Posted on 12/23/2017 12:09:10 AM PST by NorseViking
Why the idea to return Dzerzhinsky monument to Lubyanka is too bad.
Two news almost simultaneously came this week. News is number one. Communist Party leader Zyuganov appealed to Putin with a request to restore the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square. News number two. According to polls, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Zyuganov fell to the third place in the list of the most popular presidential candidates: not only Putin, but Zhirinovsky (of Liberal Democrat Party of Russia), is ahead of Gennady Andreyevich. The coincidence in the time of these two news, of course, is an accident. But in every randomness there is only a fraction of chance.
The humiliating situation for Zyuganov, when even Zhirinovsky was ahead of him, is a natural ending of the long-term political course of the top leadership of the RF CP. In modern Russia, the demand for leftist ideas should be higher than ever. Society needs social justice. But the political party, which considers itself the leading left-wing force of the country, is deaf to this public demand.
(Excerpt) Read more at mk.ru ...
During my recent trip to London, I purchased the book of the famous historian Pamela Horn about "the private life of English upper class after the First World War." I frankly admit: first of all, I expected to find in this book some entertaining historical gossip and my expectations were not deceived. But apart from the descriptions of the frivolous life of spoiled lords and ladies, I also received an unexpected "bonus": a detailed account of the astonishing transformation of British society in the period between the two world wars.
Until 1914, British society was not so different from the society that existed in the Russian Empire. In the country there were a lot of aristocrats-latifundists: owners of huge lands that looked down on their tenant farmers. But after the end of the First World War, huge estates in Britain began to disappear rapidly. Why? Not because, of course, that the government decided to "dekulak" the landlords. The landlords got rid of their possessions voluntarily or, more correctly, voluntarily-forced. Taxes on land and other charges have grown so much that it became unprofitable to own huge territories.
In the country, in fact, there was a peaceful revolution. The revolution, which even after a generation led to the emergence in Britain of a free universal health care system and other social guarantees - a system that, unlike ours, has not crumbled to this day. Why am I saying all this? To the fact that to achieve real social justice in the society, it is not necessary to organize bloody coups. Sometimes you can just work in the society that exists - not at the level of slogans, but at the level of concrete, carefully thought-out economic decisions.
Now in Russia it is such a moment. In the country there is a sharp ideological hunger. The country is ready to accept new ideas on the reorganization of the existing social system. The country is ready not only to listen to power. But this request for an alternative remains unsatisfied. The party Zyuganov sincerely considers himself the main fighter for social justice in Russia. However, considering yourself as someone and being that someone is not exactly the same thing. The essence of all the activities of the upper ranks of the party Zyuganov, unfortunately, lies in the word imitation - imitation of the struggle for power, imitation of the struggle for social justice.
For power, this situation is insanely convenient. For society - uncomfortable at all. There is such an old-old joke. Someone asks God: "Lord, why did I never win a lottery in my life?" And then a thunderous voice rang out from the sky: "Because in all your life you have never bought a lottery ticket!" The Communist Party is party, which has all the possibilities to "buy a lottery ticket." Zyuganov's party has support in the society, its assets, its intellectual resources. She, at last, has a brand of the main left political force of the country. But all this is not used the way it could be used. All the steam goes to the whistles like calls to return to the Lubyanka square the monument to Dzerzhinsky.
However, even the "whistles" are different. There are "whistles" timely, euphonious, taking for the soul, carrying an important political message. And there are whistles, which only testify to one thing: the ship that issued them swam somewhere very badly there. "Whistle" of the party Zyuganov about Dzerzhinsky - clearly from this sad second category. During the Soviet era, there was much that can now be remembered with nostalgia. But this does not apply exactly to the activities of the first leader of the Soviet punitive organs. And any person who knows at least some history, it is well known.
The question is: why then does Zyuganov count, once again drawing on his banners the "bright face of a friend of children" Felix Edmundovich? Is it really to attract a new, previously unreached by the KPRF electorate? Of course not. The new electorate and, consequently, potential intraparty rivals Gennady Andreevich are completely unnecessary. Zyuganov does not want to frighten the backbone of the electors of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, consisting of people of the older generation. And in a sense, such a position is understandable and forgivable. However, a political party that does not develop or evolve is doomed to degradation.
And this applies not only to the future main left power, but also to its present. More specifically about this can tell, for example, Vladimir Volfovich of the Liberals - from his honorable second place. Get used to it, Gennady Andreyevich! In the informal political table of ranks, you seem to be doomed to move further into the tail of the line!
Ping!
Isn’t “ruining the Communist Party” kind of like “ruining dog poop?”
Yes, although Communist’s opinion might differ. Worth reading to understand the way of thinking of modern Russian Communists.
Too bad, it is useful to know your enemy.
I agree. Any contravening of liberty is anethema to me.
Socialism = central govt grayness and all that implies. Islam is deranged. Free will is worth dying for. Choose wisely. Be American America.
On the flip side, fixing the Communist Party would be like trying to pick up a turd with the “clean” end.
"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
"Slam the heel of your shoe down real hard on the bare toes of some supposed wise man and he will yell "Yeow!" or the equivalent in his own language."
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Anonymous.
“At the top of the party Zyuganov does not even want to think about the real problems of real people. Instead, the public is offered virtual political games”
This is always the way of Communism and Socialism. The elites dictate to the people regardless of the people’s true needs or wants.
This should be read using a Boris Badenov voice.
You have given a good explanation for why Britian in dying.
‘’ You have given a good explanation for why Britian in dying.’’
Actually it was one of a few points I fond interesting in this article.
Imagine, Russian Communists are blaming their party leaders for being worse at Communism than the actual ruling British governments.
Who would, truly, be the most conservative, out of all of the Russian presidential candidates?
I think Boris Titov is to the right of Putin and these two are only conservatives. The rest are different shades of left.
The Russian communists were huge influences to the Democrats, as well as to our news media, entertainment industry, and educational establishments. The USSR planted moles to spread their Communist ideas, and basically set out to subvert us from within. I do not know that Soviet moles still operate in the US, but I do know that their influence lives on. Bill Clinton was an adherent of Soviet Socialism, so much so that he spent several weeks in the USSR at a time when tourism in that country did not exist; Barack Obama also was heavily indoctrinated, although I do not know if he ever took a sabbatical to learn directly from Soviets as Clinton did.
Russian communism may indeed be yesterday's news, but its root ideology has consumed the Democrat party. The Democrat party was probably primed to be subverted to such ideology; the Democrats have always been about raw power, so that communism was a natural fit for them.
It’s somewhat interesting to see how Russian communism has evolved since the USSR fell, but I am not going to visit any website that has a domain of “.ru” or “.cn.”
I used to listen to Radio Moscow a lot before the fall of the USSR. It was educational... but probably not in the way the Soviets intended. I wasn’t falling for and internalizing Communism—on the contrary, I was learning to recognize it in all of its disguises.
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