Alexander Dugin: Building a Bridge between Eschatology and Conspiracy

Abstract

Alexander Dugin is well known for his ambition to marry politics with religious eschatology. The article analyzes the sources of his concepts revealing the eschatological roots of contemporary conspiracy. Dugin refers to a “world plot” and an “eternal enemy” behind it, which is directly related to the narrative of Antichrist. The author shows how and why such constructions invariably arrive to esoteric and conspiratory anti-Semitism. This ideology looks at an “occult metaphysical war” between Christianity and Judaism, and rejects the modern world for the sake of a “conservative revolution”. A special emphasis is made on the Dugin’s esoteric and geopolitical views of “sacred history”. Dugin’s methodology is based on the essentialist view of “race” and “ethnos”, ignoring empirical evidences and creating a pseudo-scholarly ground for contemporary xenophobia in the shape of a “new (cultural) racism”.