Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev’sPhilosophy of Peace,

Glasnost and Perestroika

Philosophy of Business (DBA 701)Atty. Celso D. Benologa, Ph.D., CPA

Presented by:Ferdinand C. Importado

August 26, 2012

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

March 2, 1931

Privolnoye, Stavropol, Russia Sergei and Maria Panteleyvna Gorbachev

Studied Law, Moscow State University

Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko

Gorbachev as a young child

• Gorbachev's father is a driver and mechanic and at the age of 13, he worked on a collective farm

• At age 14, he joined the Komsomol and became an active member

• In 1952 he became Secretary of the law department's Young Communist League

Early political career

• In 1970, he was first elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR as party leader and served on commissions dealing with conservation, youth policy, and foreign affairs

• In 1978, he was officially admitted at the Communist party secretariat as agriculture secretary

Gorbachev in World History

• Ending the nuclear race with the U.S.• Responsible for the withdrawal of the

Soviet presence in Afghanistan in 1989 and Central Europe

• 1990 Nobel Peace Prize • Last Secretary General (President) of

the U.S.S.R.

1990 Nobel Peace Prize The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union, for his leading role in the peace process, which today characterizes important parts of the international community.

Gorbachev and the Cold WarGorbachev cooperated with Reagan to end the Cold War, and Reagan cooperated with Gorbachev to legitimize the democratic process with the Soviet public. But it was Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush, who ended Communist rule in the Soviet Union.

Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

What is the message of Fatima?

Consists of a number of precise predictions, requests, warnings and

promises concerning the Faith and the world, which were conveyed by the

Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children – Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco –

in a series of apparitions at Fatima, Portugal from May to October 1917

What did the message of Fatima predict?

The emergence of Russia as a world power which would "spread its terrors

(including Communism) throughout the world ... raising up wars and persecutions

against the Church"

What does the message of Fatima request?

The Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope

together with the world's bishops in a solemn public ceremony

Have these requests of our Lady of Fatima been honoured?

Russia has yet to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in a solemn

public ceremony conducted by the Pope together with the world's Catholic

bishops. In 1984 likewise did not mention Russia or involve the participation of

many of the world's bishops

What does the message of Fatima warn? The Church will be persecuted, there will be other major wars, the Holy Father will have much to suffer and various nations will be annihilated. Many nations will be

enslaved by Russian militant atheists. Most important, many souls will be lost.

What does the message of Fatima promise?

The Message of Fatima promises that if the requests of Our Lady of Fatima are carried out "My Immaculate Heart will

triumph. The Holy Father will Consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted,

and a period of peace will be granted to mankind."

Proof that Russia was not consecrated

• On March 25, 1984, Pope John Paul II said twice that Our Lady of Fatima's request for the consecration of Russia was not done.

• The attempted Consecration of 1984, Russia was not mentioned nor involved by the participation of the world's bishops as specified Our Lady of Fatima

Proof that Russia was not consecrated

• 600 million abortions, and wars have broken out all over the world

• Mercy-killing and homosexual acts have

been "legalized"

• In Russia, law has just been passed which discriminates against the Catholic Church

Proof that Russia was not consecrated

• There have been very few conversions to Catholicism in Russia over the past fourteen years. In all of Russia today there are only 300,000 Catholics--much less than one percent of the Russian population.

Why is the message of Fatima important to me and my family? It involves the salvation of souls, peace in

the world and, if the requests of Our Lady of Fatima are not carried out, the

consequences are the annihilation of nations and the enslavement of all

mankind under militant atheists of Russia

Peace Grounded on Liberty

“The principle of freedom of choice is a must. Refusal to recognize this principle will have serious consequences to world peace. To deny a nation the freedom of choice regardless of the pretext or the verbal guise in which it is cloaked, is to upset the balance that has been achieved at this point”.

Liberty

• Good moral conduct• Without liberty

morality and life meaningless

• Christian philosophy

• Bill of rights• Constitution of free

peoples

• Lies in the very root and heart of democracy

Fundamental Right of all rights

EthicsFreedom of choice

Liberty trade-off

Right of peoples

to freedom

Right of nation to integrity

and dismemberment

Christian Philosophy of Peace

Rational social being

Natural blessing

Embedded in man’s nature

Enshrined in man’s conscience

Christian Philosophy of Peace

A man who lived constantly in accordance

with the natural moral law, experiences and

enjoys peace of mind and soul. Gorbachev envisions

peace for mankind as global in scope, enduring and perennial in point of

time for the whole human race

What is the moving spirit?Glasnost Perestoika

Glasnost

Metaphysical

• Truth• Very object of

human intellect• In discovering the

truth, the mind is satisfied and happy

Moral

• Knowing yourself truly

• Rending apart the senseless secrecy and hypocrisy of pretending to be what you are not

Quotes about Glasnost

“The way of truth is the way to peace”

Mahatma Gandhi

“To thy own self be true and thou cannot be false to any other man”

PoloniusHamlet, Act 1, scene 3, 78 - 82

Being false to oneself

Inevitably, this leads to conflicts, confrontation and wars; and the story and history thereof was written in unquantifiable blood and deaths in two world wars. The same error, according to Gorbachev, unless effectively checked and corrected, will surely lead to a third nuclear war that now threatens to exterminate the greater portion of humankind.

