Igor Aidman: "Putin and the right wave in the West"

“The Putin regime is the“ advanced detachment ”of the right -conservative turn that is now in world politics. The Russian president is the first among equal in a series of new right -wing leaders as Trump, Marie Le Pen, Frauke Petri, Orban, Yaroslav Kachinsky, Hofer, Fordein, etc.,” says sociologist Igor Aidman in publication on the Kasparov.ru website.

"After the collapse of the fascist conservative revolutions of the first half of the 20th century, the right -wingers set themselves predominantly limited, protective tasks. Now the ultra -right movements again, as in the era of fascism, are beginning to achieve the realization of radical, almost revolutionary goals. They no longer say progress - they say: we will make you go back. xenophobia and national isolationism.

The Putin regime for new right is an example of a successful conservative turn. For the first time since the 30s of the 20th century, a large European state sharply unfolded to archaic, clericalism, authoritarianism, the cult of the patriarchal family and traditions, xeno and homophobia, imperialism. "

"Helping right extremists to destabilize the situation, Putin's propaganda is trying in every possible way to inflate a crisis associated with refugees, such as in the case of an imaginary rape in Berlin, a Russian -speaking girl. Putin does not want to" bend under a variable world ", he tries to bend him for himself. For him, the right -conserving wave in the world is the only chance of political survival. It is waiting for political insulation. And, as a result, a permanent crisis, which inevitably soon or later will bring down the regime. "

"In Russia, what European left -wing is fighting at home: social inequality and violation of labor rights, corruption and arbitrariness of the police, pollution by corporations and their seizure of free urban spaces, racism and homophobia, sexism and clericalism, imperialist foreign policy and militarism.

The state deliberately cultivates xenophobic sentiments and clerical obscurantism. Military radical and nationalist organizations receive state funding and are almost openly used by representatives of the authorities in their interests. "

"Some left -wingers want to be friends with Putin on the principle: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Putin is the enemy of the United States and the EU, which means that he is a friend of the left. However, the EU and even the United States, with all its enormous shortcomings, are much more to the left, social, democratic of Putin's Russia."

"Can it be imagined that European Social Democrats call for a" understanding "of the Franco regime or to a more friendly attitude to the dictatorship of Pinochet. So why are they so tolerant, authoritarian ruler Putin? Moreover, the Putin regime is not only the Russian, but also the world problem. The confrontation of the left movement in the western countries. Threading to Putin-tolerance to Putin. This is the assistance of a right -conservative wave in the world trying to change Europe according to the Putin model. "