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Russia after the formal victory of Zyuganov’s Communists

What would have changed if the Communist Party faction had taken the majority in the Duma?

Nothing. Because the second head of the fairy-tale dragon of the local bureaucracy would have risen conditionally. Actually, the Communist Party formally won. But this victory is not hers. People voted from the opposite. Democracy is different in this. Everywhere. What is not pleasant, annoying is replaced by something less unpleasant. Communist Party was the less unpleasant for people, in a conditional store, where give up-the same conditional things are sold. The Communist Party, together with its experienced leader, the compromiser, was chosen only from Russian hopelessness. The domination of the main boyars of the EP became simply unbearable. Even the main competitors of the state oligarchs on the business idea – Navalny’s people, called for voting for the Communist Party through smart voting. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. This, too, is from hopelessness. Even with their cultural modernization and market tolerance, conditional Democrats would never vote for conditional Gulag members.

Modern communists, or people who call themselves such, are no less greedy. But they have limitations because of their ideology. Each profession has its specific professional clothing, like the doctor, for example, has a white coat. The worker has a roba. The orchestra conductor has a tailcoat. Zyuganov’s communists learned to sell communist ideology professionally, although people thought less about communism in these elections. Members of the Communist Party, and many other left-wing Pharisees, are obliged to talk about the people. The people are suffering, and the people are getting poorer. But no one will leave the Duma. To live as a people? What for? The Communist Party is a profession in one word. And so, let’s imagine, the professional actors of the second plan were brought out as main artists. What would have happened? But nothing. First, the quality of the performance would drop. It’s natural. Then the supporting actors would get a little comfortable with their new role. The old mechanism or system would have been cleaned up and started working again at the same speed. What will change if you change the car’s details in the blue wrapper to the details in the red wrapper? Its replays of cargo cult. Is that clear? Hypocrites and Pharisees cannot change anything; they can only repeat.

Few people came to the symbolic protest rallies. That’s why they are symbolic. And now let’s remember how much came out for liberal Navalny throughout the Russian Federation. Thousands of times more. The electoral triumph of the Communist Party, albeit formal, is not a victory of the communist idea. Nobody needs the communist idea. These symbolic rallies are the evidence of this. Modern leftists, those who are called, or those who consider themselves Marxists prefer not to see this. Modern leftism is full of old Pharisees, middle-aged, and even there are young parrots about the dictatorship of the proletariat, about justice, about other ideas of Karl Marx from the 19th century. Modern left-wing Pharisees think in terms of a century ago and even more. (This is if the Marxists of Lenin’s time were talking about the Mazdakids and the eternal, holy methods of their struggle). The modern left does not even understand why they are in crisis. They are nervously leafing through Lenin’s hundred-year-old records. They carry gibberish. They calm their ego.

First, the modern left must admit that they are a product of tradition, that the so-called planetary communism was established on earth only thanks to, and despite, Marx. Only nations with a rigid tradition have established a new traditional system and called it communist. Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam, Kampuchea is in Asia. This is the territory of a rigid collective tradition. The peoples with a similar culture of collectivism adopted the so-called communism but in fact came new bureaucrats who replaced the local feudal elites through the revolution. These were the nations where capitalism was underdeveloped. But the alienation in which the Eastern (fertile peoples) lived at that time was enormous. Europe solved its overpopulation by World War. Then it made an upgrade. By this time, the peoples of the East were not ready for a world war. These were the peoples of the periphery. They were late for planetary modernization, so they chose a catch-up project. The communist project is a catch-up project, yes, as rigid collectivism in the tradition is compensation for the severity of the climate and conditions by common labor. The countries of the Asian tradition chose communist ideas because they approached their dictatorship (of the proletariat) to the collective memory of peoples, to the production culture of reflexes. Karl Marx, an urbanized citizen, despised feudalism, Asia, and Russia. Therefore, empirically, he could not in any way connect the alienation of the slave personality from the alienation of the proletarian personality. The alienation of the proletarian personality is the same as a member of a generic collective. The generic “nothing” alienation could not happen unnoticed in the modern Marx city. It happened just in the kind of alienation described by Marx. But Marx concluded the reasons for a person’s dependence on society. Industrial relations in a duet with production forces did not allow a person to be free. From this, Marx found a solution to replace people with machines that create abundance. But if a tribal person is freed from relatives, will he become free? If a peasant is left without a village, won’t he run wild?

Similarly, a person who is not working, freed from alienation, will not write poetry and philosophize. Abundance will not make a person kinder. But the fact that Marx jumped over the traditional alienation, did not see the old tradition in capitalist alienation, still blinds all the so-called Marxists on the left, (for me – a large crowd of Pharisees). They feel it would be better not to think at all. Alienation is changing, the city is replacing the village, but the culture and traditions remain. And production robots and other mechanisms cannot solve this problem.

That’s how Zyuganov and Co. are primarily traditional people from the village. What the system, the tradition, tells them, they will do. They received from the system all profits, and they will still receive, like that meek heifer sucking at two cows.