Contradiction• Law of reality• Accounts for all the changes in the word• Arising from conflicts between antithetical

concepts or realitiesHegel, Marx

• Law of logic and discourse• Opposition between proposition and

negation• No contradictories, only opposites,

polarities and paradoxesScholastic

Gorbachev’s Dialectic Movement

• Our present society is now in the brink of total destruction

• Radical sweeping reforms for the better if it has to survive

• Mankind is confronted with the do-or-die alternative of having lasting peace or risking total destruction

• Stressed the necessity for drastic, revolutionary reforms while at the same time and with the same emphasis

• Universal peace as the only way for survival

Gorbachev contradicting himself

• Peace and revolution can be combined logically without incurring inconsistency

• Peace and revolution are not contradictory but merely paradoxical

• Peace (positive) can be attained by non-

violent revolution (negation of a negation becomes positive)

Effects of Perestroika

End of the cold war

Cessation of the armament race

Outlawing of nuclear war except for defence

Effects of Perestroika

Dismantling of the past dictatorship converting

it to democracy

Shifting from state controlled economy to free market enterprise

Change from a long regime of relentless

religious persecution to freedom of worship;

Restoration and re-enshrinement of all

human rights

Democratization according to Gorbachev• The one main objective of Gorbachev’s reform

was to liberate or lift the people from the quagmire of doctrinaire and dogmatic misconceptions and interpretations into which the true original socialism of Lenin had fallen.

• Freedom of speech and expression which always

signifies the diversity of views and / or opinions. • It is not the case of one working as many; but of

many working as one

The Universal Human Constant

Nature of man Human variables

Economic

Political

Social

Technological

Rational

Social

Free

Gorbachev’s internal revolution

When Gorbachev speaks of radical and profound changes in all aspects of life to bring about true and lasting peace, he certainly meant changes not only in the outward structure of society, but also and more importantly the deeper transformation in the inner nature of man that includes moral regeneration and true conversion of heart for which true and constant peace is based and established

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Havel’s inner renewal of man

• Radical transformation in man, a true conversion of the heart as the only means of ensuring lasting peace

• “The salvation of our world lies in the human heart”

• Man is still imprisoned in the narrow cell of his own ego, barred by possessiveness – I, my, mine, myself, my family, my company, my region, my nation

Inner moral renewal of man

Uprooting selfishness

Cultivating virtues of the heart

Responsibility Love for fellowmen

Love or Die

Live together

Die altogether

• Does not mean living in the same place, in the same country under the same ideology.

• Nor does it mean merely living in peaceful co-existence under the law of live and let live.

• Mutual sharing of the sacrifices we may have to make, for our own survival

Love or Die

• Gift of freedom • We will to do so by our own freewill for our own

survival• We must live altogether voluntarily sacrificing our

private interests• Most distinctive human prerogative – to love and to

be loved• Live and let live = Live and love• True and lasting peace for mankind springs from

freedom and love• Love or die means that it is not enough that we live

together, it means me must love each other, else we perish

Memoirs of the Philippine Revolution

“In order to build the edifice of our social regeneration, we have to change radically our establishments, our mode of thinking and living. A revolution both external and internal becomes necessary.”

Apolinario Mabini

Gorbachev vs. Mabini’s Revolution

Gorbachev’s revolution• Peaceful revolution

Mabini’s revolution• Bloody and violent

Russian vs. EDSA Revolution

Russian Revolution

• 1991• Aborted coup

ouster of Mikhail Gorbachev

• Some people were killed

EDSA Revolution

• 1986• Lead by Corazon

Aquino• EDSA miracle

Decalogo

Truths

Justice

Liberty• For the good• Never for

evil

Decalogo

“We must strive to establish in our country the republic and never the monarchy. The latter serves and promotes the welfare of a few privileged families, and forms a dynasty, while the former seeks and ministers to general well being of the people.”

Apolinario MabiniDecalogo, Memoirs of the Philippine Revolution

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