Ideology is not and is not necessary?
On the ideological errors Rostislav Ishchenko ...
Recently, I read an article on ideology, written by one of the most popular domestic political scientists - Rostislav Ishchenko (see Questions of ideology). It's not about how much its author owns this topic. The problem is different: the attitude towards ideology as something unnecessary, harmful and splitting society has become popular in the Russian intellectual elites. “Out of ideological statehood” (R.Ishchenko's term) - this, it turns out, is a panacea for all state diseases. But is it? For example, the main slogan of Ukraine, which formally does not have a single ideology: “Ukraine - ponad mustache!” (“Ukraine is above all!”) Is a declaration of “statehood” in its pure form. So, maybe, “statehood” for Russia is “Russia - above all!”? Or an example of the most successful state of the twentieth century - the United States, where with "statism" full order. Maybe the United States and its methods of state building and conquering the world (for example, the destruction of 30 million Indians) can be the standard of “statehood”? If not, then what “statist” principles (ideas) are good for proper “statism”? Continuing the argument about “statism”, we are simply doomed to rest on principles, ideas, and therefore, on the ideology of the state, this is obvious. But the author insists on the opposite, they say, any "the only true ideology," instead of a popular patriotic monolith, will give rise to an endless struggle of compatriots of different ideological preferences, which will certainly destroy the state.
So, in order of the errors of domestic intellectuals, presented in the above-mentioned resonant article.
Misconception №1. A narrow understanding of ideology as an expression of the political interests of various social strata (classes, groups).
“With this understanding of ideology, we can agree that“ the task of the state is not to accept the position of one social group as a dogma (even if it is framed in an outwardly attractive ideology), but to smooth over existing contradictions and, on the basis of a social-class compromise, achieve unity ” . But the whole point is that ideology should be understood much more broadly. So, as it was understood in all traditional cultures before the Masonic ideological experiments on humanity. Ideology is, first of all, the moral and spiritual aspiration of society; she educates, revealing answers to the questions: “What are we living for?”, “What kind of society are we building?”, “What is our moral ideal?”, “What is our value system?”. With this understanding of ideology, its adoption is the primary task of the state. Who, pray tell, will teach a citizen where good is and where evil is? Based on what criteria? What is moral, what is immoral? Whose historical interpretation of events to believe? What is the truth to convey to schoolchildren and students? Is political and moral censorship necessary? Or can the pro-Western media belonging to the oligarchs continue to idealize the West, humiliate our Fatherland, rewrite history, and propagate with impunity the base and immoral ones, corrupting our youth and destroying the institution of the family? Without a solid, constructive ideology, these issues are not resolved.
Misconception №2. The united ideology for the state is absolute evil (“an attempt to define“ the only true doctrine ”and with all the power of the state to comb one size fits all is absolute evil”).
- The fact is that ideology of ideology is different. Indeed, there are obvious ideologies of “evil” (for example, Nazism or Fascism), but there is also an ideology of “good”, which as a moral aspiration has existed for as many as 15 centuries !!! Yes, there is no clear classification of ideologies due to the exceptional complexity of the issue. But, if desired, the ideology can be classified according to the criterion of "good and evil." For example, depending on what deep idea is inherent in its basis. In this case, two such basic ideas can be considered: 1) a civilizational (unifying) idea of merciful love, distributed to all people without any exception; 2) is a barbaric (disconnecting) idea of hatred, due to the idea of one or another superiority (exclusivity) of one over the other. The first group includes the ideology of merciful love, characteristic of Orthodox empires, and the second group includes ideologies of hatred, for example, Marxism as class hatred; fascism as a hatred of Marxism; Nazism as national hatred; liberalism as a hatred of traditional values; Russophobia as a hatred of everything Russian. The ideology of love is based on the religious and moral idea of Christianity, which gives birth to Man in man. For the rest - the experiments of the Anglo-Saxons, along with the masons (anti-Christian ideas of hatred) on the awakening of the beast in man.
Misconception №3. We do not need ideology. Enough “statehood” (“since the absence of ideology is also ideology, then extra ideological statehood, which by the way is the quasi ideology of the Russian Federation, is the most acceptable ideology”).
