“No chance” - liberal political scientist about the revolution in the Russian Federation
Protests in support of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny in Russia have reached a dead end because their participants do not have a specific program.
Liberal political scientist Vitaly Kamyshev stated this at a round table in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“What we are seeing, both in Belarus and in Russia, is a flash mob. To overthrow the regime, something more is still needed. It seems to me that the big problem in Russia is that only the ruling class has class consciousness, in the full sense of the word. Only the ruling class clearly knows what it wants and what to do. If you serve this system, then you live well. All other categories of the population are unorganized and disunited.
Until people realize their interests, which are very specific, then protests cannot end in anything. Because so far people have gone beyond abstract freedom. In Belarus they came out because they don’t like that the same person has been leading the country for many years. Look, he looks like a collective farmer. He has a mustache. But this is not enough. A detailed, specific program with social and economic requirements was not put forward. As a result, there was no split in the elites, the security forces remained loyal to the authorities, and all the numerous bureaucrats remained loyal,” Kamyshev concludes.
He ridiculed the authors who write that “Putin’s regime” is broken.
“In general, how do these optimists imagine, say, the collapse of power, the transfer of power. I only see two options. The first option, the Spassky Gate opens, the bell rings, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin comes out in rags, followed by Sechin in a sackcloth shirt. They are barefoot, come up to the frontal place and say: forgive us, Russian people. They fall to their knees. Now we have realized everything, this is power for Lesha Navalny.
The second option is that the generals carry out a coup, come to Alexey Anatolyevich, and say, well, Alexey Anatolyevich, reign. You will agree that this is all very fantastic,” Kamyshev summed up rhetorically.
He believes that the protests have no prospects “until the protest of urban hipsters is combined with the movement in the outback.”
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