The flimsy optimism of Konstantin Semin...

Konstantin Semin:

"The state of class consciousness in the country is very accurately conveyed by the opinions and comments on various events in the world and in our country that have been widely posted online recently.

Are our people now capable of positive change, or are they no longer capable?

Are people to blame for being downtrodden, intimidated, brutalized, lacking the will to resist or even reflect?

You can hate everyone around you as much as you like for their naivety and foolishness, curse those who sold out the USSR for a pittance, you can blame fear and the tightening of the screws.

It makes no difference.

Therefore, it would be advisable to put moralizing and pathos away altogether.

Such a view only distorts the objective picture of reality.

So, let's draw inexorable conclusions.  As a result of thirty years of reaction and a general civilizational rollback, post-Soviet society is largely declassed and lumpenized, with production relations deteriorating and productive forces degenerating.

Here's an irrefutable figure: since 1991, 80,000 enterprises of varying sizes have been destroyed in the country!

By the way, you can fly down this ladder for a long time.

Remember, this isn't harmful: in 1917, the proletariat in Russia was a minority class, and the multi-million-strong semi-feudal village, divided into bloodsuckers and paupers, was a fire-breathing magma ready to burst from the ground.

And the confluence of these two targeted vectors revolutionized world history, expelling the nouveau riche and creating the first just state on earth.

Today, there's nothing to burst from the ground.

In place of the destroyed collective farms, there are modern  Agro-monopolies hiring or importing farm laborers.

But in absolute numbers, the proletariat in Russia is not growing, but shrinking, which in itself is an indicator of the state of capitalism here.

What do we have today?

There are the broken-down, late-Soviet old men, doomed to flounder in the labor market until they're 65 and older, but with the safety net of privatized apartments.

The basic condition of "nothing to lose" isn't met here; there's plenty to lose.

There's also a list of the largest employers:

— Russian Railways (700,000 workers)

— Gazprom (500,000)

— Magnit (360,000)

— Pyaterochka/Perekrestok (345,000)

— Rosneft (330,000)

It's easy to see: for the majority of the country's population, the largest capitalist and employer is itself  The state.

Total employment in the public sector—including all types of public sector employees—is, according to various estimates, between 32 and 40 million people!

Also toiling away at the labor force are approximately 15 million self-employed and 4.5 million individual entrepreneurs, whom the state and corporations have forced into self-employment, shoving off their backs in order to cut off their social benefits.

Anyone can call themselves an entrepreneur, but often this status is combined with employment.

So, you can't simply add up the numbers here, but they are nonetheless quite telling.

So, it turns out that the struggle for their rights, human dignity, and life, in most cases, leads the Russian proletariat into conflict with their state?

A collision, I tell you!

After all, for many, the state is subconsciously that invisible arbiter to whom they usually seek protection from arbitrary rule.

And behind the state, not every ordinary person will recognize the banks, oligarchs,  Subcontractors, corporations, and monopolies that have grown enormously in thirty years!

The state, of course, is laying tiles downtown, holding teleconferences and hotlines, it has brought order, it has curbed the anarchy of the 90s.

The state (so that we don't grumble unnecessarily) has restored the Soviet anthem, brought back a sense of pride, and soon, they say, it will bring back a planned economy!

The state heals!

The state teaches!

Without the state, we would have been conquered by other states long ago!

But on the other hand, all the actions of this seemingly benevolent state lead not just to increased exploitation of workers, but to their physical disappearance!

It's enough to open the demographic records of Rosstat to see this: the population is dying out!

So, it turns out, such a state is gradually liquidating itself!?

Our state, no matter how you look at it, resembles a hospice in which a cane is being used.  Discipline ensures order, peace, and quiet, but also guaranteed, inexorable decline!

Radical social transformations rarely occur in hospices (even if Jack Nicholson is brought in, humor).

And the hospice's motto is always:

— Let me die in peace!

Of course they won't!

But in the absence of convincing, evidence-based personal experience, even this simple idea fails to penetrate the mass consciousness of the duped people.

Every evening, the hospice residents receive a mandatory dose of tranquilizers, prolonging safe sleep. The flood of information and well-concealed propaganda prevents people from thinking independently!

Similarly, the state is allowed to dream only of improving, correcting, enlightening, repairing, and beautifying the state itself.

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Only a traitor or a madman would shake the walls of the house they live in.

Even if that house is a hospice!

Even if that hospice is completely rotten and ready to bury its inhabitants.

The state, if we reveal the well-hidden secret, continues to act everywhere as the united agent of the bourgeoisie, and the struggle for its rights, the struggle for life and human dignity, inevitably pits the proletariat against its "native" authorities.

Especially at a time of global conflict between these authorities from different countries, and we must stand up for our authorities; we are patriots of our state, aren't we?

However, such a struggle for our rights to a dignified life cannot be the preserve of individuals; it is doomed to failure.

It can only be successful if it is collective.

It must become a conscious necessity for the masses; there is no other way!

 Furthermore, no speaker, publicist, blogger, or party can undermine faith in the state as much as the state itself, that is, the state itself!

In this sense, the main revolutionary force remains the ruling class of the nouveau riche and its servants—the state officials.

But what can be offered in place of a functioning state?

And here we cannot do without a collective.

Without a strong party and the propagandists of such a party, incorruptible by the oligarchs.

Only they can reassure the average person, entice them, and remind them of the formula of the first communes: the state is us, the workers, that is, the common people!

By the way, our Rosstat gives us some reasons for optimism!

There are 22 million citizens aged 0 to 14 in Russia.

There are 16 million aged 15 to 24.

 Total: 37-38 million people who (mostly) don't have Soviet-era apartments behind them and no successful careers on the horizon.

According to the World Bank and the UN, there are about 4 billion such young and disadvantaged people in the world!

That's half the Earth!

They're our main hope!

The capitalists are sawing off the branch they're sitting on.

And the young will
saw off the branch they're trying to hang them on!

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Konstantin Semin's optimism is based strictly on factual material and, on this basis, on the most objective assessment of the future situation. Yes, even objecting is foolish. Capital is sawing off the branch it's sitting on, but as it falls, capital can drag those who have nothing to lose—our youth, the very future of our world—down into the abyss of global carnage!

But I beg you, don't forget, the immediate future of humanity is in grave doubt. Will we be able to walk along the edge of the abyss without falling in, thereby breaking our necks!?

It's hard to believe that such an important question—the survival of all humanity—could hinge on a mere chance (some idiot pressing the red button!), although the course of history gives us hope... for many, it seems illusory, because a nuclear war is brewing, and if we obediently swallow it, we won't survive!

 The demise of civilization is slowly but surely approaching its logical conclusion – and the terrible thing is that this end is based on the iron laws of human social development... and you can't fight iron, inexorable laws... they are stronger than our reason and our last instincts to frantically grasp at straws...

On the other hand, only a terrible war, famine, cold, and devastation will raise the people against the exploiters, and thus, in this case, there is a chance to change this fundamentally vicious world. But the whole nightmare of this seemingly positive prospect is that this logically and naturally inevitable war will inevitably escalate into a nuclear bloodbath that will destroy all life on earth!

How do you like this prospect!?

And what to do!?

Crawl obediently into the jaws of a boa constrictor and be swallowed by it!?