The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset

by Alexander Dugin

Alexander Dugin's The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset is an open declaration of war against the twin diseases of liberalism and Western political modernity. Dugin calls upon the inhabitants of the Heartland to relentlessly attack, on all theoretical and practical fronts, the global elites of the coastlands, who try to impose their perverse, anti-human ideals by ruthlessly eradicating the long-standing cultures and traditions of all peoples in the world.

The demented usurper Joe Biden and his slavish Democrat acolytes are opposed by the Trumpists, who represent normal America and do not want to see their country submerged in a one-world, transhumanist dystopia. Just like the other rooted societies, they want to preserve their time-honoured way of life amidst the strangling tentacles of hysterical trans- and homosexuals, treacherous anti-White agitators and murderous Black Lives Matter grifters and terrorists.

Thus the stage is set for a showdown of truly apocalyptic proportions, pitting the forces of righteous anger, those who want to preserve traditions and the true richness of human diversity, against the Antichrist and his Soros-backed minions of insidious degeneracy and evil, who want to erase all bonds and communities - down to the human race itself.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, Asia, Russia

98 pages, Hardcover

First published September 22, 2021

About the author

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin (Russian: Александр Гельевич Дугин, born 7 January 1962) is a Russian philosopher and activist. As a founder of the Russian Geopolitical School and the Eurasian Movement, Dugin is considered as one of the most important exponents of modern Russian conservative thought in the line of slavophiles. He earned his PhD in Sociology, in Political sciences, and also in Philosophy. During six years (2008 – 2014), he was the head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations in Sociological Faculty of Moscow State University. His publications include more than sixty books such as Foundations of Geopolitics, Fourth Political Theory, Theory of Multipolar World, Noomakhia (24 volumes), Ethnosociology. The influence of Dugin’s thought on modern day Russia (including political leaders) is recognized by not only his followers but also his philosophical and political opponents. His ideas are sometimes judged controversial or nonconformist but almost all agree that they are inspiring and original.

Reviews

[Jorgon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious. A collection of non-sequiturs and self-contradictions flavoured by ignorance--real or feigned--of modern science (not surprising, considering Mr Dugin's stated hatred if it), actual political situation in the West, and silly irrationalities (everyone should be free to pursue their path...as long as they do not push pesky human rights, infividual liberty or atheism). As a massive troll of Western liberalism, this is utterly brilliant. As a serious work of political philosophy, it is...well, it isn't supposed to be one after all, is it?

[Radu · Rating 5 out of 5]

In light of everything that happened during 2020 as a result of the global lockdowns, the George Floyd riots, and the questions surrounding the integrity of the election of Joe Biden as well as the overall trend amongst Western Liberal elites in their shift towards totalitarianism, it is refreshing to see a fresh perspective on where the world as a whole seems to be going and how to fight back on a cultural level against the onset of globalism.

In short; by refusing to acknowledge Western Liberal values (materialism, atheism, progressivism) as universal, especially when their practice clearly acts as a detriment of the very people they claim to be fighting for, the validity of these values, in addition to the ethical and political weight they carry, quickly evaporates when coming into contact with civilisations that don't share the same mentality.

The shift towards totalitarianism manifested at first with censorship from Big Tech under the guise of fighting "hate" and "misinformation" against alternative media and ordinary people sceptical of the narrative being pushed both by the governments and by the legacy media but has now escalated to violent crackdowns on protestors and dissidents in a manner which has never been seen before in the West.

All of this is an act of desperation on part of the Western Liberal elites as they know they are losing control and in their panic they allowed the mask to slip.

Dugin advocates that, in to combat Klaus Schwab's proposed "Great Reset" and the totalitarianism of modern Western Liberalism, we must undergo a "Great Awakening" of our own. Our economies must become more localised, less reliant on multinationals for global trade, cultural revival based on local and regional traditions... but with an eye cast towards the future rather than a nostalgic eye for the past.

How he proposes exactly how to do this is not stated specifically, but it does provide some interesting food for thought in an otherwise short book...

