MORERN MARXISM
Part 3. POLITICS
BORIS IKHLOV
Perm 2025
ÁÁÊ 63.3(2)
ÓÄÊ 94 (47).08
È-95
Boris Ikhlov - political activist, Marxist, secretary of the executive committee of the Russian political union “Worker”, member of the committee of the Perm workers 'trade union “Defence, employment, legality”. Theoretical physicist, field of research – gravity, cosmology, biophysics.
He was subjected to reprisals both by the KGB before 1991 and by the FMB (former KGB) after 1991.
Antistalinist (not Trotskyis), his gr oup from 1983 to 1987 group was underground, fought against elite of CPSU for Soviet power; several activists of group were killed, several dismissed without possibility to work.
The book is several politics articles in different years.
B. L. Ikhlov. Modern Marxism. 114 p.
Format A4.
Edition of 300 copies.
ISBN 978-56046162-6-0
Content
Usual Russia…………………………………………………………………………..4
New cold war…………………………………………………………………………12
Demography disaster in Russia………………………………………………………16
World gendarme………………………………………………………………………21
The crises of protection movement…………………………………………………...26
Holocaust-2……………………………………………………………………………31
Trotskyitsts supports fascists………………………………………………………….40
LGBT………………………………………………………………………………….43
Elections in Russia…………………………………………………………………….46
Where are USA going…………………………………………………………………50
Fascism is a law………………………………………………………………………..56
Market socialism……………………………………………………………………….57
Materialism and military system……………………………………………………….60
Ecology and war……………………………………………………………………….67
Trotskyism today………………………………………………………………………68
Lenin and the Trotskyists……………………………………………………………..72
Majority of Russia population likes Stalin…………………………………………….74
Putin is dirty murderer………………………………………………………………...76
Marxism today………………………………………………………………………...80
Marxism today-2……………………………………………………………………….93
Black racism in USA…………………………………………………………………..107
Trotskyists in the service of fascism…………………………………………………..109
About “revolution” in Syria……………………………………………………………112
Empire of lie - 2.................................114
USUAL RUSSIA
Moscow is the capital of bureaucracy.
Lenin
The impression of the world society from Russia is usually limited by the impression from Moscow. But it is not quite correct. Moscow is not Russia. Russia hates Moscow, from Soviet times.
It is well known that output of Perm city meat factories was sending to Moscow, so Perm citizens didn’t see sausage. Full of people trains traveled to Moscow from Vladimir city, Ryazan city, Kaluga city, Yaroslavl city, Tver city etc. for goods. People joked: “What is this? Guess: it is long, green and with the smell of sausage.” Answer: it is a train “Moscow – Vladimir city””. Meet, cheese, clothes, shoes, perfumery, electric and radio equipment – all belonged and now belongs legally to Moscow.
In 1981 in Zelenograd town, town of high technologies near Moscow, at the computer plant named “Angstrom” one scientist that was occupied by mathematical provision of computers talked with his colleagues about comparison of levels of computers in Russia and USA. “They are equal”, - he said. Everybody had been surprised: “But why we haven’t computers of such level in Perm, for example?” – “How to say… Is there enough sausage in Perm?”
As for salary, for instance, a yardman (cleaner) or watchman in Perm had 70 rubles and 190 hours of work in a month, but they had 90 rubles and 170 ours of work in Moscow. The same picture was in plants, investigate institutes, etc. In perestroyka period builders had got the salary 1,5 mil. rubles after a strike. They had only 1 mil. rubles before. At the same time average salary of Perm builders was 0,5 mil. rubles (look newspaper “Workers democracy”). One turbine, produced in Sverdlovsk city, cost in two times cheaper, than the same one, produced in the capital.
In 1986 y. there was a “discussion” in Soviet mass media about small salaries in province. One fat cook in Moscow state university said: “THEY must work better THERE”. She meant all Russia, except Moscow. But she wasn’t quite correct. When Eltsyn became the 1st secretary of Moscow city committee of CPSU, he published several data. It bordered, that productivity of labour in Russia in average is higher, than in Moscow. Later, when his position wasn’t so strong and he was under the pressure of committee apparatus, he published other data, provision of Moscow in comparison with rich cities in USSR, and suggested Soviet republic capitals to help Moscow in building sphere. But foreign right liberal magazine “Continent” (in Russian semilegal that time) calmly published both tables of data and marked, that privileged position of a capital is a method to keep power.
1. Upsurge of Russian economy?
Due to perestroyka Moscow made it’s privileges legal. Now average salary in Moscow is larger than average salary in Russia in 5 – 7 times, and the leader of Russian party “Union of right forces” (SPS) Nemtsov informed about it the population of Russia with pleasure. As for prices, they are almost similar in Moscow and such Ural cities as Chelyabinsk, Perm, Sverdlovsk. Of course, the price of one square meter of a flat is tremendous in Moscow. But one may construct such integral parameter as a price of one flat square meter divided by average salary. In this case Moscow has the minimal parameter in Russia.
Recently one Moscow teacher in one television program said: “WE began to live better.” And what about US?
President of Russian Federation (RF) Vladimir Putin declared, that the upsurge of GDP (gross internal, domestic output, product) was 4,9% in 2001. But it is not quite correct. Thus the upsurge in industry sphere was officially 2% only [1]. But what may the upsurge of industry be in Vladivistok city, if the whole region is without electricity due to Chubais desire to have profit? (And due to Vladivostok administration to keep money, on the other hand.) What may upsurge be in Byeloretsk city (South Ural), if owners of the main city enterprise, the metallurgical combine (BMC) are going to close plant shops? There are no changes in Perm machine building plant “Velta”, in Sverdlovsk plant “Uraltransmach”, in Chelyabinsk tractor plant. Administration of Perm medicine bacteriological complex is going to sack hundreds of workers, but the official statistic tells the story about 13% of upsurge of microbiological industry [1].
Of course, the Primakov’ government returned 80 bill. rubles of debt to budget sphere workers (teachers, professors, doctors, nurses, state plant workers, etc.) and the debt for pensioners. The government stopped the flow of finances abroad so got the possibility to gather taxes. It is possible for workers to return year debts (owners kept salary in a year, even more) by legal process up to now. A year ago commercial director of one of Perm military machine building plant Mezentsev prevented, that if workers wanted to run to district court, they might be dismissed. But one worker, a member of Russian political union “Worker” (OPORa) wrote with his friends the declaration to the court with the demand to return kept salary and got money without any repressions.
In summer 2001 there was the recruiting of workers in many machine building enterprises in Ural and Volga regions, the first recruiting after huge mass dismissal. Now high skilled workers at such type plants in Kirov city has about 10 thousands rubles, at Nijny Tagil city metallurgical industrial complex (Middle Ural) – 8-10 th. rubles in a month. High skilled turner or milling-machine operator at Perm plant “Motovilikhinskie zavodi” (former plant named Lenin) get 7-8 th. r./m. Year ago coloured metal workers at this plant had about 3 th.r./m., now they have 5-6 th.r./m. (1 dollar = 31 ruble).
But prices are growing more quickly. The living wage in Perm freely crossed the threshold of 3 th.r./m. On the other hand the prices of electricity, telephone service, gas, cold and hot water, for city transport and trains, at last, month paying for flats jumped up several times from autumn 2001 till the end of January of 2002. Administration of Perm city is going to increase the price of city transport in 1,7 times if April-May. It is so called the reform of city economy.
After mass dismissal workers were finding ways to get money. Many high skilled workers had a loader job at small district markets. Now they have 100-150 rubles in a day and don’t want to come back to a plant. The absence of specialists in military plants is a great problem. For example, Perm telephone plant “Telta” gets money for TWO high skilled workers to make an auger for Perm plant of mountain-mine equipment (“GSHM”) because there are no such type of specialists in “GCHM”. It is very expensive work, one auger costs 17 thousands rubles, and two workers may produce two augers in a shift. But those two workers went away from “Telta” because absence of money during several moths… Military production on “Telta” is closed and the plant director Morozov is going to close several plant shops, instrumental shop, etc. Workers in these shops are finding work BECIDES administration of the plant. “Telta” produces telephones for streets, but bastard Rubakin, the head of Perm telephone network company “Uralsvyazinform” reported, that he was going to buy the same type of telephones in USA… What money? He has oil money.
In December workers of largest aircraft complex “Aviastar” in Ulyanovsk city didn’t go to work. The electricity provision was decreased in 3 times, from 18 Mwt to 6 Mwt.
As for Perm river fleet (passenger and mercantile marine) there is such a game: the organizer of fleet work is that man, who has the majority of shares. Of course, earlier the head of Perm fleet was awful bureaucrat, member of CPSU, corrupted, etc. But now the head of the fleet is Antonov, who had never ever seen a ship, and his assistant director is former assistant of main doctor of Perm hospital N9… He is much more corrupted that previous head of the fleet. The majority of ships have been sank in back-waters and are rusting. Many freighters are not needed because wood industry is stopped, Kizel coal complex in Perm region died. So several colour metal plants are closed. So Perm plant, that produces ships, is died almost (it lives only for foreign companies, for example, Netherlands companies, that ordered 3 ships), and Perm ship repairing plant is into the same process. Tomorrow sanitary services will close round Perm fleet by penalties because of sank ships in back-waters, and it will die too.
Now one needs to built ships of mixed, river-sea type to transport mineral fertilizers (the region profit of selling may be compared with the profit from oil selling). But ALL mineral fertilizers are intended for foreign companies…
One may say about changes in “Perm motors” aircraft plant and about 6-7 th.r./m. of salary. But don’t forget, that 25% of shares belong to American “Pratt&Wittney”… Of course one may remember about the group of shops in one Perm plant, that produce rocket systems of volley fire (everybody may see the production of this plant in open museum), but these system are sending to Kuwait…
This year at the middle of March last 300 workers of military “Visokogorsky mechanic plant” (shells, but now washing machines) in Nijny Tagil city began to strike: they has no salary during a year. More exactly, they showed to Moscow journalists that they began to strike…
As for Perm region budget, there is metallurgical plant in Chusovoi town in Perm region, destroyed now. Workers and marginal people that live in the town are occupied by production of vanadium from slag. But this production belongs to Moscow, Perm doesn’t get money from this plant, and all vanadium is sending abroad…
One may add that in one of the most rich firm, in Perm oil investigation institute workers and engineers has no salary several month!
It is the devastation. In World War II we lost 30% of industry, now due to Washington-Moscow governments we lost 50% of industry. There were 42 thousands workers on “Perm motors”, now only 15 th. There were 27 th. workers on “Motovilikhinsye zavodi” plant, now only 13 th., etc. Famous democrat Sergey Stankevitch is too narrow man, but once he said greatness phrase: “I know what may be worse than CPSU power. It is our power.”
At the end of 2002 y. State Duma passed the new land law (code), that allowed to buy and sell land more freely. So everybody waits the next jump of prices remembers the situation with privatization of enterprises.
At the same time high skilled workers with the most number of advantages (for instance, alone father with children) at Perm aircraft complex “PNPPK” get only 3-4 th.r/m. Many workers are forced to be occupied by 2 – 3 jobs in different places. Majority of workers are busy in 1,5 – 2 shifts. The main demand of workers of the world is to make hours shorter. Russian main demand is to make hours longer.
If before perestroyka Soviet workers got 7% – 13% of a value of output, in Eltsyn period – 0,5%-3%, now they get 1% - 5%. Already in 1994 y. in Perm the whole salary composed 34,5% of output value. It meant the gap in income of rich and poor people in 35 – 70 times.
But the “nail of a program” (high light of a program), program of RF government, is the salary of scientists, teachers, physicians. Average professor (candidate of sciences in Russia) in institute (now Academy) gets 1,5 – 2,5 th.r./m. Professor in Ural institute (the next extent after candidate) gets 2,5 – 3 th.r./m. A chief of a laboratory in university investigation institute has wage 300 rubles in a month officially. No doubt that he has more, but unofficially 3 – 3,5 th.r./m. The leading singer in Perm opera and ballet theatre gets 2 th.r./m., others – more less. Real salary of cloak-room attendants is 300 rubles in a month. The leading ballet dancer in this theatre has 4 th.r./m. Earlier leading singers got 4 th.r./m. Too because of subventions established by previous head of Perm region Gennady Igumnov. New head of the region Yury Trutnev abolished the subvention for singers and saved it for dancers. You may ask: “Why??” How to say… Because he is closed with one ballet dancer. May be, she helps him to formulate economic policy in art sphere.
Certainly, it is impossible to fill abstract data of increasing or decreasing of industry by particular maintenance. But there exist such integral parameter as level of mortality. In 1993 y. Perm nonformal Society Ecological Committee (organized by OPORa and leading by Yuly Schipakin, died in 2001) divided general mortality in the city by two parts: mortality because of bad ecology and because of aggravation of economic situation. The essential exceeding of economic reason upon ecological one was founded. The data was taken from city health department. The extrapolation of data of “economic” mortality gave 1 million of deaths in a year above usual level. Official statistic services kept silence, but in 1999 several newspapers (for example, “New Izvestia”) published the exceeding of general mortality in Russia upon birth rate: above 800 000 cases. It meant 1 million of deaths in a year above usual level. It had been impossible to hide more the demographic crises. Moscow degenerate mass media with “scientists” took in hand to explain it with decrease of birth rate. Of course, if you haven’t money, you can’t feed children. But official science categorically announced that this crises was predicted in Soviet period and is connected with increase of life duration, growing old of population in USSR. “The population science is very complicated”, - scientists said. Every Duma deputy, such as Pochinok or Matvienko considers as a debt of honour to stress that the reason of the demographic crises is low level of birth rate. Though every hog in Russian forests well knows that the reason of the crises is high level of mortality because of absence of medicines, medical equipment, technology discipline, at last food, money. Everybody may see huge growth of cemeteries with died young men and women.
It is necessary to turn reader’s attention to some data. In 1988 the birth rate was 19,0 per 1 thousand people of population and mortality was 10,2 per 1 th. [2]. So the growth was 8,8 per 1 th. In 2001 in Sverdlovsk district in Perm the birth rate was 8,4 per 1 th. and mortality was 24,7 cases per 1 th. [3]. One may calculate in the same manner: 24,7 – 10,2 = 14,5 per 1 th. cases above the level of 1988 y. 140 million people live in Russia. One may extrapolate: 14,5 multiply 140 000 ~ 2 mil. deaths in a year above the level of 1988 year. There was no such situation in Stalin period, when the spire of mortality – 1 mil. deaths above - was only in two years, in 1937 and 1938. Stalin wasn’t such bloodthirsty, as our democratic defenders of human right and new bourgeoisie.
I’d like to ask everybody, especially from USA: do you understand it? Or you want to repeat your standard phrases about human rights, Chechnya, the main enemy of humanity Miloshevitch, etc., with the addition of idiotic American films and much more idiotic American films for children? May be, you think that the 11th of September is more interesting event, don’t you?
I was in different countries and told about 1 mil. deaths in a year for many western journalists. They wrote my words – without any reaction.
Have anybody ever seen like former miners in Kizel coal region in Perm region are gathering pieces of wire to sell or digging out frozen potatoes under hard snow? GO AND LOOK!
Miners did it in Eltsyn time as well as do it now.
Thus we see, that the situation wasn’t improved, in the contrary, aggravated: MORE than 1 mil. people dies in a year above usual level. 1 mil. death above – it is disaster of humanities. But it had “rammed US, European and Moscow political high (and not high…) society mouth with sand”. Recently deputy of State Duma Valentina Matvienko wasn’t ashamed to joke, she asked deputies to help the country to get the demographic crises over with their own participation, in unique sense – of growth of birth rate.
“Civilized society” kept silence in the 1st Chechen war period and opened it’s wide mitten in the 2nd Chechen war, when Putin became a president. As for 1 mil. deaths above in Russia “civilized society” kept silence in 1993 and do it up to now.
One may see interesting picture in Perm morgue: stacks of corpses, even in corridor, because morgue administration has no money to build next depository…
Especially world society (in warm company of western so called left organizations) likes to talk about “freedom of word” suppression in Russia. But last dimwit in Russia understands that Evgeny Kiselev and all TV canal TV6 (or NTV) talk about THEIR freedom of word. Workers have no such freedom even at plant. For instance, 98% of shares of Perm chemical enterprise “Kamtex” (before destruction) belonged to 2% of “workers collective”, more exact, to administration. And only 2% of shares belonged to workers. Only 6% of shares of Perm colour metal enterprise “Vtorchermet” belonged to workers. The voice of 2% or 6% shares nobody hears.
So the more world society (including “left” organization) sings about human rights, freedom of word and – especially now! – right of “self determination” (in NATO, USA sense) the more Russian workers hate “world society”. Because of it’s deafness. It’s stupidity. It’s impudence.
After 11th of September Moscow WAS FORCED to organize TV mourning. Moscow knew very well, that common people in Russia doesn’t pity Americans. Ordinary Russia citizens hasn’t time to regret their dead friends and to spread cemeteries.
Many workers don’t like Putin. But nit because of crying of our bourgeois human right organizations about Chechnya or NTV and TV6 canals. But because of his false about upsurge of industry. Because of the most rich buildings belonged to oil company “Lookoil” administration and gold crosses on dames of the church close by workers semidestroyed wooden barracks in Perm. Because of slow, but permanent growth of unemployment. Because of the debt for workers of budget sphere appears once again and exceeded 4 bill. rubles. It is the result of Putin’s work at the place of president, result, that every ordinary Russia citizen sees by his own eyes.
2. The last stage of decay
Earlier Chubais declared 3 stages of privatization. The first was “share stage”, the second – “voucher stage”. The third began in 1997 y. and is finishing now. This stage is the selling of majority share holdings of largest state enterprises. Due to Kremlin desire to do the process of buying for foreign companies more easy the price of 1$ was established 6 rubles. On the other hand the price of enterprises was established on the level before devaluation of ruble (remember, that in 1985 y. 1$ = 0.72 rubles). For example, such giant automobile industry complex as “GAS” (100 000 workers) in Nijny Novgorod city cost 4 mil. rubles only, less than 700 000 $. Many plants, whole branches, such as cool branch, were completely or particularly closed – before selling.
In June 1993 at the Economic Conference, organized by RF government and parliament in Moscow academic Abalkin reported that we lived in absurdity conditions: all national product that was produced in all Soviet years costs output produced in 1993 y.
But Eltsyn government was faced with certain difficulties. It was impossible for foreign companies to buy such branches as oil or gas complexes. Thus, “Gasprom” is the biggest gas company in the world, 30% of world gas resources. So it couldn’t be bought in spite of decreased level of domestic currency, decreased by Moscow. It was the reason that pushed RF government brought down the ruble in August 1998 once again.
But that wasn’t the decision of problem. The “Gasprom” share price was decreased from 1,8 doll. in October 1997 to 13 cents in August 1998, before default. But only 5% of shares of “Gasprom” were sold after default to Germany’s company “Ruhrgas”, whose majority share holding belongs to USA. On the 15th of March Moscow mass media reported that price of “Gasprom” shares were following to lower. And on the 17th of March lousy Shokhin, deputy of State Duma, informed on TV that “one waits the increase of dollar in comparison with ruble.
Evidently Eltsyn couldn’t finish the “3rd stage”, he was permanently drunk. But Putin has forces to do it.
3. How much dollar cost?
It is easy to prove price of dollar is intelligently and unjustified increased in Russia. 1 bottle of bear in England costs 1 pound. In Russia you can buy 3 similar bottles with such money. Earlier a worker of Ford’s plant in Argentina got 4$ in an hour. It didn’t mean “middle class”, but good salary. Nurses in hospitals got 200$ in a month. Now, in crises, rail way workers in Argentina get 600-700 pesos = 400$ in a month. It’s not poverty, but near poverty. And in Russia 400$ in a month means 12 500 rubles, beautiful salary! Any high skilled European worker may be a millionaire in Russia. More of that, high price of dollar is unjustified in comparison with other currencies. The currency provision of dollar (with gold, silver, other currencies, valuable papers, etc.) amounts to 4 cents (price of dollar paper) [4]. In the contrary the level of euro or yen is calculated on the base of gross domestic product (GDP).
Real price of dollar in accordance with purchasing ability parity was calculated in August 1997: 7 rubles to 1 dollar (in prices of 2002 y.) [5]. Moscow mass media and so called political class, these rogues, proudly were silent.
The reason of low real price of dollar is well known: the penetration of dollars to every country according to Marshall’s plan and, on the other hand, due to will, voluntarism of USA government. In 1944 y. Bretton-Wood Conference fastened the connection between national currencies and gold by means of dollar. So Washington had to pay gold for every dollar. At the end of 50ths the market of eurodollars had been formed, and it meant the beginning of currency shocks. In August 1971 president Nikson temporarily stopped the dollar change to gold [6]. Before this event France president Sharl de Goll had brought to Washington 0,5 bill. dollars and demanded gold. It caused the collapse of USA finance system [7].
In December 1971 after negotiations of ministers of finances (Smitson’s agreement) dollar was devaluated and German mark and Japan yen were revaluated. In February 1973 dollar was devaluated secondly. Market price of gold exceeded official price of gold in dollars in 4 times. In 1985 y. USA took the obligation to decrease dollar [6], but didn’t do it.
Now the price of dollar in Russia equals about 31 rubles, and newspapers write about the desire of “Ruhrgas” to have 20% of “Gasprom” shares and about Kremlin desire to sell to “Ruhrgas” 40% of shares.
Even specialists of IMF calculated, that 1$ costs 13 rubles. But only a year ago the head of the Central Bank of RF, Victor Geraschenko, informed society about such price… and kept former price.
More of that, when euro was imported in cash circulation, Moscow mass media and “political class” began the campaign against euro. After the 11th of September nobody wanted to pay for 1$ more than 15 rubles in shadow “black” market in Russia. But Moscow organized tremendous campaign to do dollar stable. RF minister of finances Kudrin assured that everything was all right with dollar. Don’t worry, Moscow citizens!
You see, there is only one city in Russia, where population can’t precise salary in rubles, only in dollars. It is Moscow. “How much have you in a month? 300$? Oh, it is too small”, - Moscow citizens say usually. But 300$ are more, than salary of any worker in Ural region. For example, a Moscow driver , that transports books to shops, may have 2000 rubles = 70$ IN A DAY.
It is well known that dollar is oil currency. The average salary in oil industry branch is more than 18 thousand rubles in a month, that exceeds the average salary in Russia in six times. About 450 bill. dollars are going for a walk around the world, 150 bill. dollars from this sum are in Russia [4]. Dollar means the decay of all industry branches except oil and gas branch. So dollar means low salary for every Russia citizen and high salary for oil office “workers” in Moscow. Several years ago Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin bought more than 20 Boeing air plane motors and left workers of “Perm motors” without year salary. Main oil and gas offices are placed in Moscow. They don’t need domestic industry, particularly, plane motors, they sell mineral resources and send dollars to offshore zones. It is small upsurge of “Perm motors” now, it is the material to sell, so finance group “INTERROS” and it’s head Vladimir Potanin (“Vova-dollar”) want to be owners of this plant. To sell and to send dollars in offshore zones… So Russia population is tired from dollar, hates dollar as well as hates Americans.
IMF suppresses Russia because Gorbachev and Eltsyn made huge debt about 140 bill. dollars. But USA state external debt is about 3400 bill. dollars [6], and with the external debt of states, etc. – 370 000 bill. dollars [8]. So Moscow supports empty currency. And the more Moscow supports dollar the more Russia population hates Moscow, because of Moscow robbery of whole Russia. Because of Moscow feeling of superiority that is founded on nothing. Because of Moscow deafness, Moscow stupidity, Moscow impudence.
4. New working movement
Several years ago in office of FNPR (Federation of independent trade unions of Russia, former Soviet federation VCSPS) one trade union employee asked one workers activist from Perm: “What your workers are thinking about?” Activist answered: “About salary and possible dismissal." Deep thinking had been reflected on employee face and he informed confidently: “No… Your workers thinks about changes in political situation in Moscow…” Employee belonged to “Socialist Party of Employees” (not workers only).
In 1998 there was a TV translation with talking of Moscow and province teachers. Province teachers talked about poverty, salary, etc., as Aleksandr Tarasov writes, and Moscow teachers suggested them, that teachers had no right to strike. On province teacher said about “comprador capital”, but Moscow teachers began to screech: “It’s criminal! It doesn’t allow to bring ideology in school!” Province teachers are “hungry, angry, high skilled and they hate Moscow”, - Tarasov marks [9].
Moscow citizens are not able to precise the world around them adequately. It is such specific type of “self enough” consciousness. Ortega-i-Gasset wrote about “mass man”, about his primitive, cliche, stock thinking. Of course, he marked that such man is not from lower classes of society with necessity, but it is evident, that his shadow thinking was about majority mass men from lower classes in Russia after October revolution. Pareto’ society division sat everything on it’s place: masses and elites. Marx wrote about turned, converted, reduced “society form”. So in the contrary one needs to determine primitive, cliche, stock thinking of “elite man” [10].
It is impossible to imagine that workers may protest and support any “leader” or party in conditions of absence of money and dangerous of dismissal. The press of prices separates workers (“atomise” them in Marx terms).
It would seem that conflict situation takes place, or “revolutionary situation”, as it was described by Lenin: common people can’t live in old manner more, the society top rule in old manner and there is extraordinary poverty. All fundamental conditions exist like in text-book. But it is necessary to add, that the society top can do nothing in a whole. Bolshevik government suppressed anti-Soviet rebellion in Chechnya in two days. Eltsyn and Putin governments with a lot of means can’t do it during 7 years. Moscow can’t gather taxes, can’t improve the situation in Vladivostok region, that is without warm and electricity. Government can’t eliminate corruption in every cell of society, can’t stop criminal groups, etc.
It means that bourgeoisie in Russia is not “class-for-itself” (in Hegel terms). It is yet “class-in-itself”, not united, without common (state) interests. So it doesn’t need a state structure to defend this absent united interest. So the interest to develop domestic industry is absent too. There is a single slogan on the banner of new capitalists, owners, employers, so called new Russians, etc.: “To steal, to sell, to send money abroad, to run away”.
80% of Russian bourgeoisie consists of former elite of CPSU. They are tired to rule industry and to divide part of output among population. It is impossible to return “Soviet times”, because former party elite don’t want it. Party elite transformed power into money. They don’t think about high technologies or fundamental science, i.e. long time interests, like Japans. They are indifferent to norm of profit, like Americans. They think about profit only. They don’t want to take care of anything, especially of population. They are able to steel, to convert rubles into dollars and to place them to Cyprus, etc. banks to devoid taxes.
It is the reason that stealing is the manner of existence of Moscow. In “Soviet” period the capital stool not meat or money only. The capital stool everything. No doubt every Moscow citizen accounts that he is much more clever and gifted, than anybody in province. No – Moscow is cleverest in the world. Consequently workers must listen to them and… to pay money for their staggering ideas and “scientific generalizations”. No difference with Ortega-i-Gasset, with Stalin CPSU, only money for best brains was called “fee paying”.
But such position is not quite correct. As for intellectual forces, it was necessary to have 20 – 60 scientific articles besides theses to get the extent of candidate of sciences (professor in the West) in province in “Soviet” time. But 5 articles including theses were enough in Moscow.
On the other hand Moscow steals dissertations. Scientific instructors (chiefs) force students and post graduates to work for them. There were scandals in Moscow university, when professor (in Soviet sense) D. D. Ivanenko wanted to place his surname under the article of two his post graduates V. Ruchin and M. Gogberashvily about bubble model of early universe expansion. Ruchin refused from such suggestion and was pushed from the university. The other Ivavenko’ post graduate S. Vakaru wrote six articles with tvistor generalization of theory of gravity and refused from the same suggestion. The reason was that Ivanenko understood nothing in Penrose tvistor technique… Vakaru wasn’t push from Moscow university, but he wasn’t allowed to defend his dissertation.
Evgenii Serebryany from Ukrainian city Dnepropetrovsk was post graduate in Moscow university that time. And at the same time he was a scientist with the world name, famous physicists from different countries, such as Stiven Hocking, wrote him and sent their articles. “I am astonished with huge low level of post graduates that were Moscow university students; as for several chiefs and “microchiefs”, they are scientific impotents”, - he marked.
Of course, up to now Moscow steals ideas, thinkings. Recent scandal is widely known: professor A. Kolganov from Buzgalin’s group “Alternatives” had stolen one idea of one journalist, A. Tarasov. Several years ago Alexandr Shershukov, former anarcho-syndicalist (so called “KASKOR”) and now official trade union FNPR employee stole the part of the article of one union “Worker” activist and published it in FNPR newspaper “Solidarity”. And so on.
So it is impossible to say that THEY can’t live in old manner. Stealing is not manner of ruling, THEY don’t need to rule and to change anything.
The budget of USSR was 600 bill. doll. Now it is officially 40 bill. doll. But USSR GDP was 3325 bill. doll. in 1990 and Russia GDP was 1265 bill. doll. that year [11] ~ 1 : 2,5.
Let’s assume that RF economy decreased in 2 times and the budget of RF is less than USSR budget in 2,5 times. So one is to divide USSR budget (600 bill. doll. : 2) : 2,5 = 120 bill. doll. Then let’s assume that gathering of taxes decreased in two times. So one has to divide 150 bill. doll. : 2 = 60 bill. doll. of RF year budget. Where are every year another 60 – 40 = 20 bill. dollars? Where were money when official budget was 20 bill. dollars? In what manner did 2002 budget become 60 bill. doll.? And how is government going to get additional oil 68 bill. dollars?
On the other hand the desire of ordinary workers in Russia to live better or to get over poverty is not enough. Similar interests are not a glue for consolidation. Unique interest is not united one. On the contrary unique interest separates workers. Have you ever seen like Moscow citizens push each other by elbows in a food shop to capture the best piece of meat? The similar interest moves them! This is such special “elbow-type” of population…
As for province every worker strives to survive alone. So there is working class in Russia formally only, like class-in-itself. Russian “communist” and “left” parties and organizations can’t understand this simple thing. Like a church the try to find such idea that will consolidate workers. Up to now, from Bernstein times they want to export, to carry in dark heads of workers the revolutionary consciousness, as well as Moscow “intellectuals” want to spread their excellent ideas in masses by central newspaper or TV.
“Communists” suggest that their organizations are the base of workers consolidation. If workers join party, they are immediately organized. “Communists” are at variance with such communist like Lenin, who said: “Social democrats have no task to organize party. They have the main task to help workers to organize themselves as a class to political party.”
Russia industry is destroyed. It means that class creative base is destroyed, because the material base of class, united workers interests is industry. May be, communists are going to change industry base to party apparatus? Or to change to military organization, like Otto Neirat, Max Adler and other “Austria Marxists” unsuccessfully tried to do [12]?
We marked that Russia workers have unusual interest to make hours longer. But they have the other unusual interest: their first demand is to eliminate industry decay, huge chaos in economy.
In this sense it seems to be useful to compare today situations in Russia and Argentina. Every day in Buenos Aires and other cities of the country one can see meetings, pickets, demonstrations. Workers, employees interrupts roads. One president change the other. The jump of unemployment, absence of money in banks, decrease of salary, keeping pensioners money push people out of flats. Police can’t stop protests. United States are not going to use and can’t use military forces to suppress movement. USA are occupied by finding of Ben Laden and by competition with new currency euro – the significant feature of October revolution!
One may say it is “revolutionary situation”. And as well as last feature repeats 1917, situation in Argentina repeats default time in Russia and perestoyka period. Of course the absence of money is powerful impulse. But it is unique, not united interest of participants of meetings (so called assembles) and members of the Union of unemployed people.
On the other hand Argentina industry base is destroyed due to president Menem privatization, other following presidents, IMF, USA activity in the country. Military aircraft plant was bought by American “Lockheed Martin” and closed. Several oil, coal, iron ore enterprises, consequently metal plants were bought and closed. There were 120 000 railway line workers in Argentina in 1991 and only 16 000 now with idiot reason that “enterprises were unprofitable”, like in Russia. So there are separated press of growing prices and weakness of working class, whose consolidation decreases due to industry decay.
Argentina workers feel it and repeat French (1968), Poland (70-ths) experience of enterprises capturing, but with the other motivation to stop dismissal and industry decay, like in Russian cities Sovetsky, Yasnogorsk, Schuchye, etc. They captured one metal plant, one coal mine, textile and ceramic factories and started to produce and to sell output.
It is necessary to stress this moment. Western “left” organizations cry about “workers power”. But they’d better ask about “workers power” Russian workers. On one hand, there was no worker in USSR who could say about power in his fingers. On the other hand, directors of Russia enterprises often suggest workers: “You don’t like me? Please, sit in my chair. Take power!” And workers refuse. There are two reasons: 1) workers has no high education. Famous anarchist Michael Bakunin said: “Bourgeoisie may have only one privilege – education to keep power.” So it is the second sense of Marx formula that the extent of capitalism development is determined by in what extent science became a productive force.” The other “subjective” reason is that workers don’t want to have responsibility for organization of production. It is much more easy to work at one’s work place and to get salary… We see that events force workers to take part in ruling of industry. So the slogan of high education for everybody is not in far future.
The next moment that one is to add to Lenin formula is history of working class. 70 years of paternalism when working class hadn’t their own trade unions, parties, etc. suppressed selfdetermined activity of Russia working class. But as for Argentina one may see great activity of workers during all 2001 and three first months of 2002. So it is a base for hope.
It is interesting to mark the reaction of Moscow citizens in connection with events in Argentina: “Imagine that crowd lacerated YOUR shop, your OWNERSHIP!” But what must poor people eat? The standard phrase followed: “THEY must work better THERE. They are lazy.”
As for Russian working movement the picture is aggravated in high extent by criminalization of economy, from bottom to top. Criminal authorities take part in election campaigns in Nijny Novgorod city (V. Klementyev), Krasnoyarsk city (P. Struganov), Perm (V. Plotnikov), etc. TV widely lights these events. Official central newspapers, such as “Izvestia” or “Moscow news” [13], and Perm newspapers after them, write, that the head of Perm region administration Yury Trutnev keeps in his administration apparatus criminal authorities, for –example, Plotnikov and Nelyubin, that were convict as extortioners (Plotnikov was placed in a prison for 2 years).
Former leader of Independent trade union of miners (NPG) Sergeev was “under” Kuzbass coal region criminal structures. Boris Bragin, one of leaders NPG in Vorkuta coal region told that all more active trade union leaders were killed.
Official scientists say about 30% – 40% of shadow economy. It’s not quite correct. ALL economy is “shadow”. Criminal economy begins from every plant shop of every plant. If you want to sell metal cable from Perm plant “Kamcabel” to Hungary, it is impossible to do it without the consent (and dividends) of Perm criminal authority Plotnikov. May be, you don’t inform him, but the selling is absolutely impossible without agreement with Moscow criminal structures.
It is general modern situation, more exactly, it is the beginning: one docker from Liverpool told that their strike in 1995 was suppressed not by government, police, employers, scabs or trade union bureaucracy only, but by criminal structures too. Tomorrow – state criminal structures, like in Russia. As for Argentina, state criminal structures don’t use their methods, but they did it in 70ths – 80ths. As for USA – all country is the world criminal structure.
So it means the new stage of development of working struggle forms. Lenin added to conditions of revolutionary situation the presence of “revolutionary class”. So one is to think about modern correction of such term.
5. Moscow “rights” and “lefts”
Of course, globalization means new forms of working class struggle too (no word about “anti-globalists”, their aim is to let steam out). But the method of suppression of working movement by Moscow is too old in Russia.
The traditional form of state capital conversation with province is teaching. Fridrich Schlegel wrote that only “servants of art” could change the world. Adam Smith in his investigations concluded that workers are stupid due to hard physical labour. Bernstien, Kautsky, Libkhnecht supposed it was impossible for workers to overcome frames of economic struggle, so “revolutionary consciousness” must be imported, injected in working movement by party “competent leadership” (in Ortega-i-Gasset’, social democrats’, our liberals or Zuganov CPRF terms). It penetrates into workers heads like idea penetrates in inert, sluggish matter by God. Poet Andrey Bely thought that one good poem – like party program – might radically change world.
Russia so called lefts work in these best traditions.
In 80ths there was a wall newspaper “Physicon” in physical faculty in Moscow university. In fact it was the first legal anti-Stalin newspaper. The head of it was the member of union “Worker”, post graduate Mark Piskarev (he died). And in 1987 one of the numbers was wholly devoted for theme “Why don’t I like Moscow?” (it was the name of the number). Of course, only post graduates and students from another cities made “Physicon”…
Why don’t Russia like Moscow? Because of an attempt to think instead of Russia. Because of Buzgalin, Kagarlitsky, Hramov, Shein, Nemtsov, Chubais, Khakamada, Zuganov, Anpilov, Kudrin, Kiselev, Mitkova, Pozner, Parfenov, Svanidze, Nikita Mikhalkov, Pototsky, Tyulkin, Savik Shuster, Michael Kasyanov, Jirinovsky, Yastrjemsky, Shvidkoi, Piontkovsky, Gleb Pavlovsky, Glazyev and other hundreds and hundreds “lights of mind” with their empty stock stupid slogans, articles, newspapers, magazines, books, that are useless for Russia (excuse me if I forgot somebody). Moscow “politics” “play games”. Moscow “analysts” say: “Oh, command of Mr. N. is powerful. It won a game with command of Mr. M.!” Moscow “analysts” say: “Polittechnology.” They think that political technologies are ruling the world, like “Protocols of Zion sages” or party programs. Boiling of political activity in Moscow! And all political class thinks: “I am famous. I am significant.” One representative of Moscow political class Boris Kagarlitsky wanted to be famous in such extent that when he was in Europe, he said that he was the official representative of Kuzbass miners strike committee…
There is interesting hydrodynamic effect: if one heats water from the bottom, water began to boil, so one may drink tea. But if one heat water from the top, it suppresses convection, so water can’t boil and after such tea one gets diarrhea.
Do you know the sense of Lermontov’ poem “Borodino”? We got a victory when gave Moscow to enemy…
References:
1. “Commersant” ¹9, 22.01.2002, p.8, Moscow.
2. “Population in USSR”, Moscow, “Finances and statistic”, 1989.
3. “Rabochii vestnik” (“Workers herald”), ¹40, 2001.
4. B. Ikhlov, “Castling or “highl USA””, “Rabochii vestnik”, ¹27, 1998.
5. V. Martcinkevitch, E. Kirichenko, “USA”, “MEiMO” (World Economy and International Relations”), Moscow, ¹8, 2001, p.78.
6. V. Chibrikin, “Zaval” (“Obstruction”), “Ogonek” (small light?), Moscow, ¹5, 1999.
7. “The New York Times”, 1995.
8. B. Ikhlov, “It needs to add”, “Rabochii vestnik”, ¹44, 2001.
9. B. Bolotin, “World economy in 100 years”, “MEiMO”, Moscow, ¹9, 2001, p.90.
10. D. Mironov, A. Pertsev, “Austria Marxism, positivism and working movement”, Sverdlovsk, UrGU, 1990.
11. A. Nikitin, “To clean oneself under Putin”, “Moscow news”, ¹6, 18.02.2002.
NEW COLD WAR
It would seem that the ruling class of the bourgeoisie has learned to channel protests into a safe direction, moreover, to use them. Thus, the feminist movement, the Trotskyist movement, the most serious ecological movement, now in the United States – the movement against racism, were emasculated. The most striking example is the color pseudo-revolutions. A substitute for real protests and the movement of the deniers of the epidemic. The government has made all parties, parliamentary and non-parliamentary, from the ultra-left to the ultra-right, a safety buffer between itself and the masses.
However, the collapse of the USSR caused two major consequences in the world:
1) labor and capital in every developed country have hit face to face, without an intermediary in the form of the camp of “socialism”,
2) competition between the US and the EU has sharply escalated, and a war between the Euro and the dollar has begun. This is not just an arithmetic ratio, the IMF's specialists calculated with technology WEMP that the higher the currency is relative to the dollar, the more oil the currency-holding country consumes – with the resulting economic consequences.
1. In Japan, where the Institute of lifetime employment flourished to 2001 had 5% unemployment. In the UK, educational programs were cut, Thatcher closed 33 coal mines, and unemployment increased, especially among young people. In the United States, the welfare state was abolished and the minimum wage was lowered. In France, money from public schools was transferred to private schools, and attempts were made to raise the retirement age.
Workers responded with riots and strikes. In 1992, the US army and police violently suppressed the protesters, but at the beginning of the 90's, a wave of black protests has been rising in the country. In France, there were two nationwide strikes, German steel workers were on strike, in 1994 the Liverpool dockers went on strike, and so on. Workers all over the world have realized that they need to rely only on themselves.
2. What happened to the dollar after France and then Germany took billions of dollars back to the United States and demanded gold for them? Collapse of financial markets in the United States. Then Washington unilaterally tore up the Bretton Woods agreements, which linked world currencies through gold. In December 1971, after negotiations between the Finance Ministers (the Smithson Treaty), the dollar was devalued, and the mark and yen were revalued. In February 1973, the dollar was devalued a second time. The market price of gold exceeded the official price in dollars by 4 times. In 1985 the US made commitments to lower the dollar, but did not fulfill them. This was repeated twice more.
What could have caused the US to devalue the dollar to the real exchange rate? Only competition with the European Union, whose consolidated GDP was one and a half times larger than the US GDP. Events unfolded on an increasing scale.
In 1999, the non-cash currency Euro was introduced to the world, replacing the ECU, which was equated to the dollar. In the spring, the bombing of Belgrade follows, after which the non-cash Euro exchange rate becomes less than 1 dollar.
By the fall of 2001, it is planned to introduce cash euros. The "terrorist attack" of September 11 follows. Cash euros are introduced only on January 1, 2002, the Euro begins to crowd the dollar. The ruble is beginning to gradually rise against the dollar. Britain's" the Economist " draws the Euro as a Viper, and in July, NATO troops are preparing to invade Iraq.
By the end of January 2003, the Euro exceeded the dollar for the first time at 1.06, followed by the bombing of Baghdad in March, NATO invades Iraq, and Baghdad is occupied on April 9.
On September 11, Swedish foreign Minister Anna Lind was killed. She was a key figure in the campaign for the country's entry into the Euro zone. A referendum on the issue was scheduled for September 14 in Sweden. The Euro was rolling back again.
October 25, 2004 25 European countries subscribe to the pan-European Constitution. The sharp fall of the dollar against the ruble, the Euro reaches 37 rubles.
Finally, by the summer of 2008, the Euro exceeds the critical threshold of 1.5 dollars and is not going to stop. In August, I predicted a new small war. In September, Washington will authorize Georgia's actions in South Ossetia. Georgian soldiers attack Russian peacekeepers, in Tskhinvali they throw grenades into basements where children, women, and old people have taken refuge. This is not the Kremlin's agitation, my friends journalists saw it with their own eyes.
In 4 days, the Euro falls against the dollar from 1.52 to 1.34, and then to 1.26.
The barrel falls from $ 140 to $ 40. The ruble against the dollar is reduced from 1/30 to 1/35. But President Medvedev hadn’t billions on Swiss Bank accounts, Russia closes the gas pipe, and the dollar against the ruble obediently returns to its place, and the barrel grows.
By the end of December 2008, the dollar is declining against all currencies EXCEPT the RUBLE. The Euro reaches $ 1.45.
Since the Euro depends on all national economies, the subsidence of one of them will cause a desire to give preference to an independent currency, the dollar. As the crisis in Greece showed, and the Euro fell back again.
By December 2013, the Euro was again close to the $ 1.5 mark. Again, I predicted that a new hotspot would appear somewhere in the world. So it happened, in December, the first movements against Yanukovych began, in February 2014, the Maidan flared in Kiev, for which the United States paid 5 billion dollars. Russia and Ukraine became bargaining chips, and the Euro fell back to $ 1.1.
That is: we see two major reasons that push the US (and the EU) to revive the old image of an external enemy that consolidates as well nations as the EU and the US.
However, it took a campaign to reunite Crimea with Russia and blame Russia for the Malaysian Boeing disaster for Europe to fall firmly under the US. When Maidan won in Kiev, Putin was on vacation at the Sochi Olympics and did not want to remove Russia from the position of a satellite of the United States. For Putin's inactivity, Russian athletes were awarded a staggering number of gold medals. But the residents of Crimea could not do otherwise: Bandera shot 8 buses with unarmed residents of the Crimea, this is also not agitation, this is a fact. So today the IOC is taking back the gold medals.
Russia’ Yaroslavl plant supplied Kiev with diesel engines for tanks, LUKOIL supplied fuel for armored vehicles, “Aviasnabservis” - with spare parts for military aviation, KAMAZ – military trucks, “Motovilikha plants” (Perm-city) – components for multiple launch rocket systems “Grad” (“Hail”), Russia’ VEB and VTB banks financed the so-called anti-terrorist operation of Kiev. The Kremlin in the hottest phase of the war, until 5.7.2014, supplied Kiev with free of charge aircraft, artillery, and armored vehicles from the Crimea.
This did not help the Kremlin, Obama announced that there are three main threats to humanity in the world: Ebola, Russia and ISIS.
The Nord stream 2 gas pipeline may allow Europe to free itself from dependence on the United States. On the other hand, a deep crisis has begun within the American elites. Attempts to drive the disease inside the body by hedging and other methods of smoothing cyclical crises only increased the explosion in the economy, the main banks of the Federal reserve system, Lehman Brothers, etc. collapsed, the trigger was the mortgage crisis, excessive reliance on leverage.
Hence the ridiculous campaigns with doping of Russian athletes, with the alleged poisoning of the Skripals, the "writer" Bykov, etc., with alleged interference in the us election campaign, with the alleged poisoning of Navalny, etc.
While there was a war between the Euro and the dollar, Latin America managed to slip out of the hot embrace of the United States – in Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, and partly in Argentina, a movement against the United States begins across the continent.
At the same time, China's GDP exceeded that of the United States. As you know, under the capitalist mode of production, one gets pay not for labor, but for capital, so China began to pull finances from the United States from all over the world.
Washington, despite all its sharp gestures towards China, is in no hurry to start a cold war with China, believing that Russia can be dispensed with.
One way or another, but the outbreak of the Negro ochlocracy showed that this policy of Washington came to an end.
On the other hand, if earlier the protest of workers against capital was expressed through the growth of absenteeism, today in any country of the world the crowd calls the election results into question. And this doubt is not only generated by Washington in different countries, it also concerns the United States itself. This means the collapse of the system of bourgeois parliamentarism.
As a result of the epidemic, the country's economy as a whole lost 8 trillion rubles, or $ 102 billion at the exchange rate of 18.10.2020, or 2% of GDP. Calculations by the NKR rating Agency show that working Russians lost 841 billion rubles, or 16 million average monthly salaries.
The authorities paid only about 770 billion rubles to families with children and the unemployed
. the US loses 16 trillion dollars, three-quarters of GDP.
Experts of the European Central Bank estimate the economic downturn in the EU due to the pandemic in the range of 5 to 12%.
China's losses for the 1st quarter of 2020 – 143 billion dollars, according to other data, GDP for the quarter fell by 6.8%, i.e. by 1.6 trillion dollars.
15.10.2020 the head of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva estimated the losses of the world economy over the next five years at just $ 28 trillion. Apparently, Kristalina had a hard time with arithmetic at school. The new crisis was called the "Great quarantine".
Let me remind you of the consequences of the great depression:
1) the transition to state regulation in the economy, social sphere, etc. has begun,
2) social guarantees have appeared: pensions, vacation payments, etc.,
3) the international position and influence of the United States has weakened.
Only one thing is clear: it follows from the above that regardless of the results of any election, US policy towards Russia will not change, just as it did not change after the election of Trump. Similarly, nothing has changed in Ukraine since Zelensky was elected, and nothing will change in Russia if Putin ceases to be President. Nothing will change, because not presidents rule, but classes, and presidents are just their henchmen, executors.
