Network parliament instead of the State Duma

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

You should immediately clearly identify the topic. Questioning the expediency of the existence of the State Duma in its current form, the authors in no way deny the need for the organs of democracy as such.

This implies that this should be a genuinely popular organ of power, and not a fake screen separating state power from the people.

The State Duma is an initially dead-born structure created to formally cover up the oligarchic power and therefore it is absolutely pointless to try to fill it with living people through elections.

Today, the main thing is not criticism of an obviously unfit government body - the State Duma - but the rapid creation of substitute, alternative structures.

It is not personalities that need to be changed, but the principles of formation and structure of parliament, turning it into a People's Veche, where every citizen has the right to vote.

The phrase "why do we need the State Duma" is very popular on the Internet. We quote one of the many similar articles.

“What the State Duma is doing is insignificant from the point of view of the significance of the decisions taken; unacceptably expensive from an economic point of view; senseless and contrary to common sense from the point of view of assessing the activities of the deputies; harmful and dangerous from the point of view of the consumer. Taken together, all this leads to the destruction of the country and the peoples living in it."

Lovers of porn can enjoy the spectacle of deputies in nature, i.e. without extra clothes, in a selection under the motto: "Guess the country by the deputy."

The number of Russians, in whose opinion the life of the country could have been organized without the State Duma, in 2013 increased to 43%, in 2011 only 32% thought so.

Here is a compactly presented assessment of the activities of the State Duma.

“In post-Soviet Russia, the overwhelming majority of deputies are not working people, but parasites in the State Duma. This is not a slanderous accusation, but an assessment of the results of the "work" of the deputies of the six convocations of the State Duma, arising from the fact that they have created such a legislative framework that does not guarantee a citizen of Russia well-being either in the present or in the future, does not provide social protection for either adults or children. or the elderly, and the country for more than 20 years since the adoption of the 1993 Constitution has been experiencing a protracted general cultural crisis, against the background of which a stream of politicians' demagogy is pouring into society about the problems, difficulties of the current period, and the impact on the budget of the fall in world oil prices, it is not known how the emerging inflation, which the Central Bank and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade are fighting, about the need to transfer the economy to innovative development, about improving the quality of life of the country's population, etc. The stream of demagoguery is endless, but the goals proclaimed by politicians are not being systematically achieved."

And here about the elections: “In crowd-“elite”cultures, any election is a competition between teams of political strategists who work off the money paid to them, and not a competition between politicians and the ideas and opinions they carry on how society can live on.”

If we assume, as it is declared, that the elections are a competition of ideas, that the deputies care about the welfare of Russia, and the voters understand what they are voting for, then it will turn out that they vote for all the outrageous things happening in Russia, vote for the destruction of the country, for its colonial status.

However, the power structures, as usual, disregarding the opinion of citizens, are organizing elections again, wanting to prolong the work of this superfluous body, although the people are already laughing at the State Duma and calling it a state fool: “Yesterday an unknown person called the State Duma and said that there was a meaning there. Fortunately, experts came and found out that there is no point in the State Duma”.

But this opinion should be clarified - there really is no sense in the existence of the State Duma in its current format from the point of view of Russia's interests. But from the point of view of Russia's enemies, there is such a meaning - this meaning lies in the falsification of genuine democracy.

The purpose of the State Duma is to be a cardboard decoration of democracy, supposedly existing democracy, although in reality the citizens of the Russian Federation do not have any instrument of influence either on the government or on the situation in the country.

One should not think that the problem of imitation democracy is exclusively Russian. It exists in all countries, including the developed countries of the West.

“Those who formally govern receive … commands not from the electorate, but from a small group … called the 'establishment' (those in power). It exists, although its existence is stubbornly denied. The second secret is the fact that the existence of the establishment - the ruling class - is not allowed to be debated."

The Duma is part of the technology of legitimizing power in the system of imitation democracy. The real purpose of its existence is to legitimize the actions of the authorities, continuing the Yeltsin course of destructive destruction of the country.

What is the State Duma really doing? Over the entire period of the six convocations of the "democratically elected" parliament, Russia continues to be destroyed and plundered in the same way as it has been since the coup d'etat of 1991. The State Duma does not prevent this, but condones.

