Re: Russia today
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:12 pm
Who is for stellar sturgeon with horseradish, and who is for the constitution with Putin?
03/17/2020
What are they offering to vote for dear Russians in a package?
From the editorial board of the RKRP website. The victorious procession of amendments to the Constitution across Russia is striking in its speed and non-conflict. On March 10, the Duma, while eliminating the struggle of the Communist Party faction, adopted amendments in the second reading, as well as on Tereshkova’s “unexpected” proposal, Putin’s terms were canceled as expected, and on March 14 all regional parliaments approved the law and the Federation Council approved a common position. The president immediately signed the package. Ahead of the public poll on April 22 vote.
What are dear Russians offering to vote for in a package - from hopes of raising a pension to the possibility of Putin’s rule by 2036?
The first secretary of the Central Committee of the RKRP Stepan Malentsov comments on the situation .
Stepan Malentsov speaks at the CEC
Corr .: Tell me, please, immediately and bluntly: do you like the performance played in the State Duma and further in all the parliaments of the regions?
SM: No matter how strange it seems, I like it. If Putin recognizes any merit, then acting skills, the art of acting is a skill and even a love of portraying what people like or what he wants to present to them. Putin began by flying a fighter, diving in a submarine, then he personally flew with cranes, scuba diving after amphorae, scoring dozens of pucks playing hockey with world celebrities. Now it has grown to the level of director of large-scale action. Quite successfully - the performance with rather vile content was a success, while it is gathering applause and positive feedback from official critics and the press.
Corr .: But is there anything positive in all of this, and how do you assess the Tereshkova amendment - the so-called zeroing of Putin’s terms?
CM.:I think the main positive point is that everything became clear to everyone. If before that someone could doubt the true background of Putin's behavior, now everything has fallen into place, at least for people who are thinking and honest. Putin sees himself, beloved, at the head and even indispensable for Russia. It should be recalled that many experts and politicians predicted this - the purpose of the whole operation is to preserve and strengthen the current system of power, including personal. I think this act in a peculiar way also showed Putin’s human qualities. Could I directly turn to the people with the question - can I steer the state for another 10 years? As other authoritarian leaders did: Niyazov, Nazarbayev, the same Lukashenko, in the end. But Putin loves politics as an art, extraordinary stage decisions and himself in it. He kind of cares for the state and the people, but he is being asked not to leave us at such a difficult moment. A rare example of a lackey. And he agrees if some illegal poll and the Constitutional Court are not against it. Compared to Putin, Pinochet did much more honestly - he went to a referendum.
Corr .: And why do you not admit that today in a really difficult situation Putin is really irreplaceable, or at least for some period Russia needs?
SM: I just absolutely know for sure that for someone it’s exactly like that - it is irreplaceable, and his departure can turn into a disaster. However, this may apply to Putin himself. We are talking about friends of the oligarchs and a whole layer of owners who owe their prosperity to Putin. This is visible with the naked eye and it is simply indecent. Putin is trying to look like a leader who pleases the people and speaks in an interview that he, too, is hurt by the earnings of top managers of a million a day, but what can you do ...
But he created this system. He understands that, by historical standards, the accumulation of initial capital in Russia is far from over. Anything can be, if not nationalization, then redistribution between competing groups easily. Therefore, his slogan “there will be no revision of privatization!” continues in promises to maintain stability over the next two terms. And for this, he promises to index pensions and establish a minimum wage. In order not to die of hunger.
But normal people should understand that after he deceived the people on the issue of retirement age, only foolish people can believe Putin.
Corr .: But is Putin expanding parliamentary democracy and parliamentary rights? For what?
SM: Who said that? The president and his party EP, popularly called the party of crooks and thieves?
They lie, they lie directly and with inspiration. It’s just the opposite. The absolutism of power, i.e. the dictatorship of the propertied class. Suffice it to say that the President gains the right to personally appoint 30 senators (deputies of the Federation Council), including 7 for life! In which country is this? The president actually appoints and removes judges of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts, and indeed all judges of the country. He also appoints all security officials and all prosecutors and the level of regions. This is the constitution of a super police state and there is no doubt about it.
The anti-people essence of the constitution, born on the blood of October 1993, is not only preserved, but also tightened. As people say, only boils can be grown from acne. But an abscess, sooner or later, someday yes, will have to break through. While they are postponing, extending Putin’s terms and trying to get additional legitimization of the dubious 1993 document. through the same as Yeltsin’s unconstitutional and illegal survey.
