Azat Artsakh Tert, Nagorno Karabakh Republic
Nov 28 2007

About the principles of structural criticism

The base of general principle of structural criticism is
argumentation, as the means of its criticism. The structural
criticism is directed first of all to revelation of generality
between a criticizing question and criticism. And here there are a
number of simple and understandable rules. – the criticism reveals
attitude towards not the author and the work, not the political
figure and officials, but attitude towards the subject of their work,
the result of their work, – aspire to criticize the important, but
not the secondary, – not to return to moral side of the work, if it
doesn’t offer a subject of the main problem, – not to criticize
concrete persons, if it isn’t about official mistakes, – no to
discuss whispers, slanders, intrigues, but to base upon checked
facts, – to get to revelation of initial causes and to suggest new
ideas, new technological methods for overcoming criticizing
shortcomings, – and the main – the form of structural criticism
proceeds from the positions of a criticizing question as a solidarity
with one common main work, where there are looking differences. In
the end, for whom and offensive to be the criticism, its capability
of functioning is conditioned by only so far forth it can find out
and contribute to the process of getting to truth. It’s just the
structural criticism.