What do you think about Fourth Political Theory?

>>135561367
Dugin is an honorary nigger

>>135561367
Shortest summary I could find:

>The book begins with the essential foundation of Dugin’s geopolitical thought, that in history there exists an eternal conflict between the civilization of the land (tellurocracy), and the civilization of the sea (thalassocracy). The greatest example of this in the ancient world is the war between Rome and Carthage, illustrated eloquently with a long form quote from G.K. Chesterton on the Punic Wars. As well as geopolitical significance, the land/sea dichotomy has a metaphysical character as well. As Christ was born in the land empire, the antichrist was destined to be born in the sea empire. The values of the land empire are naturally conservative, sacrificial, faithful, and holistic. On the flipside then, the values of the sea civilization will be decadence and materialism. The traits of the land civilization are, for Dugin, not rooted in the Russian people themselves, but were adopted over time, largely due to Mongol occupation and Orthodoxy’s spread (the concept of the Third Rome comes from here). Not only this, but Russia is the heartland of this type of civilization, and as such…

>“Geopolitically, the fact that Russia is the Heartland makes its sovereignty a planetary problem. All the powers and states in the world that possess tellurocratic properties depend on whether Russia will cope with this historic challenge and be able to preserve its sovereignty.”

>The challenge, in the form of thallasocratic or Atlanticist expansion has gone through many phases, the last one before our contemporary era being the dominance of the mercantile British Empire. Today however, the pole of the sea is grounded entirely in the United States, Western Europe reduced to vassal status.

https://citadelfoundations.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/aleksandr-dugins-last-war-of-the-world-island/

>>135561569
G.K. Chesterton on the Punic Wars:

>In the whole world, one thing still threatened Carthage, and that was Carthage. There still remained the inner working of an element strong in all successful commercial states…the shrewdness of the men who manage big enterprises…was still business government…still the broad and sane outlook of practical men of affairs, and in these things could the Romans hope….The plain business men of Carthage, thinking as such men do in terms of living and dying races, saw clearly that Rome was not only dying but dead.
>The war was over; it was obviously hopeless for the Italian city to resist any longer, and inconceivable that anybody should resist when it was hopeless. Under these circumstances, another set of broad, sound business principles remained to be considered. Wars were waged with money, and consequently cost money…the time had come for peace; and still more for economy. The messages sent by Hannibal from time to time asking for reinforcements were a ridiculous anachronism; there were much more important things to attend to now.

Basically the plutocracy of Carthage saw the war was won, and pulled all support from Hannibal, allowing the Romans to rebound.

https://www.worldinvisible.com/library/chesterton/everlasting/part1c7.htm

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