Can anyone remember at least one of the laws adopted by the State Duma that benefited the country and the people? Unlikely. But the list of anti-people laws is huge. According to the law, more and more waves of privatization are taking place, i.e. the actual pilfering of state assets by insatiable oligarchs. Factories, state farms and institutes are closed by law. According to the law, Russian children are sold abroad, according to the law, the Unified State Exam was introduced in schools, which turns children into idiots, according to the law, the Russian army and defense industry were destroyed. In full accordance with the Forest Code adopted by the Duma, the forestry service was destroyed, and the forests were given to the "effective owner" who burns and cuts down the Russian forest. By law, you can sell alcohol anytime, anywhere, schools and hospitals will soon be on this list. The law prohibits punishing drug dealers too harshly and prohibits Russians remaining in the union republics from obtaining Russian citizenship. It is not interesting to list all the arts of the State Duma - this is already a commonplace.

It is remarkably thought out that the deputies do not bear any responsibility for the consequences of their activities. Nobody deducted the cost of the burned forests from the salaries of the deputies who adopted the Forest Code.

The work of the Duma committees was initially set to be ineffectual, they report exclusively by formal protocols.

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It is simply boring to analyze the personalities of the deputy corps. The motley crowds of legally illiterate fighters, singers, girls from "Playboy" and just gray nonentities, it is not known how they got into the parliamentary seats, have nothing to do with lawmaking. And even an outspoken enemy of Russia, Ilya Ponomarev, having fled to the United States, continued to receive the Duma's salary for a long time - everything is according to the law. It would be possible to mention other people's deputies who have stained themselves with bribes, raider seizures, connections with criminal structures and who have succeeded in laundering the criminally acquired money, but their names are already well known to everyone from media reports and judicial chronicles.

Many people do not understand what the party factions are doing in parliament when the role of parties in society has come to naught. Parties are an outdated, archaic form of organizing public life and it is needed only by party bosses smelling of mothballs, providing them with tsarist life, although the only occupation of these bosses is to serve as clowns on talk shows.

And it is completely incomprehensible why citizens should go to the polls and trust this muddy public with their votes when passing important laws? State Duma deputies, receiving a salary of half a million rubles, set the minimum wage - the minimum wage - at the level of hunger. And the well-fed, as you know, does not understand the hungry. How can the interests of citizens who receive 5-10 thousand be represented by those who have 50-100 times more income? Now, if you put the deputies on the minimum wage, they would vote differently, but the deputies will not allow this.

“The whole story with elections and parties is a play for fools,” these are not the words of a man from the street, but Yevgeny Fyodorov, who knows perfectly well what the State Duma is, since he was a deputy of four convocations.

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Let's continue listening to the experienced deputy:

"All party building has nothing to do with real life …"

"This is an Anglo-Saxon type of democracy, a 'spectacle' designed to divert people's attention from real events …"

“We play by the rules of the occupiers. Parties that do not agree to work according to a collaborationist scenario are not allowed in the elections … There can be no party that does not agree with the American government."

Truly so. And even the official ideologist of the Kremlin, Nikolai Starikov, did not disdain to meet with the American Consul General.

E. Fedorov believes that in the upcoming Duma elections in Russia, the United States hopes to get a purely pro-American Duma, to appoint absolutely its own government, although the Medvedev government is dearer to the United States than its own.

Although the personalities of the deputy corps change slightly in the elections, the shadow organizers of the process draw new members of the State Duma from the same reservoir, because the main task of the Duma is to preserve the oligarchic system, continue the destruction of the economy, withdraw funds from it and transit them to foreign financial institutions.

It is curious that the term "cryptocolony" appeared, which was introduced by political scientist Dmitry Galkovsky.

The transformation of a state into a crypto-colony is the actual latent colonization of an independent state while retaining all the formal signs of sovereignty. Colonization is not recognized by the majority of the people and even by the majority of the ruling elite. The policy and economy of a crypto-colonial state, in the presence of formal attributes of sovereignty, is in fact rigidly subordinated to the interests of foreign states or the owners and directorates of transnational corporations in the same way as if the country was legally a colony, and its statehood was administratively subordinate to one or another foreign policy force. Modern Russia exactly matches the term "crypto-colony".

