Fiasco of Political Forces
Igor Muradyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
Published: 12:25:23 – 06/07/2012
The idea of political parties in Eastern Europe ended in fiasco. In
the countries of this vast region the political parties are factors of
corruption, making money, robbery and venality. Political organization
is a key condition of undermining and castrating such institutions as
constitution and the rule of law, parliamentarianism and everything
that is usually referred to as democracy.
However, an even more monstrous political crime is committed. The
political parties undermine the civil society and existence of the
society as such. There may be a link between this real function of
political parties and the democratic doctrine as a whole. All this
would not have been doomed if the political parties were not
conductors of political and military capitulations of nation states to
foreign threats and circumstances.
In fact, all the political parties have been defined as institutions
which are intended for getting power. The functions of parties are
limited to this, and this explains the whole negativity relating to
such a phenomenon as political parties.
It is possible that in some stage the Eastern European societies will
become adequate but what was the purpose of imposing the `democratic
model’ on these countries for the upcoming decades? In fact, the
evaluations of the democratic situation in Eastern Europe and depends
mainly on geopolitical goals and preferences of the Western community.
Moreover, emergence of genuine democracies in Eastern Europe, like in
the Arab states undergoing radical societal change, appears dangerous
to the great powers of liberal democracy.
Real independent democracy is a big threat to world centers of power,
both democratic and not so. Eastern Europe is in a vicious circle and
in order to break off the national elites who understand the deadlock
they have run into have to engage their countries in global
strategies, subjecting them to the interests of the leading states
which they are trying to achieve.
In this situation one has to learn how to participate in difficult
geopolitical games by the established rules, trying to involve certain
issues, interests and preferences. This is politics on the
Euro-Atlantic arena. There are partners beyond this arena as well but
these partners are such only in the framework of the global
geopolitical project.
For such a country as Armenia the most effective and productive
strategies were those which were reactions to external challenges. And
if this goal is treated with responsibility, the expectations will be
optimistic. Some significant changes took place in the world first of
all relating to the geopolitical arrangement of forces. It is
necessary to understand the new realities of reformation of NATO, the
EU, China’s new positions facilitated by the Eurasian project,
progress in the Islamic world, intensifying processes in the Third
World and other. These changes have different meanings in the global
politics and economy but they mainly concern Armenia and the
surrounding region than dozens of countries in different regions of
the world.
With the ongoing global changes which are impossible without big and
small regional wars and major global and regional crises, countries
with illusions about the necessity, self-sufficiency and importance of
political parties may have to face highly unpleasant and dangerous
consequences.
Who will govern Armenia? It is time to create new political
corporations which will be able to govern beyond the framework of
democratic profanation, false principles of accountability to people
and society. Similar structures have been set up in most serious
countries and there is no doubt that parties of this model direct the
most responsible political processes in the world.