Dugin portrays himself and his "new" ideology (really just banal conservatism, there is nothing original about it) as the antithesis to western liberalism. But in fact he and the liberals are very much alike, in that they are both rooted in idealism and sharing a rejection of materialism and scientific analysis.

He is neither the profound, world-changing thinker he and his fans like to think he is, nor is he the scary boogieman, the epitome of all that is evil, or the "Rasputin behind the tsar's throne" as the West likes to portray him. And if it wasn't for Ukraine's terrorist attack on him he would still remain an insignificant and obscure figure in Russia to this day.

In short he is not worth our time. The things he gets right about geopolitics - and yes he does say some correct things that liberals refuse to acknowledge, it's part of why he has the appeal he does to a certain niche audience - are extremely obvious and have been pointed out many times before by other more serious people without having to appeal to "eschatology" or other such magical thinking.