Lukashenko on the formation of state idea
During his meeting with Russian philosopher and public figure Aleksandr Dugin, the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, asserted that the state idea should mature and the time itself will push to formulate it, BelTA reports
The Head of State noted that philosophy was his favourite discipline at the university and the meeting with Aleksandr Dugin made him plunge into this philosophy to some extent. “This made me look at your views and remember the philosophy that I studied: Marxism-Leninism. Now time has passed, and it turns out that we have not created anything better. Some say that Marxism-Leninism is bad. Maybe it’s bad. But nothing better has been created. And it was a whole system of views. Today we don’t have that,” the President said.
“And you were right when you were talking about the state ideology, about ideology in general. And that we don’t have it. Russia doesn’t have it either. This is also true,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “I was offered lots of ideas, but I rejected them all, because they do not lie on human soul, on human heart. What kind of idea it is if it cannot grip the masses, as the classic said, if it doesn’t lie on the heart? This is not an idea. And it cannot be a state idea. But so far nothing has been generated, unfortunately.”
“I am also trying myself to somehow formulate this idea. But I come to the conclusion that it is impossible to formulate it until time backs you up, until time forces you to formulate it. Now I’m starting to come to this, and I think that maybe we are straining too much in vain. It is impossible to invent it. It must mature,” the Head of State concluded.