Although a lot would have changed in Belarus after Lukashenka's departure. If today only 5% of the country's economy is owned by foreign capital, this figure could reach 50-70%.
Indeed, it is impossible to wait for changes in US policy towards Russia, because the United States vitally need image of an external enemy in the face of Russia.
On the other hand, the fact that the US election will not change anything in the US, I said even before Trump became president. This was obvious, even Soviet schoolchildren studied on the lessons of civics the two-party system in the United States, the so-called swing system, the system of fraud of people.
Worst of all, even the upheavals of recent years didn’t change the average American. He will remain the same narcissistic cretin. When major American capital launched campaigns against Hussein, Milosevic, Gaddafi, Assad, the average American enthusiastically supported Washington's policies. In Iraq, the Americans killed about half a million civilians, NATO in prosperous Libya staged a humanitarian disaster with an ongoing war, the United States invaded Afghanistan, bombed Yugoslavia with depleted uranium shells, there were 2000 victims of civilian people, including children in Yugoslavia. Finally, the US supported ISIS. Thus, the average American acts as a typical fascist.
I learned that a fairly educated American believes that there really was the power of poor people, the power of demos, real democracy in ancient Athens.
On Facebook, a fun-loving Barry wrote: "Vote for Biden! Trump will kill us all!» I asked if Trump really has such a desire - to kill everyone? Does Barry, as a little boy, still believe in elections? Barry replied: "Hey mate, yes, we believe in elections! Tell me better, what do you have there in Russia with corruption?", etc. I wrote that I understand what he is saying, I sympathize with him in every way, but I can't help him in any way - he went to the wrong address, I'm not a psychiatrist.
American Negroes are just as rednecks as American whites.
Militants from "Black lives matter" and "antifa" four months smashed American cities, the number of victims is in the tens. The damage caused by the "peaceful protest" is $ 2 billion.
After a brief respite, riots in megacities resumed - just before the elections. In Los Angeles, a rally for free speech ended in a bloody slaughter with antifa. In New York, a column of Jews for Trump was attacked by liberal rioters who tried to disperse them.
In Massachusetts, another peaceful protester attacked a 73-year-old veteran and his wife as they held a banner in support of Trump. In Colorado, Negroes smashed car windows of Trump activist with an American flag. In Portland and Denver, Trump supporters were killed in cold blood.
Philadelphia became the center of the riots. Pogroms of houses in the city center continue. A local Walmart was looted during the night, and local democratic authorities ordered law enforcement officers not to interfere with the protesters.
Biden is at the same old age as the members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU before the collapse of the USSR. His son is a drug addict, sleeping with an underage relative. Democratic media delete this information, and Facebook also deletes it. Freedom of word! Who said that Stalinism died? Here it is.
Absenteeism, that is, refusing to take part in a show called elections, is wiser than the ochlocracy of color pseudo-revolutions.
Related links:
1. Yuri Boldyrev, "Russian economic journal", ¹11, 2008.
2. B. Ikhlov, "Around the crisis", "Workers Herald", ¹109, 2008.
3. V. Martsinkevich, E. Kirichenko, Memo, M., ¹8, 2001, p. 78.
4. V. Citrinin, "Obstruction", "Ogonek", Moscow, ¹5, 1999.
5. B. Ikhlov. "Workers Herald", ¹5, 1990.
6. B. Ikhlov, "Heil America!" "Workers Herald", ¹27, 1998; see also "What's the dollar price?", "New Left Newspaper", M., 1998.
7. B. Ikhlov, "Usual Russia", "Workers Herald", Buenos Aires, ¹46.1, February 2002.
8. B. Ikhlov, "I would like to add", "Workers Herald", ¹44, 2001.
9. The website http://shtirner.ru
DEMOGRAPHY DISASTER IN RUSSIA
MAJORITY OF RUSSIA POPULATION LIKES STALIN – WHAT ARE REASONS?
Putin and Medvedev lie again
Rotting of system is not an analysis already, such a smell - though one can hang an ax. One oligarch Sergei Polonsky is Wonder of the World. "Who does not have a billion dollars, may go to an ass", - Polonsky sent citizens of Russia at the beginning of last year on exhibition in Cannes. In general, he proposed to clean Moscow of the paupers. Opposite case was happened: Polonsky himself was cleaned up and found himself in such ass, that he had to deal with a mass of those who ever haven’t even hundreds of thousands of dollars. So to say relatively ass...
Prime Minister Putin, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos-2009 about the crisis of 2008, said, finally, what the leftist press never tired of talking from the mid-90s: "The system of global economic growth gave a serious crash, in which one center is virtually unlimited, uncontrolled printing money and consume goods, and the other manufactures inexpensive goods and saves money issued by other states."
Since then, the dollar has been steadily growing in Russia, inflating of dollar habitually engaged by the Central Bank RF, subordinated Medvedev-Putin. Despite the apparent dollar orientation of the Kremlin, Medvedev went to represent Russia in Davos, not Putin.
Dismissed by Putin former minister Kudrin told reporters at forum that he could still track down two main points of view at the forum and, therefore, the two main directions of discussion. The first point of view – that the world is on the verge of recovery. The second - the crisis will escalate. Comparing the forum with forum last year, Kudrin said that "in a global context it was easier, all sighed, and there was even some excessive euphoria"."
That is, despite the acute Kudrin’ observation, everybody sighed, obviously relieved, including those who predicted worsening of the crisis.
Of course, the Russia side could not resist to play along with U.S..
Even schoolchildren are aware that the euro zone was created in order to be able to individual European countries to confront the American superpower in economic competition. But Gref, the lamp of the mind, said that "there are regions whose future is not clear to me, the future of the eurozone is not clear to me." The head of Russia's largest bank is pessimistic about the future of the euro zone in the long term, considering it an artificial union in terms of economic policy. Kudrin said that the output of individual countries of the euro area is possible in the foreseeable future.
Apparently, overtired from thinking about the economy, Gref said during a business breakfast Saving Bank of RF said: "We have talked so much about the global crisis, we are tired ..."
Before the opening of the forum WEF published a report "Scenarios for the Russian Federation", which listed the key factors that will influence the long-term economic development of the Russian Federation until 2030. Expert Group, which included Oleg Tsyvinski of Yale University, ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Sergei Guriev of the New Economic School, presented these three scenarios for Russia's future for years to come, "rebalancing regions", "shaky stability" and "to the other side of prosperity".
The first scenario assumes a regional differentiation of the Russian Federation. That is rich regions will become richer and the poor - poorer.
The second predicts a sharp decline in oil prices (up to $ 60 per barrel). According to Kudrin, who presented this scenario, with a sharp reduction in budget revenues Russian government does not choose to invest in infrastructure and development, but in social stability: the payment of salaries, pensions and other social obligations. In such circumstances, according to the ex-minister of finance, the economy will be very difficult to grow.
In a third scenario, oil prices will remain high, but the government is not decided to institutional reforms. In this scenario, the changes will be from "bottom" – from grown riches from the middle class. It has no enough money in order to feel happy, so it needs to be more involved in social and political life, said speaker Sergei Guriev.
How this will happen is unknown, experts admit.
The expert is also unknown, we would add, that the middle class in Russia is absent. Generally.
"Rebalancing regions" suggests with that the gradual decline in energy prices initiative of economic and political changes comes from unexpected sources, and institutional reforms are implemented at the level of the Federation subjects against congestive processes in the central institutions of power.
"Shaky stability" - sudden sharp and prolonged drop in oil prices in the absence of institutional reform forces the government to strengthen controls over the economy. Russia has maintained the illusion of economic stability and carried forward painful reforms.
"Beyond the wealth" - the high price of oil and gas are stored, which leads to "the satisfied inaction concerning to institutional reforms." Under this scenario, a large part of Russian society have higher incomes, but social unrest is growing - due to the inefficiency of state services and the growing of bureaucracy.
Medvedev disagreed with pessimistic conclusions of the experts.
"For Russia, this year was very challenging in terms of the investment climate in the part of political events. Elections are held, but the reform agenda has not been fully defined. Acute problems while suspended or unsolved - the investment climate, institutions, corruption, government work, law enforcement, judicial, administrative work, democratization " - Kudrin told reporters on the sidelines of the WEF.
Medvedev did not agree with the pessimistic assessment Kudrin 2012.
Having breakfast in Davos with Saving bank of RF, Anatoly Chubais, with his incredible logic noted: "... the quality and professionalism of the people who in our country today is responsible for the economy, are surprisingly high, I can not name a single layman ... But looking at the real economic situation, one cann’t say so. We are inefficient and uncompetitive. One direction I would call key. Corruption, infinitely weak protection of private property, dependence of the judiciary. This is the root of our problems. None of them is economic. The root of our economic problems - beyond the economy. The solution - outside the economy."
Why corruption was out of the economy - God knows, why ineffective - and suddenly the professionals ...
American investor and billionaire George Soros has called Russia a "sinking economy". “Forbes” writes it.
"It's sinking economy, led by Putin in the wrong direction," - he said at an economic forum in Davos. According to him, the best thing one can do - do not invest in Russia.
Notwithstanding Soros, Medvedev had concealed from the world oligarchy public that he and Putin has their own, a third, distinct from the detected Kudrin, the secret point of view that they are reported only for the citizens of Russia, only for residents, exclusively: Russian Federation has given a light to all developed countries: until they get out of its crisis, Russia has managed to not only get out of the crisis and to achieve, well, at least, the state of the pre-crisis 2007. Russia for 2012 and even 2011, and even for 2010 has dramatically improved its economy. That is bound to affect all areas of Russian society.
Six weeks before the Forum in Davos Prime Minister Medvedev on REN TV in his long interview five channels, including Marianna Maximovskaya, explained in detail that bullshit is not nonsense, but in fact - very, very, very again. As preskriptsii yet not old prime minister said that first in several years one can watch the country's population growth. He said that about: "It's there all sorts can chat, they say, the country is dying out, but among the experts, among experts, gentlemen ... you know. And this happiness - thanks to the measures taken in the last six or seven years. "
Apparently, Mr Medvedev did not know that the same joyful fact that "at last", "first" – one reports to public regularly for many years, as a rule, before the next elections, or prime ministers or presidents speeches in public.
One can only guess as experts had managed instead of mortality and fertility to talk about population growth, which could be observed due to the unprecedented increase in fertility, or because of the invasion of armada of migrants. Finally, the population could increase by aliens! In black suits. See at the end of a shift at the gates of the bushing of the plant - men in black are coming. They divorced in perestroika. Our aliens. Color of nation. Successive class.
However, the main uncertainty lies in the fact that nothing has changed around - payment for utility services jumping up and jumping, universities generate fake experts, medicines, food, are falsified or fabricated, wages in the factories does not increase, the number of drug addicts and HIV is growing and growing ...
What measures were taken to stop all it, to overcome the demographic crisis, if nothing has changed around? What had Medvedev in mind? Mystery. Secret. In a special folder. The measures we will return later.
So far, compare: mortality was:
In 1906-1910. - 29.6 (in the "enlightened" countries - 15.6, in "marginalized" countries - 23.8)
By 1917, the mortality rate in Russia was 32.5 per thousand (by the way, the Perm region - in the lead with a noticeable margin).
In the early 20's, despite the famine of 1921-1922. - 21 ppm.
In 1940, under Stalin - 18.0 (References of 1987; from Zemskov’ data from 2000 year references - 21.65)
In 1960, with a bad (according to Kurginyan) Khrushchev - 7.1
In 1970, with a good (according to Kurginyan) Brezhnev - 8.2
In 1985, with Gorbachev - 10.6
In 1993, the mortality rate was under Yeltsin in Russia exceeded the birth rate. By extrapolation calculations of Yulii Shchipakin in 1994, the number of "excess" deaths (compared to the pre-perestroika period) amounted to RF 1 million people a year, a similar number was in 1997, published by the State Statistics Committee.
In 2000, according to Perm - 24.7
In 2007, under Putin to Perm - around 25.0 according to my calculations, done in conjunction with the staff of the registrar of the Permian (calculations repeatedly published in the media.)
Infant mortality (under one year) in Russia in 1901 amounted to 40.5%, in 1910 - 38%, which is 1.5-3 times higher than in other countries (eg in Norway). Starting from 1920 in Russia infant mortality had reduced. And this is really "due to measures" - of the Bolsheviks, in contrast to the tsarist government they began to take an example from the developed countries.
Curtailment of the NEP (New economy policy), the beginning of industrialization by the expense of the countryside, accelerated collectivization and dispossession, marching against the Decree on Land and Lenin's speech about the middle peasant, the permit in 1927 the peasants to buy and sell the land (which led to a concentration of 60% of the land in the hands of 6% of households and thereby caused crop failure) led to an increase in the infant mortality rate (up to the level of the first decade of the XX century).
[Accordingly, the number of peasant uprisings in 1900 - 1917: Year Number: 1900 - 49; 1901 - 50; 1902 - 340; 1903 - 141; 1904 - 91; 1905 - 3228; 1906 - 2600; 1907 - 1337; 1908 -931; 1909 - 933; 1910 - 1030; 1911 - 613; 1912 - 300; 1913 - 135; 1914-1915-1916-1917 - 5782. Total for 1900-1917: 17560. Reference: "GPU has fixed the period January 1928 to December 1929 over 13000 riots and mass actions in the villages."]
The peak height of infant mortality in Russia was in 1933 (295.1 per 1000). Only by the end of the 30s, the infant mortality rate began to decline slowly, but remained a half to 2 times higher than in developed European countries.
The new principal reduction of infant mortality in Russia occurred at the end of the Second World War due to a number of factors. Basically - it is the introduction into clinical practice of antibiotics and sulfonamides, which led to a reduction in infant mortality from respiratory diseases, from majority of infectious diseases. In 1946, the infant mortality rate in Russia reached 92 in 1000, which is 74% lower than it was in 1940. It could drop much earlier, simply the most advanced in the world party organs slowed the development and introduction of penicillin.
Before perestroika infant mortality in the USSR (particularly in Ukraine) was lower than it was in the world.
By the end of XX century, due to the reforms, the infant mortality rate in Russia was 2-5 times higher than in developed countries (the official 2000: Russia - 15.3 per 1,000 births, Sweden - 3.4 per 1000, 3.0 per 1000 in Iceland ), that is, with an absolute decrease the relative gap was even greater than it was at the beginning of XX century. Such indicators are higher than in Russia in Romania and some former Soviet republics. Actual mortality rates and infant mortality rates in Russia to this day is much higher.
Trusting Medvedev sings with these words: "According to the Health Ministry, life expectancy in Russia in 2011 was 70.3 years. For men - 64.3 years and for women - 76.1. If we compare these figures with those for 2007, we can conclude that a marked increase in life expectancy of Russians - almost 3 years. Four years ago, on average, men lived to 61.4 years, women - to 73.9, and the average life expectancy was 67.5 years. Rosstat data published on the official website of the Health Ministry of the Russian Federation.
According to authorities, over 5 years, the number of deaths, including from external causes (road accidents, alcohol poisoning, suicide), decreased by 16.4% - from 2303.9 thousand in 2006 to 1925.1 thousand in 2011.
This sharp decline in mortality and simultaneous increasing the birth rate has led to the fact that the population decline in Russia decreased by 5.2 times - to 687.1 thousand in 2006 to 131.2 thousand in 2011. In August and September 2011, for the first time since 1991, was recorded natural increase in August by 10.7 thousand people, in September - by 4.2 thousand people. "(Site dp.ru)
Citizens, do you trust the Health Ministry? Come to the hospital in the community, and you'll do choice - to believe or not to believe.
Doctors in hospitals doesn’t treat, doctors in hospitals only register your condition. Medicine became whore pharmacology, illiterate doctors for the hide wages prescribe expensive and useless medicines. And well, if the hospital had not yet been eliminated ... When a business puts a microwave antenna directly on the high-rises - mortality is reduced, of course. Do you trust Rosstat? Especially its data on the average salary in the industry?
Of course, words "dramatic reduction in mortality" can only lead to nervous laughter. We see how business does not index the salary for factory workers for 4-5 years, some plants do not get paid over the years, the WTO began to destroy production, the prices of consumer goods are growing by leaps and bounds, corruption of officials is unheard of - these are "measures"? It is thanks to such measures population in Russia suddenly began to bear much more hard and decided not to die?
But pay attention to the fact that the death rates and birth rates are not calculated for the month and for the year, because they bind to decrease or increase in population over the last month or so - is meaningless. We note another gaffe of Rosstat and Health Ministry: in 1991, the USSR and Russia one had seen steady natural growth.
Two days after Medvedev’ conversation Putin in his “Message” said: "The population decreased by 1 million a year, we were able to reverse the situation, so in 2010 the population is growing. Five months one can see natural increase, birth rate exceeds the death rate." That is not from 2011, like in the words of Medvedev - but since 2010.
What did manage to break? Crowbar to the head? The war into houses only amplified, poor against poor, for place of a head of partnership of flat owners – because of unemployment and low income. The crisis - ask the developers - is still here, housing prices are going down – small number of people can buy flat. Drugs regularly arrive in the city, to Perm - 10 tons every year. Go to maternity hospitals, it will tell how many babies die. How powers could "break" - when factories are closing. Population “increased in 2010” – but it is nonsense, crisis was still ongoing from 2008.
From whose fingers Putin sucked 200 thousand increase in 2012 if the increase is calculated only of the Census, and it was in 2010? How Putin relates in 2012 to his phony increase the mortality and birth rates, death rates, and if the birth rate, etc. in his Massage in 2012, if it was counted only in 2013? How many migrants in 2011 were reported by citizens of the Russian Federation? How many citizens did leave the country?
But what kind of a magic wand did Putin wage to reduce mortality from 25 per thousand in 2007 to 8 per thousand births? Or, may be, fertility – he raised it to 25 by his own example with Kabaeva, doesn’t he?
It was the opposite! Situation was "broken" in such manner: the laws passed in the Putin years, the monetization of benefits, the new law on pensions, the new Housing Code, led to the extinction of pensioners: from 40% in the Soviet Union and 40% of Russia in the 90 to 28.7% in 2007. And when mass of the pensioners died - the lower turnout in elections removed, because pensioners give the majority of voices.
A mortality rate is still considered excluding the mass graves for the homeless at the ends of the cemeteries and without cemeteries on boundaries of districts. Yes, and other mortality hides - one only North Cemetery in Perm in the last 8 years has grown with a huge collective farm fresh graves, and it’s growth rate is not reduced. Perm North cemetery takes the first place in Europe in square sense. And this is a young cemetery, it is 35, and European cemeteries are old. And if crypts in such cemeteries as Highgate or Pere Lachaise are separated, then in the North cemetery graves are back to back.
But Putin is lying against even the official statistics. In 2011, almost like in 2010, officially birthrate was 12.6 ppm (which, of course, one and a half times too high), and the mortality rate was 13.5 per thousand officially (which is underestimated by almost half). Ie Russia continues even officially extinct. Imagine how "professionals" sit in the Health Ministry and the Federal Statistics Service, if they themselves discharge excess of deaths over births, and immediately tell reporters that in 2010 there was an increase of the population, and even at a million, from 142 million to 143 million!
According to foreign reports, which also do not account for the mass graves for the homeless and the "adjacent" cemeteries, the mortality in 2011 was 16.03 per thousand, and the birth rate - 10.9 ppm (http://www.indexmundi.com/russia/demographics_profile.html). Mortality is bigger than the birth rate in one and half times. See the difference with Putin-Medvedev data!
Global statistics organizations predict that Russia between 2025 and 2050 will lose in the population from 20 to 50 million people
To “break” the situation you need some force to do this. However, the state in Russia is so weak that it can not introduce a progressive scale of taxation. Russian entrepreneurs are not able to undertake. Nanotechnologies in Russia are a bluff. Capital flees from Russia. Illiterate and lazy businessmen send money in tax havens or American or Swiss banks. They are smart enough to even send capital to the developed countries, like the U.S., UK, France. Imagine that Vietnam invests in Germany ... But it's not the point. If it were only a bourgeois or bureaucrats. One could just shoot them or send them to master the North territories. And Russia would be resurrected from the dead.
However, Russia has no one to revive. Education reform has created an illiterate proletariat. There are almost no specialists and high skilled workers in factories. The collapse of the industry, lawlessness bourgeois, health care reform, alcoholism and adulterated food products made proletariat sick and lethargic. Education reform, drugs, AIDS, syphilis, degradation of parents, unemployment at the end of school and university made growing proletariat sick, moronic, indifferent and criminal.
From 1927 to 1930, the Soviet Union was put into operation 323 new enterprises. In 1931 alone, 518 first-born of the domestic industry (one or two a day) commissioned. Modern (at that time) industrial plants with dozens of industries were created - automobile and tractor, heavy engineering factories, power plants, metallurgical and chemical plants. In the mid-1930s Soviet industry (including mining) was second in the world, 8070 new large industrial enterprises were built.
In 1913 tsarist Russia holds a strong fifth in the world in the general level of economic development, by the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union came in second place behind the U.S. in terms of national income, and in many ways ahead of France, Britain, Germany and even USA. Dozens of new cities across the country were built. For the first time in our country mass production of airplanes, trucks, cars, tractors, combines, synthetic rubber, and various types of weapons and military equipment began. Over the years 1929-1941 600-700 large enterprises annually entered in order every year. The growth rate of heavy industry were two to three times higher than those that were in pre-revolutionary Russia in the years 1900-1913.
In modern Russia, “creative class” is only able to destroy, remove, close. Among the victims - thousands of enterprises, villages, small towns. The former Soviet Union as a result of the reforms has lost over 50% of the industry. During the Great Patriotic War the Soviet Union lost 30% of the industry of level of 40's. Raven got the freedom of speech, but lost the cheese. Fool, believed the fox.
The main point. Putin in his “Massage” agreed with account of Shchipakin that population in Russia decreased by 1 million a year.
Yulii Shchipakin, my colleague in ecologist movement in 80-th – 90-th, repeated my calculations in connection with 90-th. At the middle of 80-th I calculated the number of Stalin repressions with the data of different mortalities - 4-5 millions deaths above “usual” level.
(Data of Antonov-Ovseenko - 100 million, of Avtorkhanov - 60 million, of Khrushchev - 20 million are the clear fake; Zemskov’ data taken from the U.S. sources, nearly 1 million - seriously understated.)
If population decreased by 1 million due to reforms of Yeltsin-Putin-Medvedev, it means that from 1991 till 2012 there were about 23 millions deaths in Russia - above Brezhnev’ period level. It is much more than in Stalin period. Yeltsin-Putin-Medvedev killed much more people than Stalin killed. Can foreign lefts see it? Commitment to Stalin is 100% merit of liberals.
Is this good? Of course, it is good: the ordinary Russian citizens understand more than foreign "analysts." Ordinary citizens understand that the ruling class in Russia – is much more worse than Stalinist regime, worse than fascists.
But on the other hand – what does it mean a commitment to Stalin? This means that people will not protest actively. They protest, sitting in front of the TV. They are waiting for the new Stalin. And this situation is favorable to the Kremlin.
WORLD GENDARM. USA AND HITLER
The United States once again proved that they are a fascist state.
The United States has proved this many times. Within a few months of the occupation of North Korea, they executed about a million civilians, even Himmler did not dream of. In North Korea, the US burned cities with napalm. The United States used chemical weapons in Vietnam, burned villages, put medical experiments on Vietnamese captives. The United States, together with Europe, killed half a million of civilians in Iraq. The US invaded Iraq under the fictitious pretext that Saddam Hussein had the chemical weapons. The US did not find chemical weapons in Iraq. The United States, together with Europe, bombed the kindergartens of Belgrade, used shells with depleted uranium in Yugoslavia. The United States together with Europe staged a humanitarian catastrophe in a prosperous Libya, destroyed hundreds of thousands of civilians, destroyed industry, brutally killed Gaddafi. Under the auspices of the United States, a fascist organization IGIL (DAIS) was created. Today, the US is helping the IGIL’ fascists with all its might. The United States illegally invaded Afghanistan under the fictitious pretext of searching for Bin Laden. The US did not find bin Laden in Afghanistan.
The United States, together with Europe, supports the fascist regimes in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, where Russians are oppressed and where SS marches are held.
In 1992, in Los Angeles, American fascists brutally suppressed a peaceful protest. 9,000 policemen, 10,000 National Guard troops, 3,300 US Army and Marine Corps personnel, 1,000 FBI officers, armored vehicles, combat and police helicopters were entered into the city. The fire was opened to defeat, about 100 people were killed, more than 11 thousand people were arrested. About 500 of the detainees are still serving sentences in prisons - they have received from 25 years and to life imprisonment. Claims from the UN and the world community were not. Officials guilty of using force against peaceful demonstrators were not punished.
The United States plays a major role in NATO. Recently, NATO on its official page on Twitter posted an 8-minute video about the so-called "Forest Brothers", which after the Second World War led the so-called "partisan struggle" in the Baltic with the “Soviet regime”. The video is filmed in the style of documentary films, but it has nothing to do with the real story, because like it follows from the NATO video the "Forest Brothers" were real heroes and are an example for the modern army.
Wikipedia lies that the "Forest Brothers" - the armed national liberation forces operating in the 1940s and 1950s in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and opposing Soviet power, for restoring the state independence of these republics, lost in 1940 as a result of the Baltic accession to the USSR.
In fact, the "Forest Brothers" arose only after the victory of the USSR over Germany.
As you know, the Baltic SS men obeyed the Wehrmacht, 80% of the Jewish population in the Baltic Republics perished by their hands.
After the war, the former fighters of the Baltic SS battalions went into the woods and continued to kill. These are the same "Forest Brothers". According to the Russian Military Historical Society, "only in Lithuania in 1944-1956 so-called" Lithuanian patriots "brutally killed 25 thousand people, including about a thousand children. At least 80% were Lithuanians themselves. "
In 2011, the "Book of memory of the victims of guerrilla terror" was presented in Lithuania, where the names and surnames of more than 25 thousand people killed by "forest brothers" were collected. Among the victims there are about 1000 children under 16 and 50 babies.
President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers in 2009 called "Forest brothers" heroes and patriots.
May be, "Forest brothers killed only the Soviet" invaders "and their minions? In the period from 1944 to 1952, 1,562 representatives of the Soviet-party and Komsomol activists, 50 Soviet Army servicemen, 64 officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the MGB, 386 fighters of the fighter battalions, as well as members of their families were killed in Latvia. The "Forest Brothers" also killed collective farm organizers.
But even Wikipedia notes that during the years 1944-1958 more than 25,000 people died from the "Forest brothers" in Lithuania, of which about 23,000 were Lithuanians. Wikipedia only forgot to point out that 90% of killed Lithuanians were peaceful citizens, not combatants, who had nothing to do with the Soviets.
***
Donald Trump did not defeat Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama were not presidents of the United States. Hitler is the permanent president of the United States. For the reason Ford firms and many other American companies supplied strategic goods to Hitler throughout the Second World War.
19.7.2017
After the collapse of the USSR, the balance of power disappeared, which allowed the United States to begin global expansion - in Iraq, in Yugoslavia, and after "September 11" - in Afghanistan, then in Libya and Syria. Labor and capital all over the world have come face to face, without intermediaries in the form of a “socialism” camp. The competition between the US and the EU sharply intensified, the war of the euro and the dollar began. Therefore, Washington needed to reanimate the old image of an external enemy. A provocation followed with the Georgian attack on South Ossetia in 2008, then there was the maidan-2014 in Kiev
Washington resumed the Cold War, the Kremlin declaratively supported it. However, the bourgeoisie in Russia has not yet matured from class-in-itself to class-for-itself. Therefore, the state in Russia is weak, the government is not even able to collect a progressive tax, totalitarian Russia is just an American myth.
The Russian bourgeoisie continues to remain a comprador oriented to the West. So, oil tycoon Alekperov announced that he is more interested in the United States and Ukraine than Russia, Russian oligarch Abramovich created production in the USA and Canada, another Russian oligarch Mordashev created high-tech production in Detroit, Moscow keeps the stabilization fund in US banks at 1%.
The government and the president of Russia are executing the orders of the ruling class of the Russian comprador export bourgeoisie. In response to the sanctions, Moscow supplies the United States with titanium, oil, engines for intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed at Russia, and other missiles with these engines launch satellites monitoring the territory of Russia into space.
At the request of the IMF, the Kremlin raised its retirement age.
Liberal reforms in Russia, carried out under the dictation of the United States, since 1991 claimed 30 million lives.
Thus, Russia is a hidden ally of the United States, both in the economy and in foreign policy. So, Moscow supported the US sanctions against North Korea.
Let's see who Moscow chose as its allies.
Indians and blacks
- The problem of hunger and homelessness is very serious, at present there are more than 2 million homeless people in the country, some of which are war veterans.
- Only when transported from Africa, 9 million blacks died. A tablet with the saying of US President Jefferson flaunts in Liverpool, the Museum of Slavery - that slavery, despite the costs, served to develop the American economy.
In the USA, the last segregation law was repealed only in 1964.
Dog Laika was sent into space, knowing in advance that she would die. After that, a letter from a group of women from the state of Mississippi arrived at the UN. They demanded to condemn the inhuman attitude to animals in the USSR and put forward a proposal: "If it is necessary to send living creatures into space for the development of science, there are as many Negroes children in our city for this."
In the United States, discrimination against blacks and representatives of other national minorities in employment and wage levels continues. The unemployment rate among blacks is more than 2 times higher than that of whites.
On November 7, 2017, the National Registry of Exonerations published data according to which a black man is 8 times more likely than a white man to be convicted of a murder that he did not commit, and 12 times more likely to be mistakenly convicted of drug-related crimes. Black men are sentenced to imprisonment, which is on average 19.1% longer than that sentenced by white men in “similar situations”.
In the US, cases of killing black children by police are frequent, the court is always on the side of the police.
All this happens against the background of official propaganda of tolerance, multiculturalism, the obligatory presence of blacks in every theater troupe, film, in government structures and the implanted replacement of the word "black" by the word "African American."
During the years of the colonization of America, the British with the Spaniards exterminated, according to various sources, from 103 million (according to the calculations with the Verhulst equation) to 120 million Indians.
The indigenous population of America still lives on reservations with no rights.
Felon state
- There is a serious situation with the disappearance and abduction of children. About 1 million such messages are received annually.
- A huge number of street children, more than 2.5 million children and adolescents. One in seven Americans between the ages of 10 and 18 leads a wandering life.
- In the USA, 56% of the total number of drug addicts in the world are registered. About 86% of all drugs produced in the world are used in the USA.
- The United States ranks first in the world in the number of firearms in private hands. consequences: 30,000 deaths annually.
- The United States has one of the highest crime rates in the world. Not by the number of murders per 100 thousand people (Honduras, Venezuela and others are leading here), but by the number of robberies, rapes, and banditry.
- In the United States, even teenagers are sentenced to death.
- More than 2.6 million people are kept in American prisons, more than in the USSR under Stalin. Prisoners are often sexually abused, including by prison staff. More than 13% of prisoners become victims of sexual violence. According to the Department of Justice, the United States leads the world in the proportion of prisoners and convicts in the total number of adults in the country.
The United States is the only country in the world in which prisons use guard dogs to intimidate prisoners.
- The USA contains more than 50 illegal prisons in different countries, around the world.
- American intelligence agencies have been practicing abduction, torture and murder of citizens from different countries for many years.
- In 2014, more than 1,700 unarmed people were killed during the detention. During the 5 months of 2015, more than 500 unarmed people were killed during the detention.
- In 2014, a report was published on the use of numerous LEGALIZED forms of torture against citizens of different countries without charge.
- In the mid-twentieth century, the United States practiced sterilization of women of any age, under the most ridiculous pretexts.
- During Prohibition (the first half of the twentieth century), the US government poisoned beer, which led to the deaths of thousands of people.
- Medical errors are the 6th largest cause of death in the United States, while the medical care system is aimed at the wealthy, only 27% of the population have medical insurance.
As for democracy. 04/20/2018 The US State Department published a report on the situation of human rights in the world for 2017, in which the United States position itself as a “human rights defender” and take on the role of “judge in the human rights issue”. What is the situation in the USA itself?
- During the Great Depression, due to dispossession of farmers by banks (read Steinbeck's “Bunches of Anger”), more than 8 million people died according to demographic estimates. According to similar estimates, during the period of Stalin's rule (except for World War II) - 5 million deaths above normal.
- The President of the United States is elected by an electoral college whose opinion may not coincide with most US citizens.
- The US Senate Agricultural Bill S-510, passed in June 2010, under the threat of criminal liability prohibits the cultivation, sharing, exchange or sale of products grown on a garden plot. He also instructs American farmers what to plant, in what quantity and how to grow. This bill is published under the title “Act for the Control of the Safety of Farmed Foods”.
- In the USA, freedom of speech is not allowed, a teacher who told the children, that Santa Claus does not exist, got fired.
- In the USA, journalists are killed with impunity.
In February 2015, journalist Ned Colt (NBC) was killed in the United States - "died of a stroke." He was allegedly abducted during the war in Iraq, was held captive for several days, and then released.
Bob Simon (CBS) died in a car accident. He was also allegedly abducted and was held captive for 40 days in prison in Iraq.
David Carr (The New York Times) suddenly died after an interview with Edward Snowden and had just started a debate against NBC's Brian Williams, calling Williams a liar for the story that he was allegedly shot down during the Iraq war.
Bob Hagerr, an NBC aviation expert, crashed with his wife in an accident.
Brian Williams, caught online on lies about the Iraq war, is also killed.
Four journalists are dead within 24 hours, in the United States, not in a war zone.
Those journalists who oppose the “party line” are either fired or imprisoned like Assange.
- 1967 - a riot in Detroit. Fire to defeat, 43 died, about five hundred wounded. More than 7,000 people were arrested.
1970 - the shooting of students at the University of Kent and Jackson. Four were killed in one, two in the second.
On May 2, 1992, 7300 police officers, 1950 sheriffs, 10,000 National Guard troops, 3,300 U.S. Army and Marine Corps officers, 1,000 FBI officers, armored vehicles, combat and police helicopters were brought into the city to suppress a peaceful demonstration in Los Angeles. There was opened fire to kill, according to various sources, from 50 d to 100 people. killed, more than 12 thousand people were arrested. About 500 people from among the detainees received a prison term of 25 years and up to life imprisonment. There were no complaints from the UN and the world community. Officials guilty of using force against peaceful demonstrators were not punished.
2011-2012, in various cities of the United States, during the dispersal of the rally Occupy Wall-street protests, gas, plastic bullets, and batons were used against the protesters.
There are 91 organizations in the United States with the right to arrest you.
To the above, you can add total surveillance, revealed by Snowden.
Rich America
Every fifth American homeless has a job, but he doesn't even have enough money to rent a room.” Many live in their cars, because sometimes an old car is cheaper to buy than paying for an apartment. 15% of American families live below the poverty line. 42% of the US population lives near the poverty line. 36 million Americans are starving (15% of the population). In the 80s, 12% of Americans consumed only a sandwich per day.
- 27% of the population do not have health insurance.
- For 2014 in the USA - more than 350,000 suicides.
- In the United States, most of the food is harmful, with GMOs, hormones, chemistry, and also falsified. American corporations produce the largest amount of fast food and carbonated drinks in the world.
- Every third American is obese, the average American consumes the same amount of resources as 32 Kenyans.
Threat to humanity
- The USA consumes 50% of the world's energy resources.
At the same time, real production in the USA is only 20% (the rest is the speculative sector, including hedging, etc., which served as the basis for the 2008 crisis), i.e. power consumption is mostly personal.
- The USA is one of the main suppliers of GMO products in the world.
- 50% of all air emissions are from the USA.
- Only the US public debt in 2019 amounted to 23 trillion. dollars, the total debt of the United States in 2001 amounted to 370 trillion. doll.
- After the invasion of the United States in Afghanistan, the supply of opium poppy from Afghanistan increased tenfold.
The world's first killers
- Over the past century, the United States, under various pretexts, has invaded more than 60 countries of the world. The loss of civilian population in these countries, according to conservative estimates, exceeded 80 million people (more than all the victims during World War II).
- During the two months of the occupation of North Korea, the US military exterminated 1 million civilians with torture, Himmler is resting.
- In Vietnam, the Americans used chemical weapons, conducted medical experiments a la Mengele over captured Vietnamese.
- The USA is more than 700 military bases in 130 countries of the world, and the maintenance of bases is paid for by these countries.
- The United States is the only country to use nuclear weapons against civilians.
- In the USA, elements of chemical weapons, parts of nuclear weapons, and strains of deadly viruses and bacteria are constantly disappearing without a trace.
- In all recent wars, the United States massively use prohibited weapons: cluster, phosphorous, and also with depleted uranium bombs and shells - thereby causing local contamination of the area.
In Yugoslavia, the United States killed 2,000 civilians, including children (bombed kindergartens), 6,000 were wounded and crippled, in Iraq, more than 0.5 million civilians were exterminated, a humanitarian catastrophe in Libya, and unleashed a war in Syria.
Of course, in every moment with a subtitle only a small part of the overall picture is ajar, the overall picture is much worse.
***
And more about the American mentality. The father forbade his son to use his car for any wrongdoing. The son took his father’s gun and shot himself, writing in a suicide note that he could not imagine life without a car. Same-sex marriage is legalized in the USA. In twenty-three states, sex with a horse is legal. Denunciations to the police of children oo parents in the United States are the norm. USA is a leader in the production of pornography. During the Trump election, a quarter of eligible voters spoke out in favor of Clinton, who, in a sober state, barked like a dog on the whole tv broadcast/
This is American fascism, with a liberal-democratic bow.
The USA supports fascism in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, established a fascist regime in Ukraine.
4.18.2020
THE CRISIS OF THE PROTEST MOVEMENT
The first blow to the worker and Communist movement has caused rapidly-forced collectivization according to Trotsky’ plan, that Stalin adopted, the dispossession of the middle peasants (everything against Lenin’ policy), the murder of the delegates of the XVII Congress of CFS in 1934, and Moscow open processes 1935-1936 years, which the comrades of Lenin attributed ridiculous accusations, then these people were killed.
What are the results?
Class and party
Here are a few quotes from Lenin's work "What to Do".
"The workers could not have a social-democratic consciousness. It could only have been brought from outside. The history of all countries shows that the working class is able to develop only a trade unionist consciousness exclusively by its own efforts... " [1]
At this point, the materialist Lenin becomes an idealist, it is not matter that develops from itself, but the idea is primary, it is brought from outside into the dark, stagnant, inert matter of the working class.
However, history shows that both the Paris Commune and the Soviets were created by the workers themselves, without party spiritual pastors.
Stalin made Lenin's situational statement of workers ' illiteracy a conceptual idea. Today, " bringing political consciousness to the masses", "the inability of the workers to break out of the trade union framework by theiselves" - is a fundamental idea for all bourgeois parties.
"The consciousness of the working class cannot be a truly political consciousness if the workers are not trained to respond to all and every case of arbitrariness and oppression, violence and abuse, to whatever class these cases may belong; and moreover, to respond precisely from the social-democratic point of view, and not from any other point of view" (p. 69).
Pay attention to the word "accustomed". Lenin wants to teach the workers how parents teach their children? On the other hand, if the workers do not respond to the oppression by the authorities of such bourgeois as Furgal, Grudinin, or Navalny, this, on the contrary, is good, it means that the remnants of independent thinking have not yet been eradicated from the working class.
Why does Lenin put the Social Democrats as the standard of everything? And if the Social Democrats are wrong – should the working class follow their mistakes? Today, the working class is called upon to respond to the oppression of sexual minorities, the provocateurs beaten by the police, and the dictatorship of those whom the United States appoints as dictators.
If Leo Tolstoy, Gorky, and many other great people were outraged by the police suppression of senseless student demonstrations in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1899, today demonstrations of this type, ridiculous, exalted, shocking and provocative, cause a desire to support the police.
"Who should the team of professional revolutionaries consist of? The founders of modern scientific socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged, in their social position, to the bourgeois intelligentsia. In the same way, in Russia, the theoretical teaching of social-democracy emerged quite independently of the spontaneous growth of the working-class movement, and emerged as a natural and inevitable result of the development of thought among the revolutionary-socialist intelligentsia." (p. 31).
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kollontai, and many others laid down their lives for the cause of the working class. These are unique cases, there are no such cases today. But here Lenin 1) separates the evolution of social-democracy from the working-class movement, 2) considers the development of social-democracy independent of the working-class movement, so he clearly distorts history.
“And I will defend this position, no matter how much you incite the crowd against me for my "anti-democracy". And so I say: 1) that no revolutionary movement can be strong without a stable and continuous organization of leaders; 2) that the wider the mass that is spontaneously involved in the struggle, which forms the basis of the movement and participates in it, the more urgent the need for such an organization and the stronger this organization must be (for the easier it is for all demagogues to attract the undeveloped strata of the mass); 3) that such an organization should consist mainly of people professionally engaged in revolutionary activities” (p. 121).
This is what Stalin said: the party should consist of special people, a kind of swordsmen.
Of course, no one is against the organization. But whose organization is it? Either it is an organization of the intelligentsia, or of the workers themselves. Either the workers have the intelligence and power to displace the objectionable head of the organization, or they do not.
Lenin writes about the undeveloped strata of the masses. In 1917, in Russia, workers had at best 3 classes of education, and not all of them. In the 80s, workers had 10 years of education, and some had higher education or incomplete higher education. Today, workers visit libraries, listen to the radio, watch TV, and use the Internet. Highly skilled workers have received a much deeper education over the years of complex work than the education of many party functionaries. For such workers, it is precisely the propaganda of the social-democratic professional revolutionaries that appears to be empty demagoguery.
"The only serious organizational principle for the leaders of our movement should be: the strictest secrecy, the strictest selection of members, and the training of professional revolutionaries. If these qualities are present , then something more than "democracy" is also guaranteed, namely, complete comradely trust between revolutionaries... they have no time to think about toy forms of democracy, but they feel their responsibility very vividly, knowing from experience that the organization of real revolutionaries will not stop at any means to get rid of an unfit member" (p. 142).
After Stalin had been rude on the phone to Krupskaya, after the XII Congress of the RKPb had ignored his call to remove Stalin, Lenin could see for himself that "comradely confidence" and "getting rid of an unfit member" were his illusions, and a harmful one at that.
"And our wise men, at a time when the whole crisis of Russian social-democracy is explained by the fact that the spontaneously awakened masses do not have sufficiently prepared, developed and experienced leaders, speak with the profundity of Ivanushka: "it is bad when the movement does not come from the bottom"!" (p.122).
“This kind of' “push from the outside” was not too much, but, on the contrary, too little, ungodly and shamelessly little, in our movement, because we were too diligently stewing in our own juice, too slavishly worshipping the elementary “economic struggle of the workers with the masters and with the government”. We, revolutionaries by profession, must and will continue to engage in this kind of" pushing " a hundred times more. But it is the fact that you choose such a vile word as the "boost side", which inevitably makes the working (at least working as undeveloped, underdeveloped as you) distrust of all who bear his political knowledge and revolutionary experience, causes an instinctive desire to resist all such people - you are a demagogue, and demagogues are the worst enemies of the working class” (P. 122-123).
First, today a revolutionary by profession is a parasite who lives on the membership fees of his organization. The workers have no confidence in such people.
Secondly, a person differs from an animal in that he thinks. If someone takes away this distinction from the workers, claims that they themselves cannot think, because they, the party pastors, have the right to bring them political knowledge from the outside, this someone will certainly arouse the distrust of the workers.
Third, today this thesis of Lenin is not just outdated, but harmful. For there have been so many nudges from bourgeois liberals, Stalinists, various pro-American anarchists, Trotskyists, loudmouths, and demagogues in recent history that these nudges are already making the workers angry.
The bourgeois "Choice of Russia" was pushing for strikes, Academician Sakharov was pushing, and the shouter Grigory Isaev was pushing. Udaltsov-Tyutyukin and Navalny are pushing. Finally, by order of the US state Department Tikhanovskaya and her accomplices in Belarus called to strikes .
However, the whole pathos of Marxism is the affirmation of the independent thinking of the worker. Lenin repeats after Marx: socialism is "the living creativity of the masses." The masses, not the parties. Socialism, according to Lenin, is "a struggle against all kinds of oppression," and this struggle is without the creativity of the parties.
It is not difficult to see that in his polemics with the anarchists, Lenin completely repeats the ideas of Bernstein-Kautsky.
It is not difficult to see that today ALL parties, both left and right, use the Bernstein scheme, which boils down to the following: the party bonzes write the program, the party gray ranks bring it to the masses, the masses follow the program, mainly vote in elections, after which the party bonzes get senior government posts.
All parties reject materialism, which claims that the class is primary and the party is secondary; all parties follow bourgeois idealism and strive to lead the working class.
Thus, the idea of Kautsky and "a government that meets the proletariat" is realized, for which Lenin called Kautsky a renegade. Practically all Trotskyist organizations follow Kautsky's thesis.
Thus, the left-wing parties turn out to be right-wing, bourgeois - in their practice.
In many of his other works, Lenin directly contradicts his own book "What to Do?"
A state official in the USSR is a party official. "Let's reduce the role of state officials to the role of simple executors of the will of the working people!"("The order from the Council of labor and defense to the local Councils").
Socialism – when "everyone after working out their 8-hour lesson begins to engage in state activities" ("the next tasks of the Soviet government"), "every cook can not manage the state, but every cook must learn this".
And these were not empty words – in the first years of Soviet power, 20 million people passed the educational program of the state service.
However.
One of the main reasons for the defeat of the revolution
Marx writes in a letter to Zasulich that if the Russian revolution does not remain alone, and the working-class movement of the West does not reconcile itself to the capitalist system, then the victory of the revolution and socialism in Russia with its peasant communal tradition will be assured. Otherwise, the Russian revolution as a communist revolution will be doomed to failure [2].
In 1882, Marx and Engels linked the question of the Russian and world revolution. If the Russian revolution serves as a signal for the proletarian revolution in the West, then both of them will complement each other [3].
Thus, Lenin and Trotsky, rejecting the idea of the victory of socialism in a single country, followed the classics. Trotsky deduced the necessity of a world revolution from the international division of labor, Lenin pointed out that backward, agrarian Russia was not ripe for a socialist revolution, capitalism had barely begun to develop in it, it was necessary that the revolution in Russia should push revolutions in the developed countries, then the victorious proletariat of these countries would come to the aid of the Russian proletariat.
Stalin followed the Lenin-Trotsky line even after Lenin's death in 1924, but then accepted Bukharin's idea of the possibility of the victory of socialism in a single country.
Lenin, on the other hand, made no secret of the fact that the socialist revolution in Russia was defeated – even before the revolution in Germany was defeated.
In 1918, when the left-wing Marxists accused him of "building" state capitalism, Lenin replied that state capitalism was a step towards progress.
In the same year, he points out to the workers who want to expel the bourgeoisie, nationalize the factory and start managing it independently, that they cannot manage the enterprise, because they do not know either production or the market [4].
Therefore, in 1919, at the congress of agricultural communes, Lenin argued that "we cannot “introduce” socialism' now", which would be good if the “grandchildren will see socialism”.
The dictatorship of the proletariat, Lenin emphasizes, is not only and not so much the suppression of the bourgeoisie, but the ability of the working class to take the economy of the whole country into its own hands.
It is impossible to "introduce" socialism in Russia, writes Lenin, "for we are illiterate" [5].
Therefore, the Workers ' Opposition (Shlyapnikov, Myasnikov, etc.), which decided that the time had already come to transfer power to the workers, without receiving broad support from the masses, disappeared from the political scene.
The matter does not end with the realization of the defeat of the socialist revolution in Russia. There is another angle from which to consider the question of relation between class and party.
