Some people have noticed that Alexander Dugin has
some influence on Putin. Dugin is a "National Bolshevist,"
a weird philosophy involving perennialism, nazism, and
mysticism but got kicked out of the Russian version of the
party or left it I forget. This is part of the Third Position idea
which often has neopagan and satanist overtones. But
maybe Dugin isn't that big of an issue after all. This article
shows how we don't understand what is in front of us, and
what is really going on in Putin's head. Some links in it are
interesting to read also. As usual, I link to an article that
combines in one easy place all I've found out elsewhere
and few new things, and do not thereby endorse anything
else the writer or the publisher says.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-is-blind-to-putins-true-ideology-2014-4
"While Dugin is not irrelevant, his star at the Kremlin actually
faded a decade ago, though he gets some Kremlin attention
because his father was a GRU general. Far more important
to divining Putin’s worldview, however, is Ivan Ilyin, a
Russian political and religious thinker who fled the Bolsheviks
and died an emigre in Switzerland in 1953. In exile, Ilyin
espoused ethnic-religious neo-traditionalism, amidst much
talk about a unique “Russian soul.” Germanely, he believed
that Russia would recover from the Bolshevik nightmare and
rediscover itself, first spiritually then politically, thereby saving
the world.
Putin’s admiration for Ilyin is unconcealed: he has mentioned
him in several major speeches and he had his body
repatriated and buried at the famous Donskoy monastery
with fanfare in 2005; Putin personally paid for a new
headstone. Yet despite the fact that even Kremlin outlets
note the importance of Ilyin to Putin’s worldview, not many
Westerners have noticed."
Dugin's interest in the Russian Orthodox Church is typical of
those who treat it as a rallying point for an ethnic or national
identity, his philosophy is actually rather different from it.
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