Tucker Dugin Interview
© The Postil Magazine
The interview with Tucker Carlson in Russian has been translated hastily and not quite correctly. On the whole, everything can be understood. But there are a few nuances. I am talking to an American and addressing the American public as a priority. Judging by the thousands of comments, they understood me perfectly well.

So here it is: in the political language of the modern States there are common terms — for example, woke, wokeism — that we do not use. It is a call to all liberals to immediately write denunciations of those who differ from the LGBT (banned in Russia) agenda, or from critical racial theory (the same needs clarification, but that is for another time), who question internationalism and globalism, who question the need to protect illegal and any migration. Then there is the vilification of all patriots and conservatives (present and historical) by accusing them of "fascism." Apparently wokeism is now being actively mastered by the younger generation of the CRPF, but they are not the ones I am addressing.

The logic is as follows: woke left-liberal identifies a victim (conservative), writes a series of denunciations, makes a video on YouTube, Instagram (banned in Russia), gathers a flash mob, etc., and then canceling comes into play — inspections at the place of work, biased interviews reminiscent of interrogations, commissioned articles, and then dismissal, ostracism, search pessimization in social networks, financial checks, ban on loans, account disconnection — in extreme cases, murder (of the figurehead himself or a relative). A complete cycle of left-liberal terror. With a historical figure, the same thing is done to his legacy — books (paintings, movies) are censored or banned, his place in the query hierarchy drops dramatically in search engines, a defamation section appears on Wikipedia that cannot be removed. This process can affect Dante, Dostoevsky, Rowling, and even Scripture if it is found not politically correct enough.

Therefore, when I say "woke" I am immediately understood by everyone in the USA. But in our country, we would have to publish a whole article with explanations and examples, after which many of our domestic leftists and left-liberals would be ashamed (if they have a conscience, and this still needs to be proven).

Further, there is also the familiar US meaning of the term "progressive" or "progressist." This is the self-designation of left-wing liberals, deadly opponents of Trump, Tucker Carlson, conservatism, religion, family, traditional values. We do not use the term "progressive" or "progressist" in this sense either.

There is a real war going on in the United States between "progressives" and "conservatives." The "conservatives" believe that the "progressives," though mistaken, have the right to exist, while the "progressives" brand all "conservatives" as "fascists" and insist that they have no right to life and their ideas. They are "enemies of the open society" (Popper), who must be destroyed before they destroy the "open society" itself. That is, "progressives" are woke and canceling. The core of the "progressives" are Trotskyists, both direct the left wing of the Democratic Party and those who have become neocons (like Robert Kagan, Bill Kristol, Victoria Nuland, etc.). In essence, "progressives" are supporters of World Revolution (only liberal, globalist) and Jacobin terror.

And finally, the most difficult term, "liberals." It means several things at once in modern American political parlance:
  1. The entire American political system as a whole, that is, recognizing the legitimacy and supremacy of capitalism, can be called liberalism. In this sense, "liberals" in the US are everyone: the left liberal Democrat Party, the right liberal Republican Party (GOP). The former are more in favor of free migration, perversion and wokeism, the latter are more in favor of flat tax and big capital.
  2. More narrowly, and in a bipartisan discussion, it is usually the "liberals" who are referred to specifically as "left liberals," that is, those who are for wokeism, cancel culture, and who are "progressive." Sometimes they — being real fascists — appear as "anti-fascists." Their logic is: "if you don't send a suspected 'fascist' to a concentration camp in advance, he will send you there." Such "liberals" believe that Republicans, and especially Trumpists, i.e., the republican conservative flank, should be locked up, or even cut out. And again — until they cut them out themselves (see the new movie "The Civil War" — it is about exactly that and accurately captures the mindset of American — left-wing — liberals).
  3. In an entirely different context, one might call "liberals" (though this is increasingly rare) "old liberals" — such as Tucker Carlson himself. Sometimes the term "libertarians" is used to distinguish them. They are most like anarchists, only right-wing rather than left-wing. "Progressives" often identify them as "fascists" because they interpret "liberalism" quite differently than the liberal left themselves. And anyone who is not a left liberal is a "fascist" and should be "abolished." Libertarian liberals are in favor of a flat income tax or no income tax at all and are against state and government involvement in the economy. They are also in favor of bearing arms (2nd Amendment to the Constitution) and the complete and unrestricted freedom to do what you want, say what you want, and be whoever you want. Such "old liberals" believe that the "new liberals" (woke, LGBT, "progressive", internationalists) have taken over the Federal Government and want to build "Stalinism" or "communism" or a "corporate state" in the US.
So, when talking to Tucker Carlson about liberalism, I had to take into account all three meanings of the term, and as the comments show, the American audience understood me perfectly well. If I were to explain all this in more detail, Tucker Carlson would really, as in the memes, turn gray and grow old. And for the Russian audience I would have to organize a whole course on liberalism, its history, its origins, its mutations (from right-wing Hayek to left-wing Soros — and this is only at the very last stage), and on contemporary political semantics in the United States. And then another course showing that it has nothing to do with us — then what was the first course for, those who will understand the second will ask? Actually, I have done this many times — including at the Center for Conservative Studies at Moscow State University, at the Tsargrad Institute, at the Ilyin Higher Political School, in countless lectures, courses, videos (short and long), textbooks and monographs.

That said, the American public is also a bit prepared for my ideas. There was a wild campaign of globalists and left-wing liberals for my total vilification. Sometimes I was even referred to as a "Trump advisor" to make it easier to destroy him. In other words, for "progressives," Wokeists and "liberals," I am a "Dr. Evil" of global proportions, "the most dangerous philosopher in the world." At the same time, Dimitri Simes Jr., son of the prominent political expert, thinker and analyst Dimitri Simes Sr., who grew up in the United States, told me that he became acquainted with my books (in English, of course — at least a dozen of them translated and published in the United States) at school. His fellow students showed him, sub rosa, The Foundations of Geopolitics or The Theory of a Multipolar World, bragging about their access to dissident literature — until some woke Afro-lesbian noticed and wrote a denunciation — with imminent expulsion.

But I did not have such a format of addressing Americans as I did in the case of the interview with Tucker Carlson and especially after the historic phenomenal interview of our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with the world's number 1 journalist. The globalist media shows only what is favorable to them, and everything I say is not favorable to them. That is why they say all kinds of invented and absurd things on my behalf. And the alternative American media, where I appear from time to time, do not have much coverage and are themselves semi-legal — as are the bright, freedom-loving journalists — like Alex Jones or Larry Johnson. Tucker Carlson is an exception. He and his program are still mainstream American, and his views are at complete odds with the totalitarian dominated ruling class of "progressives," "woke," "liberals," and "anti-fascists."