Corr .: But a poll to nullify Putin’s term will only be possible if the Constitutional Court (CC) gives the go-ahead for this amendment — that it complies with the Constitution.
S.M . : Completeness. We remember how in 1993 the Constitutional Court immediately and fundamentally evaluated Yeltsin’s actions as a constitutional coup, and after the first tank volleys everything became constitutional. Today, Putin himself insists that the constitution must have a restriction of no more than 2 terms. But for him there should be an exception. So if the constitution is contrary to the amendment , so much the worse for the constitution.
Corr .: Tell me, please, what should I do with good words about the need to index pensions and salaries, about the state-forming Russian people, about the ideals of our ancestors and faith in God, about children as the highest value, etc.?
SM: This is all, of course, excuse the stupidity for gullible people who have absolutely no practical value. Well, they wrote that "the Russian Federation, united by a thousand-year history, preserving the memory of the ancestors who transmitted to us ideals and faith in God, as well as continuity in the development of the Russian state, recognizes the historically established state unity". So what? And who was given the socialist ideals and scientific worldview, what is guaranteed to them? Nothing but capitalism. Pensions and salaries should be indexed anyway. Index? And they don’t think. Twice the forces of the EP in the State Duma overwhelmed the law on mandatory indexation above inflation. Since indexing can be zero, or 1%, or even negative. And at the minimum wage, the legislators themselves would try to live.
They wrote that "the Russian Federation is the successor of the USSR in its territory . " The authorities showed how they deal with this succession by examining the retirement age and eliminating other social gains — education, housing, healthcare .... And about the record that “Children are the most important asset of the Russian Federation”and talk funny. The oligarchs are the highest asset for them. And about the children, we’ll hear requests on television to collect who can afford excessive amounts for treatment. The stupidity about the state-forming Russian people, unfortunately, is supported by a number of deputies from the so-called patriotic forces and the Communist Party. Stupidity - because the state is formed by classes into which the people are divided. The ruling class, the ruling class, exercises state coercion and control over all peoples - both Russian and all others. Are they for fixing this order? All these words are spoken and included in the amendments to deceive people and attract voters to vote. The fundamental amendments, for example, on the return of the Soviet retirement age of 55/60, were categorically rejected.
Correspondent: There is an opinion that the authorities will be able to amend the Constitution in any case, at any turnout and at any results of this supposedly popular vote. So, the campaign for this vote on presidential amendments to the Constitution is nothing more than a waste of time and effort both from a political and legal point of view.
SM: I will allow myself, as Lenin used to say in similar cases, to speak in the old fashioned way. In isolation from the class Marxist analysis of the process, it is impossible to understand the essence of what is happening. A simple emotional advice "do not waste time ..." looks very much like doom: they say, it’s not worth trying to fight at all.
Let's start with the well-known Marxist position that any state power is the dictatorship of the ruling class. In bourgeois society - the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (an alternative to which can only be the dictatorship of the proletariat, but this requires a revolution). Dictatorship is the unlimited power of the class. “Unlimited” does not mean that there are no laws in society, but that these laws are created by the ruling class itself. Such as he needs to maintain and strengthen his dominant position. The right is the will of the ruling class, elevated to the rank of law!
This is the ABC of Marxism. She explains that it is not the constitutional records that determine the order of life in society, but the existing order and balance of power is enshrined in the Basic Law. In 1993, Yeltsin shot the parliament and set aside the existing law on the referendum, according to which it was necessary to collect more than 50% of the votes from the list of voters, organized a poll on the draft constitution, which no one had read. He scored a little more than 50% of the voters (1/3 of the list) and declared the Constitution adopted.
