Kurginyan: The political system should look for allies, not agents

24.07.2022, Moscow.

The Russian political system’s reliance on agents, not on strategic allies, will bring it to deadly consequences for itself and for the country at the pivotal moment, said philosopher, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in his Destiny author’s broadcast published on the movement’s YouTube channel.

The political scientist noted that two concepts are often confused: agent and strategic ally. According to the expert, “a strategic ally is a person driven by an ideological motivation.” The Russian political system does not believe in an ideological motivation in the 21st century, and this is why “the category of ideological ally is not considered at all.”

According to Kurginyan, the system, due to is security services genesis and fear of any ideology, prefers to rely on agents, on network structures. “However, an agent is a person who takes orders, one cannot expect any initiative from him,” he stressed.

When the system relies on agents but not on ideologically motivated strategic allies and civil society, it is extremely dangerous at pivotal moments.

“As soon as a slightest lack of political stability happens, either there are independent civic factors, and then something restores, or there are none, and then all this bureaucratic power turns into one big drain full of sewage,” Kurginyan explained.

The political scientist reminded of the Nashi movement created by bureaucrats after the first Maidan in Kiev in 2014. This movement was supposed to become a patriotic response to the liberal street. Great effort and money were invested in it.

“Where was all that at the moment when the Poklonnaya Gora events happened? I am asking, where was all that?! Could I see at least a relict of it? I could see zero!” Kurginyan described the outcome of that effort at a dramatic moment in the country.

The expert warned that the West will definitely try to escalate the situation inside Russia waiting for an opportune moment. Kurginyan is concerned about what will happen then and how strategic governance will be taking place, which is impossible without an ideology.

“How can we prevent bureaucracy from stifling any innovation, which we now need to be going one after another? How can people who know very well how to saw anything build new plants at all? They have no idea how to do it,” the expert wonders. And these questions have to be answered. Otherwise, the coming strategic escalation will be lost, the leader of Essence of Time concluded.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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