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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 3:45 pm
Capital and the pandemic: an example of interaction
04/26/2020
Will “anti-crisis measures” save workers?
Recently, the author of these lines had a chance to communicate with one private entrepreneur, who at one time started as a truck driver. Things went well with him, he got up and now set up his own enterprise, hired other drivers. The conversation turned to coronavirus.
Crisis and virus
The interlocutor, discussing quarantine measures, said something like this:
“If at least one driver confesses that he was in contact with a person who has been diagnosed with a coronavirus, I will forbid this driver to work. And for at least a month he will not receive money. ”
It is easy to guess that this person is far from the only representative of the business who adheres to such a position. And just as easy to understand what this means.
Of course, any worker placed by the "master" in such conditions, not wanting to be without a livelihood, will in every way hide the fact that he is in the "risk group". If you are not lucky, then until the last moment, until you have obvious symptoms of the disease and are forced to call a doctor. That is, all this time he will involuntarily be a kind of “walking biological bomb” spreading an infection around him and infecting everyone who is near.
If an entrepreneur himself, having placed such conditions for his wage laborers, falls into this dug hole of his own, then this can even be considered retribution. But many and many outsiders are in danger! And in this case it’s not at all the fault of the worker - he didn’t go to barbecue, like a careless urban man, but was put by his employer in a situation in which he was forced to hide the danger.
Therefore, it will not be a great exaggeration to say that the behavior of many representatives of the bourgeoisie in a situation where a country is fighting an epidemic is somewhat similar to the behavior of terrorists. Only the latter consciously sacrifice the lives of civilians in pursuit of their political goals, and the former endanger their subordinates and those around them in pursuit of maintaining profit.
“But the authorities are taking measures to support the business ! - someone will say. “ It seems that six-month tax deferrals (except VAT) were accepted, and the term of loan payments was extended for six months, and a moratorium on bankruptcy was introduced, and the terms for fulfilling government orders should be adjusted to reflect the current situation . ” And even loans for the payment of salaries are supposed, let's listen to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , who at the end of March at a meeting of the right-wing committee on competition and development of small and medium enterprises said the following:
“On behalf of the president, we are preparing a number of additional measures. We are launching a zero-interest loan subsidy program for entrepreneurs. I set the task for the first entrepreneurs to receive such loans next week. The main condition for such a loan is the preservation of the number of employees. If unjustified dismissals begin, then the interest rate will increase accordingly. Another decision at the elaboration stage: this is a delay in rent not only for state property, but also for commercial space in shopping centers. ”
Of course, the government is trying to look preoccupied with social issues, and it still cannot completely abandon its social obligations. But how great are all these good wishes for the chances of being fulfilled?
Let's be objective: not all those who are engaged in small and medium-sized businesses behave in such an unpleasant manner. In addition, a huge number of small and even medium-sized entrepreneurs are now placed in very difficult economic conditions. Under a certain set of circumstances, they themselves, like wage workers, may face the need to find livelihoods. However, as we see, there are those who are well aware that if you have the audacity and strength, you can get much more profit without government support.
If the government really wanted to really help those whose sole capital is its labor force, then by saying “A”, it would certainly have to say “B”. That is not only “oblige”Entrepreneurs to maintain work collectives and their monetary content, but also to ensure the fulfillment of this good wish. And if an entrepreneur really tries to maintain his enterprise, his staff, at least somehow to support his workers in a difficult situation, then such entrepreneurs really should provide that very state assistance and support. But at the very first complaint of the worker about an attempt to dismiss or stop paying salaries under the pretext that “the company has no money,” bailiffs should intervene in the case, according to the logic of things. Just like they come to collect debts to ordinary, ordinary people. And directly demand from an overly entrepreneurial leader: “There is no money in the wage fund - sell property, even personal!” .
Anti-crisis measures
But we do not hear about such measures. And, according to the above words of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the most that threatens the employer for “unjustified dismissals” is an increase in the interest rate on the loan. That will perfectly allow the most arrogant businessmen and businesswomen with a malicious smile to ignore all government calls and measures, and shift the solution of their problems to the shoulders of wage workers.
And what are the main conclusions from all this suggesting to the working people themselves?
The first is that even in the existing realities, even within the framework of the current bourgeois legislation, one can and must know and defend one's rights and interests. Moreover, there are still opportunities for this. But at the same time, one must be vigilant and learn to understand that often not very noticeable line, where the struggle for their rights and interests begins to quietly turn into a struggle for the interests of other bourgeois groups that hide behind liberal phrases and seek to use the discontent of workers for their political goals.
The second - to effectively defend these very rights and interests can only be combined in a team.
And finally, the third. It is pointless and even stupid to be led to liberal demagogy and demand an abstract "change of power", "lustration of" bad "officials" and "election of" good ". Because the main source of workers' problems is not at all a specific official, town governor or even president, but the bourgeois class that stands behind them all.
