Poverty Dictatorship Injustice

By Rafig Y. Aliyev

In the book, the author presents his views against global changes in different spheres of society, concretizing their real influence upon politics and philosophy. In his opinion, there are no enough serious political and philosophic explanations of the developments and prognoses for the nearest future. The humanitarian component of science is far behind the rates of the rapidly changing world for different reasons, including objective ones. Maybe this is the reason why there is not a, more or less, acceptable methodology of the political and philosophic analysis. Works dedicated to human mental changes are absent as well. Taking into consideration all this, the authors personal feelings, estimations, and prognoses are the main criterion of his approach to the problems he has touched upon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Apr 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466992702

Rafig Y. Aliyev

Rafig Aliyev, doctor of philosophy, professor, and founder of IRSHAD Center on Islamic Studies since 1990 was born in Agdam Region of Azerbaijan in 1947. He worked as head of the department and deputy director on foreign relations at the Institute on Oriental Studies, director of the Center for Islamic Researches in the Caucasus of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. June 21, 2001, to June 26, 2006, he headed the State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the Work with Religious Associations. Since June 27, 2006, R. Aliyev worked as director of the Center on Islamic Studies. He is member of World Peace Academy of Professors international interreligious committee. He is the author of more than 250 scientific articles and 17 books, books of political nature: Poverty, Dictatorship, Injustice (252 pages); In Recesses of Being (464 pages); New Europe without Capitalism (150 pages); The Child of Romanticism (116 pages); Family and Marriage in Islam (226 pages), and Islam (332 pages). The above listed books, except Islam, have been translated into English and published by Trafford Publishing in the USA (www.trafford.com). They can be bought in online stores. Rafig Aliyev is married and has two children.

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Copyright 2013 Rafig Y. Aliyev.

Typing and computer design: Sh. Farajova

Translated by: A.Aliyeva

In the book, the author presents his views against global changes in different spheres of society, concretizing their real influence upon politics and philosophy. In his opinion, there are no enough serious political and philosophic explanations of the developments and prognoses for the nearest future. The humanitarian component of science is far behind the rates of the rapidly changing world for different reasons, including objective ones. Maybe, this is the reason why there is not a more or less acceptable methodology of the political and philosophic analysis. Works dedicated to human mental changes are absent as well. Taking into consideration all this, the author’s personal feelings, estimations and prognoses are the main criterion of his approach to the problems he has touched upon.

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CONTENTS

TO THE READER

PART ONE

Politics

POVERTY. DICTATORSHIP. INJUSTICE.

INFORMATION CONCEALMENT, LIE AND CAPITALISM

WHO WILL SAVE EUROPE?

WE ARE NOT INFECTED WITH THE NATIONALISM VIRUS

THE REFERENDUM OF THE XXI CENTURY

CREDITWORTHINESS OF POWER

DOES DEMOCRACY NEED IDEOLOGY?

PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY AND SPIRITUALITY…

POWER OR IDEA? WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT?

REPUTE AND A BRIBE

WESTERN AND EASTERN WAYS OF THINKING: SIMILARITIES AND CONTRADICTIONS

MAN IS A REASONABLE LIVING BEING

FROM WISDOM OF ALL TIMES

ANDREAS GROSS IS STILL LOOKED FOR

EAST-WEST: THE PROSPECTS OF GLOBAL INTERACTION

PART TWO

Society

NEW EUROPE WITHOUT CAPITALISM

THE THIRD WAY IS THE OLD EUROPEAN MODEL

POWER FROM WEAKNESS

TO INFECT THE WORLD WITH HATE!

PART THREE

Religion And Society

THE CONSERVATISM OF RELIGIONS IS A POSITIVE FACTOR

NATIONAL MODELS OF RELIGION

FAITH IS PART OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

THE INTERRELATIONS OF GOD AND MAN

TO THE READER

It is more than evident that the construction of the European empire, started in the early 1960s, has failed.

