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It's time to become a party
The manifestation of United Russia the manifesto the recently - not so much in content as in fact - this is a challenge. First of all, the challenge of the party itself: as far as it is able to withstand its own "party science", to become a member of the real political struggle, and not a hostage to the policy of the "administrative resource". "United Russia" has no moral right to talk about qualitative reorganization of the state until its own reorganization does not withstand.
What is in "United Russia" as a political party, and not the administrative and economic colossus, can still be fragile, and "Surkovo", and postmodern (as the figure of the main ideologist of sovereign democracy). United Russia claims this manifest by politics in the country, which, it seems, has already turned away from any policy. People who have experienced aesthetic, first of all, disappointment in public policy, should finally be the opportunity for a political choice, and not the choice of the forces that are ready to put an end to any policy. This program is a gesture of liability of United Russia to ensure that politics remains politics, and nothing else.
I will express a thought that, most likely, will cause a grin: "United Russia" is a completely modern party of the Western European type. True, not in the form in which we know it today, but in the one in which it exists as its own small “national project” in relation to itself: large in influence, but not necessarily the number of the cartel batch C, so to speak, “pasteurized” ideology (which does not mean its absence), the function of which is primarily a parliamentary representation. Such a legal “exchanger” of the opinions of voters on political capital, and not the “charitable organization”, which it is de facto today. A mobile party with its own, and not rented by an ideological project created to implement political capabilities here - in this country, with its political culture or a lack of this culture, to be more precise.
The manifesto is, in general, the Child of Art Nouveau, including the political modernity - of course, the past of political battles. A manifest as a certain type of document is established by a party or movement primarily for those political forces that could recognize themselves in this manifesto and join the party. By and large, the manifesto is not a functionally any internal party document. You do not need a manifesto for the so -called "old" parties - their program is clear and obvious to anyone who is dealing with them and is able to trace their evolution of the century since the 19th. The manifesto for "United Russia" is a gesture towards its redesigning as a party. The manifesto here is no longer so much agitation as the tool for transforming the party structure, and let its form not deceive.
Ghosts of manifestos
In the political season, the United Russia party enters with the document - albeit with a bit full of officialdom and cloth rhetoric, but a document that none of the competitors have analogues. The right ones came out of politics and could not even reproduce this gesture as a political gesture. They dissolved and wait for the "this country" to fall into their hands sweating with impatience. The left forces are fragmented, and their many manifestos are so loud, so empty. The only, perhaps, competing with the main concept of Osra - the “sovereign democracy” - is the project of Mikhail Kasyanov’s “Empire of Liberty”, which arose as a reaction to the ideological innovations of the party in power. He, in fact, does not represent anything, in isolation from what a parody thought for. But who will take a fake if the brand lies nearby?
The idea of sovereign democracy in many ways - and this is partly correctly noticed by critics - not clarified. However, the real concept - and the ideologists of the "United Russia" believe that this is not a simulation - this is a concept in a scan. It makes sense only through our own implementation, since we are not dealing with a scientific concept, but with an ideological product that describes the existence of what is not yet and what needs to be built. This phrase - "sovereign democracy" - has already managed to identify in the media with the image of the future of Russia, the political producer of which is Enro.
More about fakes. It is obvious to Profan that the first new program document of United Russia has nothing to do with either the format or the rhetoric of “communist manifestos”. The latter, as you know, were more to the fruits of literary games. The fact is that the manifesto is a genre that has not developed in the field of politics and who came there in the wave of aesthetization of the political. Together with the departure of the mass of mass, or, as they are also called, people's parties and movements, the aesthetic component of the political has faded into the background. All these revolutionary impulses, the creak of the leather and the warmth of the nagan in the palm of the hand or the modest scarlet flower, which the girl's delicate hand pushes into the trunk of the machine, - all this has gone, but still a recent and not forgotten past of politics. Now politics is different, radically different.
Political is the sphere of ethics of responsibility, not irresponsible aesthetics. No one admires the beauty of letters written by a children's hand on rockets aimed at a large enemy city. And there is no need to expect from the manifesto of "United Russia" that he will "burn the verb", if only because the era of such manifestos has passed. No, this does not mean that she someday will not return! You just need to learn to be modern, that the authors of the text - and to an even greater extent the idea of the manifesto - are demonstrated. And to be a modern politician today means to experience overloads of responsibility that means pressure on the ability to say. Hence all these chancellery and stamps in the program statement of United Russia. And yet - from the desire to say briefly about too much.
A party program is not an object of literary criticism, this is a document. This is a passport with political registration indicating a political residence permit. And not a literary critic checks the quality of the text of the party document. This quality will be checked by the country. If United Russia will win again.