How much is the State Duma worth? Very expensive. Moreover, its value is growing steadily and rapidly. In 2003, the annual budget of the State Duma was about 3 billion rubles ($ 90- $ 100 million).

In 2014, 8 billion rubles were allocated from the state treasury for its maintenance - half a billion more than in the previous one. Most of this money - 5.8 billion rubles - was directed to the salaries of deputies and their staffs. In Russia, one of the world's largest ratios of the salary of a deputy of the federal parliament and the average salary in the country - 1: 8, 5.

But the authorities consider it necessary to constantly increase this exorbitant salary. In 2013, by presidential decree, it grew to 250 thousand per month.

In 2015, the deputy's salary was already 350,000-400,000 rubles a month, depending on the position held in the committee.

But this is not enough for the deputies. According to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 16, 2015, deputies and employees of the State Duma apparatus, as well as their family members, will receive medicines for free or with a 50 percent discount. After retiring from office, drug benefits will continue.

The pension of a deputy of the State Duma averages 21,000 rubles, while in Russia in 2015 the minimum pension was 6,354 and an average of 12,400 rubles.

The elections cost the state budget in 2013-15 7 billion rubles annually.

To this must be added the social privileges of the deputies, lifelong privileges in the form of personal benefits, one-time subsidies … Let's add here the bribes that the deputies receive for lobbying laws convenient for the rich who are able to pay these bribes. Add in the millions of dollars that oligarchs pay for parliamentary seats that grant immunity. All this money is taken from the people in the form of taxes or taken away through fraudulent schemes.

Such a colossal salary, absolutely inadequate to the results of the deputy's work, is, in fact, a hidden bribe. The State Duma is bribed to do its main job: preserving the existing system that holds the power of the oligarchy, preserving the mechanisms for their enrichment.

At the same time, the deputies, whom people have entrusted to defend their interests, are engaged in solving their own problems: they lobby someone's economic interests for money, solve issues of their own improvement, are protected by parliamentary immunity from retribution for crimes, they amuse their pride …

In reality, the deputies do not depend on the people, on the contrary, they are fencing themselves off with all their might - the law on a national referendum was overgrown with such administrative obstacles that a referendum became impossible even theoretically. This is a direct gross violation of Article 3, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation: "The highest direct expression of the power of the people is a referendum and free elections." The citizens of Russia are completely cut off from the legislative process, they are already accustomed to the fact that every initiative of the State Duma becomes a new unpleasant surprise.

Pro-American politicians huddled in the Duma serve the oligarchy and transnational companies, transforming the people into biomass, contributing to its degeneration through the promotion of homosexuality, alcohol and drugs in order to free vast territories of Russia from "unnecessary" people and win a tidbit of natural resources for the "golden billion" … But the people of Russia, despite all the experiments that are being carried out on them, to this day have a rich intellectual potential. What are, for example, the brilliant results of our schoolchildren at the Olympiads.

It is simply absurd to support such an expensive and not just senseless, but harmful for the country organ with public money, especially since the people live in poverty.

The extremely low turnout in the elections, a very large number of spoiled ballots testify: our people are able to govern their own state, they do not want to entrust this work to some deputies, stubbornly, from convocation to convocation, leading the country into the abyss.

It is not clear at all why you must trust someone to your voice, and not use it yourself.

According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, ch. 1 tbsp. 3 clause 1, the only source of power in Russia is its single multinational people. The people, i.e. every citizen, and not a handful of some deputies, has the right to govern his country.

Self-government is an ancient Slavic tradition with deep roots. Historians note: the Slavs have always been characterized by love of freedom, the desire for justice and collective decision-making.

“The Russians bow to their superiors slowly and importantly. They do not have that humiliation before the rulers, which is characteristic of my native Germany."

Adam of Bremen, German merchant (1081)

“The tribes of the Sklavs and Antes (Slavs) are the same both in their way of life and in their morals; free, they are in no way inclined to become slaves or obey, especially in their own land. Mauritius, Byzantine emperor (VI century)

"The Slavic people did not have an autocratic system, but from ancient times they enjoyed universal liberty." Mauro Orbini, Italian historian (1601)

“These peoples, Slavs and Ants, are not subject to sovereign power, but since ancient times they have lived under the rule of the people. Benefit and harm are generally accepted"

Procopius of Caesarea, Byzantine historian

There were traditional Slavic management technologies: the Rodovaya Veche, Kopnoe Pravo - examples of genuine people's democracy.

