(April 27, 2022 at 9:30 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 26, 2022 at 12:24 pm)Interaktive Wrote: Truth or not? One Russia, communists, liberal Democrats, socialist Democrats
Theater or truth politics?
How do you think?
I think, that gosduma is theater
one russia, if that means united russia, is not exactly directly comparable to the other three. The other three, if i understand it, are ideological political fractions which appeals to particular political ideology, or reflect nostalgia for conditions prevailing when a particular ideology was said to be the national ideology.
United russia is political chimera, not a ideological fraction. It is an ad hoc political coalition designed to help secure dominant majority in the duma in the service of the ruling oligarchy. it doesn’t appeal to any single internally coherent political ideology, rather it adopts or co-opts what appeals in the policies and measures advocated by many different and politically seemingly muturally incompatible ideologies. For example it appeals to nostalgia about the greatness of an atheistic communist past under the USSR, while ostentatiously advocating enlargement of the role of eastern orthodox church in Russian life, while appealing to hard core right wing ethnocentrism and racialism.
I was looking online, and the Communist Party is still active in Russia, around 25% representation. Difficulty was trying to figure out how United Russia was at odds with the communists. Do they even get along?
