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Re: Ideology

Post by blindpig » Sat May 04, 2024 2:30 pm

"gird yer loins..."

"The party is growing, but it is being beaten"
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"The party is growing, but it is being beaten"

Enthusiasm is required from every new political party. But other political parties, not only the new one, also have enthusiasm; and if a new party encounters an older one in a political struggle, it is inevitable, or rather, it usually follows, that those who find themselves in the minority will proclaim to the world that the moral victory is on their side. Anyone whose legs are broken by the enemy wins a moral victory. Tolstoy once said that moral victory is something extraordinarily bright. Masaryk celebrated a moral victory. But Tolstoy and Masaryk were never beaten. So, someone who wants to propagate the principles of a newly emerged party usually has to be satisfied with a moral victory and exclaim: “We won!”, while rubbing his back with opedeldok, because opedeldok is an excellent remedy for bruises, abrasions and bruises.

So every new political party, and even more so every apostle of a new political idea, should stock up on opedeldoc in advance. Anyone who wants to convince another political party of the correctness of their political beliefs is advised to always carry a bottle of this mixture with them if there is no medical aid station nearby. Every such political speaker should remember that tumors are cured with Kolar water; when the face swells after a slap, the swelling will disappear if you rub it with a mixture of chloroform and olive oil, adding a little camphor alcohol. This remedy perfectly paralyzes the effect of new political slogans and oratorical techniques.

There is no need to rub the wounds caused by arapnik; it is useful to apply a cold compress to them. As for broken heads, they will be repaired in any surgical clinic, because with the increase in the number of political parties there has been noticeable progress in surgery.

If, as a speaker, they spit in your eyes, do not wipe them with your hand, sleeve or handkerchief: you may get an inflammation of the cornea. In this case, the best remedy is warm water. If a political opponent knocks out your tooth, do not despair: when political opponents knocked out all of Saint Catherine’s teeth, she became a saint. True, these days the church has no use for saints like you, calmly go to the doctor and he will insert a new tooth for you. If those gathered tear off your ear at a meeting, grab it and, without waiting for the end of the meeting, quickly run to the nearest doctor so that he can sew it back on for you. Well, if they tear your head off, God bless you, don’t pick it up: you don’t need a head in politics... These are the principles, undoubtedly very reasonable, with which we, members of the committee of the party of moderate progress within the framework of the law, arrived at the meeting of the National Social Party , held in the dance hall “U Banzetov” in Nusli. We walked there cheerfully, like people who realize that if you sit behind the stove, the world will never know about you. And we wanted to grow like any other party. This is how the Old Czechs wanted to grow up, and meanwhile the Young Czechs grew up. This is how the National Social Party grew precisely at the time when the Young Czechs were about to grow. And the Social Democrats grew while the National Social Party imagined that it was growing alone.

We had the best opinion of ourselves as a political party, because we argued that we would grow: but the greatest victory in politics is the one that has the future.

And we went to the Banzettes with the firm belief that if the National Socialists have a program, then we can have it too. And if one of the points of their program is freedom of speech, then we want to have freedom of speech - that is, they will listen, and we will speak. We owe this memorable evening that we were able to introduce a new point into our program, which we adopted from them: “Down with freedom of speech!”

So, we came to the dance hall "At Banzet's", and I took the floor after the main speaker, who was applauded after every word, every look and wave of the hand; he was applauded when he climbed onto the podium and when he came down from it. But here’s what’s strange: when I climbed onto the podium, only six people applauded, and even then only members of the committee of our party, and the other nine hundred men and young men looked at me with such a menacing expression, as if they wanted to say: “You won’t get out of here in one piece!” »

This is very disappointing. This is offensive to any apostle. This is where I started my speech, you have to be consistently frank! I began like this:

“Dear meeting!”

I am extremely surprised that you did not greet me with applause. How am I worse than the previous speaker? After all, he had not yet opened his mouth, and you had already started clapping...

- You rogue! - a voice came from behind; and suddenly all the listeners seemed to go mad at once and rushed to the podium with exclamations that foreshadowed my moral victory:

“Get out, stink!”

- Get out, you bastard!

- Vaclav, hit him!

- Oh, you're a socialite!

- Why are you staring?!

And some tall, athletic man grabbed me by the collar of my jacket with his muscular hand and carried me through the angry crowd, shouting:

“You came here to disrupt the meeting, so we’ll teach you a lesson!”

A voice came from behind the presidium table:

“Don’t hit him, brothers!”

But this voice was drowned out by a storm of protest against the party leadership:

“Nothing, beat him, brothers!”

I have retained respect for these people to this day.

They beat me, beat the entire committee of the Moderate Progress Party within the limits of the law and, throwing us out into the street, returned back to continue discussing cultural issues. This is the bitter truth...

(c) Yaroslav Hasek

https://kritikaprava.org/library/211/pa ... no_ee_byut - zinc

Somehow I didn’t come across it before. Hasek is wonderful as always.

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/9135278.html

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Toughen up, brothers and sisters.
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."

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Re: Ideology

Post by blindpig » Sun May 05, 2024 5:11 pm

Review of the article by V.A. Podguzova “Everything can be solved... but not with any personnel”
No. 5/93.V.2024

Article by V.A. Podguzov’s “ Everything can be solved... but not with any personnel ” helped clarify a number of important points in a seemingly clear and explained topic about the overall strategic task of “Breakthrough” and the direction of activity for supporters.

When answering the question “What can be done?”, it is worth remembering that at one time Lenin considered the strategic task of uniting the proletarian class with scientific theory. Valery Alekseevich explains in the article:

“History needs either the masses, already armed with the knowledge of Marxism, or specific individuals in whom the masses see intelligence, education, conscience and therefore trust the tasks set by these individuals.”

