Pseudo-Socialism or Some History of Russia (Part III)
Michael Batiukov
August 16, 2006
After the death of Lenin in 1924 a new pseudomorph took charge of a pseudo-socialist state. His pseudonim was Stalin, former Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili (1879-1953), russian revolutionary born in Georgia, the son of a shoemaker, the second theoretician of pseudo-socialism, the second leader of the USSR. Easy to remember, he is the second pseud of pseudo-socialism, pseudomorph.
Under his cruel ruling (1922-1953) not only all the opposition inside the Communist Party was elliminated but tens of millions of simple soviet people were perished. Till today, October 2003, nobody knows how many people were killed by Stalin's regime. Leninism-Stalinism is a true symbol of pseudo-socialism.
Stalin was the only leader of both party and state, the leader of a new class in the Soviet Union with the name partocracy. He gained the absolute power by employing police repression against any opposition real or imagined even inside the elite of the Communist Party. His first victims were Leon Trotskii, Grigorii Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin. They were opposing the policy of forced collectivization and rapid industrialization.
Stalin just like Lenin believed that literature and art could be exploited for ideological, political and educational purposes. Stalin just like Lenin himself learned everything from books. The Soviet censorship system was created in 1922. Alternative creative thinking was banned till the end of 1980s (for 60 years!!!).
In 1928 the Central Committee took total control over literature and art. Only a new special style called socialism realism was allowed. All the rest was banned. As the result, again intellectuals, politicians, famous writers, scientists, and artists became new victims of the Great Terror of the 1930s (then 40s, then 50s, then 60s, then 70s, then 80s.).
Yes, during the war against Nazi Germany writers and artists were permitted to infuse their works with patriotism, but the victory in 1945 brought a return to repressions. Such great poets as Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak and the writer Michail Zoshchenko were labeled "anti-Soviets" and their books were forbidden in 1950s.
Also in 1950s the noted filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and great composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmiri Shostakovich were denounced for "neglect of ideology and subservience to Western influence". Again the attacks extended to scientists and philosophers in 60s, 70s, 80s.
Stalin's "revolution from above" sought to build socialism (now we know that actually it was pseudo-socialism) by means of forced collectivization and industrialization, programs that entailed tremendous human sufferings and lost of lives. The only real freedom what soviet people had in the state of Stalin's pseudo-socialism was the freedom to suffer.
As the result of Stalin's policy of forced collectivization in 1932-1933 (to increase agricultural productivity?!) from six to seven million soviet people died because of the severe famine and repressions. By 1940 approximately 97% of all peasant households were collectivized and private property was almost entirely eliminated. Human costs of such a great achievement were incalculable.
Recently, a group of French scholars made a first attempt to add up the numbers who died in pseudo-socialist revolutions, concentration camps, artificial famines and mass murders. The result, entitled "The Black Book of Communism" (I could call it "The Black Book of Pseudo-Socialism") produced a total figure of about 100 million. The former Soviet Union appears the greatest monster of all. Soviet pseudo-socialism killed near 61 million of its citizens in the XX century.
Democracy is literally "rule by the people for the people". Without any doubt in my mind people all over the world can improve their lives when they are empowered to exercise control over how they are governed. Also the lives of people can be miserable if they do not have any power to control how they are governed.
The main question is still remains "How you can separate socialism from pseudo-socialism?" When pseudo-socialism looks like socialism, it tastes like it, but it is deadly. Also, does capitalism ensure freedoms? Does socialism ensure totalitarianism? There is no doubt in my mind that pseudo-socialism ensures dictatorship and totalitarianism, and kills all the democratic freedoms.
Probably the answer is somewhere in the amount of government control of economy and people's private lives? Maybe, for example, the US government 2006 also should reduce its intrusions into the economy of the country and private life of its citizens? Otherwise it can become increasingly anti-democratic and totalitarian in the future.
I hope that as long as there is some democratic elections and free market in the country, enough to allow a middle class to grow, then freedom is assured in the long run, because the middle class will eventually get educated, demand political freedom, and will be able to overthrow the dictators or one-party rulers.
In one of the soviet newspapers with the name "Arguments and Facts"(Number 29, 1989, page 6) you could find the comparative numbers of the class structure in the US and USSR at the end of 1980s after 70 years of pseudo-socialism (percentage of population):
Wealthy....3 (USA)....2 (USSR)
Rich......17 (USA)...0 (USSR)
Middle-Class.60 (USA)..11 (USSR)
Poor......20 (USA)..87 (USSR)
This is the main result of all the pseudo-socialism achievements in the country where there is no place for a personality, intellect and progress in the triangle of state power, state property, and state planning. By the way who all those 2% of wealthy people in former USSR? Do they still have the power to control? Sure, they do.
In the book "The Road to Serfdom" written in 1944 Friedrich Hayek concluded that too much socialism would always require dictatorship. I could say that not socialism but pseudo-socialism will always require dictatorship for sure. The question which still remains: "How much socialism or pseudo-socialism is too much?" This question is still an open question.
Pseudo-socialism has failed because this system not only killed people systematically to support its regime, but also pseudo-socialism annihilated free-market economy, private property, middle class, freedom of choice, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, creative alternative thoughts and ideas, human spirit and intellect. Pseudo-socialism is the father of Leninism-Stalinism, nazism and world terrorism. It's ideology must be condemned and prohibited to be propagated everywhere in the world.
I disagree with anybody who can say that socialism (communism) has failed at the end of the XX century. How something what never existed can ever fail? But I am sure that pseudo-socialism has failed big time. Why it is very important to know the difference between capitalism, socialism (communism) and pseudo-socialism in the 21st century? Because it can affect your future, it can affect your life, your freedoms and human rights. Capitalism still works. Socialism (communism) did never exist. Pseudo-socialism is based on terror, and always will fail sooner or later.