In the article" The Infantile disease of Leftism in Communism " of 1920, Lenin attacked the German Social Democrats, not wanting to understand their opposition to the party class.
But in 1923, when the XII Congress of the RKPb was being held, he understood this contrast from his own experience.
Plekhanov pointed out that the dictatorship of the proletariat is as different as heaven from earth from the dictatorship of a group of revolutionaries-commoners. The Congress of the RKPB, without Lenin's participation, decided that the dictatorship of the proletariat was expressed in the form of the dictatorship of the party.
Lenin, on the other hand, emphasized that "the dictatorship of the proletariat is expressed in the form of Soviet power, a form found by the workers themselves" ("The State and the Revolution"), and he spoke about the same thing at the 1st Congress of the Comintern.
For more information, see [6].
It is not difficult to see that today ALL the left-wing organizations of the world stand on the positions of Bernstein-Kautsky-Stalin.
Thus, all these organizations are anti-communist.
But the anti-communism of the left does not end with following Bernstein.
Purchased lefties
What are the modern Trotskyists, socialists, Communists, and in general all the leftists doing? Are they related to the struggle of the working class in their own country? Nothing like that. They announce that a socialist revolution has begun in some country, and collect money from members of their party to go for a walk in that country. If Washington appoints someone in some oil-or gas-rich country as a dictator, the left immediately agrees and says that this "dictator" is the main obstacle to the world socialist revolution. The left is also fighting Russian imperialism. Not with American, God forbid! No leftist in the world will ever say a word about the American world gendarme. The left also protects the rights of women, blacks, pederasts and protects nature from Russia. In short, anything but the struggle of the working class. The left declares the protection of pederasts – you will laugh - an integral part of the struggle of the working class.
After Strauss Kahn was removed from the leadership of the IMF by Washington with an idiotic accusation of sexual harassment, and no matter that the accusation turned out to be false, after the whole world saw the idiocy of accusations of sexism and so on, it became obvious that the women's rights movement, feminism, is being used by American capital for its own interests. Feminism has degraded, gone wild, and become a tool for the suppression of the proletariat.
The same thing happened much earlier with the environmental movement. Since the 80s, Greenpeace has been a tool in the hands of American corporations to suppress competitors. Even earlier-the trade union movement became completely subordinated to capital, Russia in the 80s and 90s learned from its own experience how the AFT KPP and others implement the interests of the US State Department in different countries.
I have already written how in the United States in the 60s, the introduction homosexuality into the protest movement by the secret services, along with anti-exhibitionism, the hippie movement, etc., led to the disintegration of the movement.
Today, the accusation of homophobia is used by Washington as a club for those governments that are trying to show independence from the United States.
Another club has been created exclusively for Russia – the accusation of nationalism, of great-power chauvinism, and more specifically, of anti-Semitism. Although there is no less anti-Semitism in the USA or France than in the USSR.
Even the anti-racism movement has been perverted by capital, reduced to absurdity, turned into its opposite – black racism. The anti-racism movement has discredited itself, turned out to be a means in the hands of the US Democratic Party to achieve Biden's victory.
In the same way, the anti-fascism movement was discredited, and the anti-fascists, along with the anarchists, also found themselves in the service of Biden.
The literacy and intellectual level of the leaders of left-wing organizations and the professorships of left-wing organizations is discouragingly low.
One of the Russian luminaries of reason, professor Mikhail Khazin, speaking on TV, said: "Marx argued that if the world becomes a single system of division of labor, capitalism will end."
But Marx never said that. This thesis was put forward by Rosa Luxemburg, and Lenin convincingly refuted it.
The professorship in Europe and the United States is even more primitive. All of America imagines that Sanders is a socialist!
However, it is far from just a "non-systemic" protest or a sharp decline in the mental abilities of the left – since the Frankfurt School.
Previously, the special services, for example, Germany managed to emasculate left-wing organizations, impose the path of terrorism on them, and then eliminate them.
Today, Trotskyist organizations openly sided with Washington, repeating propaganda accusations of the dictatorship of Milosevic, Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad. Trotskyist organizations, under the guise of resolutions against the bombing, objectively served the United States, they cleared the way for NATO in the mass consciousness.
It came to the point that the Trotskyists supported Hitler's Maidan in Ukraine.
Capital has tamed even the communist parties. Some of them are Stalinist, that is, they have nothing to do with Soviet power, with the power of the working class, with socialism.
Today, the authorities of all parties, systemic and non-systemic, from the ultra-right to the ultra-left, have created a protective buffer between themselves and the masses. Capital pays for the election campaigns of the Communist parties, and the more candidates from the Communist parties become deputies – the more money capital pays to the communist parties.
Once again: "socialism is the living creativity of the masses." The masses, not the parties.
Of course, every representative of one or another left-wing organization is sure and will convince others that he is a Marxist, a socialist, a communist. But the masses must understand that in reality they all are anti-communists.
In 1877, the work of Petr Alekseev in court "process of fiftieth," said: "... the Russian working people can only hope to themselves and no one from whom to expect except from one of our intelligent young people..."
Today the Russian working people first need to fear is the intelligent young people and to rely only on itself.
In hydrodynamics, there is an interesting effect: heating from above dampens the convection from below. In the 1980s, the Liberal Democrats ' instilling of a multi-party system with the support of the CPSU elite suppressed the growth of the labor movement. President Putin was particularly zealous in instilling a multiparty system. Multiparty heating stifles activity from below. To suppress - one needs to lead!
Consequently, the working people should not involve themselves in bourgeois parliamentary election campaigns. Workers need to avoid being used by any left-wing organizations. One can't trust their demagoguery, their slogans, their oracles. The only way out is in the self-organization of the workers, in their independent actions, independent of the various parties.
Workers, doctors, teachers, and others need to create their own security services, their own mutual aid funds, and their own mass media.
Literature
1. Lenin, (The complete collection of essays, vol. 6, p. 79.
2. Marx, K. The letter to V. I. Zasulich // Essays, 2nd ed., vol. 19. M.: State Publishing House of Polit. literature, 1961. S. 250-251.
3. Marx K., Engels F. Preface to the second Russian edition of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" // Op. 2-e ed. Vol. 19. M.: State Publishing House of Polit. literature, 1961. p. 305.
4. Rees A. V. Journey to the revolution. Russia is in the midst of a Civil War. 1917-1918.
5. Lenin, On cooperation // 5-e ed. Vol. 45. M.: Polit. literature, 1970. p. 377.
6. Ikhlov B. L. On the dialectic of the class – party relationship.
http://krasnoe.tv/node/19953?withThread=01
http://www.proza.ru/2013/11/21/1006
HOLOCAUST-2 or FASCIST USA
History of North Americans is not as rich as Arabs or Jews history. But in the short term ... they still managed to show the world the wonders of humanity and tolerance, success and diversity of opinions. Dogs save static stereotypes, more of that, dogs keep dynamic stereotypes handed down, and what we can say about Homo sapiens, with such history pedigree. The English were first who built concentration camps, for Boers. In India the British destroyed the 90 million population.
Only in 1661-1774 years about one million slaves were imported from Africa in the United States, and more than nine million Blacks died on the way. Income of slave traders from this operation in the prices of the mid-XVIII century was not less than 2 bln. doll. An astronomical figure for that time. Only in the 1863 Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery. But only formally. Remember Mayakovsky: "To Whites – dollars, to Blacks - no ..." The last racist laws abolished in the United States only in 1965. But how to delete from memory photos of the beginning of the twentieth century, where happy Yankees over the corpses of slain Blacks? President Thomas Jefferson said that the slavery, in general, is a bad thing, however, it strongly contributed to the overall progress of the United States. Read - white progress. This Jefferson phrase is captured on the wall in the museum of slavery in Liverpool.
American wars begin with the first attack on the Injuns in 1622 at Jamestown, then the war with the Injuns-algokins in New England in the 1635-1636 followed, then the war in 1675-1676, which ended with destruction of nearly half of the cities in Massachusetts. Other wars and skirmishes with the Injuns continued until 1900. Over the entire period of the outcome of the Europeans from the Old World the English with the Spanish had destroyed 120 million Injuns (I may prove this number with equation of Ferhulst), which is allows you to talk about real genocide, greatly exceeding the mass murder of Jews by Hitler. Add to that 100,000 Injuns sterilized.
Here are the known reference: other examples of US aggression.
1833 y. – USA invasion of Argentina, there was an uprising in Argentina that time.
1835 - Mexico. US sought to capture Mexico territory used its unstable political situation. Having started from the early 20-ies. the colonization of Texas, in 1835, US inspired the revolt of Texas settlers, who soon declared the secession of Texas from Mexico and declared its "independence."
1835 - US invasion of Peru, there were strong agitation of the people in Peru that time.
1836 - another invasion of Peru.
1840 - American invasion in Fiji, several villages were destroyed.
1843 - US invasion of China
1844 - another invasion of China, the suppression of the anti-imperialist uprising
1846 - aggression against the New Granada (Colombia)
1849 - US Navy were close to Smyrna, to force the Austrian authorities to release an arrested American.
1849 - Shelling Indochina.
1851 - American troops landed on the island of Johanna, to punish the local authorities for the arrest of the captain of the American ship.
1852 - US invasion of Argentina during popular unrests.
1853-1856 - English-American invasion of China, where US and England were knocked out by the military confrontations currently favorable terms of trade.
1853 - invasion of Argentina and Nicaragua during the popular unrests.
1853 - American warship came to Japan to force it to open its ports to international trade.
1854 - Americans had destroyed the Nicaraguan town of San Juan del Norte (Greytown), so they took their revenge for insulting of Americans.
1854 - United States made an attempt to seize the Hawaiian Islands, captured Tiger Island near Isthmus of Panama.
1855 - American squads led William Walker invaded Nicaragua. In 1856 with the support of US government, he proclaimed himself president of Nicaragua. American adventurer tried to connect Central America to the United States and turn it into a base for US slave-owning planters. However, the combined armies of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras ousted Walker of Nicaragua. He was later captured and shot in Honduras.
1855 - American invasion of Fiji and Uruguay.
1856 - The invasion of Panama.
1857 - Two invasions of Nicaragua.
1858 - Intervention in Fiji, punitive operation was carried for killing of two Americans.
1858 - Invasion of Uruguay.
1859 - Attack on the Japanese fort of Taku.
1859 - The invasion of Angola during the civil unrests.
1860 - The invasion of Panama.
Attention! 1862 - the expulsion of all Jews from Tennessee with confiscation of property.
1863 - Punitive expedition to Shimonoseki (Japan), where "anybody insulted the American flag".
1864 - military expedition to Japan to beat from Japanese favorable conditions in trade.
1865 - Paraguay. Uruguay in the unlimited military assistance the US, Britain, France, etc. invaded of Paraguay and destroyed 85% of the population of this rich in that time country.
1865 - introduction of American troops in Panama during the coup.
1866 - unprovoked attack on Mexico
1866 - a punitive expedition to China for the attack on the American consul.
1867 - a punitive expedition to China for the murder of several American sailors.
1867 - the attack on Midway Island.
1868 - multiple invasion of Japan during the Japanese civil war.
1868 - invasion of Uruguay and Colombia.
1874 - the invasion of China and Hawaii.
1876 - the invasion of Mexico.
1878 - the attack on the Islands of Samoa.
1882 - the invasion of Egypt.
1888 - an attack on Korea.
1889 - a punitive expedition to Hawaii.
1890 - introduction of US troops in Haiti.
1890 - Argentina. Deployment of troops "to protect the interests of Buenos Aires."
1891 - Chile. Clashes US troops with insurgents.
1891 - Haiti. The suppression of the uprising of black workers on the island of Navassa, which, according to US statements belonged to the US.
1893 - introduction of troops to Hawaii, the invasion of China.
1894 - Nicaragua. Within a month, the troops occupying Bluefields.
1894 - 1896 - the invasion of Korea.
1894 - 1895 - China. US troops are involved in the Sino-Japanese War.
1895 - Panama. US troops invaded of the Colombian province.
1896 - Nicaragua. US troops invaded of Corinto.
1898 - US troops invaded of the port of San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1898 - Hawaii. Capturing of islands by US troops.
1899 - 1901 - Philippine-American War
1899 - Nicaragua. US troops invaded the port Bluefields.
1901 - the deployment of troops to Colombia.
1902 - the invasion of Panama.
1903 - United States sent warships to the Panama Isthmian in order to isolate the Colombian army. November 3 was proclaimed political independence of the Republic of Panama. In the same month, Panama, were virtually completely dependent on the United States, was forced to sign a treaty with the United States, according to which the territory for construction of the canal "in perpetuity" was provided in the use of the United States.
1903 - the invasion of Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Syria.
1904 - sending troops to Korea, Morocco and the Dominican Republic.
1905 - US troops intervene in a revolution in Honduras.
1905 - the invasion of Mexico (dictator Porfirio D;az helped to suppress the rebellion).
1905 - sending troops to Korea.
1906 - the invasion of the Philippines, the suppression of the liberation movement.
1906 - 1909 - American troops are in Cuba during the elections.
1907 - American troops enforced protectorate of "dollar diplomacy" in Nicaragua.
1907 - US troops intervened in a revolution in the Dominican Republic
1908 - American troops are in Panama during the elections.
1910 - attempts to chop off anything in Mexico.
1910 - Nicaragua. US troops invaded the port of Corinto and Bluefields. The United States sent military forces in Nicaragua and organized anti-government conspiracy (1909), in which Celaya was forced to flee the country. In 1910 the junta was formed from the pro-American generals: X. Estrada, E. Chamorro and the employee of American mining company A. Diaz. In the same year Estrada became president, but the following year he was replaced by A. Diaz, supported by US troops.
1911 - Americans landed in Honduras, to support the uprising under the leadership of former President Manuel Bonnily against the legitimately elected President Miguel Davila.
1911 - the suppression of anti-US rebellion in the Philippines.
1911 - introduction of troops in China.
1912 - American troops are in Havana (Cuba).
1912 - American troops are in Panama during the elections.
1912 - the invasion of US troops in Honduras.
1912 - 1933 - occupation of Nicaragua, constant struggle with the guerrillas. Nicaragua has become a colony of the monopoly "United Fruit Company" al. US companies. In 1914, Washington signed an agreement by which the United States had the right to build an inter-oceanic canal in the territory of Nicaragua. In 1917 E. Chamorro became president, the US concluded with him several new agreements which led to even greater enslavement of the country.
1914 - US troops are in the Dominican Republic, the battle with the rebels of the Santa Domingo.
1914 - 1918 - a series of incursions into Mexico.
1914 - 1934 - Haiti. After numerous uprisings America introduced its troops, the occupation continued for 19 years.
1916 - 1924 - 8-year-old occupation of the Dominican Republic.
1917 - 1933 - the military occupation of Cuba, economic protectorate.
1918 - 1922 - intervention in Russia. The Americans were killing civilians, robbing the country, there are many facts, photos in archives.
Lenin said that tsarist Russia was the gendarme of Europe. But those who know the history of Russia, understand that Russia was a pale shadow of the United States in terms of aggression.
1918 - 1920 - Panama. The deployment of troops to quell the unrest after the elections.
1919 - Costa Rica. The revolt against the regime of President Tinoco. Under US pressure Tinoco resigned as president, but the unrest in the country have not ceased. The landing of US troops to "protect American interests". Elections of the President D. Garcia. “Democratic” rule had restored in the country.
1919 - American troops are fighting on the side of Italy against Serbs in Dolmatov.
1919 - American troops are in Honduras during the elections.
1920 - Guatemala. 2-week US intervention.
1921 - American supported for the “rebels”, who fought for the overthrow of Guatemalan President Carlos Herrera for the benefit of the US United Fruit Company.
1922 - intervention in Turkey.
1922 - 1927 - American troops are in China during the popular uprising.
1924 - 1925 - Honduras. Troops invaded of the country during the elections.
1925 - Panama. US forces dispersed a general strike.
1926 - Nicaragua. Invasion.
1927 - 1934 – US troops are posted over whole China.
1932 – US invasion of El Salvador from the sea. There was an uprising in Salvador that time.
1937 - single military clash with Japan.
1937 - Nicaragua. With US troops support Somoza comes to power, displacing the legitimate government of Hamid Sacasa. Somoza became the dictator, his family ruled the country following 40 years.
1939 - introduction of US troops in China.
1945 - The US shed two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9, about 200 000 (according to other sources, 0.5 million) were killed. People, mostly women and children. There is a widespread opinion that these bombs were dropped in order to save American lives. In fact these bombs were dropped in order to intimidate the Soviet Union. After the bombing discouragement of Japanese soldiers was not observed, the Soviet troops were forced to destroy the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, North Korea, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. And only on the 2nd of September Derevianko and MacArthur received from the Japanese instrument of surrender. After the occupation of Japan by American troops 10 million people died from hunger. Moreover, as usual, the Americans fully demonstrated their civilization: a tradition was wearing them souvenirs made from bones and other body parts of dead Japanese.
And after that!! – today 30% of Japanese think that no US, but USSR shed atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
1948 - 1953 - military operations in the Philippines. The decisive part of Yankees in punitive actions against the Filipino people. The death of many thousands of Filipinos.
In 1948, the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from North Korea. Kim Il Sung, the head of Korean partisans who fought against the Japanese occupiers, became the head of the administration of this part of the peninsula. The Americans didn’t withdraw their troops from South Korea, did not recognize local people's power and created its own military administration. They dispersed the guerrilla units of the Koreans who fought against the Japanese and substantially replaced the Japanese occupation for the US occupation. Syngman Rhee formally became the head of South Korea. South Korean army intensively trained by specialists from the Pentagon. Just before the outbreak of hostilities, June 18, 1950, George Dulles inspected the troops of Syngman Rhee.
June 23 Syngman Rhee troops launched a massive artillery preparation. June 25, Sunday, at four o'clock in the morning pro-American forces of South Korea attacked North Korea across whole the contact line of the 38th parallel. Several divisions and separate military parts in different areas wedged in North Korea for two and more kilometers. But within hours the advancing group of troops of Syngman Rhee were stopped and defeated.
Kim Il Sung decided to counter-attack and the Korean People's Army that evening moved to the south. The United States and other civilized countries still believe that Kim Il Sung, attacked the evening of 25 June at the peaceful South Korea, began the war. One doesn’t like to remember the tragic walk four divisions of Syngman Rhee on North Korea, it is not fashionable.
June 26 Korean People's Army was under the walls of Seoul, Syngman Rhee fled the country. Under the pretext of reflection North Korean “aggression” Yankees began the war in Korea. The United States dropped an average of 5 tons of bombs and shells per one victim Korean and one 120 kilograms of ammunition per hectare area (in World War II, this figure does not exceed 1 tonne per person and 30 kilograms per hectare).
Americans ever committed mass executions and executions in the occupied territories of Korean. November 7 US troops shot 500 local residents on the mountain Sudo in the province of Hvanhe and 600 residents in the county Pekson. In the city of Sariwon Yankees drove 950 people to the mountain Marasan cave and shot all of them with machine guns. In the Pyongyang they threw into concentration camps 4000 residents, half of whom were executed. US soldiers threw bodies of executed into wells and water reservoir. October 18, Americans drove 900 inhabitants of Sinchhonskogo county in the shelter, doused with gasoline and burned alive. 300 Korean women and 100 children were among the burned. The city of Yonan, US troops buried alive in the ground more than 1,000 people, several dozen children. The mine Ynnyul , more than 2000 people were dumped into the pit and covered with ore. The city of Ehchzhu, US Marines drove 180 local residents on a small ship, dragged into the sea away from the coast and sank with the ship.
The county Chzheren, hawkers of democracy quartered boy who helped the guerrillas. In the village Sanamli Yankees scored 10-cm nail in the nose of seventeen guy, in the same village they ripped stomach of a pregnant Korean women and cut 300 men of straw. The Senri, Yankees ripped the stomach of a pregnant woman, showing off that they destroy reds to the root. The parish Onchhon, Yankees hammered a stake through the sexual organ of arrested Korean girl, in another parish - they hot genitals of another girl with a hot iron and killed her. Just a few months of American occupation more than a million civilians were executed. Even Hitler could not organize the genocide in the occupied territories on such a scale.
August 16, 1950, five units of B-29, struck in the area near the front, there were a lot of towns and villages in the area. Ocean of fire raging as a result application of hundreds of tons of napalm. August 26, it appears in archival sources briefly: "Burnt 11 villages." Pilots frequently bombed large population centers by radar data or reset masses of napalm on secondary targets when they could not achieve the main objectives. July 31, 1950, in a major raid on the industrial center of Hungnam 500 tons of bombs were dropped on the radar data through the clouds, flames rose up into the air by 50-100 meters. August 12, Air Force dropped 625 tons of bombs over North Korea, it would require 250 aircraft B-17 in the Second World War. By late August B-29 dropped on North Korea 800 tons of bombs a day. 5 Most of them consisted of napalm. From June to the end of October 1950 B-29 dropped more than 3 million gallons of napalm. Air Force were delighted with the new weapon. To evaluate these weapons, we recall that the Nazis were forced to negotiate with Moscow that mustard gas, phosgene, sarin, soman will not be used - because of the threat of application of napalm.
In October 1950 the US military - under the auspices of the UN! - crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the territory of North Korea. 10.17.1950 commander of US forces in Korea Harrison issued an order, and one could read there the following: "Destroy all the red bandits to free North Korea from the red monsters. Hunt them, kill all of them, civil servants and members of their families. Kill all sympathizing them." Over the 52 days of occupation by UN troops Sinchon County was destroyed about a quarter of its population. Americans killed more than 35,380 people, of whom about 16 200 children, the elderly and women. After the liberation of Chinese and Korean forces in Pyongyang 2,000 killed prisoners were found in city prison, they were not evacuated, but simply shot. In the vicinity of Pyongyang about 15 000 people were found that were killed during the occupation of the city by the Americans. Picture was similar in other cities and districts of North Korea.
Since November 1950, General Douglas MacArthur ordered to create a desert between the front and the Chinese border, destroying from the air every "building, factory, city, village" in an area of thousands of square kilometers of the North Korean territory. This destruction began on the border of Manchuria and continued to the south.
08.11.1950 B-29 dropped 550 tons of incendiary bombs on Sinyudzhu, "erasing (her) from the map." A week Hoeriong was "burnt down" by napalm.
By 25 November "a large part of North Korea between the Yalu River and to south up to enemy positions was more or less burned", soon the area was "desert of scorched earth." This was before the decisive Sino-Korean offensive that cleared Northern Korea from United Nations forces. When it began, the US Air Force on the 14-15th of December dealt a blow to Pyongyang for seven hundred ;-ton bombs, napalm dropped from Mustang fighters, including 175 tons of bombs of slow blowing, which landed with a thud and then blew up when people who were trying to pull out the dead from the napalm fire.
At the beginning of January General Matthew Ridgway again ordered the air force to hit the capital, Pyongyang, "with the aim to burn the city to the ground with incendiary bombs" (this was happened in two blows - 3 and 5 January). When the Americans retreated to the 38th parallel, they continued the tactics of scorched earth and burnt Yudzhongbu, Wonju and other small towns in the south (National Archives, RG338, KMAG file, box 5418, KMAG journal, entries for 6, 16, 20 and 26 August 1950).
In January 1951 US General Ridzhveyya said in his order: "Shoot any civilian suspected that it is red - not taking him prisoner. The Chinese and Koreans apparently have just a little different from the beasts. " Before the end of the war as a means of pressure on the Korean side of the US Air Force destroyed the dams on the rivers Kusongan, Toksagan and Pudzhongan. As a result, large areas were flooded farmland, causing famine among the civilian population of North Korea.
In 1954 the United States prevented the implementation of key provisions of the Geneva Agreements on Vietnam, stated the international recognition of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Vietnam, prevented consultations between North and South, ripped holding planned for 1956 general elections and the subsequent unification of the country. South Vietnam was included in the "scope of protection" of established by the United States in the autumn of 1954 the aggressive SEATO bloc.
Since January 1955 the United States, in violation of the Geneva agreements, forbidding entry to Vietnam of foreign military personnel and the importation of arms, began to provide direct military aid to the Saigon regime, to sent to South Vietnam military advisers and specialists, to organize and equip the Saigon army with modern weapons, to build military bases on South Vietnam.
In 1961 for the management of military actions against the South Vietnamese patriots American military headquarters headed by General Harkins was established in Saigon, and in 1962 - the military command (Military Aid Command). US military personnel began to participate directly in combat operations. By the middle of 1964 there were about 25 thousand US troops in South Vietnam. However, one couldn’t break the resistance of the Army of Liberation of South Vietnam, established in 1961. Anti-government demonstrations of workers, students and intellectuals did not stop in the cities of South Vietnam. By the fall of 1964 the South Vietnamese patriots led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (established in December 1960) and with the support of the overwhelming majority of the population freed about 3/4 of the country.
In July 1964 the United States sent in the Beibu Gulf (Gulf of Tonkin) naval ships of the 7th Fleet to patrol the coast of North Vietnam. They intruded into the territorial waters of Vietnam. In early August 1964 the US Navy and Air Force
without declaring war bombed and fired at a number of military facilities projects and settlements on the coast of North Vietnam.
07.02.1965 jets based on aircraft carriers of the 7th Fleet US bombed and shelled Dong Hoi city and other settlements in the area of North Vietnam in the region of 17th parallel, and from April the United States had begun to systematically bombed and shelled the southern regions of Vietnam.
03.08.1965 first part of the US Marine Corps landed in South Vietnam (in the district of Danang), and in April Command of the US Army in Vietnam, led by the General Westmoreland, was created.
09.07.1965 American Air Force began a systematic bombardment of the southern regions of Vietnam, located between the 17th and 19th parallels, and in late August launched a bombardment of irrigation facilities.
USA turned Vietnam into a proving ground for testing and improvement of hundreds of weapons and military equipment. United States, using the war in Vietnam, gave (to 1969) fighting experience more than 2 million people, Including most of the flight personnel and almost all personnel of the United States Pacific Fleet. The Yankees had put in practice the use of weapons of mass destruction (napalm, phosphorous bombs, toxic gases and toxic substances, defoliants containing dioxin and herbicides); they destroyed crops, vegetation and forests in the liberated areas, applyingthe tactics of "scorched earth".
In the years 1961-1971 defoliants were sprayed over at least 16% of the territory of Vietnam, from 2.1 to 4.8 million people fell under of action of it. There are nearly a million people suffering from diseases associated with defoliants in the official list of the Ministry of Health in Vietnam, many of them were born after the war. During the war the Yankees commonly performed medical experiments on human beings.
By the end of 1966 the number of American expeditionary force has doubled and amounted to 380 thousand people. The American command began preparations for the second "strategic counteroffensive" in the dry season of 1966-67. By this time, the United States concentrated in South Vietnam 7th Air Army, and in Thailand - a significant part of the 13th Air Army and the 3rd Division of the Strategic Air Command (B-52 planes). 3 drum carrier were constantly along the coast of Vietnam. In this area it had focused around 4,000 combat and support and transport aircraft and helicopters of the United States.
In 1967 the US Air Force sharply intensified the bombing of North Vietnam - dams and other irrigation facilities, hoping to cause flooding in the valley of Red River and flood the rice fields, and in the dry season to leave crops without water.
By the beginning of the dry season of 1967-68, when the Americans planned a large military operations in South Vietnam, there were 475 thousand US troops, 40 ths. - on ships of the 7th Fleet off the coast of Vietnam . USA focused in South Vietnam 6 army divisions (1st, 4th, 9th and 25th Infantry, 1st airmobile and 101st Airborne), 2 Marine Division (1st and 3rd) and 4 separate brigades (11th, 196-I and 199-I light infantry and the 173rd Airborne). In addition, there were 11 divisions of Saigon troops, two divisions and one brigade of mercenaries of South Korean, Australian, New Zealand, Thai and Filipino troops. The total number of troops was at the end of 1967 about 1.3 million. In 1968-1969 every month more than 2 million tons of various military goods were thrown from USA to the theatre of war. Since the beginning of the war until the end of 1968 the US Air Force made more 900 thousand sorties in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. They dropped on the locations of the Forces of liberation of South Vietnam and Laos approximately 2.3 million tons of bombs. During the same time the US aggressor forces conducted over 500 search and punitive operations by forces from the battalion to several brigades ...
.. But Hera spread her hands - since the new generation of fighters "MiG" and multiple rocket launchers, reliable "Kalashnikov", heroism and self-sacrifice of Vietnamese… Boy from the Soviet village, Peter Grusin pussy aggressor in the tail and mane. The US Army lost 8612 aircraft and helicopters, about 150 ships ... Vietnam swung gave America under the ass.
For this reason all respectable democracies of the whole world hate the Soviet Union.
In the photo of those years American proudly shows its prey - a part of corpses Vietnamese. Newsreels: Marine kicks in the belly of lying on the ground a Vietnamese prisoner. Widely known was the phrase of one of the American officers: "In order to save the village, it is necessary to burn down." In 1968, in the village of My Lai a massacre of civilians was committed by American soldiers. Crime gained fame in 1969. It was destroyed, according to various estimates, more than 500 civilians. Many of the victims before killing were subjected to tortures by American soldiers, and women were gang-raped. Only one person out of all soldiers was found guilty by a US court, and in 3.5 years was released.
Site WikiLeaks has published a video in which the US Air Force helicopter shelling of civilians in Baghdad. The incident occurred in July 2007, as a result of the shelling 12 people were killed, including two journalists. Shooting was conducted cameras mounted on US Apache helicopters. On the record shows how the pilots watching a group of about eight people on the streets of Baghdad, where the pilots took over the militants. One of the pilots says that they are armed with machine guns and grenade launchers. Meanwhile, on the frame Reuters photographer with a camera and the driver of the same agency that talking on a cell phone can be seen All the people are calm. However, one of the helicopters opens fire. At the same time pilots comment on their actions cynical remarks."Ha-ha-ha, I shot them," - shouted by an American pilot. The other replies: "Oh, yeah, look at the dead bastards." After that, the helicopters also fired at a minibus that drove to pick up the wounded. In the van, as it turned out, there were two children who were seriously injured. However, the American crew blamed the Iraqis themselves. "Well, it's their fault that they attract children to fight," - says one of the crew members. "Exactly," - says the other.
The year 2008 has come and the world realized that bastion of humanism and democracy is the only currency speculator, who at home produces only 20% of property product, that “bastion” lives for others, which is in debt, as in silks at 14 trillion dollars, dollar itself is provided by 4 cents. In the fall of 2011, the Americans protesters filled the streets and squares of the country. After the collapse of the Soviet Union labor and capital faced nose to nose.
***
Up to now someone thinks that the first concentration camps were set up by the Bolsheviks. But the British set up concentration camps much sooner. In the 20th century the concentration camp in Solovki and other places were set up by the White Guards, on the 3.2.1919 by local government of Miller – Chaikovskii with support of western democracies. Prisoners were subjected to terrible torture. After the Bolsheviks came to Solovki tortures ceased. But even before the British concentration camps were set up by the Americans.
Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-01800) The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library.
Camp of Freedom in America under the name of Andersonville. About 194 thousand northerners passed through it in a relatively short period of time, about 30 thousand of them died. In Andersonville prisoners were tortured even without the aim to figure out any military or other information useful to the authorities of the camp, but from the simple sadism. In Federation camp "Douglas" prisoners were often deprived of clothes and they had to carry bags with slits for the arms and head. At the most part prisoners had no even the underwear. Blankets were removed, so during the winter cold more weak and injured people died from the cold. Accounting of prisoners in the camp "Douglas" from the very beginning was not conducted practically and it is believed that many Confederates, who "disappeared", in fact, were killed in the camp and were buried no one knows where, since the graves were also not taken into account. Some of the dead prisoners were buried in the swampy ground.
Camp of Freedom "Rock Island”. The first prisoners (over 5,000 people) arrived at Camp 3 December 1863. Many of them were sick with smallpox, and since there was no quarantine zones and insulators in the camp, the infection spread rapidly. By January of 1864 325 people died and another 635 were seriously ill, and even in a couple of months number of patients had tripled. Though soon the Yankees had built several medical facilities. By May 12, 1865 only 2164 prisoners remained in the camp, and all this time 12 215 people had passed through the camp, 1945 people of whom died (according to other sources not less than 2131 people), 45 escaped and 3729 were exchanged. The remaining prisoners were released in June, after the surrender of CSA. Prisoners who passed through the northern or south camps were like died.
Then, following the example of blood brothers, concentration camps were created for Lord Kitchener Boer families in South Africa during the Boer War of 1899-1902.
However, the very first concentration camps were established much earlier. In the 17-18 centuries, Americans have created a reservation for the Injuns. Is it fascism? Of course.
The same features of American society we can see at the end of XX century.
Los Angeles riot in April-May 1992 followed after police beating black Rodney King and after the acquittal of police in court. 9 thousand police officers, 10 th. National Guard troops, 3,300 employees of the Army and Marine Corps, 1000, the FBI, armored vehicles, combat and police helicopters and police had been involved. Shoot to kill was opened, more than 11 thousand people were arrested. In addition to the authorities privileged residents of the city, the Koreans, the owners of shops shot rebels on their own initiative. The revolt was suppressed in a matter of hours, sweep lasted from the 1st to May 6th. About 500 people from among the detainees still serving their sentences in prison - they got from 25 years to life imprisonment. According to American data 53 rebels were killed 53, according to other data more than 100 rebels were killed only from the bullets of police and soldiers, In total - more than 200. Claims from the UN and the international community were absent. Officials responsible for the use of force against peaceful demonstrators, were not subject to sanctions.
What are you saying about police in Kiev in February 2014?
We remember serious strikes in the US against the depersonalizing of the conveyor system in the late '60s. We remember one of the best in the world American cinema: "They shoot horses, is not it" "Pursuit," "The generals of sand pits", "O Lord, keep children and animals," etc., etc. We have seen how the US authorities eradicated the movement of the 60s with the help of a hippie, same-sex love, free love and drugs. But back in the 80s, Americans admired paintings of Rockwell Kent, listened with delight to music by Gershwin, admired the poetry of Shelley, Keats, Whitman, Eliot, Pound, Frost, read all the books of Irving, Garth, Hawthorne, Wolfe, Dreiser, Harper Lee, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Mark Twain, the amazing science fiction books. We remember the Americans protested against the Vietnam War. What’s happened? Terrible was happened. Michael Jackson, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Seagal, Harry Potter became the idols of the public. States deteriorated in a short period of time.
In new time fascist USA staged disaster in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.
But in general.
Calculation of the coefficients of mortality for the years of liberal reforms gives more than 30 million extra deaths in Russia. In Ukraine - about 12 million. The same calculation for all the years of Stalin's rule gives only 4-5 million extra deaths (not to be confused with the repressed, which is twice as much). Only in 1937 was shot and placed in a concentration camps about half a million people just according to so-called limits, shipping instructions (shot on the list of 60 thousand, actually - more than 150 ths.). Victims of famine in the Volga region in 1933, in Ukraine, in the Caucasus, in the Urals in 1933 are included in these 4-5 million. Causes of hunger in 1933 are well known: 1) a poor harvest, 2) the actions of the Soviet Union. Namely, in 1925 peasants were given the right to buy and sell land. Then for the year 60% of the land was concentrated in the hands of 6% of farms and poor harvest struck. 1928-1929, when powers started a violent accelerated collectivization (livestock recovered only at the end of 50th) and the dispossession of the middle peasants, contrary to Lenin's Decree on Land, Lenin's speech about middle peasants and decisions of the 15th Congress of Communist party. To this we must add the folding of the NEP (new economy policy with developed market, which, according to Lenin, was calculated for decades).
The United States were ahead of the Soviet Union are ahead in this. During the Great Depression and the "cannibalization" of farmers by banks (see, eg, "The Grapes of Wrath", Steinbeck) claimed the lives of more than 8.5 million lives of North Americans, with only 1930 to 1940 about twice as much as Stalin repression.
Extended reference, from the book "The cure for death"
One may say: oh, it’s propaganda!!! Awful, horror!!! Of course, it’s propaganda. But it’s truth!
“Marxism today” here:
TROTSKYITES SUPPORT FASCISTS
Collapse of the USSR caused a sharp break of industry chains, which led to massive layoffs . Closure of production facilities and the deaths of tens of millions of people . Mortality under Brezhnev was 8 ppm, under Yeltsin-Putin officially 15, but excluding the mass graves for the homeless, work of crematoria etc. Actual mortality was (and is) 25 ppm. (In 2000 this figure has issued by Perm-city Sverdlovskii district Health department, in 2007, I with Permian registrars together came to the same figure, 25 ppm.) Trotskyites around the world applauded the disintegration of the USSR – together with Washington, Bonn etc. They said that the peoples of the USSR defeated totalitarianism, and Soviet republics gained long-awaited freedom. Trotskyites are not interested in the fact that the free happy Ukraine lost 12 million lives because of the collapse of the USSR, and Russia - 30 million.
...
We were shown the towers and barbed wire in Bosnia on television. Kosovo Albanians were shown us behind barbed wire. We showed poor Albanian woman with a child, which ran from exploding shells. We were shown the Libyan woman who was raped by Gaddafi’ soldier. We showed bloodied Libyan revolutionaries.
But we have learned not to believe the bourgeois media. We checked the facts. It turned out that towers and barbed wire – are in Auschwitz, not Bosnia . It turned out that the poor woman with a child - is footage from a completely different war. It turned out that the Kosovo Albanians were facing barbed wire, but not behind barbed wire. It turned out that nobody raped the Libyan woman. It turned out that the bloody Libyan revolutionary starred in Libya in one area one time, and then - in the other area other time.
It turned out that the victims of terrorist attacks in Boston is just legless actor. And it is not Putin’ propaganda!
It turned out that journalists are simply deceiving the public. The purpose was to clean the way for NATO in social consciousness.
Why did Trotskyites spread all this false in media? Are Trotskyites small children? They are stupid, maybe, I don’t know… No, they are political whores.
Kosovo Albanians began to carry out ethnic cleansing. They killed Serb children and sold their organs. Trotskyites around the world kept a deathly silence.
Maidan’ activist Oksana Haylak was promised 500 hryvnia. She was supposed to tell "Gromadskaya television " that she was kidnapped and tortured for a long time by “berkuts” (“golden eagles”). She was explained that “she was a little and it will be nothing". This poignant story thundered, reaching right up to Brussels. The girl lived his finest hour. The order was executed , and the topic has faded . But the contractor cheated rural fool: he didn’t give money, disappeared and did not respond to calls. Girl went to complain to the police cheater. Oksana has twice previously been brought to criminal liability for theft - but didn’t get mind.
Meanwhile maidan declares about another kidnapping: Commandant of maidan, maidan’ veteran Alexey Soloviev, disappeared, with all charity money. Today, the same filmmaker who made false films about Kosovo, makes films about "wounded" activists of maidan .
And that the Trotskyites? They believe their bourgeois media. They repeat the nonsense that the bourgeois media carry. They repeat the nonsense that activists of maidan put them.
They are small children or suck? No, they are political whores .
What are Trotskyites occupied by?
Washington announces that Milosevic is the main enemy. Trotskyites - too. Neither before nor after.
Washington announces that Gaddafi is the main enemy. Trotskyites - too.
Washington announces that Bashar al-Assad is the main enemy. Trotskyites - too.
Washington supports maidan - Trotskyites too.
What does follow from this? Of course, that the Trotskyites are no small children and do not suck . They are political whores.
Of course, after beginnings of bombing all Trotskyites begin to write resolutions against bombings and to show everybody their excellent position. But before? What they did before? Before they “worked” with USA media together. It turned out, they lied to the world about the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
Angela Merkel also supported the anti-corruption " revolutionaries." Sen. John McCain also supported the maidan. At the same time, workers do not support the Ukrainian Maidan. Although the Ukrainian workers have meager wages and many enterprisers operate on three days a week.
...
Earlier, Russian and Ukrainians lived in one state . This state was called Kievan Rus. Tatar-Mongol yoke broke our nation into two: Russian and Ukrainians. But then the oppression of the Polish magnates led Ukraine to reunite with Russia .
From this moment Europe inspires the Ukrainians the same thought: Ukrainians are enlightened Europe, and Russians are sad Asiatic. Europe does not want a strong unified state. History repeats itself - The U.S. and Europe want to sever economic ties between Russia and Ukraine. Now U.S. and Europe want again Ukraine’ and Russia’ economy to collapse, to close factories again.
Here he writes Corinna Lotz , a spokeswoman for one of the Trotskyite groups :
This small text, and so many lies. All text is made up of lies, stupid lies.
«Ukraine insurrection against brutality and state corruption
As the anti-government movement in maidan Square hunkers down for its tenth week of occupation in sub-zero temperatures, the battle-lines have changed. Starting as a largely pro-European Union movement last November, the remarkable courage and determination of Kiev’s people has changed the stakes. The massive reaction of the authorities produced a defiant opposition to the brutality of the notorious security forces and to widespread state corruption. That’s why what is effectively an insurrection has spread to the eastern parts of Ukraine, despite the area’s historic ties to neighbouring Russia. The centre of Kiev has become a charred and frozen war-zone with some of the thousands of occupiers sheltering in occupied buildings and others behind barricades made of ice. They are sustained by well-organised support from both locals and those further away. Hundreds of women ferry food, hot drinks, blankets and medication, braving not only freezing temperatures, smoke from burning tyres, but also live bullets from plainclothes snipers, not to mention batons, tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets. At least two of the movement’s leaders have had to flee Ukraine and take refuge in neighbouring countries. There is evidence of death squads and that snipers surrounding Maidan Square are deliberately targeting protesters’ eyes. Over 40 journalists are reported injured and there is video evidence of police beating and stripping a Cossack protester in a freezing street. Dmytro Bulatov, the founder of Auto Maidan – which organises car owners in support of the occupation – disappeared on January 22. Two days before, Bulatov had urged opposition leaders to settle on a single protest leadership. He was only found eight days later, having been tortured by the police. Only the vigilance of his supporters prevented further beatings while he was in hospital. He has apparently now left the country. Oleksandre Danylyuk, leader of the anti-government group Spilna Sprava which organised the occupation of three strategic buildings, fled to London last week after the police issued a warrant for his arrest. He is wanted on suspicion of "organising riots that caused the death of people or serious harm to them," according to the Interior Ministry's database of wanted people. The offense carries up to 15 years behind bars, says the Kyiv Post. Danylyuk and Bulatov have been luckier than 50-year-old Yuri Verbizky, who was beaten and left to die of the cold in a forest near Kiev. His colleague Ihor Lutsenko managed to escape with a concussion and missing teeth. He was rescued by a passing motorist. Meanwhile, the website for Berkut, the state’s special police force, has been flooded with anti-Semitic materials alleging that the Jews are to blame for organising at Maidan. Berkut proudly publishes photos of its brutality to protesters. As poet Yuri Andrukhovych has written, the state repression and collusion with autocrats like Putin has hardened the resolve of the movement. They are fired up, he says “by an exceptionally hot mix of despair, hope, self-sacrifice and hatred”. He adds: “Yes, hatred. Morality does not forbid hating murderers. Especially if the murderers are in power or in direct service of those in power.” Ukraine became an independent state in 1991 for the first time in its long history, apart from a brief moment around 1918-1919. For most of the 20th century it was part of the Soviet Union. During the Stalinist period, Ukraine experienced famine during which millions died as a result of forced collectivisation. Political independence following the break-up of the USSR did not mean economic independence from the greedy tentacles of Putin’s state in Russia, nor from Ukraine’s own oligarchs. The transition to a full-blown capitalist economy meant poverty for the majority of Ukraine’s workers and its women in particular. After the 2008 global crash, Ukraine’s economy staggered deeper and deeper into debt. Ukraine’s embattled president Viktor Yanukovych, who has just returned from a few days’ “rest” signed an economic pact with Russia in December rather than the EU. But the anti-government protesters are wise to the fact that there are sinister strings attached to any deal with Putin even if they don’t yet appreciate that the EU sees Ukraine as another pool of cheap labour to exploit. There is a wide spectrum of forces at work in the Ukrainian movement, including the “Right Sector”. This has been seized up by Putin’s propaganda machine to discredit the movement. But there are also others, amongst them Narodniy Nabat (People’s Bell) and Avtonomniy Opir (Autonomous Resistance) and Volna Zemlya (Free Land). They recognise the state as their enemy even if there is no clear view yet about what to replace it with. 3 February 2014.»
1. - Neither in the U.S. nor in France nor in the UK police do not behave towards the protesters as gently as in Ukraine. Over 400 "berkuts" are in intensive care. Besides of knives, catapults maidan widely uses against the "Berkut" the "Molotov cocktail", a formidable weapon against tanks during WWII. Today Bandera started making bombs.
- Propaganda machine of opposition? TV channels owned by oligarchs, supporting opposition, propaganda machines of U.S., EU no less powerful than Putin's propaganda machine. Opposition propaganda is so powerful that all Ukraine completely disoriented.
- As for Ukrainian Jewish organizations, that support maydan, Michael Osherov, Israel official, writes about it.
- The slogan "Against Corruption" was used by the opposition to give a view of popular protest to maydan. However, the labor collectives of Ukraine are silent. The opposition has forgotten that before the maydan she did not say a word about corruption, actually a real stumbling block is it's EU entry and departure from CU.
- The uprising was not "effectively spread to the eastern part of Ukraine." In Donetsk , Nikolaev, Lugansk Banderivtsy raids were rebuffed, Bandera fled. People drove the Nazis and from Soum , and from Odessa, and from Zaporozhye , and from Kharkov, and from Dnepropetrovsk, and from Kherson , and from Kirovohrad, and from Krivoy Rog .
- Kiev citizens are not on the side of the Maidan, they were fed up with it, along with the SS attributes , flags, swastikas, shouting "zik - Heil", throwing up hands in party greetings and so on, that takes place in Maydan of Independence from the 1st day.
- “Putin’ totalitarianism” was the American myth that was taken up by Russian liberals and trotskists. No Putin rules, but the bourgeois class rules, Putin is only it’s protege. Russian state is so weak that it can not build a progressive tax .
- Opposition parties on maydan are corrupt just as Yanukovych's Party of Regions .
- EU in hell does not need Ukraine manpower, it needs the bowels of Ukraine and its topsoil.
- Evromaydan declared himself as the whole nation, but the regions of Ukraine answer that most of Ukraine - against maydan.
2. Dmitry Bulatov, president of the Ukraine Federation of wakeboarding and water-skiing was not kidnapped and beaten. All 8 days until he was "searched ", Bulatov was on one of the cottages of millionaire Yuri Zozuli located in Kiev in the neighborhood "Rusanovskiye gardens" on the street “Sportswear”. This amusement complex with bar, sauna and other attributes called " Zozulin nest ." (Cuckoo's Nest)
3. Yuriy Lutsenko is former Interior Minister.
4. Yuri Adruhovich - bourgeois liberal, signed a collective letter against Russian tongue in Ukraine witn eight million of Russian.
5. "Narodniy Nabat” (People’ Nabat, Bell) - Ukrainian anarcho-socialists, "Free land" – anarchists-libertarians, now collect money for a revolutionary situation, they are super-pygmy marginal groups not previously played no role in the political spectrum in Ukraine, especially are not playing any role in the Maidan. Part of the " People's Nabat " said: " ... To start with small groups of people without our own organized columns - we have not seen and do not see any sense. We ... are not going to throw off one liberal from the throne, and tomorrow he will be replaced by another. And so all know that government and the opposition are unique coalition."
Autonomous Odpor - came from the Autonomous resistance, the group of autonomous revolutionary nationalism, opposed European integration and capitalism, it supports Nazi UPA, influential only in the west of Ukraine.