- The problem is that there is no ideological vacuum. If a state does not have its own ideology, then this vacuum is quickly filled with the aggressive pressure of liberalism (the ideology of the United States and their vassals). Liberalism is strong and successful not so much by its outstanding theorists or the attractiveness of its tenets, but by the power of informational, political and financial pressure from the Anglo-Saxon Empire. The slogan “We do not need ideology!” In practice means “Long live liberalism!”, And the latter, in turn, is identical to the slogan “Long live the hegemony of the USA!”. Article 13 of the current Constitution of Russia states that no ideology can be established as a state one, which completely disarmed Russia ideologically. There is no ideological control by the state that opened the way for liberal propaganda. Domestic mass media openly or imperceptibly, but persistently impose certain liberal values. The Russian political nation is a winning nation, but to win it needs a unifying and mobilizing idea. Self-preservation of the Fatherland requires ideological parity in the information war with the Anglo-Saxon Empire. Ideology should be morally, socially and intellectually organizing system that ensures state sovereignty. Compatriots, being in the thrall of false ideas imposed by liberal ideology, are not able to independently sort out and part with liberal political myths crammed into their heads. This task should be solved by the state ideology. About "statism" is written in the beginning of the article.
Misconception №4. Ideology prevents the state from becoming successful. “The myth of the highly successful ideologized state has been refuted by history. Despite the short-term (from a historical point of view) impressive successes, eventually Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy and communist (from the point of view of the dominant ideology) of the USSR collapsed. ”
- Collapsing and dying in the material world everything and always, including the state. On the other hand, it is impossible to name in the entire history of mankind a single successful state without ideology. For example, a successful long-lived state - the Byzantine Empire, which existed for eleven centuries (!), Had the ideology of an Orthodox empire. If we consider the United States to be successful (although the period of several centuries will be too small for evaluation by historical standards), then liberal ideology prevails there, and enormous resources are spent on supporting it. Ideology (although the term itself appeared only at the end of the XVIII century) has been since the formation of the first sovereign states. Ideology in the states was because all its functions were fulfilled, although by different bodies (council of elders, leader, monarch, senate, court, priests, church, etc.). Ideology in the state is necessary as a socially, intellectually and morally organizing system that ensures the moral state of society (including patriotism and the desire for state sovereignty). Conversely, the loss of ideology (and therefore the loss of oneself) in 1991. led to the collapse of our Fatherland with a long decline in all public spheres.
Misconception №5. Ideology should not be a dogma. “As soon as you try to turn an ideology into a dogma and begin to subordinate the activities of the state to it, it will fall in your hands. This, by the way, was well understood by Lenin and Stalin. The first one, quite calmly, rejected the “war communism”, in favor of the NEP, instead of the Bolshevik communist program of land reform, adopted the Socialist Revolutionary Petty Bourgeois ”.
- Do not confuse politics and ideology, they are different things. Ideology is, first of all, a spiritual striving, a moral ideal of a desired society, a dogmatic notion of what truth is and what is false, what is good, and what is bad. A policy (internal, for example, economic or external) is always a “chess game” of the state leadership, where each next move is a response to current internal or external challenges. Such an analogy is appropriate here: the ship floats to its destination (ideology is the ultimate goal of the movement, dogma), but on the way it gets into a storm, encounters reefs, the ship has problems, in the hold ends the provisions, etc., then the ship temporarily deviates from a given course - this is the current policy. That is, within the framework of a single ideological paradigm, political maneuvers can change, which almost always happens. At the same time, ideology makes a moral adjustment to politics (not all political maneuvers are morally permissible).
Misconception №6. Liberals are a powerful political force with which it is better not to conflict. "There are at least 15-20 million supporters of liberals in the country, they will not accept such violence against their conscience (as a single ideology. - FP) that they will actively protest and this will destabilize the situation."
- The problem is that liberals are agents of influence of the Anglo-Saxon Empire, regardless of whether they understand it, the heart, whether it is or not. Liberalism is the ideology of the Anglo-Saxon Empire, developed and adapted to control the world, the approval of world domination of the United States. Therefore, liberalism destroys any tradition and any statehood (except for its own, of course). Here are examples from history. Russian liberals destroyed their empire in February 1917 in favor of someone else's. The same story repeated in 1991, when Kremlin liberals destroyed the Soviet empire, as a result of which the Russians turned out to be the largest divided people in Europe. Liberal Western Europe broke up with its sovereignty and is currently an obedient vassal of the Anglo-Saxon Empire. The question in Russia is an edge: either liberalism and obedience to the United States, or sovereignty. Ukraine, for example, chose to obey the United States. The people of Russia made their choice by supporting the sovereign foreign policy of their president. And with the protests of agents of influence of the Anglo-Saxon Empire, the power will have to fight by legal means, the Russian “Maidan” cannot be allowed.
