Why has the communism still not turned out?
The communism is neither Marx’s fantasy, nor the dream of poor men and beggars. Pressed down by need they can’t simply imagine what it is. The communism also not is a project of communists’ sect that have suddenly believed in their emancipating mission and in the least it is the final deadlock as many think nowadays after liberal-reformers. The Communism is the cause of History, the common cause of its all participants, it is the History itself. Having begun in far days of tribe communism, it proceeds until now as continuous progress to more perfect, civilized forms. Exactly the history is the progress of communism.
Judge by yourself: the production grows and every new epoch makes the number of the people who are quite content with their lives become greater and greater.
Owing to co-production we find surplus of a product appeared already in days of the tribe communism, and a leisure time following it. The surplus increases resulting in exchange of surpluses’ appearing. Afterwards however we could observe the people’s stratification on rich and poor as the result of control; loss over a product instead of the growth of leisure time for everybody. The surplus of a product, disappearing in one place arises in another one – now not as a part as common welfare but as appropriated, personified riches. As a matter of fact the communism is product’s constant increasing and this increasing product is alienated by some representatives of a society to their best advantage. So we could say the communism is the movement from public ownership to communism for the few (certainly an opposite side of the process appeared as simultaneous aspiring communism for everybody). The times of slave-owing, feudalism, capitalism are only steps of this constant movement connected with the further growth of the public product. That’s why in the certain sense the communism was an invention of richmen. It was them who lived within the limits of a principle “Everybody works according to its abilities, everybody gets according to its needs”. In terms of insufficient production it surely means living for the another's account. Why has the things gone that way?
Every person is born having inside one basic contradiction, the contradiction between abilities and needs. The abilities represent a creative part of person, the needs – the consumer one. While implementing abilities, the person spends his energy, spends himself, on the contrary while satisfying needs, everybody receives energy, recover himself. In a primitive tribe society these processes were more or less counterbalanced as it was in Nature.
The struggle, sharp or moderate, was, is and will be going between those two poles. The result of that struggle is the victory of one or another side. Creative or consumer part of human nature has been constantly dominated first as psychological and then as social dominant of behavior.
The person appears as creator and consumer simultaneously but acts much more definitely in one or another of these roles. Hence, all human community was primary shared and now it shares on creators and consumers. Marx did not manage to propose the complete and comprehensive picture of materialistic understanding of person, but had formulated the basic regulating principle of the future communistic society. It’s familiar to you as “Everybody works according to its abilities, everybody gets according to its needs” or «From everyone - in accordance with person’s ability, to everybody - in accordance with person;s labour” and it was a real key to understanding. Nowadays we have quite realized, that it were the very consumers who had been allocated and risen upward to become exploiters and oppressors while creators gradually were felling downwards and had joined the suppressed crowd of humiliated persons.
The consumer grasped everything while the worker worked, and eventually the consumer turned to become a Big Lord. The spare time that had been pulled out from paws of Nature by common efforts of mankind, has became the private property of a few persons. Afterwards crystallized time brought one person to domination, another - to submission and enthrallment. It is also true for intrafamily relations.
It was so in the past and so is nowadays but if the mankind proceeds in the same direction in future the mankind will inevitably be lost. The Consumers are “a dark hole” of a human society. Despite of huge growth of productive power of mankind, this mouth is insatiable. The world supremacy of consumers approaches the hour of the Globe Catastrophe. The nature has no strength any more to cope with their appetites. Unfortunately it is not the forecast, it is already the diagnosis.
Meanwhile the existing level of production and labor productivity allows the communism actually would be widespread by the decree worldwide right now. And the only thing we need for it - a world government. Look, what enormous riches are concentrated in some states, in some strata, in the hands of some persons, what a huge army of well paid militaries and policemen, protect this Pyramid of Riches! Still in reality this protection is totally useless, in fact it’s a grandiose waste of resources. What a crowd of bureaucrats and representatives of mass-media, more exactly, footmen-journalists, produce new and new different cultural and scientific fictions to justify the order of things favourable to consumers! Let’s summarize and understand that just reorganization (including the general disarmament, the balanced reorientation of manufacture, redistribution of investments and products ) would make it possible all over the world! This could be an important a step to general maintenance of needs, to 2-3 hour working day with two or three working days a once a week.
Again I speak not about "everything should be to taken away and divided", certainly no. The Marxism never preached this platitude that different «nemtsovs and hakamads» (T:-Russian politicians of sharp-liberal orientation) try to attribute to Marxism for to look more clever themselves. The mankind needs less it produces nowadays for to live in situation of permanent glover. That is why the communism is not only possible - in fact it is comprehensively provided.
And was it a real reason why no Communism is now? Why it hasn’t appeared, hasn’t been built – choose any term you like – hasn’t appeared for everybody? I think because it has been again appropriated by some elite. It had been taken away from people by exploiters before the 1917, it also has been stolen by political elite, by nomenclature and bureaucracy in Soviet epoch after the Great Revolution. They also had no need for Communism as their own consumer ambitions were much more closer to them than any social needs.
Though the privileges which the Soviet elite had possessed could hardly be compared to that great robbery that was committed by the same elite under a pretext of so-called liberal reforms.
Those who should bear burden of the responsibility for safety of the public property has appeared to be its main thief. They had knowledge, official and personal communications, acquaintances, the access to special and secret information, the right of signature, and the most important, they had time to carry out their intentions and plans. At the same time the worker had to work all day long and could hardly find time to restore himself. Therefore Chubays's (T: A.Chubays was of the key figures in Russian politics in 1991-2008, the “father” of Russian privatization) assurances about equal starting opportunities during privatization were not simple lie of bad-qualified economist, but do the street swindler’ dirty tricks. While “reforming” the nomenclature has shown its true face and has proved thus it represents far from being the moral leader of a society.
In a sense, certainly, everybody was guilty. Still the fault of the ordinary worker and the top-manager’s one differs greatly. The worker pressed and limited by system in many cases is compelled to act definitely.
Here is an example of former "order". It would help to understand better who and how is responsible for our failure.
Suppose there is a daily work-quota or rate of output (WQ). The worker who carries out WQ produces 100 pieces of something and gets suppose 100 rubbles a month. Still such wages is not sufficient for a worker and he wants to overcome the task producing 120 pieces and so getting 110 rubles (100 daily + 10 for the exceeding). Everybody wants to live better and so the exceeding of WQ becomes the mass phenomenon. Then the factory management raised rates of output and accordingly reduced quotations so that work-quota was up to 120 pieces. Things’ going that way meant the worker returned to previous earning (100 rubles).
At the same time however person’s commodities have rather grown than decreased. The person matures, marries, that marriage brings children and those children begun also maturing. With those circumstances’ pressure the person adapts for the set work-quotas and starts exceeding the rates of output again. And once more the factory management was not appeased, and again the old norms and quotations had been revised and reset. In some places it took place more often, in other ones - more seldom, somewhere the process appeared to be very sharp, somewhere as just moderate. But it was the practice which to result in bloody accidents in Novocherkassk (T: -the city in the south of Russia where the workers demonstration against price-rising was shooted down) in 1962. The common intensity inevitably should blow up in any local place where the negative energy had been for some reason focused. So the elements of the protest and force of the weapon intrude into economy.
It seemed to be quite time for economists to reflect. However the scientists who serve the policy and the politicians sing chorus: “The wages shouldn’t grows faster than labor productivity”. Actually such scientists confuse labor productivity to simple mechanical performance and thus aspire to receive greater result due to relative reduction of wages. Reducing payment they intensify work, instead of raising its productivity. V. Lenin wrote: “We had seen how in 80-th (T: - of XIX century) our manufacturers have surpassed themselves in matter of ugly oppressions of workers as they have transformed penalties into means of downturn of wages, not having satisfied with downturn of quotations itself. (Lenin V.I., Complete works, v.2, p.59). That’s the way: Lenin's ideological successors have gone on a way of cruel capitalists of XIX century. As a result actual depreciation of the work that quite often led workers to nervous failures and stresses has begun.
The quality of a product has been negatively influenced also. The time couldn’t be compressed. As if your rate of output or WQ has been increased, first, without technical improvement of the manufacturing, second, relying only on impellent acceleration so you can improve your skill only in the limits of labor intensification. And sooner or later the limit of human opportunities is reached, and the worker should or endow the interests, either search for another way out of situation. That’s why the more "accelerated" is the worker himself the more the worker’s sub-consciousness forces him to spend his energy less intensively. He leaves unfinished something in a product, worsens quality. The result is a decreasing of quality at the same time while the production output grows. Thus the worker compensates his loss, he met the increasing of work rates with diminishing of his labor efforts.
Still the worker suffers once more. Passing trough the checkpoint doors, he turns into the consumer, the buyer of very that product of the lowered quality that has been the result of their subquality work. Naturally as the consumer our worker doesn’t like this product. The quality decrease was accompanied therefore by deficiency increase – the goods of high quality become a rarity. The money received by the worker as extra earnings for “over-performance”, he has been compelled to pay to the speculators or to the state for the deficit qualitative goods. That is why the life of people didn’t depend on labor efforts any more.
At the same time the huge weights of goods that nobody needed accumulated in state warehouses and storehouses representing monstrous waste of social activities. This waste doubled and tripled due to persons’ made up those products getting salaries and bonuses. The nation survived only due to some number of creators who continued to make really valuable products. However the more tensely the nation worked and the more it produced, the poorer it became as the lion's share of work simply wasted. The official reports about performance and over-performance of plans came from everywhere having a background of shelves in shops becoming emptier and emptier. If would be it the final point in that list of problems…
The enormous turnover of staff was generated in those times, and people worked there where pushed them their needs instead of working where they could apply the abilities. The whole nation creating the Communism has suddenly ceased to experience pleasure in work. The human being has started developing himself mainly as the consumer. Having been convinced of impossibility to earn a prosperity fairly the person started to look for curves, roundabout and shadow ways. He did not shun a deceit and even larceny. He established non-service contacts with the foreman, the controller and other people whom fixing of its labor contribution and consequently earnings depended on. It preferred the career growth (posts and ranks) to improvement of parameters in work. The spirit of narrow-mindedness, mercenary thrift and bribability got into all his attitudes. Everything fair and advanced in this atmosphere suffered from stress of alienation, pressure of animosities, tearing away. There was a real false for socialist ideals.
