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Aleksandr Dugin: Vladimir Putin’s Brain Trust
How one man’s ideas has put the world on the brink of a nuclear holocaust
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood
The words above are by the British mathematician cum economist, John Maynard Keynes.
Those words are nearly a hundred years old and what’s extraordinary is that they remain powerfully relevant today as the very day they were spoken.
Why have I dug these words up?
Aleksandr Dugin
Our man’s antecedents goes back to the 1980s, when there was such a thing as Soviet Russia. Back then Dugin was a member of a fringe group known as the “ Yuzhinsky Circle”.
The Yuzhinsky Circle owed its name to the barrack apartments in central Moscow. Their raison d’etre was the rejection of the ideas of mainstream society and the embrace of fascism, Nazism, nationalism, occultism and mysticism.
Communism was also an ideological foe of the Yuzhinsky Circle because they felt that the state owned their mind, spirit, emotion and body.
And their anti-establishment activities brought them to the attention of the KGB, which led to the unravelling of this fringe group and pushed…