Alexander Dugin
In his Valdai keynote speech on 27 October 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin argued that:
“The direct threat to the political, economic and ideological monopoly of the West is that alternative social models may emerge in the world.”
Or even more starkly and definitively:
“I am convinced that true democracy in a multipolar world presupposes first of all the possibility for any people – I want to emphasise this – any society, any civilisation to choose its own way, its own socio-political system.”
If the United States and the European Union have this right, surely the Asian countries, the Islamic states, the Persian Gulf monarchies and the states of other continents also have it. Of course, our country, Russia, also has this right, and no one can ever impose on our people what kind of society we should build and on what principles.
Today, in Russia, it is only a matter of proposing an alternative social model to liberal democracy and building our own socio-political system. This very constructive step should be the next step in our strategy in the deployment of the acute civilisation war.
The foundation of this social model is necessarily the traditional values, which the President signed into law on 9 November 2022 (Decree No. 809). This is what such a model should be based on.
Here is a list of traditional values that are essentially national in nature today. These are the foundations of a sovereign ideology that is, in a way, obligatory for all Russian citizens.
Let us analyse this crucial code of the new operating system of Russian society in a little more detail. To quote Decree No. 809:
Traditional values include:
- life,
- dignity,
- human rights and freedom,
- patriotism, citizenship, service to the homeland and responsibility for its destiny,
- high moral ideals
- a strong family,
- constructive work,
- spiritual over material
- humanism,
- charity,
- justice,
- collectivism, mutual assistance and respect,
- historical memory and intergenerational continuity,
- unity of the peoples of Russia.
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