6. Besides them there are on maidan of Independence:
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, leader Yuri Shepetyuk (500 pers.); Bandera UNA-UNSO, Valery Voronov (1500 pers.); Avtomaydan (2500 pers.); Physicians Maidan , Oleg Musiy (150 pers.); Afghans , Oleg Mikhnyuk (1000 people).
The main forces:
1) "Freedom" party (the one that threw the statue of Lenin ), a leader Oleg Tyahnibok, slogan - "Beat the Jews and Muscovites!" Muscovites - this is not the Muscovites , it's Russian. One of the main sponsors of the "Freedom" - Andrian Gutnick, owns the largest water park in Ukraine, located in Lviv. One of the most prominent businessmen of Lviv Roman Fedishin using nationalists "Freedom" was able to seize the wholesale food market "Shuvar". billionaire Igor Kolomoisky provided the financing of election of Union "Svoboda " in Ternopil regional council.
2) The party "Kick ", the leader Vitali Klitschko, millionaire, pays taxes in Germany, his main business is in Germany, almost a citizen of Germany (residence permit) . He lives with his brother in Hamburg, the party " Kick" sponsors are U.S. funds NDI and IRI (see the official party site).
3) The party "Fatherland" (Batkivschina), the core of the former bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, a supporter of Ukraine's entry into NATO (55%), leader Yatsenyuk. Plus Shard of "Fatherland" - Ukrainian Social Democratic Party of Natalia Koroleva, 63% are going to join NATO. Yatseniuk has the support of the U.S. government and the Church of Scientology .
4) "Right sector", leader Dmitry Jaros, an association of fascist organizations such as the "Patriot of Ukraine", "Trident", CHA, UNA-UNSO, "Bilyy Hammer" (White Hammer); in Kiev the backbone of the group consists of football fans, he " Right sector " is the backbone of the Maidan.
And in the appendage - "Spilna right", 800 people, a leader - a British citizen Alexander Danyluk, downloaded and delivered to the customer files of Ministry of Fuel and Energy, i.e. complete data on all nuclear and hydro power in Ukraine, an ardent anti-Bolshevik. He received 200 th. doll. from the 2nd Secretary of the Political Section of the Embassy of the USA Timothy Pergalski for the successful seizure of two buildings in Kiev - the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
Plus Islamic fundamentalists from the Crimea, plus 400 Ukrainian fighters who fought for the Syrian opposition.
The "National Guard" was formed, ‘Right sector", Cossacks of Maidan, "Self-defense of Maidan" came there.
7. After applying of the " Molotov cocktail " “Right sector” rules on maidan of Independence. It is known that the same oligarchs pay Maidan and the Party of Regions. The main sponsor of maidan is oligarch Firtash . It is known that the Bandera militants trained by NATO experts. U.S. Embassy funneling money to the central offices of party "Freedom" and of party "Fatherland". Amount was about $20 million in a week. Further, these funds were distributed to support of maidan " (functioning of life support system, bribes and bribery of certain officials, law enforcement, payment for media, the cost of campaigning, etc.), as well as daily payments for active militants. In turn, the opposition leaders and militant groups received non-cash money in their personal bank accounts. U.S. guaranteed assistance to right-wing structures leaders to evacuate them from the territory of Ukraine in case of failure of the revolution, providing accommodation and facilities in any EU country of their choice.
Under the guise of joint military exercises the U.S. Navy landed troops in Lviv, ostensibly in order to prepare for the exercises. Another 600 "sea lions" are going to land in Ukraine. Moreover, all Russian bourgeois liberals support maidan headed by Bandera, while U.S. Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland is already discussing with the American ambassador in Kiev Jeffrey Payette, who may enter who are not entered in the cabinet of Ukraine.
In conclusion - the words of Lenin: “"Rabid" from the horrors of capitalism petty bourgeois is - a social phenomenon which, like anarchism, peculiar to all capitalist countries. The instability of such revolutionary, it’s barrenness, and its tendency to turn rapidly into submission, apathy, fanaticism, even into the frenzied passion by one or another bourgeois and "young" trend - all this is well known. But a theoretical or abstract recognition of these truths does not eliminate the revolutionary parties of old errors, which always appear at unexpected occasions, in somewhat new forms, in an unprecedented vestments or environment, in more or less original setting.”
9.2.2014
LGBT: THEORY OF INTRODUCTION
The bourgeoisie is forced to be hypocritical and call democratic republic as “all people power” or a democracy in a general, or pure democracy, which in reality is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the exploiters over the working masses.
Lenin
The text that you will read below, Facebook deleted and blocked me for 24 hours "for publishing something that is incompatible with Facebook standards".
Facebook did not block my texts, where I talked about the Ukrainian Hitlerites-Bandera. Facebook did not block me even when I published a text in which I stated that the propensity for murder, which was engaged in by the British in Ireland and India, English immigrants in America and Australia, was genetically transmitted to modern Americans by inheritance, as dog’s dynamic stereotypes are inherited.
In India, the British exterminated 90 million Hindus, in North America – more than 100 million local residents (the number is taken from the calculation with the Ferhulst equation), only 9 million Negroes died during the transportation from Africa, American soldiers executed 1 million civilians with torture during the two months of the occupation of North Korea.
But in the original text, I spoke out against hypocrisy, against the fake American morality.
Facebook belongs to oligarch Zuckerberg, I violated the moral standards of the capitalist Zuckerberg. The reaction to my text make me realize that I am on the right track.
***
LGBT, according to Wikipedia, refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The term has been used since the 1990s and is an adaptation of the abbreviation "LGB", which in the mid-to-late 1980s began to replace the term "gay community". Since 1996, there is a LGBTQ, Q stands for "queer", i.e. "sexually not at all".
Since 1999, some patients offer the abbreviation "LGBTI", later merged with the previous one into "LGBTIQ". Also, “A” can be added to the end in the meaning of asexual (i.e. impotent and frigid) and “P” in the meaning of pansexual, i.e. they have a full complex of perversions, except for impotence.
In the 60s in the United States, homosexual acts, even between adults by mutual agreement, occurring in private homes, were a criminal offense throughout the United States (with the exception of Illinois, which decriminalized them in 1961). Twenty states had laws that allowed anyone to be arrested on suspicion of homosexuality. In the states of Pennsylvania and California, people suspected of homosexuality could be placed in a psychiatric institution for all life. In attempts to cure homosexuality, psychiatrists used castration, aversive therapy, hypnosis, electroconvulsive therapy, and lobotomy.
28.6.1969 in the gay bar "Stonewall Inn" on Christopher Street (Greenwich Village, New York), a clash of police officers and pederasts took place. The authorities immediately took advantage of this to create a series of false political goals, including replacing the culture with a "sex culture", and even the term "gay subculture" appeared. The historian David Carter declared that Stonewall Inn "was to the gay movement what the fall of the Bastille was to the beginning of the French Revolution." It was the beginning of the emasculation of the concept of "revolution". The media proclaimed that the gays and lesbians of New York had overcome gender and class differences, becoming a cohesive community, almost the party of "United America", like modern ruling party “United Russia”, i.e. the exploiting oligarchs and the exploited workers were declared equal.
In the 1970s, lesbians suddenly faced the question of equality with homosexuals. They viewed gender stereotypes as a patriarchal relic. Lesbian feminists avoided the role models that were common in gay bars. With the growth of the feminist movement, supported by the ruling circles of the leading countries of the world, both united, later transgender and bisexual people joined them.
The police persecution of homosexuals successfully coincided with the "witch hunt" for the authorities, so the US Communist Party became related to the movement for the rights of perverts and soon disappeared from the political arena. Same-sex love, anti-exhibitionism (the movement for the freedom of the sale and use of drugs) and the fashion for hippies were thrown In the youth environment by the CIA, so the powerful movement of the 60s in the United States, which included many strikes against conveyor depersonalization, was emasculated.
In June 1999, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the building at 51-53 Christopher Street as a National Historic Landmark. Same-sex marriage is now legal in Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and the United States.
Only on December 26, 2013, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2014, which lifted the ban on consensual sodomy (perverted sexual intercourse), enshrined in article 125. However, long before this moment, the bourgeois governments of the leading countries of the world included the struggle for LGBT rights in their general policy of imposing tolerance and human rights on other countries.
At the same time, since 2014 one have banned the promotion of homosexuality in eight US states, including Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. In Arizona, a ban is imposed on the depiction of homosexual relations as a "positive alternative" of lifestyle, in Alabama and Texas, homosexuality is "unacceptable to the general public" by law, the court insists that children in sex education classes are taught that " homosexual behavior is a criminal offense."
At the same time, Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is publicly executed, India, where gay men are imprisoned for 10 years, Singapore, where gay men are imprisoned for 2 years, Malaysia (20 years), Qatar (25 years), Kuwait (7 years), Turkmenistan, where gay men are prosecuted, Egypt, where homosexuals are punished in any process initiated by the public, Sudan, where homosexuality is imprisoned for 10 years, Nigeria with a complete ban on homosexuality, Yemen, where homosexuals are sent to prison or subjected to public flogging, Arab Emirates, where the head is cut off for homosexuality – they have not been subjected to any sanctions from the US, they are not being subjected to them, and they will not be subjected to them.
The UN Human Rights Council has voted on a resolution condemning the use of the death penalty for "apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and homosexual relations." The resolution was adopted by a majority vote: 27 countries voted in favor, while 13 voted against the resolution, and seven countries abstained. You will laugh, but the United States voted against the abolition of the death penalty for homosexuality.
By the way, the death penalty has been preserved in a number of states, in Alabama, Virginia, Florida, etc. "by the electric chair; in Wyoming, Missouri, California, Maryland, and Arizona, by the gas chamber; in New Hampshire, Washington, and Delaware, by hanging; in Oklahoma, by firing squad." Dozens of people are killed every year.
***
Sexual perversions is "a group of psycho-physiological disorders in which sexual satisfaction is caused by a source that does not cause arousal and sexual satisfaction in a normal person.
The medical encyclopedia contains thousands of types of sexual perversions. Among them we can read about gerontophilia (sex with the elderly), totemism (sex with things), homosexuality (same-sex sex), pedophilia (sex with children), necrophilia (sex with corpses), bestiality (sex with animals). There was a prison article "for the rape of cattle with a fatal outcome" in the Criminal Code of the USSR, inclination to homosexuality was also subject to criminal prosecution. But homosexuality itself as illness in the USSR, unlike in the United States, was not prosecuted, for example, in 80th the rector of Perm State University and the head of the Department of scientific communism of the university were passive pederasts - Victor Jivopistsev and Vladimir Maltsev.
On the contrary, in Hitler's Germany, legal gay clubs were widespread.
Medical research shows that such sexual perversion as homosexuality has two socio-biological roots: 1) unfavorable living conditions, stressful conditions, and 2) genetic abnormalities. Since at the beginning of their appearance on the planet, living organisms were hermaphrodites (some fish species remained hermaphrodites), genetic homosexuality is an atavism, like the remains of a tail in the form of a coccyx. Sometimes the disease proceeds in parallel with normal sexual life, sometimes it displaces it.
Manchester, June 22, 1869, Engels wrote to Marx in London:
"... The book 'Pederast' that you sent me is the height of curiosity. It is in the highest degree unnatural exposure.
The pederasts begin to count their ranks and believe that they constitute a force in the state. All they needed was an organization, but based on this data, it seems to already exist in secret. And since they count such outstanding people in all the old and even in the new parties, from Rezing to Schweitzer, their victory is inevitable.
«Guerre aux cons, paix aux trous–de–cul»! (war to the pussy, peace to the holes in the ass) - this will now be the password.
Fortunately, we are personally too old to fear that if this party wins, we will be forced to pay tribute to the victors with our bodies.
But the younger generation! However, it is also possible only in Germany for such a good fellow to come forward, that turn swinishness into a theory, and proclaim: join, etc.
Unfortunately, he lacks the courage to openly declare himself "this", and he had still coram publico (in front of all people) to operate “on the "front”, but not "immediately included in the deal," as he once put it.
But wait, when the new North German criminal law recognizes the rights of assholes, then things will go very differently.
We poor people, who are used to acting from the front, with our childish penchant for women, will then have a pretty bad time...» (Ïèñüìî Ôðèäðèõà Ýíãåëüñà Êàðëó Ìàðêñó, 22.6.1869 // Ñîáð. ñî÷. 2–å èçä. Ò. 32. Ñ. 260)
Immoralism is a characteristic feature of capitalist society.
Today, LGBT is actively used by the ruling classes of the bourgeoisie to suppress the proletariat, forcing the class struggle into a safe channel for capital to fight for the rights of "sexual minorities". So, US President Biden called the most important goal of his presidency to increase the number of LGBT members in American society to 50%. In his opinion, the numerical predominance of heterosexuals over gays is unfair.
***
Gustave Lebon argued: "A society devoid of ideology, and with it the national idea, can claim one name - a herd of rams"
The United States shows the world by its example that the opposite is true: a society with a bourgeois ideology is a herd of rams.
Capitalism is ugly. The United States is the personification of capitalism, everything is ugly in the United States, cinema and literature, feminism and the environmental movement, love and the movement against racism. The oligophrenia of members of the American parliament is the norm, the state standard, and the maxims of the function of American idiocy are Bush Jr., Obama, Biden.
The previous text “From Plato to Markuse” see hear: https://aftershock.news/?q=node/769547
But in Russian.
14.2.2021
ELECTIONS IN RUSSIAN
It is possible everything in a country where a fat drunk bull dance in front of the cameras in election campaign can drastically change the mood of the impoverished masses, so they instantly forgot about hyperinflation and the death of their relatives.
On March 26, 2000 after the rejection of Yeltsin presidential election appointed. Although Yeltsin was actually appointed a new president, all wanted to care him. Putin compared with him seemed to be a positive figure. So nobody had been twitching especially. Results: Putin - 52.99%, Zyuganov - 29.24%, Yavlinsky - 5.8%, Tuleyev - 2.95%, Zhirinovsky - 2.7%, some Titov - 1.47%, Pamfilova - 1.01 % Govorukhin - 0.44%, the former Attorney General Skuratov - 0.43% patriot Podberyozkin - 0.13%, a Dzhabrailov - 0.10%. Against all - 1.88%. Turnout - 66,020,000 voters, 68.64%.
March 14, 2004. There were regular elections to the president in Russia. Applicants: Mr Putin, from the KPRF - Kharitonov, the LDPR - Malyshkin, the Party of Life - Mironov, a block from the "Motherland" – Glazyev, from itself - Hakamada. Participants in the three (Zhirinovsky and Tuleyev) and the two previous presidential races (Zyuganov and Yavlinsky), as by agreement, not put up their candidates. Results: Putin - 71.31%, Kharitonov - 13, 69%, Glazyev - 4.10%, Khakamada - 3.84%, Malyshkin - 2.02%, Mironov - 0.75%. Against all - 3.45%. Turnout - 66,530,000 voters, 64.38%.
We can see that is becoming a ruling party, it will dictate the election committee, selects for himself the courts, etc. Everyone understands that in the situation with the complete indifference of the masses, who are raped, it is impossible to change anything. Voter fraud is provided by the distribution of coffee cans and vodka.
March 2, 2008. Putin's protege Medvedev won -70.28%. Zyuganov - 17.72%, Zhirinovsky - 9.35%. Turnout - 69.70%, 72.77 million voters. Medvedev's official spent 183 million p.
Preliminary election results of 2012 according to chief of Central election commission Churov: Putin (protege of capital) - 61.82%, a pocket opposition, Zyuganov - 17.82%, protege of power Zhirinovsky - 8%, protege of Putin, oligarch Prokhorov - 7.57%, protege of power Mironov - 3, 67%. Without further ado, magician Churov announced the results of counting the votes of 14% as a counting up 99% of the vote. Don’t giggle, the numbers have not changed. After treatment, 95% of the ballots for Putin 64.29%, for Zyuganov - 17.14%, Prokhorov took respectable third place, as planned - 7.40%, Zhirinovsky - 6.25%, for Mironov - 3.80 %.
That is, Putin is formally elected 37.5% of the voters.
Of special note:
turnout-2000: 66.02 million voters, 68.64% of the 95.6 million voters.
Turnout- 2004: 66,530,000 voters, 64.38% from 103.3 million.
Turnout-2008: 72.77 million voters, 69.70% from 104 million.
Turnout-2012: about 68 million voters, 58.3% from 116.6 million.
From which it follows:
1) the number of voters in 2012 sharply increased compared to 2000 - despite the fact that Russia is dying, the death rate exceeded as well as more than three times the birth rate in Russia. That is, CEC (Central election commission) figures are lime. According to the CEC's population has increased dramatically just in the reign of Medvedev! And it approached, if one was based on the standard number of voters per cent of the total population, approximately 155 million people!
2) The Central Election Commission poorly studied at school: it has 66 million in 2000, that differs from almost the same 66 million in 2004 more than 4%.
3) In conditions with great money that were thrown in the upcoming elections, with such a shameless campaign and with growing of numbers of supporters of the Communist Party, LDPR and Justice Russia (Mirinov) turnout was to be absolutely above. And it is lower. This means that in all previous elections election commissions injected at least 10% fake ballots, in fact (with shameless, etc.) - 30%.
TV reported: official turnout after looking through of 99% of bulletins with votes jumped to 65%, but the situation has not changed especially: Putin - 63.75%, Zyuganov - 17.19%, Zhirinovsky - 6.23%, Prokhorov - 7.82%, Mironov - 3 82%.
From which it follows that former physicist Churov has problems with the arithmetic. Because 99% of the ballots - it's not 65% of voters. If 95% of the ballots = voters is 58.3%, then 99% is only 60.75% of voters.
As for the goodwill of foreign observers, for the most part, às usual, specially selected foreigners were allowed. At first, these specially selected praised the transparency of elections, then PAEB and the OSCE expressed sharp disagreement.
Especially about the stunning transparency through web cameras. Foreign observers have noted with delight "chip" - broadcast online. Read the explanation of a specialist on website "SpetsRab"
"We would have thrown the first stone of the saboteurs, that do not show a video broadcast of fair elections. But we have 15 years of experience in transmission of video over a network, we just at the scientific level know that the Kremlin project with web is doomed.
Besides 15 billion rubles for cameras and channels, you need to spend as much on brains: a server and software. There is no technologies that can broadcast the camera on such a large range of consumers in Russia. The maximum that can provide today's infrastructure is 1000 of connections per cell (at very best of circumstances). Some years ago we developed software for the clustering of resources of the largest ISP in Moscow - the company Akado. Stress tests conducted by us showed the possibility of 990 subscribers on a powerful computer with the video stream at a rate of 2 frames per second at 320x240 resolution. One paid even us, provincials, a few millions, that is not talking about the largest selection of designers of such systems.
Cluster system in a million simultaneous connections require 1,000 computers for just one camera. Of course, it is possible to develop a more complex distribution system, not only between subscribers but also between the cameras, but not in 3 months (this article was written 3 month before the 4-th of March, B. I.).
And any number of channels are not enough if a million people will be attaching to one camera simultaneously. Recently, sad experiment was already with one state site, when Mr Navalnii wrote something bad about it. This site was visited by hundreds of thousands of internet users for one day, and he collapsed. But it was a text resource - the video stream will die in hundred times faster.
Guys, be afraid of meeting opposition, as soon as someone declares some abuse videos will crash in this precinct. And those who has mounted the system, will be hanged upside down. And the trouble is not that one put the USB-cameras, which in principle can not work for long, especially do not support multi-channel capability in Linux, as it was laid down by the Kremlin. If you sit all day at the computer and always pull something and reboot, then you can hold out. But not in the case of a large number of simultaneous viewing. Still one has to begin from the design of the network topology. If there is any software and computers one needs to calculate the circuit passing traffic. But, to design, we need smart people, and there is no roads in Russia yet (author means Russian folk: “There are two troubles in Russia – fools and roads”, B.I.).
Those, who is responsible for high elective technology, the poor victims! We recommend you to hire a hacker to break sites of anyone who will mention your polling place. You will have no more than half of an hour. As soon as the network load on the chamber will rise, no reboot will not save. Do not rely on the "control-alt-delet"!
Because of you choices will be considered unfair, and perhaps new wave of popular protests will begin. How do you look at prospect that pros mill become the culprit of the next revolution in Russia? "
Now we show that the election of 2012 are false from the very beginning to the end.
Elections-2007: United Russia (UR) - 315 seats, the Communist Party - 57 seats, the Liberal Democratic Party (Zhirinovskii) - 40 seats, Fair Russia - 38 seats.
Elections-2011: United Russia - 238 seats, the Communist Party - 92 seats; Fair Russia - 64 seats, the Liberal Democratic Party - 56 seats.
Communists thus added 61%, Justice Russia (Mironov) - 68%, LDPR (Zhirinovskii) - 40%. All of the feast was held by UR which has lost 25%. In fact - much more, because UR got not actually about 50%, but approximately 30% of the votes. As they say, the trend is clear. Population in Russia hates power. That was the reason that silly Putin smashed to the election completion 500 million rubles (17 million doll.) already two weeks prior the 4th of March. He does not realize that seventy percent of this amount were stool or spent on for stupid, mindless PR.
But anyway - if we can see such a trend in people, nobody can talk about Putin’ 63% or Zyuganov’ 17%, if the elections in the State Duma revealed dissatisfaction with the actions of government, president and the State Duma. How could one obtain the necessary to Putin percents?
Election of the President in 2012, as well as elections to the Duma on December 4 of 2011, accompanied by numerous of violations. In particular, in Moscow, one man, who has committed a ballot-box and also oversaw four buses with so called "roundabout-men" who voted with absentee ballots in several areas, was detained.
Then about one thousand five hundred violations were recorded by observers form “For Clean Elections " organization, which is headed by well-known social activist and television presenter Tina Kandelaki.
Situation with violations of the election is far worse than in December, according to members of the supervisory project "Russ-elections." By the middle of the day of elections the information-analytical center in Moscow recorded more than 2,700 violations, the projest founder Alexei Navalnii told it the radio station "Echo of Moscow".
The League of voters, in turn, suggests a large number of complaints of election fraud.
The association "Voice" counted about three thousand violations of the election, reports “Echo of Moscow”.
Even the Mikhail Prokhorov’ election head has fixed thousands of violations and reported about it to the radio station "Echo of Moscow". In total there were over four thousand violations.
In the Swamp Square in Moscow media have found about a hundred buses that transported non-resident votes with absentee ballots to polling stations.
No one is also spared result of elections from the night ballot stuffing.
Worst of all, the authorities in every possible way restricted agitation against Putin. Thus, in Perm-city, representatives of our union "Worker" may well have to throw the police for shooting video with illegal campaigning for Putin at the entrance of the “Motovilikha plants” (hype helped us: Putin’ service showed the phone without SIM cards-flash drive, and the phone with it was quietly handed man, who quickly left.) Even internet was limited: one dispatched for several gigabytes of mail on behalf of Gmail to e-mail addresses of those who sent out intensive campaign against Putin, then e-mail programs stopped working.
We need to understand that all organizations that mark counterfeiting, concentrated mainly in Moscow. This means that the province level of fraud is much higher. Because the control was much less.
And the Central Election Commission says that was just something 178 complaints of violations only! That such arithmetic. It is understandable now why Churov left physics.
But what about the party observers? I already wrote that all large parties became the safety buffer between the government and disaffected masses. Powers pay money even to such parties, whose program is to make the socialist revolution – for participation in election campaigns. Since one have talked with the parties heart to heart, "Apple" (Yavlinskii) was advised not to notice, because of Zyuganov, the LPDR (Zhirinovskii) and Justice Russia (Mironov) - just ignore the violations. One may heard as Mironov confirmed that, Putin "clearly" won in the 1st round. And he lies that the violations were minor! Nor did anyone hear that the Prokhorov’ staff sued. Now, if ordinary citizens have come to control ... But the case is not in observers.
The ballot stuffing was mostly fair. Home tampering did not occur in vote places. AND FAR BEFORE ballot stuffing. It occurred in the workplace. In enterprises. For example, employees of one Perm company forced by owner to take absentee ballots, then to put on a bus and to go in the regional Nytva-town. And then people forced to vote for Putin. Other case: nits were held in "Motovilikha plants" for the month prior to the election meeting, which forced workers to sign for Putin. The same picture in other Permian plants. Here are the basic Putin’ shit, that's where his false millions of votes. It is the case that Putin won his opponents, but owners-capitalists won proletarians.
Do you want to see the real picture of Russian elections in details?
Perm-city, March 1, 2009. Member of power party, head of the executive committee of the one of Perm branches of "United Russia" Gorbuniva won in the district N23 with 42% of the vote. The turnout was 16%. Thus, she got 6.7% of all voters, about 1680 people out of 25,000 voters.
The result may be disappointing because of the highest administrative power resource, paying for participations of district election committee, for the Perm regional election commission, for the city administration and police. Rummel, the head of district police, ran by whistle at the Gorbunova’ rallies. Meetings of opponents were suppressed. A call to traffic police immediately brought to the fact that a competitor car was transported by car service without explanation of reasons. Locks of competitors offices, apartments, garages brewed liquid welding by Gorbunova’ criminal militants. They caught propaganda peddlers of competitors. If peddlers wasn’t afraid, he was beaten. “Militants” snatched from the hands the agitation, pulled it from post boxes. Party chief of Gorbunova, Boychenko, paid a ruble for one newspaper or leaflet.
Election Day. At the Gorbunova’ election staff. 200 criminal militants, kick-boxers take active part in elections. The head of the Gorbuniv’ election campaign Katkov calls his militants: "For every broken windshield car competitor - premium five thousand rubles.!"
The member of Gorbunova’ staff, guard, was sitting in police, and when someone brought for violation of the law, a guard command: "This is our!" - and "our" was released.
Gorbunova paid to one 250 ml of vodka - for the “right” vote. Gribanov, from Mirinov’"Justice. Russia" paid 200 rubles or bags of grub for “right” vote. Kids got 1000 rubles if they forced their parents to vote “rightly”, for the “United Russia” (UR)…
All state structures, police, court, administrations worked for UR in December and for Putin in March.
…
Putin has no hesitated to say in his congratulatory rally at the Manege squire: "Thank you, who said" yes "great Russia!" That is, themselves, a loved one, he identified himself with the whole: "Great Russia - that's me!"
Putin has no hesitated to say that his opponents, Zyuganov, etc. were going to make the decay of Russia by parts, that only Putin is constructive and positive. Others are enemies of Russia! By the way Putin worked in KGB and he worked in Sobchak save service. He with Sobchak was occupied by selling of military regional plants to USA. Namely KGB couldn’t save USSR from decay. More of that: KGB, it’s last chief Kryuchkov, Sobchak etc. took active part in USSR decay! It was the interest of CPSU elite – in Russia, in Georgia, in Ukraine, etc. The main interest of SPCU elite was to remove it’s power to money, and CPSU won!
However, the people - it does not unique Manege. People are not for Putin, the vast majority of people are against! According to the survey, which is held on the eve of presidential elections in 2012 the web-portal "Sobesednik.ru," Vladimir Putin has not gained more than 29% of the votes.
Once again: the masses need to get rid of the parliamentary-presidential cretinism. Elections has no any effect. How many times can I repeat the same thing?! Clean your ears! Nobody will give us deliverance, neither god nor king nor president. Clearly, no? Workers need to organize themselves, then they will by force. Then no one would dare to make them sign up to some sort of smell putins, no one will dare to raise prices to pay a penny, to destroy the plants.
One good thing: now, after such a fuss, finally calm down all the "Orange", honest-election-people, Kurginyan-people and other zeros. It is better to give to understand that it is helpful to move ourselves, independently.
5.3.2.12
WHERE ARE USA GOING
Putin is not my enemy. The fact that Putin is a "global evil" is a stamp of American propaganda. I am not a Trotskyist, not a Stalinist, not a monarchist, not a fan of Putin, not a pro-American liberal. I am a Marxist-Leninist, so I understand that the bourgeois class rules in Russia, and Putin is just his henchman, executor, servant. Moreover, a very powerful part of the Russian bourgeoisie is comprador, focused on the USA and the EU, it still trades with countries that supply weapons to Ukraine. Therefore, it is wrong to think that I am the mouthpiece of the Kremlin. I just hate fascism. I have been writing texts against Ukrainian fascism since 2014, long before February 2022, while the Kremlin was trying with all its might to return Donbass to Ukraine under the "federalization" plan. Not only USA, but Russia provided Kiev with weapon, and in war-2014-2015 too.
17.2.2023
NATO – North American Terrorist Organization. USA created fascist regime in Ukraine and support it.
The USA is quite a fascist state, and has been for a long time. The Americans, together with the Spaniards, exterminated over 100 million Native Americans, Indians (according to the Ferhulst equation – 103 million), deprived them of food, exterminating bison, infected with the plague. More than 9 million Negroes died only during transportation from Africa. The USA in the XIX and in the first half of the XX century was a slave–owning country. The last segregation law in the United States was repealed only in 1968, but racism persisted for decades. If in the USSR homosexuals were treated therapeutically, then in the USA electroshock and lobotomy were used.
In modern times, in just two months of occupation, the Americans, to the envy of Himmler, executed 1 million North Korean civilians with torture. In Vietnam, the United States used chemical weapons, raped local girls, burned villages (Songmi, etc.), like Mengele, arranged medical experiments on Vietnamese captives.
During the aggression in Iraq, the Americans killed over 0.5 million civilians. The Americans bombed Belgrade with depleted uranium shells, bombed kindergartens, and killed over 2,000 civilians. In prosperous Libya, the United States staged a humanitarian catastrophe, unleashed a war in Syria. Finally, the United States set Ukraine on Donbass a second time and unleashed a war between Ukraine and Russia.
On February 15, the OSCE recorded 41 violations of the ceasefire regime by Kiev, Ukrainian troops began active artillery shelling of Donbass.
February 16 – 76 violations.
February 17 - 316
February 18 – 654
February 19 - 1413
February 20-21 - 2026
February 22 – 1484.
There was artillery preparation for aggression. All this is the death of children, women, and the elderly.
The USA is the world's gendarme, the world's aggressor.
In the United States, Republicans supported the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. That is, there is no special difference between Republicans and Democrats.
All over the world, communist parties are no longer communist, they are a tool of the bourgeoisie to maintain stability, a balancer, a means of releasing steam. The Americans managed to destroy the Communist Party, an attempt to pass off a member of the fascist Democratic Party Sanders as a socialist, and the leaders of the BLM as Marxists failed. There is no balancer, the swing system (Republicans are Democrats) has fallen into disrepair.
On June 17, Newsweek published the results of a public opinion poll in the country. The survey was conducted as part of the assessment of the IBD/TIPP Economic optimism index. 53% of Americans believe that their economy has already entered a recession, 25% of respondents found it difficult to assess, 20% of respondents said that there is no recession in the country.
Newsweek explains the increase in pessimism in comparison with May by the fact that in late May - early June, inflation reached a 40-year high; the Dow Jones index in mid-June fell below 30,000 for the first time in a year and a half. In June, the US stock market became "bearish", i.e. the indices fell by at least 20% and have been at a low level for a long time.
According to the survey, only 45% of members of the Democratic Party gave the president a good rating, in 2021, 80% of Democrats believed that the president was doing a good job.
Biden, in a sober state, assures US citizens that, for example, in California, a gallon of gasoline "always cost seven dollars."
A survey by the Harvard CAPS-Harris Center, published on 17.2.2023, showed that 66% of independent voters said they doubted Biden's mental health. But is it only his?
One of the recently destroyed balloons was a cheap weather balloon for $ 12, which was launched by schoolchildren from Illinois. For four months, the children used it to monitor the state of the air, during which time the balloon managed to fly around the Earth several times and disappeared a week ago somewhere over Alaska. At the same time, the US military reported that they had destroyed it with a missile for 400 thousand dollars. a flying object in the area.
Statements by experts, officials, and opinion poll data only slightly reflect the catastrophe that has been going on in the United States since 2008. The crisis began a new round during the speeches of the BLM and during the Biden election campaign and sharply intensified in early 2022, even before the special operation of the Russian Federation.
More precisely, 2008 is only a manifestation of the crisis, when, according to tradition, they tried to drive the disease inside the body by hedging, "excessive reliance on leverage" (in the words of the former head of the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation Vyugin) and other tricks.
The beginning of the crisis was in the 80s, the collapse of the USSR spurred him sharply. Labor and capital came face to face without an intermediary in the form of the camp of "socialism". In the USA, the welfer was removed, the minimum wage was reduced. Already in 1992, the country was gripped by powerful Negro unrest, for example, the uprising in Los Angeles, brutally suppressed with the help of the army, with the shooting and arrest of tens of thousands of Negroes.
In the UK, Thatcher, despite the strikes, closed 33 coal mines, unemployment increased significantly, especially among young people, free medicine was eliminated, educational programs were reduced. In France, budget funds were transferred from public schools to private ones, social programs were cut, Chirac tried to raise the retirement age. The French responded with two nationwide strikes, but Sarkozy still implemented Chirac's plan. The withdrawal of production facilities to third countries worsened the social situation in Germany. In Japan, with its institution of lifelong employment, 5% unemployment was formed by 2000, a shock for the Japanese.
In the late 60s, the US authorities brought down a wave of protests by introducing anti-exhibitionism, hippie fashion, homosexuality and postmodern art into the youth movement. The ideological platform was provided by Marcuse, Munier, Adorno, Horkhammer, etc. In the future, all protest organizations were put at the service of capital: feminist, environmental, trade union (a vivid example is the AFT KPP), Trotskyist, fascist and even communist parties, which it pays to participate in elections. The authorities have built a protective buffer between themselves and the masses from all parties, from the ultra-right to the ultra-left.
In 2020, the US authorities resorted to the same means, exalting the problem of racism, escalating the topic of ecology (Greta Thunberg) and LGBT freedom.
More precisely, 2008 is only a manifestation of the crisis, when, according to tradition, they tried to drive the disease inside the body by hedging, "excessive reliance on leverage" (in the words of the former head of the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation Vyugin) and other tricks.
The beginning of the crisis – the 80s, the collapse of the USSR spurred him sharply. Labor and capital came face to face without an intermediary in the form of the camp of "socialism". In the USA, the welfer was removed, the minimum wage was reduced. Already in 1992, the country was gripped by powerful Negro unrest, for example, the uprising in Los Angeles, brutally suppressed with the help of the army, with the shooting and arrest of tens of thousands of Negroes.
In the UK, Thatcher, despite the strikes, closed 33 coal mines, unemployment increased significantly, especially among young people, free medicine was eliminated, educational programs were reduced. In France, budget funds were transferred from public schools to private ones, social programs were cut, Chirac tried to raise the retirement age. The French responded with two nationwide strikes, but Sarkozy still implemented Chirac's plan. The withdrawal of production facilities to third countries worsened the social situation in Germany. In Japan, with its institution of lifelong employment, 5% unemployment was formed by 2000, a shock for the Japanese.
In the late 60s, the US authorities brought down a wave of protests by introducing anti-exhibitionism, hippie fashion, homosexuality and postmodern art into the youth movement. The ideological platform was provided by Marcuse, Munier, Adorno, Horkhammer, etc. In the future, all protest organizations were put at the service of capital: feminist, environmental, trade union (a vivid example is the AFT KPP), Trotskyist, fascist and even communist parties, which it pays to participate in elections. The authorities have built a protective buffer between themselves and the masses from all parties, from the ultra-right to the ultra-left.
In 2020, the US authorities resorted to the same means, exalting the problem of racism, escalating the topic of ecology (Greta Thunberg) and LGBT freedom.
It turned out that the suppression of protests with the help of the ideas of the Frankfurt School is a double–edged sword. Crime has jumped, the birth rate has fallen, the level of school and university programs has been reduced, which inevitably leads to a decrease in labor productivity. In addition, technological discipline has fallen at the factories.
***
On February 3, a train carrying dangerous substances derailed in Ohio, in particular, at least five tank cars with vinyl chloride, a colorless but dangerous gas used for the production of PVC, plastic and vinyl products. There are also tanks with ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexylacrylate, isobutylene, butylacrylate. The American media initially bypassed this topic.
The fire rained for several days. By the way, when vinyl chloride burns, phosgene is also formed. Thousands of residents were evacuated, fish died in reservoirs. One of the streams flows into the Ohio River, a source of drinking water for several states. The authorities are still spitting on freedom of speech, detaining journalists who are trying to work in the disaster zone.
American firefighter Caggiano compared the disaster in Ohio to a nuclear winter.
The day after the accident, residents of Ohio began to itch all over their bodies.
Heather Ann lives more than six kilometers from the scene of the accident. But even such a distance did not save her – on the day of the arson of chemicals, she felt dizzy, a week later she could hardly breathe when an unpleasant smell remained in the air, and now there are difficulties with breathing along with headaches and burning on the skin. "Why do experts say it's safe? I noticed that the water in the city no longer looks as clean as it used to, there is a strange film on its surface," she says. You will laugh, but none of the authorities officially recommended that local residents not use water from their wells. Headaches, nausea, anger and fear for the future of children – this is how residents of the state described their condition after the incident.
It's not surprising – after all, it was off the coast of the United States that British Petroleum poured its oil into the ocean, it was in the United States that covid-19 was created. 50% of global air pollution emissions are accounted for by the United States.
In view of the fact that normal people are squeamish about people with mental disabilities, untidy and foul-smelling sexual perverts, these feathered freaks, the US authorities persistently impose LGBT, which clearly does not contribute to the health of the population.
Add to this the car boom in the United States, until the 90s Americans inhaled leaded gasoline, which reduces mental abilities. Add to this obesity from fast food, universal dependence on antidepressants, off–scale drug addiction, add to this the products of Hollywood - and you get a nation of moronic geeks.
According to preliminary findings of a study by the Brownstone Institute (USA), published in the author's column of its director, the American education system collapsed "all at once."
In states run by Democrats, schools were sometimes closed for two years. Parents had to leave work to teach their children at home. They found out what they teach at school ("critical racial theory" or new thoughts about the "mobility" of gender, etc.). The result: 240 thousand children did not return to school.
The boycott is announced not only by students and parents, but also by teachers. 80% of teachers report that they have burned out from the inside, 78% are in constant stress and depression, 55% are ready to leave their profession, 76% say that children behave incredibly creepy at school.
In 48 days in the USA - at least 73 cases of mass shooting. In California, 7 people died in two cases.
107.6 thousand Americans died in 2021 from overdoses, and most of the deaths were related to fentanyl.
Plus BLM, plus feminists, environmentalists, all of them, including LGBT, are weapon in capitalists hands. Plus Democrats led by Biden. Plus genetically modified foods. Plus bad vaccines, lack of quarantine, neither the number of infected nor the number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States is decreasing. There are about 20 thousand murders a year in the USA (twice as many as in China), about 48 thousand suicides and about 40 thousand deaths as a result of car accidents.
If in the Russian Federation, thanks to the closure of borders, the pandemic is on the decline, then in the United States it is not weakening. During the Trump administration, 200 thousand people died from coronavirus, and over 1 million people died during Biden's reign.
The war in Ukraine increased spending, but did not rally Americans. Sanctions have raised gasoline prices.
Today, the United States does not have the resources, namely, human resources to overcome the crisis. For in the USA, only 20% of the economy is the real sector, including IT technologies, etc., the rest is the speculative sector. In the United States, Congress, presidential administrations, and presidents themselves are degenerating.
The United States was forced to support fascism in Ukraine and the Baltic States, to resort to ridiculous, primitive, brazen lies to the whole world.
Fooling the population, which has become Washington's main political tool, is also a decrease in labor productivity.
Not only Tucker Carlson is outraged, not only senators from the Democratic Party. The fact that the explosives under the "Northern Streams" were laid by US divers in cooperation with Norwegian intelligence is already proved by American journalist Seymour Hersh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
It is no coincidence that traders record peak demand for precious metals, according to a review by the World Gold Council. By the end of 2022, the growth of gold purchases by Central Banks amounted to 18%. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation on purchases is in 4th place. Gold is considered the main protective asset in a crisis as opposed to the dollar.
The dollar's share in international reserves is gradually decreasing. In the mid-1980s, the dollar accounted for 85% of world reserves, in the early 2000s - 72%, and in the first half of 2022 – only 59%.
So far, in terms of use in international trade, the dollar covers 41.19%, the euro — 35.49%, the pound sterling - 6.45%, the Japanese yen - 2.82%, the Chinese yuan - 2.2% of the total volume of transactions.
At the same time, China exports goods worth $3 trillion. 548.55 billion, while the United States exports $2 trillion. 123.41 billion.
Under Trump– the failure of Washington's policy in Venezuela.
The failure in Syria.
Under Biden, there was a scandal with the publication of Seymour Hersh about how American divers, in cooperation with Norwegian intelligence, undermined 3 branches of the Nord Stream-2. Hersh forgot to mention Great Britain among the participants.
Why the scandal is unclear, because Biden himself openly said that he would end the Nord Stream–2, the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out that it was the United States that undermined the gas pipeline.
It is clear that this was an order: either by some faction of the Republican Party, or by Trump, or by that part of the Democratic Party that does not want Biden's second nomination as a presidential candidate.
The scandal with the flight of the US army from Afghanistan.
The failure of US policy in Belarus.
Washington's failure with measures against the pandemic, 200 thousand people died from coronavirus during Trump's reign, over 1 million died during Biden's reign.
Failure with the Democrats' activation of the BLM movement. An increase in crime, a decrease in the level of education.
At the end of January of this year, a wave of BLM protests again swept the United States. Riots have engulfed several American cities. Protesters block roads, wreck cars. Riots are shaking Los Angeles, Dallas and Memphis. Crowds are building barricades, blocking roads and bridges.
The toughest clashes were in New York, demonstrators blocked Manhattan, occupied central streets, police officers were powerless, the authorities used the National Guard.
The reason is the murder by police of a Negro criminal Tyra Nichols during detention. Everything was as usual in the police state: they beat the head with a baton, used a stun gun, but this was not enough for the police, they also sprayed pepper spray in the Negro's face. As a result, the officers beat the suspect to death.
"The police shot me in the back on the day of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. My brother was shot in the back by the police, paralyzed for 50 years. That's why I'm here. Very little has changed," says one of the protesters.
(The Russian media announced that there were no protests.)
Add to this the powerful demonstrations at the end of June 2022 against the abolition of the right to abortion that swept all major US cities.
The growing tension in society in connection with LGBT. The lawlessness of LGBT people even caused emigration from the USA.
Sandalwood with Hunter, Biden's son, a drug addict, pedophile and thief.
The scandal with secret documents in Biden's garage.
The failure with the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Donbass, the failure of US policy in Ukraine after the start of the special operation.
The failure of the sanctions policy against the Russian Federation.
Increase in gasoline prices.
Serbia and Hungary dissociated themselves from EU policy.
Even Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that his country would not support EU sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry.
Saudi Arabia has stopped being friends with Washington.
Iraq is being liberated from the United States.
Brazil has freed itself from the United States, Lula is president again.
The United States is still China's largest trading partner, but relations between Washington and Beijing have heated up.
Relations between the Democratic Party and Elon Musk suddenly became tense.
In 2012, the US GDP was distributed by sectors as follows: agriculture: 2.4% industry: 20% services: 78.6%. That is, the USA is a dependent country consuming industrial goods of other countries.
In 2018, 11.8% of the US population is below the poverty line.
Biden announced that he had created 12 million jobs. In fact – only 2 million. But.
Firstly, only low-paid jobs have been created. Secondly.
In 2019, there were 3.7% unemployed, in 2020 - 8.1%, in 2021 – 5.4% officially. Really – one and a half times more. There is no reason to believe that the unemployment rate has significantly decreased since 2020, although it is claimed that in 2022 the level dropped to 3.5%.
According to Wells Fargo Investment Institute experts, the unemployment rate in 2022 is 4.3%, by the end of 2023 it will be 5.2%, whereas earlier they predicted indicators at 3.8 and 4.4%.
How can the unemployment rate be lower than in 2019, if the country has not emerged from the pandemic, if the BLM lawlessness continues, if all other prices have increased due to rising gasoline prices?
Firstly, as analysts write, many millions of people have left the labor force altogether. Therefore, 3.5% unemployment in 2005 and 2022 are two structurally different unemployment rates.
However, everything is simpler: US statistics lie the same way Biden, Psaki, Harris, etc. lie.
In 2020, there will be 22 million unemployed in the USA out of an active population of 271 million.
The real incomes of the US population, as noted by the media, are in the negative zone, inflation overtakes them by 1-2% every month. Already in September, in annual terms, according to Bloomberg, inflation was 8.2%. The volume of investments is decreasing, consumer confidence is at levels close to historical lows.
In 2018, US GDP lagged behind China's GDP.
The US GDP in 2019 was 21 trillion. 344.6 billion dollars, in 2020 due to the pandemic – 20.89 trillion dollars, in 2021 the IMF and the World Bank drew an inflated figure and lied exactly the same way: 22.996 trillion dollars, responsibly, falsified data and by 2022 – 25.35 trillion. USD.
In early December 2022, a strike of one hundred thousand railway workers could break out in the United States. It "will be devastating for the American economy," Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick said in an interview with Fox News. But Congress supported the forced prevention of the strike.
American statistics lie in the same way as Russian or Chinese, there is a recession in the United States and, since there is no faith in statistical data, a recession is announced in the United States. In July 2022, the mayor of New York declared a recession and announced a financial crisis in the United States. How did the White House respond? As Fox News journalists found out, a certain user, apparently at the request of the White House, removed all links with the definition of recession from the Wikipedia article, instead entering the phrase that there are no clear criteria for this phenomenon.
Although fans of American democracy insist that there was no recession in the United States and there is not, even according to official US GDP statistics - according to the US Department of Commerce - in the first quarter of 2022, the country's GDP decreased by 1.6% year-on-year, in the second quarter - by 0.9%.
In 2023, the national debt exceeded $ 31.5 trillion, the total debt (together with the subjects of the federation) – about $ 180 trillion.
The cost of debt servicing is also growing, by 2029 it should amount to $8.1 trillion.
The life expectancy of a typical American has decreased from almost 79 years in 2019 to a little more than 76 years in 2021, officially, in reality – more.
In 2009, 50.7 million US residents, or 16.7% of the population, did not have health insurance. For another 30% of citizens, medical care was provided in an incomplete volume.
The main sources of America's health care spending are the following: private insurance – 33%; insurance through the state agency Medicare – 22%; insurance through the state agency Medicaid – 16%; other government programs – 12%; out of pocket of citizens – 10%; other private sources – 7%.
In 2019, 32.8 million people, or 12.1% of the US population, still had no health insurance. Today, according to the media, experts are preparing for a sharp reduction in the number of Americans covered by the state medical care program, the Washington Post notes.
In 2021, the United States had 332.7 million inhabitants, the 3rd place in the world. Mortality statistics are steadily growing in the USA. Over 70 years, the indicator has grown more than 1.87 times. Infant mortality is extremely high.
On 3.1.2022, according to official statistics, the total number of cases from COVID-19 in the world reached 290.66 million people, including 56.14 million in the USA. The total number of deaths from this disease in the world amounted to 5.46 million people. In the USA – 847.4 thousand . Americans accounted for 19.3% of all cases and 15.5% of deaths from covid in the world, despite the fact that the US share of the world's population is 4.3%. Conclusion: the incidence of covid in the United States was 4.5 times higher than the global average, and the mortality rate was 3.6 times.
Biden achieved only one thing: France, Italy, Spain, Finland and Germany became completely subordinate to Washington. The Baltic states, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom were subordinate to the States even before Biden.
Biden made changes to tax legislation, European companies rushed to the United States, Washington began to openly plunder Europe.
The trade turnover between the US and the EU is just under 720 billion dollars. Washington's sanctions have caused an energy crisis in the EU, which, despite the supply of liquefied gas, will return like a boomerang to the United States.
