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The Paranoid Prophet of Loserdom

Summarizing Marc Weitzmann in Tablet · Published Monday, April 13, 2026
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JL;DR SUMMARY In this exploration of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, Marc Weitzmann traces the complex web of influences and ideologies that shape Dugin's vision and its impact on global politics. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Cold War  Vladimir Putin  Russian Politics  Western Liberalism  Far Right Ideologies  Alexander Dugin  Anti Modernism  Geopolitical Chaos  Covfefe  Neo Eurasianism 

Places mentioned

Moscow, Russian Federation
"The present geopolitical situation is the latest episode of an ancestral cosmic war. Two types of societies clash: The evil ones, which he calls thalassocratic, are essentially treacherous because theyre governed by the mischievous, untrustworthy Atlanticists and are engineered by commerce, exchanges, individualism, and egalitarianism."
Paris, France
"In 1989, as the Cold War began to fade and the eastern frontier opened, a young, penniless would-be Russian writer made the classic trip from Moscow to Paris to meet the man he had selected to be his intellectual mentor."
Russian Federation
"His weapon for doing so was a group called the Yuzhinsky Circle, the members of which were all male and self-taught and spent their time reading and discussing intensely the occult, paganism, the knights of old, and philosophical doctrines that had inspired the most esoteric tendencies of Nazism."
Paris, France
"With his long beard, resonant voice, outgoing personality, and bellicose, mystical rhetoric, Dugin is regarded by his global fan base and by his enemies alike as a kind of geopolitical genius, the most prominent representative of contemporary Russian political thought, and, most of all, the inspiration behind Russias foreign policyPutins personal Rasputin."
Vienna, Austria
"In spring 2014, at the Palais Liechtenstein in Vienna, Dugin was the star of an international conference that gathered most of the far-right nationalist leaders of Europe."
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
"The antisemitic Unite the Right rally of August 11, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a case in point. One of the headliners, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, met Dugin at least twice, while one of the organizers, the neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, was married to Nina Kouprianova, who is Dugins translator in the United States."
France
"French colonization in Algeria and then went on to successively defend the PLO in the Middle East, the Black Panthers in the United States (Jeune Europe supported Stokely Carmichael), the Algerian Islamists of the 90s, (more recently in France itself) Mlenchons far-left La France Insoumiseand, in Iran, the Islamist regime of the mullahs."
Iraq
"Traveling the world over, meanwhile, Coudroys comrades were meeting Gaddafi in Libya, Nasser in Egypt, and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, in the hope of building a multipolar alternative to the materialistic world of both the United States and the USSR."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"All level of geopolitical pressures on the U.S. should be applied simultaneously."
Germany
"This mindset was the basis for what became known in the 70s as the New Right that would seduce young Dugin in Moscow a decade later."
Indonesia
"In a piece written in the aftermath of Oct. 7, Dugin announced that Pakistan, Turkey, and Indonesia were about to rally to the side of the Palestinians, who will launch an uprising in East Jerusalem that will lead to the sealing-off of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to World War III, during which Russia will at last side with the Muslims against the Israelis, the West, and the forces of LGBTQ."
Pakistan
"In a piece written in the aftermath of Oct. 7, Dugin announced that Pakistan, Turkey, and Indonesia were about to rally to the side of the Palestinians, who will launch an uprising in East Jerusalem that will lead to the sealing-off of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to World War III, during which Russia will at last side with the Muslims against the Israelis, the West, and the forces of LGBTQ."
Turkey
"In a piece written in the aftermath of Oct. 7, Dugin announced that Pakistan, Turkey, and Indonesia were about to rally to the side of the Palestinians, who will launch an uprising in East Jerusalem that will lead to the sealing-off of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to World War III, during which Russia will at last side with the Muslims against the Israelis, the West, and the forces of LGBTQ."
China
"All level of geopolitical pressures on the U.S. should be applied simultaneously."

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