Re: Russia today
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 5:20 pm
Opportunism in the form of sectarianism. Left movement and SVO
No. 10/74.X.2022
The leftist is, in fact, a philistine, but an ideological philistine. An idea is a thought that calls for action, and thoughts, as you know, can be scientific, that is, correctly reflecting objective reality, and unscientific, therefore, inadequate to reality. So, the leftist is precisely the bearer of unscientific thoughts, therefore, his activity is unscientific, stupid.
I. Bortnik
1. Introduction
Recently, more and more often I began to read comments in the Agitprop news feed of Mr. Semin. Interest was caused by how the mass of the left reacts to the announced partial mobilization in the country. Overwhelmingly, the same tears “No to war!” and appeals to "perform the Maidan", which gained their special scope with the beginning of the so-called NWO.
The behavior of "people playing" is not difficult to explain, because they, like all to some extent adequate people, do not want war. That is why they are trying to find reasons to justify their unwillingness to support the NWO, the reasons for not accepting the situation that has developed in the country around this very NWO, and, most importantly, to adequately assess the events taking place in the world. And since, unlike the liberals, the leftist, thanks to the “red” bloggers, more or less understands the essence of all imperialist wars, the main reason for rejection is that the masses of the left perceive the SVO as a struggle of capitalists within the class for the redistribution of markets, zones of influence, that war, as Lenin said, is "the continuation of the policy of imperialism." But the problems of modern leftists are not that they see enemies on both sides of the barricades, but that that they focus their attention only on ONE SIDE, that is, the Russian oligarchy. By this, they are completely indistinguishable from Russian liberals and show all the one-sidedness of their thinking, since the leftist did not even make a remark about the European and American bourgeoisie, namely their policy in Ukraine, the balance of forces and interests of ALL parties to the conflict. It is understandable, as soon as a more or less intelligent person hints at Western imperialism, he will immediately be labeled a protector or a social chauvinist. Apparently, mentioning the existence of a MORE ferocious imperialist in the face of a united West is akin to a taboo for leftists!
As in all modern Russian films about the Great Patriotic War, the enemy, that is, the fascist, is only designated , but in fact the Soviet government represented by the NKVD officers, Chekists, commissars, etc. is exposed as the enemy. zm and the Ukrainian fascism nurtured by him are only indicated, but the main enemy is their own bourgeoisie. This is what is at the forefront of leftist propaganda. And this is fueled by the fact that, they say, look, "we also have fascism." And it would be relatively reasonable and correct from the point of view of communism, in a Leninist way, if we already had a Bolshevik party to take power in both Russia and Ukraine.
Naturally, any criticism also implies some alternative, as they say, "criticize - offer." And the modern leaders of the left movement cannot offer anything other than historical analogies, quotes taken out of context from the works of the classics. It gets ridiculous when leftists ask each other how it sounds or where to find the right quote from Lenin regarding a specific situation. And having found the right quote, they begin to “burn the unbelievers” with this quote, relying on its truth and steadfastness. As, in fact, any priest in the church has a baggage of a number of quotations from the Holy Scriptures and immediately gives an answer to any question of a parishioner, referring to a specific Gospel. The most weighty arguments of the leftist are the following quotes:
“The revolutionary class in a reactionary war cannot but desire the defeat of its government. This is an axiom. And it is disputed only by conscious supporters or helpless servants of the social chauvinists.
"To abandon the slogan of defeat means to turn one's revolutionary spirit into an empty phrase or one hypocrisy."
“A revolution in time of war is a civil war, and the transformation of a war of governments into a civil war, on the one hand, is facilitated by military failures (“defeat”) of governments, and on the other hand, it is impossible in practice to strive for such a transformation without thereby contributing to the defeat ".
Etc.
Such hysteria, in an effort to hang the label of a guard on a more or less thinking person, is heated up by Semin almost hourly, thereby setting the tone for the entire left movement. The clearest example:
“Since the communists have nothing: no popularity, no organization, no party, no labor movement, no support for the military, no front-line skills, should we stop showing off and ... support the fascists?” - (c) anti-fascist Semin.
Any fascism is characterized, first of all, by its anti-communism. But to fully consider that an open fascist dictatorship is in power in Russia at the moment is at least ridiculous, because no one has banned (yet) the communist ideology, no one is massively destroying monuments to Lenin and burning Marxist literature, no one is on poles of communists does not hang and no one is imprisoned for communist views. In Ukraine, everything is exactly the opposite and in colors. It is only necessary to hint at this, and we get the following:
“Are you scribbling from a trench, Kremlin guards? You repeat yourself."
Fascism in its pure, “historical” form has not yet been observed in Russia. All that we can see at the moment is that the authorities are trying to implant the religion of capitalism, that is, nationalism, into the public consciousness. Naturally, under the capitalist system, nationalism paves the way for fascism, but does NOT yet establish it, since certain objective and subjective conditions are necessary for this.
Almost every leftist knows by heart the definition of fascism according to Dimitrov, that is, in short, fascism is an OPEN DICTATORY OF FINANCIAL CAPITAL. We all know that corruption is a tool for connecting the ruling class with the state, that is, big businessmen with the government through bribery and nepotism, small businesses with regional authorities through the same bribery. Fascism is the power of financial capital ITSELF, that is, power without intermediaries. And when liberals of all stripes take it upon themselves to assert that, for example, corruption has already been defeated in the United States, we perfectly understand and know that corruption in the United States has gone from bottom to top. And in order to pursue their policy and get rich, American magnates do not need to bribe ministers and other high-ranking officials, since they are seated in government and deputy chairs.
As for Russia, anti-communism is expressed here only in ideological form and attempts to finally destroy the "birthmarks" of the USSR. As “market democracy” flourishes in the country, the propaganda machine gradually emasculates the entire “bloody” legacy of socialism from public consciousness. Individualism, nationalism, philistinism, religion and other forms of obscurantism are imputed as an alternative to collectivism and the brotherhood of peoples. The achievements of the Soviet era are revealed to the layman not as achievements of the Soviet system, scientific planning, public ownership of the means of production, but as a “unique feature of the Russian person”, his abilities, his “God-adoration”, etc. And we did not win the war against European National Socialism thanks to the communists, but in spite of them, people went to fight not for their homeland, for Stalin, but because “absolutely up to the lantern, what power! The power changes, but the land and the house remain the same.” Absolutely everything is translated into a nationalistic way.
Levakov is jarred by the fact that Putin is sleeping in an embrace with the book of the main ideologist of Russian fascism I. Ilyin, and propagandists of all Russia from Dugin to Kiselev and Solovyov have long dismantled his Talmuds into quotes and are trying to flaunt them on every broadcast of state television. And that's the only reason we have fascism in our country! But this does not mean the presence of fascism in Russia. This only says that the fight against communism is currently being waged on an ideological level. That is why such speculators as Vasek Sadonin are still croaking in the swamp of the left information space and collecting donations. Other bloggers are engaged in the analysis of historical fakes, falsifications and other things TOTALLY with impunity, unlike those who have “bad brakes”. All this suggests that we, the communists, all the necessary conditions were provided for the forging of cadres of the Bolshevik type, unhindered self-education, agitation, propaganda, and, most importantly, for the creation of a party. We have an excellent opportunity to show the INEFFICIENCY of capitalist management using the example of modern reality. But instead of all this, the modern leftist, like a monkey in a mirror, will flaunt “his” quotes, while not forgetting to play tanks during breaks, and blame specific people for everything that happens. At the same time, the whole struggle for "communism" comes down to a simple arrangement of srachs in the comments.
But with the beginning of the SVO, the petty-bourgeois little world collapsed overnight, and the leftists, completely inadequately evaluating what was happening around at this historical moment, carried nonsense. Instead, as the guru of the modern left movement once taught netov. Trotsky, “think globally”, instead of assessing his place in the ongoing events, the modern leftist simply decided to hide his face behind the “No to war!” banner, completely unaware that nothing could be changed with slogans and shouts alone. The war is going on and will continue regardless of our dissatisfaction with it. And therefore, we, the Communists, need to determine our place in all this and develop our own strategy. But a leftist is a leftist.
Undoubtedly, a certain proportion of leftists are trying to look at the situation as a whole on a larger scale, or, I would say, strategically, taking into account the alignment of opposing forces in the world and, most importantly, the position of the communists in all this. But as soon as the mass consciousness of the leftists begins to think a little wider than the framework of “No to war!” or begins to give a slight “roll to the right”, the great helmsman Semin manages to grab the helm and ... activate the trigger pre-installed in the mind of the leftist by posting an old interview with Yevgeny Fedorov on his Internet resources, they say, anyone who tries to hint at Western imperialism is doomed get into the marginal environment of the NOD and can boldly bow his head to receive a special pennant with the inscription "protector" and "social chauvinist". And therefore, it is impossible to look at the situation from different sides, except for the leftist, because "we also have fascism." And since we also have fascism, then we leftists should not treat this war differently. It should be treated in the same way as the liberals, that is, "No to war!".
