April 4, 2010
“Sphere Democracy Group” in Petrosovet 1992:
The First Political Sprout of a Harmonious Civilization
And a Way for Exit of Russia from the Century Failure
By
Dr. Leo Semashko,
Member of St-Petersburg Parliament (Petrosovet) in 1990-1993,
Global Harmony Association (GHA) Founder and President, 2005.
GHA unites more 350 members from 48 countries.
GHA Mission is to pave a conscious way for a harmonious civilization.
Paper at the jubilee meeting of MPs in honour of 20 anniversary of Petrosovet
Mariinsky Palace, St.-Petersburg, April 5, 2010
Friends!
My colleagues are unfolded in the previous papers the achievements value of Petrosovet as the first embodiment of parliamentarism in Russia for its past and present. Let me as the philosopher and sociologist-futurologist, to draw your attention to other dimension of its achievements: for the future. What its achievement will not only remember but also develop through 50 - 100 years?
In infinite pluralism of the democratic Russian revolution in the beginning of 90th years there was one, strange at first sight, political formation. It is “Sphere Democracy Group” (SDG), arisen in Petrosovet in 1992 and united about ten deputies under my management. Almost 20 years required to understand its deep political sense. I will be limited here only by three strokes.
The first stroke is scientific. Tetrasociology (sphere approach) as a science of social harmony of four sphere classes of population was put in the SDG basis. In it Charter, published in my book (“Sphere Approach”, St-Petersburg, 1992, p.355-358:
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/? cat= ru_c&key=282), it is written down: “the SDG proceeds … from recognition in any society the four sphere universal classes”. This idea develops in our city 35 years from the youth club "Demiurge" 1976, which was divided on four sphere groups, accordingly to the sphere classes.
These classes differ on employment in one of four spheres of social production, on number but they are equally necessary, universal and sufficient as without the products of their manufacture there can not be any society. They make a deep, invisible for eyes, structure of social harmony in which they play defining role of its actors-creators. They have one purpose – harmony but the different ways to it. They demand the constant conscious coordination through the mechanism of deep harmonious parliamentarism of the sphere classes. It expresses the new, harmonious, four-party democracy built on equal distribution of legislative and executive power between these classes, between the representatives elective by them. But this parliamentarism and democracy cannot arise without a corresponding science. Therefore, before appearance of this science the sphere classes remain unknown and spontaneous, on historical surface of which the priority role play their various, private, disharmonious and hostile social groups and classes which are breaking off their deep harmonious unity.
The second stroke is historical. The last 20 years confirmed the world tendency of comprehension and globalisation of harmony, from which each nation wins, by tens facts. They are presented in the international book of the Global Harmony Association (GHA) “Harmonious Civilization”(St-Petersburg,2009,254p. : http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=379) by 120 coauthors from 34 countries. This book is the first example of new thinking which received a title “Tetranet Harmonious Thinking”. This book found recognition of the many known figures, including the Chairman of the Russian Upper Chamber Mr Sergey Mironov. The GHA fixed 2009 as year of a birth of the new, global, harmonious, civilization, connected with two world events: the beginning of “nuclear zero” of the USA and Russia and creation of a science of this civilization which replaces a dying off industrial civilization. Together with these events humanity entered into the Age of Harmony Renaissance and Harmonious Enlightenment. From the point of view of a new civilization, SDG is its first political sprout which has begun its harmonious four-party democracy, i.e. deep sphere parliamentarism.
Charles Montesquieu’s fundamental law of democracy, which is ignored by the democratic Constitutions, revives in this sprout: “Durability and prosperity of democracy always depend from the correct division into classes of the population having the right to vote" (Charles Montesquieu. Selected works. About Spirit of Laws. Moscow, 1955, p. 171-172). He gave the examples of Solon’s 4 classes, Servius Tullius’ 6 classes but anywhere has not found the "correct" division. SDG found it in the sphere harmonious classes and created the unique projects of the sphere structures of legislative and executive power as state mechanism for the deep consent of these classes.
The third stroke is national. In Russia for 20 years widely known unflattering definition of democracy: it is at all on hearing. It is not very far from true in view of absence of correct division of the population on classes and ignoring of their deep interests. In general the institute of industrial democracy in the world degrades and degenerates in plutocracy behind very rare exception of the small countries. Democracy revival at level of a new civilization is possible only through "correct", sphere, division of the population into classes which found the first political expression in SDG. What to do with this democratic innovative miracle, furnishing the key for revival of all dying modernizations of Russia, the population of which so and remains in poverty at all inexhaustible richness of resources? We should not lose this world priority, "as always". Because it will go away or to the USA where “harmony schools” grow quickly, or to China where almost a quarter of humanity builds “a harmonious society”, or in other country, which the first will establish the sphere harmonious four-party democracy together with corresponding harmonious education of the population.
In the 20th century Russia paid the biggest blood of revolutions, civil and world wars for the right to prosperity through social harmony in the 21st century which ideas developed by its most brilliant minds under the different names: Aleksey Khomyakov’s sobornost, Leo Tolstoy’s nonviolence, Vladimir Solovyov’s all-unity, Nicolas Roerich’s harmony, Paul Florensky’s consent, Vladimir Vernadsky’s noosphere and etc. Already Feodor Dostoevsky intuitively understood a key role of harmony in the words: “A beauty will rescue the world”, as a beauty is identical to harmony. From similar ideas of the outstanding Russian and foreign thinkers was born tetrasociology as a science of social harmony.
Why Russia possessing this unique innovative scientific potential would do not to declare building in the country of a harmonious civilization how something similar has made China in 2006?! It will be very ambitious and very effective Russian modernization of the 21st century, which will allow it to exit from the failure of the last century and to find prosperity at last! Building of a harmonious civilization will not prevent but only will help to struggle with terrorism, corruption and other social pathologies, giving to this struggle the higher social meaning. To start it to build is possible in the new presidential project “Sun City” to which lacks to be “Harmony City”, not to go out "as always". Russia will exit from the century failure and will revive only on the way of a harmonious civilization and the harmonious parliamentarism which was born almost 20 years ago.
This way is opened today by a science of social harmony for all countries. A question now is: what of them the first will stand up on it knowingly to get the advantages and priorities of global harmony. Harmony race goes on change to arms race! Whether Russia will take advantage of this new historical chance for the happy future?
Thanks for attention.
This text is published on the GHA website in English and Russian:
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=58
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=282
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