Today, Yeltsin’s successor is organizing his survey in the same way, fixing his achievements in the constitution and strengthening the dictatorship of the class of owners. No wonder Putin announced on March 5 at a meeting with leaders of factions of the State Duma about the need to establish in the Constitution "guarantees of the impossibility of a rollback . "
Does all of the above mean that you should not waste time going to the polls and generally to fight this phenomenon? No, it doesn’t. In today's situation, we will go to the sites or not, it does not matter much and there will not be a big mistake. The biggest mistake will be made by those who vote and support the so-called constitutional repair , having been deceived by propaganda of the promised indexation of pensions or patriotic tales for silly people about the state-forming people. The essence of the anti-people orientation will not change. Therefore, voting “FOR” will be a vote against oneself (except for the gentlemen of the capitalists, of course). The famous quote from Saltykov – Shchedrin says: “I wanted something: either the constitution, or the stellar sturgeon with horseradish, or the one to peel”. So, people are lured by stellar sturgeon, horseradish and the constitution , and stripping not just anyone, but all the working layers of society is the intention of the authorities. Therefore, our main slogan and main task is to clarify the inadmissibility of supporting this deception
Corr .: Is it possible to raise the question of attracting everyone to the polling stations against?
SM: It is theoretically possible if the opposition forces were sufficiently organized and united to set this task together. History knows such examples. So, in Chile in 1988, Pinochet organized a referendum on the extension of his powers for another 10 years and lost it. There, too, the situation seemed hopeless, and victory was impossible. Many in the opposition called for a boycott, but the No coalition successfully seized the moment. We do not have such a coalition and are not yet in sight. The largest party, taking away the votes of the discontented electorate, the Communist Party, is actually conspiring with the authorities. Her limit on the revolution has been exhausted.. Therefore, calls for non-participation in deception are understandable and directed to thinking people. But to those who go, and there will be millions of them, we must appeal even more persistently and convincingly. Do not become an accomplice of cheating! Vote against. Including against Putin, because he has clearly shown himself to be a protege of capital, but the people do not hear and even despise.
Corr .: Is it possible to carry out through such procedures any positive innovations in the constitution?
SM: Theoretically, again, it is possible. But both the theory and practice of the struggle show that such reforms can only be a by-product of the wide class struggle outside the parliamentary field and elective technologies. There is no such situation in modern Russia either. Therefore, the main task of the FRONT Front and, first of all, the Communists is to educate and organize their own struggle of the broad working masses, who often still believe in the promises of the president and the oaths of the gentlemen from the Communist Party to protect the interests of the people.
Therefore, it should be remembered that no struggle is in vain.
The conversation was conducted by
Dmitry Volgin
https://www.rotfront.su/kto-za-sevryuzh ... o-za-kons/
Google Translator
03/17/2020
What are they offering to vote for dear Russians in a package?
From the editorial board of the RKRP website. The victorious procession of amendments to the Constitution across Russia is striking in its speed and non-conflict. On March 10, the Duma, while eliminating the struggle of the Communist Party faction, adopted amendments in the second reading, as well as on Tereshkova’s “unexpected” proposal, Putin’s terms were canceled as expected, and on March 14 all regional parliaments approved the law and the Federation Council approved a common position. The president immediately signed the package. Ahead of the public poll on April 22 vote.
What are dear Russians offering to vote for in a package - from hopes of raising a pension to the possibility of Putin’s rule by 2036?
The first secretary of the Central Committee of the RKRP Stepan Malentsov comments on the situation .
Stepan Malentsov speaks at the CEC
Corr .: Tell me, please, immediately and bluntly: do you like the performance played in the State Duma and further in all the parliaments of the regions?
SM: No matter how strange it seems, I like it. If Putin recognizes any merit, then acting skills, the art of acting is a skill and even a love of portraying what people like or what he wants to present to them. Putin began by flying a fighter, diving in a submarine, then he personally flew with cranes, scuba diving after amphorae, scoring dozens of pucks playing hockey with world celebrities. Now it has grown to the level of director of large-scale action. Quite successfully - the performance with rather vile content was a success, while it is gathering applause and positive feedback from official critics and the press.
Corr .: But is there anything positive in all of this, and how do you assess the Tereshkova amendment - the so-called zeroing of Putin’s terms?
CM.:I think the main positive point is that everything became clear to everyone. If before that someone could doubt the true background of Putin's behavior, now everything has fallen into place, at least for people who are thinking and honest. Putin sees himself, beloved, at the head and even indispensable for Russia. It should be recalled that many experts and politicians predicted this - the purpose of the whole operation is to preserve and strengthen the current system of power, including personal. I think this act in a peculiar way also showed Putin’s human qualities. Could I directly turn to the people with the question - can I steer the state for another 10 years? As other authoritarian leaders did: Niyazov, Nazarbayev, the same Lukashenko, in the end. But Putin loves politics as an art, extraordinary stage decisions and himself in it. He kind of cares for the state and the people, but he is being asked not to leave us at such a difficult moment. A rare example of a lackey. And he agrees if some illegal poll and the Constitutional Court are not against it. Compared to Putin, Pinochet did much more honestly - he went to a referendum.
