IDEOLOGICAL DISCREDIT
Aram Abrahamian

Aravot, Armenia
Nov 8 2006

Yesterday our communists celebrated November 7. As usual a group
of pensioners put wreaths at Myasnikian and Shahumian monuments and
then walked a little under red flags. Some people may laugh at poor
old men, who naively believe that there is machine of time, which can
send us to 30 years ago. But such people become lesser year by year,
and the problem of communist restoration isn’t actual any more.

The ideas of human equality, public useful work, social justice is
as valuable and utopist as any other idea. But in our former country
those ideas were being discredited systematically. Not going to the
early decades, let’s remember what happened to the middle generation in
’70-80-s. Each worker wanted to steal something from the factory of
"public property", storekeeper was one of the respectable positions,
policemen and prosecutors had an image of robbers, secretaries of
regional committees were taking bribes from recruits etc. Those weren’t
"separate omissions"; it was a generally adopted practice.

What did remain from bright ideas? Almost nothing. When that system
reached to its logic end, our communists didn’t try to save the
rational, social0democratic part of that idea; instead they began
playing on nostalgia. The RA authorities delivered the last blow
to the communists, separating the Communistic Party into several
"Communistic Parties". As a result our political system was deprived
of some important elements.

But the situation wouldn’t be so anxious if only communist idea was
discredited. Liberalism and nationalism were also discredited during
15 years. As a result of "market relations" use, we have several
illiterate officials, who rule the country, and the liberalism
have become an old nonsense, when even the member of former liberal
government Hakob Movses says that Turks, as an ethnos, aren’t able
to create a high level literature.

So, before parliamentary elections the lack of ideas has its objective
reasons.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress