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 Dasein (of the Fourth Political theory):

 Dasein

Dasein is a concept and is one of the main ideas of Fourth Theory. Dasein goes back even before Dugin to Heideggerian (and Hegelian) philosophy. Dasein is basically translated to existence or presence and one experiences this Dasein by confronting personhood, morality, and the dilemma of being together with other relationships while still being alone in oneself or maintaining your single identity. Essentially, it's a weird version of individuality and consciousness put together as one along with the many paradoxes of life and the choices that are made to fulfill this Dasein.

The main subject of the Fourth Political Theory is not the individual, class, or race, but dasein.

Dasein, translated from German to mean “there-being,” or “being in the world,” is an idea developed by controversial German existential philosopher Martin Heidegger. It refers to a being’s space in the moment – simplified to mean the conditions of one’s existence or the root of the human being.

Framing a political theory around dasein means it is not just individuals or groups of individuals who are to be considered.

Rather, it is the basic human experience. It is time and relationships between the strata of individuals, classes, races, and states. That means that the political debate the Fourth Political Theory goes beyond individual or collective rights. Society must be structured to ensure order and protect against chaos. It is a weapon against postmodernism.

By universalizing “experience” and subverting the individual, Dugin reveals his true aim: power and symbolism over individual rights. Strongman politics that ensure order over freedom of choice. It is an example frame of reference for understanding modern, kleptocratic Russia. This is Dugin’s own experiment in the making.

The Fourth Political Theory rejects the capitalism, individualism and ‘religion of money’, within liberalism; in Communism, materialism, atheism, progressivism and the theory of class struggle; in fascism, all forms of racism, totalitarianism and the idea of the dominance of one culture over another. On the other hand, the Fourth Political Theory borrows the idea of the value of freedom from liberalism; the ethical ideal of justice, equality and the harmonious development of coexistence based on the overcoming of alienation from Marxism; and from the ‘Third Way’ it takes the values of ethnos, nation, religion, spirituality, family, and the sacred.

These principles are entirely sufficient to construct a pluralistic and open system of intercultural and inter-civilisational dialogue. The subject of the Fourth Political Theory ought not to be the individual, class, race or the state, but Dasein — human existence, present and wellgrounded in its organic, cultural, linguistic and spiritual history. The term Dasein is the basis of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy and is borrowed by the Fourth Political Theory as essential to understanding the subject of the contemporary political process.

Framing a political theory around dasein means it is not just individuals or groups of individuals who are to be considered.

Rather, it is the basic human experience. It is time and relationships between the strata of individuals, classes, races, and states. That means that the political debate the Fourth Political Theory goes beyond individual or collective rights. Society must be structured to ensure order and protect against chaos. It is a weapon against postmodernism.

By universalizing “experience” and subverting the individual, Dugin reveals his true aim: power and symbolism over individual rights. Strongman politics that ensure order over freedom of choice. It is an example frame of reference for understanding modern, kleptocratic Russia. This is Dugin’s own experiment in the making.

To position it clearly Dugin delineates freedom of the individual within a structure of liberalism as its most totalitarian and intolerant, where real freedom for any one person is severely limited; each individual has direct control over very little scope. Contrasting this inauthentic existence is a true Dasein. From this position, the Fourth Political Theory attempts to sidestep a trend of the three named political ideologies, “the idea of growth, development, progress, evolution, and of the constant cumulative improvement of society…they differ in their interpretation of this process…but they all accept the irreversibility of history and its progressive character.” It is the idea of monotonic progress and constant growth that in turn supports the cruelties found within each ideology. Instead we are asked to orient ourselves differently, toward “balance, adaptability, and harmony.”