During those times all those burbulises and gaydars, shatalines and yavlinskys, lyvshytses and chubayses, yasyns and others ( T: there are the names of Russian politicians of liberal orientation who had played a appreciable role in early 90-th of XX in process of liberal reforms in the USSR and then in Russia) all these future petrels of counterrevolution, had been doing their careers (They are making their careers from the first sigh up to a grave. Be afraid of such well-wishers). They consider the economy quite out of touch with the human being and ignoring all possible communications as the closed self-sufficing system, as a transcendental object, they write Monblans of dissertations aiming to consecrate economic robbery of the party, state and scientifically-academic elites which have merged in ecstasy of privileged consumption. The work-rates abnormal growth and depreciation of work in the meantime nonplussed the economy, nevertheless nobody consider the situation as a real problem.
The individual was even more awfully nonplussed. When WQs ( T: - see above) had raised and wage rates had decreased, loadings naturally increased, becoming quite often other-wordly. The accelerated deterioration of a labour took place, the everyday “weariness” became chronic and in turn chronic weariness aggravated everyday. Only illness or binge could pull out from this roundabout. The drinking-bout however easily turned into illness. Firstly the person spent extra earnings for drinking-bout. Then, when a habit to alcohol appeared, the person started to spend salary for binge.
And after binge had turned to drunkenness the wage or salary appeared to be insufficient as payment for binge. Suppression of a sustainability of the person has changed into his destruction. That is why it is incorrect to speak that drunkenness is one of the social protest forms.
Actually, when WQs are constantly raising the working day takes away so much energy from the individual that he has no power for anything else after leaving the factory. The interesting meeting, sports activity, reading a book or playing with children – all and everything demand force and desire. But the person has nothing. All desires are suppressed, all energies were spent. The more worthless the manufacturing system is organized the greater physical and psychological recourses it takes away. Accordingly the manufacture dominates over the person outside the enterprise.
If the person leaves work place completely tired and nothing would be desirable to him (her), this is a true attribute that his essence is exhausted. In such case the Big Binge sometimes often looks as most simple means "to rise from ashes ". Trying again and again to feel himself as the person, the person it in the paradoxical way kills himself finally.
Alas, it is not drunkenness which to ruin humanity in the human beings. It just finishes that was begun by nasty organized manufacturing system. The manufacturing system that compel the person to make out the worse product it could be, which forces the person to operate contrary to his conscience and abilities. Thus loss of quality hides loss of human essence of the worker. That’s why drunkenness was spreading around all over the nation so quickly and widely directly depending on wage-rates dressing-down and labor intensity increase. So during Gorbachev epoch when the struggle against revelry of drunkenness began (certainly without explanation of its original reasons and by using only command and prohibitive methods) it only added fuel to fire. The people have become embittered, authority of a power went downhill. Any system will be doomed, if starts to collapse the person substancability. It’s so happened on every history’ landmark.
To improve something is necessary to understand before the real reason of worsening.
The story began during hard post-war times, in days of Stalin. In process of restoration of the facilities destroyed by war, work-quotas and wage-rates varied as well to fill the market with the goods. However in days of Stalin those measures were accompanied by annual price-cuttings.
Thus surplus labor taken way from the worker came back to him in form of surplus consumption. Such balance harmonized attitudes of the person and the state. After Joseph Stalin's death price-cutting stopped while revisions of wage-rates and work-quotas proceed. After N. Khrushchev 's coming to power (the CPSU General Secretary in 1956-1965, took the first attempt to reform the Soviet political system ), the prices started growing and the worker was caught in a snare.
Frankly speaking, sometimes the wages and salaries were raised: the injections of growth were done to some then to another strata of workers. In fact it meant that government bureaucracy gave to some people the very piece of “money pie” that had been taken away from the others. Instead of allowing people to earn themselves the bureaucracy presented them miserable pittances named by " a huge social gain". Destroying the valid interest in honest work the ruling elite tried to replace it with political enthusiasm. One injustice was heaped up on another, the good worker has been mixed with the bad one, and even the very accommodation and redistribution of investments led only to moving mismanagement from one branches of the industry to others. Certainly these wage increases had resolved no one problem and only aggravated an economic situation. The economics degradation was proceeding.
The situation was just out of control, but the ruling elite did not understand an essence of the events. It absorbed the illusions the economic science fed it. And the political economy in the USSR just had broken its neck due to ignorance of the valid source of growth of labor productivity. The Communism had been under construction for many years already, but the nation continued to base itself on "working class", on an intensification of physical labour using the meanest receptions of that intensification. Let's add to this list of problems the “class struggle” against the whole world, named the "cold war ". The output of tanks, rockets, planes, submarines, bombs accrued in mad quantities. Let’s add the politically-motivated assistance to poor nations and non-equal trade with the states of socialist block. Let’s add to the list the so-called “projects of the century”: development of virgin lands, drainage of bogs and irrigation of deserts, turns of the rivers, etc. All of that - at the expense of toilers and workers.
The policy dictated to economy the rules instead of be dependent on it according to a theory. It defined instead of was defined. Instead of finding the basis for strategic purposes inside the economy, the policy imposed to the economy the exaggerated phantoms of nomenclature elite. Nobody dared to thwart the elite. It was outside of criticism. Certainly such situation could not exist eternally. Many think, that wreck of socialism has occurred as a result of "perestroika” and “reforms”. Alas, this only visible consequence. The events following one behind another in time, are not always connected by a cause-effect chain. We could sink into oblivion ourselves, without any "perestroika”.
In fact crisis has arisen not in the days of Brezhnev (T: -Leonid Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the CPSU and the head of the USSR, 1965-1982) but much earlier. The reason is also not the plot of " forces of world imperialism ". Certainly there always is “the plot” and there always are “the forcers”. However the course of events was determined first of all by internal reasons. Lacking those reasons the external plot simply could not be carried out. Differently, if whose who should think about of people‘ needs more took more places in Theatre of Power than foreign know-alls like Dalles and Bzhezinsky would be tricked.
The reason is surely not the activity of “Jewish-behind-the-scenes” that supposedly penetrates the whole world. Ultra-patriots only stir up trouble, substituting scientific investigation for patrimonial prejudices and zoological instincts. By the way, the militant nationalism is favorable to that “behind-the-scenes“ because the real reasons of events could be easily hidden behind these smoke-screen of prejudices. Withdrawal of consciousness from social problems and its concentration on the problem of blood, ethnos and race is cultivation of blind hatred. The victories at this ideological front usually ends with the cannibalism. What could be more unfortunate than the army marching the wrong direction? It is doomed to defeat even prior to the beginning of battle.
In a word, the distemper became ripe for a long time. Everything was
not in the least all right in our kingdom.
When Gorbachev ( T: - M.Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the CPSU and the head of the USSR in 1985-1981, initiated the democratic reforms) set to work, the necessity of changes was clear for many people. So his slogans "reorganizations aimed at democratization " and " democratization aimed at emancipating of creative potential" have fallen in the prepared ground as seeds of Future. Unfortunately, it so happened that the sower did not know himself what should actually be done.
He had no idea concerning the process of real reforming of available system of leadership and management. For want of something better he simply tried to attach the western values to former Soviet system: such as publicity, pluralism, multi-party system, institute of presidency. He had chosen not a difficult way of evolutionary development of system but preferred to import and introduce the eclectic, and sometimes quite alien components of political system from the outside. Naturally the result was the Monster with two heads that all the time trough were gnawing each other. The situation was accompanied by infinite chatter instead of real actions.
Having sunk in chatter and drowned the nation in it Gorbachev has missed time, especially precious in such situations. The nomenclature up to the moment had being calmed down for some time, heartened immediately and “erected“ the state emergency committee better known in Russia as G-K-TCH-P. However Gorbachev's demagogy has irreversibly woken people, and in August, 1991 the party nomenclature authority has been deleted from tables of history.
Unfortunately, it was Boris Yeltsin who to has actually stolen the people’s victory. Many people, especially tough-nut communists have apprehended the august events as counter-revolutionary coup. It wasn’t so. Where could the antisocialist forces appear from when the public property dominated over the country? Nonsense! Nonsense! It was not counterrevolution but the real people's democratic revolution. And to my opinion, this was the step rather to the light of progress than to the darkness of the reaction. The problem that was examined concerned not the foundations of our society as in 1917 but the ways of leadership and management. The History proposed to choose between the dictatorship and the democracy.
People have suffered rather from an incorrect, antiscientific and command-bureaucratic management and the antihuman treatment than from socialism itself (the original socialism has not been yet, alas). The things went the way they had to and the superstructure that mismatched the basis has been broken in full correspondence with the Marxist doctrine. The job the scholar could hardly imagine had been done by the people for three days. Many genuine communists had taken part in that revolution. Certainly, they struggled not against socialism as a whole but against its vulgar-official, military-barracks version topped by domination of the party nomenclature.
However the liberals who had broken through topower did intend to democratize nothing. Instead of harmonizing the correspondence between superstructure and basis the dramatic process of total misappropriation started. Having grasped supervising posts in the state, banks, mass media, they have begun to destroy basis, took away bit by bit the ex-public property firstly to their apartments and chests, and then to their accounts and estates. They covered the actions by chatter about “turning a state enterprise into a joint-stock company” and about “privatization”, they covered the usual self-interest with billions beautiful words and slogans. They have not proved but imposed their doctrine, the have not denied Marxism but rejected it.
