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Russia needs censorship and repression
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Alexander Dugin [RIA] As our society is drawn deeper into the civilizational conflict with the West, and the confrontation with it in Ukraine becomes more and more bitter, the issue of censorship and even repression becomes more and more urgent. Let's start with the fact that censorship and repression exist in any society. It is always built around a well-defined ideology, a system of basic attitudes and principles. At the same time, they are never strictly spelled out in criminal or administrative law, but rather predetermine an ideological vector that acts as an additional driver of the law and its application. What is permissible and what is not, what can be tolerated and what requires the intervention of the state by force, is never determined by the alienated law. On the contrary, the laws are adopted by the bearers of the ruling ideology, they also give their interpretation and they also build a hierarchy - when, to whom and in what cases they should be applied more or less strictly. They also monitor the application and the system of punishment. Therefore, the sociologist Weber accurately determined that "only the state has a legitimate right to violence." Modern Western society is no exception in this sense and is fundamentally no different from other totalitarian regimes of recent centuries, be it communism or fascism. The difference lies only in ideology and methods, but otherwise any ruling ideology functions in the same way: what corresponds to it is accepted, what goes beyond its framework or, moreover, challenges the ideological foundations (in this case, liberalism) becomes object of censorship and repression. Liberalism builds its censorship policy on criticism, marginalization, demonization of any illiberal theories, value systems and practices, criminalizes them by removing everything connected with them from any information and network platforms, and then eliminates the bearers of illiberal views themselves. This is called "cancel culture", "wakefulness" (wokeism) and so on. Modern liberal ideology considers any belonging to a collective identity, including race, gender, and even belonging to the human species (transhumanism), the consequence of the free choice of the individual. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a criminal. Hence the persecution of supporters of the classical family, patriots, bearers of any collectivist teachings. Anyone who is suspected of a lack of liberalism is denied access to major channels, mass media and even social networks. At the same time, if anyone, even from among the elite, stumbles, deviates from the liberal (completely totalitarian) agenda, then ostracism, censorship and repression follow immediately. Only the famous African American rapper Kanye West put on a T-shirt with the innocent inscription White lives matter (too) ("White lives also mean something"), as overnight in the eyes of the public he turned into a marginal, extremist and socially dangerous element. Anything that goes against the ruling ideology is immediately suppressed. Of course, not only liberal regimes are totalitarian (both fascism and communism were totalitarian regimes), but if they are too, then there are no exceptions. And this must be acknowledged. So, the question of the need for censorship and repression as such has been removed. It remains only to find out what kind of censorship and what kind of repression should be in our modern Russian society. They are inevitable, but what are they? We are waging a civilizational war with the West, where the liberal ideology has triumphed. We affirm our traditional values, and the president even issued Decree No. 809 on the need to protect them from the side of the state. And these values - mercy, love for the Fatherland, justice, a strong family, the triumph of spirit over matter, solidarity, and so on - have little in common with liberalism. Therefore, it is quite obvious that our censorship and our repressions must proceed from other criteria than in the modern liberal West. In this case, simply "copying and pasting" Western standards for combating dissent and deploying repression on their basis would be complete absurdity. However, the vestiges in our society of the Western liberal stereotypes that dominated in previous decades are still very strong. We are no longer in the field of liberal ideology, moreover, we are at war with the countries of this camp, we proclaim Russia a separate civilization with its own value system, but we still (sometimes out of inertia) are guided by their example. For liberals, the classical opponents are those who recognize either a national (right) or class (left) collective identity. Therefore, they are primarily subject to censorship and repression, since any objection to liberalism and individualism - and today against globalism, LGBT, critical racial theory, multiculturalism and transhumanism - is already considered a "crime of thought." At the same time, the liberals - after all, they are the ideological hegemon! - are considered not just acceptable, but normative carriers of the dominant worldview. Liberals immediately place their enemies in the category of "fascists" (right) or "Stalinists" (left), and then their fate is unenviable. Today, the “deification of Zelensky” has been added to the universally mandatory set of liberal values, How to build our sovereign censorship and what should be chosen as a criterion for objectively inevitable repressions? So far, they have introduced the principle of a ban on criticizing the president and the army in the context of military operations. Quite clear and transparent criteria. There is also a provision already adopted on the ban on public criticism of the special military operation itself. And the more severe the conflict, the more strictly these criteria will be applied. In the depths of his soul or at the family table, a person can afford to have his own "dissenting opinion" about the NVO, the army and the president. Although it has already become commonplace in the liberal West to inform, for example, to children, that parents in a home conversation allowed themselves to criticize either multiculturalism, or transgender people, or Zelensky, or illegal migrants and, in particular, boorish Ukrainian refugees. And there are consequences for this. But we are still talking about public violations