February 2023
FASCISM IS A LAW, NESESSARY REGULARITY OF CAPITALISM
The whole world - Serbia, Hungary, China, Latin America, Syria, Libya, Iraq, India, North Korea, Iran, Africa - is watching with amazement the degradation of the United States and Europe. Ukrainian fascists are killing civilians in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics every day, shelling civil buildings on the territory of Russia. 14.6.2022 Ukrainian fascists shelled Donetsk all day, Ukrainian artillery fired even at the maternity hospital, and before that destroyed the kindergarten. Even Reuters could not but deny the fact that Ukrainian troops fired on the maternity hospital. Turkish newspapers tried to justify the Ukrainian fascists, saying that it was an accident that the Ukrainian troops wanted to kill completely different civilians, they fired at the market. British newspapers went crazy and wrote that the maternity hospital in Donetsk was shelled... by Russian troops.
Of course, Germany supports the Ukrainian fascists, because Chancellor Scholz is the grandson of an SS officer. That was the choice of the Germans.
But in general, the EU, together with the United States, support Ukrainian fascism, they supply Ukraine with weapons from which Ukrainian fascists kill children of Donbass.
But even before February 2022, Europe supported fascism in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, whose governments sanctioned regular marches of SS veterans. And until February 2022, Europe turned a blind eye to the fact that torchlight processions were held in all cities in Ukraine, the Ukrainian authorities made the birthday of the Abwehr employee Bandera a national holiday. Since 2014, Ukrainian fascists have been brutally torturing prisoners. Europe turns a blind eye to Ukrainian fascism.
The moronic fascist Biden has gone crazy and is wheezing about Russia's aggressiveness. Biden does not remember how Hitler's USA bombed kindergartens in Belgrade, how the USA staged a humanitarian catastrophe in prosperous Libya, how the USA killed half a million civilians in Iraq, how the USA created ISIS and unleashed a war in Syria, how the USA executed a million civilians with torture during the two months of occupation of North Korea – to Himmler's envy, how American soldiers burned villages in Vietnam and, like Mengele, conducted medical experiments on prisoners.
Let me remind you: only 9 million Negroes died during transportation from Africa, the British, together with the Spaniards, killed over 100 million native Americans. The British exterminated the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, killed 90 million inhabitants of India, killed the Irish.
Americans are not people, they are worse than animals.
Fascism is not only Pol Pot, not only Germany under Hitler, not only Italy under Mussolini, not only Japan under Hirohito.
In 1941, ordinary Poles beat to death the entire population of the Soviet town of Edvabna, more than 1,000 people were driven into an ovin and burned alive. Practically the entire population of the town was made up of Jews.
In 1948, the Israeli fascists, in order to expand the territory, massacred the entire population of Deir Yassin, children, women, and the elderly. In 2014, the MOSSAD, the IDF helped the fascist Maidan in Kiev, all Ukrainian rabbis and businessmen supported the fascist Maidan. Rabbi Simferopol called on NATO to launch a nuclear strike on Russia. The Israeli ambassador in Kiev invited the head of the Ukrainian fascists Yarosh to visit. The wounded Bandera fighters, like the IGLI fighters, were treated in the best hospitals in Israel.
Previously, only the UK was Washington's lackey. Now the whole of Europe is Washington's lackey. Scholz, Macron, Polish President Duda and others are eating the shit out of Biden's asshole. Israel, Japan, Canada, Australia also love the shit out of Biden's ass.
15.6.2022
MARKET SOCIALISM
Until 1991, in the USSR, the theories of market socialism were classified as bourgeois theories. It was argued that socialism contrasts the market element with the planned management of the economy. But planning is carried out by any capitalist monopoly, the plan is the conquest of capitalism.
On the other hand, in the USSR, the market has always existed. Commodity-money relations in the USSR have always existed.
Finally, no plan in the USSR was ever implemented, both in the first five-year plans and in the last, when a broad movement of "Decembrists", representatives of factories, began, who in the last December of the five-year plan went to the ministries to coordinate the reduction of planned tasks.
The economic system in Hungary, where the elements of the market were clearly present, was contemptuously called "goulash-socialism".
Usually, the theorists of market socialism include Rodbertus, Mill, Proudhon,Ricardo, and various anarchists. However, their views are related to the initial stage of the development of capitalism, they do not include the planning that occurs in developed capitalism, when monopolies limit the market element.
Later theories were created by Leon Walras, Enrico Barone (1908), Oscar R. Lange (circa 1936), and H. D. Dickinson (1933). Lange and Fred M. Taylor (1929) proposed that central supply boards set prices by trial and error, making adjustments as shortages and surpluses arose, rather than free-price mechanisms.
However, all these models avoid the question of political power, of the position of the working class. The same applies to the theories of coupon socialism by John Roemer and to "economic democracy" by David Schweikart.
After the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP), the XI Conference of the Bolshevik Party (RKPb) in December 1921 adopted a resolution defining the tasks of the Soviet government, "based on the existence of the market and taking into account its laws", emphasizing the need to "master it and through systematic, strictly considered economic measures based on accurate accounting of market processes, take into their own hands the regulation of the market and monetary circulation" ("The CPSU in resolutions and decisions of congresses, conferences and plenums of the Central Committee". Vol. 2. P. 301).
The" black market " in the USSR was quite broad, but only concerned the deficit.
The market for agricultural products was widespread, and in every major city there were dozens of specially organized territories where products were sold at free prices.
The market also existed in Group A, and prices for products floated depending on the region where the product was produced, and changed over time.
Factory capacities were also evaluated in the market categories. If there was no factory market, there were no stocks, then there were markets for the means of production, the funds for the development of production of each plant were also measured in monetary terms.
There was also a labor market. In 1987, there were 1.7 million unemployed people in the USSR ("The National Economy of the USSR in 1987", M., Finance and Statistics, 1988). However, it was not this army of unemployed people that determined the market. The labor market began in competition between seasonal artels, continued with competition between workers on piecework and time-based wages, and ended with competition between design bureaus, for example, the space design bureaus Chalomey and Korolev, and intersectoral competition, which determined the flow of labor.
So, in the city of Perm, a medium-skilled worker at the plant named Sverdlov received 12% of the unit value of the products produced, a worker of the plant named Lenin – 9%, a worker of the plant named Dzerzhinskiy – 7%, workers of automobile enterprises-13.5%.
In 1908, Lenin wrote: "As for socialism, it is known that it consists in the destruction of commodity production" ("The agrarian question in Russia by the end of the XIX century", Op. 5 edition. Vol. 17. p. 127).
In 1919, in the draft program of the RKPb, Lenin proposed to replace money with checks.
Nevertheless, in his “Critique of the Gotha Program”, Marx pointed out that under socialism, bourgeois inequality persists.
In the third volume of “Capital”, Marx writes: "... after the destruction of the capitalist mode of production... the definition of value remains dominant in the sense that the regulation of working time and the distribution of social labor among the various groups of production, and finally the accounting that covers all this, become more important than ever before" (Essays. T. 25. Ch. II. P. 421).
But Marx, pointing out that value is created by abstract labor, attributed the process of abstraction only to the sphere of the market. If we follow this logic, then the elimination of the market destroys the value. It was following this logic that the Bolsheviks acted when they tried to abolish money.
N. I. Bukharin in the book "The Economy of the Transition Period" (1920) wrote: "In the transition period, in the process of destroying the commodity system as such, there is a process of "self-denial" of money. It is expressed in the so-called "depreciation" of money" (quoted from Dalin S. A. Inflation in the era of social revolutions. M., 1983. P. 187).
In 1920, the candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RKPb, G. Zinoviev, wrote: "If the price of the ruble falls in Russia, it is very difficult for us – there is nothing to hide. But we have a way out, we have an opening. We talk: we are going to destroy all kinds of money. We naturalize wages, we introduce a free tram, we have a free school, a free (though still thin) lunch, we have free housing, lighting, etc." ("Twelve Days in Germany").
On January 19, 1920, the People's Bank was abolished.
In January 1920, the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets of the National Economy decided: "... in view of the exceptional instability of the monetary unit and the accounting unit (ruble), "it is advisable to establish a new accounting unit," adopting the labor unit as the main system of measures."
On March 25, 1920, Soviet institutions, enterprises and farms were allowed to use the post, telegraph, radiotelegraph and telephone free of charge.
On April 30, the SNK adopted a decree "On the introduction of a labor food ration", according to which a uniform distribution of food products among the “labor” non-agricultural population was established.
On October 1, 1920, the decree of the SNK “On the abolition of certain monetary settlements” was adopted. It was supplemented by the decree of November 29 “On simplification of monetary settlements".
On December 4, the decree of the SNK was issued “About free vacation of food products to the population”, and on December 17 - “About free vacation of consumer goods to the population”.
Free use of the post office, telegraph, telephone and radiotelegraph was introduced.
On January 27, 1921, payment for residential premises, use of water supply, sewerage, gas, electricity, public transport, laundries, repair shops and public baths was abolished.
From February 5, medicines were dispensed free of charge in pharmacies according to doctors ' prescriptions.
Since March 23, 1921, all works of print have also become free: books, newspapers, magazines, brochures, and portraits.
As a result, from October 1917 to June 1921, the money supply increased 120 times, and retail prices-almost 8000 times.
Marx's mistake was that he attributed the abstractness of labor only to the secondary sphere of exchange, while the sphere of production is the determining one. In the sphere of production, the work of the worker is dominated by abstract content, Marx characterized this work as "heavy, monotonous, depersonalizing" ("Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844"). This abstract content in the process of production generates both abstractness in the sphere of exchange and the wage character of labor.
Socialism is the process of destroying both sides of the contradiction: the bourgeoisie and the working class. If one destroys only one side, the other side will revive it from itself. What we saw clearly in 1991 in the USSR.
Socialism is the destruction of the old social division of labor, primarily into mental and physical labor, and Marx writes about it. This annihilation also eliminates the working class, as a class whose work is dominated by abstract content.
Lenin believed that the proletariat ceases to be a proletariat when it takes ownership of the means of production. But at the same time, the depersonalizing labor of the worker is preserved.
Lenin realized Marx's mistake in practice and introduced the NEP at the Tenth Congress of the RKPb in 1921.
Stalin, not understanding the dialectic of the abstract concrete in labor, abolished the NEP, in fact, as early as 1927, although Lenin established the NEP for decades.
The product of labor can throw off its commodity form only after the contradiction between mental and physical labor is eliminated. However, in the USSR, the working class did not die out in any way. On the contrary, it grew from 15 million in number by 1917 to 80 million by 1986.
On the other hand, capitalism is a mode of production in which labor becomes a commodity. In the USSR, workers sold their labor force for money 5 days a week.
Thus, in the USSR there was neither socialism, nor a degenerate workers ' state according to Trotsky, nor bureaucratic socialism, etc., but capitalism.
As for China. In 1956-1958, the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of China established that there is state capitalism in the country. Then one supposed a Big leap from capitalism to communism, bypassing socialism. This was a great folly, because, as Marx showed, there must be a transition period between capitalism and communism. However, in the 70s, Deng Xiaoping began "perestroika", the Big leap did not take place, China remained capitalist. Today, however, Comrade Xi is telling humanity about socialism with a Chinese face.
8.5.2021
MATERIALISM AND MULTIPARTY SYSTEM
Introduction
In 1903, at the 2nd RSDLP Congress, Lenin's supporters created a "new type" party, its members are required not only to support the party's program, but also pay membership fees and work in one of the party cells. The principle of democratic centralism must operate in the new party.
The party should have a two-layer structure, conspiratorial and legal: a group of permanent cadre leading party workers (professional revolu¬tionaries) with the necessary minimum of theoretical knowledge, political experience, organizational practice and the art of fighting the tsarist police; plus a wide network of local party organizations and a large number of party members who would be supported by the masses.
Moreover, the Bolshevik Party is the spokesman for the fundamental interests of the working class. In other words, the party not only calls on to vote, that is, to participate in the creation of parliament, but organizes and leads the mass movements. The masses do not just vote for the party, but carry out its instructions.
A. Avtorkhanov, M. Voslensky and others undertook criticism of the Bol¬shevik party structure. Lenin is accused of the absence of internal party democracy, of the fact that the party is not a mass one (Stalin made it a mass one), that the elite of the party are professional revolutionaries, that in the party - centralism, subordination of local cells to the center. The main charge is the rejection of the multiparty system and factionalism.
However, today the elites of all parties, both right and left, are profes¬sional functionaries, in all parties there is no internal party democracy, in all parties local cells are obliged to follow the instructions of the center, all major parties have virtually ruled out factionalism.
The multi-party system, however, became one of the slogans of liberal democracy, the content of which was the dismantling of the USSR. On the other hand, in the pres¬ence of two or several parties, the coming of one or another party to power does not fundamentally change anything in the domestic and foreign poli¬cies of countries.
The Republican and Democratic parties of the United States are a well-known "swing system" to get rid of the multiparty system in the sense of the difference in ideologies, the Communist Party in the United States was virtually eliminated.
The arrival of Tony Blair, Mitterrand or Hollande did not bring anything essentially new, the Laborites were in-distinguishable from the Conservatives, the Socialists from the Republi¬cans. Behind the external differences, the Scandinavian, Spanish, Belgian, Swiss, Austrian, Australian and other multi-party systems are essentially the same, competition between parties does not lead to progress.
Thus, the typologies of the party systems of J. Duverger, J. Blondel or J. Sartori have no relation to reality. Below we will see that the criticism "What is to be done?" did not touch upon the essence of the issue.
"What is to be done?"
Trotsky tied the class-party relationship to a revolutionary situation:
"Only the leading stratum of the class has a political program, which, however, needs to be tested by events and approved by the masses. The deep political process of the revolution consists precisely in the class's awareness of the tasks arising from the social crisis and in the active ori¬entation of the masses by the method of gradual approach ... Only on the basis of studying political processes in the masses themselves can one understand the role of parties and leaders, which we are least inclined to ignore. They form, although not an independent, but an important element of the process. Without a governing organization, the energy of the mass¬es would have evaporated like steam not enclosed in a steam boiler." [1]
Both Lenin and Trotsky explained the need for a dedicated governing structure 1) from the need for one-man management in any social process, 2) from the heterogeneity of the working class. There are dark, uncon¬scious elements in the working class, and there are the most conscious ones - the vanguard. But this vanguard is not yet a party.
Adam Smith wrote that the worker, due to hard work, is not even capa¬ble of patriotism. Marx notes that due to the hard work of the workers, they are not able to generalize and lead the masses, the representatives of the interests of the working class are not the workers, but people of more liber¬ated labor, representatives of the intelligentsia, more capable of generali¬zation, of developing a strategy, a program. Thus, the party of the working class is not part of the working class. It is the vanguard of the avant-garde.
Here are a few quotes from Lenin's "What is to be done".
"The workers could not have had a social democratic consciousness. It could only be brought from outside. The history of all countries testifies that the working class is able to develop only a trade unionist consciousness solely by its own efforts..." [2]. At this point, the materialist Lenin becomes an idealist, it is not matter that develops from itself to the Sami, but the idea is primary, it is introduced from outside into the dark, inert, inert matter of the working class. However, history testifies that both the Paris Commune and the Soviets were created by the workers themselves, without party spiritual shepherds.
In the same book, Lenin himself objects to his own statement: "The political character of the economic struggle is quite often spontaneous, that is, without the intervention of the" revolutionary bacillus - the intelligentsia, "without the intervention of conscious Social Democrats. For example, the economic struggle of the workers in England acquired a political character without any participation of the socialists" [2, p. 73]. But, he makes a res-ervation, we are talking only about "glimpses of political consciousness", which the party should take advantage of and direct "glimpses" into the social democratic channel. And Marx pointed out that in view of the hard, black labor of the workers, their leaders are from the intelligentsia, whose labor is freer. But Marx stressed that any economic strike is political at the same time. Lenin took the position of Arnold Ruge, who did not understand the political significance of the economic protest of the Silesian weavers. Marx criticizes his lack of understanding, he makes fun of the political rea¬soning of various parties, which are trying to bring this reasoning to the masses, using specific examples.
Stalin made Lenin's situational statement of workers' illiteracy a con¬ceptual idea. Today, "bringing political consciousness to the masses," "the inability of workers to break out of the trade union on their own," is the fundamental idea for all bourgeois parties.
"The consciousness of the working class cannot be a truly political con¬sciousness if the workers are not accustomed to respond to all and all cases of arbitrariness and oppression, violence and abuse, no matter what class these cases belong to; - and, moreover, to respond precisely from the social democratic, and not from any other point of view " [2, p. 69].
The word "accustomed": Lenin wants to teach the workers, as parents teach their children?
Undoubtedly, in this book, Lenin is right about his opponents, he is head and shoulders above them, he also criticizes Bernstein for reformism. But why does Lenin make the Social Democrats the yardstick of everything? And if the Social Democrats are wrong, should the working class follow their mistakes? Now the working class is called upon to respond to the oppression of sexual minorities, provocateurs beaten by the police, to the dictatorship of those who are appointed by the United States as dictators. If Lev Tolstoy, Gorky and many other great people were indignant at the police suppression of senseless student demonstrations in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1899, today demonstrations of this type, ridiculous, ex¬alted, shocking and provocative, cause a desire to support the police.
"A spontaneous labor movement by itself is capable of creating (and inevitably creates) only trade unionism, and the trade unionist policy of the working class is precisely the bourgeois policy of the working class," Lenin summarizes [2, p. 96].
Of course, the struggle for the most favorable conditions for the sale of labor power is the satisfaction of the worker with capitalism. However, the powerful spontaneous strikes in the United States against the conveyor depersonalization - isn't this a struggle to eliminate the contradiction be¬tween mental and physical labor, about this task of socialism, which was noted by Marx in his "Critique of the Gotha Program"?
The world saw how in 1968 the workers of "Sud Aviation" seized the plant, set up production themselves, locked the offices of the administra¬tion and made the "Internationale" learn over the public address system.
In the late 1960s, the world saw how hungry, embittered and armed workers from southern Italy installed Soviets in factories, took control of enterprise finances and rid the country of corruption.
"Who should be a team of professional revolutionaries? ... Marx and Engels themselves, in their social position, belonged to the bourgeois intel¬ligentsia. In the same way, in Russia, the theoretical teaching of Social De-mocracy arose completely independently of the spontaneous growth of the labor movement, arose as a natural and inevitable result of the develop¬ment of thought among the revolutionary socialist intelligentsia." [2, p. 31].
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kollontai and many others laid down their lives for the cause of the working class. These are unique cases, there are none today. But Lenin here 1) separates the evolution of social democracy from the labor movement, 2) considers the development of social democracy to be independent of the labor movement, he clearly distorts history.
"Of course," Lenin stipulates, "socialism, as a doctrine, is as rooted in modern economic relations as the class struggle of the proletariat, just as this latter follows from the struggle against the poverty and misery of the masses generated by capitalism, but socialism and class the struggle arises next to one another, and not one of the other, arise under different prerequisites. Modern socialist consciousness can arise only on the basis of deep scientific knowledge" [2, p. 39].
That is: the socialist doctrine is rooted, follows - but immediately arises not from, but side by side, independently. On the other hand, where can deep scientific knowledge come from? Are their heads of academics? Or does it arise from the practice of class struggle? After the events of the Paris Commune, Marx returned to "Capital" to correct his theory and bring it into line with practice. After the events of 1991, it became obvious to eve¬ryone that other provisions of Marxism-Leninism were subject to revision. Alas, the modern left did not draw this conclusion.
"...1) that no revolutionary movement can be strong without a stable and consistent organization of leaders; 2) that the wider the mass spon¬taneously involved in the struggle, constituting the basis of the movement and participating in it, the more urgent is the need for such an organization and the stronger this organization must be (for the easier it is for all dema¬gogues to drag away the undeveloped strata of the masses); 3) that such an organization should consist mainly of people professionally engaged in revolutionary activities" [2, p. 121].
Stalin said so: the party should consist of special people, a kind of sword-bearers.
That is, Stalin and Trotsky in terms of the relationship between the class and the party stood on identical positions.
There is no objection to theory, as Marx said, "there is nothing more practical than a good theory." But both Marx and Lenin as materialists in the dialectical unity of practice and theory emphasize the primacy of practice, the primacy of practice over theory. "... practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, because it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate reality," writes Lenin [3]. Lenin here by no means expresses Hegel's opinion on speculative theories in his own words, here Lenin's direct assertion about the "dignity of universality."
Stalinists and liberals, on the other hand, argue that theory appears di¬vorced from practice and even precedes practice, in the minds of armchair scientists. The goal is obvious: to place theorists as a special caste above society, the party above the class. The subjective party factor became ob¬jective among the Stalinists and liberals.
"… History in general," writes Lenin, "the history of revolutions in par¬ticular, is always richer in content, more diverse, versatile, livelier, "more cunning" than the best parties, the most conscious vanguards of the most advanced classes imagine…" [4].
There is no objection and no organization. But whose organization is this? Either it is an organization from the intelligentsia, or from the work¬ers themselves. Either the workers have the intelligence and strength to remove the unwanted leader of the organization, or they do not.
Lenin writes about the undeveloped strata of the masses. In 1917, work¬ers in Russia had at best 3 classes of education behind their backs, and not all of them. In the 1980s, workers had 10 years of education behind them, and some had a higher education or incomplete higher education. In a situation where the number of literate people in Russia was on the order of only 23%, and even later, when the working class, as Trotsky put it, was a chaotic mass, Lenin's words were partly true.
But the working class is developing, structural changes are taking place in it. The number of knowledge workers in Russia increased from 2% in 1887 (Moscow, CSA, 1922) to 17% in 1986, education increased from 229 literate per 1000 people to 80% of workers with secondary education (in Japan - 97%), moreover, about 10-15% of workers in the USSR had a higher education. Prior to 1991, studies around the world showed an up¬ward trend in the total number of years of schooling from year to year. This happens as capitalism develops. As Marx pointed out, the level of devel¬opment of capitalism is determined by how much science has become a productive force. This means not only the introduction of scientific develop¬ments into production, but also an increase in the literacy of the worker.
Now workers visit libraries, listen to the radio, watch TV, use the Inter¬net. Over the years of difficult labor, highly skilled workers have received a much deeper education than the education of many party functionaries. For such workers, it is the propaganda of the left-wing "professional revo¬lutionaries" that appears to be demagogy.
"This kind of "push from the side" is not too much, but, on the contrary, too little, it was unscrupulously and shamelessly little in our movement, because we were too zealous to boil in our own juice, bowed too slavishly to the elementary "economic struggle workers with bosses and with the government." We, revolutionaries by profession, must and will do this kind of "pushing" a hundred times more. But precisely because you choose such a vile word as "pushing from the outside", which inevitably causes a worker (at least a worker who is as undeveloped as you are undeveloped) to mistrust everyone who bears him from the outside, political knowledge and revolutionary experience evokes an instinctive desire to rebuff all such people - you turn out to be a demagogue, and demagogues are the worst enemies of the working class "[2, p. 122-123].
Today this thesis of Lenin is not just outdated, but harmful. For there have been so many nudges from the bourgeois liberals, Stalinists, various pro-American anarchists, Trotskyists, and various demagogues in recent history that these nudges are already causing a sharply negative reaction from the workers. It is not difficult to see that in his polemics with econo¬mism and anarchists, Lenin completely repeats the ideas of Bernstein- Kautsky.
Genesis
Today, ALL parties, both the left and the right, use Bernstein's scheme, which boils down to the following: party bosses write a program, party gray ranks bring it to the masses, the masses follow the program, basically vote in elections, after which party bosses receive leading posts. All par¬ties reject materialism, which claims that the class is primary and the party is secondary, all parties follow bourgeois idealism and strive to lead the working class.
Thus, the left parties turn out to be right in their practice.
In a party of the Leninist type, a stratum of people emerges that wants to be called a representative of the working class, and this stratum begins to express the interests of the working class for the workers, instead of the workers themselves.
Further, the principle of democratic centralism ceases to operate in a party of the Leninist type. Election, reporting of higher bodies to subordi¬nate ones becomes a formality. The turnover from top to bottom disap-pears, the party leader becomes permanent for the rest of his life. The same thing happens in bourgeois parties. Parties are formed from gray ranks, regularly voting for party bosses. The selection of personnel is car¬ried out in accordance with this. Moreover, all bourgeois parties become parties of the Leninist type. Finally, all over the world the principle of demo¬cratic centralism is transferred to economic management and is formalized in the same way as in the USSR.
The same happens with other forms of workers' self-organization. Trade unions in the USSR became an appendage of the party, in factories - an appendage of the factory administration. The same bureaucracy of trade unions took place in the West.
Finally, the moment comes when the interest expressed by the party layer becomes opposite to the real interest of the workers, when the bour¬geois interest of this layer of spokesmen is hidden behind the screen of the interests of the working class. Which became clear in 1991.
According to Trotsky, "Soviets are the organ of the proletarian revolu¬tion. They cannot persist in a non-revolutionary environment. ... After the conquest of power by the working class, an unexpected decline in the initi¬ative of the working class may limit the Soviets in their function of the direct power of the proletariat or even eliminate them"[5].
Gradually, the Soviets in the USSR became exactly the same append¬age of the party as the trade unions. Already in 1923, the XII Congress of the RCPb fixed that "the dictatorship of the proletariat is expressed in the form of the dictatorship of the party." Meanwhile, Plekhanov stresses the difference: "The dictatorship of the proletariat, like heaven from earth, dif¬fers from the dictatorship of a handful of heterogeneous revolutionaries" ("Socialism and Political Struggle").
Although Lenin argued that the dictatorship of the proletariat was ex¬pressed precisely in the form of Soviet power, "in the form found by the workers themselves" ("State and Revolution"), and headed the Council of People's Commissars as an organ of economic management, and not as an organ of revolution, not as an organ of suppression of the bourgeois class.
In his last letters, Lenin states that the situation in the country is deter¬mined by a narrow layer of the party elite, i.e. there is not only the dictator¬ship of the proletariat, but even the dictatorship of the party. It turned out exactly what Trotsky warned about in the polemic with Lenin's pamphlet "What is to be done?": The party organization replaces the party itself, the CC — the party organization, and, finally, the dictator — the CC; while "the people are silent" [6].
The logical completion of the process of forming the relationship "class - party" was expressed in terms of "scheme", "model", "project", "technol¬ogy". A certain group of people puts forward ideas, theses, writes an eco-nomic program. Further, the population is invited to support the program and vote for this group in the elections. Consideration of the role of parties in history goes back to the pre-Marxian period, when history was present¬ed in the form of the history of kings. The party appears as the demiurge of history, which in the USSR was expressed in the slogan: "The plans of the party are the plans of the people." The ideological struggle becomes not an appendage, but the main form of the class struggle. The masses, however, can "influence" the party only through requests or proposals.
That is, the Bernstein-Kautsky thesis is being realized that the mass¬es cannot do without the upper ruling class, they cannot go beyond the economic struggle. Political consciousness in the working class brings the party, as God brings the soul into inert, dark matter. It immediately fol¬lows from this that the self-government that Marx and Lenin proclaimed is impossible. Thus, the difference in the social order consists only in the differences between the leading party groups. For modern Russian Social Democrats, and later the CPRF, they are "competent" (for the CPRF - com¬munists), for Ortega y Gasset, they are "hearing the underground rumble of history" ("Revolt of the Masses").
Absenteeism
Less than six months after France elected representatives of the broad masses, led by Chirac, the government decided to increase the pension qualification for public sector workers, reform the health care system and revise the collective agreement of railway workers. A nationwide strike broke out. However, the question arises: why did you vote? France is an exemplary electoral country, with a turnout reaching 80%. Whereas in the USA or Great Britain the turnout already in the 80s is about 25% -40%, only the presidential elections collect more.
Both the previous elections and the elections in 1995 showed that par¬ties are not perceived by the population. Those wishing to become depu¬ties took this circumstance into account, nominated themselves indepen¬dently and won a convincing victory over the party nominees.
In the course of the development of capitalism, all the major parties formed a buffer between the government and the disaffected masses. The "Kommersant-Daily" newspaper writes that the electoral system helps to stabilize society. But the ruling classes use the entire political spectrum, from the ultra-left to the far-right. If any political poverty is not occupied, the power fills it with itself.
The ruling classes have learned to use any opposition, environmental, anti-fascist, women's, anti-racist movements and actively use LGBT peo¬ple.
The reluctance of the population to vote for any candidate, who was nominated not by the labor collective, but by an unknown organization, for a person who is not known to many, led to a massive vote against every¬one. On 6.30.2006, the State Duma adopted a law excluding the "against all" column from the ballots for elections at all levels.
All parties have discredited themselves, the government pays the com¬munist parties for participation in elections, the more the communist par¬ties receive mandates in parliament, the more the government pays them. Absenteeism is growing all over the world, even in France, only 47% of voters came to Macron's election.
Lenin's position
In the opinion of leftist ideologists, a class cannot organize itself, be¬cause it is heterogeneous, there are many backward elements in it. The party can become the spokesman for the interests of the class - instead of the class itself. But if the class is so heterogeneous that the "irresponsible" part is the overwhelming majority, then there is no need to talk about the power of the class. The working class is simply not ready for revolution or dictatorship. If the conscious part is large, then it is not the vanguard, but the class itself [7].
Thus, the theory of the avant-garde does not stand up to scrutiny.
A man differs from an animal in that he thinks. The need of workers to think independently, but not to follow someone else's thought, even the thought of a leader, increases with the development of production. Conse-quently, the theory of the avant-garde and Bernstein's thesis on the intro¬duction of political consciousness by the party into the working class are untenable.
In his 1902 paper "What is to be done", Lenin, in a polemic with the "economists", took the position of Bernstein: the working class cannot break out of the struggle for the most favorable conditions for the sale of labor. He writes:"… the 'economists' want revolutionaries to recognize the 'rightfulness of the movement in the present' (R.D. ¹ 10, p. 25), that is, the "legitimacy" of the existence of what exists; so that the "ideologists" do not try to "divert" the movement from the path that is "determined by the interaction of material elements and the material environment" ("Letter" in "Spark", ¹ 12); to recognize it as desirable to wage the struggle "which is only possible for the workers under the given circumstances", and to rec¬ognize as possible the struggle "which they are actually waging at a given moment" (Separate Appendix to "R. Thoughts", p. 14). On the contrary, we, the revolutionary Social Democrats, are dissatisfied with this admiration for spontaneity, that is, before what is "at the moment"; we demand a change in the tactics prevailing in recent years..." [2].
It is obvious that this provision cannot be applied to the present mo¬ment. But Lenin has something to correct Lenin: he calls to proceed from the immediate interests of the working class, to learn from the working class, to go along with the working class, to go a step forward whenever possible.
In his 1920 work, "Infantile illness of leftism in communism", Lenin re¬fuses to understand the German Social Democrats, who oppose the party to the class, Lenin writes about the heterogeneity of the working class and the vanguard.
In 1922, Stalin was rude to Krupskaya on the phone, and Lenin realized that the arguments of the German Social Democrats were not groundless.
In 1917, Lenin placed Soviets over the party in his work "State and Revolution".
In 1918, Lenin asserted: "The present government is the Soviet of Work¬ers' Deputies. To think otherwise is to fall into anarchism. It is a recognized fact that in S.R.D. our party is in the minority. It is necessary to explain to the masses that the Soviet of Workers' Deputies is the only possible gov¬ernment, a government unseen in the world, except for the Commune" [8].
However, in 1921, Lenin said the opposite, in his closing speech on the report of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) at the X Congress, he stat¬ed: "After we have experienced all these disasters, that we have practically seen all this, we know how damn difficult it is to fight with them. After two and a half years of Soviet power, we appeared before the whole world and said in the Communist International that the dictatorship of the proletariat was impossible except through the Communist Party. And then we were furiously abused by the anarchists and syndicalists ... "What's the matter?
Perhaps Lenin was influenced by the struggle against the Workers' Op¬position and the Left Marxists, who called on the working class to immedi¬ately take power, that is, to immediate socialism?
The dictatorship of the proletariat, Lenin emphasizes, is not only and not so much the suppression of the bourgeoisie as the ability of the work¬ing class to take the economy of the entire country into its own hands.
It is impossible to "introduce" socialism in Russia, writes Lenin, "for we are illiterate" [9]. The revolution in Germany was defeated, the proletariat of the developed countries was unable to come to the aid of agrarian Rus¬sia. In 1924, the 5th Congress of the Comintern came to the conclusion that the world capitalist system was stabilized.
Already in 1918, Lenin asserted that no sane communist would ever think of identifying existing economic relations with socialist ones. But Lenin does not distort the concepts of socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat, which, according to Marx, are equivalent concepts.
The fact is, the Comintern was founded on March 2, 1919, after the abolition of the Vikzhel in January (February) 1918 and the AREC opera¬tion on April 11-12 to disarm the anarchist military units ("Black Guard"), there was no talk of separate anarchists and separate syndicalists. Lenin criticized the Workers' Opposition for its anarcho-syndicalist deviation.
The fact is that "in the Comintern" Lenin did not say anything of the kind. The words at the X Congress were attributed to Lenin after his death in order to ex post facto justify the formulation of the XII Party Congress, which took place in Lenin's absence, about the dictatorship of the Party. In 1919, at the First Congress of the Comintern, in his theses "On Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," Lenin did not at all say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the dictatorship of the party; on the contrary, he twice identified the Soviets and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Lenin is trying with all his might to correct the position on "bringing consciousness", which he repeated in his polemics with anarchists and supporters of economism after Bernstein in "What is to be done" [10]. He completely breaks the modern, taken from Bernstein, scheme of relations "party - masses": "Let us reduce the role of state officials to the role of sim¬ple executors of the will of the working people!" ("Order from the CLD to local Soviet institutions"). We are talking about party government officials.
One of the main points in the propaganda of various Trotskyist organi¬zations is the thesis that the revolutionaries appoint a government acting "in the interests of the proletariat"
In The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, Lenin sharp¬ly objected to this idea: Lenin writes: what is needed is not "a government that goes towards the proletariat, but a government of the proletariat." I.e. subordinate to the proletariat. That is, not a worker should be subordinate to Stalin, but vice versa.
Socialism, writes Lenin in "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Power", is when everyone, after completing their 8-hour lesson, begins to engage in state activities ("The immediate tasks of the Soviet power"). At the same time, modern parties provide this opportunity to citizens only at the mo¬ment the ballot is dropped into the ballot box during election campaigns.
Conclusion
So, is Hegel right, if there are laws in history that are independent of an individual (leader) or a group of party individuals, can anything at all develop without outside influence, thanks to "internal anxiety", do the laws of dialectics work? Could Homo Sapiens have emerged on Earth by itself, without the help of something external?
Lenin unfolds the question in a different way: the Social Democrats, he argues, implicitly pointing to the "Manifesto of the Communist Party", have no task of organizing the party, the Social Democrats have the task of or¬ganizing the entire proletariat into a political party.
In the draft -st RSDLP program, Lenin sets the task of the Social Demo¬crats "to help the working people in their self-organization." That is why Lenin repeats, following Marx, that "socialism is the living creativity of the masses." But not party theorists. This is not about the fact that competent leadership regularly degenerates, and the masses, who only ever obeyed and followed, have nothing to replace it with. The point is that even a hun-dred copies of Marx, as Lenin said, is not able to manage the economy. Any narrow social group, be it a socialist leadership or a capitalist system, even the capitalist system that "meets the proletariat," "acts in the interests of the people," is not able to cover all the diversity of economic ties.
Party activists are trying to achieve improvements by organizing them¬selves, by creating party groups making their way to power - with the complete passivity of the masses [11]. The masses are for them only the executors of their programs. Meanwhile, Lenin pointed out that in order to carry out any transformations in society, class forces are needed, it is necessary "to organize for the struggle such forces that can - and accord¬ing to their social position should" go through these transformations to the end. ("Three sources, three components of Marxism"). The parties, instead of "helping childbirth" (Marx), are trying to force society to give birth when it has not yet become pregnant. More precisely - to give birth instead of a woman in labor.
References
1. L. Trotsky, "History of the Russian Revolution", V. I, P. 28-29.
2. Lenin, CW, V. 6. P.79.
3. Lenin. Synopsis of Hegel's book Science of Logic. CW, ed.5, V. 29, P. 195.
4. Lenin. Childhood disease of "leftism" in communism.– CW, V. 41, P. 80-81.
5. Mandel E., "Trotsky's theory of the relationship between the self-organization of the class and the vanguard party", M., 1991, P. 9.
6. Trotsky L., "Our political tasks", in the book. "To the history of the Russian revolution", M., 1990, P. 63
7. Ikhlov B. L., "Class and Party", "Vibir", Kiev, 1996, ¹1-2.
8. Lenin. From the concluding remarks on the report of the CPC 12 (25) .1.1918 at the 3rd All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies. CW, V. 35.
9. Lenin, On cooperation. CW. 5th ed. V. 45. M.: Publishing house polit. lit-re, 1970. P. 377.
10. Ikhlov B.L. Dialectics of the "class - party" relationship. Proceedings of the V All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference of the Association of Marxist Associations "Modern Democracy: History, Actual Problems and Development Potentials" November 9-10, 2013, Plekhanov House, SPb. P. 38-54.
http://www.proza.ru/2013/11/21/1006
11. Ikhlov B. L., "Essays on the modern labor movement in the Urals", Perm, 1994; http://www.proza.ru/2013/02/13/2092.
DOI 10.34660/INF.2021.49.47.023
ECOLOGY AND WAR
They really were connected. Russian liberals, who today support Nazi Kiev, are ardent supporters of Monsanta. The representative of the pro-American liberal society for Human Rights, Nikolai Gudskov, tried for a long time to assure me that GMOs are safe, and European bans on the import of GMOs are solely related to competition with progressive American firms.
The only person who is known in Russia as an opponent of GMOs is Irina Ermakova, she is regularly shown on TV.
In fact, Ermakova only creates advertising for herself and earns money on a sick topic. She was previously engaged in climate, neither in genetics, nor in biology in general, nor in dietetics, nor in physiology understands anything, her title of doctor of sciences is a falsification.
She claims that she has conducted experiments on rats that prove the harm of GMOs. However, when she was asked about the specific details of the experiments, she could not answer anything. Ermakova doesn't even know what a triplet genetic code is, she's talking outright nonsense about plasmids, etc. Naturally, Ermakova's illiteracy is enjoyed by specialists who are supporters of GMOs.
Shaposhnikov's experiments in the 50s and 60s with aphids showed that changing the feed significantly changes the genetics, a new species arises.
It is known that crossing even closely related species can produce poisonous offspring.
In GMOs, DNA genes of distantly related species, scorpion, etc. are embedded in plant DNA.
Experiments proving the harmlessness of GMOs have not yet been carried out.
Russian supporters of GMOs as an argument cite a list of hundred of works in which the harmlessness of GMOs is allegedly proved. The list is on the Internet, but there is no text of any of these works. I wrote a letter to the Italian authors of this list, asking them to give me a link where I could find out more about each scientific article from the list. The Italians gave me a link, and it turned out that in this list there is not a single work dedicated to proving the harmlessness of GMOs.
At the end of February 2017, the first Monsanta plant was opened in Russia in the Kirov region near the village of October (Zuyevsky district). For the operation of the enterprise, the administration of the Kirov region allocated 63 thousand hectares on preferential terms.
"We have been waiting for Monsanto on the Kirov lands for a long time and have been working systematically for several years. Nikita Belykh played a very important role in the negotiations with the strategic investor, and I have already successfully completed this work", - said Acting Governor of the region Igor Vasiliev.
Now Belykh is serving a sentence in prison for corruption.
The hope for a long and successful cooperation was also expressed by the head of Monsanto - Russia, Isaac Levenstein. "We wanted to settle in the Russian market earlier, but national legislation prevented us. However, the other day we received pleasant news from the Academy of Sciences about the lifting of the ban on GMOs in the country. We have big ambitions. We plan to feed a huge number of people with our products. We hope to provide retail chains, catering establishments, as well as schools and kindergartens with our agricultural crops", - he said.
The plant was open despite the fact that in June 2016 the State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill that prohibits the cultivation and breeding of genetically engineered plants and animals in Russia.
The Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research is going to issue a memorandum refuting information about the dangers of genetically modified foods (GMOs). This was announced by the head of the commission Evgeny Alexandrovich.
Currently, the topic of Monsanto is not discussed in the official media.
However, the question is much broader: about the falsification of food products in general. Today, sausages, fish, mineral water, wines, chocolate and even bread are adulterated in the Russian Federation. As a result, today in Russia, even elementary school children get diabetes.
Boris Ikhlov, Chairman of the Perm Public Environmental Committee, Secretary of the executive committee of the Russian political association "Worker", 16.3.2022.
Reference. The Perm Public Environmental Committee (OEC) was founded in 1986 on the basis of the underground Union of Communists, it was headed by a member of the Union of Communists, physicist S. Mazein. Since 1992, the ECC has been headed by ecologist Yuli Shchipakin. After Shchipakin's premature death in 1998 and the departure of a number of specialists, the OEC ceased to exist and was reanimated in 2006, it was headed by Anastasia Bazhenova, a member of the association “Worker”, who led the OEC until 2009. From 2009 to 2018, the committee was headed by a member of the association "Worker" Ippolit Ovchinnikov.
TROTSKYISM TODAY
The activists of our organization, Russia’ political union “Worker”, have read many books by Trotsky, read his individual articles, the "Bulletin of the Opposition".
Trotsky studied Marxism, but knew it poorly. Mikhailovsky, who himself was poorly versed in Marxism, taught Trotsky Marxism. Lenin criticized Mikhailovsky a lot, Lenin points out that Trotsky does not understand Marxism well.
Brazilian Marxist organization "Emancipation from Work" is Trotskyist. It opposes the colorful revolutions of imperialism against Ukraine, Russia and Belarus and it opposes its agents such as Navalny (in Russia) or Guaid; (in Venezuela). It’s position is that 99% of Trotskyist organizations are bought by Washington. But this organization remains faithful to many of Trotsky's absurd statements.
Trotsky has a lot of dogmatics. What is the "reborn workers 'state", what has it been reborn into? If it has been reborn a little, then there is no need to talk about it, because there is no ideal of socialism, if it has been reborn a lot, then it is impossible to say the word "worker".
And what is a "workers ' state"? There are no such categories in Marxism-Leninism. There is socialism, there is the dictatorship of the proletariat. If there is a workers ' state, there must be a peasant state, and a state where only the intelligentsia lives.
The "reborn workers 'state" is a dogma for which there is no evidence.
Another dogma is counter–revolution, "thermidor". There was no counter-revolution, no thermidor. All those who were destroyed by Stalin THEMSELVES signed death sentences to their other party comrades.
Why? Because society is divided into classes due to the social division of labor. Managerial work is special, it puts the manager above people, allows you to dispose of people and means of production. Accordingly, the manager receives a RELATIVELY large share of the public wealth.
An order is a property relation. The manager is the owner. The owner of the means of production is called a capitalist. Therefore, Stalin is a capitalist.
Social being determines social consciousness (Marx). The privileged work of the manager determined the bourgeois consciousness of the class of Soviet managers. The Bolsheviks were "reborn" from the moment they became managers, long before the "thermidor". It was not the state that was reborn, but the Bolsheviks who were reborn-because the state was capitalist. The depersonalizing labor of the worker determined the mode of production in the USSR.
I emphasize that our position is not the position of the Tony Cliff group: 1) for Tony Cliff's group, state capitalism in the USSR is the same dogma, the group does not think in terms of Marxist political economy. 2) Tony Cliff's group supported Germany in the 1st World War, the group is not familiar with Lenin's explanation that a war between capitalist countries can be just on the part of a country that has been subjected to aggression. 3) Tony Cliff's group is following in the wake of Washington politics.
However, everything pales before dogmatics. The Trotskyists do not want to listen to anything, they do not know how to think independently. They are unable to abandon dogmas. Moreover, they barely know even Trotsky, they worship their leaders, Lambert, Moreno, Cliff, Healy, Mandel, etc. The Trotskyists are unable to read other people's texts, they slip their own texts, overflowing with dogmatics.
It is precisely because of this that there are so many splits in the 4th International. There are also splits on political issues – in a situation when the Trotskyist groups themselves are not able to change these political issues one iota.
"Workers state" is a dogmat without any evidence. Lenin wrote about state capitalism. Mao said about state capitalism (8 Congress 1956-1958), Mao said that Chine bourgeoisie is friend of Chine working class.
So called Workers opposition said about necessity or workers state but workers didn't support Workers opposition. So there was no even shadow of workers power in the USSR. My parents, my grandfather and so on were workers, they might laugh if on said them about "regenerate workers' state".
Workers can't take power no because of bureocrasy, but because they were illiterate, Lenin stressed it. And they were illiterate not because of lazy, but due to their hard simple labour.
Plan is not socialism of "workers state" every capitalist monopoly has economy plan, Japan, Sweden, every peveloped country has state plan. Plan is achievement of capitalism. 2) Nationalbsation is not socialism or "workers state", it isprogressive bourgeosie reform, Engels much wrote that ANY state is capitalis.
Of course, we don't want to be fatalists. But it is not the reason to say that objective reasons are nothing. We don’t want to be bourgeoisie relalivists or to say that there are no laws in history, Marx’ laws. We must think about the reason of class division: the division of labour, labour of physicist makes him clever, the labour of worker makes stupidity of workers. Then we may think about good government, but it is not socialism or "workers state.
Of course, revolutionary dictatorship of workers is physically necessary, it in one of the main points. Arm rebellion - is unique way. BUT. Lenin stressed that dictatorship of working class doesn't mean suppression of bourgeoisie only. The main thing is the ability of ALL working class to get ALL economy of country in their hands.
It is old discussion between Bolshevics and Menshevics. Menshevics said that Russia was undeveloped country, capitalism did first steps in Russia. And Marx wrote that socialist revolution might be only on high developed level of productive forces. So they said about only bourgeoisie revolution in Russia might push revolutions in developed countries, then developed proletariat must help Russia' proletariat. But world revolution was a failure. On the other hand: revolution relations are dialectically connect with economy base and it might grow in this not depeloped base to do modernization, Lenin wrote. But: Stalin killed revolutionaries- and revolution relations.
1917-1921 there was Civil war. Up to middle of 20-th workers had voice. But already in 1923 12th party Congress (without Lenin) established that "dictatorship of workers is in from of party dictatorship". But Lenin wrote that "workers dictatorship must be in form of Soviet power, form, that workers found independently". So at the end of 20th there was state capitalism in the USSR. I proved it in my article about manner of production in the USSR - in categories of Marxism. It is impossible to return to other manner of production in 2 days in August of 1991, it was legalization of capitalism only. Ruling is relation of ownership, CPSU converted it into money form.
So I can't say about state capitalism 1917-1923.
Marxists criticized Lenin that he built state capitalism, Lenin answered that state capitalism was a step forward in those circumstances.
Of course, workers until 1991 lived much better, but workers in EU, Japan and US lived much better than in the USSR. As for rights - workers in the USSR has no rights instead the right to hard work. Now they have no this right too. As for bureaucracy - I say "class", wholly in accordance with Lenin' definition of classes.
Of course, ownership is different from property, because property relations are a broader concept than ownership. But possession is a relation of property, Hegel writes: "property is: a) direct entry into possession" ("Philosophy of Law").
Property relations are divided into use (lease, leasing, etc.), direct ownership and disposal (management).
Of course, the management class could not pass on the factories by inheritance – because they were not in their possession!
But the right to be a manager was completely inherited, although not formally legally, in law.
I say "class" - because society is divided into classes due to the social division of labor. Therefore, managerial work divides society into a class of managers and classes of managed ones. The word "bureaucracy" only clogs up the discourse.