The revolutions are projected by geniuses, carried out by heroes, and the villains use their fruits. These words were told centuries ago. In a few days people had seen, who has mounted upon its neck. What a surprise! Everybody could see the same nomenclature figures just got out of the second echelon and a little bit recoloured and slightly powdered.
The people revolted again, in septembre-octobre, 1993. Many from August, 1991 came to Octobre,1993. Surprising, but unlike "the communistic dictatorship" that has left practically without blood in 1991, the new "democratic" authority has drowned the opponents in blood. Surely in the name of the best liberal ideas. Truly the one who easily sends people under tanks easily sends tanks upon the people as well.
Here was one of most tragic results of artificial import of ideas and organizational practices from the outside, primitively denying all previous autochthonous development. Nonsense! As well as propagation of fabricated schemes.
Still the market, the key-point of our “economists” in the Past, and has united all fools and thieves together nowadays, that market couldn’t be artificially neither introduced in practice nor cancelled. With until there is a division of labor and the commodity circulation, the market is objective phenomenon. It cannot be neither created nor destroyed by the decree. Nevertheless, ultra-communists considered it to be ;pass away; and ultraliberals have decided it to be recreated and elevated to the throne. It's enough to make a cat laugh!
As stated above we have convinced that consumer market problems in this country (poor quality of goods, deficiency, disproportions of pricing, hierarchy in a wages and many other things) are consequence of incorrect regulation of a labour market. The constant suit between the worker and factory management about the price of work, that suit displayed itself both by downturn of work-quotas from one side and overcoming the work-rates from another, was the best improvement of market’s existence. The commodity market simply suffered from the wrong organization of a labour one.
But here Gaydar ( meant E.Gaydar who was in 1991-92 the Russian prime-minister and the maim initiator of liberal reforms in Russia) has come ", great and awful". and has solemnly “entered” us into the market. Truly he;d better study an available socialist market himself and learn to manage and regulate it. Without silly lamentations - the market will place everything on its places ( T: - that phrase sounded in Russia as an invocation in the 90-s of XX century) - but meeting the needs the concrete worker. To prevent the alienation, misappropriation and accumulation of toiler's work by the latent grabbers. And that Egor (T: -Russian equivalent for George, meant E.Gaydar, see above) did nothing useful, but he had wished the glory however, then repudiated from Communism and crucified the Marxism.
Still what Marxism and communism one could speak about while people haven’t yet left the animal kingdom when the person’ stomach demand every moment: "Suppress one’s neighbour! ", when nobody wants to consider other people interests and to wait for common happiness?
And, you, Gaydar – you are not the scientist. Otherwise, you would see, that the infringement of needs led to their activization, to growth of public contradictions, instead of to the growth of labour productivity.
Certainly, the Marxism has burnt its fingers with the Human Being problem. The same thing one could observe nowadays as well looking at frightening consequences of liberal reforms. Gaydar’s forgery has given freedom not to people (alas!) but to swines and villains, had allowed them to plunder everything and everybody and had relieved them of any responsibility.
May be you do think that all people on the Globe are born as human beings, don;t you? Nothing of the sort! Most persons are quite near the primitive tribe level. Surely the opportunities, attributes and means have changed, but the essence, purposes and passions have remained the same. The patrimonial accessory creates only a basis, but does not guarantee the humanity inside the human beings. One should turn into the Human Being every day and every hour, should prove it to himself and to others overcoming the animal consumer egocentrism and improving the ability for creation. It;s exactly the ability for creation that differs the human being from the animals.
You wished to make better, didn;t you? What was the result? Look before you leap. Having replaced a science with subjectivity and eclecticism, you have destroyed continuity of social progress and depreciated the life and efforts of numerous generations. How many people have been ruined by you, Gaydar and Chubays (T: A. Chubays was one of the key figures in Russuian politics in 1991 -2008, the “father” of Russian privatization)? How many people have died due to undereating, bad life conditions, illnesses, depression? How many persons weren’t born, hasn’t matured and realized themselves? I think you (T: - the author here goes on addressing E.Gaydar and other politicians of liberal orientation) “have won” the historical dispute with reprisals 1937-1939 - never before this country lost so much people in a peace time. Nevertheless you continue to smile lovely and represent yourselves as incomprehensible intellectuals. You do not wish to recognize and even to understand, that you have politically succeed only due to your recipes have appeared are favourable to bureaucracy. And not in the least because of liberalism being a highway of mankind progress. Your deceit has turned out to be favourable to "tops". Here is the very secret of your "revolutionary" success.
However, let's return to our muttons. So, why people has dumped a superstructure and why has it not pleased? The privileges? But the rulers have them in all times, and people has got used to it… Command administration methods? – One could hardly find the different way in terms of a material interest absence … Bureaucracy methods in consideration of complaints, requests and offers? But in fact everything has being done according to the common rules, and the rules seemed to be the same for everybody... The defects of distributive system?- Let one shows the place in the Globe where is no such defects. Alas, all these nasty things very became habitual long time ago and because of them anybody would not rush under tanks tracks.
The people have rushed in fight because they wished to live better. They always wish and work for that. But every time everything turns out vainly. The people start working more and more, suffering and hoping. Vainly again. They change the methods and the tactics, start to apply meanness and a deceit, but suddenly it appears the results do not justify expenses. The time comes - the cover is broken from a boiler and people lay down on rails, build barricades on the squares and protect the parliament with their hands bare. What a villain should one be to send the tanks to crush such people and to provide a barbed wire for to calm them down, to force the police and the army be involved?
Some communists name those events the "counterrevolution", and two years later the democrats in similar situation called "to crush a reptile ". What bosh! People who were neither communists nor democrats, who knew nothing about basis and superstructure, they simply wished to live better. It was them whom the wise rulers had to think about. Still the rulers hadn’t thought about the people, they thought only about their own pockets and chests and so were dethroned. It’s the heart of the problem.
Still what has happened? Why and when had the communist rulers ceased to care of people?
It is necessary to name things by their proper names, to call a spade a spade for to understand something. The socialist revolution combined efforts both of communistic leaders and the vast masses of working people. During an epoch of struggle for power and preparation of revolution all revolutionaries were equal, and it was great! Well, but afterwards the leaders were starting to turn into the rulers. When the Revolution won immediately the system of New Power had been built. In this majestic hierarchy of party, state and administrative posts, ex-revolutionary leaders appeared... to be the usual people with their weaknesses and problems. The contradiction between abilities and needs that they tried to overcome in one or another way also started to break them. And they turned out to be the rivals.
They struggled for interests of other people earlier, afterwards they started to struggle for their own interests that is for the power. As so class struggle still proceeding during that period, it could simply be confused with trivial career struggle which has widely extended in system of New Power. During that epoch the great number of inner-party fights occurred. The factions, coalitions, ideological platforms… The main leader (T: -the general secretary of Communist Party, here meant I. Stalin) should watch more closely the temperature in the hearth, reducing the heat of those fights when it was necessary. But Stalin himself was an inveterate fighter more likely capable to add the fat into the fire, than to reconcile someone.
Surely he couldn’t completely stop this struggle, it would proceed in any case. Still as the supreme ruler he had to keep it within definite limits and to avoid spontaneous strengthening and transition in a "class" channel. Really the fight against the enemies and the rivalry between the party comrades ( for instance for better results) are quite apart. The rivalry of the second kind was exactly the reason of moving new ruler mentality’ from the romantic care about the people to trivial egoism. It’s quite natural.
Still it was not a tragedy yet. Let somebody show the system since ancient pharaons till nowadays that would be crowned with the ruler who thought more about the people and less about himself. There was maybe sometimes a handful. As for suffering for the other people – this way is for fewest from a few. Jesus, for instance. For this very reason the masses have idolized him. Just those who are in the bottom think of people much more than those on the top.
But when human needs accrue, and rulers grow rabid due to consumer ambitions then people begins to build barricades. Barricades 1991 rooted in 1936 when I.Stalin addressing the VII-th Emergency Congress of Soviets spoke about the project of the new Constitution.
According to the doctrine of Marxism-leninism (A: - this item should be the object of special attention), the socialism should leave a transition period as a classless society. To confirm, I intend to make some quotations to exclude any charge in any juggling of theoretical principal propositions and the historical facts.
Here you are. K. Marx: ”The dictatorship itself makes only transition to destruction of any classes, and to a society without classes” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Collected works, V.28, p. 427). In other words after the dictatorship the society comes into the classless status.
F.Engels " The Proletariat takes the power and transforms means of production first of all into a state ownership. And so starts destroying itself as proletariat, all class distinctions and class contrasts, as well as the state as the state"(Ibid, V.19, p.224; V.20, p. 291) More shortly: a capture of authority and nationalization of means of production is the very process of utter annihilation of classes.
Let’s proceed. V.I. Lenin “Everyone knows, that the Marxism is a theoretical substantiation of abolishment of classes”( V.I. Lenin , Complete works, V.40, p.303). Neither more nor less than it was said.
“Domination of vanguard of all workers (the proletariat) is necessary for this transitive time for utter annihilation of classes” (Ibid, V.37, p. 87).
“The society which have still remained a class difference between working and the peasant inside it, none could not name neither communistic, nor a socialist one” (Ibid, V.38,p. 353).
“We carried on class struggle and our purpose – abolishment of classes” (Ibid, V.40,p. 304).
“The socialism starts there where there are no classes when all means of production are in hands of workers” (Ibid, V.42,p. 307).