Veche - a national assembly in ancient and medieval Russia, where the participants could be "men" - the heads of all communities, elders and foremen of communities (tribe, clan, settlement, principality). Tribal communities or tribes had their own Council of Elders, which considered issues of economic and other joint activities.

Yes, historically people's self-government has lost to parliaments. In Russia, the Councils of the Sages lost to the monarchies, and the Councils of the Magi lost to the hierarchical religious structures. In ancient Greece, the Council of Elders, after the emergence of statehood, was transformed into the Areopagus, in ancient Israel - into the Sanhedrin, in ancient Rome - into the Senate.

But what came of it? A political system was created, ideally convenient for small groups of parasites, and for the peoples this turned into continuous wars, blood, genocide, lawlessness, poverty. Worst of all, this control system has killed the Earth's ecosystem.

In order to reformat the Slavs, remove such qualities as love of freedom, self-esteem, the ability to independently solve their problems, it took centuries of Christianization, autocracy, and the Bolshevik regime. Breaking the “pride”, bringing them to their knees, turning the people into a slave is a way to bring the state to such a miserable state that Russia is now in, unable to fight off even some deceitful Anti-Doping Agency, unable to protect even its disabled athletes from discrimination.

However, the people of Russia are not completely broken to this day. On the example of the growth of public non-profit organizations, volunteer social projects, we can see that people prefer to solve acute social problems themselves.

Citizens themselves begin to fight the propaganda of alcohol and tobacco, drug addiction, child molesters, and juvenile justice. Young environmentalists stand up for separate waste collection, for greening cities, for improving the environmental situation in general.

Over the past 20 years, a network of ecovillages has emerged in Russia, a new type of agricultural settlement has been formed with the development of production and tourism, projects are being implemented to develop abandoned villages.

And all this is being done not thanks to, but in spite of the management apparatus, without the participation of officials and deputies clinging to outdated, vicious methods of management.

The only conclusion that arises here is that the people of Russia are capable of self-government and self-organization. A stratum of the most active, passionate young people appears, ready to offer new guidelines and ideas.

Here is a quote from the Manifesto of the Internet community "Pirate Party of Russia": «The authorities are proving their ever-increasing inefficiency every day. People are increasingly taking the decision of specific issues into their own hands. The Internet fosters in us the habit of personally participating in decision-making. Since we can all rule the country, we must and will rule it. Together we can handle this much better than a bunch of narrow-minded and corrupt people who accidentally find themselves in power."

Today, there is a growing interest in pre-Christian culture in society. The principles of the work of the traditional for the Slavs of the People's Veche, Kopnoy Pravo are being discussed more and more often. In modern conditions, the role of the People's Veche should be assumed by the Network Parliament.

WITH Networking communities instead of parties

The backbone trend of our days is the growing influence of network organizations. Modern associations of people are network communities that are replacing the outdated forms of organizing public life - parties. Parties are vertical formal structures with rigid hierarchies, staffing levels, stable job functions, standardized procedures, and tightly closed vertical elevators. The parties are based on rigid dogmas, which are strictly forbidden to revise. Such organizations are not the engine of social development, but its brake. But it is from such outdated blocks that the current State Duma is built.

In contrast to parties, online communities are flexible, lively, constantly renewing groups that promptly respond to the challenges of the time. In terms of potential and efficiency, these social organisms are higher than the usual hierarchical forms - parties.

Let's identify the main qualities of online communities. Network organization is based

• on conceptual unity, constantly refining the original concept;
• on informal leadership - there is no hierarchical elite in it, inventing or pushing something of their own, here everyone can analyze what the others are proposing;
• on the possibility of realizing the creativity of the individual;
• on the autonomy and interaction of parts - individuals and social groups, on the coordination of their interests;
• on a combination of individual and group projects;
• effective feedback from the real world;
• on the maximum sharing of the personal risk of an erroneous decision.