[MJ Kurdys]

Why is Amazon censoring Dugin’s books in AmerIca?

[Stephen Embry · Rating 1 out of 5]

A gruesome book by by of Putin’s advisors, threatening democracy and freedom.
It is a violent attack on free societies proposing their replacement by a caste system in which society is ruled by oligarchs, supported by the military, and most are peasants. Reason is to be replaced by tradition, and Russia to reestablish its empire
Although frightening it is worth reading to learn what they are planning and what they are doing to weaken and divide.
It praises Trumpism , which perhaps explains something’s.
Beware and prepare

[Michael Nguyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Similar content to his book The Fourth Political Theory. I mean, Dugin is an actor. Full of fury. Alarmism. I guess it makes for exciting reading, but it is too conspiratorial for my liking. Some of his ideas I connect with. But when he calls China a civilisation I disagree, and I have to take Evola's position.

Here is Dugin's China
"China is a traditional society with thousands of years of history and a stable identity. And it clearly intends to remain such in the future. This is particularly clear in the policies of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping. He is ready to make tactical compromises with the West, but he is strict about ensuring that China’s sovereignty and independence only grow and strengthen."

This is Evola's China
"For such civilizations it is only a matter of time before they find themselves at the same point as ourselves, knowing the same problems and the same phenomena οί dissolution under the sign of "progress" and modernity. The tempo may even be much faster in the East. We have the example of China, which in two decades has traveled the whole way from an imperial, traditional civilization to a materialistic and atheist communist regime-a journey that the Europeans took centuries to accomplish.

Outside the circles of scholars and specialists in metaphysical disciplines, the "myth of the East" is therefore a fallacy. "The desert encroaches": there is no other civilization that can serve as support; we have to face our problems alone."

And in this regard I have to agree with Evola on this one. Dugin wants to spread his teachings to the masses, much like Prabhupad Abhay Charan De the founder of the International Society For Krishna Consciousness wanted to spread his brand of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. The masses are sheeple, there is no solidarity or solace in the masses. It is an illusion, and Dugin is promoting this illusion of safety in a crowd, albeit a "multipolar", conservatively postmodern, traditionalist one. The saviour will not be in the masses, and there will be no saviour. Dugin does not refer to any saviour in particular, but he implies one, an ethereal one. He does refer to the devil, the dajal, and the Kali Yuga. But we will not be saved from the Kali Yuga. Not everyone will go to the Christian Heaven. Disbelievers will be going to Jahannam. And the globalists are a projection, an imaginary enemy. Yes real, but simultaneously fake. A jungian shadow, a simulacrum as Dugin likes to call it. The devil inside.

[Julius Lehtinen]

Absurd and at times desperate effort to stay relevant and re-hash his великороссийский theories to amalgamation of in vogue western conspiracy theories regarding "Great Reset" and QAnon-derived "Great Awakening".

Entertaining in its hilariousness, excessive use of bolding words and grandiose statements made it at times seem like poorly edited copy of 90s website.

[Nils · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wow. einfach nur wow. Es ist der übliche Schwurblermist, "what a shitshow" trifft es wohl am besten.

[Artemis Nguyen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dugin's ideology in this book is all aesthetics, nothing real. It's subjective to the point that it upholds nothing. Dugin is for nothing, he is only against liberalism, or whatever he calls liberalism.

I am a Christian. Christianity is the truth. It is not just some "based and trad" belief that frightens the libs. Why would I support a "blossoming of Hindu, Muslim, and Confucian culture"? Because those things are also based and trad? Maybe so, but they are not the truth. I am against liberalism, but I am for Christianity, for God and for Jesus. Dugin stands for nothing.

[Bobby Daugherty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dugin's assessment of the Biden regime and the plague of liberalism. I have been interested in Dugin for a few years but this is the first publication of his I have read. He has elements that remind one of Evola and Bowden but he is unique to Russia and I wish more Americans were aware of him and his work.