For quite obvious reasons, mainly political ones, the supposed empire remained a closed system, not having enough strength for self-preservation, let alone expansion and struggle with its enemies, rivals in economy, and building of efficient army and, of course, consolidated variant of external policy.

All this has gradually led to degradation of the idea of united Europe.

The idea did not turn into the ideology for all Europeans, presenting titled nations, claiming to be the best. Local nationalism became a serious handicap to implementation of general European policy and forming of supranational European ideology. All this came to grief. Nowadays, there are no conditions to reanimate the idea. Nationalistic moods driven inside as a result of Germany’s defeat in World War II have found the way out under conditions of liberal democracy.

Truly, I cannot understand the essence of the word combination. It turns out that there is democracy, leaving no space for freedom, i.e. liberalism. It is nonsense.

Nevertheless, liberal democrats run the show in the European area, the name of which is rather not significant for them.

The main thing is more freedom, more indifference and more connivance as necessary conditions for establishing economic and legal chaos. This is my view of Americans’ and Europeans’ liberal economy today.

Suffice it to remember that the idea of establishing the union of European states, the sort of the United States of Europe, appeared as early as the beginning of the XX century.

Almost 60 years ago, the attempt to revive it was made, but it has not been implemented even 50 percent.

For this reason at least, the European politicians’ and optimists’ persistence and their desire to create a strong united Europe, the European empire as a matter of fact, are groundless and was such 10-20 years ago, too. The ground, on the contrary, became fluid and turned into a green bog, into which the economically and financially weak European states are gradually plunging.

The course of the events of recent ten years, i.e. constant lower growth rate and decrease of European states’ living standards convince us that not a EU member state will be able to come through unscathed from the increasing bog.

Little time is left to make a decision. Europe is under time pressure.

The Europeans are gradually losing their instincts of self-preservation, self-control. They try not to cause panic and, apparently, think that European lucid minds will save them within the present system.

This is rather not to lose hope for recovering suddenly. The Europeans try not to give a horse the bridle, to rely upon a miracle because of such double state.

In such conditions sluggishness and hesitation may mix with the feelings of a wild mad beast. For, even a polecat driven into a corner defends itself desperately and may turn into an unbridled wild boar.

Nobody will be able to avoid thunderbolts, to hide behind a tree hoping to avoid strong peals of thunder—people’s anger, force, which cannot be measured by present ultrasensitive nano-devices.

The Tsunami in Japan compared with people’s anger will seem to be harmless prank of nature. People’s anger contains everything: fire, water and the strength of powerful volcanoes and hurricanes. This is proved by the history of revolutions in Europe, Russian Empire and in present Afro-Arab states.

Not to see and to understand this is tantamount to a crime against nations, people and, of course, closely related world community.

The responsibility is very great and suspicion is strong…

Every person understands what it presents in his/her own way, but, of course, hardly remains indifferent.

Since it can become a reality for his state in future.

People in modern Europe are unable to defend themselves and fight against the financial crisis alone.

This would be contradictory to Europeans’ delicate classic taste and would discredit the status of European standards preserved till now.

One weapon is left-intellect. The Europeans have it enough.

Why then do problems have pressure on European pragmatic intellect and prevent them from defending themselves? Europe deserves the best!

All we know that, unlike rapidly changing public opinion, public consciousness is formed for decades and decades beforehand. Its change requires both much time and, what is more important and necessary, the best replacement. Otherwise, there is no sense to part with the accustomed form and methods of estimating what is seen, heard and experienced for some quite clear reasons, related to an individual’s psychology.

Unlike social and economic changes or reformations, the forming of new public consciousness takes place through the deformation of the old one.

Something new, also called public consciousness, is gradually created on its ruins. Such a difficult procedure of transition from the old to the new probably requires special efforts, or a new generation which is at an equal distance from the old and the new, offered instead of it.

In my view, our society, as part of the world community, is at the stage of parting with the old form of thinking. At this, the attempts to create its new form as a basis of public consciousness are not success and create a great deal of problems, seriously confusing the definitions of basic values of new time.