Since the masses themselves are not armed with knowledge of Marxism, then in the most general form the task comes down to building an organization of competent Marxists. If you dig even deeper, you can identify the following elements in the problem.

Firstly, conscientious self-education of future members of the organization (“to be as authentic as possible to Marxism-Leninism”). It is absurd to count on victories without solving the problem of increasing the scientific and theoretical training of the active breakthroughists to the required level. Secondly, the actualization of Marxism (“without any false modesty, to throw new, strong, convincing scientific and theoretical “bridges” from the logic of the times of Marx, Lenin, Stalin into the reality of our days, taking into account the reasons for the catastrophically shameful defeat of the CPSU”), that is, the creation and maintaining an up-to-date victory plan - a theoretical compass for the movement of the organization. Third, the creation of a party of scientific centralism; a party capable of creating a “conveyor belt” for growing full-fledged Marxists.

The formulation of such a task in the most general terms has already been justified, discussed and accepted by the supporters of “Breakthrough”. Difficulties in determining the correct next steps of one’s own activities, especially in the field of agitation and propaganda, begin at an intermediate moment, when the level of Marxist competence is still low, the “victory plan” and the NC party are in their infancy, and outside, capitalist contradictions of a planetary scale are raging with might and main, turning into acute phase.

How to approach the decision correctly?

In the task posed, at least two points should be taken into account: the state of training of personnel preparing to “unite the proletarian class with scientific theory,” and the state of the minds of the proletarian class.

In relation to the class enemy, we can say that the party must surpass the bourgeoisie in terms of organization and competence. In relation to the proletariat, it can be said that the level of competence and organization of the party should be greater, the less scientific the state of mind of the masses.

The ubiquitous vulgar philistine thinking, especially operating in a turbulent global situation, is a difficult obstacle. The easiest way for the masses to become an “authority” now is for swindlers in the service of the bourgeoisie. It is enough to “defeat” the obvious horrors of capitalism, highlight the shortcomings of undesirable domestic and foreign geopolitical entities, and propose a national-religious nightmare as a solution to problems. You can fool the population indefinitely and indefinitely, right up to complete dehumanization in times of crisis.

You can visually smash any capitalist contradictions from a Marxist position, from revealing the essence of liberal fascism to the incompetence, weakness and idealism of the “Russkomirshchiki”, but then the “seeing light” masses will demand actions and decisions and, not seeing them, will happily dive into the illusory nationalist darkness . During the civil war that unfolded after the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917, the masses followed the Bolsheviks only because words were followed by deeds. The people received peace, the peasants received land, the workers got rid of the bourgeoisie, and leaders stood at the helm who prevented the country from being divided between interventionists; leaders who introduced electrification, stopped famine, mechanized agriculture, etc.

Consequently, even if the criticism of capitalism is carried out from a scientific position, but behind this criticism there is no “victory plan” and a party capable of taking the next step of criticism, negating the negation of capitalism, making a planned transition from words to deeds, then we can forget about taking the masses under ideological control .

“ Our goal is to prevent the bourgeoisie from lulling class consciousness; this is precisely the primary direction of the struggle ,” K. Semin declares empty well-wishes that make zero contribution to the cause of communism.

In such a situation, access to the masses is not associated with “taking them under control,” as some wish, but with the search for supporters among conscientious people capable of creative mental activity. This requires the widest possible dissemination of deeply researched materials on the theoretical issues of communism and Marxism, as well as on the most pressing policy issues (for example, SVO).

Revealing the details of the incompetence of the bourgeoisie, the nuances of the influence of the confrontation between oligarchic groups or the specifics of the errors of bourgeois-national ideologies (“Russkomirshchiki” of the Russian Federation or the pro-Russian Baltic parties) are quite working topics in the field of current politics and for training the pen in the process of self-study.

Regarding the main focus of theoretical and practical activity, Valery Alekseevich gives the following advice in the article:

- Do not take on specific issues without first solving general ones.

— Formulate and work out timely tasks that correspond to the maturity of objective prerequisites and the subjective factor at a given specific moment in history, that is, implemented by the communists of our time.

— Understand that self-education is primary, literary activity is secondary.

— Introduce into the information space unconditionally scientifically valid materials containing answers to the most important questions of social progress.

- Strive to create works no worse than “Anti-Dühring”, “Infantile disease of leftism in communism”, “What to do?” etc.

— Learn from the classics, relating their works to the historical circumstances in which they were written. Examples:

Point in time: when the communist movement in Russia, like today, was weak. Direction of thought: about building a centralized party in Russia, which was based on a SCIENTIFIC approach to all aspects of party life, CLASS struggle. Result: Lenin’s article “Our most important task”, “Urgent tasks of our movement” and “Immediate tasks of Soviet power”.

Point in time: from 1917 to 1922. Direction of thought: deepening knowledge in the field of the history of philosophy, especially the creative understanding of Hegel’s dialectics, its significance for the development of the methodology of dialectical materialism. Result: “Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism”, “On the slogan of the United States of Europe”, “State and Revolution”, “Marxism and Uprising”, “April Theses” and all subsequent victorious practice.

— Re-read Lenin’s works “Tasks of revolutionary social democracy in the European war”, “Situation and tasks of the socialist international”, “What next? (On the tasks of workers' parties in relation to opportunism and social chauvinism)", the brochure "Karl Marx (A short biographical sketch outlining Marxism)", "The Collapse of the Second International", "On the slogan of the United States of Europe".

— Re-read the breakthrough materials about the tasks and directions of work: “ On the issue of self-education ”, “ What should those who call themselves communists work on? ", " Scientific centralism "


Ya. Dubov
5/05/2024

https://prorivists.org/93_response/
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