Misconception №7. “The state is primary, and the ideology is secondary. A state can exist with any ideology and without ideology at all. ”
- I will not touch on the eternal philosophical debate about the primacy of matter or consciousness. Turn to the facts. In the first half of the XIX century, Karl Marx got the idea of social justice and class struggle, then this idea was generously sponsored by Freemasonry (through F. Engels), the multivolume Marxist doctrine appeared, then Marxist circles were sponsored by Anglo-Saxons, and half a century later a coup in Russia was organized, formed a unique Marxist state - the USSR. I don’t know how anyone, but I don’t manage to imagine that in the USSR the ideology was not primary, and the Soviet Union could exist without ideology. A similar story with Hitler. Initially, an idea appears in his book "Mein Kampf", then funding from the Anglo-Saxon Empire, after which the party of national socialism grows, which wins democratic elections; so from the idea of Nazism arose the German Empire - III Reich. In general, the entire history of states is the embodiment of certain ideas of government (monarchical, democratic, aristocratic) and those or other moral ideas (myths, religions, ideologies). Any of the famous cultures is a practical implementation of a particular religious and moral idea. The whole history of humanity is an endless struggle of ideas, and we must try very hard not to notice this. And, conversely, without ideology (without ideas, without meaning), the life of the state may be possible, but only in a short-term, transitional and unstable period (for example, unrest).
The reasons for the errors of domestic patriots include the lack of basic knowledge about empires and, specifically, about the ideology of the Orthodox empire. There is knowledge about confederations, federations and unitary forms of government, but there is no such thing as the most effective form of multiethnic and multi-confessional education - empire. The Bolsheviks and liberals tried to destroy this knowledge. The truth is simple: only within the framework of a civilized imperial project, which unites peoples on a voluntary basis, can their sovereignty, ethnic identity be preserved, protected from the “rink” of liberalism and resist external threats. A small, weak state may not even dream of sovereignty, it will have to sail only in the fairway permitted by one or another empire. The ideological basis of the Orthodox empire is very simple: imperial decisions must be moral in the Orthodox understanding of morality. The ideology of the Orthodox empire does not impose on its citizens the spiritual and ritual component of the Christian religion. We can talk only about the preservation of original traditions, their imperial unique historical and cultural path of development, elevating the moral ideal. In the Orthodox empires, citizens of the most diverse nationalities, beliefs and political views lived together perfectly. The ideology of Orthodox imperialism, professing “love of neighbor”, is tolerant to very much, except for attempts at internal destabilization, external aggression and subversive work in the interests of competing empires. This ideology has passed 15-century test of time in Byzantium and Russia.
Conclusion. The liberal delusions of our intellectual elites have cost us dearly in the past, so patriots cannot propagandize liberal values.
No matter how our state is called, it is important that it be a civilization empire in its essence. It does not matter how many official languages, religions or political parties in the country. It is important that the people feel comfortable in their native empire and live according to their own ways and traditions. It does not matter how the position of the person holding a key position in our state sounds. It is important that he was emperor in essence, that is, to have a fatherly love for his people and responsibility for the country. It does not matter what faith leaders of different levels of the state. It is important that their morality does not contradict the Orthodox. It doesn’t matter how to call ideology (a national idea, principles or concepts), it’s important that government decisions at all levels are moral in the Orthodox understanding of morality.
It can be perceived as a phenomenon quite wonderful that Orthodox Athos recently honored the Russian president as emperor. It remains for a little - to restore the empire and its ideology. I believe we will wait for it. But should not hurry. It is impossible to deploy a huge state ship abruptly at speed, it can tip over. The Russian state is slowly but surely restoring its former strength. And in order for the process to go faster - you need the contribution of each compatriot, in word or deed, for the good of the Fatherland.
