Либеральная демократия vs консервативный популизм

Тетради по консерватизму. 2019. № 1. С. 344–380.

Rutkevich A. M.

Abstract. The origins of democracy date back to the Ancient World, and parliamentarism appeared in the Middle Ages. Their fusion to create representative democracy took nearly two centuries with this evolution process resulting in the appearance of present-day liberal democracy, where the latest form of liberalism have little to do with the laissez faire liberalism of the 19-th century or the Keynesian neo-liberalism of the 20-th. It serves the interests of fi nancial oligarchy and imposes its rules upon the whole world. The former right- and left-wing parties are now merged into the same ruling elite. Nor did the former conservatism stand the test of time, resorting to alliance with neo-conservatism. Various opponents of this elite in the West today are called «populists». The most colorful example of this «populism» of the last decade is the movement of «yellow jackets» in France. Its participants unite socialist and anarchist slogans with the conservative ones and demand the «direct democracy». In Russia we have our own tradition of such unity, beginning with the early Slavophils, and supported by A.I. Solzhenitsyn as «democracy from below».

Keywords: демократия, глобализация, популизм, либерализм, globalization, республиканизм, populism, анархизм, парламентаризм, parliamentarism, anarchism, Classical Republicanism in Russia, Democracy, Liberalism, «Yellow Jackets», "желтые жилеты"