Another advantage of network communities is that they are able to operate with a very wide database, which allows them to correctly describe a complex system, to see a multidimensional picture of reality.

The network structure provides

• quick decision making;
• high quality of decisions as a result of an objective and multidimensional assessment of the situation, taking into account the opinions and suggestions of all participants in the process;
• visual (in real time) and reliable planning of the implementation of the decision;
• operational control of the consequences of the implementation of the adopted decision;
• quick adjustments to existing plans.

Networked technologies are better adapted to manage the dynamically changing modern world, especially in moments of drastic social and political changes, when instead of the sequential implementation of a long-term project, a constantly changing sequence of discrete projects is carried out. This minimizes the effect of inertia and makes it possible to eliminate errors inherent in the initial models.

The network organization is focused not so much on the formal setting of tasks as on its solution, since it is able to flexibly combine knowledge of the general problem and specific design thinking.

It was network technologies that were successfully used by the United States in the 80s and 90s against the USSR, then against the countries of Africa and the Middle East. Moreover, the fooled loser still praises the winner.

Russia is obliged to adopt network technologies for social management.

It is fundamentally important that the Network chooses not individuals, but their ideas, not charismatic actors who know how to captivate the crowd with an incendiary speech on the podium, but specific proposals of smart people for implementation in practice. This is a new understanding of democracy

The principle of functioning of the Network Parliament can be as follows.

1. Legislative initiative should be given to all citizens - this is how the principle of personal, open and voluntary participation of all active members of society in making any significant decisions in the country is implemented.
2. Their ideas are analyzed by network communities - industry expert councils consisting of qualified professionals who are not exempt from their main job. They generalize the opinions of many people, reducing them to an acceptable number by the method of consistently reducing their statistical weight. The most important opinions are distinguished from the general stream by the method of statistical analysis. This is how the most popular point of view is formed. At the same time, sentences are not ignored, but are singled out into a separate group, sharply out of the general circle, since they can be both absurd and breakthrough. The inertia of the dying System is also taken into account - its adherents can receive a lot of weight, who will expound the vicious, but familiar truths to the masses. This is an effective way to objectively establish a spectrum of opinions on various issues of society.
3. A small group of competent and independent lawyers are able to turn the most important initiatives into draft laws. The final verdict on the law comes from a collective vote of the Network. At the same time, it is important that laws are assessed by both professional communities and users of their services.

The goal of the Network Parliament is to give the highest power in the country to a small percentage of citizens who are able to think. The web is able to separate them from the non-thinking because it will give their opinions the most weight.

Thinking Network - an analogue of the People's Veche - is a mechanism for quickly identifying a generalized opinion and making a decision by analyzing the opinions and points of view of many people. Decision making in this technology is based on comparing many different opinions within the Network, taking into account their weights and comparing them with the opinion of independent experts. The networked People's Veche can in fact become an ACS (automatic control system) of the country, since it implies the need to include in the feedback system with the results of the practical application of the solution, which will make it possible to correct the decision in the process of execution.

The advantage of the Networked Parliament is its quick adaptation to the changing environment, the country's ACS will be able to act promptly, not only adopting, but at any time canceling previously adopted decisions. One of the methods for solving this problem is the creation of an electronic bank, in which proposals for changing the decisions made are accumulated. When the number of proposals reaches the agreed limit (the majority of members of the society are in favor of cancellation), the decision is changed or canceled.

The main advantage of network technology is the creation of an environment for collective intellectual processes. Today, the intellectual potential of the people is disconnected from the government of the country.

Of course, what has been said is only a very approximate formulation of the principles of the Network Parliament, this is a way to propose an idea for wide discussion by the society. The exact algorithms for forming the structure of the Network Parliament should be carefully developed by competent specialists in the field of information technology. There is no doubt that there are still some in the country.

The network parliament, if it works correctly, will quickly gain prestige in society, leading to a threshold situation when the information that forms the worldview from the horizontal Network for the masses will become more important than official information from the power vertical. This threshold will mean a change in the management system of the country, carried out in an evolutionary way, through the development of the management system.

The existing management system inevitably needs to be changed, because it is incompatible with the country's survival. The only chance for the people to survive is to become a real bearer of power, for this you need to remember that it is he who is the master on his land.

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