Recently, I read an article on ideology, written by one of the most popular domestic political scientists - Rostislav Ishchenko (see Questions of ideology). It's not about how much its author owns this topic. The problem is different: the attitude towards ideology as something unnecessary, harmful and splitting society has become popular in the Russian intellectual elites. “Out of ideological statehood” (R.Ishchenko's term) - this, it turns out, is a panacea for all state diseases. But is it? For example, the main slogan of Ukraine, which formally does not have a single ideology: “Ukraine - ponad mustache!” (“Ukraine is above all!”) Is a declaration of “statehood” in its pure form. So, maybe, “statehood” for Russia is “Russia - above all!”? Or an example of the most successful state of the twentieth century - the United States, where with "statism" full order. Maybe the United States and its methods of state building and conquering the world (for example, the destruction of 30 million Indians) can be the standard of “statehood”? If not, then what “statist” principles (ideas) are good for proper “statism”? Continuing the argument about “statism”, we are simply doomed to rest on principles, ideas, and therefore, on the ideology of the state, this is obvious. But the author insists on the opposite, they say, any "the only true ideology," instead of a popular patriotic monolith, will give rise to an endless struggle of compatriots of different ideological preferences, which will certainly destroy the state.So, in order of the errors of domestic intellectuals, presented in the above-mentioned resonant article.
Misconception №1. A narrow understanding of ideology as an expression of the political interests of various social strata (classes, groups).
“With this understanding of ideology, we can agree that“ the task of the state is not to accept the position of one social group as a dogma (even if it is framed in an outwardly attractive ideology), but to smooth over existing contradictions and, on the basis of a social-class compromise, achieve unity ” . But the whole point is that ideology should be understood much more broadly. So, as it was understood in all traditional cultures before the Masonic ideological experiments on humanity. Ideology is, first of all, the moral and spiritual aspiration of society; she educates, revealing answers to the questions: “What are we living for?”, “What kind of society are we building?”, “What is our moral ideal?”, “What is our value system?”. With this understanding of ideology, its adoption is the primary task of the state. Who, pray tell, will teach a citizen where good is and where evil is? Based on what criteria? What is moral, what is immoral? Whose historical interpretation of events to believe? What is the truth to convey to schoolchildren and students? Is political and moral censorship necessary? Or can the pro-Western media belonging to the oligarchs continue to idealize the West, humiliate our Fatherland, rewrite history, and propagate with impunity the base and immoral ones, corrupting our youth and destroying the institution of the family? Without a solid, constructive ideology, these issues are not resolved.
Misconception №2. The united ideology for the state is absolute evil (“an attempt to define“ the only true doctrine ”and with all the power of the state to comb one size fits all is absolute evil”).
- The fact is that ideology of ideology is different. Indeed, there are obvious ideologies of “evil” (for example, Nazism or Fascism), but there is also an ideology of “good”, which as a moral aspiration has existed for as many as 15 centuries !!! Yes, there is no clear classification of ideologies due to the exceptional complexity of the issue. But, if desired, the ideology can be classified according to the criterion of "good and evil." For example, depending on what deep idea is inherent in its basis. In this case, two such basic ideas can be considered: 1) a civilizational (unifying) idea of merciful love, distributed to all people without any exception; 2) is a barbaric (disconnecting) idea of hatred, due to the idea of one or another superiority (exclusivity) of one over the other. The first group includes the ideology of merciful love, characteristic of Orthodox empires, and the second group includes ideologies of hatred, for example, Marxism as class hatred; fascism as a hatred of Marxism; Nazism as national hatred; liberalism as a hatred of traditional values; Russophobia as a hatred of everything Russian. The ideology of love is based on the religious and moral idea of Christianity, which gives birth to Man in man. For the rest - the experiments of the Anglo-Saxons, along with the masons (anti-Christian ideas of hatred) on the awakening of the beast in man.
Misconception №3. We do not need ideology. Enough “statehood” (“since the absence of ideology is also ideology, then extra ideological statehood, which by the way is the quasi ideology of the Russian Federation, is the most acceptable ideology”).