The fear of leftists in their reflections “to turn the wrong way” is due to the dogmatic scheme of political deviations, the so-called “political compass”, where we have socialists at the top left, liberals and fascists at the top, centrists in the center, etc. The leftist is precisely the slave of this “systems”, since he is clearly incapable of thinking OUTSIDE the framework of any systems. Therefore, any encroachments "to the right" or anywhere else for the leftist is akin to a "betrayal" of their ideals and beliefs. In search of absolute and relative truths, such “compasses” on the Cartesian coordinate system are an absolutely anti-scientific approach.
2. On the position of the communists
I finally lost faith in the mental abilities of the reference leftist when I read the following calls and what kind of support these calls found:
"... We need to go to the front and campaign among the soldiers."
As I understand it, the leftists, who call for agitation at the fronts, will campaign against their government, advocate for its defeat? We remember Lenin's quote about the defeat of our own government very well. And the leftist is clearly not going to agitate on enemy territory with the same ideas and slogans. Even though he lacks intelligence, the instinct of self-preservation will not allow him to go to such stupidity. Well, how will things be in "their trench"?
As an example, I invite a leftist to think about what would happen if a Soviet soldier during the Second World War began to agitate against the Soviet government for the defeat of his government, and if we overthrow him, we will certainly drink Bavarian? Nothing, except for a camp or execution, shines for such an agitator, since agitation against one's own is regarded as a betrayal. And in the eyes of fellow soldiers and officers, you, "comrade Pravda", will be that very traitor. And if there are not a dozen of you, but thousands of such “truth-tellers”, you will be regarded by the military command of the RF Armed Forces or the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a whole network of agents to demoralize soldiers. And this, in turn, is an excellent pretext for declaring the communist ideology EXTREMIIST, regardless of the popular mood in the country. And then the dream of the modern Russian leftist will come true - he will see real fascism in the Russian Federation, which he was so afraid of. And you will have to conduct "Marxist" agitation and propaganda from deep underground.
Foolishness, of course, they do not hold. This is clearly seen in the example described above. But behind the cries of "agitation at the fronts" there are only appeals. After all, the leftist himself will not go to the NWO or ATO zone voluntarily, it must be done by “someone else, but not me, I have paws”! And someone else should build communism, and let someone else build the party, and someone else should deal with the theory, and I'll see, and if anything, I'll support it with a like and then I'll go play Dota. And in general, we are waiting for the second coming of (Christ) Ilyich and (paradise) communism itself will come, because it is inevitable! And why this is inevitable, the leftist is not able to clearly explain, since for the most part he does not even own an elementary theory. All that remains is faith in the signs of fate!
In a sense, the position "No to war!" defines the place of modern communists, although the word "communist" is too strong a word. It is more correct to call Semin's adherents the leftists, since the leftists still grow and grow before the title of communist. For “ you can become a communist only when you enrich your memory with the knowledge of all the riches that humanity has developed ” (V.I. Lenin).
This is what frightens the modern leftist! Indeed, in order to absorb the whole array of knowledge that the classics of Marxism once absorbed and digested, the leftist needs to abandon his narrow-mindedness, petty-bourgeois way of life, petty-bourgeois thinking, etc. Petty-bourgeois thinking revolves only within the framework of the current moment, it is subject to momentary urges and desires. And if, as an example, a leftist is reminded that, for example, Lenin wrote his 55 volumes of works by hand, without a keyboard, computer, and even more so Google, the leftist will simply brush aside all this and say, they say, “after all, this is LENIN", as if relying on his "divine" origin. Lenin is a product of persistent, conscientious WORK, and not a "messenger of the Lord."
The leftist was not so jarred when the civil war was going on in Ukraine, as he began to jar when he suddenly received a summons to the military registration and enlistment office or lives in fear of suddenly receiving it. At the same time, one important point should be taken into account: when the civil war in Ukraine had just begun, for a long time the leftists supported the people of Donbass, supported Semin’s policy regarding all kinds of help to people. Many leftists and leftist organizations such as the "ROT Front" and the National Bolsheviks were engaged in the collection of humanitarian aid, and Semin was personally involved in the delivery. At the same time, the Russian authorities were not very much cussed, and if they were cussed, then for "inaction." But when Russia finally began to act, the leftists completely lost their landmark. And in the spirit of terry Trotskyism, the leftist began to argue his position with exclamations of “Bourgeois everywhere”, perceiving the surrounding reality in black and white colors, not distinguishing shades of gray, features and differences of the modern era from the past. In my opinion, this is caused by a banal fear that not only the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but also the mobilized leftists will have to go and protect the people of Ukraine from the “junta”. And then the leftist suddenly had two faithful comrades: “This is the same as 1905” and “This is the same as 1914”, and therefore, we must go against our government, we must stand up for it defeat, while not lifting the fifth point from the couch. At the same time, Lenin has other quotes:
“Clarification of the nature of the war is a necessary prerequisite for a Marxist in order to resolve the question of his attitude towards it. For such a clarification, it is necessary, first of all, to establish what are the objective conditions and the specific situation of a given war. It is necessary to put this war in the historical situation in which it is taking place, and only then can one determine one's attitude towards it. Otherwise, not a materialistic, but an eclectic interpretation of the question will result. According to the historical situation, the correlation of classes, etc., the attitude towards the war at different times should be different. It is absurd once and for all to refuse to take part in the war on principle.”
“In order to find out your attitude to this war, you need to understand HOW IT DIFFERS FROM PREVIOUS WARS, what are its features” (V.I. Lenin. Complete Works. Ed. 5., Vol. 26, M., 1969, pp. 27-35).
In simple words, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SUPERIMPOSE EVENTS OF THE PAST ON THE EVENTS OF THE CURRENT! “... Otherwise, it will turn out not a materialistic, but an eclectic interpretation of the issue ...”. Attempts to paint a landscape with one paint and one brush doom us not so much to the successes of the past, but to ERRORS in the current moment and in the future. If all sinners on earth will be judged by God, then we Communists will be judged by HISTORY! And if, according to the assurances of believers, God is merciful, then history is the most vindictive and unprincipled, cruel woman, for there is no worse enemy than a rejected woman. But you, left comrades, are pulling this woman by the hair in the most shameless way and are trying to poke a torn-out tuft of hair into every “unfaithful shaitan” in the face. If Lenin advocated the defeat of his own government, it only means that for this there were ALL THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS! When Lenin put forward slogans about the defeat of his own government, he had in mind that the revolutionary movement should be carried out FROM ALL SIDES of each warring side, of all participants in the imperialist war. This is well illustrated by Lenin's favorite quote by leftists:
“A revolution in time of war is a civil war, and the transformation of a war of governments into a civil war, on the one hand, is facilitated by military failures (“defeat”) of governments, and on the other hand, it is impossible in practice to strive for such a transformation without thereby contributing to the defeat ".
The transformation of the war of governments. Not governments, but governments. This means that the transformation of the imperialist war into a civil war must be handled by the communists on the part of EVERY government. A third world imperialist war is inevitable, and we understand this. But in order to reverse this war, not for the good of the monopolists, but for the good of the people, we need a PARTY, that is, the vanguard of the working class. Is there a communist party of the Bolshevik type in Russia? NO! Are there such parties in European countries? NO! Are there similar parties in the USA? Also no! And if there is no party, then who, in the event of an imaginary success of the revolution, will govern the country? Lesha Navalny? These questions for the leftist will remain without a sane answer.
Today's conditions are completely different from the conditions of 1914, and the situation of today's communists is different than in the same 1914. The presence of the vanguard of the working class is one of the main conditions for any socialist revolution. Without a party there can be no revolution. Lenin had such a party at the time of 1914. Even in Kaiser's Germany, there were also social democratic parties, and they continued to form and replenish throughout the First World War. Even at the conclusion of the “separate” Brest peace with Germany, despite the cries of the Trotskyists, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, etc., Lenin proved to everyone that the looming bourgeois revolution in Germany would annul all the established agreements. What, in fact, happened in November 1918 - Kaiser's Germany fell under the onslaught of the revolution (albeit a bourgeois one), thereby annulling all previously concluded agreements. The conclusion of peace brought Russia out of the First World War, which, in turn, allowed the Bolshevik Party to begin building socialism in our country. Well, since we don’t have any party at the moment, attempts to “walk” against our government do not make any sense, but only, on the contrary, aggravate our situation. Although this is loudly said, because the standard leftist today does not go against his own government, but sits against his own government. I would sit behind the study of theory - there would be more sense.
