Communism – New Vision of the Old Goal, and New
Tasks.
By Andrei Shkarubo.
Political, i.e. practical, setbacks of the
Russian communists once again make them return to theoretical issues: review of
their party program which, in turn, is impossible without any revision of their
world outlook and ideology.
First of all, one should stress that realities
of life have only confirmed the truth of Marx and Lenin’s communist teaching;
but these realities have also confirmed their warning not to turn their teaching
into dogma.
Which raises a question: What is modern Marxism
to become so as to respond adequately to the present challenges of Time?
First of all, it must have a new, qualitatively
improved methodology of analyses of processes and phenomena, i.e. a new
dialectics, the dialectics of new vision,
- <the long overdue attempts to
create which have been repeatedly undertaken around the world.
Unlike the old, ‘descriptive’ dialectics
comprising a few postulates capable of only explaining a process or phenomenon,
post factum too, the new dialectics should become a universal methodology based
on the universal measure, Time, a methodology capable of not just explaining a
process or phenomenon, but making forecasts about their development.
In other words, the new dialectics should
become a working model which could help form a new world outlook, on the basis
of which new values could be defined, as well as goals and means for their
achievement, i.e. a new ideology could be created.
The hopes of those incapable or unwilling to
look for new paths, claiming that the course of history would inevitably lead
us to socialism-communism, citing the rise of class struggle, the general swing
to the left indicated by opinion polls, and the socialists’ rise to power in
Latin America, are illusory.
They ignore the fact that Russia, despite its
speedy degradation and fairly good chance of disintegration, is nonetheless a
grade higher in its social development than the third world countries,
including Latin America, - and if a person has lost his teeth and is gradually
sliding back into childhood, it doesn’t mean that he’ll need a baby’s dummy
soon.
It’s time they knew that the baby’s dummy of
socialism cannot solve
The fact that socialism cannot solve our
problems is becoming increasingly clear because the problems of the modern
world are not limited to the problem of exploitation of man by man.
The problem of exploitation of the planet Earth
by human race is becoming more acute; its inevitable outcome is getting
increasingly clear and imminent.
Struggling with the parasites of our ruling
classes, we ourselves, nonetheless, remain parasites, taking part in the
ruthless exploitation, destruction of the planet’s living organism. And the
fate of all parasites is involution, i.e. degradation and death.
The fate of the present-day Russia and its
people is a good case in point: One cannot
serve two masters, God and Mammon; one cannot set two opposing goals,
fulfillment of spiritual and material
needs, - the way it was done in the former USSR communist party manifesto of
building communism. As we all witnessed, such mesalliances can breed only
hypocrisy, lies and ruin.
The cult of rabid material consumption is
increasingly and blatantly running into conflict with the limited natural
resources of the planet Earth. If we cannot solve this conflict first, there’ll
be no lasting solution to the conflict of collective production and private
acquisition.
In other words, unless we voluntarily curb our
material desires, the fight for the re-division of the public pie is
inevitable. Our past socialist experience
testifies to this.
This task of voluntary restriction of material
consumption can be solved only by a highly integrated, communist, society – a
society with the high level of nationalization in which the relative deficit of
material comforts is compensated by their relative accessibility – cheap public
transport is a good illustration.
The high level of nationalization, which is
actually conscious necessity of sharing
bequeathed by our Lord, is possible only when spiritual, not economic, growth
becomes the priority of our development.
This doesn’t mean, of course, that the left
should forsake political economy and rush en masse to places of worship – the
Church has long become a state institution ministering to the interests of the
ruling parasites, and selling its religious opium to the people.
This means that moral-ethical values should
become a priority in the construction of a new communist society. That the
hierarchy of social relations there should be based not on the supremacy of
power, wealth, nor even intellect – every smart ass has its follies – such
relations should be based on spiritual authority. Which means that in this sort
of society power must be void of privileges.
This not a revelation of any kind: everything
new is created through self-sacrifice and selfless service. What remains is to
make this principle a top priority at every stage of further social development
so that the bitter irony of saying that “Revolutions are conceived by
idealists, implemented by fanatics and profited from by scoundrels” could be
lost on the upcoming generations.
If the left succeed in this issue, our society,
civilization would manage to rise to a new step in their development. If not –
well, at the present stage in our development communism is unavoidable prospect
anyway, but in this case instead of a new stage in our development, we would
slide back to the old one, primitive communism.
We would be brought back to it by our Mother
Nature which is no longer capable of satisfying the whims of our parasitic
consumer civilization.
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