Alexander Dugin

« C’est l’opposition entre les eurasistes et les atlantistes qui va définir la lutte historique du XXIe siècle. On pourrait dire que l’eurasisme est la philosophie de la mondialisation multipolaire, appelant l’union de toutes les sociétés et de tous les peuples de la Terre pour construire un monde original et authentique, dont chaque composante proviendra organiquement des traditions historiques et des cultures locales. »

— Alexandre Douguine, Vladimir Poutine, le pour et le contre (2017)

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Don’t miss PRAV’s very own Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Jafe Arnold, discussing the works and legacy of Daria Platonova Dugina, as well as much more, with Arktos editor Constantin von Hoffmeister on the latest episode of the Eurosiberia podcast:

https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/eurosiberia-podcast-47-daria-duginas-radical-life


Join the conversation by delving into Daria Platonova Dugina’s radical books, brought to you in English by PRAV Publishing and Arktos Media:

Eschatological Optimism
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For a Radical Life
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A Theory of Europe
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Una chiave di volta ?
Comprendere che l'unione di Fede e Dubbio non sono affatto un ossimoro. Anzi, essi "sono la conditio sine qua non" per decifrare il mondo nuovo ed entrarvi da protagonisti e non da vittime designate.
Provo a spiegarmi meglio...
Premesso che quando utilizziamo il termine ortodossia intendiamo l'accettazione integrale dei principi di una dottrina, in quanto eterni ed immutabili, possiamo, anzi dobbiamo, comprendere che che il "dubbio" stesso è espressione della verità.
I filosofi greci ci insegnano che non potremmo dubitare se non esistesse una verità in grado di sottrarsi al dubbio e ciò presuppone che la Verità non può essere di per sé conosciuta ma che va semplicemente raggiunta. E' dunque necessario un percorso, terminato il quale acquisiremo con la verità la capacità di gestire la realtà, gli altri e cosa ancor più significativa noi stessi.
Comprovare l'esistenza della verità dunque significa, in un certo senso, essere capaci di dubitare delle false illusioni che oscurano il cammino verso la verità stessa.
Un ricordo giovanile personale mi aiuta forse ad essere più chiaro.
Il mio professore di greco, Prof Samonati, Cavaliere dell'Ordine di Omero presso l'Accademia dei Lincei, ci spiegava che i grandi testi epici indicano chiaramente che dilemmi, domande ed inquietudini dell'Uomo sono stati affrontati per molti secoli con un approccio puramente eroico. Il pensiero in questo momento non può che correre all’Iliade e l’Odissea. In questo senso quando nel pensiero di Alexander Dugin ricorre l'affermazione che Polemos è Padre di tutte le cose tutto dovrebbe apparirci più chiaro.
A riguardo ho rintracciato una citazione di Evola che esprime difatto lo stesso concetto "...“È nella battaglia stessa che occorre risvegliare e temprare quella forza che, di là dalle bufere del sangue e degli stenti, con nuovo splendore e con pace potente propizierà una nuova creazione. Per questo, oggi si dovrebbe apprendere di nuovo sul campo di battaglia la pura azione, l’azione non solo nel significato di ascesi virile, ma anche di purificazione e via verso forme di vita superiori..."
Cosa fare allora ? Continuare, incessanti, a coltivare e custodire un gruppo umano in grado di definire con rigore intellettuale (il dubbio greco) ed una totale irremovibilità (Fede) nell'Idea, la Verità.
Cavalcare la tigre restando in piedi in un mondo di rovine è sostanzialmente questo.
E' una delle svariate genesi del Soggetto Radicale di Alexander Dugin.
Perchè ho scritto questo pensiero ?
Perchè ho rivisto questa foto che pubblicai alcuni mesi fa e ripropongo adesso.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Russian and international news media (Moscow, December 26, 2024)

❓ Question: Talks are the top priority, no question about it. Many opinions are heard coming from the diplomatic circles, experts, and other sources. To put it in plain terms, they are trying hard to see both of us make peace. The question is, though, who are we supposed to talk to in Kiev? President-elect Trump’s presumptive special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg has come up with an initiative. What’s your take on the situation?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Much has been said on this subject. President Putin has repeatedly addressed this issue, including during the Direct Line and during the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting before that, as well as other events.

☝️ Empty talk is not for us.