In the recent 2015, Mr. Semin quite competently explained his position regarding the civil war in Ukraine and the situation of modern communists:
“In contrast to 1914, today an opportunist is not someone who, sacrificing class interests, swears allegiance to his imperialist fatherland. An opportunist today is one who, in his political myopia, goes over to the side of ultra-imperialism, brings closer its final triumph, and, consequently, the verdict for all classes, except for the class of exploiters ”(Konstantin Semin, Nakanune.ru , 2015).
And he goes on to explain why:
“Only Russia can stop ultra-imperialism and restart the Soviet project. Perhaps with the participation of China, which - with all the reservations - retains the strongest inertia of the socialist system. The defeat of Russia and China will mean the dictatorship of imperialism and the defeat of socialism for decades, if not centuries to come.”
“For example, it is very easy to call the war in Ukraine a confrontation between the Russian and American bourgeoisie. It immediately follows from this that in such a conflict there are not and cannot be "good" ones, but only bad ones. Therefore, no one can be supported at all. Stupidity. If any intervention in the conflict of capitalist interests is a mistake, then it remains to simply watch as ultra-imperialism breaks down the last barrier on its way to global domination? After all, there are no other ways to prevent this among modern Leninists and Kautskys .objectively no. So what? Ultra-imperialism will develop, be calm. But instead of a cleansing world revolution, at the final stage, the world will receive a total dictatorship of a transnational oligarchy, based on a super-powerful system of suppression, surveillance and control, and on a nuclear club (the only one) too. In this system, its social Darwinist architects will no longer have any brakes - they will be able to write off the inefficient, defective, objectionable or unusable, even not by the countries - the continents.
To intrigue the “Putin regime” in the face of a confrontation with a MORE powerful and stronger enemy equates the modern leftist not so much with a traitor to “bourgeois mortgages”, but with a traitor of the future socialist revolution. If the modern left movement had connections with party cells abroad, and if the Russian left movement had its own communist party, that is, the vanguard of the working class, and if the communists had the GRAND MASSES at hand, then Lenin's slogan about the defeat of governments would take place . But this is nothing, and therefore the population of the country, already demoralized by liberals and the petty-bourgeois way of life, is completely demoralized with slogans about the defeat of its own government, which means dooming our country to a deliberate loss in the upcoming war, which in turn will entail a LOT of problems in party building, communist agitation and propaganda, and the LIFE of communists in general. The Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, fed by the American and European bourgeoisie, are the same CHAIN DOGS that will hang communists on poles or burn people in the new houses of trade unions, as was the case in Odessa. They have been pickled in battles for nine years. But Semin of 2015 has sunk to Semin of 2022: “... Stop showing off and ... support the fascists?” -d-i-t-e, he shares the position of not just anyone, but even Lenin HIMSELF. But what kind of Lenin? The one who campaigned to overthrow his government under all existing conditions (party, revolutionary class, revolutionary situation, etc.),
“It is necessary to place this war in the historical situation in which it is taking place, and only then can one determine one’s attitude towards it”?
Surely the leftist will not buy into this? Actually, the leftist bought into it, not understanding at all that Semin’s position of the 2015 version is precisely the LENIN position, that is, the position of a materialist-dialectic, in which he defined that “in contrast to 1914, today an opportunist is not the one who, sacrificing class interests, swears allegiance to his imperialist fatherland. The opportunist today is the one who, in his POLITICAL MYOPICITY, goes over to the side of ultra-imperialism, brings its final triumph closer .”
Konstantin, in his vision of the situation in 2015, operated with the same Leninist statement:
“According to the historical situation, the correlation of classes, etc., the attitude towards the war at different times should be different. It is absurd once and for all to refuse in principle to participate in the war.
But Semin of 2022, ignoring all those horror stories with which he stuffed the entire left movement for several years, put a bucket on his head with the inscription “No to war!”, And we got the sarcastic following:
“I am against Bandera. I am against the Vlasovites. But still it is better to support the Vlasovites. This was bequeathed by Marx and Rosa Luxembourg "- (c)" in Chinese socialism "Semin.
Regarding the 2015 article itself, Konstantin spoke separately:
“Having fun. The security guards/social chauvinists, it turns out, are now dragging in their teeth an old text (2015), where I passionately refute Lenin, defend Kautsky and call for rallying around the global American evil. This text is the published part of an almost year-long correspondence with Marxist comrades. The dispute was conducted exactly after my return from the Donbass and before I read any serious theoretical works. Already in the same 2015, Lenin and life itself convincingly proved that my opponents were right. I have talked about this many times. It was not possible to defend Kautsky. However, the guards and the national communists can make a new attempt.
As noted above, at the beginning of the article, as soon as the leftist in his thoughts gives a “tilt to the right” or at least goes beyond the position “No to war!”, the label of “protector” or “social chauvinist” will be immediately hung on him ". Labels, especially from an opinion leader, are like a sacred tablet, true and unshakable. At one time, leftists butted heads with liberals about the "mind, honor and conscience" of our time, Lesha Navalny. A question for the leftists: how many labels of “Kremlebots”, “guardians” did you receive? Were these labels true? And now another question: are all those labels that you are trying so hard to hang on every dissent correspond to reality?
With what "Marxists" did our esteemed Konstantin correspond and discuss? This question has been asked by leftists for more than a year. Aren’t these the same “Marxists” that, for example, on the HistoryLab YouTube channel, comrade. Stalin is a "tyrant", but not. Trotsky a "true Marxist"? Maybe A. Batov, mired in economism? We will not wait for an answer. What is the point of hiding real (and not fictional) Marxists from the public? After all, Comrade himself. Semin waves his books all the time and repeats: “Study the theory! Study the theory!”, while hiding those who “deal with” this theory. This only leads to doubtful thoughts. And what, in fact, did Lenin prove to him? What is possible, in isolation from the historical context, in isolation from the conditions of the CURRENT era and the differences between this era and the old one, to STYLE Lenin's quotes as a stencil on everything, what do you see around you? Only a nerd would fall for something like that.
Qualitative changes in the entire left movement are conditioned by qualitative changes in the consciousness of K. Semin himself. Where Semin is, there is a “left movement”. If Semin defended an anti-ultra-imperialist position in 2015, almost the entire left movement defended the same position. And if by 2022 Mr. Semin has slipped into “bourgeois pacifism”, and in theory – into fierce Trotskyism, then the leftists, respectively, have slipped there too. As the German playwright Bertolt Brecht once said: “The worst of the illiterate is a politically illiterate person.” The leftist, in spite of all his ideology, remains such, that is, a politically illiterate person, since he is in all respects a person led by his *opinion leaders*. And if you take into account his zero craving for self-education - and even more so.
3. About party building
Lenin had a party, but how are things going with party building in our country now? Semin's formula "quantity will give rise to quality", with which he substantiates his work to involve an increasing number of supporters in the left environment (for which special thanks to him), in the event of an imaginary success of the re-revolution, it will lead to its dialectical negation and form a synthesis in the form of a new (old) opportunistic CPSU. Why exactly? Following this understanding of dialectics, Semin, as the leading condition for the formation of synthesis (new CP) as a quantity, intentionally or unconsciously loses sight of what actually forms this very quantity, that is, the combination of some qualities! Undoubtedly, the entire left movement is a collection of separate individuals, that is, a certain social cell that forms this very quantity, but what is the QUALITY of these same individuals at the input and what are they like at the output? That is, what qualitative changes are taking place ?
Every person who comes to leftist ideas, the ideas of communism, especially at a young age, is wholly and completely a product of the capitalist system. And since he is a product of this system, this means that a person will have those properties that this system has and every minute translates into the public, and from it into the individual consciousness. He is the mirror of the social being in which he resides. This person is a tradesman, a hired slave who dreams of getting rich and becoming a capitalist, his mind is completely infected with idealism and all its forms, even mysticism. It is infected with all kinds of animal atavisms and all those deformities that private property breeds. And since a person is a “reflector” of the social being in which he lives, then the only thing that he can adequately reflect is thatgood and what is bad . But at the same time, such concepts as “good” and “bad” do not always agree with Marxism, and sometimes even completely contradict it.
And now the question is: what quality will the communists-Seminists and, moreover, the new PARTY have, if the gurus themselves from Yarsky to Rudy have bastard qualities generated by private property? This is clearly seen in the information products that they produce.