Corr .: And why do you not admit that today in a really difficult situation Putin is really irreplaceable, or at least for some period Russia needs?
SM: I just absolutely know for sure that for someone it’s exactly like that - it is irreplaceable, and his departure can turn into a disaster. However, this may apply to Putin himself. We are talking about friends of the oligarchs and a whole layer of owners who owe their prosperity to Putin. This is visible with the naked eye and it is simply indecent. Putin is trying to look like a leader who pleases the people and speaks in an interview that he, too, is hurt by the earnings of top managers of a million a day, but what can you do ...
But he created this system. He understands that, by historical standards, the accumulation of initial capital in Russia is far from over. Anything can be, if not nationalization, then redistribution between competing groups easily. Therefore, his slogan “there will be no revision of privatization!” continues in promises to maintain stability over the next two terms. And for this, he promises to index pensions and establish a minimum wage. In order not to die of hunger.
But normal people should understand that after he deceived the people on the issue of retirement age, only foolish people can believe Putin.
Corr .: But is Putin expanding parliamentary democracy and parliamentary rights? For what?
SM: Who said that? The president and his party EP, popularly called the party of crooks and thieves?
They lie, they lie directly and with inspiration. It’s just the opposite. The absolutism of power, i.e. the dictatorship of the propertied class. Suffice it to say that the President gains the right to personally appoint 30 senators (deputies of the Federation Council), including 7 for life! In which country is this? The president actually appoints and removes judges of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts, and indeed all judges of the country. He also appoints all security officials and all prosecutors and the level of regions. This is the constitution of a super police state and there is no doubt about it.
The anti-people essence of the constitution, born on the blood of October 1993, is not only preserved, but also tightened. As people say, only boils can be grown from acne. But an abscess, sooner or later, someday yes, will have to break through. While they are postponing, extending Putin’s terms and trying to get additional legitimization of the dubious 1993 document. through the same as Yeltsin’s unconstitutional and illegal survey.
Corr .: But a poll to nullify Putin’s term will only be possible if the Constitutional Court (CC) gives the go-ahead for this amendment — that it complies with the Constitution.
S.M . : Completeness. We remember how in 1993 the Constitutional Court immediately and fundamentally evaluated Yeltsin’s actions as a constitutional coup, and after the first tank volleys everything became constitutional. Today, Putin himself insists that the constitution must have a restriction of no more than 2 terms. But for him there should be an exception. So if the constitution is contrary to the amendment , so much the worse for the constitution.
Corr .: Tell me, please, what should I do with good words about the need to index pensions and salaries, about the state-forming Russian people, about the ideals of our ancestors and faith in God, about children as the highest value, etc.?
SM: This is all, of course, excuse the stupidity for gullible people who have absolutely no practical value. Well, they wrote that "the Russian Federation, united by a thousand-year history, preserving the memory of the ancestors who transmitted to us ideals and faith in God, as well as continuity in the development of the Russian state, recognizes the historically established state unity". So what? And who was given the socialist ideals and scientific worldview, what is guaranteed to them? Nothing but capitalism. Pensions and salaries should be indexed anyway. Index? And they don’t think. Twice the forces of the EP in the State Duma overwhelmed the law on mandatory indexation above inflation. Since indexing can be zero, or 1%, or even negative. And at the minimum wage, the legislators themselves would try to live.
They wrote that "the Russian Federation is the successor of the USSR in its territory . " The authorities showed how they deal with this succession by examining the retirement age and eliminating other social gains — education, housing, healthcare .... And about the record that “Children are the most important asset of the Russian Federation”and talk funny. The oligarchs are the highest asset for them. And about the children, we’ll hear requests on television to collect who can afford excessive amounts for treatment. The stupidity about the state-forming Russian people, unfortunately, is supported by a number of deputies from the so-called patriotic forces and the Communist Party. Stupidity - because the state is formed by classes into which the people are divided. The ruling class, the ruling class, exercises state coercion and control over all peoples - both Russian and all others. Are they for fixing this order? All these words are spoken and included in the amendments to deceive people and attract voters to vote. The fundamental amendments, for example, on the return of the Soviet retirement age of 55/60, were categorically rejected.