In the present book I have tried to consider all these incomplete processes from my viewpoint and according to my conviction, and, in medical terms, in dissection.

What has come out of this is for you, dear readers, to judge!

Rafig Y. Aliyev

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PART ONE

POLITICS

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POVERTY. DICTATORSHIP.

INJUSTICE.

The protest movement that began in

European states in the mid-2010 spread

over, unexpectedly, to the Arab world,

where it has assumed the form

of military confrontation because of the

lack of democratic mechanisms of struggle . . .

Without going into details, let us define the place of basic notions like poverty, dictatorship, injustice in present protest movements, spread in today’s Europe and Asia.

Poverty. In most cases people realize that not a state in the world is able to fight this social phenomenon effectively. If a government does not have resources, the government and its population will not escape poverty. The latter is universal. One state differs from another just in the poverty level. Therefore, it is objective to think that poverty is a disease of society to be cured jointly. Principally, poverty does not lead to revolutions. It is one of the natural states of human society, and most people understand this. The only exception is hungry people’s rebellion as a result of extreme poverty. It does not last long and often does not demand the change of the existing power and has no exact political program. People will rebel until they are satisfied. The examples are easily found in African and Asian states, though the poverty level in Europe and the USA is high, too,—up to 20% of the population.

Dictatorship is a historical tradition of government administration, and not every monarch is theoretically bad. The history of establishment of states in ancient times may prove this opinion. This variant has not lost its significance today either. The idea of the change of dictatorship differs from poor hungry people’s rebellion in the end, which is not always successful and it is related to complete destruction of the state executive system. Not a state, not a people is secured against dictator’s habits of the supreme power, since the dictator is one of us, and human vices are inherent in him, too. But his deeds inevitably affect the community’s social and psychological state.

There are a lot of dictators and monarchs today. They get on even with democratic societies. In some monarchies, there remain the initial structure of relationship—a monarch and his homagers. Figuratively, the former keeps power over property and people within his territory. At this, monarchs are outside democratic processes, taking place in their kingdoms, for example in Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Japan. Despite the fact that monarchs and their families are above society laws, they are, too, subverted (Iran, Libya, Ethiopia, Somali).

As a rule, the subversion of monarchs is the work of ambitious politicians in the country and outside it, who intend to share the monarch’s property. Everything ends at this; then a more complicated stage, i.e. the establishment of a new state instead of the destroyed one, though without the monarch, starts.

Here comes to the aid the so-called democracy with majority of variants, including the form of democracy dictatorship. Strange as it may seem, it exists. Hundreds of cars and trade units, state buildings were plundered, destroyed and burnt on behalf of democracy in Greece, France and Portugal. Everything was allegedly done within the framework of high European democracy.

According to numerous analyses in various mass media, it can be concluded that democratic power in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Island and many other EU states have been robbing the state treasury, appropriating taxpayers’ money for a long time. And not a democratic robber has been made responsible up today.

In the states of the kind, the change of government is not very effective. This is the biggest vice of European democracy. The system, which allows budget funds appropriation, i.e. corruption, as an important and active part of this form of democracy, remains. As a matter of fact, such actions are caused by the very essence of democracy, which is mainly meant for the role of consciousness in actions. Main executives of corruption are in close co-operation with democratic values, stating about them voluntarily, not more than that.

Nevertheless, social outburst is inevitable as a consequence of present developments in European states. Unfortunately, the East has outstripped the West in this matter and burdened itself with social protests, which cannot be aid or an example for western states. The consciousness level and mentalities are different, and, as a matter of fact, they define the difference between protest movements in the West and the East, including Africa. However, with all variants, the question What to do? is still problem No.1 for western democracy.

For this reason, we can just observe minimized results of system social and political innovations in Arab states, where it was possible to change the very control system. Despite all this, nobody is able to answer another eternal question: What is further?, for there is a certain deadlock. Politicians cannot offer anything significant, and, well, people have completed their mission, destroyed the obstacle preventing social reforming. And now they are waiting for something useful and better to improve their living standards.

Under the