“First a dictatorship of proletariat comes and therefore a classless society does” (Ibid, V.43,p. 100)/
Lenin it was expressed even more categorically in one of the speeches to workers. “ Now, passing through the hall, I have met the poster with an inscription: " The Empire of workers and peasants won’t end ever". When I have read through this strange poster..., I have thought: what a misunderstanding and wrong understanding, concerning truisms and basic foundations we could discover sometimes. In fact if only the power of workers and peasants would not end, it meant that never socialism would be itself as the socialism is the very abolishment of classes. Still if only there are workers and there are peasants while there are different classes, no one could speak about a socialism" (Ibid, V.43, p. 130)…
Those foundations have been entered in the Party Program, 1919. Till the certain time those approaches were also shared by Stalin. In his brochure “The problems of Leninism” in 1926 he call the dictatorship of proletariat “the power … for abolishment of classes, for transition to the society without any classes, to a socialist society” (I.V. Stalin, Collected works, V.8, p. 30). The very same ideas he spoke about addressing the XVII-th Party Congress in 1934: “ Let’s consider the problem of classless socialist society construction… XVII Party Conference proposed we were going to the classless socialist society creation” (Ibid, V.13,p. 350)…
All seemed to be going well, in accordance with the Pàrty Program and
historical logic. Indeed if you have annihilated slave-owning and the slave-owners
as a class, whether could you keep the slave? Certainly you couldn’t! Whose slave would be the slave if the slave-owner had finished his social existence? If the serfdom is abrogated, whether somebody can keep the landlord and the serf as classes? No one could as well. The peasants will remain, but they wouldn’t be a class of a feudal society. They would be a strata disintegrating on farm laborers and “kulaks” (T: this term used in Russian language for to emphasize the well-to-do peasant).The class of lend-lord would disintegrate (declassed) in its own way.
Let’s look now, how has the class structure of the society changed if the capitalists eliminated? Could somebody keep the wage labour and hired workers? In other words – the proletariat? Whether could be the exploited if there were not the exploiters any more?
The class eliminating is not an eliminating of people as some could think, the class eliminating means the reorientation, the total change in ownership structure. As the Marxist doctrine had been constantly repeating for years, the classes of one formation come into existence together and disappear at the same time. The classes are formed from the strata, consist of the strata and turn back into the strata after finishing their existence. That is the dialectics. So it was the key point. The mankind has been suffering through all its history from class split, class yoke and class battles and the getting rid of problems connected with the classes was dreamed about as one of the main revolution tasks.
All of a sudden less the three years after XVII-th Party Congress, Stalin declared the won socialism supposed to be a “class society”, including “quite new working class”, “the quite new Soviet peasantry” and as well “the quite new strata – the Soviet intelligentsia” (T: this term uses in Russian language for to emphasize the intellectuals). (I.Stalin, The problems of Leninism, 11-th ed.,p. 548-550)
Why? What for? The answer comes immediately, ten pages below: “ I had to recognize, that New Constitution project upholds indeed a mode of dictatorship of working class as well as leadership position of the Communist Party of the USSR” (Ibid, p. 561).
All becomes extremely clear: Stalin needs the classes for to keep the dictatorship of proletariat and accordingly his own position on its apex. If only he according to doctrine recognized the socialism classless society, the dictatorship of proletariat would be cancelled, at least its repressive components as NKVD (T: - meant the secret policy), detection and surveillance, GULAG (T: - meant the system of concentration reformatory camps) would be dismantled. So it was necessary to change system of the government as a whole just because the classless society would be ruled unlike the class one.
After the socialism has won the state, according to doctrine, has starting dying off and yielding to the total democratization and self-government. No classes - no suppression, isn’t it? For the first time in history the opportunity has occurred without “secret services aimed against the co-citizens”. Lenin wrote persistently
about this point in “The state and the revolution”. This moment seemed to turn out the start-point of person role expansion in historical process. The every personality not exclusively the nomenclature one. Well still in the case Stalin could find himself in a situation of quite legitimate rivalry. Such situation was out of his plans. So he retouched the Marxist doctrine to mask his own aim. Having not that piece of job done he would face the truly nonsense: the class dictatorship without any class existence. On the contrary the above-mentioned falsification (T: - the theoretical conservation of classes) had assisted him to make a slim latent coup, the second one after he took the position of Communist party General Secretary.
In other words he had usurped the power. So afterwards he could any his rival be treated as the class enemy and just put him into prison.
Still nobody can play hide-and-seek with the history and the incorrect decision turns around in thousand current and future excesses and breaks.
So as well the society has declared to be the “class” one again; the dictatorship and the corresponding ideology automatically proceeded as well as the repression machine did. Since all conflicts (interpersonal, ethnic etc.) were considered as class ones. All the consequences followed. Accordingly, the intestine career fights flared up with new force and persistence, with use of tools and instrument of the state power. In addition if the repression machine proceed functioning they proceed to look for enemies and “find” them or simply fabricate ones.
So in that paradoxical manner after the socialism had won the catchall repressions were coming instead of human relations harmonization. They were applied primarily not to the workers but to those who fought for their own benefit. The concurrency among them has turned to the fierce fight that involved the NKVD (T: -see above) repressive machine. Stalin himself had by no means not sanctioned it, he had rather provoked it. The people were fighting against each other and mixed (intentionally, sometimes) the interpersonal conflicts with the class ones having the state and repressive institutions involved.
The number of “repressioners”, those who put the repressions into effect does astonish more than the mass character of repressed that was the favorite item of stalinism critics. It really was not the malicious will of the leader or not "congenital bloodthirstiness” of Bolsheviks which led to a tragedy the cruel and senseless as well. The repressions appeared as the continuation of “class struggle” in classless society.
That distortion finally resulted in distortion of socialism itself, in the wretchedness of the very society foundations. It appeared that Stalin himself didn’t except such effect, but he could not recognize himself guilty and latent betrayal of Marxism. To his credit be it said that he had corrected mush in practices of his leadership despite his own mistakes in theory. Alas, it was impossible having deformed one position, to not break all integrity the Weltanschauung concept. The dialectics of world progress as the clue in this doctrine, cannot be cancelled by anybody, even Stalin.
Having kept the concept and dictatorship of proletariat itself though it had become objectively unnecessary, Stalin has from the very beginning created a situation of contradiction between superstructure and socialist basis, thus having held down its subsequent development. Not totally but he put in its development the deformed and distorted components, transformed it to a phenomenon was obsessed with fixed quantitive indexes. Meanwhile the socialism was developing not as the living social organism but as rigid construction. The command system of ruling without feedback, total regulation of all and everything, absence of freedom of discussions had resulted in an improbable pressure of work and the wasted vastest efforts. Stalin, having closed all administrative communications on himself, allowed to be unique thinking and deciding person only to himself. As for others – they were free to compete among themselves. He had forgotten, that nobody was eternal, and the subsequent rulers, would put struggle on the first place, having removed care of the people somewhere on boondocks of public practice. The followers thought only of how to squeeze more out of people and how to drive into their communist paradise on peoples hump. Some day it had to stop.
When the apex of power pyramid was occupied by N. Khrushchev (the CPSU General Secretary in 1956-1965, took the first after Stalin attempt to reform the Soviet political system ), his personal distinguishing feature had left an appreciable imprint on administrative system of the country. And that was all – nothing more. No foundations were revised, no theoretical rethinking was done. All Khrushchev’ innovations followed his emotions instead of his intellect and consequently basic changes had not been generated. All what had been done it was holding up to shame Stalin's idolizing and cult of personality and condemnation of reprisals as “unreasonable”. In fact the whole situation was the same - the Stalin’s falsification of Marxism continued to remain firm.. The so-called "the entire-people state” appeared in the Program of Communism construction, has kept all attributes of class dictatorship and structurally has not changed. So the cult had just changed the family name and the reprisals had dressed other cloth. During Khrushchev’ epoch the dissidents were not be shooted or exiled due to “mistakes”, but were expelled from a Party and dismissed, in other words were starved to death.
The superstructure remained in fact unsullied. The society of social justice and equality for the sake of which the true Leninists struggled and worked, endowing health and even a life itself, was crossed out by the bureaucratic nomenclature which had fostered by Stalin and been reliably tied by system of privileges. Whatever reforms were planed all of them had been broken about a stronghold of this system or sank in a pathos chatter. It is important to note, that in Khruschev years the latent polarization of the nomenclature on leninists and stalinists took place. Interpersonal concurrent conflicts turned into the struggle between the clans and groups resulted in the Kruschev political defeat.
The epoch of the “zastoy” (T: - this term used in Russia to determine the period of stagnation during the years of Leonid Brezhnev’ ruling, 1965-1982) that has put in our history afterwards as a victory of the most conservative part of Soviet elite, was the period of boundless connivance when the omnipotent bureaucracy has once again changed a surname of a cult and on this background has completely untied its hands. Without further ado the bureaucracy constantly covering Brezhnev's breast with stars and awards, pursued exclusively its own ends and gradually knitted with shadow economy which just to the moment started to grow.
That period was the most long because the career rivalry had a little weakened due to huge material compensation that bureaucracy found in the field of economic permissiveness. The desired results could be attained much more faster out-of-struggle than inside it. Supporting a mode of permissiveness, Brezhnev has adhered the nomenclature more strongly, than Stalin through the privileges and fear. It did are Brezhnev years when the conflict between the ruling circles and the working peoples had been precisely designated. “The tops” were standing shoulder to shoulder against ”the bottoms” holding in fat hands the slogan of “economical economy " for people and thinking only about impetuous enrichment for themselves. Afterwards the agony of nomenclature bureaucratic socialism had begun and appeared the turn leaders dying one behind another - the tragic symbol of full degeneration of dictatorship of proletariat in dictatorship of officials.
Certainly workers are absolutely unguilty of constructing that dictatorship which was created by Stalin and which the all subsequent party leaders parasitized on. That power wasn’t workers power. As well as they were not the class already and so could not resist to forces hostile to them.
