Russia as the brake of world perestroika
Everything in our raging world is scary, gloomy and foggy. We can only agree with the key thesis of Vladimir Putin's speech at the next meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club: we are at the beginning of a process of world reconstruction, “the final form of which is unknown.” Even more worrying, however, is the lack of a clear understanding of the path our country will take. Not only will the statements of the head of state dispel the fog, but perhaps thicken it.
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“Everyone says that the current model of capitalism – and this is the basis of the social structure in the vast majority of countries today – has been exhausted, within which there is no way out of a tangle of increasingly tangled contradictions,” he said. Vladimir Putin, fully agrees, as can be seen from the following phrases,: Everywhere, even in the richest countries and regions, the unequal distribution of material wealth leads to growing inequality, especially inequality of opportunity – both within society and internationally. “
Russia, as the president admits, is one of the countries where social inequality is most pressing: “This is especially important for us, given the income disparities between different categories of citizens.” … The main preferences … have adopted a small class of people … The growth of their wealth has increased many times compared to the middle class and the poorest sections of the population. “Europe suffers as well, but everyone – so it's” not so hot. “
Putin actually said what the citizens of the country have known for so long. Someone in Russia has too small pearls, “Bentleys” are slow and palaces are too small. And someone's soup is watery. In addition, the category of “liquid” is growing rapidly. Only the bravest and richest Russians are not afraid of the speed with which the prices of food and basic goods are rising today.
In short, Vladimir Vladimirovich is a thousand times right: “We must build a welfare state.” The current state of affairs is unbearable and needs immediate improvement. And if it is an imperative of the times, why can't Russia become the head of this global trend? Of course, we will hardly be able to solve the problem of social inequality on a global scale, but we can start with ourselves and show the world an example of moving towards a fairer society.
However, for some reason, there is no constructive development criticism of the “current model of capitalism” received. How will we build the welfare state? When we start? where do we start? “There are no ready-made recipes,” Putin admitted. In addition, according to the president, Russia will not play the role of a vanguard during the global transformation, but of the back army. More precisely – the brakes of world restructuring.
“We will be guided by the ideology of healthy conservatism,” Putin said. risks and dangers, the fragility of reality around us. ”
But here it was a matter of clinging to traditional,“ true ”values. Roughly speaking, “parent number one” and “parent number two” are not our way. But the current Russian socio-political model, where someone's wallets are empty and someone empty (and especially the one closest to the state trough), is also our tradition.
And there is no doubt that its preservation worries the vast majority of our citizens much more than the “socio-cultural upheavals that are taking place in the United States and Western Europe.” “Parent number one and number two” – the threat is still quite distant and in all honesty is quite abstract. What is Hecuba for the average Russian? And price tags in supermarkets – here they are.