Not a cosmetic “change of power”, but a radical change in socio-economic principles should be our common goal.
I. Molchanov
https://www.rotfront.su/kapital-i-pande ... zaimodejs/
Google Translator
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COVID-19 began to mow Russian parliamentarians
04/25/2020
281
Members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Kalashnikov and Novikov are already sick
A deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party faction Dmitry Novikov confirmed to RIA Novosti that he had a coronavirus infection - the test he passed showed a positive result. Earlier, his colleague was informed about the hospitalization - also a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Leonid Kalashnikov , whose test did not show the disease, however, computed tomography showed foci of inflammation in the lungs indicating coronavirus. According to the parliamentarian, he got infected from his driver.
State Duma deputies in respirators at a meeting
“I'm in the hospital. I am being treated for coronavirus, ”he told Interfax.
Kalashnikov spent a week in quarantine, and then he was hospitalized with symptoms of the disease. At the moment, the deputy is in a hospital with a high temperature, not connected to the ventilator.
Already at two deputies of the State Duma, a coronavirus was detected, this happened after two mass inspections conducted in late March and mid-April.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said that the Communist Party will not expose party members to testing on COVID-19, since Kalashnikov was not at recent meetings. Meanwhile, Kalashnikov participated in the plenary meeting of the State Duma on April 14. Zyuganov believes that at that moment the parliamentarian "was not sick yet."
“We all walk under God,” the Communist Party leader told Interfax.
Coronavirus was previously detected in Russian politicians. In early April, there was an outbreak of the disease in the Moscow City Duma. On April 18, Ivan Zhukov , a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, died from injuries caused by a coronavirus infection .
COVID-19 was found in more than 74 thousand people in our country. Over the past day, 5966 people fell ill . A total of 681 people died, 6250 people recovered .
Not the time to gloat, the time to realize - the coronavirus mows not only ordinary workers who are not burdened with power and capital, but also the powers that be. The probability of infection for such citizens is much lower, and therefore we are obliged to pay attention to these cases in order to remain cautious and responsible.
In addition to the economic problems that the disease brings to capital and ordinary citizens, COVID-19 brings death. A particularly terrible situation is developing in the economically backward countries of Asia and Africa, ruined by international large companies . The coronavirus is about to take more than three million lives on the continent.
Despite the fact that this point of view is unpopular among left-wing movements and parties, we ask our comrades to stay at home and not physically contact the outside world, since in the interests of the working people, fighters should remain in order. Be healthy.
https://www.rotfront.su/covid-19-nachal ... arlamenta/
04/26/2020
Will “anti-crisis measures” save workers?
Recently, the author of these lines had a chance to communicate with one private entrepreneur, who at one time started as a truck driver. Things went well with him, he got up and now set up his own enterprise, hired other drivers. The conversation turned to coronavirus.
Crisis and virus
The interlocutor, discussing quarantine measures, said something like this:
“If at least one driver confesses that he was in contact with a person who has been diagnosed with a coronavirus, I will forbid this driver to work. And for at least a month he will not receive money. ”
It is easy to guess that this person is far from the only representative of the business who adheres to such a position. And just as easy to understand what this means.
Of course, any worker placed by the "master" in such conditions, not wanting to be without a livelihood, will in every way hide the fact that he is in the "risk group". If you are not lucky, then until the last moment, until you have obvious symptoms of the disease and are forced to call a doctor. That is, all this time he will involuntarily be a kind of “walking biological bomb” spreading an infection around him and infecting everyone who is near.
If an entrepreneur himself, having placed such conditions for his wage laborers, falls into this dug hole of his own, then this can even be considered retribution. But many and many outsiders are in danger! And in this case it’s not at all the fault of the worker - he didn’t go to barbecue, like a careless urban man, but was put by his employer in a situation in which he was forced to hide the danger.
Therefore, it will not be a great exaggeration to say that the behavior of many representatives of the bourgeoisie in a situation where a country is fighting an epidemic is somewhat similar to the behavior of terrorists. Only the latter consciously sacrifice the lives of civilians in pursuit of their political goals, and the former endanger their subordinates and those around them in pursuit of maintaining profit.
“But the authorities are taking measures to support the business ! - someone will say. “ It seems that six-month tax deferrals (except VAT) were accepted, and the term of loan payments was extended for six months, and a moratorium on bankruptcy was introduced, and the terms for fulfilling government orders should be adjusted to reflect the current situation . ” And even loans for the payment of salaries are supposed, let's listen to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , who at the end of March at a meeting of the right-wing committee on competition and development of small and medium enterprises said the following:
“On behalf of the president, we are preparing a number of additional measures. We are launching a zero-interest loan subsidy program for entrepreneurs. I set the task for the first entrepreneurs to receive such loans next week. The main condition for such a loan is the preservation of the number of employees. If unjustified dismissals begin, then the interest rate will increase accordingly. Another decision at the elaboration stage: this is a delay in rent not only for state property, but also for commercial space in shopping centers. ”
Of course, the government is trying to look preoccupied with social issues, and it still cannot completely abandon its social obligations. But how great are all these good wishes for the chances of being fulfilled?