Thus the socialism built only technically hasn’t been created as the social-economic formation supplied with corresponding superstructure and based upon the self-government, total democracy and freedom. The socialism hadn’t been defeated in struggle against the exterior antagonists (let the American imperialism stop trying to misappropriate the victory), the socialism has just because not followed up. Due to distortions of its inner-development founded not upon Marxist doctrine itself but on the very Stalinist version of that doctrine.
Stalin usurped the power, deformed the socialism and discredited it. Having declared himself the main standard-bearer he turned out the main grave-digger of socialism. It was exactly Stalinism which not to stood the test of time, of the historical practices. As for the socialism it was broken down in latent struggle among the ruling circles and also in struggle between “the tops” and “the bottoms” for their part of consumer well-fare. Not due to falsity of communist idea in the whole but because of the nation had been leaded by the consumers. Instead of all-round development of socialism they fought mainly for better and greater consumption for themselves. The global war of consuming ambitions initiated by Stalin had finally swallowed the socialism. The Communists would dissociate themselves from Stalin and from Stalinism years ago and apologize to co-citizens and the whole mankind for its unreasonable authoritarianism under the red communist banner.
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
However our task is rather careful search and specification of the reasons of unfortunate communistic experience than the search of guilty and the exposure the dictators and traitors. When we have understood why, it becomes clearer "what should be done?"
It is necessary to prevent incessant replacement of one usurpers with others around the “helm” of state and to restore continuity historical progress of society. The real perpetrators are pass away and so could be punished but anyway the situation should be corrected. First it is extremely necessary to rehabilitate Marxism-Leninism in its historical rights and primordial cleanliness. Not as pragmatic ideology that permit to put forward and to push back one or another thesis, depending on a surname of the person who is on the top just at the moment. But as the scientific theory of world importance supplied with most universal method, the dialectics.
It was the renunciation of marxism which has caused many tragic consequences. This destiny had been chosen by "the father of peoples” ( T: - one of Russian half-ironic idioms concerning Stalin) and fifty years later the disgusting nomenclature werewolf Yeltsin ( T: the author meant that Yeltsin who became the first Russia president and one of most active troubadours of capitalism in Soviet times was one of the important leaders of the CPSU ) has entered on the same road of renunciation. The expected results have appeared quite opposite.
For example, in 1936 the Constitution of a new society was accepted. A thunder of an applause, delights of winners! And afterwards the reprisals…
1985 – Gorbachev’ perestroyka (T: - the term used in Russia to determine the first years of huge reforms initiated by CPSU General Secretary M. Gorbachev (1985-91) when did the first sprouts of democracy appeared). And loss the control over the system followed… The august, 1991… the crash –down of G-K-CH-P (T:- the term used in Russia to determine the Governmental Emergency Committee leaded by vice-president Yanaev that at August,19-22, 1991, which isolated the first President of the USSR M. Gorbachev and in fact made a coup), the troops were moving from Moscow, the victory. The triumpher Yeltsin was on the tank, people exulted... And afterwards disorder of economy, the monstrous robbery of people and its subsequent extinction followed.
The historical experience tells us that the greatest tragedies of people are occurred under a thunder of its own applause. Something should be done with it, wouldn’t it?
The world progresses in accordance with laws of a material life. Nobody could ignore that fact. As far as the world progresses, the human reflection progresses as well. The reflection becomes the most adequate after transformation into a science and after the science has turned into Marxism.
However the Marxists are the people as well and sometimes they are fools, blind men and villains. One shouldn’t judge about Marxism in whole by their existence.
Thus Marxism automatically does not guarantee anything and insures nothing. The people make the history with their own hands. So the history sometimes seems to them to be the creature of their consciousness. Alas! Such treatment to the history is flagitious.
The true Marxism is true because it doesn’t concoct anything and deduces the theory from contradictions of a material life in strict correspondence with cause-effect chain.
Marxism is the science. As the practical life is the criterion for any theoretical construction so no theory has been proved better than Marxism.
In 1936 when Stalin declared the victory of socialism as the society had become classless, the political method of administration and management should give a up the place to a science. In Marxist doctrine the political decisions always had been following the preliminary scientific analysis. So far as the politics was the regulating of interclass relations and the classes had disappeared than politics (I mean the interior politics) became useless. The society went over to a regulation and development of every relation rather from the position of the whole society than from any local group of interests. So it should be the subject of science. After the termination of the class period in the society progress the politics comes to end as well. The science leaves on the foreground. The superstructure turns from the mechanism of domination to a mean of management and coordination.
Due to this fact the unlimited progress of democracy starts. The democratization Khrushchev tried to speak about, the democratization Gorbachev incessantly chattered about, had been put on the agenda by a victory of socialism and the construction of a classless society. The communism and democracy rather add than contradict to each other. The democracy followed the communist dying off the state is not the politics already. It turns to be a fresh air, the atmosphere of free society existence held by nothing and had no fear for anything. This situation the bourgeois democracy, the democracy of free suppressing of anybody by everybody could hardly dream about.
As early as 1920 Lenin wrote: "The happiest epoch is coming when the sphere of politics will be constantly diminishing, every one will speak about the politics less often and not so long, and engineers and agriculturists will speak more and more (T: - about their professional problems). The best policy today is to have less politics. The engineers and agriculturists should be promoted, let everybody be taught by them ".
So long before 1936 the intention to replace partially the politicians by the scientists and professionals in the leadership of the nation had taken place. Wasn’t it the right way to positive creative democracy?
What instead? In Stalin years the speeches were already becoming longer and longer and the science was turned into the politics servant. Afterwards the politics lacking science has degenerated to the kingdom of intrigues supplied with political technologies for brain-washing. That was still not enough and “clever-to-be-crasy” Gaydar had come (T: - means E. Gaydar who was in 1991-92 the Russian prime-minister and the maim initiator of liberal reforms in Russia) saying: “Let come back to capitalism as far as the communism have not turned out”. Have not understood why the communism had not turned out he announced it to be the false doctrine.
Alas, it was Gaydar himself appeared as a false idea. Only nomenclature creature could have the cheek to slander the historical materialism of Marx, Engels, Lenin and to oppose himself to a historical choice of people. No capitalism follows these slandering but the new circuit of tragedy and even more painful than all Stalinist distortions. The more tight is the noose on people’s neck the more cruel will be the upshot.
Having unfrozen prices and having allowed gambling the Gaydar’ reforms had initiated the consumer aggression, the bacchanal of stealing and mercantilism.
The “tops” had used the reforms for to transit from latent accumulation of stores in chests to the right of an legal private property, as an ascension from a leadership to domination above the masses and transformation from the nomenclature in a class of bourgeoisie. They converted the status in real riches.
However if even the robbery was believed to be the blessing and the certain rules for robbing were thought up the robbery would not cease be the robbery. Any private property has not been created by own work is theft. It wouldn’t be qualified another way.
The nomenclature has simply established a thieves' power. The actual polarization in our society occurs in accordance with not a class attribute, not between bourgeoisie and proletariat which simply doesn’t exist, but between toilers and thieves - as extreme concrete historical expression of general differentiation of people on creators and consumers. No socialism, no capitalism is nowadays. There is a proceeding violation of history, more devilish, than in Stalin’ days.
The great Russian poet Pushkin said if only people could correctly name the things, they would get rid of the half of all their delusions. It’s a fact! As well as the peoples behavior follows the delusions many people’s tragedies could be avoided. However the lie is often favourable. Therefore the liberally-reformatory ideology is rather conscious swindle than just total and sudden growing stupid or insane.
The people, seeing its domination in mass media, are afraid of opposing to it not to look outsiders. But use it with a view of the personal benefit, despite of its obvious harmfulness for the majority of members of a society. Such persons thus betray the values developed during a life for the sake of own egoistical interests. This ideology does worse the people besides their own will, justifies their consumer ambitions, egoistic psychology, prehensile reflex. If communists exhausted human essence for years the liberals break it, spreading everywhere animal instincts. Let’s stop it!
If we wish to survive, the ;reforms; have to be inevitably finished. The society extremely needs to be improved from the point of view of its health. The liberal course is not simply incorrect, it’s false and lying. It was not a tactical way of liberal reforming had been appeared wrong but the very strategic paradigm and the purposes of liberalism were false. The basis, initial premise appeared incorrect.
The modern communists are could hardly be believed as they do not know and do not understand Marxism.(T: - the author means probably the members of most nowadays Russian communist parties). They perceive thieves for bourgeoisie exactly is it was thought up by nomenclature. Therefore some of modern Russian communists are impatient to remake the “stalinist” reprisals. The others dream about the second edition of socialist revolution.
They do not realize that any act of a historical drama combines both a certain general law and the uniqueness. The history does not stamp events but every event has its qualitative specifics. Being confused in definitions of events, communists, naturally, do not know what to do. If formerly capitalists were being harassed by a phantom of communism, nowadays the phantom of capitalism seems to be everywhere for communists. So they replace real and actual understanding of a situation with decayed dogmas. For example, the legal responsibility for larceny is substituted for the class responsibility that historically has exhausted itself long time ago.
The most of communist parties represent now the sect theoretically disarmed and is not capable due to the eclectic pragmatism of its leadership both for self-organization and leading the opposition. They have declared “the limit of revolutions” but said nothing about class disappearing. So heading the un-existing class they don’t see the real revolution and don’t accept it. Meanwhile the All-People Democratic revolution is growing, expanding and deepening, the revolution begun from the revolt in 1991 and was shooted by traitors in 1993. It is not a one-trick-pony and now its new concrete historical manifestation is approaching.
Having started as anti-bureaucratic it will gradually be focused as anti-criminal aimed against the very same elite that had oppressed and afterwards has plundered the people. The people will necessarily re-establish the control over its own property as in was in 1917 as the people is the only legal source of property for ages. The labour generates the property rather than reverse. The people could be deceived for a long time, but the enlightenment will inevitably come.