But inheritance is a private, insignificant moment, capitalism is not determined by inheritance law!
Yes, a Soviet government official could not sell the plant. Although a Soviet official could sell oil, gas, metal, machine tools, equipment, weapons, etc. to foreigners. But the right to sell is also a private thing. The right of ownership in the form of ownership or management does not imply the right to sell, from this it does not cease to be a right of ownership.
Capitalism is a method of production where labor becomes a commodity. And this is Marxism! In the USSR, workers sold their labor force 5 days a week the state. As Engels explained many times, if all the factories are nationalized, the state becomes a total capitalist. Consequently, there was capitalism in the USSR.
I wrote about all this in detail in the article "On the method of production in the USSR".
Yes, the workers must take power. But in the USSR, the workers never had power. Only anarchists believe that capitalism can be destroyed at any level of development of the productive forces.
***
A certain Firtz writes:
“… a revolutionary process got stuck under the attacks and economic problems.
The burocratisation led eventually to a counterrevolutionary regression that endet finally in the capitulation of the eighties”.
All this senseless verbiage, which has nothing to do with real history, with Marxism.
He writes:
“… you ask: how can workers be able to lead an economy? The answer is through soviet democracy:
As individuals workers can be incapable, as a collective they can accumulate their abilities. In a democratic structure they can learn quickly by „trial and error“. It is a clear signal, that the leaders in the twenties made no efforts to re-establish the workers democracy of the soviets, which had been exhausted”.
This is not an answer, but stupidity. Lenin pointed out to the workers that they were unable to lead BECAUSE OF THEIR ILLITERACY. Do you want to object to Lenin?
Only a madman can entrust a complex plant to the mercy of those who are going to learn by trial and error. And Lenin did not entrust the factories to the workers. And the workers of the USSR supported Lenin in this. The “Workers' opposition” was suppressed.
He writes:
“It is a clear signal, that the leaders in the twenties made no efforts to re-establish the workers democracy of the soviets, which had been exhausted”.
He had not read the documents, he had not read Lenin's decrees, his articles, which were aimed at the earliest possible training of workers. But practice shows that short-term training does not play any role. More than 20 million people have been eliminated from illiteracy in terms of factory and state management at the very beginning of 20th.
But it is well known that to manage at least a factory shop, you need 5 years of polytechnic higher education plus five years of work in production. But people with higher education do not want to be workers!
All over the world, the very work of workers has not yet required higher education.
Russia was a backward country. Marx explains: a socialist revolution is possible only when the productive forces have grown sufficiently. The productive forces in Russia were backward, because already in the 20s they brought production relations into line with themselves. The socialist signboard has fallen, the essence remains, and this essence is the capitalist essence.
Lenin agreed with the Mensheviks about fact, that Russia was not ripe for a socialist revolution. But Lenin's idea was that a revolution in Russia could push revolutions in developed countries. When the revolution in the world wins," the proletariat of the developed countries will come to the aid of the backward Russian proletariat", Lenin wrote.
But the world revolution did not happen.
The dogmatics of the Trotskyist Firtz are obvious.
The Trotskyists do not want to study and understand Marxism. The Trotskyists don't want to hear anything, they, like parrots, continue to repeat meaningless dogmatic cliches, to rattle a revolutionary phrase. Therefore, the working class does not support Trotskyist organizations.
Due to the fact that the working class does not support the Trotskyists, 99% of Trotskyist organizations follow in the wake of Washington's policy.
They welcomed the decay of the USSR, they welcomed the Maidan-2004 in Ukraine.
They welcomed the "proletarian revolutions" in Egypt and Tunisia, they supported the lies of the bourgeois media against Serbia, they supported the pseudo-revolution in Libya, they supported the fascist Maidan-2014 in Ukraine.
This was the end of Trotskyism. Trotskyism has rested in bose.
10.9.2021
LENIN AND THE TROTSKYISTS. On the bourgeoisness of the modern left
Modern Trotskyists like to say how Lenin entered into an alliance with Trotsky, how he spoke of Trotsky after his break with the Mensheviks: "Since then there has not been a better Bolshevik..."
But they don't like to remember how Trotsky called for an attack on Lenin (see Trotsky's book On the History of the Russian Revolution), how Lenin called him Judushka Trotsky, how Lenin defeated Trotsky on the issue of trade unions.
Trotsky called for the trade unions to be made "the driving belts of the party," while Lenin explained that the state was extremely rigid, "our institutions are shit, officials who work like fools are stuck in them..." To control this officialdom, trade unions free from the dictates of officials are needed.
After Lenin's death, Stalin, having expelled Trotsky, realized his dream: trade unions became the driving belts of the party.
Modern Trotskyists also do not want to recall that Stalin, having expelled Trotsky, carried out his other plan - accelerated collectivization, which, coupled with the dispossession of the middle peasants, led to mass slaughter of livestock (livestock was restored only under Khrushchev), a sharp reduction in crops and tens of thousands of peasant uprisings and dozens of large-scale workers' uprisings. In the end, in 1934, this Stalinist policy in the countryside had to be stopped, and the peasants poured out of the collective farms by the millions.
Of course, Trotsky is a great revolutionary, who together with Lenin led the October revolution, the creator of the Red Army, who attracted qualified personnel to the Bolsheviks - tsarist officers.
However, modern Trotskyists are not limited to dogmas from Trotsky, both Kollontai and Clara Zetkin, turned out to be dear to their hearts - with all their mistakes, which the modern bourgeoisie did not fail to take advantage. We are talking about the women's question, about the "theory of a glass of water", of which Lenin was an ardent opponent, about family and marriage.
It's called - make the devil pray to God, he'll split his forehead. Particularly ardent revolutionary idiots with anarchist persistence began to trample on the culture of humanity as bourgeois, and to rebel against bourgeois morality - by denying morality in general. It is as if the revolutionary working class has no morality of its own.
And LGBT appeared to the world!
By the 80s, a Trotskyist "trend" had settled in the United States, which proclaimed that the driving forces of the coming world socialist revolution would be pederasts and Jews.
Now the main imperialist of the world, the United States, promotes LGBT in every possible way, and if any countries do not want the sexual minority to dominate the normal majority, Washington immediately takes out its democratic baton called "homophobia" and begins to bash it on the heads of objectionable governments.
I quote excerpts from the conversation between Lenin and Clara Tsetkin.
Lenin: "I have heard strange things about this from Russian and German comrades. That's what I have to tell you. I was told that a talented communist woman publishes a newspaper for prostitutes in Hamburg and seeks to organize them for the revolutionary struggle. Rosa, as a communist, acted and felt like a human being when she stood up for a prostitute in one article, which some violation of police rules related to her sad craft led to prison. They are deplorable, these double victims of bourgeois society. Firstly, the victims of his cursed property system, and then also of his cursed moral hypocrisy. That's clear. Only a rude, short-sighted person can forget about it. But it is one thing to understand this, and quite another, how to express it, to organize prostitutes as a special revolutionary combat unit, and publish a professional organ for them. Are there no more industrial workers in Germany who need to be organized, for whom there should be a newspaper, who need to be involved in your struggle? Here we are talking about a painful bias…
In no case should the party calmly look at such disorderly actions of its members. This creates confusion and splits forces…
The situation in Germany itself requires the greatest unity of all proletarian revolutionary forces to repel the increasingly pressing counter-revolution. And active communists at this time are sorting out gender issues and the question of the forms of marriage in the present, past and future! They consider it their most important duty to educate the worker in this area…
The mention of Freud's hypotheses in the brochure gives it a kind of "scientific" look, but all this is artisanal dirt. Freud's theory is now also a kind of fashionable fad… I do not trust those who are constantly and persistently absorbed in gender issues, like an Indian fakir contemplating his navel... this abundance of theories of gender, which are mostly hypotheses, and often arbitrary, stems from personal needs. Precisely, out of the desire to justify their own abnormal or excessive sexual life before bourgeois morality and to beg for tolerance for themselves. This disguised respect for bourgeois morality is as repugnant to me as the amorous digging into gender issues. No matter how rebellious and revolutionary this occupation may strive to prove itself, it is still, in the end, quite bourgeois. This is especially a favorite occupation of intellectuals and those close to them. There is no place for him in the party, among the class-conscious, struggling proletariat.
... the issues of sex and marriage are not perceived as part of the main social issue. On the contrary, the big social issue itself begins to seem like a part, an appendage of the gender problem. The most important thing recedes into the background as secondary. This not only harms clarity on this issue, it generally obscures thinking, obscures the class consciousness of female workers.
... gender issues are also a favorite subject of study in your youth organizations. They say that there are barely enough speakers on this issue. This outrage is especially harmful to the youth movement, especially dangerous.
... a significant part of young people are diligently engaged in the "revision of bourgeois understanding and morality" in matters of gender... it is hardly good that in these years, gender issues, strenuously put forward by natural causes, become central in the psyche of young people. The consequences can be downright fatal. The changed attitude of young people to the issues of sexual life, of course, is "fundamentally" and is supposedly based on theory. Many call their position “revolutionary” and “communist”. They sincerely think that this is so…
The revolution demands concentration and exertion of forces from the masses, from the individual. She does not tolerate orgiastic states..." (recorded by Zetkin in January 1925)
Klara Tsetkin and Lenin discussed how to win a woman's right to professional work.
Now, thanks to the fact that the women's movement was bought with guts by the bourgeoisie, women have "won" the right to mock Iraqi prisoners and kick each other in their muzzles.
It is absolutely clear that the escalation of the rights of sexual minorities eliminates the rights of women. However, feminist organizations prefer to keep quiet in a rag, as if their mouths were filled with sand.
13.3.2022
MAJORITY OF RUSSIA POPULATION LIKES STALIN – WHAT ARE REASONS?
Putin and Medvedev lie again
Rotting of system is not an analysis already, such a smell - though one can hang an ax. One oligarch Sergei Polonsky is Wonder of the World. "Who does not have a billion dollars, may go to an ass", - Polonsky sent citizens of Russia at the beginning of last year on exhibition in Cannes. In general, he proposed to clean Moscow of the paupers. Opposite case was happened: Polonsky himself was cleaned up and found himself in such ass, that he had to deal with a mass of those who ever haven’t even hundreds of thousands of dollars. So to say relatively ass...
Prime Minister Putin, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos-2009 about the crisis of 2008, said, finally, what the leftist press never tired of talking from the mid-90s: "The system of global economic growth gave a serious crash, in which one center is virtually unlimited, uncontrolled printing money and consume goods, and the other manufactures inexpensive goods and saves money issued by other states."
Since then, the dollar has been steadily growing in Russia, inflating of dollar habitually engaged by the Central Bank RF, subordinated Medvedev-Putin. Despite the apparent dollar orientation of the Kremlin, Medvedev went to represent Russia in Davos, not Putin.
Dismissed by Putin former minister Kudrin told reporters at forum that he could still track down two main points of view at the forum and, therefore, the two main directions of discussion. The first point of view – that the world is on the verge of recovery. The second - the crisis will escalate. Comparing the forum with forum last year, Kudrin said that "in a global context it was easier, all sighed, and there was even some excessive euphoria"."
That is, despite the acute Kudrin’ observation, everybody sighed, obviously relieved, including those who predicted worsening of the crisis.
Of course, the Russia side could not resist to play along with U.S.
Even schoolchildren are aware that the euro zone was created in order to be able to individual European countries to confront the American superpower in economic competition. But Gref, the lamp of the mind, said that "there are regions whose future is not clear to me, the future of the eurozone is not clear to me." The head of Russia's largest bank is pessimistic about the future of the euro zone in the long term, considering it an artificial union in terms of economic policy. Kudrin said that the output of individual countries of the euro area is possible in the foreseeable future.
Apparently, overtired from thinking about the economy, Gref said during a business breakfast Saving Bank of RF said: "We have talked so much about the global crisis, we are tired ..."
Before the opening of the forum WEF published a report "Scenarios for the Russian Federation", which listed the key factors that will influence the long-term economic development of the Russian Federation until 2030. Expert Group, which included Oleg Tsyvinski of Yale University, ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Sergei Guriev of the New Economic School, presented these three scenarios for Russia's future for years to come, "rebalancing regions", "shaky stability" and "to the other side of prosperity".
The first scenario assumes a regional differentiation of the Russian Federation. That is rich regions will become richer and the poor - poorer.
The second predicts a sharp decline in oil prices (up to $ 60 per barrel). According to Kudrin, who presented this scenario, with a sharp reduction in budget revenues Russian government does not choose to invest in infrastructure and development, but in social stability: the payment of salaries, pensions and other social obligations. In such circumstances, according to the ex-minister of finance, the economy will be very difficult to grow.
In a third scenario, oil prices will remain high, but the government is not decided to institutional reforms. In this scenario, the changes will be from "bottom" – from grown riches from the middle class. It has no enough money in order to feel happy, so it needs to be more involved in social and political life, said speaker Sergei Guriev.
How this will happen is unknown, experts admit.
The expert is also unknown, we would add, that the middle class in Russia is absent. Generally.
"Rebalancing regions" suggests with that the gradual decline in energy prices initiative of economic and political changes comes from unexpected sources, and institutional reforms are implemented at the level of the Federation subjects against congestive processes in the central institutions of power.
"Shaky stability" - sudden sharp and prolonged drop in oil prices in the absence of institutional reform forces the government to strengthen controls over the economy. Russia has maintained the illusion of economic stability and carried forward painful reforms.
"Beyond the wealth" - the high price of oil and gas are stored, which leads to "the satisfied inaction concerning to institutional reforms." Under this scenario, a large part of Russian society have higher incomes, but social unrest is growing - due to the inefficiency of state services and the growing of bureaucracy.
Medvedev disagreed with pessimistic conclusions of the experts.
"For Russia, this year was very challenging in terms of the investment climate in the part of political events. Elections are held, but the reform agenda has not been fully defined. Acute problems while suspended or unsolved - the investment climate, institutions, corruption, government work, law enforcement, judicial, administrative work, democratization " - Kudrin told reporters on the sidelines of the WEF.
Medvedev did not agree with the pessimistic assessment Kudrin 2012.
Having breakfast in Davos with Saving bank of RF, Anatoly Chubais, with his incredible logic noted: "... the quality and professionalism of the people who in our country today is responsible for the economy, are surprisingly high, I can not name a single layman ... But looking at the real economic situation, one cann’t say so. We are inefficient and uncompetitive. One direction I would call key. Corruption, infinitely weak protection of private property, dependence of the judiciary. This is the root of our problems. None of them is economic. The root of our economic problems - beyond the economy. The solution - outside the economy."
Why corruption was out of the economy - God knows, why ineffective - and suddenly the professionals ...
American investor and billionaire George Soros has called Russia a "sinking economy". “Forbes” writes it.
"It's sinking economy, led by Putin in the wrong direction," - he said at an economic forum in Davos. According to him, the best thing one can do - do not invest in Russia.
Notwithstanding Soros, Medvedev had concealed from the world oligarchy public that he and Putin has their own, a third, distinct from the detected Kudrin, the secret point of view that they are reported only for the citizens of Russia, only for residents, exclusively: Russian Federation has given a light to all developed countries: until they get out of its crisis, Russia has managed to not only get out of the crisis and to achieve, well, at least, the state of the pre-crisis 2007. Russia for 2012 and even 2011, and even for 2010 has dramatically improved its economy. That is bound to affect all areas of Russian society.
Six weeks before the Forum in Davos Prime Minister Medvedev on REN TV in his long interview five channels, including Marianna Maximovskaya, explained in detail that bullshit is not nonsense, but in fact - very, very, very again. As preskriptsii yet not old prime minister said that first in several years one can watch the country's population growth. He said that about: "It's there all sorts can chat, they say, the country is dying out, but among the experts, among experts, gentlemen ... you know. And this happiness - thanks to the measures taken in the last six or seven years. "
Apparently, Mr Medvedev did not know that the same joyful fact that "at last", "first" – one reports to public regularly for many years, as a rule, before the next elections, or prime ministers or presidents speeches in public.
One can only guess as experts had managed instead of mortality and fertility to talk about population growth, which could be observed due to the unprecedented increase in fertility, or because of the invasion of armada of migrants. Finally, the population could increase by aliens! In black suits. See at the end of a shift at the gates of the bushing of the plant - men in black are coming. They divorced in perestroika. Our aliens. Color of nation. Successive class.
However, the main uncertainty lies in the fact that nothing has changed around - payment for utility services jumping up and jumping, universities generate fake experts, medicines, food, are falsified or fabricated, wages in the factories does not increase, the number of drug addicts and HIV is growing and growing ...
What measures were taken to stop all it, to overcome the demographic crisis, if nothing has changed around? What had Medvedev in mind? Mystery. Secret. In a special folder. The measures we will return later.
So far, compare: mortality was:
In 1906-1910. - 29.6 (in the "enlightened" countries - 15.6, in "marginalized" countries - 23.8)
By 1917, the mortality rate in Russia was 32.5 per thousand (by the way, the Perm region - in the lead with a noticeable margin).
In the early 20's, despite the famine of 1921-1922. - 21 ppm.
In 1940, under Stalin - 18.0 (References of 1987; from Zemskov’ data from 2000 year references - 21.65)
In 1960, with a bad (according to Kurginyan) Khrushchev - 7.1
In 1970, with a good (according to Kurginyan) Brezhnev - 8.2
In 1985, with Gorbachev - 10.6
In 1993, the mortality rate was under Yeltsin in Russia exceeded the birth rate. By extrapolation calculations of Yulii Shchipakin in 1994, the number of "excess" deaths (compared to the pre-perestroika period) amounted to RF 1 million people a year, a similar number was in 1997, published by the State Statistics Committee.
In 2000, according to Perm - 24.7
In 2007, under Putin to Perm - around 25.0 according to my calculations, done in conjunction with the staff of the registrar of the Permian (calculations repeatedly published in the media.)
Infant mortality (under one year) in Russia in 1901 amounted to 40.5%, in 1910 - 38%, which is 1.5-3 times higher than in other countries (eg in Norway). Starting from 1920 in Russia infant mortality had reduced. And this is really "due to measures" - of the Bolsheviks, in contrast to the tsarist government they began to take an example from the developed countries.
Curtailment of the NEP (New economy policy), the beginning of industrialization by the expense of the countryside, accelerated collectivization and dispossession, marching against the Decree on Land and Lenin's speech about the middle peasant, the permit in 1927 the peasants to buy and sell the land (which led to a concentration of 60% of the land in the hands of 6% of households and thereby caused crop failure) led to an increase in the infant mortality rate (up to the level of the first decade of the XX century).
[Accordingly, the number of peasant uprisings in 1900 - 1917: Year Number: 1900 - 49; 1901 - 50; 1902 - 340; 1903 - 141; 1904 - 91; 1905 - 3228; 1906 - 2600; 1907 - 1337; 1908 -931; 1909 - 933; 1910 - 1030; 1911 - 613; 1912 - 300; 1913 - 135; 1914-1915-1916-1917 - 5782. Total for 1900-1917: 17560. Reference: "GPU has fixed the period January 1928 to December 1929 over 13000 riots and mass actions in the villages."]
The peak height of infant mortality in Russia was in 1933 (295.1 per 1,000). Only by the end of the 30s, the infant mortality rate began to decline slowly, but remained a half to two times higher than in developed European countries.
The new principal reduction of infant mortality in Russia occurred at the end of the Second World War due to a number of factors. Basically - it is the introduction into clinical practice of antibiotics and sulfonamides, which led to a reduction in infant mortality from respiratory diseases, from majority of infectious diseases. In 1946, the infant mortality rate in Russia reached 92 in 1000, which is 74% lower than it was in 1940. It could drop much earlier, simply the most advanced in the world party organs slowed the development and introduction of penicillin.
Before perestroika infant mortality in the Soviet Union (particularly in Ukraine) was lower than it was in the world.
By the end of XX century, due to the reforms, the infant mortality rate in Russia was 2-5 times higher than in developed countries (the official 2000: Russia - 15.3 per 1,000 births, Sweden - 3.4 per 1000, 3.0 per 1000 in Iceland ), that is, with an absolute decrease the relative gap was even greater than it was at the beginning of XX century. Such indicators are higher than in Russia in Romania and some former Soviet republics. Actual mortality rates and infant mortality rates in Russia to this day is much higher.
Trusting Medvedev sings with these words: "According to the Health Ministry, life expectancy in Russia in 2011 was 70.3 years. For men - 64.3 years and for women - 76.1. If we compare these figures with those for 2007, we can conclude that a marked increase in life expectancy of Russians - almost 3 years. Four years ago, on average, men lived to 61.4 years, women - to 73.9, and the average life expectancy was 67.5 years. Rosstat data published on the official website of the Health Ministry of the Russian Federation.
According to authorities, over 5 years, the number of deaths, including from external causes (road accidents, alcohol poisoning, suicide), decreased by 16.4% - from 2303.9 thousand in 2006 to 1925.1 thousand in 2011.
This sharp decline in mortality and simultaneous increasing the birth rate has led to the fact that the population decline in Russia decreased by 5.2 times - to 687.1 thousand in 2006 to 131.2 thousand in 2011. In August and September 2011, for the first time since 1991, was recorded natural increase in August by 10.7 thousand people, in September - by 4.2 thousand people. "(Site dp.ru)
Citizens, do you trust the Health Ministry? Come to the hospital in the community, and you'll do choice - to believe or not to believe.
Doctors in hospitals doesn’t treat, doctors in hospitals only register your condition. Medicine became whore pharmacology, illiterate doctors for the hide wages prescribe expensive and useless medicines. And well, if the hospital had not yet been eliminated ... When a business puts a microwave antenna directly on the high-rises - mortality is reduced, of course. Do you trust Rosstat? Especially its data on the average salary in the industry?
Of course, words "dramatic reduction in mortality" can only lead to nervous laughter. We see how business does not index the salary for factory workers for 4-5 years, some plants do not get paid over the years, the WTO began to destroy production, the prices of consumer goods are growing by leaps and bounds, corruption of officials is unheard of - these are "measures"? It is thanks to such measures population in Russia suddenly began to bear much more hard and decided not to die?
But pay attention to the fact that the death rates and birth rates are not calculated for the month and for the year, because they bind to decrease or increase in population over the last month or so - is meaningless. We note another gaffe of Rosstat and Health Ministry: in 1991, the Soviet Union and Russia one had seen steady natural growth.
Two days after Medvedev’ conversation Putin in his “Message” said: "The population decreased by 1 million a year, we were able to reverse the situation, so in 2010 the population is growing. Five months one can see natural increase, birth rate exceeds the death rate." That is not from 2011, like in the words of Medvedev - but since 2010.
What did manage to break? Crowbar to the head? The war into houses only amplified, poor against poor, for place of a head of partnership of flat owners – because of unemployment and low income. The crisis - ask the developers - is still here, housing prices are going down – small number of people can buy flat. Drugs regularly arrive in the city, to Perm - 10 tons every year. Go to maternity hospitals, it will tell how many babies die. How powers could "break" - when factories are closing. Population “increased in 2010” – but it is nonsense, crisis was still ongoing from 2008.
From whose fingers Putin sucked 200 thousand increase in 2012 if the increase is calculated only of the Census, and it was in 2010? How Putin relates in 2012 to his phony increase the mortality and birth rates, death rates, and if the birth rate, etc. in his Massage in 2012, if it was counted only in 2013? How many migrants in 2011 were reported by citizens of the Russian Federation? How many citizens did leave the country?
But what kind of a magic wand did Putin wage to reduce mortality from 25 per thousand in 2007 to 8 per thousand births? Or, may be, fertility – he raised it to 25 by his own example with Kabaeva, doesn’t he?
It was the opposite! Situation was "broken" in such manner: the laws passed in the Putin years, the monetization of benefits, the new law on pensions, the new Housing Code, led to the extinction of pensioners: from 40% in the Soviet Union and 40% of Russia in the 90 to 28.7% in 2007. And when mass of the pensioners died - the lower turnout in elections removed, because pensioners give the majority of voices.
A mortality rate is still considered excluding the mass graves for the homeless at the ends of the cemeteries and without cemeteries on boundaries of districts. Yes, and other mortality hides - one only North Cemetery in Perm in the last 8 years has grown with a huge collective farm fresh graves, and it’s growth rate is not reduced. Perm North cemetery takes the first place in Europe in square sense. And this is a young cemetery, it is 35, and European cemeteries are old. And if crypts in such cemeteries as Highgate or Pere Lachaise are separated, then in the North cemetery graves are back to back.
But Putin is lying against even the official statistics. In 2011, almost like in 2010, officially birthrate was 12.6 ppm (which, of course, one and a half times too high), and the mortality rate was 13.5 per thousand officially (which is underestimated by almost half). Ie Russia continues even officially extinct. Imagine how "professionals" sit in the Health Ministry and the Federal Statistics Service, if they themselves discharge excess of deaths over births, and immediately tell reporters that in 2010 there was an increase of the population, and even at a million, from 142 million to 143 million!
According to foreign reports, which also do not account for the mass graves for the homeless and the "adjacent" cemeteries, the mortality in 2011 was 16.03 per thousand, and the birth rate - 10.9 ppm (http://www.indexmundi.com/russia/demographics_profile.html). Mortality is bigger than the birth rate in one and half times. See the difference with Putin-Medvedev data!
Global statistics organizations predict that Russia between 2025 and 2050 will lose in the population from 20 to 50 million people
To “break” the situation you need some force to do this. However, the state in Russia is so weak that it can not introduce a progressive scale of taxation. Russian entrepreneurs are not able to undertake. Nanotechnologies in Russia are a bluff. Capital flees from Russia. Illiterate and lazy businessmen send money in tax havens or American or Swiss banks. They are smart enough to even send capital to the developed countries, like the U.S., UK, France. Imagine that Vietnam invests in Germany ... But it's not the point. If it were only a bourgeois or bureaucrats. One could just shoot them or send them to master the North territories. And Russia would be resurrected from the dead.
However, Russia has no one to revive. Education reform has created an illiterate proletariat. There are almost no specialists and high skilled workers in factories. The collapse of the industry, lawlessness bourgeois, health care reform, alcoholism and adulterated food products made proletariat sick and lethargic. Education reform, drugs, AIDS, syphilis, degradation of parents, unemployment at the end of school and university made growing proletariat sick, moronic, indifferent and criminal.
From 1927 to 1930, the Soviet Union was put into operation 323 new enterprises. In 1931 alone, 518 first-born of the domestic industry (one or two a day) commissioned. Modern (at that time) industrial plants with dozens of industries were created - automobile and tractor, heavy engineering factories, power plants, metallurgical and chemical plants. In the mid-1930s Soviet industry (including mining) was second in the world, 8070 new large industrial enterprises were built.
In 1913 tsarist Russia holds a strong fifth in the world in the general level of economic development, by the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union came in second place behind the U.S. in terms of national income, and in many ways ahead of France, Britain, Germany and even USA. Dozens of new cities across the country were built. For the first time in our country mass production of airplanes, trucks, cars, tractors, combines, synthetic rubber, and various types of weapons and military equipment began. Over the years 1929-1941 600-700 large enterprises annually entered in order every year. The growth rate of heavy industry were two to three times higher than those that were in pre-revolutionary Russia in the years 1900-1913.
In modern Russia, “creative class” is only able to destroy, remove, close. Among the victims - thousands of enterprises, villages, small towns. The former Soviet Union as a result of the reforms has lost over 50% of the industry. During the Great Patriotic War the Soviet Union lost 30% of the industry of level of 40's. Raven got the freedom of speech, but lost the cheese. Fool, believed the fox.
The main point. Putin in his “Massage” agreed with account of Shchipakin that population in Russia decreased by 1 million a year.
Yulii Shchipakin, my colleague in ecologist movement in 80-th – 90-th, repeated my calculations in connection with 90-th. At the middle of 80-th I calculated the number of Stalin repressions with the data of different mortalities - 4-5 millions deaths above “usual” level.
(Data of Antonov-Ovseenko - 100 million, of Avtorkhanov - 60 million, of Khrushchev - 20 million are the clear fake; Zemskov’ data taken from the U.S. sources, nearly 1 million - seriously understated.)
If population decreased by 1 million due to reforms of Yeltsin-Putin-Medvedev, it means that from 1991 till 2012 there were about 23 millions deaths in Russia - above Brezhnev’ period level. It is much more than in Stalin period. Yeltsin-Putin-Medvedev killed much more people than Stalin killed. Can foreign lefts see it? Commitment to Stalin is 100% merit of liberals.
Is this good? Of course, it is good: the ordinary Russian citizens understand more than foreign "analysts." Ordinary citizens understand that the ruling class in Russia – is much more worse than Stalinist regime, worse than fascists.
But on the other hand – what does it mean a commitment to Stalin? This means that people will not protest actively. They protest, sitting in front of the TV. They are waiting for the new Stalin. And this situation is favorable to the Kremlin.
PUTIN IS DIRTY MURDERER
The birth rate in 1988 was 16 per thousand in Russia. That is, 16 births per 1,000 population of Russia in the year. In some years in the Soviet Union, it reaches up to 24 ppm. In 2000, in Perm, it was little more than 7 ppm. That is, fertility because of the liberal reforms decreased by 2.5 - 3 times.
In 2005 TV and newspapers began to spread the lie that the birth rate had increased to 10. This is the official data disseminated at briefings of regional administrations. But that could not be! Because the number of workers at the plants continued to decline. In Perm, a spent Putin's second term, died plant named Dzerdjinskii (production of cooling systems for submarines, oil separators for the military fleet, etc.), at first the dismisal was from 18 thousand to 15 thousand people and then plant finished off. In Perm Motor plant Pratt&Wittney dismantled the line of engines for the MIG-31M, the number of labour collective fell from 42 thousand to 7 thousand workers, at "Motovilikha factories" - from 27 thousand in primary production - up to three thousand ( factory produced the S-300 (Favorit, better, than American “Patriot”), "Tornadoes" and so on) even in Chernomyrdin period. Nobody remember about S-300 in Putin period. When, during Putin's second term Hindu wanted to bue 14 "Twisters" (“Tornadoes”?), it appeared that there was no specialists, skilled workers at plant, all were laid off, all equipment was sold. When plant made first constructions, they did not come to missiles, produced by plant in Tula-city - the anecdote to the whole world. In the dead "Welta" (defense industry, 15 thousand employees), "Morion" (automatic long-distance calls) one settled hucksters clothes and cars. During Putin's second term the Permian defense telephone factory died, began to die military institute NIIPM (solid fuel for rockets), Bucket paint factory died too, three poultry farms were ordered to live long. In other cities - the same picture: the first term of Putin's KAMAZ dismissed 53 thousand people, the whole city.
People in the USSR were not rich, but could work and could buy 100 kg of meat on his salary. On the average. Today - on the strength of 60 kg (workers in the hot shop of "Motovilikha plants" get 18 thousand rubles, 600 doll./month), and such meat, that consists of 50% of water. There is no other meat in Russia shops. In such manner powers kill the people, in such manner Russia is dying.
One doesn’t need to be separated the period of Yeltsin from period of Putin – they are the same, Putin continued the dirty business of Yeltsin. Police and judicial lawlessness became system, criminal have become the norm. Schools are permanently dying, as well, as kindergartens and hospitals. Medicine is the whore of Pharmacology, doctors working for the owners of pharmacies. There is cretinism instead of culture in Russia. Continued “Reforms” of secondary and higher education is continuing, the idiot test system is retarded/ One-third of boys and girls do not attend school. Another third visits school in part. Hospitals choked with baby syphilis.
Education for young people means phone numbers on the pillars: "We make essays, term papers, diplomas and dissertations for you." The old chiefs of shops groan from the armada of nerds, flooded into the factories. Economic growth is an impudent fraud, there is no one to raise. So what's the geek whistles of "stability", who cries, that would be anarchy without Putin, who cries, that Putin has no rivals!
Putin is lying, that industry will produce 400 new ballistic missiles for 10 years. With a shit if the only plant in the country, in Votkinsk-city, producing ballistic missiles, produces 2-4, maximum of 10 missiles per year (in the USSR - 100 per year). A "new" missile "Topol-M" fall short of the outdated "Satan." Putin - is trash.
New buildings in the country, raised by immigrants, with appalling violations of technologies, so high-rise buildings will soon crumble. Dilapidated housing under construction burned, sometimes with the occupants, at best, people are resettled in communal flats with the deterioration of living conditions. All this had place with the connivance of the authorities and law enforcement agencies. All of this is exceptional "merit" of Putin.
There is no one "lift" and fertility - in 2005 (Putin's second term) in the Perm region army of people of AIDS-illness fastened (according to the data of the region administration) on 15 - 25 people per week (in fact, much more), according to official statistic 83% of them are addicts. In Perm, epidemiological threshold for disease AIDS - has long been exceeded. Before the second Putin elections birth rates soared, without waiting for the end of the year (ie, it was impossible to calculate), so new mothers filled with enthusiasm, that exceeded the plan. Russia then immediately came out of the demographic crisis. Imagine, screamed hired idiots on TV, it is first time when the birth rate exceeded the death rate! Even cows pulled their socks up sharply for Putin and increased milk production, yes, it was.
Infant mortality up to a year in 1988 in the Russia - 18.9 ppm (a lot), in Ukraine - 14.2. It is impossible to say about any reduction of these parameters with the collapse of health care, with reducing by half the production capacity and the degradation of the general population. These figures can only increase dramatically! Walk into any hospital and the nurse will tell you how many babies died in childbirth. Only at birth! But why do the girls give birth - the fruit of poverty? To replenish the army of homeless people? And where will the children work after high school? As bandits?
As soon as it comes to the demographic crisis, so one begins to talk about birth rate. But if we must talk about the mortality rate. It was equal 7.8 ppm, and in 2000 in Perm - 24.7. Official data now - 15. In 2005, official figures - also 15, is also unchanged compared with the period of Yeltsin. Look attentively! But on the basis of information received form the registry office in the Perm, it is possible to count: mortality, too, about 25, no change compared to the year 2000. The official figure registrar - 15, it is the official number of wells. But the official figure must be added in 1500 tombs, removed from the city, graves for the homeless in the ends of the cemeteries, two unrecorded cemeteries, burned in the crematorium, etc., and not to divide the official population figures in the city, and the real. Thus, in Perm in 2005, the official number of residents - 970 thousand, but 930 thousand, in fact/ If we extrapolate the donor Perm city in the whole country, it is roughly 1 million excess deaths per year in the Russian Federation, for the time of reform - the order of 25 million victims of the liberal policy, Yeltsin-Putin's reforms.
The law on the monetization of benefits, the new law on pensions have reduced the number of pensioners from 40% in the Soviet Union and Yeltsin's Russia to 28.7% in Putin period.
But, as always, before the election, Russia ceases to die! To begin to die back immediately after the election.
Not to mention the life expectancy. It decreased as well as down. What do you call this mode? The current regime worse than the Nazis: they destroy other people, these - their own. Stalinism killed 5-6 million people in the Soviet Union (I calculated it in 1986, I operated with data of mortalities), Yeltsin-Putin regime - 25 million in Russia alone. Only the nazi scum could agitate for Putin, only oligophrenic or freaks can vote for Putin.
MARXISM TODAY
Professor of economics Paul Zaremka (State University of New York at Buffalo) wrote the article to the bicentenary of the birth of Marx, fragments of which we will consider in sequence.
1) «Karl Marx's intellectual legacy is so broad that different people are able to be attracted to the aspects most useful to them, not only for scholars but, more importantly, for working people».
To our great regret, it is the working class and other detachments of the proletariat with low incomes that are least familiar with the works of Marx. I will say more: activists of the left groups are practically unfamiliar with the books of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Plekhanov, not to mention the books of Ilyenkov or Lorenzo Vall, Lukacs or Antonio Labriola, Gramsci or Moses Hess, Cassidy or Tommaso Campanella.
The reason is clear: all this science is not required by the worker during his production. All that he read in the off-hours is eroded from his head when he, for example, is standing at the conveyor. The production period is the most important for the worker. If a worker has been working on the same detail for 3 years, then, in the process of disaggregation (in Hegel terms), the same detail, in lieu of Marxism, is formed in his head, roughly speaking.
I'm not talking about individual representatives, like Spinoza, Joseph Dietzgen, Khalturin, Shlyapnikov or Myasnikov, it's about the working class as a whole.
Today's strike is a demand for more favorable conditions for the sale of labor force. The question of taking power by the working class is not worth it. As for Russia, this is what workers say: "In order to take power, we need a higher education, which we do not have. Secondly, we do not want responsibility."
Workers understand what they say. Let me remind you, Lenin pointed out that the dictatorship of the proletariat is not only violence and not so much violence. It presupposes such working class that can take ruling of the entire economy of the country in their hands.
The main principle of Soviet power is the control of workers from below at a state official of any level, including Stalin. But complex production can not be controlled without higher education. Therefore, illiterate workers entrusted both control and management to the same state officials. Therefore, not workers controlled Stalin, but Stalin controlled workers.
The second principle of Soviet power is the modest payment of state officials. But Stalin abolished the Lenin’ party maximum.
The XII Congress of the RKP of Bolsheviks in 1923 (without Lenin) decided that the dictatorship of the proletariat is expressed in the form of a dictatorship of the party. Meanwhile, in his fundamental work "The State and the Revolution," Lenin wrote: "The dictatorship of the proletariat is expressed in the form of Soviet power, in the form found by the workers themselves."
Thus, there was no Soviet power in the USSR, nor did the dictatorship of the proletariat. Plekhanov also pointed out that the dictatorship of the class as the sky from the earth is different from the dictatorship of a handful of revolutionaries.
Marx wrote that a socialist state can only be the dictatorship of the proletariat. If this dictatorship was not there, then there was no socialism either. There was no such absurdity as the "degenerated workers' state". Re-born as far as?? Rebirth in what??
So Lenin in 1919 said: "It is unlikely that our grandchildren will see socialism ..."
In 1999, workers of the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Mill seized the plant. They were threatened with massive layoffs. The workers chose the director. The main reason for the defeat: 1) the workers shifted the management of the plant to the director and his team, 2) the workers shifted the leadership of the protest to the chairman of the trade union committee and his team. The authorities arranged a hunt for the director, and the chairman of the trade union committee was simply bribed.
One is to understand, that contradiction can not be withdraw (ñíÿòî) by destroying one of its sides - the bourgeoisie. The second side, the workers and peasants, will inevitably restore it - from itself. What we saw in the USSR. The privileged existence of a layer of Soviet managers gradually determined their bourgeois consciousness. So working class must eliminated not bourgeoisie only, but itself.
So at first capital must demand workers with higher education - at the level of a single, special and universal.
Everybody knows Marx phrase: the level of development of a capitalist is determined by the extent to which science has become a productive force. But the phrase refers not only to instruments. But also to the workers!
Let us note that, consequently, oppression is not only the usurpation of the management of surplus value by a narrow social stratum, the bourgeois or the "Soviet" power, but in labor itself, as Marx wrote, a heavy, monotonous, stupefying, depersonalizing physical labor.
As one knows, both the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks understood that Russia was a backward country that was not mature for the socialist revolution.
Lenin reasoned thus: on the one hand, the productive forces determine the relations of production. But who does forbid the revolutionary transformed superstructure to grow into a backward basis?
On the other hand, Russia is a weak link in the chain of imperialism. If this link is broken, then socialist revolutions will break out in developed countries. Then the developed proletariat of these countries will come to the aid of the backward Russian proletariat.
However, the world revolution did not happen. The productive forces in the developed countries, too, were not ripe for a change of system. Therefore, in the USSR, backward productive forces led the production relations in accordance with themselves. What became apparent in 1991.
People in China are more honest. In 1956, at the 8th CPC Congress it was stated that there was state capitalism in China. Further, we assumed the Great leap from capitalism to communism, bypassing socialism. But in 1976, Deng Xiaoping began restructuring and China remained capitalistic. Although today Comrade Xi Jinpy tells the world about socialism with a Chinese face.
Obviously, until the working class at the level of the general does not feel such oppression, it is not necessary to speak of a socialist revolution.
But this does not mean that the lefts must wait for this moment with folded hands.
2) «For capitalist enterprises in Brazil, Kenya, India, Spain, the US or anywhere, labor power reflects the reality that workers sell their labor hours to capitalists and they are told what to do without any democratic input from them. Workers don't care what they produce: They need the money. Capitalists don't care either: They want profit. Workers only receive as compensation the equivalent, in some currency, of the laboring time needed to produce the commodities they can get to subsist, at whatever level. The remainder in laboring hours that the capitalist keeps is "surplus value," the fundamental concept for Marx».
I would like to clarify. If you remove the extra hours (to short the working day!), capitalist will still make a profit. Because the worker produces surplus value not only in extra hours, but every minute.
Let me remind you, Marx wrote in “Capital” that mass, combined labor causes enthusiasm, thus, the workers care. However, today the enthusiasm has dried up. The worker really does not care, even if he creates a spaceship.
On the other hand, the capitalist care - he is driven by competition. Therefore, the capitalists organize the "democratic contribution" of the workers. For example, on Citroen, mailboxes are hung everywhere, where workers can omit their letters with proposals concerning production.
In this regard, it is worth noting the Russian bourgeoisie. Its specificity is that, first, it is comprador. Secondly, it achieves an average profit rate not, for example, by introducing new technologies, improving the organization of production, etc., but by freezing or retaining the wages of workers. Workers at the same time do not protest in their majority.
3) «The actual life of people around the world differs greatly. Some do better, some do worse, and a fraction may find some satisfaction in their work. But almost all products we consume anywhere, within our deep capitalism, have been produced by workers who are merely hired hands. Marx's work mentions workers being thereby "alienated," and this has been chosen by some for an emphasis. But he also develops concepts to explain how capitalists are able to appropriate ever more surplus value. He explains the motivation for technology changes experienced much more in capitalism than in prior societies. He describes the forces around the accumulation of capital, and the division of surplus value into industrial profits, rent and interest. He provides analyses for financial expansion. He even addresses environmental issues appropriate to his time so that we can find those insights useful today, and exhibited a foresighted analysis of the US Civil War as it was developing».
It should be emphasized that the capitalist spends net industrial profits on depreciation of equipment, advertising, new technologies, expansion of production. He is unable to eat surplus value after taxes! For example, a billionaire like Carnegie did not spend much on himself, walked in an old suit, drove a cheap car.
In contrast, Stalin lived in such a way that any sheikh would envy: first-class cooks, the best doctors, the best cars, the best sanatoria ...
Similarly, the profits of any Soviet enterprise were spent: taxes, depreciation, new technologies, expansion of production.
Capitalism is such a mode of production in which the labor force becomes a commodity. It was this definition that resolved the contradiction of the old political economy, which did not know where the profit comes from. After all, the goods are sold at a cost, with an equivalent exchange, profits can not arise. Nevertheless, it exists. Marx dialectically resolved the contradiction: a new type of commodity, labor power, generates surplus value in exchange.
Hence we see that there was one more identity between the USSR and the capitalist countries: there was a hiring institute in the USSR, labor power was also a commodity. The only difference was that its buyer was not a separate capitalist, but an aggregate capitalist, represented by the state.
The absence of a labor market should not be embarrassing: you do not exchange rudders for bodies inside one monopoly that manufactures trucks. And, no matter how Stalin denied, the law of value operated in the USSR with regard to the labor force, which was brilliantly proved by the worker from Zelenograd-town Yu. Radostev.
If one wants to know, there was great unemployment in the USSR in Stalin period and much less in 1987 – about 1,7 million people.
As for ecology, it is unlikely that Marx could foresee that the West will exaggerate environmental problems for the destruction of the USSR, Russian oligarchs will fight for resources by deceiving the population about environmental threats, and Greenpeace will be used as an instrument for suppressing competitors, in that power in the Arctic , as well as for surveillance of the Northern Fleet of Russia. Note that Greenpeace was not active against British Petroleum, which organized a world ecological catastrophe.
4) «Of course, aspects of his work need to be readdressed. For example, Rosa Luxemburg, a revolutionary for Poland and Germany, criticized Marx's lack of full awareness that accumulation of capital could not go on forever - if nothing else because of the problem of continually finding markets for increasing production of commodities ordered by capitalists for no other purpose than profits, at the same time that they want restricted wages».
As we know, Marx pointed to one of the manifestations of the basic contradiction of capitalism - the discrepancy between the growth of production and the limited effective demand of the working people, that is, the capitalist's desire to limit wages (In Russian: Works, Vol. 25, p. 268).
Secondly, Lenin demonstratively criticized the criticism of Rosa Luxemburg, in a number of articles on the markets he showed that capitalism can develop even without seizing foreign markets. Thus, the end of capitalism with the end of globalization is a false thesis.
5) «Moving on, Marx describes what workers actually did when they had power in Paris in 1871. But he also describes the ferocity of the subsequent opposition by capitalists, namely, a bloodbath. He would not be surprised at all by the Chilean coup by Augusto Pinochet in 1973 nor the US hostility to the Chinese or Cuban revolutions. He would not be surprised that May Day with origins in the US is not celebrated as a holiday in its country of origin. However, and this is important, great intellectuals can be misused. They can be objects of misuse precisely because of their penetrating insights. When Marx exposes capitalism in the raw for workers, some can refer to his insights for their own nefarious purposes, purposes that have nothing do with the emancipation of workers, even as they might so suggest. This problem is not a simple one as we have to first understand correctly what motivated Marx.
It is not good enough to say that Marx wanted a society free of exploiting classes. The very next question would be how to get there. In fact, "how" is perhaps far more important and difficult. We must respect people, but we also must respect the power of those against the people, and that power is greater now than in Marx's time. As an illustration, the US government used nuclear weapons openly, and proudly, twice for mass extermination. If push comes to shove for any government of capitalists - and that was not even the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Marx's understanding would tell us that there are no limits. I repeat: no limits. With the Middle East a modern flashpoint and Israel with its nuclear weapons potentially facing revolution sooner or later, Marx is giving us a message. And we are obligated to take account of it if we are to be really for the people».
By the way, the Kaiser Wilhelm suggested Marx to move to him to fight together against the bourgeoisie with the help of his political economy. Marx refused.
It would seem that with the introduction of new technologies, with the increase of labor productivity and the mass of capital, the ruling classes have more and more opportunities to suppress the proletariat, to buy it, to use even Marxism-Leninism against the proletariat. Is not the CPRF, this pocket "communist" opposition, serving this purpose?
The contradiction of capitalism is that with the growth of production, the administrative apparatus is less and less capable of mediating the entire aggregate of economic ties. There are only two options for the ruling class: either to start redistributing power from the top down, that is, to start destroying oneself. Or simplify the system by breaking the economy into components. The latter option was implemented in the USSR in December 1991.
The growth of centrifugal tendencies is also observed in the USA, and these trends will intensify in view of the expansionist policy of the United States. By the way, Harriman predicted the disintegration of the United States.
On the other hand, capital in its development uses everything that comes to hand. But, in turn, the development of capitalism develops and productive forces.
Many workers in Russia have put forward to me the thesis that the proletariat in its struggle can not go beyond certain limits - because of the threat of use of nuclear weapons.
On the contrary, this capital has limits to the struggle against the proletariat. The bourgeois can arrange a lockout, but can not do anything without those who bring him a profit.
Capital can not already use nuclear weapons in a competitive struggle. Only the 2nd World War could give the US the opportunity to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the US could not use nuclear weapons in China, nor in North Korea, nor in Vietnam, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya or Syria.
The total use of nuclear weapons is impossible in principle, it threatens nuclear winter. Around 1982, a discussion was broadcast on television between a certain NATO colonel and the Soviet political scientist Arbatov. Arbatov criticized the American buildup of nuclear weapons. However, the colonel retorted: the presence of nuclear weapons is a factor restraining wars. Colonel repeated the words of Engels: "Someday mankind will accumulate so much weapons that wars will become impossible."