In order to build socialism, that is, the lower phase of communism, we need to raise the level of human literacy, and build socialism itself on the basis of culture, as Lenin once said and did. And if we want to make our country advanced in terms of its statehood, we need to raise the literacy of the population, raise the culture of our country, and everything else will follow, as Stalin once said and did. But you, left comrades, continue to try to preserve all the “good things” of capitalism, all those ugliness to which you are so accustomed, you are trying to JUSTIFY them and bring them into the socialist future. But sorry guys, that's not how it works.
To believe that the imperialist war will give rise to the leaders of the proletarian movement, and at the same time not to try to substantiate this argument, but simply to shout out “because”, equates the modern leftist with sectarians. This is what idealism is all about! As noted above, Christians are waiting for the second coming of Christ, while leftists are waiting for the second coming of Lenin. But if someone similar to Lenin suddenly comes (not in appearance, but in mind), I am ready to bow my head on the chopping block, but the leftists will simply throw stones at him, because the new Lenin will cut down all petty-bourgeois leftist overshoots in the bud.
An imperialist war can give rise to some "leader", but what QUALITY will this leader be? Most likely, it will be a new Trotsky or Hitler in general, since this does not require any theory at all - only ambition.
In order to make a believer doubt religion, he must be made to read the Bible. In order to make a leftist doubt the truth of the teachings of his leftist YouTube "gurus", he must be forced to study the works of the classics. And as soon as a person begins to study Marx's "Capital", or at least Lenin's "On the Characteristics of Economic Romanticism", he will certainly begin to understand that, for example, Oleg Komolov, with his "overproduction crisis" and world-system analysis, is a bourgeois sing-along who, by the way, he receives awards from the Higher School of Economics; when you start to study the works of Lenin-Stalin, you begin to understand that the kids from the Vector group are "kindergarten gendarmerie on guard of opportunism", that is, snails carrying frank nonsense that even the language does not dare to call revisionism, because even before that they did not even matured.matureSocialism consists in the fact that money as an instrument for the circulation of goods ALREADY must be LIQUIDATED, and this cannot be done without getting rid of this very marketability, only people who read “Capital” diagonally could say! The Stalinist policy of annual price cuts was aimed at getting rid of marketability. But "kids" are kids, and no less kids believe in all this. But here's what the leftist will always truly, believe in a Christian way, is the steadfastness of quotations from the works of the classics, completely unaware and unaware of the context in which they were uttered. And since they do not know the context, then the “necessary” and “convenient” context will be presented by such turkeys as Remy Meisner, demonstrating all their professionalism in verbal balancing act, in the common people of “verbiage”, without giving a person a chance for critical reflection.
The struggle of the communists against the bourgeoisie on the ideological front is the struggle of materialism against idealism. The struggle of the communists against the leftists is also a struggle between materialism and idealism, no matter how the leftists shout, asserting that they, too, stand on materialistic positions. The whole "materialism" of the leftists consists of a simple "there is no God", and that's it! But the reality is that it is not enough for communists to recognize themselves as materialists, since materialism implies the cognizability of the surrounding reality and objective reality as a whole. And in order to cognize objective reality, you need to “study, study and study COMMUNISM again!”what Lenin once called for. But the leftists do not want to learn anything. Why study or "why study theory" when it is already in finished form as a ready-made instruction lies on the shelves in the form of collected works of MELS - the leftists ask. Why is theory needed? We need PRACTICE!" they say. No need to study, just believe in the "holy scripture" and those demagogues that "carry" this scripture into the light, for everything given (by the gods) by the classics is eternal and their ways are inscrutable! And to any person poking you in the face with a theory, continue to MAKE your "red jihad" in the spirit of religious fanatics.
The theory is exactly what is needed in order to NOT BE LEAD by all those characters who so vehemently stigmatize themselves as true Marxists, but in reality are outright opportunists and even enemies.
Theory is needed in order to just CONFESS the paths laid by the classics of Marxism. And since everything that happens in objective reality is in CONSTANT MOVEMENT, this means that the works of the classics should not be crammed like religious dogmas, but, firstly, they need to be conscientiously STUDYED and UNDERSTOOD and, secondly, DEVELOP FURTHER! The capitalism of the 21st century is no longer the same as the capitalism of the 19th-20th centuries, and the FASCISM of the 21st century is no longer the same as the fascism of the 20th. But for you, everything must comply with some canons and "stencils". This is the whole eclecticism of the leftist methodology, and there is no smell of dialectics here.
4. Left and NWO
Revealing his attitude to the so-called SVO, the leftist is capable of everything, except "God forbid, to solidarize with the bourgeoisie." In the view of the leftist, any contact with the bourgeoisie is akin to betrayal and, without fail, as if bitten by a vampire, you will turn into a vampire, that is, you will turn from a communist into a bourgeois. Such twists are nothing but cretinism, cannot be named. By the same analogy, Comrade. Stalin attributed to the "traitors", because, despite the turning point in the course of the Second World War and the Second World War as a whole, comrade. Stalin insisted that overseas "partners" open a second front. At the same time Comrade. Stalin knew perfectly well that Hitler was the FEDER OF THE TRANSNATIONAL OLIGARCHY, that it was the British, French, American, Spanish, Italian and other bourgeois who sponsored the “campaign to the East”, the campaign against communism. Tov. Stalin knew perfectly well that America does not open a second front simply because it is waiting for someone to win. And despite all this, Stalin demanded the opening of a second front. What do you think, Stalin sided with the bourgeoisie? By the same analogy, Mao Zedong can also be attributed to traitors, because in order to defeat the Japanese invaders, who were superior in power to both the Chinese Communists and the nationalists of the Kuomintang combined, Mao had to (hold your breath) enter into a TEMPORARY TACTICAL alliance with Chiang Kai-shek, that is, with the Kuomintang. On the recommendation, by the way, comrade. Stalin. And after they defeated the Japanese militarists, the communists continued their fight against the nationalists and won.
In the current conditions of the imminent new world war, no one offers you, leftists, to "solidize" with the bourgeoisie. We are talking about the fact that it makes no sense to interfere with the bourgeois Russian Federation to help the people of Donbass, destroy the Ukrainian fascists and overthrow the Kiev regime, since Russian "fascism" is more light than Ukrainian or American fascism, since the Russian oligarchy is trying to resist the Western oligarchy and by all means, at the very least, is trying to weaken it, WHAT, IN ITS TURN, GOES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES. At the same time, you should not forget that you, "communists", do not represent ANY POWER AT ALL, you are only essentially a "party of interests". There is no party, no leaders, no broad masses behind your back. You are NOBODY and you can't stop anything. The policy of the Russian Federation towards Ukrainian fascism and Nazism is correct, since a good Nazi is a dead Nazi. The anti-Nazi rhetoric of the Russian government speculates on the Soviet past. And despite all the jingoistic, nationalist frenzy, the Russian bourgeois are playing into the hands of us, the communists, since they, unwillingly, FORCED to carry the communist "agenda" to the masses. No one expands Soviet sentiments in our country so widely as the current government. Our task with you is to direct these moods in the right direction, conduct agitation and propaganda, and the so-called NWO should simply not be interfered with.
“Only Russia can stop ultra-imperialism and restart the Soviet project. Perhaps with the participation of China, which - with all the reservations - retains the strongest inertia of the socialist system. The defeat of Russia and China will mean the dictatorship of imperialism and the defeat of socialism for decades, if not centuries to come,” Konstantin Semin, 2015
Russia and China, as Comrade was correctly noted. Semin, preserve the strongest inertia of the socialist system! And the events of 2022 are the inertia of the events of 1991-1993, that is, the collapse of the Soviet Union. Our task with you is NOT TO LET this very inertia go out. As soon as this inertia goes out, one should not even dream of any "communism".
5. What to do?!
We cannot influence the outcome of the current situation in the world. But this does not mean that we should just sit back and watch the fights without rules between two gopniks on the street. From who wins, our fate depends entirely on you. As noted above, our task is not to let the strongest inertia of socialism die out. This inertia should be transformed into energy, condensed into deeply ideological people, and construction of a new communist party, not in name but in quality, should be started. The vanguard of the working class should be formed not from the number of adherents of the Witnesses of Ilyich Church, but from QUALITY, from which this very quantity will be formed. Following the victorious practice of Comrade. Stalin and, using the Stalinist formula "STAFF DECIDE EVERYTHING", we must be engaged in the education and formation of COMPETENT personnel, who in the future will constitute this very vanguard of the working class. This is exactly what the socio-political magazine "Proryv" and the newspaper "Proryvist" are doing.