Michael Alex Batiukov
Pseudo-Socialism (Part I): http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=10259
Pseudo-Socialism (Part II): http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11115
Under his cruel ruling (1922-1953) not only all the opposition inside the Communist Party was elliminated but tens of millions of simple soviet people were perished. Till today, October 2003, nobody knows how many people were killed by Stalin's regime. Leninism-Stalinism is a true symbol of pseudo-socialism.
Stalin was the only leader of both party and state, the leader of a new class in the Soviet Union with the name partocracy. He gained the absolute power by employing police repression against any opposition real or imagined even inside the elite of the Communist Party. His first victims were Leon Trotskii, Grigorii Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin. They were opposing the policy of forced collectivization and rapid industrialization.
Stalin just like Lenin believed that literature and art could be exploited for ideological, political and educational purposes. Stalin just like Lenin himself learned everything from books. The Soviet censorship system was created in 1922. Alternative creative thinking was banned till the end of 1980s (for 60 years!!!).
In 1928 the Central Committee took total control over literature and art. Only a new special style called socialism realism was allowed. All the rest was banned. As the result, again intellectuals, politicians, famous writers, scientists, and artists became new victims of the Great Terror of the 1930s (then 40s, then 50s, then 60s, then 70s, then 80s.).
Yes, during the war against Nazi Germany writers and artists were permitted to infuse their works with patriotism, but the victory in 1945 brought a return to repressions. Such great poets as Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak and the writer Michail Zoshchenko were labeled "anti-Soviets" and their books were forbidden in 1950s.
Also in 1950s the noted filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and great composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmiri Shostakovich were denounced for "neglect of ideology and subservience to Western influence". Again the attacks extended to scientists and philosophers in 60s, 70s, 80s.
Stalin's "revolution from above" sought to build socialism (now we know that actually it was pseudo-socialism) by means of forced collectivization and industrialization, programs that entailed tremendous human sufferings and lost of lives. The only real freedom what soviet people had in the state of Stalin's pseudo-socialism was the freedom to suffer.
As the result of Stalin's policy of forced collectivization in 1932-1933 (to increase agricultural productivity?!) from six to seven million soviet people died because of the severe famine and repressions. By 1940 approximately 97% of all peasant households were collectivized and private property was almost entirely eliminated. Human costs of such a great achievement were incalculable.
Recently, a group of French scholars made a first attempt to add up the numbers who died in pseudo-socialist revolutions, concentration camps, artificial famines and mass murders. The result, entitled "The Black Book of Communism" (I could call it "The Black Book of Pseudo-Socialism") produced a total figure of about 100 million. The former Soviet Union appears the greatest monster of all. Soviet pseudo-socialism killed near 61 million of its citizens in the XX century.
Democracy is literally "rule by the people for the people". Without any doubt in my mind people all over the world can improve their lives when they are empowered to exercise control over how they are governed. Also the lives of people can be miserable if they do not have any power to control how they are governed.
The main question is still remains "How you can separate socialism from pseudo-socialism?" When pseudo-socialism looks like socialism, it tastes like it, but it is deadly. Also, does capitalism ensure freedoms? Does socialism ensure totalitarianism? There is no doubt in my mind that pseudo-socialism ensures dictatorship and totalitarianism, and kills all the democratic freedoms.
Probably the answer is somewhere in the amount of government control of economy and people's private lives? Maybe, for example, the US government 2006 also should reduce its intrusions into the economy of the country and private life of its citizens? Otherwise it can become increasingly anti-democratic and totalitarian in the future.
I hope that as long as there is some democratic elections and free market in the country, enough to allow a middle class to grow, then freedom is assured in the long run, because the middle class will eventually get educated, demand political freedom, and will be able to overthrow the dictators or one-party rulers.
In one of the soviet newspapers with the name "Arguments and Facts"(Number 29, 1989, page 6) you could find the comparative numbers of the class structure in the US and USSR at the end of 1980s after 70 years of pseudo-socialism (percentage of population):
Wealthy....3 (USA)....2 (USSR)
Rich......17 (USA)...0 (USSR)
Middle-Class.60 (USA)..11 (USSR)
Poor......20 (USA)..87 (USSR)
This is the main result of all the pseudo-socialism achievements in the country where there is no place for a personality, intellect and progress in the triangle of state power, state property, and state planning. By the way who all those 2% of wealthy people in former USSR? Do they still have the power to control? Sure, they do.
In the book "The Road to Serfdom" written in 1944 Friedrich Hayek concluded that too much socialism would always require dictatorship. I could say that not socialism but pseudo-socialism will always require dictatorship for sure. The question which still remains: "How much socialism or pseudo-socialism is too much?" This question is still an open question.
Pseudo-socialism has failed because this system not only killed people systematically to support its regime, but also pseudo-socialism annihilated free-market economy, private property, middle class, freedom of choice, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, creative alternative thoughts and ideas, human spirit and intellect. Pseudo-socialism is the father of Leninism-Stalinism, nazism and world terrorism. It's ideology must be condemned and prohibited to be propagated everywhere in the world.
I disagree with anybody who can say that socialism (communism) has failed at the end of the XX century. How something what never existed can ever fail? But I am sure that pseudo-socialism has failed big time. Why it is very important to know the difference between capitalism, socialism (communism) and pseudo-socialism in the 21st century? Because it can affect your future, it can affect your life, your freedoms and human rights. Capitalism still works. Socialism (communism) did never exist. Pseudo-socialism is based on terror, and always will fail sooner or later.
Michael Alex Batiukov
Pseudo-Socialism (Part I): http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=10259
Pseudo-Socialism (Part II): http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11115
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