Correspondent: There is an opinion that the authorities will be able to amend the Constitution in any case, at any turnout and at any results of this supposedly popular vote. So, the campaign for this vote on presidential amendments to the Constitution is nothing more than a waste of time and effort both from a political and legal point of view.
SM: I will allow myself, as Lenin used to say in similar cases, to speak in the old fashioned way. In isolation from the class Marxist analysis of the process, it is impossible to understand the essence of what is happening. A simple emotional advice "do not waste time ..." looks very much like doom: they say, it’s not worth trying to fight at all.
Let's start with the well-known Marxist position that any state power is the dictatorship of the ruling class. In bourgeois society - the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (an alternative to which can only be the dictatorship of the proletariat, but this requires a revolution). Dictatorship is the unlimited power of the class. “Unlimited” does not mean that there are no laws in society, but that these laws are created by the ruling class itself. Such as he needs to maintain and strengthen his dominant position. The right is the will of the ruling class, elevated to the rank of law!
This is the ABC of Marxism. She explains that it is not the constitutional records that determine the order of life in society, but the existing order and balance of power is enshrined in the Basic Law. In 1993, Yeltsin shot the parliament and set aside the existing law on the referendum, according to which it was necessary to collect more than 50% of the votes from the list of voters, organized a poll on the draft constitution, which no one had read. He scored a little more than 50% of the voters (1/3 of the list) and declared the Constitution adopted.
Today, Yeltsin’s successor is organizing his survey in the same way, fixing his achievements in the constitution and strengthening the dictatorship of the class of owners. No wonder Putin announced on March 5 at a meeting with leaders of factions of the State Duma about the need to establish in the Constitution "guarantees of the impossibility of a rollback . "
Does all of the above mean that you should not waste time going to the polls and generally to fight this phenomenon? No, it doesn’t. In today's situation, we will go to the sites or not, it does not matter much and there will not be a big mistake. The biggest mistake will be made by those who vote and support the so-called constitutional repair , having been deceived by propaganda of the promised indexation of pensions or patriotic tales for silly people about the state-forming people. The essence of the anti-people orientation will not change. Therefore, voting “FOR” will be a vote against oneself (except for the gentlemen of the capitalists, of course). The famous quote from Saltykov – Shchedrin says: “I wanted something: either the constitution, or the stellar sturgeon with horseradish, or the one to peel”. So, people are lured by stellar sturgeon, horseradish and the constitution , and stripping not just anyone, but all the working layers of society is the intention of the authorities. Therefore, our main slogan and main task is to clarify the inadmissibility of supporting this deception
Corr .: Is it possible to raise the question of attracting everyone to the polling stations against?
SM: It is theoretically possible if the opposition forces were sufficiently organized and united to set this task together. History knows such examples. So, in Chile in 1988, Pinochet organized a referendum on the extension of his powers for another 10 years and lost it. There, too, the situation seemed hopeless, and victory was impossible. Many in the opposition called for a boycott, but the No coalition successfully seized the moment. We do not have such a coalition and are not yet in sight. The largest party, taking away the votes of the discontented electorate, the Communist Party, is actually conspiring with the authorities. Her limit on the revolution has been exhausted.. Therefore, calls for non-participation in deception are understandable and directed to thinking people. But to those who go, and there will be millions of them, we must appeal even more persistently and convincingly. Do not become an accomplice of cheating! Vote against. Including against Putin, because he has clearly shown himself to be a protege of capital, but the people do not hear and even despise.
Corr .: Is it possible to carry out through such procedures any positive innovations in the constitution?
SM: Theoretically, again, it is possible. But both the theory and practice of the struggle show that such reforms can only be a by-product of the wide class struggle outside the parliamentary field and elective technologies. There is no such situation in modern Russia either. Therefore, the main task of the FRONT Front and, first of all, the Communists is to educate and organize their own struggle of the broad working masses, who often still believe in the promises of the president and the oaths of the gentlemen from the Communist Party to protect the interests of the people.
Therefore, it should be remembered that no struggle is in vain.
The conversation was conducted by
Dmitry Volgin
https://www.rotfront.su/kto-za-sevryuzh ... o-za-kons/
Google Translator