A. Werther
29/10/2022
Google Translator
No. 10/74.X.2022
The leftist is, in fact, a philistine, but an ideological philistine. An idea is a thought that calls for action, and thoughts, as you know, can be scientific, that is, correctly reflecting objective reality, and unscientific, therefore, inadequate to reality. So, the leftist is precisely the bearer of unscientific thoughts, therefore, his activity is unscientific, stupid.
I. Bortnik
1. Introduction
Recently, more and more often I began to read comments in the Agitprop news feed of Mr. Semin. Interest was caused by how the mass of the left reacts to the announced partial mobilization in the country. Overwhelmingly, the same tears “No to war!” and appeals to "perform the Maidan", which gained their special scope with the beginning of the so-called NWO.
The behavior of "people playing" is not difficult to explain, because they, like all to some extent adequate people, do not want war. That is why they are trying to find reasons to justify their unwillingness to support the NWO, the reasons for not accepting the situation that has developed in the country around this very NWO, and, most importantly, to adequately assess the events taking place in the world. And since, unlike the liberals, the leftist, thanks to the “red” bloggers, more or less understands the essence of all imperialist wars, the main reason for rejection is that the masses of the left perceive the SVO as a struggle of capitalists within the class for the redistribution of markets, zones of influence, that war, as Lenin said, is "the continuation of the policy of imperialism." But the problems of modern leftists are not that they see enemies on both sides of the barricades, but that that they focus their attention only on ONE SIDE, that is, the Russian oligarchy. By this, they are completely indistinguishable from Russian liberals and show all the one-sidedness of their thinking, since the leftist did not even make a remark about the European and American bourgeoisie, namely their policy in Ukraine, the balance of forces and interests of ALL parties to the conflict. It is understandable, as soon as a more or less intelligent person hints at Western imperialism, he will immediately be labeled a protector or a social chauvinist. Apparently, mentioning the existence of a MORE ferocious imperialist in the face of a united West is akin to a taboo for leftists!
As in all modern Russian films about the Great Patriotic War, the enemy, that is, the fascist, is only designated , but in fact the Soviet government represented by the NKVD officers, Chekists, commissars, etc. is exposed as the enemy. zm and the Ukrainian fascism nurtured by him are only indicated, but the main enemy is their own bourgeoisie. This is what is at the forefront of leftist propaganda. And this is fueled by the fact that, they say, look, "we also have fascism." And it would be relatively reasonable and correct from the point of view of communism, in a Leninist way, if we already had a Bolshevik party to take power in both Russia and Ukraine.
Naturally, any criticism also implies some alternative, as they say, "criticize - offer." And the modern leaders of the left movement cannot offer anything other than historical analogies, quotes taken out of context from the works of the classics. It gets ridiculous when leftists ask each other how it sounds or where to find the right quote from Lenin regarding a specific situation. And having found the right quote, they begin to “burn the unbelievers” with this quote, relying on its truth and steadfastness. As, in fact, any priest in the church has a baggage of a number of quotations from the Holy Scriptures and immediately gives an answer to any question of a parishioner, referring to a specific Gospel. The most weighty arguments of the leftist are the following quotes:
“The revolutionary class in a reactionary war cannot but desire the defeat of its government. This is an axiom. And it is disputed only by conscious supporters or helpless servants of the social chauvinists.
"To abandon the slogan of defeat means to turn one's revolutionary spirit into an empty phrase or one hypocrisy."
“A revolution in time of war is a civil war, and the transformation of a war of governments into a civil war, on the one hand, is facilitated by military failures (“defeat”) of governments, and on the other hand, it is impossible in practice to strive for such a transformation without thereby contributing to the defeat ".
Etc.
Such hysteria, in an effort to hang the label of a guard on a more or less thinking person, is heated up by Semin almost hourly, thereby setting the tone for the entire left movement. The clearest example:
“Since the communists have nothing: no popularity, no organization, no party, no labor movement, no support for the military, no front-line skills, should we stop showing off and ... support the fascists?” - (c) anti-fascist Semin.
Any fascism is characterized, first of all, by its anti-communism. But to fully consider that an open fascist dictatorship is in power in Russia at the moment is at least ridiculous, because no one has banned (yet) the communist ideology, no one is massively destroying monuments to Lenin and burning Marxist literature, no one is on poles of communists does not hang and no one is imprisoned for communist views. In Ukraine, everything is exactly the opposite and in colors. It is only necessary to hint at this, and we get the following:
“Are you scribbling from a trench, Kremlin guards? You repeat yourself."
Fascism in its pure, “historical” form has not yet been observed in Russia. All that we can see at the moment is that the authorities are trying to implant the religion of capitalism, that is, nationalism, into the public consciousness. Naturally, under the capitalist system, nationalism paves the way for fascism, but does NOT yet establish it, since certain objective and subjective conditions are necessary for this.
Almost every leftist knows by heart the definition of fascism according to Dimitrov, that is, in short, fascism is an OPEN DICTATORY OF FINANCIAL CAPITAL. We all know that corruption is a tool for connecting the ruling class with the state, that is, big businessmen with the government through bribery and nepotism, small businesses with regional authorities through the same bribery. Fascism is the power of financial capital ITSELF, that is, power without intermediaries. And when liberals of all stripes take it upon themselves to assert that, for example, corruption has already been defeated in the United States, we perfectly understand and know that corruption in the United States has gone from bottom to top. And in order to pursue their policy and get rich, American magnates do not need to bribe ministers and other high-ranking officials, since they are seated in government and deputy chairs.
As for Russia, anti-communism is expressed here only in ideological form and attempts to finally destroy the "birthmarks" of the USSR. As “market democracy” flourishes in the country, the propaganda machine gradually emasculates the entire “bloody” legacy of socialism from public consciousness. Individualism, nationalism, philistinism, religion and other forms of obscurantism are imputed as an alternative to collectivism and the brotherhood of peoples. The achievements of the Soviet era are revealed to the layman not as achievements of the Soviet system, scientific planning, public ownership of the means of production, but as a “unique feature of the Russian person”, his abilities, his “God-adoration”, etc. And we did not win the war against European National Socialism thanks to the communists, but in spite of them, people went to fight not for their homeland, for Stalin, but because “absolutely up to the lantern, what power! The power changes, but the land and the house remain the same.” Absolutely everything is translated into a nationalistic way.
Levakov is jarred by the fact that Putin is sleeping in an embrace with the book of the main ideologist of Russian fascism I. Ilyin, and propagandists of all Russia from Dugin to Kiselev and Solovyov have long dismantled his Talmuds into quotes and are trying to flaunt them on every broadcast of state television. And that's the only reason we have fascism in our country! But this does not mean the presence of fascism in Russia. This only says that the fight against communism is currently being waged on an ideological level. That is why such speculators as Vasek Sadonin are still croaking in the swamp of the left information space and collecting donations. Other bloggers are engaged in the analysis of historical fakes, falsifications and other things TOTALLY with impunity, unlike those who have “bad brakes”. All this suggests that we, the communists, all the necessary conditions were provided for the forging of cadres of the Bolshevik type, unhindered self-education, agitation, propaganda, and, most importantly, for the creation of a party. We have an excellent opportunity to show the INEFFICIENCY of capitalist management using the example of modern reality. But instead of all this, the modern leftist, like a monkey in a mirror, will flaunt “his” quotes, while not forgetting to play tanks during breaks, and blame specific people for everything that happens. At the same time, the whole struggle for "communism" comes down to a simple arrangement of srachs in the comments.
But with the beginning of the SVO, the petty-bourgeois little world collapsed overnight, and the leftists, completely inadequately evaluating what was happening around at this historical moment, carried nonsense. Instead, as the guru of the modern left movement once taught netov. Trotsky, “think globally”, instead of assessing his place in the ongoing events, the modern leftist simply decided to hide his face behind the “No to war!” banner, completely unaware that nothing could be changed with slogans and shouts alone. The war is going on and will continue regardless of our dissatisfaction with it. And therefore, we, the Communists, need to determine our place in all this and develop our own strategy. But a leftist is a leftist.
Undoubtedly, a certain proportion of leftists are trying to look at the situation as a whole on a larger scale, or, I would say, strategically, taking into account the alignment of opposing forces in the world and, most importantly, the position of the communists in all this. But as soon as the mass consciousness of the leftists begins to think a little wider than the framework of “No to war!” or begins to give a slight “roll to the right”, the great helmsman Semin manages to grab the helm and ... activate the trigger pre-installed in the mind of the leftist by posting an old interview with Yevgeny Fedorov on his Internet resources, they say, anyone who tries to hint at Western imperialism is doomed get into the marginal environment of the NOD and can boldly bow his head to receive a special pennant with the inscription "protector" and "social chauvinist". And therefore, it is impossible to look at the situation from different sides, except for the leftist, because "we also have fascism." And since we also have fascism, then we leftists should not treat this war differently. It should be treated in the same way as the liberals, that is, "No to war!".
