I believe that liberalism does not have to be combined with democracy. It can mean simply free trade, market mechanisms, which, as we know, can exist perfectly well in the strictest of authoritarian regimes, even in almost totalitarian ones. He went on to predict that the United States, in the wake of September 11, would abandon its democratic experiment.4 Dugin was misusing the term “liberalism”—as though it existed solely to denote the opposite of a command economy—and it was not clear what he meant by “democracy” when he claimed that America was on the verge of disposing of it.