[Ico Maly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dugin explicitly tries to theorize conspiracy theories in order to give that a backbone.

[JoséMaría BlancoWhite · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very short summary, but sufficient, for the general reader, of up-to-date geopolitics.

[Mike Lisanke · Rating 2 out of 5]

A short, preachy, opinionated book that gets the problem statement right but looses it on the solution... well, thankfully it was a brief read.

[Vojtech · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dugin is like evil retaded Žižek. This booklet is full of contradictions and absolute BSs.

Worth reading if you are interested in perverted thinking of contemporary Russian elites.

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[Christopher Blosser]

If you’ve been subjected to the fevered swamp of Alex Jones’ conspiracies, the radio-ranting of Steve Bannon, the gnostic characterizations of renegade bishop Carlo Maria Viganò (“the children of light and the children of darkness…the offspring of the Woman and the offspring of the Serpent”); the endless stew of MAGA propaganda, the Epoch Times, COVID conspiracies, stolen elections, and the revelatory missives of Qanon in 2021-2022, than reading this should evoke a STRONG SENSE OF DEJA VU.

Dugin passes himself off as something of a “stable genius” in the first half of the book laying out his grand intellectual framework for “The Great Awakening” in full professor-mode — part ode to Trump, part ode to Mother Russia. You’re almost impressed by how positively normal he sounds at times.

But it’s the second half of the book — featuring a German interview and an ode to January 6 martyr Ashley Babbit — that Dugin gets particularly juicy, what with his

-- anti-vax polemics (“BBB — Build Back Better — that is the last cry of the dragon. ‘Kill all the enemies of the Open Society. The enemies of the Open Society should be killed — tortured if they win through the democratic process. We should abolish democracy’, roars this dragon. ‘Destroy every obstacle. Humanity — let us destroy it. Put the poison in the vaccines. Let’s do it!’)
-- allusions to Lovecraft (“They are called the idiot gods of Lovecraft — the Old Ones — the figures that are beyond the objects, but at the same time inside of them. So the objects are liberated from the human subject, from humanity, and they open their hidden dimension, which is the real Devil”)
-- Luddite rants (“Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Apple, YouTube, Facebook and so … are ideological weapons and machines of surveillance and censorship. We need to destroy them!”)
-- back-to-the-farm agriculturalism (“Big cities are artificial constructions of the modern West [and] should be extinguished — the population should abandon them”)
-- explicit calls for MAGA violence and all-out civil war (“The Trumpists have shown that there is no left-liberal privilege to organise mimetic wars and to use violence for political ends. If you start to use violence, you should expect the same in return. … We are strong enough to seize by force Congress, which is occupied by frauds and dirty tricksters”)
-- and unrestrained apocalyptic bloodlust (“There are only two parties in the world: the globalist party of the Great Reset and the anti-globalist party of the Great Awakening. And nothing in the middle. Between them there is the abyss. It wants to be filled with oceans of blood. The great evil made its nest on American soil. From the centre of Hell starts now the Last Revolt, the Great Awakening”).

I mean, you’ve got to hand it to Dugin, to bring so many disparate strands of the crazy fringe TOGETHER, except he also comes off at times -- especially in the printed interview -- as somebody's unhinged uncle ranting incoherently at the Thanksgiving family table after one beer too many. And to think that he has the ear of Vladimir Putin!

It IS highly entertaining, I’ll give him that.

[Carolina Liechtenstein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ideas that at first may be hard to swallow for the western liberal reader. But as the book moves on, the ideas start to make a bit of sense. At the very end it makes great sense indeed. Overlook some extreme views, and find the book‘s path back to living with the earth. Read this book with discernment. My opinion before ever reading this book, is that western liberalism is too narrow and seeks to eliminate much of human thought. This book addresses that very thing. All forms of thought should be permitted to exist.