The fear of leftists in their reflections “to turn the wrong way” is due to the dogmatic scheme of political deviations, the so-called “political compass”, where we have socialists at the top left, liberals and fascists at the top, centrists in the center, etc. The leftist is precisely the slave of this “systems”, since he is clearly incapable of thinking OUTSIDE the framework of any systems. Therefore, any encroachments "to the right" or anywhere else for the leftist is akin to a "betrayal" of their ideals and beliefs. In search of absolute and relative truths, such “compasses” on the Cartesian coordinate system are an absolutely anti-scientific approach.
2. On the position of the communists
I finally lost faith in the mental abilities of the reference leftist when I read the following calls and what kind of support these calls found:
"... We need to go to the front and campaign among the soldiers."
As I understand it, the leftists, who call for agitation at the fronts, will campaign against their government, advocate for its defeat? We remember Lenin's quote about the defeat of our own government very well. And the leftist is clearly not going to agitate on enemy territory with the same ideas and slogans. Even though he lacks intelligence, the instinct of self-preservation will not allow him to go to such stupidity. Well, how will things be in "their trench"?
As an example, I invite a leftist to think about what would happen if a Soviet soldier during the Second World War began to agitate against the Soviet government for the defeat of his government, and if we overthrow him, we will certainly drink Bavarian? Nothing, except for a camp or execution, shines for such an agitator, since agitation against one's own is regarded as a betrayal. And in the eyes of fellow soldiers and officers, you, "comrade Pravda", will be that very traitor. And if there are not a dozen of you, but thousands of such “truth-tellers”, you will be regarded by the military command of the RF Armed Forces or the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a whole network of agents to demoralize soldiers. And this, in turn, is an excellent pretext for declaring the communist ideology EXTREMIIST, regardless of the popular mood in the country. And then the dream of the modern Russian leftist will come true - he will see real fascism in the Russian Federation, which he was so afraid of. And you will have to conduct "Marxist" agitation and propaganda from deep underground.
Foolishness, of course, they do not hold. This is clearly seen in the example described above. But behind the cries of "agitation at the fronts" there are only appeals. After all, the leftist himself will not go to the NWO or ATO zone voluntarily, it must be done by “someone else, but not me, I have paws”! And someone else should build communism, and let someone else build the party, and someone else should deal with the theory, and I'll see, and if anything, I'll support it with a like and then I'll go play Dota. And in general, we are waiting for the second coming of (Christ) Ilyich and (paradise) communism itself will come, because it is inevitable! And why this is inevitable, the leftist is not able to clearly explain, since for the most part he does not even own an elementary theory. All that remains is faith in the signs of fate!
In a sense, the position "No to war!" defines the place of modern communists, although the word "communist" is too strong a word. It is more correct to call Semin's adherents the leftists, since the leftists still grow and grow before the title of communist. For “ you can become a communist only when you enrich your memory with the knowledge of all the riches that humanity has developed ” (V.I. Lenin).
This is what frightens the modern leftist! Indeed, in order to absorb the whole array of knowledge that the classics of Marxism once absorbed and digested, the leftist needs to abandon his narrow-mindedness, petty-bourgeois way of life, petty-bourgeois thinking, etc. Petty-bourgeois thinking revolves only within the framework of the current moment, it is subject to momentary urges and desires. And if, as an example, a leftist is reminded that, for example, Lenin wrote his 55 volumes of works by hand, without a keyboard, computer, and even more so Google, the leftist will simply brush aside all this and say, they say, “after all, this is LENIN", as if relying on his "divine" origin. Lenin is a product of persistent, conscientious WORK, and not a "messenger of the Lord."
The leftist was not so jarred when the civil war was going on in Ukraine, as he began to jar when he suddenly received a summons to the military registration and enlistment office or lives in fear of suddenly receiving it. At the same time, one important point should be taken into account: when the civil war in Ukraine had just begun, for a long time the leftists supported the people of Donbass, supported Semin’s policy regarding all kinds of help to people. Many leftists and leftist organizations such as the "ROT Front" and the National Bolsheviks were engaged in the collection of humanitarian aid, and Semin was personally involved in the delivery. At the same time, the Russian authorities were not very much cussed, and if they were cussed, then for "inaction." But when Russia finally began to act, the leftists completely lost their landmark. And in the spirit of terry Trotskyism, the leftist began to argue his position with exclamations of “Bourgeois everywhere”, perceiving the surrounding reality in black and white colors, not distinguishing shades of gray, features and differences of the modern era from the past. In my opinion, this is caused by a banal fear that not only the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but also the mobilized leftists will have to go and protect the people of Ukraine from the “junta”. And then the leftist suddenly had two faithful comrades: “This is the same as 1905” and “This is the same as 1914”, and therefore, we must go against our government, we must stand up for it defeat, while not lifting the fifth point from the couch. At the same time, Lenin has other quotes:
“Clarification of the nature of the war is a necessary prerequisite for a Marxist in order to resolve the question of his attitude towards it. For such a clarification, it is necessary, first of all, to establish what are the objective conditions and the specific situation of a given war. It is necessary to put this war in the historical situation in which it is taking place, and only then can one determine one's attitude towards it. Otherwise, not a materialistic, but an eclectic interpretation of the question will result. According to the historical situation, the correlation of classes, etc., the attitude towards the war at different times should be different. It is absurd once and for all to refuse to take part in the war on principle.”
“In order to find out your attitude to this war, you need to understand HOW IT DIFFERS FROM PREVIOUS WARS, what are its features” (V.I. Lenin. Complete Works. Ed. 5., Vol. 26, M., 1969, pp. 27-35).
In simple words, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SUPERIMPOSE EVENTS OF THE PAST ON THE EVENTS OF THE CURRENT! “... Otherwise, it will turn out not a materialistic, but an eclectic interpretation of the issue ...”. Attempts to paint a landscape with one paint and one brush doom us not so much to the successes of the past, but to ERRORS in the current moment and in the future. If all sinners on earth will be judged by God, then we Communists will be judged by HISTORY! And if, according to the assurances of believers, God is merciful, then history is the most vindictive and unprincipled, cruel woman, for there is no worse enemy than a rejected woman. But you, left comrades, are pulling this woman by the hair in the most shameless way and are trying to poke a torn-out tuft of hair into every “unfaithful shaitan” in the face. If Lenin advocated the defeat of his own government, it only means that for this there were ALL THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS! When Lenin put forward slogans about the defeat of his own government, he had in mind that the revolutionary movement should be carried out FROM ALL SIDES of each warring side, of all participants in the imperialist war. This is well illustrated by Lenin's favorite quote by leftists:
“A revolution in time of war is a civil war, and the transformation of a war of governments into a civil war, on the one hand, is facilitated by military failures (“defeat”) of governments, and on the other hand, it is impossible in practice to strive for such a transformation without thereby contributing to the defeat ".
The transformation of the war of governments. Not governments, but governments. This means that the transformation of the imperialist war into a civil war must be handled by the communists on the part of EVERY government. A third world imperialist war is inevitable, and we understand this. But in order to reverse this war, not for the good of the monopolists, but for the good of the people, we need a PARTY, that is, the vanguard of the working class. Is there a communist party of the Bolshevik type in Russia? NO! Are there such parties in European countries? NO! Are there similar parties in the USA? Also no! And if there is no party, then who, in the event of an imaginary success of the revolution, will govern the country? Lesha Navalny? These questions for the leftist will remain without a sane answer.
Today's conditions are completely different from the conditions of 1914, and the situation of today's communists is different than in the same 1914. The presence of the vanguard of the working class is one of the main conditions for any socialist revolution. Without a party there can be no revolution. Lenin had such a party at the time of 1914. Even in Kaiser's Germany, there were also social democratic parties, and they continued to form and replenish throughout the First World War. Even at the conclusion of the “separate” Brest peace with Germany, despite the cries of the Trotskyists, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, etc., Lenin proved to everyone that the looming bourgeois revolution in Germany would annul all the established agreements. What, in fact, happened in November 1918 - Kaiser's Germany fell under the onslaught of the revolution (albeit a bourgeois one), thereby annulling all previously concluded agreements. The conclusion of peace brought Russia out of the First World War, which, in turn, allowed the Bolshevik Party to begin building socialism in our country. Well, since we don’t have any party at the moment, attempts to “walk” against our government do not make any sense, but only, on the contrary, aggravate our situation. Although this is loudly said, because the standard leftist today does not go against his own government, but sits against his own government. I would sit behind the study of theory - there would be more sense.
