How ideologists define ideology: A. G. Dugin

Introduction. Ideology as a category of political philosophy in a digital society cannot be defined neutrally and autonomously from the activities of its defining subject. Theoretical analysis. Using the example of a specific system of views, the authors show the inevitability of the ideological character and the ideological bias of the concept of ideology. Considering A. G. Dugin’s textbook “Philosophy of Politics”, they try to identify the line beyond which philosophical research goes beyond the criteria of scientific academic objectivity and submits to the task of constructing its own worldview system, which includes the author’s political ideal. The doctrinal analysis of the work under consideration shows the elimination of the concept of ideology from its didactic units, although the traditional programs of this academic discipline contain it. The authors establish the dominance of a broad approach to understanding political philosophy in this work, which allowed its author to “dissolve” ideology in the content of the political and de facto identify ideology and politics. In this case, ideology loses its role as a methodological conceptual tool and transforms into an element of living thinking. An ideologist is identified as a person who directs his intellectual effort to maintain the probabilistic nature of politics as an area of maximum realization of human essence. Conclusion. The identification of ideology and politics is a way of distancing oneself from competing projects of the philosophy of politics, defining them as non-essential and therefore not corresponding to the meaning and purpose of politics.