James Heiser - The American Empire Should Be Destroyed: Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

The American Empire Should Be Destroyed:

Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

by

James D. Heiser, M.Div., S.T.M.

Repristination Press

Malone, Texas

All too often, history is driven by the mad passions and ambitions of tyrantsand by warped visions of progress crafted in the shadows behind their thrones. James Heisers brilliant new book drags one of todays most dangerous gray eminences into the light. His careful, intricate analysis reveals Aleksandr Dugin, whose twisted ideology shapes Vladimir Putins brutal and aggressive effort to build a Eurasian empire centered on Russia. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the perilous and irrational motivations of those who now rule in Moscow.

Patrick Larkin, co-author of Red Phoenix, The Enemy Within,

and other best-selling thrillers, and author of The Tribune

James Heiser has written a profoundly fascinating book on an important and troubling man. Anyone concerned about the future of Russiaindeed international affairs in generalshould read this book.

Peter Schweizer, President, Government Accountability Institute,

William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution,

author, Extortion, Victory, and Reagans War

A penetrating analysis of the dangerous totalitarian dogma of the man who has become Putins Rasputin. If you want to understand the new threat to Western civilization, you need to read this book.

Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, Mars Society,

President, Pioneer Astronautics and Pioneer Energy,

author, Merchants of DespairRadical Environmentalists,

Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

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Introduction: Ukraine, 31 March 2014

When there is only one power which decides who is right and who is wrong, and who should be punished and who not, we have a form of global dictatorship. This is not acceptable. Therefore, we should fight against it. If someone deprives us of our freedom, we have to react. And we will react. The American Empire should be destroyed. And at one point, it will be.

Spiritually, globalisation is the creation of a grand parody, the kingdom of the Antichrist. And the United States is the centre of its expansion.

Although the event received very little attention in the American media at the time, an arrest made by Ukrainian authorities in a park in the middle of Kiev may have exposed the machinations of a multinational movement which seeks to reshape the post-Cold War world. Oleg Bahtiyarov was arrested by Ukraines security service (SBU) on March 31 on the charge that he was working to destabilize the country prior to the presidential elections scheduled for May 25:

SBU stopped the illegal actions of O. Bahtiyarov who prepared a group of people under the guise of civil activists for the criminal seizure of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

The offender attracted to his criminal intent up to 200 people, committing remuneration, organizing acquisition of Molotov cocktails, bats, sliding ladders and other tools for storming government buildings. O. Bahtiyarov promised participants in the assault monetary rewards up to $500 each.

According to the plan, O. Bahtiyarovs assault was to destabilize Ukraine and disrupt the presidential election campaign.

In addition to coverage of the assault on parliament and the cabinet, O. Bahtiyarov agreed with some Russian TV channels on filming the provocation.

Bahtiyarovs involvement in the Ukrainian crisis as a purported agent provocateur might seem of little enduring interest if he were simply an agent of the Russian government; the world has long been accustomed to Soviet and Russian authorities conducting such operations both at home and abroad.
But Bahtiyarovs activities in Ukraine were extraordinary in several regards: first, because of the scope of his activities, and, second, because of his ideological affiliation. According to the SBU, Bahtiyarovs goal was to forcibly take over government buildings planning to storm the countrys parliament and Cabinet of Ministers buildings in Kyiv by force.
If true, such a provocative act on its own could have proven decisive in the outcome of the election, and given that Bahtiyarov allegedly had sufficient funds to organize a group of two hundred militants, it would seem that he might have been capable of implementing such a plan. But, even more chillingly, it is alleged that Bahtiyarov was not acting directly on behalf of the Russian government, but as an agent of an organization called the Eurasian Youth Union of Russia, the youth wing of the Eurasia Party established by Aleksandr Dugin. The actions of Bahtiyarov are thus of interest; the machinations of Aleksandr Dugin, the ideological father of Eurasianism, are of more enduring significance.

Dugins position as an influential Russian academic who serves on the faculty of Moscow State University belies the full significance of the man both within the confines of Russia and within the greater context of modern Europe. As the chief modern proponent of the geopolitical doctrine known as Eurasianism, Dugin has risen from the obscurity of the radical right and occult fringes of post-Soviet Russia to a place of influence in the innermost circles of Russian foreign policy. Although Dugins doctrines are not well-known in the West, their effects are beginning to be seen.

The Ukrainian government has long recognized that Dugin is an enemy of Ukraine; in fact, the Ukrainian government formally declared him to be persona non grata for five years, beginning in June 2006, for violating Ukrainian law.
When Dugin attempted to enter Ukraine in June 2007, the government deported him, arguing he sought to destabilize the country. As a demonstration of Dugins prominence within the Russian foreign policy apparatus, the Russian government retaliated within hours and refused to allow Mykola Zhulinsky to enter Russia. (Zhulinsky was then a senior aide to President Viktor Yushchenko.
) Dugin arguably proved the legitimacy of the Ukrainian action against him when, in 2009, he publicly advocated a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The name of Aleksandr Dugin is one which is generally only recognized within certain academic circles; outside the ranks of those who are interested either in Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War or who are students of particular esoteric strains of occultism, there has been little cause for the broader public to become aware of his existence. However, as the regime of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952) has now begun to act on Dugins geopolitical prognostications, the Eurasian ideology of Aleksandr Duginand the origins of that ideologymay no longer be ignored without peril to the West. A few years ago, scholars could shake their heads in disbelief at Dugins eclecticeven bizarremix of sources; for example, Wayne Allensworth wrote of Dugins fascination with the occult (including Satanism) and wrote of the postmodern quality of Dugins eclectic philosophy, including European geopolitics and strategy, Gnostic mysticism, occultism, traditionalism, and his advocacy of leftist fascism and rightist communism.
As early as 1993, Walter Laqueur observed that With Dugin we move from the realm of a quasi-rational approach to the depths of irrationality. For Dugin, the inventor of conspiratology, world history has to be rewritten. The eternal conflict between Atlanticists and Eurasians began in ancient Egypt and it leads to the struggle between the good (Eurasian) and bad (Atlanticist).