In the recent 2015, Mr. Semin quite competently explained his position regarding the civil war in Ukraine and the situation of modern communists:
“In contrast to 1914, today an opportunist is not someone who, sacrificing class interests, swears allegiance to his imperialist fatherland. An opportunist today is one who, in his political myopia, goes over to the side of ultra-imperialism, brings closer its final triumph, and, consequently, the verdict for all classes, except for the class of exploiters ”(Konstantin Semin, Nakanune.ru , 2015).
And he goes on to explain why:
“Only Russia can stop ultra-imperialism and restart the Soviet project. Perhaps with the participation of China, which - with all the reservations - retains the strongest inertia of the socialist system. The defeat of Russia and China will mean the dictatorship of imperialism and the defeat of socialism for decades, if not centuries to come.”
“For example, it is very easy to call the war in Ukraine a confrontation between the Russian and American bourgeoisie. It immediately follows from this that in such a conflict there are not and cannot be "good" ones, but only bad ones. Therefore, no one can be supported at all. Stupidity. If any intervention in the conflict of capitalist interests is a mistake, then it remains to simply watch as ultra-imperialism breaks down the last barrier on its way to global domination? After all, there are no other ways to prevent this among modern Leninists and Kautskys .objectively no. So what? Ultra-imperialism will develop, be calm. But instead of a cleansing world revolution, at the final stage, the world will receive a total dictatorship of a transnational oligarchy, based on a super-powerful system of suppression, surveillance and control, and on a nuclear club (the only one) too. In this system, its social Darwinist architects will no longer have any brakes - they will be able to write off the inefficient, defective, objectionable or unusable, even not by the countries - the continents.
To intrigue the “Putin regime” in the face of a confrontation with a MORE powerful and stronger enemy equates the modern leftist not so much with a traitor to “bourgeois mortgages”, but with a traitor of the future socialist revolution. If the modern left movement had connections with party cells abroad, and if the Russian left movement had its own communist party, that is, the vanguard of the working class, and if the communists had the GRAND MASSES at hand, then Lenin's slogan about the defeat of governments would take place . But this is nothing, and therefore the population of the country, already demoralized by liberals and the petty-bourgeois way of life, is completely demoralized with slogans about the defeat of its own government, which means dooming our country to a deliberate loss in the upcoming war, which in turn will entail a LOT of problems in party building, communist agitation and propaganda, and the LIFE of communists in general. The Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, fed by the American and European bourgeoisie, are the same CHAIN DOGS that will hang communists on poles or burn people in the new houses of trade unions, as was the case in Odessa. They have been pickled in battles for nine years. But Semin of 2015 has sunk to Semin of 2022: “... Stop showing off and ... support the fascists?” -d-i-t-e, he shares the position of not just anyone, but even Lenin HIMSELF. But what kind of Lenin? The one who campaigned to overthrow his government under all existing conditions (party, revolutionary class, revolutionary situation, etc.),
“It is necessary to place this war in the historical situation in which it is taking place, and only then can one determine one’s attitude towards it”?
Surely the leftist will not buy into this? Actually, the leftist bought into it, not understanding at all that Semin’s position of the 2015 version is precisely the LENIN position, that is, the position of a materialist-dialectic, in which he defined that “in contrast to 1914, today an opportunist is not the one who, sacrificing class interests, swears allegiance to his imperialist fatherland. The opportunist today is the one who, in his POLITICAL MYOPICITY, goes over to the side of ultra-imperialism, brings its final triumph closer .”
Konstantin, in his vision of the situation in 2015, operated with the same Leninist statement:
“According to the historical situation, the correlation of classes, etc., the attitude towards the war at different times should be different. It is absurd once and for all to refuse in principle to participate in the war.
But Semin of 2022, ignoring all those horror stories with which he stuffed the entire left movement for several years, put a bucket on his head with the inscription “No to war!”, And we got the sarcastic following:
“I am against Bandera. I am against the Vlasovites. But still it is better to support the Vlasovites. This was bequeathed by Marx and Rosa Luxembourg "- (c)" in Chinese socialism "Semin.
Regarding the 2015 article itself, Konstantin spoke separately:
“Having fun. The security guards/social chauvinists, it turns out, are now dragging in their teeth an old text (2015), where I passionately refute Lenin, defend Kautsky and call for rallying around the global American evil. This text is the published part of an almost year-long correspondence with Marxist comrades. The dispute was conducted exactly after my return from the Donbass and before I read any serious theoretical works. Already in the same 2015, Lenin and life itself convincingly proved that my opponents were right. I have talked about this many times. It was not possible to defend Kautsky. However, the guards and the national communists can make a new attempt.
As noted above, at the beginning of the article, as soon as the leftist in his thoughts gives a “tilt to the right” or at least goes beyond the position “No to war!”, the label of “protector” or “social chauvinist” will be immediately hung on him ". Labels, especially from an opinion leader, are like a sacred tablet, true and unshakable. At one time, leftists butted heads with liberals about the "mind, honor and conscience" of our time, Lesha Navalny. A question for the leftists: how many labels of “Kremlebots”, “guardians” did you receive? Were these labels true? And now another question: are all those labels that you are trying so hard to hang on every dissent correspond to reality?
With what "Marxists" did our esteemed Konstantin correspond and discuss? This question has been asked by leftists for more than a year. Aren’t these the same “Marxists” that, for example, on the HistoryLab YouTube channel, comrade. Stalin is a "tyrant", but not. Trotsky a "true Marxist"? Maybe A. Batov, mired in economism? We will not wait for an answer. What is the point of hiding real (and not fictional) Marxists from the public? After all, Comrade himself. Semin waves his books all the time and repeats: “Study the theory! Study the theory!”, while hiding those who “deal with” this theory. This only leads to doubtful thoughts. And what, in fact, did Lenin prove to him? What is possible, in isolation from the historical context, in isolation from the conditions of the CURRENT era and the differences between this era and the old one, to STYLE Lenin's quotes as a stencil on everything, what do you see around you? Only a nerd would fall for something like that.
Qualitative changes in the entire left movement are conditioned by qualitative changes in the consciousness of K. Semin himself. Where Semin is, there is a “left movement”. If Semin defended an anti-ultra-imperialist position in 2015, almost the entire left movement defended the same position. And if by 2022 Mr. Semin has slipped into “bourgeois pacifism”, and in theory – into fierce Trotskyism, then the leftists, respectively, have slipped there too. As the German playwright Bertolt Brecht once said: “The worst of the illiterate is a politically illiterate person.” The leftist, in spite of all his ideology, remains such, that is, a politically illiterate person, since he is in all respects a person led by his *opinion leaders*. And if you take into account his zero craving for self-education - and even more so.
3. About party building
Lenin had a party, but how are things going with party building in our country now? Semin's formula "quantity will give rise to quality", with which he substantiates his work to involve an increasing number of supporters in the left environment (for which special thanks to him), in the event of an imaginary success of the re-revolution, it will lead to its dialectical negation and form a synthesis in the form of a new (old) opportunistic CPSU. Why exactly? Following this understanding of dialectics, Semin, as the leading condition for the formation of synthesis (new CP) as a quantity, intentionally or unconsciously loses sight of what actually forms this very quantity, that is, the combination of some qualities! Undoubtedly, the entire left movement is a collection of separate individuals, that is, a certain social cell that forms this very quantity, but what is the QUALITY of these same individuals at the input and what are they like at the output? That is, what qualitative changes are taking place ?
Every person who comes to leftist ideas, the ideas of communism, especially at a young age, is wholly and completely a product of the capitalist system. And since he is a product of this system, this means that a person will have those properties that this system has and every minute translates into the public, and from it into the individual consciousness. He is the mirror of the social being in which he resides. This person is a tradesman, a hired slave who dreams of getting rich and becoming a capitalist, his mind is completely infected with idealism and all its forms, even mysticism. It is infected with all kinds of animal atavisms and all those deformities that private property breeds. And since a person is a “reflector” of the social being in which he lives, then the only thing that he can adequately reflect is thatgood and what is bad . But at the same time, such concepts as “good” and “bad” do not always agree with Marxism, and sometimes even completely contradict it.
And now the question is: what quality will the communists-Seminists and, moreover, the new PARTY have, if the gurus themselves from Yarsky to Rudy have bastard qualities generated by private property? This is clearly seen in the information products that they produce.
