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Dugin delivers his most forceful critique against Nazi racialism, asserting that:

“Biological racism… completely negates the moral nature of the state (a fundamental aspect for Hegel).”

— Alexander Dugin, Hegel and The Fourth Political Theory

He’s got a point — Hegel’s Volk is spiritual, not biological:

“The nation as a state is spirit in its substantial rationality and immediate actuality.”

— Hegel, Philosophy of Right

However, this is a tenuous claim that collapses under rigorous scrutiny, failing to grasp how sovereign will, having dismantled his prior legalistic framework, constitutes a Volk as the living embodiment of Spirit, not its fettered negation. His earlier insistence on constitutional monarchy as Spirit’s rational form falters here — Nazism’s racial doctrine does not betray Hegel but extends his dialectic, integrating biology into a metaphysical essence of Forms through the Volk’s conscious self-actualization and ethical struggle, rather than just a predetermined biological substrate.

Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi myth-maker, doesn’t just slap biology onto the table — he elevates it to a metaphysical plane:

“The race-soul is the measure of all our deeds.”

— Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Far from a betrayal, this is Geist rendered articulate — Gottfried Feder excluded racially congruent yet morally deficient Germans from the Volksgemeinschaft, prioritizing ethical fidelity over genetic lineage, while Robert Ley subordinated Germans to the Authenticity of inner character — biological traits thus serve as a medium of perception, shaped by consciousness and Dasein’s existential Authenticity, not as an immutable essence — the leadership principle, the sovereign will’s unification with the Volk’s ethical life, establishes this as a Sittliches Gemeinwesen, propelled through the conflict of history toward the World Spirit — legalistic formalism obstructs this dynamic unfolding — Dugin’s valorization of Russian lawlessness, his rejection of artificial legality, ought to affirm this sovereign mediation of Geist, yet he recoils, ensnared by the very rationalist constraints he claims to eschew — scholarly insight further exposes his oversight:

“The National Socialist theory of race was dynamic, ever-changing.”

— A. James Gregor, National Socialism and Race

“The Volksgemeinschaft was the core of Nazi ideology.”

— Rainer Zitelmann, Hitler: The Policies of Seduction

“Rosenberg’s myth was a metaphysical vision of race.”

— Peter Staudenmaier, Between Occultism and Nazism

Nazism does not negate Hegel’s ethical core — it amplifies it, race functioning as an expression of Geist’s historical particularity, not its confinement — Dugin’s categorical rejection misapprehends this dialectic, mired in a legalistic formalism inconsistent with his own philosophical premises.

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