There is another, more significant error in the thesis of the threat of the use of nuclear weapons by the bourgeoisie against the proletariat. It presupposes such a ridiculous practice of the struggle of the proletariat, which is not directed to the army. The army, meanwhile, consists of people.
Therefore personally I have no respect for those who are against the people. Moreover, those who are against the people are becoming more and more fascists, all over the world: in the USA, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.
But we, the Marxists, are always obliged in our practice to think whether our bourgeois clan is using our activity. Examples of such use are left-handed. Thus, various Trotskyist and so called “goscap” (state capitalism in the USSR) groups were used by the US State Department to clear the NATO road to Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria in mass consciousness.
All the leftists of the world applauded the disintegration of the USSR. Cretins. 30 million extra deaths in Russia, 12 million - in the Ukraine.
Washington commands "Milosevic!" And the leftists are against Milosevic. Washington commands "Gaddafi!" And the leftist - against Gaddafi. Washington commands "Assad!" And the leftist - against Assad.
More of that, many Trotsyist groups supported Bandera fascists on maidan in Kiev!
More of that, the most rich people in the world privatized revolution itself! In Georgia, Libya, Syria, Ukraine.
6) «Turning to my own country, the US, I had not expected the political situation we are now in. It is worse than expected. Some aspects are front-page news, but there are horrible details too numerous to single out without distorting the message. Basically it is total disrespect for humanity by the federal government. Yet the candidacy of Bernie Sanders in the last presidential campaign surprised many, and he said and continues to say that he is a "democratic socialist." He even has a photo of the great US socialist Eugene Debs in his office. He had and has considerable popularity, particularly among younger people, in a country that had been taught by propaganda to hate "socialism." And, suddenly, there is now a new uprising by teenagers against gun violence who speak for themselves about it, not through adults. Changes are occurring».
There are only 20% of thing production in the USA, speculative capital dominates. Thus, the US lives at the expense of the rest of the world, USA consume 50% of the world's energy and throw 50% of the world's emissions into the atmosphere.
Changes in the richest country of the world began immediately after the legalization of bourgeois relations in the USSR and the disintegration of the country. As the counterweight disappeared, the USA carried out aggression in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.
On the other hand, the welfair was liquidated, the minimum wage was reduced. The military-industrial complex in the field of high technologies was reduced. Negro protests began.
In 1992, 9,000 policemen, 10,000 National Guards, 3,300 US Army and Marine Corps, 1,000 FBI officers were introduced, armored vehicles, combat and police helicopters were deployed to Los Angeles to suppress a peaceful demonstration. The fire was opened to defeat, about 100 people were killed, more than 11 thousand people were arrested. About 500 people from among the detainees received from 25 years to life imprisonment. Claims from the UN and the world community were not. Officials guilty of using force against peaceful demonstrators were not punished.
Similar changes occurred in other developed countries. In the UK, powers refused free of charge medicine, curtailed educational programs, shut down the mines, unemployment jumped. In Japan, with its institution of lifelong recruitment, 5% unemployment arose, which was a shock to the Japanese. In France, money from public schools was transferred to private schools, social programs were reduced, and the pension qualification was increased.
That is: all over the world labor and capital collided nose to nose, without an intermediary in the form of the so-called camp of "socialism". The working people realized that they should fight on their own. In this connection, and also in connection with the fact that after the disappearance of the USSR not only the national consolidating image of the enemy disappeared, but also the international consolidating image of the enemy. It was possible to observe, as wars broke out with the strengthening of the euro.
In 1999, the non-cash currency of the euro was introduced to the world, replacing the ecu, which was equated to the dollar. In the spring, bombardments of Belgrade followed, after which the exchange rate of the non-cash euro becomes less than 1 dollar.
By the autumn of 2001, it is planned to introduce cash euros. There is a "terrorist attack" on September 11. Euro cash is introduced only 1.1.2002, the euro starts to crowd the dollar. The British "The Economist" draws the euro as a viper. By the end of January 2003, the euro for the first time exceeded the dollar at 1.06, in March the bombing of Baghdad followed, NATO invading Iraq.
On September 11, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was killed. She was a key figure in the campaign for the country's entry into the euro area. On September 14, a referendum on this issue was planned in Sweden. The euro is again rolling back.
By the summer of 2008, the euro exceeds the critical threshold of $ 1.5 and is not going to stop. In September, Washington authorizes Georgia's actions in South Ossetia. For 4 days the euro falls against the dollar from 1.52 to 1.34, and then to 1.26.
Dmitry Medvedev ruled In Russia during this period, he had no accounts with foreign banks, because he easily cut off the gas pipe "for repairs." The barrel immediately rose, the ruble returned to its positions.
But at the end of 2013 the euro again approached the $ 1.5 mark. The United States had no choice? US arranged a Maydan in Kiev. After the forced annexation of Crimea, Putin was appointed a world evil, the image of the external enemy was successfully reanimated.
Although Putin is not a world evil at all! There is no totalitarianism in Russia, the bourgeoisie in Russia has not yet ripened from the class-in-itself to the class-for-itself, because the state is so weak that it is unable to collect a progressive tax. There is no Putin regime, Putin is just a protege of the ruling class of the raw-material bourgeoisie.
Although attempts to resuscitate the image of the enemy in the face of Putin were made in 2001, and in 2006 (after the "Munich speech"). Inside Russia, Putin confidently plays the role of the enemy of the United States.
However, one can not judge the changes in moods in the USA according to Sanders. Rather, on the contrary. The fact is that the US copied from Russia not only the electoral "roundabouts", but also the tactics of "torpedoes". "Torpedo" - this is clearly not the favorite, which the ruling party launches in elections, so that he can steel votes from a competitor. And Sanders performed well his role - he bought a left-wing electorate, for the credibility of hanging in the office photo Debs. And he gave his votes to the shark of imperialism - Hillary Clinton.
According to Sanders, one can judge the naivete of the lefts, who believe that something can be changed by presidential elections. Right, only a herd believes that the owner changes when a shepherd changes.
The shift to the left is in the other: more than half of American voters did not come to the polls.
As for the youth - personally I have no illusions about it. As people say in Russia: "For youth! For the courage! For the fresh wind! In your strong heads".
7) «Perhaps the single most important message from Marx is that "another world is possible." Why possible? First, we obviously have had other worlds before. And, second, we have no choice but for yet another and better, given the truth about capitalism! Workers of the world unite!»
The Soviet Union is understood under the "other world", obviously. And in vain, because its disintegration showed that the level of productive forces was too low. It was so low that the USSR lagged far behind the developed countries according to the main criterion noted by Lenin in the pamphlet “The Great Initiative”: on labor productivity.
Secondly, I would object to such ideas about Marx. "Worlds", "schemes", "systems", choice between "worlds", etc. are the essence of bourgeois illusions. And the truth about capitalism is also not the main thing, as Marx said, the weapons of criticism will not replace criticism with weapons. In view of the fact that fascism is a natural feature of capitalism, without bloodshed it will not be possible to change the society without bloodshed, alas.
The socialist revolution will be realized not because of the idea of "other worlds", but when the obsolete production relations will hinder the development of the productive forces.
Alas, today the main slogan of strikes is "Do not make us worse!" It is impossible to unite workers even one factory shop. What kind of world association can we talk about. The so-called "mobilizations", flash mobs, antiglobalism, altreglobalism, etc. - chickens are laughing.
The world is in a protracted crisis, the productive forces are weakened, and a period of regression has come. What is clearly visible on drunk Sarkozy, on the pedophile Berlusconi, on the barking on the entire air of Hilary Clinton, on the inadequate Therese May, etc.
Now let us turn to the main question formulated by the author in the most bourgeois form: "How to get there". I.e. in the "other world", and supposedly there are specialists, lamps of reason, shines of mind, who know the right path.
First, note the wrong paths.
The first path is the creation of such a remarkable correct party, which, at last, will lead the working class and lead it into socialism. Many adhere to such views, apparently, the collapse of such a powerful structure as the CPSU, taught them nothing.
As for the workers. The workers are fed up with the fact that they are not considered to be people, but are considered a herd of sheep who need a shepherd. They are people, and therefore they are going to think with their own head, and not with the head of the party general secretary. And this is not a hint at anarchy. No one renounces the power of the Soviets. Simply Marx defined socialism as "the living creativity of the masses". The mass, not the party lights of mind.
The second wrong path is the lack of understanding of Marxism. Marxism as a method, not works of Marx.
Everyone is convinced that the evil of capitalism is concentrated in money, money expresses the value of the commodity.
In the article "Criticism of the Gotha Program" Marx writes that the value of the commodity is generated by the abstract labor of a worker. What is needed for the product of labor to dump its commodity form? Marx is convinced that labor becomes abstract in the process of market alienation, in the sphere of exchange. Therefore, in order to destroy the value, it is necessary to liquidate the market. What the Bolsheviks tried to do.
However, the same Marx wrote in the “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” about the stultifying, depersonalizing labor of the worker, and Ilyenkov points out ("Dialectics of the abstract and concrete in the Capital of Marx") that the physical labor of the worker is already abstract in the process of production. It is this production abstraction that generates abstractness in the sphere of exchange.
Lenin in practice understood Marx's mistake and in 1921 introduced a new economic policy (NEP). It was designed for decades, but Stalin turned NEP in 1927.
That is: socialism by definition is a transitional period when the old social division of labor that divides society into classes is being eliminated. First of all, the contradiction between mental and physical labor is resolved, as Marx writes in the same article, "Criticism of the Gotha Program."
In 1953, Stalin, in his pamphlet “The Economic Problems of Socialism”, denied the contradiction between mental and physical labor in the USSR and repeated Marx's mistake from beginning to end.
But still - "how"? No way.
Because this question can be answered only by the practice of the struggle of the working class, which, according to Lenin, is above theory. As Marx said: every practical step is more expensive than a dozen programs.
To begin with, we must forget the words from the “Manifesto…” about the leading role of the party. We must understand that Lenin's book "What to do?" is obsolete. The situation has changed! The labor movement - can independently break free from the framework of economism, without introducing into the inert dark matter of the working class the divine political consciousness by party priests.
One may note strikes against abstract conveyor labour in USA at the end o0f 60th or Soviets at Italian plants at the same period or acts of workers of Sud Aviation in 1968. Finally, examples of the Paris Commune and the first Soviets in Russia!
And you see - authorities pay the left parties for their participation in the elections. The authorities made from all parties from ultra to ultra security buffer between themselves and the masses. Parties have discredited themselves around the world, absenteeism is growing all over the world.
By the way, the editions of most Marxist journals are concentrated in the USA and Great Britain, even Indian and German ones. This means that most of the left organizations are controlled by the CIA and MI-5. Consequently, workers must create their own independent factory political organizations.
The role of left parties is only to help workers in their self-organization, like Lenin wrote in his project of the first program of Russia social democratic workers party.
Lenin's book “The Childhood Illness of Leftism in Communism” is also obsolete, in the part where Lenin writes about the vanguard of the working class. If the vanguard is a minority, the working class is not ripe for dictatorship, it can not control its vanguard in the role of state officials. If the vanguard is a majority, this term loses its meaning.
We must understand that the disintegration of the USSR was logical. But this does not mean that the October revolution in backward agrarian Russia in 1917 was a theoretical error of smb, like wrote Menshevik Kuscova in her “Credo”. The bourgeois revolution has been walking for a whole century only over one small France. The era of regression will pass, the era of socialist revolutions will continue.
22.5.2018
Correspondence with Western professors
After the publication of my article “Marxism Today”, a curious correspondence arose.
Tamas Krausz writes:
“Friends, it’s old and simple theory of state capitalism, it follows to nowhere, plus support of new capitalism”.
Krauss simply ignorant, he did not read Russian authors, so he considers the theory of state capitalism in the USSR like unpretentious.
But "something native is heard in the long songs of coachman": "Your genetics are pouring water on the mill of imperialism!"
I write:
“Dear friends, it is very easy to say "or, it’s old theory..." It's a little more difficult to try to understand what I wrote.
As for other non "state capitalism" "theories" - they do not lead to anywhere, but morons don't understand it. To tell me truth I am tired of illiterate foreign dunces
Marxism is old theory too and a lot of bourgeoisie morons write that it doesn't lead to anywhere. And we see like "communist" party of Russian federation supports powers, like Trotskyist parties serve Washington, like "socialists" in France rule like capitalists, like all other left groups in the world can't do anything during tens of years. Useless lefts!”
Krauss writes:
“No, no. Illiteracy is hipothesis, everything is capitalism in the 20th century. You should read something else in this subject too. Really this theory of state capitalism is not only old, but too simply. Read Marx on state socialism and will understand stalinism. To repeat all the time the same hipothesis is very boring and ideologically also very problematic. Do not get offended. Prefere thinking on it. Thanks. I read you for a long time. Respect other's opinion too.
I answer:
“No, no. illiteracy is not hypothesis. I proved it in my article on example of US professor. And I SAW different left groups and "scientists" in UK, Argentina, France, German, Canada etc. I wrote their stupid books with the claim to scientific character.
You should read something else in this subject too. Really all other theories besides the theory of state capitalism are not only old, but too simply. Read Marx more and may be you will understand smth. To repeat all the time the same hipothesis is very boring and ideologically also very problematic. Do not get offended.
And I'l be glad to respect other' opinions too. If they are not stupid. But I don't see in your word any opinion! Only empty words about nothing.
Sorry... do you really think that I didn't read Marx on state socialism??
Our group learned scientific communism, Marx politeconomy, philosophy and historical materialism when we were stidents. Then we about 10 years lerned it once more - to beat "soviet" professors. And we beat them easy. So please don't be bulge”
Then Krauss pulls out something, but not arguments against some fragments in my article, but old, eaten arguments against the theory of state capitalism in the USSR:
“The old state socialist regime was not profitoriented market economy opposite to the new capitalism with semifascist face. Nobody could inherit the state ownership that is why the upper stratum of bureaucracy had to change regime (system). Or Thatcher and K;d;r are the representatives of very different historical, economic, social and political systems in principe and in practice with some similar features. The core of a historical phenomenon can be found in the difference. Read Luk;cs on the "overhelming moment" in Ontology without bulge.
I answer:
“The fact that there was no profit-oriented market economy in the USSR is an old propagandistic song. Any capitalist monopoly destroys the market, this was noted by Ricardo yet. You need to know the economy of the USSR, profit was the most important indicator in the economy. Well, but no one has yet proved that there was socialism in the USSR.
The right of inheritance is deeply secondary. But you do not understand the situation. Capital is not a pot that the son inherits from his father. Capital is a social attitude. It consists in the fact that the son of an elite actor becomes an elite actor, the son of a KGB general becomes a KGB general, the son of the 1st secretary of the regional committee becomes a member of the CPSU Central Committee.
Of course, there was a different situation the UK and Hungary. But the situation was different in Great Britain and Argentina. You need to understand the variety of forms of capitalism.
As for Lucasc, of course, I read him about 20 years ago. He is stalinist and made a lot of mistakes. And you have to read Ilyenkov, Batischev, Kessidy, Mamardashvily, Vazyulin if you want to understand smth.
I appeal to you as a deaf person - you have not refuted any part of my article!
I stop writing. I don't like those who is bulge, but can't think”.
Of course, Krauss could not stand it, he decided that his word must necessarily be a last resort. He writes:
“You are the big mixer. Nothing exists except for your dogma. Plan economy and the was an antithesis. Market economy without unemployment??? You do not prove anything. You do not understand even the logic of profit production. After that no sense to discuss with you, really”.
The unhappy Krauss has nothing but abuse. "Planned economy, planned economy ..." He just does not notice my words about Ricardo. Since he is unable to understand the evidence, he writes that I have not proved anything. Yes, and that was to prove. I just showed that he has no arguments! He does not even understand that I have not written a word about unemployment! So I understand, he does not know, that in 1986 there were 1.7 million unemployed in the USSR, but in market Japan with its institute of lifelong hiring unemployed was not at all.
The author of the article, professor Zarembka, whose article I criticized, also wrote to me.
“Boris, thank you for your extended reactions to my short piece which I have read fully. I understand that English is not your native language but I could understand you. Keep in mind that I was only given 1000 words, so many ideas could not be elaborated. I will focus on three reactions I have:
1. I do not disagree with your interpretation of Bernie Sanders, but the point from an American perspective is his ability to maintain that he is a "socialist", while many were not bothered with that. If you lived as long as I have here, you might understand its importance, even if he himself merely passed his support onto Clinton. Anti-socialism/anti-communism has a long ideological history here. As to the youth, if we do not respect them and their energy, we are lost.
2. You make an interesting comment that nuclear weapons are paper-tigers, like Mao said. You cite something from Engels, but I don't know where that is. In any case, could you explain more how you think nuclear weapons are now useless? I do think Israel is quite capable of actually using it and, frankly, I don't think the rest of the nation states would do more than complain, even if forcefully, and perhaps do some sanction.
3. I believe you misunderstand Luxemburg and thus you are in a long line of those who dismiss her. I could send you my published opinion, if interested.
All the best, Paul”.
I answer:
«Dear Paul, thank you for your letter. You are right, I am not good hand at English and have no practice in 18 years, so I am glad that you have caught me.
1. Not so long ago I read a book in which the articles of the leaders of many Communist parties of the world are collected about what the proletariat is. This question was asked of him by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). I was amazed at the ignorance (illiteracy) of the leaders of the Communist Parties. Now 2018, but they do not know what the proletariat is and can not distinguish it from the workers! They correctly identify the doctor in hospital, engineer and worker with the hired character of labor. But they do not understand that workers differ from engineers and doctors in the content of labor. And CPRF too.
So they don’t understand Marxism, they don’t understand society dynamic: socialism is a movement towards overcoming the old social division of labor, primarily the division of labor into the mental and physical.
Lenin repeatedly stressed that the Bolsheviks are a party of the working class, not intellectuals, not peasants. He called the working class a hegemon because socialism and communism are a fundamental interest precisely for the working class. The intelligentsia will not disappear under communism, but the depersonalizing labor of the worker must disappear, and with it the working class.
Therefore Marx wrote that "all the oppressed strata of society must realize the interests of the working class as their own."
We are with working class so WE ARE NOT LOST.
And what do the Western Lefts do? They have no close ties with the working class, but they add to cart, recruit a female movement, buggers, Jews, hippies, students etc. and even schoolchildren. I saw it in Argentina, in Netherlands, in UK, in France… We saw youth with it’ energy in fascist maidan in Ukraine, the youth jumped, as crazy, and shouted: "Russians and Jews - on knives!", “Russian - on the gallows!” “Who does not jump - that is Russian!”
You see we in Russia are tired from Western stupid primitive.
Of course Sanders may think about himself that he is socialist. But why??? Did he organized any strike, blocked of highways, did he create any workers committee at any plant and so on, what is his PRACTICE? Only bla-bla-bla? Mitterand and Holland are socialists too. And what? Many people in Russia think about themselves that they are communists.
But the PRACTICE OBJECTIVE RESULT of Sunders’ activity was help to Hillary Clinton.
May be, the word “socialism” is new for US. But… how to say… It is not great attainment, to my mind. It is word only. And I don’t respect energetic youth with empty heads. The world is not France, and today is not 1968.
2. I didn’t wrote that nuclear weapons are paper tigers. Of course it is dangerous, of course there is problem of using of it by terrorists etc. I didn’t wrote that nuclear weapons are “useless”. But, at first, nuclear weapons make the third world war impossible in view of nuclear winter. At second it gives only possibility to save itself for North Korea from US aggression.
As for Engels you may be sure, he wrote the words about war, that I repeated. Lenin repeated such words too, in his wife Nadejda Krupskaya’ stories she writes he said that in the future “the war will become so destructive that it will in general become impossible". I live in military Ural so I know Russia may annihilate USA during 2 hours without any possibility of any defense as well as USA may annihilate Russia.
It is evident that Israel is the same fascist county as USA, look 2nd attached file. I mean: the idea of superiority of the US and Jews over all nations of the world, unprecedented aggression, strangling freedom of speech, if not with the help of prisons, but with the help of layoffs, the killing of children by policemen, police violence, etc.
Several Israel journalists wrote that Israel was ready to use nuclear weapon against Iran. To my opinion it is only words. Of course, every normal man wants sanctions – because of Israel aggression. But you see it is impossible, USA will stop any attempts of sanctions.
I know several Trotskyist groups that every year write resolutions against Israel. Of course, all of them are useless. I think it is such a game.
To my mind one is to choose other method: to publish truth about Israel, step by step. And not in newspapers or on TV, but in leaflets.
On the other hand there are workers in Israel. So we are to think how to support class fight in Israel, it is only way.
3. As for Luxemburg I agree with Lenin. I wrote two words about her, if you don’t agree, please, write, what my words are wrong from your point of view and why.
And have you read Lenin's criticism of Rosa Luxemburg? What can you object to Lenin?
But if you may send me your article, I’l be glad.
Best wishes, your Boris Ikhlov
PS. Because you selected only 3 points, I hope you are agree with all other fragments from my article, especially main fragments.
PPS.
In the early 90's I corresponded with one of the leaders of the American Negro movement Ajamu Dillahant. I wrote to her that it would be nice if the Negro movement closed in the labor movement. After all, the problem of the blacks of the United States is a particular thing, their struggle is the fight against the consequence while preserving the cause. Ajamu stopped her correspondence”.
Paul writes:
“Attached is my defense of Luxemburg. A prior work of mine that is cited includes as an appendix the first translation from Russian of Lenin's marginal notes on Luxemburg's book (by James Lawler). Lenin, to the best of my knowledge, never wrote a coherent criticism of her 'The Accumulation of Capital'. Yes, Lenin said she was 'wrong' and wrote some private letters praising criticisms of her, but without saying clearly why. In 1915 he merely cites in publication Bauer, Eckstein and Pannekoek in support of a statement that she is wrong, but without indicating which portions of what
they wrote are correct, less than correct, or in error.
If you know something that I don't know about Lenin's writing on Luxemburg's book, please let me know. Otherwise, his claim that she was 'wrong' really is not worth much discussion. If she is wrong, it is not because Lenin said so.
On Sanders, you are correct but the problem is not only or mainly about Sanders' personality. What I was trying to convey about Sanders and about youth is that the U.S. is in movement, politically, and there is opposition to fascism here which would require much too much discussion to be included in that short piece.
I don't much like reference to 'Jews' as such. Because, as you point out, there are working-class Jews in Israel. If I were to accept 'Jews' as a category, then also each and every other religion as if coherent. 'Zionists' is better. But even that reference disguises the materiality of capitalist expansion. One comment I recently read actually says that Israel is a fundamentalist Christian (!) state, disguised with its 'Jewish' reference point. Even this still makes religion the reference point in its effort to describe the main power behind this tiny state of a few million.
On nuclear weapons, I am not sure I understand you. Do you agree or disagree that nuclear weapons COULD truly be used, say, by Israel? I am not asking about 'threat'. I am asking about DROPPING the bomb from a plane or firing a nuclear missile. I am saying it is truly possible and thus must be taken account of.
Thanks, Paul”
I answer:
“Of course, the total use of nuclear weapons is impossible because of the nuclear winter. That is, the US, Russia, China, India will not be able to apply it. Britain and France, as NATO members, will not be able either.
North Korea is not going to use nuclear weapons until the US will attack.
Pakistan and Israel are the last in the list. These are small countries with a small amount of nuclear weapons. Their use of nuclear weapons in small wars means their self-destruction. But the threat of use is deterrent for the Arab countries.
Of course, we may and must cry about Israel' nuclear weapon – to compare with North Korea. But, to my mind, it is not first task. First task is Israel aggression.
As for Luxemburg. Of course, Lenin didn't criticize 'The Accumulation of Capital" especially, his articles are about market, about Luxemburg position about automatic death of capitalism, about her position on national question etc. We studied it when we were students, so I will send you everything, but not quickly - you see, a lot of work, we must finish smth.
I looked through your article and should like to make several remarks.
So I ask you once more to send me, if it is possible, your text in other format, not pdf but word.
As for Sunders - you are right, modern processes in USA are radical and complete, so I shall be glad if you tell about the situation in US in details.
Sincerely, Boris”
Paul didn’t send me the article in other format.
The professor cites in the article about Luxembourg such personalities, as Raya Dunaevskaya, Tugan-Baranovsky and others, gives their opinions like the truth. While, for example, Lenin thoroughly criticized Tugan-Baranovsky. Tugan-Baranovsky simply did not understand the Marxian scheme of simple reproduction.
The reader, you see - the professor ignores my questions, my requests, he does not want to answer!
A narrow specialist is like a flux - the completeness of him is one-sided. Zarembka specializes in Rosa Luxemburg, he can not understand anything else. But the American professor does not know the elementary things. He does not know how Lenin criticized Rosa Luxemburg!
Imagine how low the scientific level of professors in the West fell. Lenin laughed at the theories of Rosa Luxemburg. He completely refuted them. Of course, Luxemburg is a revolutionary, but her theory speaks of the automatic death of capitalism. Luxembourg and Sismondi rigidly link the existence of capitalism to the presence of external rank. This, of course, is nonsense.
«Capitalist production in general, writes Marx, does not exist without foreign trade. But if we assume normal annual reproduction at a given scale, we thereby represent the case in such a way that foreign trade only replaces native objects with objects of another use or natural form, and it does not affect the ratio of value, and therefore, , in which two categories are exchanged for each other: the means of production and the means of consumption, as well as the relations of constant capital, variable capital, and surplus-value, that the value of the product can be decomposed into of each of these two categories.. Therefore, attracting foreign trade to the analysis of the annually reproducible value of the product, without giving anything new either for the problem or for its resolution, can only bring about confusion. Therefore, it is necessary to completely disengage from it» ("Capital", vol. II, Ch. XX, section XII).
The Luxembourg mistake is primitive, elementary, but Western professors raised her musty theory to the banner.
This is understandable - her theory is directed against Lenin, against Marx!
I did not correspond with professor Cyrus Bina, but he also congratulated Marx on his birthday.
He particularly writes: “Marx’s grasp of capitalist competition and his distinction of capital from landed property can be found early on in The Poverty of Philosophy (1847), where Marx chides Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on two major issues. First is on capitalist competition by which the process of concentration and centralization manifest itself and the accumulation of capital leads to class polarization. Here Marx capitalizes on a synthetic analysis in which competition and integration, just as space and time in Einstein’s theory are synthetically entwined; neither competition nor integration (i.e., concentration and centralization of capital) has separate standing. This view of competition is what Marx employed in his Capital (1867), some two decades later”.
Thank you. Hence, Marx agreed with Proudhon. Although the book of Marx is directed precisely at the criticism of Proudhon. It also turns out that competition and integration are like space-time. Those. in the early 20th century. banks, united, did not destroy small banks, and cohabited with them… Unless in the 80s, the consumer products of the USA did not find that the antimonopoly legislation does not work… The professor forgot what cartel collusion is? Einstein turns in a coffin as a propeller: time and space devour, cancel each other!
Zarembka is a specialist in Luxembourg, Bina is an expert on Proudhon, for which he receives money.
Further, Bina is smashing the Marxists, who buried theories of the value of Marx. I wonder where he dug up those.
“These same Marxists also habitually refer to the present epoch as neoliberalism thus generating a twofold error: (1) identifying the United States (and the epoch of Pax Americana, 1945-1979) with neoliberalism – a euphemistic label for globalization – and in consequence (2) papering over the loss of American hegemony and irreversible shift in the balance of global power. In other words, these radical scholars (along their liberal counterparts in the apologist circles), perhaps inadvertently, lionize the leaders of the now defunct era and misrepresent the nature of international relations of today. On this account too, in my opinion, Marx’s legacy should be crystal clear by now”.
I.e. Bina is not limited of mixing Proudhon with Marx. He assures us that there is no neo-liberalism in Russia! He assures us that the US for Europe does not knock free trade out of Europe. At the same time, the US allegedly does not impose strict protectionist measures.
It turns out that after the collapse of the USSR, the US did not become a world hegemon, a world gendarme.
Bina still writes that there are crazy people abroad US who are afraid, as if the US hegemony, that is, fascism of the United States, may be disappeared!
Is it clear why Bina is a professor?
At the end, Bina appears before us almost Blake:
«The glimmer of hope is in the air. The heavens point to a singularity. The two hundred candles are burning intensely against gentle wind in Highgate Cemetery (North London), while birds of spring are singing in unison: “Workers of the World Unite …” Happy Birthday Karl – Happy Birthday!»
Bina writes quite seriously. In Russia, such a phrase would cause Homeric laughter. Bina does not ask what the working people think, he asks heaven and birds. The workers themselves do not talk about solidarity, but Bina's birds sing about it.
So that by… Both correspondences confirm my "hypothesis" that the Western Lefts are little educated and can’t think. Most of them are morons.
Otherwise, how could capitalism tolerate Marxists? Such "Marxists", on the contrary, benefit for capitalism, so they have the title of professors.
MARXISM TODAY - 2
Professor of economics Paul Zaremka (State University of New York at Buffalo) wrote the article to the bicentenary of the birth of Marx, fragments of which we will consider in sequence.
1) «Karl Marx's intellectual legacy is so broad that different people are able to be attracted to the aspects most useful to them, not only for scholars but, more importantly, for working people».
To our great regret, it is the working class and other detachments of the proletariat with low incomes that are least familiar with the works of Marx. I will say more: activists of the left groups are practically unfamiliar with the books of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Plekhanov, not to mention the books of Ilyenkov or Lorenzo Vall, Lukacs or Antonio Labriola, Gramsci or Moses Hess, Cassidy or Tommaso Campanella.
The reason is clear: all this science is not required by the worker during his production. All that he read in the off-hours is eroded from his head when he, for example, is standing at the conveyor. The production period is the most important for the worker. If a worker has been working on the same detail for 3 years, then, in the process of disaggregation (in Hegel terms), the same detail, in lieu of Marxism, is formed in his head, roughly speaking.
I'm not talking about individual representatives, like Spinoza, Joseph Dietzgen, Khalturin, Shlyapnikov or Myasnikov, it's about the working class as a whole.
Today's strike is a demand for more favorable conditions for the sale of labor force. The question of taking power by the working class is not worth it. As for Russia, this is what workers say: "In order to take power, we need a higher education, which we do not have. Secondly, we do not want responsibility."
Workers understand what they say. Let me remind you, Lenin pointed out that the dictatorship of the proletariat is not only violence and not so much violence. It presupposes such working class that can take ruling of the entire economy of the country in their hands.
The main principle of Soviet power is the control of workers from below at a state official of any level, including Stalin. But complex production can not be controlled without higher education. Therefore, illiterate workers entrusted both control and management to the same state officials. Therefore, not workers controlled Stalin, but Stalin controlled workers.
The second principle of Soviet power is the modest payment of state officials. But Stalin abolished the Lenin’ party maximum.
The XII Congress of the RKP of Bolsheviks in 1923 (without Lenin) decided that the dictatorship of the proletariat is expressed in the form of a dictatorship of the party. Meanwhile, in his fundamental work "The State and the Revolution," Lenin wrote: "The dictatorship of the proletariat is expressed in the form of Soviet power, in the form found by the workers themselves."
Thus, there was no Soviet power in the USSR, nor did the dictatorship of the proletariat. Plekhanov also pointed out that the dictatorship of the class as the sky from the earth is different from the dictatorship of a handful of revolutionaries.
Marx wrote that a socialist state can only be the dictatorship of the proletariat. If this dictatorship was not there, then there was no socialism either. There was no such absurdity as the "degenerated workers' state". Re-born as far as?? Rebirth in what??
So Lenin in 1919 said: "It is unlikely that our grandchildren will see socialism ..."
In 1999, workers of the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Mill seized the plant. They were threatened with massive layoffs. The workers chose the director. The main reason for the defeat: 1) the workers shifted the management of the plant to the director and his team, 2) the workers shifted the leadership of the protest to the chairman of the trade union committee and his team. The authorities arranged a hunt for the director, and the chairman of the trade union committee was simply bribed.
One is to understand, that contradiction can not be withdraw (ñíÿòî) by destroying one of its sides - the bourgeoisie. The second side, the workers and peasants, will inevitably restore it - from itself. What we saw in the USSR. The privileged existence of a layer of Soviet managers gradually determined their bourgeois consciousness. So working class must eliminated not bourgeoisie only, but itself.
So at first capital must demand workers with higher education - at the level of a single, special and universal.
Everybody knows Marx phrase: the level of development of a capitalist is determined by the extent to which science has become a productive force. But the phrase refers not only to instruments. But also to the workers!
Let us note that, consequently, oppression is not only the usurpation of the management of surplus value by a narrow social stratum, the bourgeois or the "Soviet" power, but in labor itself, as Marx wrote, a heavy, monotonous, stupefying, depersonalizing physical labor.
As one knows, both the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks understood that Russia was a backward country that was not mature for the socialist revolution.
Lenin reasoned thus: on the one hand, the productive forces determine the relations of production. But who does forbid the revolutionary transformed superstructure to grow into a backward basis?
On the other hand, Russia is a weak link in the chain of imperialism. If this link is broken, then socialist revolutions will break out in developed countries. Then the developed proletariat of these countries will come to the aid of the backward Russian proletariat.
However, the world revolution did not happen. The productive forces in the developed countries, too, were not ripe for a change of system. Therefore, in the USSR, backward productive forces led the production relations in accordance with themselves. What became apparent in 1991.
People in China are more honest. In 1956, at the 8th CPC Congress it was stated that there was state capitalism in China. Further, we assumed the Great leap from capitalism to communism, bypassing socialism. But in 1976, Deng Xiaoping began restructuring and China remained capitalistic. Although today Comrade Xi Jinpy tells the world about socialism with a Chinese face.
Obviously, until the working class at the level of the general does not feel such oppression, it is not necessary to speak of a socialist revolution.
But this does not mean that the lefts must wait for this moment with folded hands.
2) «For capitalist enterprises in Brazil, Kenya, India, Spain, the US or anywhere, labor power reflects the reality that workers sell their labor hours to capitalists and they are told what to do without any democratic input from them. Workers don't care what they produce: They need the money. Capitalists don't care either: They want profit. Workers only receive as compensation the equivalent, in some currency, of the laboring time needed to produce the commodities they can get to subsist, at whatever level. The remainder in laboring hours that the capitalist keeps is "surplus value," the fundamental concept for Marx».
I would like to clarify. If you remove the extra hours (to short the working day!), capitalist will still make a profit. Because the worker produces surplus value not only in extra hours, but every minute.
Let me remind you, Marx wrote in “Capital” that mass, combined labor causes enthusiasm, thus, the workers care. However, today the enthusiasm has dried up. The worker really does not care, even if he creates a spaceship.
On the other hand, the capitalist care - he is driven by competition. Therefore, the capitalists organize the "democratic contribution" of the workers. For example, on Citroen, mailboxes are hung everywhere, where workers can omit their letters with proposals concerning production.
In this regard, it is worth noting the Russian bourgeoisie. Its specificity is that, first, it is comprador. Secondly, it achieves an average profit rate not, for example, by introducing new technologies, improving the organization of production, etc., but by freezing or retaining the wages of workers. Workers at the same time do not protest in their majority.
3) «The actual life of people around the world differs greatly. Some do better, some do worse, and a fraction may find some satisfaction in their work. But almost all products we consume anywhere, within our deep capitalism, have been produced by workers who are merely hired hands. Marx's work mentions workers being thereby "alienated," and this has been chosen by some for an emphasis. But he also develops concepts to explain how capitalists are able to appropriate ever more surplus value. He explains the motivation for technology changes experienced much more in capitalism than in prior societies. He describes the forces around the accumulation of capital, and the division of surplus value into industrial profits, rent and interest. He provides analyses for financial expansion. He even addresses environmental issues appropriate to his time so that we can find those insights useful today, and exhibited a foresighted analysis of the US Civil War as it was developing».
It should be emphasized that the capitalist spends net industrial profits on depreciation of equipment, advertising, new technologies, expansion of production. He is unable to eat surplus value after taxes! For example, a billionaire like Carnegie did not spend much on himself, walked in an old suit, drove a cheap car.
In contrast, Stalin lived in such a way that any sheikh would envy: first-class cooks, the best doctors, the best cars, the best sanatoria ...
Similarly, the profits of any Soviet enterprise were spent: taxes, depreciation, new technologies, expansion of production.
Capitalism is such a mode of production in which the labor force becomes a commodity. It was this definition that resolved the contradiction of the old political economy, which did not know where the profit comes from. After all, the goods are sold at a cost, with an equivalent exchange, profits can not arise. Nevertheless, it exists. Marx dialectically resolved the contradiction: a new type of commodity, labor power, generates surplus value in exchange.
Hence we see that there was one more identity between the USSR and the capitalist countries: there was a hiring institute in the USSR, labor power was also a commodity. The only difference was that its buyer was not a separate capitalist, but an aggregate capitalist, represented by the state.
The absence of a labor market should not be embarrassing: you do not exchange rudders for bodies inside one monopoly that manufactures trucks. And, no matter how Stalin denied, the law of value operated in the USSR with regard to the labor force, which was brilliantly proved by the worker from Zelenograd-town Yu. Radostev.
If one wants to know, there was great unemployment in the USSR in Stalin period and much less in 1987 – about 1,7 million people.
As for ecology, it is unlikely that Marx could foresee that the West will exaggerate environmental problems for the destruction of the USSR, Russian oligarchs will fight for resources by deceiving the population about environmental threats, and Greenpeace will be used as an instrument for suppressing competitors, in that power in the Arctic , as well as for surveillance of the Northern Fleet of Russia. Note that Greenpeace was not active against British Petroleum, which organized a world ecological catastrophe.
4) «Of course, aspects of his work need to be readdressed. For example, Rosa Luxemburg, a revolutionary for Poland and Germany, criticized Marx's lack of full awareness that accumulation of capital could not go on forever - if nothing else because of the problem of continually finding markets for increasing production of commodities ordered by capitalists for no other purpose than profits, at the same time that they want restricted wages».
As we know, Marx pointed to one of the manifestations of the basic contradiction of capitalism - the discrepancy between the growth of production and the limited effective demand of the working people, that is, the capitalist's desire to limit wages (In Russian: Works, Vol. 25, p. 268).
Secondly, Lenin demonstratively criticized the criticism of Rosa Luxemburg, in a number of articles on the markets he showed that capitalism can develop even without seizing foreign markets. Thus, the end of capitalism with the end of globalization is a false thesis.
5) «Moving on, Marx describes what workers actually did when they had power in Paris in 1871. But he also describes the ferocity of the subsequent opposition by capitalists, namely, a bloodbath. He would not be surprised at all by the Chilean coup by Augusto Pinochet in 1973 nor the US hostility to the Chinese or Cuban revolutions. He would not be surprised that May Day with origins in the US is not celebrated as a holiday in its country of origin. However, and this is important, great intellectuals can be misused. They can be objects of misuse precisely because of their penetrating insights. When Marx exposes capitalism in the raw for workers, some can refer to his insights for their own nefarious purposes, purposes that have nothing do with the emancipation of workers, even as they might so suggest. This problem is not a simple one as we have to first understand correctly what motivated Marx.
It is not good enough to say that Marx wanted a society free of exploiting classes. The very next question would be how to get there. In fact, "how" is perhaps far more important and difficult. We must respect people, but we also must respect the power of those against the people, and that power is greater now than in Marx's time. As an illustration, the US government used nuclear weapons openly, and proudly, twice for mass extermination. If push comes to shove for any government of capitalists - and that was not even the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Marx's understanding would tell us that there are no limits. I repeat: no limits. With the Middle East a modern flashpoint and Israel with its nuclear weapons potentially facing revolution sooner or later, Marx is giving us a message. And we are obligated to take account of it if we are to be really for the people».
By the way, the Kaiser Wilhelm suggested Marx to move to him to fight together against the bourgeoisie with the help of his political economy. Marx refused.
It would seem that with the introduction of new technologies, with the increase of labor productivity and the mass of capital, the ruling classes have more and more opportunities to suppress the proletariat, to buy it, to use even Marxism-Leninism against the proletariat. Is not the CPRF, this pocket "communist" opposition, serving this purpose?
The contradiction of capitalism is that with the growth of production, the administrative apparatus is less and less capable of mediating the entire aggregate of economic ties. There are only two options for the ruling class: either to start redistributing power from the top down, that is, to start destroying oneself. Or simplify the system by breaking the economy into components. The latter option was implemented in the USSR in December 1991.
The growth of centrifugal tendencies is also observed in the USA, and these trends will intensify in view of the expansionist policy of the United States. By the way, Harriman predicted the disintegration of the United States.
On the other hand, capital in its development uses everything that comes to hand. But, in turn, the development of capitalism develops and productive forces.
Many workers in Russia have put forward to me the thesis that the proletariat in its struggle can not go beyond certain limits - because of the threat of use of nuclear weapons.
On the contrary, this capital has limits to the struggle against the proletariat. The bourgeois can arrange a lockout, but can not do anything without those who bring him a profit.
Capital can not already use nuclear weapons in a competitive struggle. Only the 2nd World War could give the US the opportunity to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the US could not use nuclear weapons in China, nor in North Korea, nor in Vietnam, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya or Syria.
The total use of nuclear weapons is impossible in principle, it threatens nuclear winter. Around 1982, a discussion was broadcast on television between a certain NATO colonel and the Soviet political scientist Arbatov. Arbatov criticized the American buildup of nuclear weapons. However, the colonel retorted: the presence of nuclear weapons is a factor restraining wars. Colonel repeated the words of Engels: "Someday mankind will accumulate so much weapons that wars will become impossible."
There is another, more significant error in the thesis of the threat of the use of nuclear weapons by the bourgeoisie against the proletariat. It presupposes such a ridiculous practice of the struggle of the proletariat, which is not directed to the army. The army, meanwhile, consists of people.
Therefore personally I have no respect for those who are against the people. Moreover, those who are against the people are becoming more and more fascists, all over the world: in the USA, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.
But we, the Marxists, are always obliged in our practice to think whether our bourgeois clan is using our activity. Examples of such use are left-handed. Thus, various Trotskyist and so called “goscap” (state capitalism in the USSR) groups were used by the US State Department to clear the NATO road to Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria in mass consciousness.
All the leftists of the world applauded the disintegration of the USSR. Cretins. 30 million extra deaths in Russia, 12 million - in the Ukraine.
Washington commands "Milosevic!" And the leftists are against Milosevic. Washington commands "Gaddafi!" And the leftist - against Gaddafi. Washington commands "Assad!" And the leftist - against Assad.
More of that, many Trotsyist groups supported Bandera fascists on maidan in Kiev!
More of that, the most rich people in the world privatized revolution itself! In Georgia, Libya, Syria, Ukraine.
6) «Turning to my own country, the US, I had not expected the political situation we are now in. It is worse than expected. Some aspects are front-page news, but there are horrible details too numerous to single out without distorting the message. Basically it is total disrespect for humanity by the federal government. Yet the candidacy of Bernie Sanders in the last presidential campaign surprised many, and he said and continues to say that he is a "democratic socialist." He even has a photo of the great US socialist Eugene Debs in his office. He had and has considerable popularity, particularly among younger people, in a country that had been taught by propaganda to hate "socialism." And, suddenly, there is now a new uprising by teenagers against gun violence who speak for themselves about it, not through adults. Changes are occurring».
There are only 20% of thing production in the USA, speculative capital dominates. Thus, the US lives at the expense of the rest of the world, USA consume 50% of the world's energy and throw 50% of the world's emissions into the atmosphere.
Changes in the richest country of the world began immediately after the legalization of bourgeois relations in the USSR and the disintegration of the country. As the counterweight disappeared, the USA carried out aggression in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.
On the other hand, the welfair was liquidated, the minimum wage was reduced. The military-industrial complex in the field of high technologies was reduced. Negro protests began.
In 1992, 9,000 policemen, 10,000 National Guards, 3,300 US Army and Marine Corps, 1,000 FBI officers were introduced, armored vehicles, combat and police helicopters were deployed to Los Angeles to suppress a peaceful demonstration. The fire was opened to defeat, about 100 people were killed, more than 11 thousand people were arrested. About 500 people from among the detainees received from 25 years to life imprisonment. Claims from the UN and the world community were not. Officials guilty of using force against peaceful demonstrators were not punished.
Similar changes occurred in other developed countries. In the UK, powers refused free of charge medicine, curtailed educational programs, shut down the mines, unemployment jumped. In Japan, with its institution of lifelong recruitment, 5% unemployment arose, which was a shock to the Japanese. In France, money from public schools was transferred to private schools, social programs were reduced, and the pension qualification was increased.
That is: all over the world labor and capital collided nose to nose, without an intermediary in the form of the so-called camp of "socialism". The working people realized that they should fight on their own. In this connection, and also in connection with the fact that after the disappearance of the USSR not only the national consolidating image of the enemy disappeared, but also the international consolidating image of the enemy. It was possible to observe, as wars broke out with the strengthening of the euro.
In 1999, the non-cash currency of the euro was introduced to the world, replacing the ecu, which was equated to the dollar. In the spring, bombardments of Belgrade followed, after which the exchange rate of the non-cash euro becomes less than 1 dollar.
By the autumn of 2001, it is planned to introduce cash euros. There is a "terrorist attack" on September 11. Euro cash is introduced only 1.1.2002, the euro starts to crowd the dollar. The British "The Economist" draws the euro as a viper. By the end of January 2003, the euro for the first time exceeded the dollar at 1.06, in March the bombing of Baghdad followed, NATO invading Iraq.
On September 11, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was killed. She was a key figure in the campaign for the country's entry into the euro area. On September 14, a referendum on this issue was planned in Sweden. The euro is again rolling back.
By the summer of 2008, the euro exceeds the critical threshold of $ 1.5 and is not going to stop. In September, Washington authorizes Georgia's actions in South Ossetia. For 4 days the euro falls against the dollar from 1.52 to 1.34, and then to 1.26.
Dmitry Medvedev ruled In Russia during this period, he had no accounts with foreign banks, because he easily cut off the gas pipe "for repairs." The barrel immediately rose, the ruble returned to its positions.
But at the end of 2013 the euro again approached the $ 1.5 mark. The United States had no choice? US arranged a Maydan in Kiev. After the forced annexation of Crimea, Putin was appointed a world evil, the image of the external enemy was successfully reanimated.
Although Putin is not a world evil at all! There is no totalitarianism in Russia, the bourgeoisie in Russia has not yet ripened from the class-in-itself to the class-for-itself, because the state is so weak that it is unable to collect a progressive tax. There is no Putin regime, Putin is just a protege of the ruling class of the raw-material bourgeoisie.
Although attempts to resuscitate the image of the enemy in the face of Putin were made in 2001, and in 2006 (after the "Munich speech"). Inside Russia, Putin confidently plays the role of the enemy of the United States.
However, one can not judge the changes in moods in the USA according to Sanders. Rather, on the contrary. The fact is that the US copied from Russia not only the electoral "roundabouts", but also the tactics of "torpedoes". "Torpedo" - this is clearly not the favorite, which the ruling party launches in elections, so that he can steel votes from a competitor. And Sanders performed well his role - he bought a left-wing electorate, for the credibility of hanging in the office photo Debs. And he gave his votes to the shark of imperialism - Hillary Clinton.
According to Sanders, one can judge the naivete of the lefts, who believe that something can be changed by presidential elections. Right, only a herd believes that the owner changes when a shepherd changes.
The shift to the left is in the other: more than half of American voters did not come to the polls.
As for the youth - personally I have no illusions about it. As people say in Russia: "For youth! For the courage! For the fresh wind! In your strong heads".
7) «Perhaps the single most important message from Marx is that "another world is possible." Why possible? First, we obviously have had other worlds before. And, second, we have no choice but for yet another and better, given the truth about capitalism! Workers of the world unite!»