Let's be objective: not all those who are engaged in small and medium-sized businesses behave in such an unpleasant manner. In addition, a huge number of small and even medium-sized entrepreneurs are now placed in very difficult economic conditions. Under a certain set of circumstances, they themselves, like wage workers, may face the need to find livelihoods. However, as we see, there are those who are well aware that if you have the audacity and strength, you can get much more profit without government support.
If the government really wanted to really help those whose sole capital is its labor force, then by saying “A”, it would certainly have to say “B”. That is not only “oblige”Entrepreneurs to maintain work collectives and their monetary content, but also to ensure the fulfillment of this good wish. And if an entrepreneur really tries to maintain his enterprise, his staff, at least somehow to support his workers in a difficult situation, then such entrepreneurs really should provide that very state assistance and support. But at the very first complaint of the worker about an attempt to dismiss or stop paying salaries under the pretext that “the company has no money,” bailiffs should intervene in the case, according to the logic of things. Just like they come to collect debts to ordinary, ordinary people. And directly demand from an overly entrepreneurial leader: “There is no money in the wage fund - sell property, even personal!” .
Anti-crisis measures
But we do not hear about such measures. And, according to the above words of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the most that threatens the employer for “unjustified dismissals” is an increase in the interest rate on the loan. That will perfectly allow the most arrogant businessmen and businesswomen with a malicious smile to ignore all government calls and measures, and shift the solution of their problems to the shoulders of wage workers.
And what are the main conclusions from all this suggesting to the working people themselves?
The first is that even in the existing realities, even within the framework of the current bourgeois legislation, one can and must know and defend one's rights and interests. Moreover, there are still opportunities for this. But at the same time, one must be vigilant and learn to understand that often not very noticeable line, where the struggle for their rights and interests begins to quietly turn into a struggle for the interests of other bourgeois groups that hide behind liberal phrases and seek to use the discontent of workers for their political goals.
The second - to effectively defend these very rights and interests can only be combined in a team.
And finally, the third. It is pointless and even stupid to be led to liberal demagogy and demand an abstract "change of power", "lustration of" bad "officials" and "election of" good ". Because the main source of workers' problems is not at all a specific official, town governor or even president, but the bourgeois class that stands behind them all.
Not a cosmetic “change of power”, but a radical change in socio-economic principles should be our common goal.
I. Molchanov
https://www.rotfront.su/kapital-i-pande ... zaimodejs/
Google Translator
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COVID-19 began to mow Russian parliamentarians
04/25/2020
281
Members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Kalashnikov and Novikov are already sick
A deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party faction Dmitry Novikov confirmed to RIA Novosti that he had a coronavirus infection - the test he passed showed a positive result. Earlier, his colleague was informed about the hospitalization - also a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Leonid Kalashnikov , whose test did not show the disease, however, computed tomography showed foci of inflammation in the lungs indicating coronavirus. According to the parliamentarian, he got infected from his driver.
State Duma deputies in respirators at a meeting
“I'm in the hospital. I am being treated for coronavirus, ”he told Interfax.
Kalashnikov spent a week in quarantine, and then he was hospitalized with symptoms of the disease. At the moment, the deputy is in a hospital with a high temperature, not connected to the ventilator.
Already at two deputies of the State Duma, a coronavirus was detected, this happened after two mass inspections conducted in late March and mid-April.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said that the Communist Party will not expose party members to testing on COVID-19, since Kalashnikov was not at recent meetings. Meanwhile, Kalashnikov participated in the plenary meeting of the State Duma on April 14. Zyuganov believes that at that moment the parliamentarian "was not sick yet."
“We all walk under God,” the Communist Party leader told Interfax.
Coronavirus was previously detected in Russian politicians. In early April, there was an outbreak of the disease in the Moscow City Duma. On April 18, Ivan Zhukov , a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, died from injuries caused by a coronavirus infection .
COVID-19 was found in more than 74 thousand people in our country. Over the past day, 5966 people fell ill . A total of 681 people died, 6250 people recovered .
Not the time to gloat, the time to realize - the coronavirus mows not only ordinary workers who are not burdened with power and capital, but also the powers that be. The probability of infection for such citizens is much lower, and therefore we are obliged to pay attention to these cases in order to remain cautious and responsible.
In addition to the economic problems that the disease brings to capital and ordinary citizens, COVID-19 brings death. A particularly terrible situation is developing in the economically backward countries of Asia and Africa, ruined by international large companies . The coronavirus is about to take more than three million lives on the continent.
Despite the fact that this point of view is unpopular among left-wing movements and parties, we ask our comrades to stay at home and not physically contact the outside world, since in the interests of the working people, fighters should remain in order. Be healthy.
https://www.rotfront.su/covid-19-nachal ... arlamenta/