Then the organizational-regenerative (instead of transitive from capitalism to socialism) period will begin aimed not in the least at return to former barracks socialism but at an establishment and development of socialism upon its is natural-historical foundations. First of all not expropriation (that would be correct in relation to capitalists) will be carried out but the return of the property to primordial owners (that it is correct in relation to thieves). So this measure will use not reprisals but holding the valid originators of a robbery and the robbers themselves to answer a criminal charge. Certainly, these measures will be based not on ideological motives but on exact determination the fact and a measure of fault and liability in strict conformity with legal proceedings.
This way of clarification would be optimal and painless one while based on workers consolidation in wide democratic opposition. But the become impudent predators could hardly let the prey be snatched from their teeth. They keep and will strengthen the control over all spheres of social life: the administration and managerial system, armed forces, police and secret police, mass media. They will produce the new and new myths about common well-fare and fastening growth. So one could hardly believe that the consolidation and the enlightenment are possible. That’s why the opposition has to have even if one telechannel.
The victory comes when the flow of indignation from below will meet the stream of a repentance from above, when inside the system of power some persons with the sense of real justice in their hearts would be found , when the ruling circles will differentiate on those who has the honor and the conscience and those who has not.
Somebody could hardly expect something important from “patriots” as well. Though they try to play a role of people;s benefactors with great enthusiasm there are as many potential “bastardlets” among them nowadays as inside ruling circles. They easily transform themselves from pseudo-communists to false democrats, from atheists turn into devout believers. They perfectly know, what a titbit is the power. And so they start fighting for it on the distant approaches. That’s why the struggle among the “patriots” is even more cruel than between the “patriots” and others.
Still the main problem is not the civil strife that has always been enough. The problem seems to be the same as communists one: opposing the liberals the patriots has no idea what should be done after the capture of the power. Their so-called positive program consist mostly of kind wishes and promises. So it is more declarative rather than scientific. The patriots aspire to reach the purposes, using the rise of national consciousness. It seems to look better than pro-Western liberal orientation, but…
Still the workers are none the better for it. What is the difference who will skin themselves alive, the patriarchal plunderer or pro-western one? The socialist revolution in Russia had occurred due rather to the Russian capitalist cruelty, the most in Euro-Asia, than to Lenin genius. And till now there has been no any sign something has changed in national character. Instead of it masking has became much more skilful.
The “patriotism” of that kind exploits the Russians emotions, but doesn’t mobilized them. In reality it’s nothing more than infinite talking-shop about morals and ideals, full ignoring of laws of the history, wishing the country to be returned to the Past and not seeing its Future. Stop it! It’s high time to understand that you (T: - the author here addresses the politicians of patriotic orientation) are the puppets in buffoonery.
Still the victory over the thieves and the corruptioners, the liers and the traitors, the honest persons coming to power wouldn’t resolve the problem. The persons could be leaned on, the persons whom everything depends on, should to be found in a society surrounding us.
There are such people! Certainly, they are not new "proprietors” who swing "the common successes " in “private pocket”, not oligarchs and not the thieves who take away or steal by rules or without ones. They are innovators and inventors in all spheres and strata of a society. They improve instruments, materials, technics, improve the organization and the control over production, raise its efficiency.
Such persons appeared long time ago since the moment of the invention of a stone axe, a spear, a wheel, an onion with arrows that is since the moment when the creative talents capable to overcome the automatism of an animal reflex appeared.
They invented and then, as a rule, remained in the shadow. The mankind further duplicated their innovations, increased industrial potential and …forgot them. Still it was them who had helped the society on the historical progress road, at times adding acceleration by their innovations
The socialism even in that variant that took place in the USSR, generated them as mass phenomena. The public ownership on means of production stimulated that process greatly. The slaves having the power seized, destroyed means of production, the innovators started to improve them. The history vector changed its polarity.
The revolution is not the aim itself, it’s the acquaintance with the facts of new historical task. Accordingly it generates also the historical power, capable to resolve it.
The innovators thus become the historical successor of proletariat on a way of an ascension of a society to the rape communism. The proletariat builds up the communism, the innovators lifted proletariat to a kingdom of Communism.
Up to the moment of ”perestroyka” (T: - the term used in Russia to determine the first years of huge reforms initiated by CPSU General Secrutury M.Gorbatcshev (1985-91) when the first sprouts of democracy did appear) there were about 14 millions innovators in the Soviet Union. It was the first political force in history that aimed more at common rather than at somebody’s private benefit. It improves the means of production instead of struggling for the ownership repartition. All their thoughts are about the growing of common well-fare. Therefore the innovators are actually the true communist force.
The average toiler until he is traditional manual worker can’t and does not create the higher labour productivity. Suppose he having strained all forces could double the output. During such increasing the toiler wastes himself and the instruments twice more as well. Such kind of labor does not economize, but, quite the reverse, increases total costs per unit of goods produced; does not reduce, but increases production costs. It is inevitable when the society experience critical situation, but it cannot be considered a correct model for society evolution.
Super-intensive work is inevitable while getting out of critical conditions (war, cataclysms), but cannot be a norm in stable and growing society.
In reality, labor productivity cannot be raised while the method of production remains unchanged. And a traditional toiler, staying within the framework of the obsolete division of labor and implementing his abilities only mechanically, does not influence the method of production.
The situation changes when the toiler begins improving the means and instruments instead of just using them. The new type of toiler who uses in his work the highest creative abilities has thus been generated by History. That’s of highest significance!
However the paradox lies in fact that the leaders of the nation not only have totally ignored the new force but bureaucratically treated it. They wasted their time for the class and interpersonal struggle, for hierarchical distribution, for reprisals and control over the consciousness, for supervision over the art and society morals, for “century projects” and space exploration, for arms race and the confrontation to the imperialism. In other words they were occupied with anything rather than with the productive forces development both the material and human ones.
They constantly and dully cited that ”labour productivity is the main reason for the new social system victory.”(V.Lenin, Ibid,V.39, p.21 ). Time after time they rose the output quotas and lowered the wage-rates driving the toilers to the boundless deterioration. At the same time those persons who could actually raise labour productivity in times were doomed to suffering in bureaucratic web.
Justifiably the norms rating pushed innovators latently to more activity, inducing people to search for additional extra earnings as well as for removal of super-intensity in work. However the nation leadership didn’t take it seriously and hasn’t change its landmarks. An average toiler often conflicts to innovators as the wage-rates lowering and output quotas rising followed the innovations inevitably and very often were quite inadequate.
The nowadays rulers, calling for doubling gross national product, do not take lessons from the past as well. They lend an attentive ear only to the speeches of new unintelligible adviser – from the same pack anyhow – who dully opposed a plan to a market instead of consider both of them correctly. The are conscious of looking well rather than doing something, so they make nothing but the heaps of words while the innovators are vegetating at ruins of the industry.
At the best the ruling circles tries to cajole the toiler with the increases of wages, salaries and pensions - which is immediately swallowed by inflation. Though the power call for the innovative break-through technologies actually the nomenclature of today keeps afloat only due to oil, gaz and wood. Still if natural riches decrease after having been used, the potential of human talent only increases after using. It is Alpha and Omega; beginning and end of the infinity of progress, instead of trite playing with elements of the market with its private-ownership instincts.
The question “What to do?” has the answer: the reorientation in foundations and in source of development. It’s not the manual labour or deposits of bowels or hypocritical “unity” of the toiler and the exploiter under the ponderous national idea banner which could ensure the break-through to the Future but the creative abilities of human beings. That’s why not enough to cancel the “reforms”, to give back the property and the riches to people, to punish the thieves and the gamblers. It is the necessary but not enough condition for the further nation development.
The society would turn to innovators for to leave the kingdom of criminal activity for creative and positive world of inventors.
For this purpose the status of innovation should be enhanced, innovation has to be recognized not a private affair but the common one and so to be paid as for labour.
The bonus system of remunerating of inventors is in action till the present moment that is one-time payment for the rationalization proposal or invention being used. A one-time remuneration (bonus or royalty with possible additional payments) gives an impression that all the work contained in the idea is remunerated. But it is a false impression. The subject of exchange in the case is considered to be rather an idea than the whole process of labour, including the immeasurable groundwork searching process.
As for as idea brings in not a one-time revenue but regular - sometimes for tens and hundreds years - so the author should be paid not one-time bonus or royalty but the constant remuneration in proportion to the income invention could bring and through all the time the one is profitable.
The problem is not only the justice but the creativity status enhancing to a new level. Another problem transforming the innovating process in persistent one.
Inside the bonus system paradigm the author spends the bonus in short time even if his idea has quickly adopted and the author has been well paid in time. Usually the author lags all the preliminary expenses, including the searching process on his own shoulders. And afterwards he has to pay off the debts accumulated while inventing. So the bonus money could hardly promote the next case of invention. The creativity process turns out broken off and not provided for the future tasks. The success come through the throes of creation doesn’t result in facilitation of creativity in future. The activity of great social importance turns in fact into a private affair of a person. It is the flashy example of wasteful treatment of the nation main treasure, isn’t it?
The problem could anyway be resolved by putting a constant additional payment (above-mentioned) into effect. That could be a real support to the innovator that stimulates the personal interest in creative labour and in searching the more fundamental new economic and moral ideas.
Someone certainly, would object - whether it worth to support a homebrew creativity of inventors rather than to subsidize a science.
First, nobody says about the extra support of the creators. They will practically proceed subsidizing of themselves taking funds and money from previous innovation’ outcome and investing to the next one. As it was before they won’t be sponsored a ruble by the state. The innovators will get rather from their own deposit than from common stock. The deposit in its turn will depend on the
previous innovations outcomes.
Second, the creation shouldn’t be mixed with a science. A creation and a science are quite close but not identical phenomena. How often the double-dyed fuddy-duddies can be found inside and around the science. What a number of examples there were in the history of science when the advanced scientists had turned into the obscurantists. So it’s the very creation that should be supported.