The Soviet Union is understood under the "other world", obviously. And in vain, because its disintegration showed that the level of productive forces was too low. It was so low that the USSR lagged far behind the developed countries according to the main criterion noted by Lenin in the pamphlet “The Great Initiative”: on labor productivity.
Secondly, I would object to such ideas about Marx. "Worlds", "schemes", "systems", choice between "worlds", etc. are the essence of bourgeois illusions. And the truth about capitalism is also not the main thing, as Marx said, the weapons of criticism will not replace criticism with weapons. In view of the fact that fascism is a natural feature of capitalism, without bloodshed it will not be possible to change the society without bloodshed, alas.
The socialist revolution will be realized not because of the idea of "other worlds", but when the obsolete production relations will hinder the development of the productive forces.
Alas, today the main slogan of strikes is "Do not make us worse!" It is impossible to unite workers even one factory shop. What kind of world association can we talk about. The so-called "mobilizations", flash mobs, antiglobalism, altreglobalism, etc. - chickens are laughing.
The world is in a protracted crisis, the productive forces are weakened, and a period of regression has come. What is clearly visible on drunk Sarkozy, on the pedophile Berlusconi, on the barking on the entire air of Hilary Clinton, on the inadequate Therese May, etc.
Now let us turn to the main question formulated by the author in the most bourgeois form: "How to get there". I.e. in the "other world", and supposedly there are specialists, lamps of reason, shines of mind, who know the right path.
First, note the wrong paths.
The first path is the creation of such a remarkable correct party, which, at last, will lead the working class and lead it into socialism. Many adhere to such views, apparently, the collapse of such a powerful structure as the CPSU, taught them nothing.
As for the workers. The workers are fed up with the fact that they are not considered to be people, but are considered a herd of sheep who need a shepherd. They are people, and therefore they are going to think with their own head, and not with the head of the party general secretary. And this is not a hint at anarchy. No one renounces the power of the Soviets. Simply Marx defined socialism as "the living creativity of the masses". The mass, not the party lights of mind.
The second wrong path is the lack of understanding of Marxism. Marxism as a method, not works of Marx.
Everyone is convinced that the evil of capitalism is concentrated in money, money expresses the value of the commodity.
In the article "Criticism of the Gotha Program" Marx writes that the value of the commodity is generated by the abstract labor of a worker. What is needed for the product of labor to dump its commodity form? Marx is convinced that labor becomes abstract in the process of market alienation, in the sphere of exchange. Therefore, in order to destroy the value, it is necessary to liquidate the market. What the Bolsheviks tried to do.
However, the same Marx wrote in the “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” about the stultifying, depersonalizing labor of the worker, and Ilyenkov points out ("Dialectics of the abstract and concrete in the Capital of Marx") that the physical labor of the worker is already abstract in the process of production. It is this production abstraction that generates abstractness in the sphere of exchange.
Lenin in practice understood Marx's mistake and in 1921 introduced a new economic policy (NEP). It was designed for decades, but Stalin turned NEP in 1927.
That is: socialism by definition is a transitional period when the old social division of labor that divides society into classes is being eliminated. First of all, the contradiction between mental and physical labor is resolved, as Marx writes in the same article, "Criticism of the Gotha Program."
In 1953, Stalin, in his pamphlet “The Economic Problems of Socialism”, denied the contradiction between mental and physical labor in the USSR and repeated Marx's mistake from beginning to end.
But still - "how"? No way.
Because this question can be answered only by the practice of the struggle of the working class, which, according to Lenin, is above theory. As Marx said: every practical step is more expensive than a dozen programs.
To begin with, we must forget the words from the “Manifesto…” about the leading role of the party. We must understand that Lenin's book "What to do?" is obsolete. The situation has changed! The labor movement - can independently break free from the framework of economism, without introducing into the inert dark matter of the working class the divine political consciousness by party priests.
One may note strikes against abstract conveyor labour in USA at the end o0f 60th or Soviets at Italian plants at the same period or acts of workers of Sud Aviation in 1968. Finally, examples of the Paris Commune and the first Soviets in Russia!
And you see - authorities pay the left parties for their participation in the elections. The authorities made from all parties from ultra to ultra security buffer between themselves and the masses. Parties have discredited themselves around the world, absenteeism is growing all over the world.
By the way, the editions of most Marxist journals are concentrated in the USA and Great Britain, even Indian and German ones. This means that most of the left organizations are controlled by the CIA and MI-5. Consequently, workers must create their own independent factory political organizations.
The role of left parties is only to help workers in their self-organization, like Lenin wrote in his project of the first program of Russia social democratic workers party.
Lenin's book “The Childhood Illness of Leftism in Communism” is also obsolete, in the part where Lenin writes about the vanguard of the working class. If the vanguard is a minority, the working class is not ripe for dictatorship, it can not control its vanguard in the role of state officials. If the vanguard is a majority, this term loses its meaning.
We must understand that the disintegration of the USSR was logical. But this does not mean that the October revolution in backward agrarian Russia in 1917 was a theoretical error of smb, like wrote Menshevik Kuscova in her “Credo”. The bourgeois revolution has been walking for a whole century only over one small France. The era of regression will pass, the era of socialist revolutions will continue.
22.5.2018
Correspondence with Western professors
After the publication of my article “Marxism Today”, a curious correspondence arose.
Tamas Krausz writes:
“Friends, it’s old and simple theory of state capitalism, it follows to nowhere, plus support of new capitalism”.
Krauss simply ignorant, he did not read Russian authors, so he considers the theory of state capitalism in the USSR like unpretentious.
But "something native is heard in the long songs of coachman": "Your genetics are pouring water on the mill of imperialism!"
I write:
“Dear friends, it is very easy to say "or, it’s old theory..." It's a little more difficult to try to understand what I wrote.
As for other non "state capitalism" "theories" - they do not lead to anywhere, but morons don't understand it. To tell me truth I am tired of illiterate foreign dunces
Marxism is old theory too and a lot of bourgeoisie morons write that it doesn't lead to anywhere. And we see like "communist" party of Russian federation supports powers, like Trotskyist parties serve Washington, like "socialists" in France rule like capitalists, like all other left groups in the world can't do anything during tens of years. Useless lefts!”
Krauss writes:
“No, no. Illiteracy is hipothesis, everything is capitalism in the 20th century. You should read something else in this subject too. Really this theory of state capitalism is not only old, but too simply. Read Marx on state socialism and will understand stalinism. To repeat all the time the same hipothesis is very boring and ideologically also very problematic. Do not get offended. Prefere thinking on it. Thanks. I read you for a long time. Respect other's opinion too.
I answer:
“No, no. illiteracy is not hypothesis. I proved it in my article on example of US professor. And I SAW different left groups and "scientists" in UK, Argentina, France, German, Canada etc. I wrote their stupid books with the claim to scientific character.
You should read something else in this subject too. Really all other theories besides the theory of state capitalism are not only old, but too simply. Read Marx more and may be you will understand smth. To repeat all the time the same hipothesis is very boring and ideologically also very problematic. Do not get offended.
And I'l be glad to respect other' opinions too. If they are not stupid. But I don't see in your word any opinion! Only empty words about nothing.
Sorry... do you really think that I didn't read Marx on state socialism??
Our group learned scientific communism, Marx politeconomy, philosophy and historical materialism when we were stidents. Then we about 10 years lerned it once more - to beat "soviet" professors. And we beat them easy. So please don't be bulge”
Then Krauss pulls out something, but not arguments against some fragments in my article, but old, eaten arguments against the theory of state capitalism in the USSR:
“The old state socialist regime was not profitoriented market economy opposite to the new capitalism with semifascist face. Nobody could inherit the state ownership that is why the upper stratum of bureaucracy had to change regime (system). Or Thatcher and K;d;r are the representatives of very different historical, economic, social and political systems in principe and in practice with some similar features. The core of a historical phenomenon can be found in the difference. Read Luk;cs on the "overhelming moment" in Ontology without bulge.
I answer:
“The fact that there was no profit-oriented market economy in the USSR is an old propagandistic song. Any capitalist monopoly destroys the market, this was noted by Ricardo yet. You need to know the economy of the USSR, profit was the most important indicator in the economy. Well, but no one has yet proved that there was socialism in the USSR.
The right of inheritance is deeply secondary. But you do not understand the situation. Capital is not a pot that the son inherits from his father. Capital is a social attitude. It consists in the fact that the son of an elite actor becomes an elite actor, the son of a KGB general becomes a KGB general, the son of the 1st secretary of the regional committee becomes a member of the CPSU Central Committee.
Of course, there was a different situation the UK and Hungary. But the situation was different in Great Britain and Argentina. You need to understand the variety of forms of capitalism.
As for Lucasc, of course, I read him about 20 years ago. He is stalinist and made a lot of mistakes. And you have to read Ilyenkov, Batischev, Kessidy, Mamardashvily, Vazyulin if you want to understand smth.
I appeal to you as a deaf person - you have not refuted any part of my article!
I stop writing. I don't like those who is bulge, but can't think”.
Of course, Krauss could not stand it, he decided that his word must necessarily be a last resort. He writes:
“You are the big mixer. Nothing exists except for your dogma. Plan economy and the was an antithesis. Market economy without unemployment??? You do not prove anything. You do not understand even the logic of profit production. After that no sense to discuss with you, really”.
The unhappy Krauss has nothing but abuse. "Planned economy, planned economy ..." He just does not notice my words about Ricardo. Since he is unable to understand the evidence, he writes that I have not proved anything. Yes, and that was to prove. I just showed that he has no arguments! He does not even understand that I have not written a word about unemployment! So I understand, he does not know, that in 1986 there were 1.7 million unemployed in the USSR, but in market Japan with its institute of lifelong hiring unemployed was not at all.
The author of the article, professor Zarembka, whose article I criticized, also wrote to me.
“Boris, thank you for your extended reactions to my short piece which I have read fully. I understand that English is not your native language but I could understand you. Keep in mind that I was only given 1000 words, so many ideas could not be elaborated. I will focus on three reactions I have:
1. I do not disagree with your interpretation of Bernie Sanders, but the point from an American perspective is his ability to maintain that he is a "socialist", while many were not bothered with that. If you lived as long as I have here, you might understand its importance, even if he himself merely passed his support onto Clinton. Anti-socialism/anti-communism has a long ideological history here. As to the youth, if we do not respect them and their energy, we are lost.
2. You make an interesting comment that nuclear weapons are paper-tigers, like Mao said. You cite something from Engels, but I don't know where that is. In any case, could you explain more how you think nuclear weapons are now useless? I do think Israel is quite capable of actually using it and, frankly, I don't think the rest of the nation states would do more than complain, even if forcefully, and perhaps do some sanction.
3. I believe you misunderstand Luxemburg and thus you are in a long line of those who dismiss her. I could send you my published opinion, if interested.
All the best, Paul”.
I answer:
«Dear Paul, thank you for your letter. You are right, I am not good hand at English and have no practice in 18 years, so I am glad that you have caught me.
1. Not so long ago I read a book in which the articles of the leaders of many Communist parties of the world are collected about what the proletariat is. This question was asked of him by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). I was amazed at the ignorance (illiteracy) of the leaders of the Communist Parties. Now 2018, but they do not know what the proletariat is and can not distinguish it from the workers! They correctly identify the doctor in hospital, engineer and worker with the hired character of labor. But they do not understand that workers differ from engineers and doctors in the content of labor. And CPRF too.
So they don’t understand Marxism, they don’t understand society dynamic: socialism is a movement towards overcoming the old social division of labor, primarily the division of labor into the mental and physical.
Lenin repeatedly stressed that the Bolsheviks are a party of the working class, not intellectuals, not peasants. He called the working class a hegemon because socialism and communism are a fundamental interest precisely for the working class. The intelligentsia will not disappear under communism, but the depersonalizing labor of the worker must disappear, and with it the working class.
Therefore Marx wrote that "all the oppressed strata of society must realize the interests of the working class as their own."
We are with working class so WE ARE NOT LOST.
And what do the Western Lefts do? They have no close ties with the working class, but they add to cart, recruit a female movement, buggers, Jews, hippies, students etc. and even schoolchildren. I saw it in Argentina, in Netherlands, in UK, in France… We saw youth with it’ energy in fascist maidan in Ukraine, the youth jumped, as crazy, and shouted: "Russians and Jews - on knives!", “Russian - on the gallows!” “Who does not jump - that is Russian!”
You see we in Russia are tired from Western stupid primitive.
Of course Sanders may think about himself that he is socialist. But why??? Did he organized any strike, blocked of highways, did he create any workers committee at any plant and so on, what is his PRACTICE? Only bla-bla-bla? Mitterand and Holland are socialists too. And what? Many people in Russia think about themselves that they are communists.
But the PRACTICE OBJECTIVE RESULT of Sunders’ activity was help to Hillary Clinton.
May be, the word “socialism” is new for US. But… how to say… It is not great attainment, to my mind. It is word only. And I don’t respect energetic youth with empty heads. The world is not France, and today is not 1968.
2. I didn’t wrote that nuclear weapons are paper tigers. Of course it is dangerous, of course there is problem of using of it by terrorists etc. I didn’t wrote that nuclear weapons are “useless”. But, at first, nuclear weapons make the third world war impossible in view of nuclear winter. At second it gives only possibility to save itself for North Korea from US aggression.
As for Engels you may be sure, he wrote the words about war, that I repeated. Lenin repeated such words too, in his wife Nadejda Krupskaya’ stories she writes he said that in the future “the war will become so destructive that it will in general become impossible". I live in military Ural so I know Russia may annihilate USA during 2 hours without any possibility of any defense as well as USA may annihilate Russia.
It is evident that Israel is the same fascist county as USA, look 2nd attached file. I mean: the idea of superiority of the US and Jews over all nations of the world, unprecedented aggression, strangling freedom of speech, if not with the help of prisons, but with the help of layoffs, the killing of children by policemen, police violence, etc.
Several Israel journalists wrote that Israel was ready to use nuclear weapon against Iran. To my opinion it is only words. Of course, every normal man wants sanctions – because of Israel aggression. But you see it is impossible, USA will stop any attempts of sanctions.
I know several Trotskyist groups that every year write resolutions against Israel. Of course, all of them are useless. I think it is such a game.
To my mind one is to choose other method: to publish truth about Israel, step by step. And not in newspapers or on TV, but in leaflets.
On the other hand there are workers in Israel. So we are to think how to support class fight in Israel, it is only way.
3. As for Luxemburg I agree with Lenin. I wrote two words about her, if you don’t agree, please, write, what my words are wrong from your point of view and why.
And have you read Lenin's criticism of Rosa Luxemburg? What can you object to Lenin?
But if you may send me your article, I’l be glad.
Best wishes, your Boris Ikhlov
PS. Because you selected only 3 points, I hope you are agree with all other fragments from my article, especially main fragments.
PPS.
In the early 90's I corresponded with one of the leaders of the American Negro movement Ajamu Dillahant. I wrote to her that it would be nice if the Negro movement closed in the labor movement. After all, the problem of the blacks of the United States is a particular thing, their struggle is the fight against the consequence while preserving the cause. Ajamu stopped her correspondence”.
Paul writes:
“Attached is my defense of Luxemburg. A prior work of mine that is cited includes as an appendix the first translation from Russian of Lenin's marginal notes on Luxemburg's book (by James Lawler). Lenin, to the best of my knowledge, never wrote a coherent criticism of her 'The Accumulation of Capital'. Yes, Lenin said she was 'wrong' and wrote some private letters praising criticisms of her, but without saying clearly why. In 1915 he merely cites in publication Bauer, Eckstein and Pannekoek in support of a statement that she is wrong, but without indicating which portions of what
they wrote are correct, less than correct, or in error.
If you know something that I don't know about Lenin's writing on Luxemburg's book, please let me know. Otherwise, his claim that she was 'wrong' really is not worth much discussion. If she is wrong, it is not because Lenin said so.
On Sanders, you are correct but the problem is not only or mainly about Sanders' personality. What I was trying to convey about Sanders and about youth is that the U.S. is in movement, politically, and there is opposition to fascism here which would require much too much discussion to be included in that short piece.
I don't much like reference to 'Jews' as such. Because, as you point out, there are working-class Jews in Israel. If I were to accept 'Jews' as a category, then also each and every other religion as if coherent. 'Zionists' is better. But even that reference disguises the materiality of capitalist expansion. One comment I recently read actually says that Israel is a fundamentalist Christian (!) state, disguised with its 'Jewish' reference point. Even this still makes religion the reference point in its effort to describe the main power behind this tiny state of a few million.
On nuclear weapons, I am not sure I understand you. Do you agree or disagree that nuclear weapons COULD truly be used, say, by Israel? I am not asking about 'threat'. I am asking about DROPPING the bomb from a plane or firing a nuclear missile. I am saying it is truly possible and thus must be taken account of.
Thanks, Paul”
I answer:
“Of course, the total use of nuclear weapons is impossible because of the nuclear winter. That is, the US, Russia, China, India will not be able to apply it. Britain and France, as NATO members, will not be able either.
North Korea is not going to use nuclear weapons until the US will attack.
Pakistan and Israel are the last in the list. These are small countries with a small amount of nuclear weapons. Their use of nuclear weapons in small wars means their self-destruction. But the threat of use is deterrent for the Arab countries.
Of course, we may and must cry about Israel' nuclear weapon – to compare with North Korea. But, to my mind, it is not first task. First task is Israel aggression.
As for Luxemburg. Of course, Lenin didn't criticize 'The Accumulation of Capital" especially, his articles are about market, about Luxemburg position about automatic death of capitalism, about her position on national question etc. We studied it when we were students, so I will send you everything, but not quickly - you see, a lot of work, we must finish smth.
I looked through your article and should like to make several remarks.
So I ask you once more to send me, if it is possible, your text in other format, not pdf but word.
As for Sunders - you are right, modern processes in USA are radical and complete, so I shall be glad if you tell about the situation in US in details.
Sincerely, Boris”
Paul didn’t send me the article in other format.
The professor cites in the article about Luxembourg such personalities, as Raya Dunaevskaya, Tugan-Baranovsky and others, gives their opinions like the truth. While, for example, Lenin thoroughly criticized Tugan-Baranovsky. Tugan-Baranovsky simply did not understand the Marxian scheme of simple reproduction.
The reader, you see - the professor ignores my questions, my requests, he does not want to answer!
A narrow specialist is like a flux - the completeness of him is one-sided. Zarembka specializes in Rosa Luxemburg, he can not understand anything else. But the American professor does not know the elementary things. He does not know how Lenin criticized Rosa Luxemburg!
Imagine how low the scientific level of professors in the West fell. Lenin laughed at the theories of Rosa Luxemburg. He completely refuted them. Of course, Luxemburg is a revolutionary, but her theory speaks of the automatic death of capitalism. Luxembourg and Sismondi rigidly link the existence of capitalism to the presence of external rank. This, of course, is nonsense.
«Capitalist production in general, writes Marx, does not exist without foreign trade. But if we assume normal annual reproduction at a given scale, we thereby represent the case in such a way that foreign trade only replaces native objects with objects of another use or natural form, and it does not affect the ratio of value, and therefore, , in which two categories are exchanged for each other: the means of production and the means of consumption, as well as the relations of constant capital, variable capital, and surplus-value, that the value of the product can be decomposed into of each of these two categories.. Therefore, attracting foreign trade to the analysis of the annually reproducible value of the product, without giving anything new either for the problem or for its resolution, can only bring about confusion. Therefore, it is necessary to completely disengage from it» ("Capital", vol. II, Ch. XX, section XII).
The Luxembourg mistake is primitive, elementary, but Western professors raised her musty theory to the banner.
This is understandable - her theory is directed against Lenin, against Marx!
I did not correspond with professor Cyrus Bina, but he also congratulated Marx on his birthday.
He particularly writes: “Marx’s grasp of capitalist competition and his distinction of capital from landed property can be found early on in The Poverty of Philosophy (1847), where Marx chides Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on two major issues. First is on capitalist competition by which the process of concentration and centralization manifest itself and the accumulation of capital leads to class polarization. Here Marx capitalizes on a synthetic analysis in which competition and integration, just as space and time in Einstein’s theory are synthetically entwined; neither competition nor integration (i.e., concentration and centralization of capital) has separate standing. This view of competition is what Marx employed in his Capital (1867), some two decades later”.
Thank you. Hence, Marx agreed with Proudhon. Although the book of Marx is directed precisely at the criticism of Proudhon. It also turns out that competition and integration are like space-time. Those. in the early 20th century. banks, united, did not destroy small banks, and cohabited with them… Unless in the 80s, the consumer products of the USA did not find that the antimonopoly legislation does not work… The professor forgot what cartel collusion is? Einstein turns in a coffin as a propeller: time and space devour, cancel each other!
Zarembka is a specialist in Luxembourg, Bina is an expert on Proudhon, for which he receives money.
Further, Bina is smashing the Marxists, who buried theories of the value of Marx. I wonder where he dug up those.
“These same Marxists also habitually refer to the present epoch as neoliberalism thus generating a twofold error: (1) identifying the United States (and the epoch of Pax Americana, 1945-1979) with neoliberalism – a euphemistic label for globalization – and in consequence (2) papering over the loss of American hegemony and irreversible shift in the balance of global power. In other words, these radical scholars (along their liberal counterparts in the apologist circles), perhaps inadvertently, lionize the leaders of the now defunct era and misrepresent the nature of international relations of today. On this account too, in my opinion, Marx’s legacy should be crystal clear by now”.
I.e. Bina is not limited of mixing Proudhon with Marx. He assures us that there is no neo-liberalism in Russia! He assures us that the US for Europe does not knock free trade out of Europe. At the same time, the US allegedly does not impose strict protectionist measures.
It turns out that after the collapse of the USSR, the US did not become a world hegemon, a world gendarme.
Bina still writes that there are crazy people abroad US who are afraid, as if the US hegemony, that is, fascism of the United States, may be disappeared!
Is it clear why Bina is a professor?
At the end, Bina appears before us almost Blake:
«The glimmer of hope is in the air. The heavens point to a singularity. The two hundred candles are burning intensely against gentle wind in Highgate Cemetery (North London), while birds of spring are singing in unison: “Workers of the World Unite …” Happy Birthday Karl – Happy Birthday!»
Bina writes quite seriously. In Russia, such a phrase would cause Homeric laughter. Bina does not ask what the working people think, he asks heaven and birds. The workers themselves do not talk about solidarity, but Bina's birds sing about it.
So that by… Both correspondences confirm my "hypothesis" that the Western Lefts are little educated and can’t think. Most of them are morons.
Otherwise, how could capitalism tolerate Marxists? Such "Marxists", on the contrary, benefit for capitalism, so they have the title of professors.
BLACK RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES
In one of the articles I wrote that Negroes in the US rob stores, rob whites, insult them, beat them, kill them. Some Americans accused me of racism.
That is, if a person tells the truth about the actions of Negroes – for some reason, he is a racist.
Many Jews behave in the same way: if you tell the truth that Makarevich's lyrics are primitive, Shenderovich is incompetent, and Mlechin is illiterate, you will immediately be registered as an anti - Semite.
Similarly, during the Stalin’ regime anyone who tried to tell the truth about Stalin, to criticize him, immediately hung a label: Trotskyist, opportunist, anarchist, revisionist, etc. Why arguments, if the label is enough.
Who said that Stalinism is only in the USSR? Here it is, in America.
If you look at a girl in the US and try to take care of her, they immediately put a label on you: sexist. You will laugh, but the girl may even file a lawsuit!
During the protests in the US, I wrote three articles in Russian about the origin and practice of racism in the US.
As you know, the USSR condemned racism. As you know, there is no ground for racism in Russia, because there are not enough Negroes in Russia. As you know, there was no racism in tsarist Russia either, the great Russian poet Pushkin is an Ethiopian, and no one would have thought to oppress him on the basis of race.
If morons, freaks, scum, bastards are a race, then I'm a racist.
I am a racist, because I consider the "revolutionaries" in Khabarovsk, on the Ukrainian Maidan-2014, in Belarus – exactly the same morons, scum, bastards as the protesting Negroes in the United States.
What are the facts?
Professor Patton spent ten years teaching students how to communicate with other cultures, and in one of the lessons, he learned words-parasites. How do you say this or that in Chinese? Simple: jig and niga. The N-word is a parasite word in Chinese, which sounds the same as the American N-word and is never pronounced in the United States. And the Professor dared.
Black students from the virtual audience were outraged by the interjection n;i ge. They sent a collective complaint to the Dean that Patton "showed negligence and neglect" than "insulted all black class". "Our mental health has suffered," the students wrote.
The Dean's office apologized to the students and dismissed the teacher.
An English teacher from Texas wrote to Donald Trump on Twitter that schools are being "taken over" by illegal immigrants and drug dealers. According to CBS News, as a result, the teacher was accused of racism and fired by a unanimous decision of the education Committee.
There are videos in English on the Internet.
In Rochester (New York) protesters from the black rights movement demolished a monument to Frederick Douglass — an active fighter for the rights of Negroes and leader of the movement for the abolition of slavery.
In Richmond, Virginia, protesters over the death of black George Floyd demolished a monument to Christopher Columbus, set it on fire and threw it into a river. This is reported by the TV channel WRIC. In place of the statue, demonstrators put up a sign with the inscription "Columbus represents genocide". Another statue of Columbus was beheaded at the same time in Boston.
Another monument to Columbus fell at the hands of fighters for historical justice in the urban landscape last Saturday, July 4 - this time in Baltimore.
The local Baltimore Sun newspaper published a video of protesters using ropes to pull down a statue of the discoverer of America standing in the Little Venice area and roll it towards the Bay.
In late June, monuments to Columbus were removed by authorities in Sacramento and San Francisco-as the latter's authorities said, "because he does not deserve to be honored."
The management of the American Museum of natural history in New York decided to dismantle the bronze monument to Theodore Roosevelt. As the Museum stressed, this decision is not related to the personality of the 26th President of the United States, but to the compositional solution of the monument. The monument in question shows Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, accompanied by an Indian and a Negro on foot.
In San Francisco, a monument to Ulysses Grant, commander-in-chief of the army of the North during the civil war, i.e. the war with the slave-owning South, was demolished.
His list of "historically significant" Americans included the nation's founding father, George Washington.
You may laugh, in Portland, the victim of anti-racism fighters was the moose monument, installed in 1900. Graffiti was painted on the pedestal, then demonstrators climbed on top of it. After that, the monument was set on fire, throwing various combustible materials and the US flag was burned right on the moose. The authorities removed the sculpture.
In the video, a Russian journalist addresses a black man next to a crowd that demolishes someone's disliked monument, for what purpose the monument is being demolished. A black man yells at her: «Get out of here!»
A philosophy that declares that a symbol, slogan, program, or idea is dominant is called idealism. Marxism is materialism, Marxism is the antagonist of idealism.
In 1990 The Nizhny Tagil Council of people's deputies during the whole working day (!) discussed the question of whether to remove the bust of Lenin from the hall or not. Instead of working in the interests of workers.
In the same year, in Yenakiyevo (Ukraine), the Democrats decided to overthrow the Lenin monument. They drove a tractor and attached a cable. Miners were walking by, almost beating the Democrats. Please note what the arguments of the miners: "If this made sausage cheaper in stores, we would also help you. But it won't get cheaper!»
In the same year, in Sverdlovsk, the Democrats tried to force the workers of one of the factories to overthrow the monument to Brezhnev on the territory of the enterprise. The workers objected: "We don't care about this monument. It is necessary to officials of the plant. When we expel them, they will take this monument with them."
Negroes in the States, destroying monuments, are fighting with consequence, not even going to touch cause. This is, without any doubt, cretinism.
But the situation is much worse.
Equality campaigners demand that members of one race kneel before members of another race.
Try writing "All lives matter" on a poster and you will be ostracized.
The Negro, too, with weapons:
https://youtu.be/sc2KuBrUVgc
Crowds of armed black people organize pogroms, arson, attack peaceful passers-by. They call themselves the "black militia" and demand that all African-Americans be declared political prisoners.
An elderly woman was beaten for locking the door in front of robbers. In other case the protesters attacked a homeless person! They took away and tried to burn his only property - a mattress.
A thirty-year-old African-American man walks past a teacher, a retired ninety-year-old woman, hits her in the head and walks away without stopping:
https://youtu.be/ol8RbRLXsDM
A group of African-American teenagers brutally beat up a customer who asked them to stay out of line at the checkout:
https://youtu.be/YJGQON8lrnc
10 people were injured and one was killed in a shooting in Minneapolis.
One person was killed in a shooting in Seattle.
5 people were injured in the shooting in Texas.
The number of cases of use of firearms by protesters is increasing.
During the celebration of US independence day, dozens of people were killed by armed bandits in new York, Chicago and other major cities of the country, Fox News reports. Young children are among the victims.
In Chicago, during the celebration of July 4, 79 people were shot, 15 were killed, one of the victims was named Natalia Wallace, she was 7 years old. She was with her family at a July 4 picnic when three men drove up in a car and fired at the campers. Since Friday, 34 people have been shot and 9 have died in Philadelphia. In San Francisco, 6-year-old Jace young was killed during a birthday celebration. In Washington, 11-year-old Devon McNeil was shot during a barbecue. In Atlanta over the weekend killed five, one of them was eight-year-old Scoria Turner. A girl died in Aurora.
In just one month, 89 people were killed by protesters. This is a small part of the 27 percent increase in homicides compared to the previous year.
Obviously, The black protest in the United States is ugly. This protest is a mirror of the entire American society. All American society is ugly.
14.10.2020
TROTSKYISTS IN THE SERVICE OF FASCISM
Professor Suzy Weissman from California, a Trotskyist, writes:
"We need to stop Boris.
You are mistaken if you think that Ukrainians are fascists more than Russians. Thanks to the weakness of the left at the international level - and Stalin's legacy plays a big role in this - fascist movements exist everywhere, but nowhere in the majority. Putin's war is an atrocity, an international war crime. I respected you and your history of commitment to the working class, solidarity and socialism. This war and your support for it go beyond all bounds."
These American brutes waged a criminal war in Yugoslavia, killed 2,500 civilians, including children.
It was the American fascists who waged a criminal war in Iraq, killing more than 0.5 million civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.
These American bastards waged a criminal war in Libya and Syria.
These American scum, waged a criminal war in Vietnam, used chemical weapons, arranged medical experiments on Vietnamese prisoners a la Mengele.
It was the American Hitlerites who waged a criminal war in North Korea, during the two months of its occupation, you executed 1 million civilians with torture.
Don't the American Trotskyist Weissman blurt out that Russia is waging a criminal war.
In Russia, Ukrainians are not killed, they are not bullied. In Russia, streets are not named after Hitler, and his birthday is not made a national holiday. In Russia, Ukrainians are not tortured in the dungeons of the special services. In Russia, they don't drive tanks with swastikas. Russian troops are not shelling peaceful neighborhoods of Donbass.
Anyone who does not see outright fascism in Ukraine and attributes fascism to Russia is scum.
That is: according to Trotskyism, war with fascism is a war crime.
Do you think she's just a fool, fooled by American propaganda? As if not so. does it not seem surprising to the reader that the positions of Trotskyist Weissman and President Biden, who also declared the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine a war crime, coincide?
You want to fight capitalism and go to the Trotskyist organization. But you join an organization that can only rattle a revolutionary phrase in vain and shout primitive slogans. You get into an organization that has nothing to do with either Marx or Lenin. neither to Trotsky, nor to communism, you get into an organization that is supervised by the CIA.
***
I'm talking about the Trotskyist movement, I know more than a dozen different Trotskyist groups: the Mandel group, the Lambert-Gluckstein group, the Tony Cliff group, three Moreno groups, British Workers' Aid, French Workers' Struggle, Militant, two Jerry Healy groups, etc.
The group closest to us is Cliff's group, but this group in its hatred of the USSR supported Hitler.
1. Our Comprador bourgeoisie established a high dollar exchange rate in 1991. This gave Trotskyist groups the opportunity to create large organizations in Russia that could prevent the collapse of the economy. But this did not happen and is not happening. Why? Because Trotskyist groups don't need it. They have other tasks.
2. All Trotskyist groups were glad when the USSR collapsed. Technological chains were broken, factories were closed, there was a jump in unemployment, mortality sharply increased – but the Trotskyists rejoiced.
3. The Trotskyists explained their joy by the fact that the people allegedly rebelled against totalitarianism and overthrew it.
But there was no totalitarianism in the USSR. That's a lie! After the 20th Congress there were almost no concentration camps, there was no terror.
There was no uprising against totalitarianism, this is a lie.
And what was in the USSR? There was a restructuring of party officials into bourgeois. And there was a state monopoly. American capital wanted to destroy it in order to facilitate its penetration into Soviet markets. And the Trotskyists helped USA in this.
I felt right away: after the collapse of the USSR, the interest of Trotskyist groups in Russia declined sharply.
But there was still resource-rich Yugoslavia, oil-exporting countries. There was still the question of Europe.
4. It is clear that the unification of Europe is hitting the United States. And the Trotskyists, led by Mandel's group, organized a 30,000-strong demonstration in Amsterdam against the unification of Europe. Everybody was there: the Moreno group, Militant, etc. The Swedish anarcho-syndicalist SAC, which previously announced that it does not participate in politics, is also participating in the demonstration.
5. The governments of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia support their SS men. And the Trotskyists, in particular, the Moreno group called these SS men fighters against Stalinism.
6. British Petroleum needed access to the Sea of Azov, it, together with the CIA, financed Chechen bandits. Chechen “militants”, ordinary bandits, behaved worse than SS men towards Russians. And the Trotskyists, Cliff's group, Moreno group etc., supported the right of the Chechen nation to self-determination!
They said “rights of Chechen” – in reality they supported British Petroleum under left slogan.
Have the Trotskyists not read Lenin? For them, the bourgeois right to self–determination is above people's lives. Lenin explained: with a developed economy, this right is reactionary! Ukraine's right to self–determination is reactionary!
But as soon as it comes to the right to self-determination of Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, the Trotskyists are against it! They repeat after Washington, like parrots: "This is different."
The Moldovan, Georgian authorities and the army behaved worse than the SS. The Trotskyists support these SS men.
Finally, it turns out that greedy for memory loss leader of the MST UIT (Moreno group), Daniel Kalischuk (Stefan Strapko), is a CIA agent.
7. Washington launched a campaign against Milosevic, Washington armed the Albanians – and the Trotskyists supported Washington and the Albanian fundamentalists.
The result: the decay of Yugoslavia, a humanitarian catastrophe, the Albanians began to kidnap Serbian children and sell them for organs. And then the Trotskyists fell silent at once!
Bob Myers from Simon Pirani's group lied to me that Milosevic was allegedly organizing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, lied about the alleged tragedy in Srebrenica. There was nothing like that. I asked Bob to give me proof, but Bob didn't give me any proof.
The Lambert-Gluckstein group also supported Washington and the Albanians.
Trotskyists, Workers' Aid, part of the Moreno group – supported the Bosnian Muslims, who were supported by Washington.
Washington paid billions of dollars for Maidan-2004 in Ukraine. And the Trotskyists supported the pro-American Maidan.
Technological chains were torn again, workers suffered again – and the Trotskyists rejoiced at the victory over the remnants of Soviet totalitarianism!
Washington declared prosperous Libya a totalitarian country, organized a lot of provocations in Libya. And the Trotskyists supported Washington.
The result: a humanitarian catastrophe in Libya. And the deathly silence of the Trotskyists.
I have no information, but I think many Trotskyists also supported Washington's campaign against the "totalitarian" Saddam Hussein.
The result: the Americans killed over 0.5 million Iraqi civilians, including children and women. old people.
And the deathly silence of the Trotskyists.
The Trotskyists supported Washington against Assad, who was also recorded as a totalitarian dictator.
Trotskyists of many groups, for example, the Moreno group, lied to me that proletarian revolutions were allegedly taking place in Egypt and Tunisia.
When Maidan-2014 began, Corinna Lotz (one of Healy's groups) wrote me nonsense that there were allegedly very few Nazis on the Maidan.
Lotz also supported the pro-American group Pussy Riot.
Militant, North's group supported both pro-American Maidan.
That is: first, the Trotskyists support Washington in all its undertakings, against Milosevic, Gaddafi, Assad, etc., thereby clearing the way for NATO in the mass consciousness. And then, so that the workers don't spit in their face, they hypocritically write paper resolutions that they are against NATO bombing!
Today, feminists, Green Peace, AFL-CIO, LGBT, BLM, and Trotskyists are tools in the hands of the American bourgeoisie. When I wrote to Elizabeth Bowman about this, she demanded that I no longer write to her, she is afraid of the CIA.
That is: Trotskyists hate Russia and serve Washington in EXACTLY the same way as dirty pro-American Russian bourgeois liberals. There is not a single point on which their positions would not be identical. But liberals are more honest: they openly hate Russia, they openly serve Washington and do not object to NATO bombing.
The Trotskyists could have said: "Yes, about Yugoslavia, Ukraine, etc., the world bourgeoisie deceived us." The Trotskyists would rather die than admit it.
Trotskyists are identical to Stalinists. It is worth criticizing them a little in a friendly way - and you become their enemy.
They even have a stake on their head, I showed them hundreds of photos with fascism in Ukraine, I gave them a lot of examples of the atrocities of Ukrainians – but no reaction!
They don't understand anything, nothing can be explained to them. They will never admit their mistakes. They have cast-iron heads.
Because whoever pays the Trotskyists orders their music.
31.3.2022
ABOUT THE "REVOLUTION" IN SYRIA
Surprisingly, Trotskyists, Marxists, anarchists and other leftists of all countries read Lenin so well that they do not remember how he taught: "You cannot believe a single word of bourgeois politicians, not a single word of bourgeois Newspapers!» But they beleive.
They believe absolutely everything that the bourgeois mass media write. They believe that the Skripals were poisoned, that Russia shot down a Boeing, that Russia attacked Ukraine, that Russian athletes doped, that Russia annexed Crimea, and that Russia interfered in the US election.
Whatever the US state Department comes up with, the "Marxists" believe in everything. The aggressor Russia invaded Syria, didn’t it’? They believe.
The left believes that Putin poisoned Navalny. Navalny is a dirty bourgeois, a thief who advocated raising the retirement age, and now all the people in Russia thank him for this.
The left believes that there is an rebellion in the Russian Khabarovsk-city, the people allegedly rose up in support of the Kremlin-persecuted dirty bourgeois Furgal, a thief and murderer.
The fact that there is no evidence for any of these points does not bother the "Marxists".
The Trotskyists have a special situation. As soon as any fool hired for dollars in any country farts "protest!" Trotskyists all over the world immediately start shouting: "Revolution!!!» For the Trotskyists there was and there is a revolution in Syria. Yes, yes, do not laugh!
Reason
I'm explaining it to the cretins who call themselves Marxists for some reason.
After the collapse of the USSR, the bonding image of a common external enemy disappeared, and economic competition between the US and the EU sharply intensified. A new currency, the Euro, was introduced. When the Euro cash was introduced, the US hit Baghdad. When the Euro exceeded the dollar, US began bombings of Belgrade.
But all these were temporary measures, and the Euro continued to grow. When the crisis hit in 2008, Washington realized that it was impossible to do without resuscitating the image of an external enemy. USA used Georgia. Georgia attacked South Ossetia, Georgian soldiers-liberators shot the Russian peacekeeping contingent, bombed peaceful neighborhoods of the capital Tskhinvali, threw grenades the basements of houses where children, women, and the elderly were hiding.
When Russian troops began "forcing peace", Israel and Ukraine supplied Georgia with their own soldiers, instructors and modern weapons. Washington presented these events as an attack by a huge Russia on a small but freedom-loving Georgia. And declared Russia the world's evil. If in August the Euro reached the psychological level of $ 1.5, then in September after the "world evil" immediately fell back to the level of $ 1.
In December 2013, the Euro again approached the $ 1.5 mark. But the US in February 2014 organized a Maidan in Kiev, and the Euro fell back to the $ 1.1 mark.
Ukraine and Russia turned out to be bargaining chips, and the whole world is in a state of idiocy up to now.
Syria
Revolutions begin when, Lenin explained to the moronic "Marxists", the lower classes of the people have been active for a long time.
Was it in Syria? No.
Revolutions occur, Lenin explained, when the upper classes cannot govern in the old way, and the lower classes can no longer live in the old way.
Was it in Syria, where the standard of living was higher than in Russia, where, like in Libya, there were a lot of benefits for the population? Of course not!
Revolutions begin, Lenin explained, when the masses are suddenly impoverished beyond the ordinary. Was it in Syria? No.
Revolutions occur, Marx explained to the illiterate left, when obsolete relations of production begin to interfere with the growing productive forces. Was it in Syria? There was no sign of it!
In 2011, Syria rejected a project to build a gas pipeline from Qatar. Washington immediately appointed Assad a dictator and started the aggression. To make it look decent, America hired fools in Syria who agreed to become revolutionaries. The US invaded Syria.
Moscow was in the fairway of Washington's policy, Putin even helped the US and Israel eliminate chemical weapons in Syria! For a long time, Moscow did not react to the events in Syria.
But then the Islamic fundamentalists of ISIL, who were driven out of Iraq, migrated to Syria, occupied almost the entire territory of Syria and staged a massacre. "Revolutionaries" who received weapons from the United States, cooperated with ISIL. The "revolutionaries" also carried out a massacre, began to destroy peaceful neighborhoods of cities that support Assad.
The whole world saw how American planes dropped loads of weapons allegedly for the American military contingent, and the cargo-for some reason-fell to the "revolutionaries", then to ISIL.
ISIL has seized oil fields and started supplying oil to Turkey and the United States at meager prices. To cover up this fact, Barack Obama announced that there are three threats to humanity in the world: ISIL, Ebola, and Russia.
The Kremlin, which has two military bases in Syria, said "thank you" and at the request of Assad, that is, unlike the US legitimately, sent troops to Syria and started a war with ISIL.
US troops in Syria and did not think to fight with ISIL, especially since Washington supports the "revolutionaries".
But after Russian troops actually defeated ISIL, the US announced to the world that it was they who defeated ISIL!
Yes, Russia is a capitalist country, Yes, Putin is the executor of the will of the ruling class of the bourgeoisie. But the vast majority of the population of Syria is grateful to the Russian troops who protect it from American bandits and from ISIL, at least this – do you know it?
3.9.2014
EMPIRE OF LIES - 2
As you know, chemical weapons are prohibited. According to the agreements, Russia has destroyed all its chemical weapons. The USA promised to destroy it, but they did not destroy it, they said they had run out of money.
American 155-mm caliber shells with BZ nerve gas were brought to Ukraine.
Earlier, Ukrainians used weak chemical weapons from drones on the battlefield, gases caused headaches, malaise, etc. The next step is chemical warfare agents, BZ incapacitates a soldier for a day.
Kiev was going to commit a provocation – to use chemical warfare agents against civilians in the city of Kramatorsk, which is under the control of Ukrainians, and blame Russia for this. Just as it happened repeatedly in Syria.
However, after the Russian Foreign Ministry has already announced the upcoming provocation, the situation has changed – the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to use chemical weapons against Russian soldiers without any provocations.
In Crimea, 12 km from the Simferopol station, Ukrainian Nazis blew up part of the railway. Trains were delayed.
Near Kolomna (near Moscow), next to the gas compressor station (GCS) of Gazprom, most likely, a Ukrainian UAV fell, clinging to the crowns of trees, which saved the GCS of destruction.
On March 2, armed Ukrainian Nazis violated the border and entered the territory of the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region (territory of Russia). Saboteurs fired at the car, the driver of the car was killed, a 10-year-old child was injured.
On March 2, the Ukrainian Nazis fired artillery at the non-military village of Tetkino in the Kursk region (territory of Russia). One person was killed and another was injured. Several houses were damaged.
The Ukrainian provocation with the installation of Russian tanks shot down during military operations at Russian embassies and on the streets of a number of EU cities turned into mass actions in support of Russia and the manifestation of acts of remembrance for the lost crews by laying flowers on tanks. In Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, the police severely prevent the laying of flowers, at best driving people away and taking flowers, or even detaining those who brought them. In Berlin, the tank was covered with flowers to the top of the tower. The police tried to prevent the laying by the Russians, but after the mass arrival of the Germans with flowers, they began to stop attempts to remove them from the tank by the Ukrainian Nazis, to prevent fights arising. At the tank, there were always a lot of people who defended it. On February 27, up to 50,000 Germans marched and rallied against Ukrainian Nazism, against the supply of weapons to Ukraine. On March 1, the tank was taken to the Netherlands.
For the first time, the world did not believe that Russia was to blame.
I.
1) The tragedy in Srebrenica is falsification, Milosevic's ethnic cleansing is falsification, but the world does not want to listen to anything. Nobody condemns the US aggression in Yugoslavia.
2) Despite Thierry Meissan's evidence, America believes in the September 11 terrorist attack.
3) Despite the participation of a legless actor in the Boston "terrorist attack", the world believes in a terrorist attack.
4) The world has already stopped believing in Saddam Hussein's biological weapons, but it does not yet condemn the destruction of 0.5 million Iraqi civilians by US troops. Madeleine Albright said that these victims were justified by the interests of the United States, and the Americans were satisfied with this explanation.
5) Everyone understands that the totalitarianism of Gaddafi and Bashar al–Assad is a myth of American propaganda, everyone understands that NATO's aggression in Libya and Syria is caused by US gas and oil interests. But the world is not going to condemn the US aggression.
6) The world almost believed in the numerous falsifications of Assad's use of chemical weapons.
II.
1) The world believes that aggressive Russia attacked little Georgia, although Georgia, armed with Israeli weapons, attacked Tskhinvali, Georgian soldiers threw grenades into basements where children, women and the elderly took refuge.
2) All American athletes use doping, it is visible to the naked eye. But the world believed that Russian athletes use doping – despite the lack of evidence.
3) The world believes in Russia's annexation of Crimea, not wanting to know the opinion of the inhabitants of Crimea.
4) The world believes that Russia shot down the Boeing, although there is no evidence.
5) The world believes that Putin poisoned the Skripals and Navalny with Novichok nerve gas, although this is idiocy. The fact is that a) this substance cannot be stored in a perfume bottle, b) this substance kills in 3 minutes, c) symptoms of poisoning: vasospasm, a person cannot speak, plus copious spontaneous ejaculation. Neither the Skripals nor Navalny had anything like this, and Navalny himself told how he talked immediately after the "poisoning".
6) The world believes in Russia's aggression in Ukraine, although Ukraine attacked Russia first and destroyed the population of Donbass with artillery shelling for 8 years.
For the first time, the world did not believe American lies when the United States blew up three branches of the Nord Stream-2, after which Biden blamed Russia for this terrorist attack. The world suddenly believed Seymour Hersh.
The Ukrainian provocation with the installation of Russian tanks shot down during military operations at Russian embassies and on the streets of a number of EU cities turned into mass actions in support of Russia and the manifestation of acts of remembrance for the lost crews by laying flowers on tanks. In Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, the police severely prevent the laying of flowers, at best driving people away and taking flowers, or even detaining those who brought them. In Berlin, the tank was covered with flowers to the top of the tower. The police tried to prevent the laying by the Russians, but after the mass arrival of the Germans with flowers, they began to stop attempts to remove them from the tank by the Ukrainian Nazis, to prevent fights arising. At the tank, there were always a lot of people who defended it. On February 27, up to 50,000 Germans marched and rallied against Ukrainian Nazism, against the supply of weapons to Ukraine. On March 1, the tank was taken to the Netherlands.
Modern marxism politics
© Copyright: Áîðèñ Èõëîâ, 2025
Ñâèäåòåëüñòâî î ïóáëèêàöèè ¹225033001482
Ñâèäåòåëüñòâî î ïóáëèêàöèè ¹225033001482
Ðåöåíçèè