- The problem is that there is no ideological vacuum. If a state does not have its own ideology, then this vacuum is quickly filled with the aggressive pressure of liberalism (the ideology of the United States and their vassals). Liberalism is strong and successful not so much by its outstanding theorists or the attractiveness of its tenets, but by the power of informational, political and financial pressure from the Anglo-Saxon Empire. The slogan “We do not need ideology!” In practice means “Long live liberalism!”, And the latter, in turn, is identical to the slogan “Long live the hegemony of the USA!”. Article 13 of the current Constitution of Russia states that no ideology can be established as a state one, which completely disarmed Russia ideologically. There is no ideological control by the state that opened the way for liberal propaganda. Domestic mass media openly or imperceptibly, but persistently impose certain liberal values. The Russian political nation is a winning nation, but to win it needs a unifying and mobilizing idea. Self-preservation of the Fatherland requires ideological parity in the information war with the Anglo-Saxon Empire. Ideology should be morally, socially and intellectually organizing system that ensures state sovereignty. Compatriots, being in the thrall of false ideas imposed by liberal ideology, are not able to independently sort out and part with liberal political myths crammed into their heads. This task should be solved by the state ideology. About "statism" is written in the beginning of the article.
Misconception №4. Ideology prevents the state from becoming successful. “The myth of the highly successful ideologized state has been refuted by history. Despite the short-term (from a historical point of view) impressive successes, eventually Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy and communist (from the point of view of the dominant ideology) of the USSR collapsed. ”
- Collapsing and dying in the material world everything and always, including the state. On the other hand, it is impossible to name in the entire history of mankind a single successful state without ideology. For example, a successful long-lived state - the Byzantine Empire, which existed for eleven centuries (!), Had the ideology of an Orthodox empire. If we consider the United States to be successful (although the period of several centuries will be too small for evaluation by historical standards), then liberal ideology prevails there, and enormous resources are spent on supporting it. Ideology (although the term itself appeared only at the end of the XVIII century) has been since the formation of the first sovereign states. Ideology in the states was because all its functions were fulfilled, although by different bodies (council of elders, leader, monarch, senate, court, priests, church, etc.). Ideology in the state is necessary as a socially, intellectually and morally organizing system that ensures the moral state of society (including patriotism and the desire for state sovereignty). Conversely, the loss of ideology (and therefore the loss of oneself) in 1991. led to the collapse of our Fatherland with a long decline in all public spheres.
Misconception №5. Ideology should not be a dogma. “As soon as you try to turn an ideology into a dogma and begin to subordinate the activities of the state to it, it will fall in your hands. This, by the way, was well understood by Lenin and Stalin. The first one, quite calmly, rejected the “war communism”, in favor of the NEP, instead of the Bolshevik communist program of land reform, adopted the Socialist Revolutionary Petty Bourgeois ”.
- Do not confuse politics and ideology, they are different things. Ideology is, first of all, a spiritual striving, a moral ideal of a desired society, a dogmatic notion of what truth is and what is false, what is good, and what is bad. A policy (internal, for example, economic or external) is always a “chess game” of the state leadership, where each next move is a response to current internal or external challenges. Such an analogy is appropriate here: the ship floats to its destination (ideology is the ultimate goal of the movement, dogma), but on the way it gets into a storm, encounters reefs, the ship has problems, in the hold ends the provisions, etc., then the ship temporarily deviates from a given course - this is the current policy. That is, within the framework of a single ideological paradigm, political maneuvers can change, which almost always happens. At the same time, ideology makes a moral adjustment to politics (not all political maneuvers are morally permissible).
Misconception №6. Liberals are a powerful political force with which it is better not to conflict. "There are at least 15-20 million supporters of liberals in the country, they will not accept such violence against their conscience (as a single ideology. - FP) that they will actively protest and this will destabilize the situation."
- The problem is that liberals are agents of influence of the Anglo-Saxon Empire, regardless of whether they understand it, the heart, whether it is or not. Liberalism is the ideology of the Anglo-Saxon Empire, developed and adapted to control the world, the approval of world domination of the United States. Therefore, liberalism destroys any tradition and any statehood (except for its own, of course). Here are examples from history. Russian liberals destroyed their empire in February 1917 in favor of someone else's. The same story repeated in 1991, when Kremlin liberals destroyed the Soviet empire, as a result of which the Russians turned out to be the largest divided people in Europe. Liberal Western Europe broke up with its sovereignty and is currently an obedient vassal of the Anglo-Saxon Empire. The question in Russia is an edge: either liberalism and obedience to the United States, or sovereignty. Ukraine, for example, chose to obey the United States. The people of Russia made their choice by supporting the sovereign foreign policy of their president. And with the protests of agents of influence of the Anglo-Saxon Empire, the power will have to fight by legal means, the Russian “Maidan” cannot be allowed.