Third, “homebrew creativity and creation” is only first step over the long road.
Nevertheless the science should be appreciated as well but unlike it was before. Still the caste feudal undemocratic system, the hierarchy depending on the academic status and the official posts got in far years should be transformed.
It is awful, when somebody due to occupied official position, has an opportunity to declare competing idea the lie and to reject it aside without proofs.
Still this wildness is a routine practice today.
So if the scientist could be paid for scientific ( or “scientific”) work done years ago why the innovator shouldn’t be paid the same way for a real contribution to a common production?
The science gives a great saving of forces to mankind. However to become a Globe Manager to replace the politics the science needs itself a scientific organization. Nowadays a great number of consumers, self-satisfied know-alls and facade figures are overcrowded the Science Temple and the only way to save it is to support the innovation and creativity.
Certainly the suggested new scheme of financing should involve the scientists. The science needs the material stimuli as well but only the genuine creation should be stimulated.
However it’s not enough to provide the innovators’ well-fare.
After the innovations regular remunerations (T:- see above), let’s name those IRR, could provide the adequate living standards the innovator should be released from his regular obligation in the factory and get the right to plan the working-time independently.
It’s really the turning-point in history! The freedom for the sake of new labour without any bureaucratic compulsion and regulation. The new freedom makes the creative activity so attractive and effective, as, for example, the labour of artists and writers. The end to an unproductive mechanical compulsory wasting of human potential. The creative activity is now considered as additional way of earning will turn into the main concern, main affair of a person. And the very labour and the life itself will coincide as it was at the dawn of civilization. All the time and all the space will be transformed into the labour time and space as the creative activity does not know any barriers and no one knows where and when could be said and heard ;Eureca!; The brilliant ideas are in the habit of coming in the unusual places: in the bath-room, in the garden or even while sleeping, aren’t they?
Whether in addition we’ll create advisory items and skilled workshops in institutes and laboratories, we shall turn the science and creativity from a present situation of contradiction to the interaction, cooperation and teamwork. A great number of people will be directed towards knowledge and will find out the creative abilities in themselves, delivering the real pleasure. The nation will start to liberate itself from the wave of the money-making that has overflowed it today and will start to grow wiser. To be cleared and to grow wiser, that’s the way the things are to go. It’s do important!
The nation having suffered much from the pseudo-communist power for a long time have jumped at the bait of liberal false-democratic reforms. Instead of correcting the incorrectly begun construction, the nation started erecting of the new Babel tower, instead of pursuing the common interest it was absorbed in the struggle of everybody to everyone. So the usual brain-washing, the simple explaining and the demonstration the casual-effect chains is not enough. The people would be motivated to understand that the well-being could be easily got without confronting the society.
Moreover it will be the innovators who put the end of bureaucratic domination. The person released from an obligatory labour duty will expand the relations to be united in the decision of problems with other creative persons, passing the control of officials. The doors of all the institutes, laboratories and enterprises should swing open having met the mandate of the innovator. That’s the way the public property will displayed itself and the universal intercourse started rapidly developing.
So the innovators are the real antipode of bureaucracy
The bureaucracy by the way is not so awful phenomenon as the democrats tried to represent. The bureaucrats act in tough limits of instructions, decrees and orders as their well-fare depends just on that foundation. There are a lot of clever and honest persons among them, there are some creative as well.
After getting the additional IRR for innovative activity (the administrative sphere is a real Eldorado for innovations) the official can leave long-occupied places for "free navigation" not looking for the illegal ways of income reception. Due to previous the administrative system will start to draw the people who are really concerned with the state interests, instead of those who aspires to administration and management only for the sake of own career and a prosperity. The administrative system will start clearing itself. So let the people earn their living honestly and they will stop thieving.
It is easy to understand, that after introduction of the given system of remuneration for creative activity, the IRR- system, the nation will go forward on a way not only economic, but also social progress. The more and more wide strata of the population will be involved in positive creativity. The alive creativity will certainly address to an experience of previous generations. Hence the creative labour is rather the common activity of generations than the unique activity of contemporaries. That’s the way of genuine unification of generations and the more exact definition of national idea essence. As the idea could not be made up, it should be resulted by the new social force activity.
However Russia differs from the other countries in this point. Europe, USA, advanced Asia stake on scientific and technical creativity of a few, on a narrow strata of highly-educated individuals transformed in “mental proletariat;. The creativity for hire in good conditions results in fine samples of high technologies though it aimed at the private owner victory in rivalry. Someone could hardly dispute it. So we seem just to adopt. To adopt again and again? If to consider the problem only in terms of nowadays situation - Russia has no another way.
Still while the world system of innovation is overflown by scientific and technological secrets on the other side of a problem the millions of talented persons could not find an application for themselves. The Western system of creativity motivation leaves out of use the vast layer of opportunities. As for Russia we need the liberated labour of free universal toiler with traditionally wide mental outlook corresponding to national Russian character. The innovators are very much close to this behavior model.
Certainly the problem of professionalism still remains. However when the person has all 24 hours and the whole world around him, he seems to become a real professional very quickly. The creator thinking will be original, independent of degrees and ranks, so turned to true, instead of achievement of high position in a society. So the professionalism of new type will be of higher level one. The creators from different spheres will comprehend each other easily instead of going into their shell.
When the main precondition does exist - the active creative ability and society attention to it - all other problems could l be solved quickly enough and in optimal way.
Let the innovators get the constant additional remuneration from the effect of innovation, pay them their IRR and it will make Russia the leader of world progress. Whatever this leadership will be named: the communism, moral civilization, new Athlantis or something else – the essence lays in fact of further improvement of human life.
WHERE TO GO?
The question seems to be rather about the times ( Past? Future?) than about direction in space.
Gaydar’ proposal was the way to the Past, to pre-socialist epoch. That’s nonsense. Happiness could be found only in Future. The problems impeded the construction of communism are real. Still one shouldn’t consider those problems as the reason for abandoning the Future. The Marxism might be liked or disliked by a person, still it’s not a reason as well for making null and void the history.
Yes, we are not able to cancel the main contradiction of human nature and the needs’ priority for the majority of people. What’s of that? The split in a society on consumers and creators, on oppressors and oppressed is eternal, isn’t it? –Yes, it will be, if the creation development continues to be ignored.
The consumers turned into egoists and oppressors had already pronounced . They may be condemned for avidity and the insatiability turning into poverty and slavery for other people. Still it was the consumers who had learned to accumulate the surplus of common product (first-as the stocks, afterwards – for enrichment) and then invest to buildings of high architecture. The had created the culture and the art of spending leisure time (the theatres, concerts, cinema, dancing, apparels). They had stimulated the philosophy, science, literature, music. All of that were the transformations of alienated labour in the hands of exploiters. The exploitation has in paradoxical way speeded up the social progress. Whether no concentration of riches in hands of some persons had took place in history? The mankind road to culture and skeins would be much longer.
Still it was not enough for the consumers – they wanted more and more. So they had constructed the system of the labour appropriation. The wars that were waged rather because of females, than because of territory afterwards turned into wars aimed at slave seizure. Due to property stratification fellow tribesmen started to join the slaves as well. Everything used earlier in hunting or taming of animals (the weapon, a cell, a hole) had started to be used against people. The state emergence thus turned them into the tools of management. The exploitation dressed in clothes of the law, became the mighty tool of historical progress. The mythologies in former times connected the person with an environment, have given a up the place of world religion.” The christianity had won because Spartacus has suffered defeat” (K.Marx). The ecumenical lie as the tool of spiritual enthrallment in addition to physical suppression has arrived to assist the ruthless force of the state. The secrete services were created with the same purpose. Still the consumers are not appeased until now. The arsenal of the means of power holding and duping the masses has grown repeatedly due to mass media, radio and to TV. Nowadays the new religion is coming into existence – the World Web where the consumption of the information occurs to greater speed and smaller judgment. Technical progress has far outstripped social and moral one.
Still the things cannot proceed the same way any more. The exploiters having learned much, have not considered that mutual relations of people proceed within the limits of mutual contacts with the nature. And the nature cannot bear any more. Unlimited consumption brings to a side of disappearance the whole planet together with mankind. The Earth can turn into a space burial ground.
At the same time the human beings together with instruments of work has already turned into unique impellent system which efficiency repeatedly surpasses 100 percent. In Russia as long as Soviets times output and earnings of a person corresponded as 4000 to 200 rubles, that is the person got (was paid to) 20 times less than produced. In the case of innovative person the efficiency increased in a geometrical progression. The project made up by the innovator during 2-3 months or years could bring multimillion revenue for decades. So the lack of a product in a society, as a rule, is not the consequence of insufficient manufacture any more but the consequence of other reasons that should be controlled.
When there is not enough bread, milk, meat, clothes, fuel, dwellings, struggle for all those things becomes aggravated. The animal instincts come to life and so the necessity to adjust this struggle arises. That leads to state springing up. Still
the people are the same inside the state structures as anywhere. They are the great fighters for their own fell-being as well. Having occupied the official posts they get the additional opportunities for achievement of their purposes. That’s why the state turns into the self-contained value and at the same time the main obstacle for the further progress. The tragedy comes rather from the person’ private interest generating the bureaucracy than from bureaucracy itself. Possessing an opportunity to receive additional incomes, the official is interested in its preservation. There do are the classes and classes but still there is the monster as well - a state as Gobbs wrote “Leviathan devouring the children”. The Soviet history short as it was still has proved it.
