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Dual Power: Semi-Step or Status Quo
Aghassi Matevosyan
15:00 23/03/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29397
Ideas on dual power can be based on two main concepts.
First, dual power is a temporary, transitional, shadow activity aimed
at redistributing gradually the available public resources and levers
and handing them over to systems that are elected and trusted by
people.
Second, dual power is the clear division of the available public
resources and levers between two policies, it is a lasting, agreed
state which rules out shadow and the physical split of the civil
society. Lasting competitiveness and establishment of an alert climate
can help optimize the solution of public problems and finally lead to
the discovery of the right option of governance.
Which option will be established well in the consciousness of the
civil society and government? One of them will be brought into being
definitely. Later we will prove it. In addition, assumptions that the
idea of dual power is not acceptable to the government are mistaken.
As far as we have observed, both the civil society and the government
are equally inert to this idea. And both have different reasons for
that.
The main reason for the civil society is the wish of quick and
immediate change of government expressing the will of people and
eliminating the crisis of the state. The reason for the government's
inertness is the fear of losing the right to handle resources that
belong to people though they will never admit to it, and as a formal
reason they will point to their duty of defending constitutional
order.
We will come back to the content of these two concepts of dual power.
For the time being, let's dwell on an important circumstance of the
post-electoral relation between Raffi Hovannisian and Serzh Sargsyan.
In their face-to-face meeting, as well as further monologues none of
them voiced proposals on the idea of dual power. Serzh Sargsyan
outlined something (he mentioned constitutional reforms and/or victory
in the local election in Yerevan). These sketches, however, were
rightly refused by Raffi Hovannisian, we think at an emotional, not
conscious level. Rightly, because these sketch-proposals were made by
Serzh Sargsyan not in the context of the idea of dual power but in the
context of deceiving the civil society again. Of course, the
government manipulates Raffi Hovannisian's refusal and will continue
to manipulate it for a long time but as the consciousness of the civil
society is growing, these manipulations will be reduced to a paragraph
in monitoring reports of international organizations and a pill to
tranquilize the clan.
Raffi Hovannisian stated that he personally will not run in the local
election, explaining that this is not the mission he has committed to
people. So, he again took the right step at the emotional level? Why
do we think it was at the emotional level?
Logically, if a person refuses proposals on wrong steps but does not
propose other steps, he or she loses confidence but not as fast as if
he had accepted proposals on wrong steps. This downfall slows down his
determined position on hunger strike. Hence, there is a number
(conventionally) expressing the confidence of the civil society and
there are forces that increase or decrease this number. The most
independent force is time. It never increases the number. The number
is boosted by conscious (intellectual) actions.
There is no need to think that Raffi Hovannisian does not know about
this rule. However, as long as these actions and steps are at the
emotional level, one supposes that the negative effect of time caused
by delay of conscious steps must be made up for by unexpected
conscious actions.
The idea of dual power has not been understood by the civil society
and the government. It is inevitable though. The phrases `coalition'
and `opposition' are already history. They will be replaced by dual
power. It is not a problem that the government does not understand it
yet. The phrase `opposition' also used to be something alien. The
problem is to resolve rapidly and correctly the issue of
self-consciousness of the idea of dual power for both the civil
society and the government and take one of the abovementioned concepts
as a platform.
It is worthwhile to mention that a number of destructive forces
representing both the government and the civil society will actively
resist understanding of this idea. Those will be reactionary forces
that cling to their personal interests and unable to foresee their
steps.
Aghassi Matevosyan
15:00 23/03/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29397
Ideas on dual power can be based on two main concepts.
First, dual power is a temporary, transitional, shadow activity aimed
at redistributing gradually the available public resources and levers
and handing them over to systems that are elected and trusted by
people.
Second, dual power is the clear division of the available public
resources and levers between two policies, it is a lasting, agreed
state which rules out shadow and the physical split of the civil
society. Lasting competitiveness and establishment of an alert climate
can help optimize the solution of public problems and finally lead to
the discovery of the right option of governance.
Which option will be established well in the consciousness of the
civil society and government? One of them will be brought into being
definitely. Later we will prove it. In addition, assumptions that the
idea of dual power is not acceptable to the government are mistaken.
As far as we have observed, both the civil society and the government
are equally inert to this idea. And both have different reasons for
that.
The main reason for the civil society is the wish of quick and
immediate change of government expressing the will of people and
eliminating the crisis of the state. The reason for the government's
inertness is the fear of losing the right to handle resources that
belong to people though they will never admit to it, and as a formal
reason they will point to their duty of defending constitutional
order.
We will come back to the content of these two concepts of dual power.
For the time being, let's dwell on an important circumstance of the
post-electoral relation between Raffi Hovannisian and Serzh Sargsyan.
In their face-to-face meeting, as well as further monologues none of
them voiced proposals on the idea of dual power. Serzh Sargsyan
outlined something (he mentioned constitutional reforms and/or victory
in the local election in Yerevan). These sketches, however, were
rightly refused by Raffi Hovannisian, we think at an emotional, not
conscious level. Rightly, because these sketch-proposals were made by
Serzh Sargsyan not in the context of the idea of dual power but in the
context of deceiving the civil society again. Of course, the
government manipulates Raffi Hovannisian's refusal and will continue
to manipulate it for a long time but as the consciousness of the civil
society is growing, these manipulations will be reduced to a paragraph
in monitoring reports of international organizations and a pill to
tranquilize the clan.
Raffi Hovannisian stated that he personally will not run in the local
election, explaining that this is not the mission he has committed to
people. So, he again took the right step at the emotional level? Why
do we think it was at the emotional level?
Logically, if a person refuses proposals on wrong steps but does not
propose other steps, he or she loses confidence but not as fast as if
he had accepted proposals on wrong steps. This downfall slows down his
determined position on hunger strike. Hence, there is a number
(conventionally) expressing the confidence of the civil society and
there are forces that increase or decrease this number. The most
independent force is time. It never increases the number. The number
is boosted by conscious (intellectual) actions.
There is no need to think that Raffi Hovannisian does not know about
this rule. However, as long as these actions and steps are at the
emotional level, one supposes that the negative effect of time caused
by delay of conscious steps must be made up for by unexpected
conscious actions.
The idea of dual power has not been understood by the civil society
and the government. It is inevitable though. The phrases `coalition'
and `opposition' are already history. They will be replaced by dual
power. It is not a problem that the government does not understand it
yet. The phrase `opposition' also used to be something alien. The
problem is to resolve rapidly and correctly the issue of
self-consciousness of the idea of dual power for both the civil
society and the government and take one of the abovementioned concepts
as a platform.
It is worthwhile to mention that a number of destructive forces
representing both the government and the civil society will actively
resist understanding of this idea. Those will be reactionary forces
that cling to their personal interests and unable to foresee their
steps.