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“For the traditionalists modernism is nothing less than a spiritual disease which continues to spread like a plague across the globe, decimating traditional cultures wherever they are still to be found.”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“The only thing which could fill this gigantic inner emptiness which I had was the total rejection of everything modern within the framework of the ultra-revolutionary non-conformist intellectualism of [René] Guénon and [Julius] Evola. […]”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“he focuses on conflict between various deviations from tradition. The West is the only civilization which has not descended from “real” tradition, and that is why all traditional religions should unite against it.”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“Anticrist [sic] besides theological also has geopolitical, immanently social meaning. It is evident today that the most "perfect" and "complete" form of the historical realisation of this sinister personage is the liberal West,”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and its ideological basis (individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, consumerism, and so on) to be the cause of the future catastrophe of humanity, and the global domination of the Western lifestyle as the reason for the final degradation of the Earth.”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“paranoia regarding Western motivations and intentions regarding Russia”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“his plan for nations of the “third category” could easily mean a century of war which would outstrip the horrors of the twentieth century.”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“The pro-American liberal pattern, in turn, can not be realised in Russia by definition, being an organic part of another civilisation, alien to Russia. This is well understood in the West too, where nobody disguises their preference to see not a prospering and safe Russia, but, on the contrary, a weakened Russia, submerged in the abyss of chaos and corruption.”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

“preference for a multipolar world, contrary to a presumed unipolar world which he posits that the United States/“New World Order” is attempting to establish. Dugin will often rail against ‘the hegemony of mondialism’ (or words to that effect) by which he means to refer to the conspiratorial notion that there are forces at work which are trying to suppress all civilizations in favor of the one civilization—that of Western globalization—which is trying to eliminate all meaningful forms of national or local government in order to impose Western civilization on the entire world.”
― James Heiser, "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology