Essential notes to the “Imaginative and prescient for Bulgaria” of the BSP – 2024-07-20 17:58:28

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What’s Bulgaria immediately as a rustic and society? What are the nation’s largest issues? Imaginative and prescient for Bulgaria lacks evaluation and solutions to those questions!

I’ll briefly attempt to fill this hole within the “Imaginative and prescient” with one opinion:

Up to now decade, Bulgaria achieved its nationwide aim and have become a member of NATO and the EU. In each “unions” we’re positioned as a periphery, we’re handled as a rustic with restricted sovereignty and we diligently implement the selections of the “bosses”, however as an alternative of satisfaction that we’re a part of the world of wealthy nations, the frustration of Bulgarian residents with the nation wherein we dwell, grows with every passing yr.

Over the last two or three many years, Bulgaria turned a sufferer of the insurance policies of globalized neoliberal capitalism and because of this the business was destroyed and looted (with the decisive participation of the Bulgarians themselves), the developed agrarian agriculture was destroyed and the land was privatized in accordance with the latifundist mannequin. There was a big theft of the mental capital of the nation (the younger, the educated, a whole lot of 1000’s of specialists have been sucked from the capitalist heart) and an externally directed destruction of science, schooling and tradition, which led to mental degradation, demographic disaster and institutional collapse. Social programs fell right into a deep everlasting disaster.

The socialist interval, throughout which the modernization of backward rural Bulgaria occurred, which in 45 years turned a developed industrial nation with extremely educated residents, free and high quality well being care, developed science, tradition and sports activities, is subjected to complete insults and one-sided presentation solely in a unfavorable plan with the only real goal of making and imposing a false picture among the many youthful technology of the previous and having no situations for comparability with immediately’s depressing state.

Within the age of data and the digital world, Bulgarians are more and more poorly educated and unprepared to navigate complicated international processes and more and more uncompetitive with residents from the middle of the EU within the battle for extremely certified jobs and, accordingly, for the next way of life.

The EU Structural Funds and CAP subsidies have actually supported funding in infrastructure, helped to financially strengthen agricultural producers and to help sectoral and regional insurance policies, however then again, they’ve created the situations for the flourishing of a rentier kind of capitalism and an enormous scale corruption.

The pursuit of political energy is for the aim of entry and management of cash flows, not a trigger within the service of society. Beneficiaries of European funding use European cash to deprave politicians, civil servants and the judicial system and create oligarchic patterns of dependence.

The hopes that, with the help of the EU, authorized order, democratic establishments, equality earlier than the regulation, and the usual of residing would rapidly strategy the common European degree in Bulgaria weren’t justified. Bulgaria misplaced its sovereignty, however as an alternative of equal possibilities in Europe and prosperity, we have been pushed to the periphery of the union, not solely geographically, but in addition in essence, and Bulgarian residents are handled as second-hand Europeans.

Bulgaria behaves like a defeated and defeated nation, the individuals are distrusted and corrupted by false idols, they not belief anybody or something, and the society is in complete limbo.

Lately, the world has entered a brand new cycle characterised by rising geopolitical contradictions and conflicts and a transition to deglobalization, wherein capital seeks salvation within the nation-state and in insurance policies of financial protectionism. Deglobalization will probably be accompanied by commerce wars and a fierce battle for markets and sources, in some instances we may additionally witness heated conflicts and native wars.

The EU can be present process transformation processes with an unclear end result in the interim. Euroscepticism, nationalism and protectionism are intensifying within the nations of central Europe, because of which it’s more and more seemingly that pan-European establishments and pan-European insurance policies will probably be weakened, European funds will probably be decreased, the division between heart and periphery will deepen, and partial collapse will probably be predicted of the group and peripheral nations equivalent to Bulgaria to be de facto thrown out or somewhat left to fend for themselves as they will.

Within the occasion of a doable unfavorable improvement within the EU, Bulgaria will face the problem of growing independently with out counting on European funds and maybe with restricted entry to the frequent European market. Our nation will probably be uncovered to fierce competitors, however with weakened personal monetary and human sources, with nearly no business, with monoculture agriculture and over-concentrated land possession, with inadequate jobs, with consumption and a market relying totally on imports and exports, with a deepening a disaster in social programs, with the lack to keep up the infrastructure and with out the flexibility to ensure its personal safety, with primarily comprador capital, used to counting on the “absorption of public sources” in situations of political patronage and unprepared to resist actual competitors for markets and sources.

Bulgaria wants a brand new coverage generally, which is able to put together us to fulfill the brand new challenges and to resist as a nation and society the storms which are coming.

The approaching highly effective anti-globalist wave opens an opportunity for self-determination, an opportunity to conduct an actual nationwide coverage, an opportunity for the left to present itself as a progressive drive able to finishing up a brand new modernization of the nation.

Right now, above all, the events are known as upon and should give significant solutions to the straightforward questions that each accountable citizen already asks himself:

1. Why is society hungry for justice?

2. Why is corruption elevated to the rank of state coverage?

3. Why is democracy solely a facade behind which the toothy face of the oligarchy peeks out?

4. Why are there extra voters within the electoral rolls than there are residents of the nation, which creates situations for manipulation and corruption of the electoral course of?