Misconception №7. “The state is primary, and the ideology is secondary. A state can exist with any ideology and without ideology at all. ”
- I will not touch on the eternal philosophical debate about the primacy of matter or consciousness. Turn to the facts. In the first half of the XIX century, Karl Marx got the idea of social justice and class struggle, then this idea was generously sponsored by Freemasonry (through F. Engels), the multivolume Marxist doctrine appeared, then Marxist circles were sponsored by Anglo-Saxons, and half a century later a coup in Russia was organized, formed a unique Marxist state - the USSR. I don’t know how anyone, but I don’t manage to imagine that in the USSR the ideology was not primary, and the Soviet Union could exist without ideology. A similar story with Hitler. Initially, an idea appears in his book "Mein Kampf", then funding from the Anglo-Saxon Empire, after which the party of national socialism grows, which wins democratic elections; so from the idea of Nazism arose the German Empire - III Reich. In general, the entire history of states is the embodiment of certain ideas of government (monarchical, democratic, aristocratic) and those or other moral ideas (myths, religions, ideologies). Any of the famous cultures is a practical implementation of a particular religious and moral idea. The whole history of humanity is an endless struggle of ideas, and we must try very hard not to notice this. And, conversely, without ideology (without ideas, without meaning), the life of the state may be possible, but only in a short-term, transitional and unstable period (for example, unrest).
The reasons for the errors of domestic patriots include the lack of basic knowledge about empires and, specifically, about the ideology of the Orthodox empire. There is knowledge about confederations, federations and unitary forms of government, but there is no such thing as the most effective form of multiethnic and multi-confessional education - empire. The Bolsheviks and liberals tried to destroy this knowledge. The truth is simple: only within the framework of a civilized imperial project, which unites peoples on a voluntary basis, can their sovereignty, ethnic identity be preserved, protected from the “rink” of liberalism and resist external threats. A small, weak state may not even dream of sovereignty, it will have to sail only in the fairway permitted by one or another empire. The ideological basis of the Orthodox empire is very simple: imperial decisions must be moral in the Orthodox understanding of morality. The ideology of the Orthodox empire does not impose on its citizens the spiritual and ritual component of the Christian religion. We can talk only about the preservation of original traditions, their imperial unique historical and cultural path of development, elevating the moral ideal. In the Orthodox empires, citizens of the most diverse nationalities, beliefs and political views lived together perfectly. The ideology of Orthodox imperialism, professing “love of neighbor”, is tolerant to very much, except for attempts at internal destabilization, external aggression and subversive work in the interests of competing empires. This ideology has passed 15-century test of time in Byzantium and Russia.
Conclusion. The liberal delusions of our intellectual elites have cost us dearly in the past, so patriots cannot propagandize liberal values.
No matter how our state is called, it is important that it be a civilization empire in its essence. It does not matter how many official languages, religions or political parties in the country. It is important that the people feel comfortable in their native empire and live according to their own ways and traditions. It does not matter how the position of the person holding a key position in our state sounds. It is important that he was emperor in essence, that is, to have a fatherly love for his people and responsibility for the country. It does not matter what faith leaders of different levels of the state. It is important that their morality does not contradict the Orthodox. It doesn’t matter how to call ideology (a national idea, principles or concepts), it’s important that government decisions at all levels are moral in the Orthodox understanding of morality.
It can be perceived as a phenomenon quite wonderful that Orthodox Athos recently honored the Russian president as emperor. It remains for a little - to restore the empire and its ideology. I believe we will wait for it. But should not hurry. It is impossible to deploy a huge state ship abruptly at speed, it can tip over. The Russian state is slowly but surely restoring its former strength. And in order for the process to go faster - you need the contribution of each compatriot, in word or deed, for the good of the Fatherland.
- Fedor Papayani, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Publicist, Donetsk, DNR
- http://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2016/08/08/ideologii_net_i_ne_nado/
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