of this rule. There is complete freedom in the family circle: say what you want. But I still wouldn't use it. Ideological criteria have not yet been introduced, and here we still remain captive to the liberal inertia of previous eras. By imitating the West, we also introduced the conservative-patriotic and left-socialist segments of our society into the category of "unreliable". Derogatory characteristics copied from the liberal West were sometimes applied to them, whence the pejorative term "red-brown" that flourished in the Russian elite in the 1990s. It meant "not liberals" - either on the left or on the right (and sometimes on both sides at the same time). This era has long passed, but the attitudes laid down in it - including in law enforcement agencies, the FSBand in the political bloc of the Russian government - partly preserved. If we were liberals, this would be understandable. But we are at war with liberals. Therefore, the time has definitely come to correct censorship guidelines and more clearly define the grounds for ideological repression. Yes, there are figures on the right and left flanks in Russia who criticize the president, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and sometimes even doubt the need for the SVO. This is forbidden, for this the state must punish mercilessly. But it is worth paying attention to the fact that ideologically and socially active people who make up the backbone of volunteers and the core of those who help them day and night throughout the country are almost exclusively carriers of right-wing or left-wing patriotic ideas. That is, the NVO lies ideologically on the shoulders of those who profess any ideology other than the liberal one. Paraphrasing Yegor Letov: "There are no liberals in the trenches under fire." Yes, and atheists too. Therefore, the presence of a right-conservative or left-socialist ideology among those who are guilty should be considered rather not an aggravating factor, but something that alleviates (without removing, of course) guilt. And vice versa: when criticism of the president, the leadership of the army or the NWO as a whole and the corresponding actions in this direction come from liberals - that is, those who obviously share the ideology of our civilizational enemy - then in this case this is precisely an aggravating circumstance. And the presence of the liberal ideology itself (which is easily recognizable as bestial hatred for right and left patriots, that is, for the same "red-browns") is obviously an alarming signal "Treason is possible! Beware, liberal extremism!". The case of the liberal terrorist Darya Trepova, who brutally murdered military commissar Vladlen Tatarskyand crippled other peaceful and innocent people - is quite indicative. Of course, not all liberals are convinced terrorists, but their ideology is directed precisely in this direction. After all, not all Muslims who read Wahhabi and Salafi literature banned in Russia dare to kill or blow themselves up with shahid belts. But as soon as law enforcement agencies find such books or receive information that fundamentalism is being preached in such and such an Islamic center, tough preventive measures follow. It would make sense to do the same with liberals. Recorded the fact of reading or passing on Popper's book "The Open Society and Its Enemies", this black bible of George Soros, or an unhealthy interest in the liberal Satanist Ayn Rand - and immediately took note. And banning the liberal media and giving the most innocent the status of a foreign agent is already a step in the right direction. Before you become a liberal, you must first think carefully about what you will have to pay for it. A liberal cannot be a Russian patriot at all, since he thinks of himself as a "citizen of the world" and a bearer of the values of Western civilization. US or EU _a liberal can still somehow support the state, especially when it is at war with illiberal opponents. But in Russia such a situation is impossible. Of course, there are former liberals or those who consider themselves "liberals" by mistake (due to lack of knowledge and understanding). It's not about them. But to share the ideology of the enemy, with whom there is a real war, is already the first step towards committing a crime. Imagine how they would treat a Soviet person reading "Mein Kampf" (banned in Russia) and sharing its main provisions during the Great Patriotic War. And Popper, so you can? And "Rain" (thank God, banned in Russia) to watch, and to listen to the escaped "Echo of Moscow"? Ekho Moskvy, by the way, escaped because it stopped relaying the Moscow discourse.they don't say that anymore, and the echo now carries other words. Now censorship and repressions, which are just beginning, are responding to the most obvious challenges. But these are the first steps. And in the conditions of confrontation with the West, it would be completely stupid inside the country to completely copy its criteria - what is possible and what is not. Some of what is possible in the West is also possible here. But some things are no longer possible. And some of what is possible with us is now impossible in the West (for example, listening to Sputnik or watching RT). And with us - listen and look I don’t want to. Well, Instagram ** and FB ** (instruments of cultural civilizational aggression banned in Russia) - they can, but we don’t. In this distinction between censorship and repressive strategies, let the identity of civilizations flourish. By the way, in China, in general, everything is different with "possible" and "impossible". There is no society where everything is possible. But there is no society where nothing is allowed at all. Something is always possible. Therefore, the status of a foreign agent can be preliminarily issued to all liberals. This is not yet a challenge to the UK , and even less a black funnel. Not even recognition as a foreign agent. Just took note. Preliminary. Generally speaking, it is necessary to go beyond all three political ideologies of the European Modern Age (liberalism, communism and nationalism) and establish your own authentic sovereign worldview on the basis of the fundamental values of our people and our state. And then, starting from it, build your own strategy of censorship and repression. Turned in the name of unity, power and loyalty against the ideological enemies of Russia - overt and covert. Posted by: badanov 2023-07-29 |
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