In order to build socialism, that is, the lower phase of communism, we need to raise the level of human literacy, and build socialism itself on the basis of culture, as Lenin once said and did. And if we want to make our country advanced in terms of its statehood, we need to raise the literacy of the population, raise the culture of our country, and everything else will follow, as Stalin once said and did. But you, left comrades, continue to try to preserve all the “good things” of capitalism, all those ugliness to which you are so accustomed, you are trying to JUSTIFY them and bring them into the socialist future. But sorry guys, that's not how it works.
To believe that the imperialist war will give rise to the leaders of the proletarian movement, and at the same time not to try to substantiate this argument, but simply to shout out “because”, equates the modern leftist with sectarians. This is what idealism is all about! As noted above, Christians are waiting for the second coming of Christ, while leftists are waiting for the second coming of Lenin. But if someone similar to Lenin suddenly comes (not in appearance, but in mind), I am ready to bow my head on the chopping block, but the leftists will simply throw stones at him, because the new Lenin will cut down all petty-bourgeois leftist overshoots in the bud.
An imperialist war can give rise to some "leader", but what QUALITY will this leader be? Most likely, it will be a new Trotsky or Hitler in general, since this does not require any theory at all - only ambition.
In order to make a believer doubt religion, he must be made to read the Bible. In order to make a leftist doubt the truth of the teachings of his leftist YouTube "gurus", he must be forced to study the works of the classics. And as soon as a person begins to study Marx's "Capital", or at least Lenin's "On the Characteristics of Economic Romanticism", he will certainly begin to understand that, for example, Oleg Komolov, with his "overproduction crisis" and world-system analysis, is a bourgeois sing-along who, by the way, he receives awards from the Higher School of Economics; when you start to study the works of Lenin-Stalin, you begin to understand that the kids from the Vector group are "kindergarten gendarmerie on guard of opportunism", that is, snails carrying frank nonsense that even the language does not dare to call revisionism, because even before that they did not even matured.matureSocialism consists in the fact that money as an instrument for the circulation of goods ALREADY must be LIQUIDATED, and this cannot be done without getting rid of this very marketability, only people who read “Capital” diagonally could say! The Stalinist policy of annual price cuts was aimed at getting rid of marketability. But "kids" are kids, and no less kids believe in all this. But here's what the leftist will always truly, believe in a Christian way, is the steadfastness of quotations from the works of the classics, completely unaware and unaware of the context in which they were uttered. And since they do not know the context, then the “necessary” and “convenient” context will be presented by such turkeys as Remy Meisner, demonstrating all their professionalism in verbal balancing act, in the common people of “verbiage”, without giving a person a chance for critical reflection.
The struggle of the communists against the bourgeoisie on the ideological front is the struggle of materialism against idealism. The struggle of the communists against the leftists is also a struggle between materialism and idealism, no matter how the leftists shout, asserting that they, too, stand on materialistic positions. The whole "materialism" of the leftists consists of a simple "there is no God", and that's it! But the reality is that it is not enough for communists to recognize themselves as materialists, since materialism implies the cognizability of the surrounding reality and objective reality as a whole. And in order to cognize objective reality, you need to “study, study and study COMMUNISM again!”what Lenin once called for. But the leftists do not want to learn anything. Why study or "why study theory" when it is already in finished form as a ready-made instruction lies on the shelves in the form of collected works of MELS - the leftists ask. Why is theory needed? We need PRACTICE!" they say. No need to study, just believe in the "holy scripture" and those demagogues that "carry" this scripture into the light, for everything given (by the gods) by the classics is eternal and their ways are inscrutable! And to any person poking you in the face with a theory, continue to MAKE your "red jihad" in the spirit of religious fanatics.
The theory is exactly what is needed in order to NOT BE LEAD by all those characters who so vehemently stigmatize themselves as true Marxists, but in reality are outright opportunists and even enemies.
Theory is needed in order to just CONFESS the paths laid by the classics of Marxism. And since everything that happens in objective reality is in CONSTANT MOVEMENT, this means that the works of the classics should not be crammed like religious dogmas, but, firstly, they need to be conscientiously STUDYED and UNDERSTOOD and, secondly, DEVELOP FURTHER! The capitalism of the 21st century is no longer the same as the capitalism of the 19th-20th centuries, and the FASCISM of the 21st century is no longer the same as the fascism of the 20th. But for you, everything must comply with some canons and "stencils". This is the whole eclecticism of the leftist methodology, and there is no smell of dialectics here.
4. Left and NWO
Revealing his attitude to the so-called SVO, the leftist is capable of everything, except "God forbid, to solidarize with the bourgeoisie." In the view of the leftist, any contact with the bourgeoisie is akin to betrayal and, without fail, as if bitten by a vampire, you will turn into a vampire, that is, you will turn from a communist into a bourgeois. Such twists are nothing but cretinism, cannot be named. By the same analogy, Comrade. Stalin attributed to the "traitors", because, despite the turning point in the course of the Second World War and the Second World War as a whole, comrade. Stalin insisted that overseas "partners" open a second front. At the same time Comrade. Stalin knew perfectly well that Hitler was the FEDER OF THE TRANSNATIONAL OLIGARCHY, that it was the British, French, American, Spanish, Italian and other bourgeois who sponsored the “campaign to the East”, the campaign against communism. Tov. Stalin knew perfectly well that America does not open a second front simply because it is waiting for someone to win. And despite all this, Stalin demanded the opening of a second front. What do you think, Stalin sided with the bourgeoisie? By the same analogy, Mao Zedong can also be attributed to traitors, because in order to defeat the Japanese invaders, who were superior in power to both the Chinese Communists and the nationalists of the Kuomintang combined, Mao had to (hold your breath) enter into a TEMPORARY TACTICAL alliance with Chiang Kai-shek, that is, with the Kuomintang. On the recommendation, by the way, comrade. Stalin. And after they defeated the Japanese militarists, the communists continued their fight against the nationalists and won.
In the current conditions of the imminent new world war, no one offers you, leftists, to "solidize" with the bourgeoisie. We are talking about the fact that it makes no sense to interfere with the bourgeois Russian Federation to help the people of Donbass, destroy the Ukrainian fascists and overthrow the Kiev regime, since Russian "fascism" is more light than Ukrainian or American fascism, since the Russian oligarchy is trying to resist the Western oligarchy and by all means, at the very least, is trying to weaken it, WHAT, IN ITS TURN, GOES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES. At the same time, you should not forget that you, "communists", do not represent ANY POWER AT ALL, you are only essentially a "party of interests". There is no party, no leaders, no broad masses behind your back. You are NOBODY and you can't stop anything. The policy of the Russian Federation towards Ukrainian fascism and Nazism is correct, since a good Nazi is a dead Nazi. The anti-Nazi rhetoric of the Russian government speculates on the Soviet past. And despite all the jingoistic, nationalist frenzy, the Russian bourgeois are playing into the hands of us, the communists, since they, unwillingly, FORCED to carry the communist "agenda" to the masses. No one expands Soviet sentiments in our country so widely as the current government. Our task with you is to direct these moods in the right direction, conduct agitation and propaganda, and the so-called NWO should simply not be interfered with.
“Only Russia can stop ultra-imperialism and restart the Soviet project. Perhaps with the participation of China, which - with all the reservations - retains the strongest inertia of the socialist system. The defeat of Russia and China will mean the dictatorship of imperialism and the defeat of socialism for decades, if not centuries to come,” Konstantin Semin, 2015
Russia and China, as Comrade was correctly noted. Semin, preserve the strongest inertia of the socialist system! And the events of 2022 are the inertia of the events of 1991-1993, that is, the collapse of the Soviet Union. Our task with you is NOT TO LET this very inertia go out. As soon as this inertia goes out, one should not even dream of any "communism".
5. What to do?!
We cannot influence the outcome of the current situation in the world. But this does not mean that we should just sit back and watch the fights without rules between two gopniks on the street. From who wins, our fate depends entirely on you. As noted above, our task is not to let the strongest inertia of socialism die out. This inertia should be transformed into energy, condensed into deeply ideological people, and construction of a new communist party, not in name but in quality, should be started. The vanguard of the working class should be formed not from the number of adherents of the Witnesses of Ilyich Church, but from QUALITY, from which this very quantity will be formed. Following the victorious practice of Comrade. Stalin and, using the Stalinist formula "STAFF DECIDE EVERYTHING", we must be engaged in the education and formation of COMPETENT personnel, who in the future will constitute this very vanguard of the working class. This is exactly what the socio-political magazine "Proryv" and the newspaper "Proryvist" are doing.
A. Werther
29/10/2022
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