Popular Front: why is it needed
11-12 June will be the founding congress of the Popular Front “For Russia” movement. The Chief Editor of “However,” Mikhail Leontyev is one of its founders.
Why the Popular Front?
The tasks that the country is really facing - those tasks that Putin formulated in his electoral articles (even in such a very politically correct form) - are, in fact, the tasks of survival. Under the conditions of the global crisis, when the entire current economic, political, ideological system, the entire existing world order is steadily falling apart, the current Russian economy, completely dependent on external conjuncture, will not live. With this economy, the country will not survive. Another economy with the current state of the state, elites and society will not be able to build. Mobilization of everything healthy and loyal to one’s own country is needed. Therefore - the front. In fact, this is the last chance to launch development without another political catastrophe.
If the idea of the Front is formulated as a broad coalition around the goals and objectives of development, there is no reason not to join it.
The front is one more chance to fill the policy (first of all - the policy of the current government) with clear, meaningful meanings, behind which the actions corresponding to them cannot but stand. Meanings whose carriers in the current political discourse - systemic and non-systemic - do not exist in a blatant way. Because none of the existing political forces formulates any answers to the above challenges.
There is the party "United Russia", which in fact is no party in the political sense of the word (as, indeed, all the other "parties"). This is a tool burdened with the technical tasks of servicing the policies of the current ruling coalition. In content, this coalition can be described as a coalition of “patriots, crooks and traitors.”
The front is positioned as a supra-party social movement, as a mechanism of direct interaction between the people and the authorities. With the aforementioned absence of real parties, with our probably, many skeptical attitude towards parliamentarism, parties and representative democracy in general, the Popular Front in the form it is positioning itself now is a type of some alternative political system - in principle, quite interesting in terms of search for alternatives to the current liberal-democratic model.
This is really a chance to feed on him numerous civic activists on the ground who are engaged in a particular case, rather than “fighting the bloody regime”, butting about it continuously with some local superiors. In general, this may be the traditional Russian mechanism for addressing the tsar through the heads of evil boyars — the only one that has always ensured the popular legitimacy of the Russian government.
Given that Putin remains the only political figure in Russia, the Popular Front is, after all, the front of the struggle for Putin. Including - within Putin himself.
That is, with all the risks that again “the Kalashnikov assault rifle will turn out”, there is no reason not to try.
FROM THE EDITION OF THE MAGAZINE "However"
Dear readers! We ask you to undertake a difficult job - right now to take part in the congress of the All-Russian Popular Front, which will begin on June 11.
In short, from readers who are ready to directly influence the situation in the country, we are waiting for concrete and clear explanations: what each of them may be ready to do not as a philistine, but as a member of the public movement. No advice is needed, what should others do - we are talking about our own applications.
Your proposals will be published in a special issue of the journal However, devoted to the congress, which will be presented by us there.
We ask you to realize the responsibility of this work. In practice, this means that we are waiting for concrete proposals from specific people who are ready to do what they offer - as practical as possible and as clearly stated as possible.
Therefore, the remarks, consisting of emotional slogans or global claims to the authorities, the urgent demands of someone to plant, personal opinions about the future and world order, remarks are too short or irrelevant to work, as well as funny jokes and internal dialogues between commentators will be immediately removed .
Thanks in advance for your help.
It depends on you what will be the ONF - the next profanation of civic activism performed by “professional social activists”, political technology decoration or a real movement filled with real content from real active citizens.
In short, from readers who are ready to directly influence the situation in the country, we are waiting for concrete and clear explanations: what each of them may be ready to do not as a philistine, but as a member of the public movement. No advice is needed, what should others do - we are talking about our own applications.
Your proposals will be published in a special issue of the journal However, devoted to the congress, which will be presented by us there.
We ask you to realize the responsibility of this work. In practice, this means that we are waiting for concrete proposals from specific people who are ready to do what they offer - as practical as possible and as clearly stated as possible.
Therefore, the remarks, consisting of emotional slogans or global claims to the authorities, the urgent demands of someone to plant, personal opinions about the future and world order, remarks are too short or irrelevant to work, as well as funny jokes and internal dialogues between commentators will be immediately removed .
Thanks in advance for your help.
It depends on you what will be the ONF - the next profanation of civic activism performed by “professional social activists”, political technology decoration or a real movement filled with real content from real active citizens.
Interview with State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fedorov 23 in May 2013.
Talk about man-made crises, American agents, the device of Russian power and street support All-Russian Popular Front.
Talk about man-made crises, American agents, the device of Russian power and street support All-Russian Popular Front.
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