Pseudo-Socialism or Some History of Russia (Part II)

So, what "pseudo" means? It is a prefix with the meaning "false". Pseudo-socialism means false socialism. To have a pseudonym means to have a false or invented name. Who is a pseud? Pseud is a short for pseudo-intellectual, a person who pretends to be an intellectual, but he is not really as he pretends to be. Also there is a mineral with the name “pseudomorph”. This mineral is well-known for replacing the original mineral from inside out and taking the external crystal shape of it. Just like socialism was replaced by pseudo-socialism and took the shape of it in reality.

Lenin is a pseudonim for Vladimir Ulyanov (1870-1924), educated as a lawyer, russian revolutionary, the first creator and theoretician of pseudo-socialism, the first leader of the USSR. Easy to remember, he is the first pseud of pseudo-socialism, pseudomorph.

What do we know about this guy? Not much. Ulyanov (Lenin) was born on April 22 in Simbirsk, little town in Russia on the banks of the river Volga. His older brother Aleksandr Ulyanov was executed in 1897 for attempting to assassinate Tsar Aleksander III. (Probably, that's why all Tsar Nikolas II Romanov's family members were executed in 1918 when Lenin got all the power?).

I have no doubt that a young Mr. Ulyanov re-read Das Kapital, classical theoretical thriller written by Karl Marx, hundreds times before going to sleep. Lenin not only read the book but brought many modifications (some nasty little things of his own) to the traditional Marxist doctrine to fit specific democratic, economic and political traditions of Russia. Lenin's modifications became known as Marxism-Leninism, the basis for pseudo-socialist (communist) ideology, partially the basis for most of the terrorist actions of the 20th century.

Lenin, Marxist since 1889, member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (RSDP). In 1903 at the London party congress he became a leader of Bolsheviks (radical revolutionary majority RSDP). Mensheviks (minority of RSDP) were against fast radical revolution. After the failure of the revolution of 1905 in Russia he lived in Switzerland, Germany, Finland and returned to Russia in April 1917 following the first democratic socialist February Revolution in which he did not take part.

Lenin was the leader of the second anti-democratic Revolution in October 1917. Bolshevik workers and sailors seized control of the government during a coup on the night of October 25. This dark night of October 25, 1917 is the date when a fragile infant democratic socialism was killed forever and a pseudo-socialism was born.

"Revolution, - wrote Lenin about October 1917, - in certain cases means a miracle...A miracle came out.". So Lenin thanks to a miracle, an insignificant coincidence of circumstances, a lucky chance obtained the power. How well and how smart did he use it?

It is hard to call a "miracle" the destruction of the half-destroyed Russian state with the help of angry soldiers and sailors. The possibility of another fair better life for all people, a life without classes of rich and poor with democratic freedoms and human rights for all could be a real miracle. Instead the falseness and vagueness of the goal - Building of Communism in the world - led to the absolutism of violence, demanding flexible lies in its justification.

From the beginning of the pseudo-socialist regime Lenin ( and Stalin in the USSR, and Putin in Russia nowadays) always relied on a strong secret police. It was called the Cheka and was established in December 1917 "as a temporary institution". Yes it did change the names from Cheka to GPU, then to NKVD, then to KGB (Komitet Gosudarstwennoj Bezopasnosti = Committee of State Security) but its main function remained always the same - to control the state and to punish the dissents.

So what do you think who (what class or what group) controls the power in Russia in 2006 ? The first decree of Lenin about peace followed by a long thoughtless Civil War with internal and external enemies, with those who had disagreed with the communist dictatorship.

The second decree of Lenin about land for all was just a false statement to get the attention and support of Russian peasantry. During the whole XX century land in Soviet Union was the property of the state. Only in January 2003 Russian government adopted a law about land as private property.

In 1918 Russian people for the first time (and the last time) in their history had a chance to elect democratically officials to a parliamentary assembly. But the results were unfavorable to Lenin (of the 703 chosen deputies, only 168 were communists). Lenin ordered his troops to bar the deputies from convening. The assembly was permanently disbanded. Socialism has died forever.

This is the first main sign of pseudo-socialism - there is no democratic elections whatsoever. Just like pseudo-re-elections of the president in Belarus in March, 2006. The results were totally falsified!

Next, in the years immediately following the revolution Lenin took all the repressive measures to prevent new regime from cracking down by opposition and alternative ideas starting from the total eliminating of this political opposition (including politicians, scientists, philosophers, great thinkers, writers, poets, artists, just simple people opposed new regime). The suppression of any intellectual criticism, books, ideas, opinions, newspapers became a permanent policy. Such suppression can be the second main sign of pseudo-socialism.

A large number of intellectuals (former supporters of Lenin) felt betrayed in their idealistic belief that the socialist revolution would bring a free society with all the freedoms and equal human rights. Most of them were sent to prisons and concentration camps (Lenin's main pseudo-socialist invention, by the way) or out of the country. Lenin wrote at that time: "Intellectuals are not the brain of the Russian nation but piece of sh.t". So no wander that post-psedo-socialist ex-Soviet Union still can not get this lost brain back in the 21st century. No wonder. Eliminating the intellect is the third main sign of pseudo-socialism.

