and chooses not to integrate anything from other, “conquered” civilizations. He cites the Chinese Confucian approach to law and philosophy, the Russian Orthodox Church, and so on, as deep and ancient influences on cultures and civilizations.

Alexander DuginHe calls out globalists for a devotion to “chronocentrism”, a focus on what is happening now, while ignoring everything that came before as ignorant and racist. Dugin is definitely conservative, but much more of the classic kind: in that he would like to keep that which has existed before.

I think it’s a good counterweight to the “move fast and break things” liberalism sold by those who propose their changes because they know that the world will become more accommodating to how they would like it to be. It’s easy to be a radical when the changes are exactly what will bring you more personal success. Our modern-day radicals push their own culture and language into every corner of the world so that their rich asses can travel there with less discomfort.

'The Globalists are the Racists:' Russian Analyst Aleksandr Dugin on the Loss of Cultural Identities by Glenn Greenwald (YouTube)

I am aware that we’ve been taught to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to Alexander Dugin as a maniacal racist. This is not in any way the impression that I got from listening to this interview. Maybe he was on good behavior but his views are much more nuanced than those of many of his detractors. He describes himself as anti-racist.

This video is but one part of a longer interview that comprises several others, many of which were also quite interesting.