What is radical culturalism?

Radical culturalism refers to: strong dissatisfaction with the organization and operation mode of the existing society, a thorough negative attitude towards the existing social system, and a desire to make radical, sharp and immediate changes to the society.

Not all radicalism is the same, but the degree of radicalism is also different, and there are also differences between the left and right. Radicalism that tends to take a more just or scientific attitude towards social change often belongs to left-wing radicalism, while radicalism that tends to return society to the past state or even the old value system belongs to right-wing radicalism.

For example, the successors of Marxism and its ideas belong to the former category, religious radicalism such as Islamic fundamentalism, which advocates the restoration of the old tradition, and some extreme racism may belong to the latter category.

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Russian political radicalism

In the 1980s, the Soviet-style social development model fell into a serious crisis. Gorbachev's attempt to reform this model has been repeatedly frustrated. Economic reform is stagnant, but political reform with freedom and relaxation as its content is in full swing.

On the one hand, the openness and freedom of social life have increased. On the other hand, the shortage of daily commodities is more serious, and queuing phenomenon can be seen everywhere. The society is increasingly dissatisfied with Gorbachev's reforms over the years, and the radical trend of thought is increasingly strong.

While the radical thoughts in the Soviet Union are strong, the international influence cannot be ignored. Inspired by 1989 turmoil in eastern Europe and influenced by the western model, a radical idea of pursuing rapid and revolutionary changes gradually gained the upper hand.

There is a loose but extensive opposition in society. These forces have clear goals. They use slogans such as "anti-centralization", "anti-Soviet one-party dictatorship" and "democracy and freedom" to demand abandoning Soviet dictatorship, becoming independent from the Soviet Union and carrying out thorough market-oriented reforms.

199 1 At the end of the year, the Soviet Union disintegrated, the system changed color and the regime changed. Gorbachev, who tried the "middle way" and wanted to adopt "eclecticism", suddenly stepped down. During this period, social radicalism reached its peak. The radical forces represented by Yeltsin came to power in Russia and began a series of experiments of radical reform.

In Soviet Russian political terminology, the word "radicalism" is not a commendatory term, so it is hard to imagine that a political party or faction will directly use the banner of "radicalism".

But through careful observation, it is not difficult to see that radicalism, as a way of thinking or behavior, exists in both left-leaning political programs and right-leaning actions. Therefore, it is necessary and meaningful to analyze Russian political thought with the proposition of radicalism.

Looking back on the 20th century, if radicalism and gradualism (or conservatism) are taken as the two axes of Russian social value orientation, it is not difficult to see that most of Russian social and political operations and social changes are ideologically biased towards the radical side. The fierce revolution is still going on, the political struggle is fierce, the change of leaders is like a lantern, the thinking is too extreme, and the goal is romantic.

In the 20th century, there were 10 different rulers in power in Russia. Their replacement, except for the last election, was carried out by means of revolution, intra-party resolutions, court coups, conspiracy struggles and so on. Due to the lack of normal power transfer procedures, almost all leaders severely condemned their predecessors and announced the establishment of a new order when they took office.

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