by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
Alexander Dugin, a philosopher characteristic of traditional Russian thought, described Vladimir Putin’s definition of multipolarity. Far from the simplistic Western vision according to which several powers would replace the US hyperpower, he emphasizes that the Russian president breaks with linear thinking and evokes that of quantum physics.
Alexander Dugin
Yesterday, Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin dissected Putin’s speech to the Valdai Club – which I approached from a geopolitical perspective [1] – which he defined as “a philosophical cyanotype for the multipolar world” and “shows how quantum complexity, civilizational sovereignty and strategic realism form a new world order that defies Western simplifications [2].” Alexander Dugin comments: Putin’s “philosophy of complexity” constitutes “an alternative to the Western globalist model.”
He contrasts Trump’s cyclothymic and kaleidoscopic style with Putin’s definition of “multipolarity,” which is based on biospheric biodiversity: “It represents something new. It is neither a bipolar world, nor a unipolar one, nor the Westphalian system of nation-states, where everyone is supposed to be sovereign but actually isn’t. Only great civilization-states can be truly sovereign in our world,” which requires “geopolitical awareness.”
He believes that “the model of the multipolar world, where the poles are the civilizing countries, has had no equivalent,” with the exception of “the structure of humanity before the Age of Discovery,” with its entire civilizing ensembles: “the Islamic caliphate, Indian civilization, the Chinese empire, the African kingdoms, the Russian/Byzantine and Western European empires.” Putin is the anti-Huntington of the clash of civilizations! Alexander Dugin states that “before colonialism, there was a real multipolarity consecrated by empires, civilizing countries and macro-countries”, whose “transition (sic) is today outlined by Putin”.
Alexander Dugin believes that “the significant change occurred with Trump” when “the MAGA (Make America Great Again) concept included the recognition, from the very beginning, of multipolarity,” which the proponents of unipolarity reject: “Putin spoke calmly and delicately about defending national interests, emphasizing that we have more in common with Trump than with the European globalists. Our convergence with the United States is not mentioned.”
Today, “the great process of transition (mega-sic!) to multipolarity affects all (sic) regions,” while “in the United States and Europe, there is a real civil war between conservatives and globalist liberals who remain loyal to unipolarity: politicians without substance, driven only by the frenetic and agonizing desire to preserve the unipolar regime and its ideology.”
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Source
La Jornada (Mexico)
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[3] La méthode, Edgar Morin, Seuil (1977).