A source close to the Kremlin comments: “The Americans, as usual, haven’t realized what their scheming leads to. So far the sanctions have had one clear outcome. The pro-westerners and liberals – Medvedev, Dvorkovich, [former deputy prime minister Alexei] Kudrin – are neutralized; they are all finished.”Dances with Bears
Zinoviev Club member Pavel Rodkin analyzes Mikhail Prokhorov’s major new policy article and explains where global capitalism’s local emissaries want to lead Russia.Warning Russians about neoliberalism as a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Pavel Rodkin — Mikhail Prokhorov has published a major policy article entitled "NEP 2.0."* The third section, which addresses the most sensitive areas of social policy such as employment, healthcare and education, has generated the largest response. What Mr. Prokhorov said is interesting primarily because he is simply repeating the basic principles of the liberal-capitalist social reorganization project promoted by the existing global power broker. The social state is the only obstacle standing in the way of it becoming reality.
Emissaries of the global super-society
It would be wrong to dismiss Mikhail Prokhorov's remarkably consistent statements as a political stunt by an eccentric billionaire politician. It makes no sense to reproach him for immorality or "cannibalism." Prokhorov is an exponent of a coherent system of views and ideological precepts characterizing the Western global super-society (to use Alexander Zinoviev's term) and is one of its ideological "emissaries." The global super-society operates according to a different kind of morality and values that provide a rationale for a system of power based on social and economic inequality and dividing people into upper and lower echelons. It is increasingly difficult to ignore the crisis in the current socioeconomic system and the erosion of the existing consensus, and so a number of global players want to intensify the crisis.
The article, and even the political language it uses, may strike readers as an irrelevant throwback to the 1990s. But this is not the case. Prokhorov chose to publish his program right now as a strong response to these ongoing changes. He draws a roadmap based on the old US liberal capitalist social model, notorious for its attitude to labor and the individual — a model aimed at perpetuating the power of capital through the social reorganization of mankind.….Sputnik