In accordance with the Marxist doctrine after the socialism victory the state should start to die off giving up a place to self-management. The Soviets (T: - the local and central structures of administrative power were called so in the USSR, close to local authorities in Western countries but have some specific in electoral procedure) born in the flames of first Russian revolution did for sprouts of self-management in the best way possible. The brilliant prospect of genuine and general democracy had been opened. However our Supreme Ruler (T: - meant Stalin) had not allowed things to go that way. He had preserved the dictatorship of proletariat in its worst variant, then has transformed it into his own dictatorship that in turn had been replaced by the dictatorship of party bureaucracy and thus simply had “trombosed” the road of the historical progress. Since then the corridors of power have turned in Augean stables and historical process - to political profanation. Neither Gorbachev nor Khrushchev could do anything, and Gaydar and Eltsyn have done even a more mess.
Putin, the present-day President ( T: - the text was written in times of Putin’ presidency; march, 2000 –march, 2008) of Russia is tied by obligations to protect the predecessor (T: - Eltsyn, the first Russian President, 1991-2000) from the prosecution. He tries to be good with everybody: with the tops and the bottoms, the rich and the poor, with the parasites and the toilers, the heroes and the criminals. He tries to make power structures more "civilized", adjusts it to the world standards. He is clever and cautious like the scout in the enemy; rear. Still the country has been ruined and he has nowhere to go. He knows every enemy; secret but he could give it up to nobody and couldn’t use it himself. The situation is tragic. Putin; main task now not to betray the Motherland and not to harm the Future. Alas he is not Marx or Lenin. He is not ready to play the Stalin part as well. However the situation is not hopeless as the President possesses the right of the legislative initiative.
There is a good innovative idea about Public Chamber (T: - the advisory body under the Russian President) that should be completed the scientists rather than political chatterers. The members of Chamber should be the genuine conceptualists and work free of charge. The latter would be the best protection for The Chamber so as could prevent the destructive influence of consumer interest that had learned to make a sinecure from everything.
As for the parties as the potential contributors to the Chamber recruiting, to my opinion, there are no parties in Russia. Certainly the people have got used to divide all and everything into classes. That is a good foundation to set up the numerous organizations and to name them ‘parties’.
However the classes have ended the existence so there is no need any more for parties which theoretically had to express the class interests. The parties has nothing to express one should say.
That’s why all postsoviet Russian parties are the simple segments, are just the “factions” of the former CPSU. In Soviet times those factions functioned latently and now they has displayed themselves.
Let’s consider the SPS of Gaydar ( T: - the small liberal Russian party ) or CPRF of Zyuganov (T: - the Communist Party of Russian Federation headed by G.Zuyganov). No one has the genuine theoretical doctrine, no one has the fulcrum in the society. All “parties” has the same social base, the deceived people, so couldn’t express anybody’s interests except their own. They are nobody’s and such situation should be called “no-party” or “party absence’.
Hence the post-soviet parties are set up to serve their own members interests exclusively. These are ordinary debatable clubs or the associations of functionaries. They are necessary to present-day political elite to play various politics tricks.
Today only two real parties exist: the party of thieves (including both the SPS and the most part of “the party of power”) and the party of toilers. The latter one is now in the incubatory period and hasn’t liberated itself from CPRF influence which only mixed everything. The Public Chamber if arms with new conceptions could improve the situation. The substitution of one person to another in terms of the same control system proceeds functioning will result nothing. It is the system of ruling that should be transformed. The nation has no time to let the parties and politicians the freedom of exercising inside the power and displaying their banal egoistic essence. The time loss is an admissible luxury today – the people could simply die out or take up arms.
It’s high time to pass from a politics in the system of administration to a science and exact calculation. Unlike the politicians dreaming of glory and greatness the national administrative system needs for scientists able to expect the nearest and remote consequences of accepted decisions. Every time the new social force entered the scene every time the society transformed the ruling system. So the innovators as well as its historical predecessors needs the absolutely new administrative and management system. It should be true non-political and do be scientific. The Public Chamber mission thus includes clearing an inhabitancy for innovators.
That clearing could become salutary and above all bloodless. Those who became the owners of the enterprises and have not ruined or have not sold them could keep their first positions depends on the consent of workers. Still as for those who simply appropriated, dispersed the collectives and dismissed the workers, ruined the enterprises and produced nothing they are be brought before court.
So as all those mentioned actions in 99 percent of cases were spent with infringement of the legislation which simply had not time to change.
First of all that variant will prevent destruction of innocent if the peoples anger will whenever burst. Second it will be humane in relation to originators themselves for punishment will be more balanced. Even better of the problem solving is to let all of them out of the country. Let the imperialist conspirators supporting our “reforms” taste and feel their “innocent” activity in the countries. It wouldn’t required to shoot the people with a view to pacify.
The power would better punish the guilty itself rather than wait for fires of lynching .Nobody could deceive the History even nobody was Stalin himself. So Gaydar could not as well.
The society has not learned yet to find the rulers. It «produces» them «from» the inner-party and inter party’ struggle. The interparty struggle, as a rule, forces the party leader to protect interests any group, force or a class. That is why Stalin falsification of Marxism preserving the existence of classes for ever is favourable to all parties. As a whole the parties today are the instruments of totalitarianism sometimes cruel and frightening, and sometimes comical. Every reproach of "reformers" had addressed the CPSU, they should turn to own parties now. They are absolutely not necessary in a classless society. The time of parties has passed, the time of new approaches is coming.
The Public Chamber will set to legislation for people not for political parties. It will offer the decisions by means of mass media press simultaneously to the President and to people. Hence secret working out of the decisions and secret decision-making should be stopped for ever. The Public Chamber should started from the law about the restitution of public ownership to the working people. And this epoch measure should obviously be approved by referendum forestalled the State Duma (T: - Russian Parliament) dissolution. Having got rid of that legislative body which has done nothing useful but quite adopted to a new ideology, the people naturally, will return to the system of Soviets (T: - see above) after having defined the new status for the present-day president.
All of that let to accelerate the expanded introduction of creative ideas and inventions that will naturally allow both the state to get more significant incomes and the authors to receive more essential remuneration. The main thing is that innovators will be work for all the people and their future instead of trying to satisfy the insatiable egoism of separate subjects.
The innovator who has released himself from the burden of daily obligatory employment, will raise labour productivity and a level of automation in tens, hundreds and thousand times therefore a problem of a superfluous labour will arise soon. The capitalist gets rid of an excessive labour by using dismissals and increases thus general unemployment. We will choose another way.
The number of workers at the enterprises will not change, and even will possibly increase, but the number of shifts will grow. So the duration of the working day will decrease and will make not 8 hours in a shift and 3 shifts in a day, but 3 or 4 hours in a shift and 6 or 8 shift in a day. After wards the working week could be decrease as well to 3 or 4 working days.
So the new working conditions for the innovators thus forestall the increasing of leisure time for all toilers. Those changes won’t result in wage cut and the consumer prices will even decrease. As Marx said: “The wealth of future society will be determined be the size of leisure time”. It turn this let people look for new profession, improve knowledge, try themselves in creativity.
Hence the innovators will turn the conditions of own progress into the conditions of common progress as it was at the dawn of civilization. When our far ancestor after having connected a stone and a stick has invented a stone axe, he has got a more powerful and a dual-purpose instrument than teeth and claws. His hunting became much more effective. As the result he got more food and warmth and became more independent of nature, his spare time, the time for love, leisure and creation increased.
Thus, moving forward we get back, in a starting point of human history, but on higher coil of a spiral ( T: - in Marxist dialectics doctrine moving on spiral coil is habitual symbol of progress) when creative ability of some persons changes into the common specific attribute of the human beings. Hence the new era is coming. The innovation will give the new stimulus to historical progress, unprecedented as for its capacity and speed.
Nowadays a lot of people has the creative ability more or less developed. Still the majority is far from using it in daily work. To obtain, for instance, the “Putin goal” and to double the gross national product (T: - the second Russian President V. Putin declared the GNP doubling in 8 years to be the main national goal in 2002) just carrying out the administrative reform is not sufficient. To “double”, “treble”, “decuple” something useful one needs to raise labour productivity. In turn to raise the labour productivity the machine-tools, the equipment, the technologies should be improved. And that could be done only by people of creation, by innovators motivated by material stimulation.
With such conditions and a material interest, the person surely will develop a creative part of the person to a greater degree.
The split of a society into the slaves and the masters will gradually stop. The new civilization of new order following the new ethics and aesthetics will start to be built. Every human creature appeared the great value not only for the parents but for the whole mankind as well.
The people become higher and more beautiful, as physical work in its today's kind will be transferred to machines and replaced by physical culture and sports. The human creatures become more harmonious both physically and spiritually.
The interpersonal concurrency will not disappear completely. But it will have its object rather social recognition and admiration than the best food, clothes, hosing or ranks, degrees and posts.
Though the population will increase the innovation process – a real permanent revolution of today - could forestall and remove the threats.
Facing the problem of overpopulation for instance the innovative planet will inevitably accelerate the space exploration. If only the religion not to interfere.
The god is nothing more but the creative essence of the person, appropriated and opposed to himself by other people who are the specific interest of doing that. When the person believe himself he or she will get rid of religious faith and get free. The science plays first fiddle on that concert.
It was the science in far times which to stop the religious wars and crusades after the centuries of hard struggle against the prejudices and ignorance.
The refusal of atheistic work or its diminishing today appeared one of the main reasons led to increase of religious extremism. With being afraid of political extremism the titans and leading figures in science do not propagandize the atheism any more and are hidden behind a shameful neutrality. They seem to have forgotten Socrates and Giordano Bruno. Still the question is the mankind destiny.
Could anybody let the truth to stay in hands of fanatics or persons without any talent?
The intelligency (T:- the Russian term using to determine the strata of intellectuals and some of professional men such as teachers, doctors, writers, artists and actors and so on ) has forgotten about the duty and a mission it wants nothing but money, a lot of money.
Still the only way to Future is service not in the least to the power or gold but to the people. This is the only means of escape for Russia and the whole mankind.
So we do can answer the question – where to go? Let’s follow the new social power!
Mark Boykov E-mail: markboykov@mail.ru
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