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dugin presents a sharp analysis of the geopolitics and history of Russia and how it will impact new theories beyond Western modernity. The subject of critique is the West, liberalism, its traditions, and forced universality. He uses fourth political theory as a starting point for theorizing beyond liberalism and beyond the West. It seemed a little iffy in how it brought American politics, Trump, the election being stolen, his anti-globalism, and his challenge to left-liberalism. It seems a little overemphasized or maybe just undersourced. You could also understand this as an update to his fourth political theory. He uses Heidegger's concept of dasein in order to critique Western universality. This was a great introduction to his thought and is very concise.

[Laura Koerber]

I don't have to read the book to recognize what it is: moral cowardice. We have real problems to face, most notably climate change which will impact everything. Yet neo fascists like Dugin want to escape to a fantasy of an idealized past and he is willing kill people to impose that fantasy. In fact, he has publicly stated a willingness to sacrifice his daughter who (amazing coincidence! How fortuitous!) was just killed in an explosion which will work very nicely as a propaganda piece for his cause. Dugin is a monster.

[Elkaza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this small book, as only took me an hour to read it. It was full of so many important points about the problems we are facing in the world today, as our leaders are pushing the western nations into the Great Resent. Sure, this book is a little out of date, but I loved the historical elements of it, which showed us why we are now in a war between those pushing for the liberal great resent, and those trying to stop it. Everyone should read this book, well those fighting against the Great Resent. A good one to begin, if just awaken to the push back against the Great Resent.

[Ramon de la Cruz · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great book even though is short. We should understand the west and it's implication in n order to help them to destroy it's illness which is hurting them from inside.The west is not the world, is part of it.


The liberal way of life is a intellectual weapon against humanity and we must resistant fight back. From a Christianity point of view, the master tought of that in the mind it couldn't coexist two different points of thoughts, we whether obey one and hate the other but not embrace both. We must fight back and hold because goodness always win.

[Dorian Hatibi · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book full of basic contradictions. Full of historical inaccuracies. It seems that the author is making an attempt to collect, in a single container, all those who can serve Russia. And this seems so artificial that the book becomes ridiculous. This is a book of political diversion which uses history and philosophy as a means to achieve the ultimate goal: "enemies of the West, unite under Russia." The author, an ex O.T.O Satanist and a deep admirer of Aleister Crowley, suddenly turns into a knight to defend orthodoxy and the world's Christian tradition.

[Helena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interessant boek over de tijd waar we in leven en hoe we hier zijn gekomen. De schrijver heeft een open visie en is niet bang om zaken te benoemen zoals ze zijn. Dit is een boek waarvan in de EU gedacht zou worden dat dit verboden wordt in Rusland. In plaats daarvan is het geschreven door een man die nauw contact heeft met de grote baas van het land. Bijzonder.

[Raúl Quirós Molina]

Buena papilla mental en la que se incluye a Satán, Soros, neozarismo, QAnon, Heiddegger, teoría del género y cualquier ocurrencia estrafalaria del GeoCities de los 90. Es un documento importante en todo caso porque la mitad de los columnistas de este país, incluidos los del Ídem, suscriben aporías del palo con mayor o menor virulencia verbal.

[Chet]

Dugin as polemicist. Lots of things in here Westerners who fancy themselves on the cutting edge of "social justice" (a phrase Dugin uses quite favorably) will not want to hear. Very short, easy to read and digest.

[Kaiserberg]

A short and insightful update to The Fourth Political Theory (though published two years ago already feels somewhat dated). It gives an interesting theory for the genesis of liberalism.

It would have been more preferable if more citations were included.

[Rusten]

Well that was fun.

[Richard Corral · Rating 5 out of 5]

Based. I am surprised Dugin says what he says at times. Maybe this is Russian counter intelligence, telling us what we want to hear. Or maybe he's just based AF!

[Joseph Bianco · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Just theorizing", nothing concrete, but it's in the right direction.

[Jacopo S · Rating 5 out of 5]

A morte i globalisti

[J. Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I agree with many of Dugin’s conclusions. His solutions, not so much. Thought provoking enough to give it 4 stars.

[Firesenay · Rating 4 out of 5]

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