Red. Fundamentalism. Almaz Braev

vote for conditional communist Gulag members. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, like the old truth.

      Modern communists, or people who call themselves such, are no less greedy. However, they have limitations because of their ideology. Each profession has specific professional clothing; 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. Communist Party members and many other left-wing Pharisees are obliged to talk about the people, for example, what the people are suffering and the people are getting poorer. But will no one of these communists leave the Duma to live as a people? What for? The Communist Party is a profession in one word. So, let’s imagine the professional actors of the second plan were brought out as the 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 roles. 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 those in the red wrapper? It’s a replay 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 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 their young parrots about the dictatorship of the proletariat, justice, and 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 talked about the Mazdakids and their struggle’s eternal, holy methods). 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 activists must admit that they are a product of tradition, that the so-called planetary communism was established on earth not only thanks to, and despite, Marx. Only nations with a rigid tradition have found a new traditional system and called it communist. Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam, and Kampuchea are in Asia. This is the territory of a rigid collective tradition. The people with a similar culture of collectivism adopted the so-called communism, but in fact, case new bureaucrats replaced the local feudal elites through the revolution. These were the nations where capitalism was underdeveloped. However, the alienation of the Eastern (fertile peoples) at that time was enormous. Europe solved its overpopulation by World War I. Then, it made an upgrade. By this time, the people of the East were not ready for a world war. These were the people of the periphery. They were late for planetary modernization, so they chose a catch-up project – communism.

      The communist project is a catch-up project, 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 connect the alienation of the slave personality to 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 and free 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 and did not see the old capitalist alienation tradition 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. 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, like 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.

      Chapter 3

      There must be an emperor in the empire

      The world of information and its consumers needs resonance. Information channels always scare or write “that the world shuddered.” The world shuddered because divers found something at the bottom of the ocean. The world shuddered that a famous politician said something. And so on. But who in Russia shuddered at the wedding? At the wedding of a man from the last tsarist Russian monarchical dynasty. After all, the late Russian tsar was overthrown in 1917. There was the same resonance. Who in modern Russia was not lazy and paid attention to the new wedding?

      The world of information and its consumers needs resonance. Information channels scare or write “the world shuddered” all the time. Therefore, not everybody is true in the Russian Federation, but interested citizens also shuddered. These newsmakers and other creators of ideas “shuddered”. However, no one now cares about anyone or anything. The townsfolk have been in suspended animation for a long time at the resonances. Only the primary instincts remained. The modern man in the street seems to have no other traits except instincts. Such a tendency that soon reasonable people will not be found.

      A lot of time spent online has confirmed the opinion that now people are very conservative. It is difficult for them to leave their cozy worlds. (They also rarely leave their apartments and sofas). Now, people look at the world with lonely egoism. This is such an answer to the extras of the soviet life (which is better, I do not know, but we want to live in a predictable world, and, in my opinion, in the soviet past, it was easier).

      The so-called elite looks at the world with the same egoism. They also watch something during the breaks of their big affairs. They are also tired and want the world not to “shudder”. Furthermore, they are also painfully thinking about how to live and save their billions of stolen dollars.

      Where is the coincidence between the “trembling” of people from large palaces and people from sofas? However, the inhabitants of sofas are more inclined to equality of rights with the inhabitants of palaces and self-exclusivity, in contrast to Central Asian migrants. Nothing has happened to traditional conservatism. It didn’t disappear. It turned into the struggle of the European bourgeoisie for equality of rights, like in the 18th century. This concerns ordinary citizens and the opposition to the existing regime. Conservatism usually turns into xenophobia.

      What is the trend from below?

      There are three of them. The first and main one is the liberal trend. There is a link between a group of liberals and young people who want to live like in the West. The second one is still nationalism. If you give nationalism the first place, Russia will not stand. Judging by the past elections, the voters used the oppositionists as part of the regime in the form of official communists to solve their problems. Nobody really wants Soviet-type communism. The people have explicitly been free for a long time and thus corrupted. I watch the conservatism of former Soviet and modern people, which turns into xenophobia. There are many disparate speakers, but the puzzle has not yet been matched. They’re looking, too. They search exit paths.