According to traditional Marxism, socialism is just a transition between capitalism to communism state system. In socialism, the democratic state (or democratic government) still exists, and is in control of all the property. In communism there is no state at all. No control. All people have equal democratic human rights and freedoms. In pseudo-socialism there is no democratic state (or democratic government), no human rights and freedoms. Everything - land, means of production and distribution, every human life- is controlled by partocracy (or KGB behind it).

Lenin's decree about freedom of press completely removed one more freedom. It was Lenin who proclaimed that all works in science, art and literature should be based on the communist party spirit. Pseudo-socialist lies were just flowing from the new bold Russian dictator: "Soviet power is the new type of state, state without bureaucracy, without police, without constant army, with a replacement of the bourgeois democratism with a new democracy, which puts forward avant-garde of working masses transforming them in legislators, executors and military guard creating a new state machinery which can re-educate masses." (March, 1918).

Or there is even better Lenin's phrase exists:

"Personal dictatorship is absolutely incompatible with soviet democratism." (April, 1918).

In real life (not pseudo-socialistic) in truth Lenin's gang owerthrew nor the Romanov’s monarchic dynasty , nor the government of landowners and capitalists but the democratic government of two socialist parties: social-revolutionaries (Essers) and social-democrats (Mensheviks). So we can say that the first in the history of humanity real socialism (socialism of Thomas More, Marx and Engels) has died at a very young age in its infancy with the death of the democratic government of Essers and Mensheviks.

From this death a new totally anti-democratic totalitarian pseudo-socialism has emerged with a new ruling class - communist partocracy, with a new type of bureaucracy - communist partocracy, with a new more cruel and numerous secret police Cheka (NKVD, KGB), with a huge army, with a new type of soviet democratism - "democratism of personal dictatorship".

In 1918 Lenin wrote: "Our main enemy is petty bourgeoisie, its habits, its economic position." But petty bourgeoisie at that time were the overwhelming majority of the country.

Interestingly, what class was the Lenin's friends? The class of "conscious proletariat" (I still do not understand the meaning of this term) which composed about 3% of all the population in Russia in 1918.

Italian politician Niccolo Machiavelli in his most famous political writing The Prince (1513) once mentioned about rulers, their interests and often amoral manipulation of other people around them: "From all the beasts a Prince should be similar to two of them: a lion and a fox. The lion fears traps and the fox fears wolves, therefore a Prince should act as a fox to avoid traps and act as a lion to frighten wolves."

It is interesting what a beast Lenin was? And what traps he was afraid of? It seems to me that the most terrible trap for Lenin was his opposition ideas, words and thoughts. Lenin hated alternative thinking that's why he had just enough power to build pseudo-socialism instead of a real socialism.

In the writing The Dictatorship of The Proletariat (1918) Karl Kautski, a political leader of the German Social Democrats, noticed that the word "dictatorship" means the annihilation of any democratic features, that a class can only dominate not rule, that workers should become owners of plants and factories, that peasants should become owners of land".

Lenin was shivering from such thoughts of Kautski crying out: "Kautski demands revolution without revolution, revolution without furious struggle and fight, revolution without VIOLENCE!!!". So here you are. Kautski wrote about the features of democratic socialism. Lenin was protecting anti-democratic dictatorial pseudo-socialism.

Poor Lenin was afraid of the main trap - bitter truth and was hiding behind the fence of epithets and his favorite word "million". Here is his response : "Yes, bourgeois democracy provided some historical progress if we can compare it with the Middle Ages. Nevertheless this democracy always remains weak, cut down, false, hypocritical, a paradise for rich men and a trap for poor men. Proletarian democracy is a million times more democratic than any bourgeois democracy. Soviet system of power is a million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republic."

Thanks to such powerful "million times soviet democracy" when people were completely alienated from the democratic power of elections, most of them are still getting confused about capitalism, socialism, communism and pseudo-socialism. Just like nowadays in Iraq people never had a chance to see any real democratic achievements to learn what actually democracy means. They just do not know what it is.

In 1919 the system of forced labor camps was established in the new pseudo-socialist Russia. It received the name GULAG (Glavnoe Upravlenie Lageryami = Main Directorate for Corrective Labor).

By 1934 GULAG had several millions inmates. Prisoners included murderers, thieves along with political dissenters. GULAG prisoners costructed the White Sea - Baltic Canal, the Moscow-Volga Canal, Baikal-Amur railroad line, many strategic roads and industrial enterprises in remote regions of the Soviet Union. Also many of them were mining coal, copper and gold. By the way, forced labor camps in Soviet Union continued to exist even into the Gorbachev period, till the end of 1980s. Real slaves of pseudo-socialist system, slaves of the 20th century.

to be continued…

Pseudo-Socialism or Some History of Russia (Part I):

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=10259