5. Why did the events ignore the need of the individuals expressed in a referendum for majority elections?

6. Why is the presumption of innocence changed by the presumption of guilt and why are absurd laws and prohibitions launched into the legal guidelines, that are virtually unimaginable to adjust to, and the federal government will get and has a mechanism to accuse and prosecute its financial rivals and political opponents?

7. Why are small settlements was feudal possessions of native cliques, who, in entrance of the dispassionate gaze of the central authorities, mercilessly eliminate the destinies and generally the lives of the individuals there?

8. Why is the state over-centralized and all monetary sources and all selections are concentrated in Sofia?

9. Why did native self-government, whilst an expression, disappear from political use. On account of this coverage, Sofia and several other giant cities obtain overfunding and develop forward of time to the detriment of small districts and municipalities, for which the middle doesn’t allocate the mandatory funds and sources to keep up their infrastructure and social programs at an excellent degree and to have well-paid work locations?

10. Why does this coverage proceed, since it’s clear that it is among the most important causes for the depopulation of the countryside and the overpopulation in Sofia. Overpopulation that places the infrastructure of the capital to the check?

11. Why does the state, via lobbying and focused laws, restrict competitors and supply institutional help to shut firms to monopolize sure sectors, wherein the market is assured with hundreds of thousands of shoppers disadvantaged of the precise to decide on, and the monopolists are assured extra earnings? A harmful symbiosis of political and financial energy is created, which supplies beginning to oligopolies and oligarchy.

12. Why and what are the the reason why inequality has reached unprecedented heights within the historical past of the brand new 140-year-old Bulgarian statehood? Why is Bulgaria in final place within the EU when it comes to residing requirements and when it comes to residents residing in poverty?

13. We have to be conscious that Bulgaria can not prosper if radical measures usually are not taken to cope with illiteracy, to boost the tutorial degree of the nation, and particularly of the technology as much as 40 years of age. The lack of historic reminiscence and the shortage of state structuring symbols turns us right into a territory and deprives society of orientations and helps in a interval of crises and international challenges.

14. Bulgaria is liable to changing into a part of a navy alliance and entrance zone directed in opposition to Russia, with out the consent of the Bulgarian individuals. Why does the political class not keep in mind the bitter classes for Bulgaria from the final two world wars and is about to repeat the errors of the previous and condemn the Bulgarian individuals to new sufferings?

These are the massive questions and issues and on the similar time the massive deformations of Bulgaria, however as an alternative of placing them on the foundation of the doc, the Imaginative and prescient directs us to superficial subjects in an try to formulate them as insurance policies.

With no radical change of the atmosphere, even well-intentioned concepts and insurance policies haven’t any probability of being applied. As well as, we should always emphasize that on this deformed atmosphere there’s a large threat that the strengthened function of the state (which is proclaimed within the Imaginative and prescient) will probably be utilized by the oligarchic and clientelistic circles once more, solely of their private curiosity, to the detriment of residents and sincere enterprise. On this sense, the Imaginative and prescient, by not looking for an answer to the primary points, primarily reinforces the present deformations and creates illusory hopes for change.

WHAT SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY POLITICAL GOALS AND TASKS OF THE BSP

1. To scrub up the legal atmosphere and the kleptocracy of the Euro-rentier kind. To chop the roots of the oligarchy.

2. To win again nationwide sovereignty from Brussels.

3. To implement the rule of regulation and the equality of all with out exception earlier than the regulation as a foundation for regulating public relations.

4. To implement morality and belief in private qualities {and professional} abilities as a mannequin for everybody’s success in society.

5. To wage a battle to beat poverty and convey the inequality between the poor and the wealthy to cheap and comparable ranges with the socially organized states.

6. To open area for competitors in all sectors. The state ought to “clear the sphere” for enterprising and socially accountable nationwide capital, which doesn’t earn hire with European funds, however depends on the {qualifications} and abilities of its managers and staff to create items and jobs.

7. To stop the nation from being drawn right into a navy battle generally and a navy battle in opposition to Russia specifically.

8. After the acceptance of the nation as a member of the EU, a brand new unifying nationwide thought and aim was not formulated earlier than the general public. We can not discover an interesting thought within the Imaginative and prescient both. The Socialist Get together has at all times been a celebration of concepts, concepts have been the primary political weapon of the Bulgarian socialists, however immediately lack of concepts has penetrated the primary cloth of the occasion and makes it weak and the occasion members with out motivation. Figuratively talking, there isn’t any ideological and political present flowing via the circulatory system of the BSP. In a second of disaster and ideological deadlock, the Get together should flip to its roots, depend on the fundamental rules of justice, solidarity and freedom and attempt to deliver forth a brand new unifying nationwide aim that may very well be formulated as “to return the dignity of the Bulgarian residents and Bulgaria to be equal and equal to the affluent European nations”.

The above political duties usually are not narrowly political, however nationwide and require a nationwide effort to make the mandatory breakthrough in Bulgaria’s improvement.

When these political duties are realized, there will probably be a large scope for social and financial change, for the implementation of some good technocratic options, that are proposed within the Imaginative and prescient for Bulgaria”