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Alexander Dugin The Fourth Political Theory Eurasian Movement 2012 This book has been printed digitally and produced in a standard specification in order to ensure its continuing availability Redaction Mark Sleboda Translations Nina Kurpianova, Maria Tokmakova, Olga Schief, Vaan Maas, Valentin Cherednikov, Zhirayr Ananyan, Fedor Smirnov, Cyrill Lazareff, Ivan Fedorov Dugin, Alexander The Fourth Political Theory - Moscow, Eurasian Movement, 2012. 246 p. ISBN 978-5-903459-19-3 Copyright © A.Dugin, 2012 Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: To Be or Not to Be?...................... 5 Chapter 2. Concept Inception The End of the 20th Century: the End of Modernity............................................................. 9 Chapter 3. Dasein as an Actor Stages and Problems in the Development of the Fourth Political Theory................ 25 Chapter 4. The Critique of Monotonic Processes.............. 50 Chapter 5. The Reversibility of Time.................................. 64 Chapter 6. The Ontology of the Future................................ 68 Chapter 7. Global Transition and its Enemies..................... 83 Chapter 8. The New Political Anthropology: The political man and his mutations.................................... 95 Chapter 9. Fourth Political Practice.................................. 103 Chapter 10. Gender in the Fourth Political Theory........... 111 Chapter 11. Conservatism and Post-Modernity................. 120 Chapter 12. Civilization as a Concept.............................. 139 Chapter 13. The Transformation of the Left in the 21st Century.............................................................................. 160 Chapter 14. Liberalism and Its Metamorphoses................ 177 Chapter 15. The Possibility of Revolution in Post-Modernity.............................................................. 194 Chapter 16. Against the Post-Modern World..................... 202 Appendixes Appendix I. Political Post-Anthropology.............................................. 211 Appendix II. Gender in the Three Political Theories of Modernity.......................................................................... 217 Appendix IV. The metaphysics of Chaos.......................... 232 Appendix V. The Greater Europe Project.......................... 280 Chapter 1. Introduction: To Be or Not to Be? In today’s world, politics appears to be over, at least as we used to know it. Liberalism persistently fought against its political enemies which had offered alternative systems; that is, conservatism, monarchism, traditionalism, fascism, socialism, and communism, and finally by the end of the twentieth century had defeated them all. It would be logical to assume that politics would become liberal, while all of its marginalized opponents surviving in the peripheral fringes of global society would reconsider their strategies and formulate a new united front according to Alain de Benoist’s periphery against the centre. But, instead, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, everything followed a different script. Liberalism, which had always insisted on the minimalisation of the political, made the decision to abolish politics completely after its triumph. Maybe this was to prevent the formation of political alternatives and make its rule eternal, or because the political agenda had simply expired with the absence of ideological rivals, the presence of which Carl Schmidt had considered indispensable for the proper construction of a political position. Regardless of the rationale, liberalism did everything possible to ensure the collapse of politics. At the same time, liberalism itself has changed, passing from the level of ideas, political programs and declarations to the level of things, penetrating the very flesh of social reality, which became liberal. This was prese