Everything we have heard so far was rhetoric about the need to come up with some kind of a ceasefire. However, not much is done to hide the fact that the purpose of a ceasefire is to buy time and to flood Ukraine with weapons, to help it get back in shape, to carry out additional mobilisation, and so on.

Ceasefire [temporary measures] is a road leading nowhere.

We need binding legal agreements that will lay out the conditions for ensuring Russia’s security and the legitimate security interests of our neighbours. However, they should exist in an international legal context that would preclude chances of violating these agreements.

These agreements must address Ukraine crisis’ root causes. The two main ones include, first, the violation of the commitments not to expand NATO to the east and the aggressive absorption by NATO of the geopolitical space all the way up to our borders. This is what they had in store for Ukraine. They keep talking about it to this day.

The second root cause includes the Kiev regime’s absolutely racist actions following the coup. The extermination of everything Russian, including language, mass media, culture, and even the use of the Russian language in everyday life, was officially greenlighted and then codified into law. That includes outlawing the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

We are told that Russia is allegedly putting forward preliminary conditions. In fact, these are not preconditions, but demands to act in line with previous agreements.

As it turns out, they lied to us when they assured us that NATO would not expand eastward. They lied to us when they emphasised their commitment to a settlement based on the UN Charter fully forgetting that this Charter stipulates more than the principle of territorial integrity and also includes the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. It took the General Assembly quite a while to consider the relationship between these principles before it resolved by consensus in its wisdom that the territorial integrity of all states whose governments abide by the principle of self-determination and, therefore, represent the entire population living within the borders of the territory in question must be respected.

How can Kiev’s Nazi regime represent the interests of the residents of Crimea, Donbass, or Novorossiya, whom it declared terrorists right after the coup and launched a military “anti-terrorist operation” against them?



As President Putin said, we are willing to consider serious and concrete proposals. I hope that the Trump Administration, including Mr Kellogg, will look into the root causes of the conflict.

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Key talking points:

• Russia and China have a real stabilising effect on international relations.

• The Americans prefer to get rid of competitors; it is their policy. Now they are “taking out” Russia, and beginning to do the same with regard to China.

• We are fully aware that the US relies on a bipartisan consensus with regard to Russia. This is not a friendly, but, to put it bluntly, Russophobic consensus.

• We receive signals from the overwhelming majority of Latin American countries expressing their interest in strengthening partnership with Russia.

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Cycle of Civilisation

Brecht Jonkers argues that civilisations in decline — as analysed by Ibn Khaldun, Lev Gumilev, and Oswald Spengler — must choose between revitalising through a reaffirmation of core values or face inevitable collapse due to internal decay or external conquest, a pattern seen from the Roman Empire to modern Western liberal-capitalist societies.

Read the essay here:

https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/cycle-of-civilisation

"Book-Thoughts around the Holidays": A Letter from PRAV Editor-in-Chief Jafe Arnold:

https://pravpublishing.com/2024/12/26/book-thoughts-around-the-holidays-a-letter-from-the-editor/

"Why books? Why the written word? As human beings, as authors and readers, we take up books for the sake of living, for facing life, for discovering and responding to the questions and situations that are posed to us throughout life and about life. When a publishing house releases a book, or when one person gifts a book to another, there is an outstretched hand that says: “Let us live together.” Authentic books are invitations to examine ourselves and our life, the lives of others, and the overall lifeworld in which we find ourselves. In engaging a book, we are physically, intellectually, lingually, and spiritually turning and opening ourselves up to some dimensions of life that call for our understanding, our interpreting, and our living on. Sitting down with a book, our intentionality stands up and leaps into a text that speaks to us, provided that we have eyes that see, ears that hear, and a commitment to living more fully, to being more aware and more open to the horizons ahead of us, whose existence we might not even have expected if it weren’t for such pages. With every book that is written, published, read, and shared, a little — or a lot — more of life is brought to light…

Many people have been driven to count the days, weeks, months, and years of their life in terms of survival, work, and more or less exterior spectacles, such as politics, the economy, social trends, technological developments, etc. As a publishing house, it could be said that PRAV counts our years and lifetime in terms of books, but provided the qualification that our books are not about conveying information or programs; rather, our books are appraised with respect to the times, places, and ways through which they pose the question, “Life?”, and the mystical, magical vocation: “Life!”...