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Three Ways to the Future? A New Form of Democracy?

By Nicholas from Russia (N. Popov)  Posted by Mac McKinney (about the submitter)       (Page 2 of 2 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   7 comments

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5. The traditional pyramid of power is too dependent on the personal qualities and political orientation of the leader and his "cheerleading group": in Soviet Russia, from authoritarian Stalin, who built a socialist superstate on criminal rules, to improvident, idle talker Gorbachev, who betrayed the fates of millions by one weak-willed phrase to the kulak werewolf and drunkard Yeltsin. That this pyramid is unstable and vulnerable is proved by that!

6. A new society begins with the reform of power. Lenin was to have bequeathed not a successor, but an innovation in management: "the development spiral" falls down to an anachronistic level without new mechanisms of management. So Russia returned to the monarchic National Emblem, a double-headed clownish mockery of modern Russian "democracy".

Political takeovers will occur as long as the egoism of one dominant point of view continues to strengthen the paranoia of a suppressed opposition through its arbitrariness or indifferent inactivity and pompous lack of talent. Today's Russian marauders-swindlers were hatched out of the "moss-covered' taboos and "bedsores' of the communist Monopoly.

The concentration of power in any single hands is dangerous. Under which tempting fetish: communism, "the golden calf", the super-nation according to Nazism, Fascism or any another, will you entrust your future to the next charismatic maniac of power who will turn your reason into a zombie, and, with "bats in his belfry", dispose of your destiny and life as he wants? - The traditional pyramid of autocracy allows it! Generally speaking, how wise is it when the destiny of the whole of society can be predetermined by only one party, which has frequently come to power by means of buffoonery of promises or frauds at the moment of society's fatal choice?

Finally, the reckless and speculative confrontation of the ideological monopolies, imposed by the vanity of power-hungry men, call all of civilization's survival into question at the modern weapon. The "Big Red Button" should not be in single hands! Means against (="antidote for" ?) this consists in that a system of checks and balances must be within the power structure, consisting of several independent participants without the "divine right" of a single-handed "king over all", but rather with a movable centre of joint decisions.

Finally, the reckless and speculative voraciousness of the ideological monopolies, "modern monarchies", imposed by the vanity of power-hungry men, call all of civilization's survival into question through the deadliness of modern weapons plus the "Big Red Button (to launch nuclear strikes). Thus a system of checks and balances must be institutionalized within the power structure, consisting of several independent participants without the "divine right" of a single-handed "king over all", but rather with a movable centre of joint decisions.

The Communists say that there is "no democracy" under capitalism, the capitalists' same "complaint" about communism. So what is true democracy? Democracy is when the political system creates conditions for a tolerant coexistence and productive collaboration through a lively rivalry of different points of view in the process of joint work within a single team, with the freedom to choose between them.

The real revolution (as an innovation and new stage of development) is here: "New Formula for Democracy. The Idea a self-balancing Power". The rest is futile "palace coups" stuck within the confines of the outdated and dangerous conception of undivided authority and the domination of one political idea.
"And the battle is eternal [between you and me?]! We can only dream of peace?" - Alexander Blok

Wisdom begins with the multipolarity of views, and a true road is between ideological extremes.

Ð Ð Ð Ð Ð degreesÐ Ð Ð Ð Ð ' ' Ð Ð Nicholas Popov 2010

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