IDEOLOGY OF CIVILIZATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY OF RUSSIA (IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIA-WEST RELATIONS)

This article examines the objective prerequisites for the formation of the ideology of civilizational sovereignty of Russia (ideology of mobilization type) in the context of Russia - West relations. Currently, the carrier of ideology is not the state (it is prohibited by the Constitution of the Russian Federation), but civil society - and the ideology is not so much political as civilizational (spiritual and cultural), providing mental, cultural and moral unity of society. However, in this capacity, ideology still performs its classical political function of ensuring the political and ideological mobilization of people in the form of their political consciousness development. Modern Russian society can effectively develop any new social institutions and forms of social activity necessary for the development of modern man-made civilization, but the intellectual and moral degradation of people, which has been going on for several decades as a consequence of the development of “consumer society”, destroys the human resource of Russia in qualitative terms. Only the model of “mobilization society”, which is a legacy of traditional civilization, can resist this. In modern conditions, ideology cannot be, as it was in the era of classical ideologies, a set of unified theses and definitions. The modern non-classical “mobilization ideology” of the Russian civil society is not a set of initially defined concepts, but a set of basic values that can be interpreted individually, based on different worldview positions. Only in this case the ideological consolidation of society is possible, otherwise the described state of ideological chaos will remain insurmountable.