The relevance of the theory of High Communitarianism is due to the need to create an alternative to the extreme forms of liberalism that produced the sad phenomenon of the "consumer society".
Gaining strength in the 20th century, the ideal of "consumption without moral constraints" quickly crushed the West and led to a natural demographic, environmental and economic crisis. At the beginning of the third millennium, one can already announce the death of the world's spiritual and ideological core, sacrificed to the money bag. It should be understood that in a state of spiritual crisis, society will not function properly, and this, in the end, will provoke a political and economic collapse.
The essence and problems of implementing the idea of communitarianism
The ideological and political trend of communitarianism stands up for collectivism and putting the interests of society at the forefront. The Institute of High Communitarianism proclaims its goal to build a powerfula prosperous civil society based on local communities guided in relationships by the principles of morality.
The main problem of introducing the communitarian idea to the broad masses is that although people experience frustration about their alienation from the spiritual Egregor, they experience an urgent need to unite, they are at the same time unnecessarily disunited, cut off from each other, which makes it impossible to quickly reunite them. The developed public now negatively perceives unity under the wing of religion, personality cult or ideology, perceiving all this as degradation. That is why the Institute of High Communitarianism is amorphous in relation to any ideology.
The origins of the formation of the current
Literally all the followers of the current are united by the protest beginning: they are unhappy that the higher leadership ignores the problems of education, social protection and he althcare, giving preference to personal interests and related industries.
The roots of the trend grow from the idealized norms of American democracy, however, some Russian researchers tend to see communitarianism as a continuation of the ideas of Russian philosophy, which proves the geographical universality of the trend.
At the moment, many well-known Western politicians identify themselves with this movement. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are among them.
Participatory democracy as a way of communitarian ordering of the world
The herald of the communitarian principles of the world - Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was he who formulated the type of participatory democracy based on communitarianism, namely:
- direct exercise of democracy through assemblies;
- equal ownership of public we alth;
- observance of moral norms, traditions and laws in the relations between members of society.
The founder of the formalized theory of communitarianism is Amitai Etzioni, an American sociologist, researcher of the problems of modern democracy.
Institutionalization of communitarianism
For a long time, communitarianism was just an aspect of the political theorizing of a group of philosophers, political scientists, sociologists, and just an interested public. However, at the very end of the 20th century, he began to unite the interested environment, and the Institute of High Communitarianism was formed specifically. What it is? The Russians can be enlightened by the work of Kirill Myamlin "High Communitarianism as a Russian Idea". It absorbed all the main ideas of the High Communitarian Institute movement. The book received quite positive reviews, and Zhirinovsky, Wasserman, Zyuganov, Evo Morales, Kara-Murza, Dugin, Dzhemal, Nazarbayev and more than 200 other well-known politicians, writers, journalists, and others were added to the list of successors and analysts of the theoretical base of the movement.
In conclusion, it can be noted that the communitarian ideological basis may well become an impetus to socio-political progress throughout the world. This will only happen ifpractical implementation of theory and action in accordance with the fundamental principles. Moreover, it is worth remembering that the Institute of High Communitarianism should in no case follow the path of liberalism, communism and fascism, i.e. it should not turn into an ideology. Its main goal is to promote democracy, to educate the public on the principles of self-government. After the achievement of the main goal, the Institute should be dissolved.
