Today's Topics:
1. Russia, Avtonom: The USSR is a country of great lies by
Michael Shraibman [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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I am always very surprised when, in response to criticism of the USSR and Leninism, I hear
something about the "machinations of the liberals." In fact, supporters of self-governing
(anti-authoritarian) socialism and anarchism have their own reasons for deeply loathing
the USSR, Lenin, Stalin, the Bolsheviks, their own criticism of this system and their own
tradition of fighting it. Although anarchists, maximalist Socialist-Revolutionaries, and
Left-wing Social Revolutionaries - supporters of self-governing socialism - did not
immediately understand the nature of Bolshevism, and some even turned to the Bolsheviks,
many of them joined the struggle with the system. ---- Anarchists and other movements took
part in the uprisings against the Bolsheviks, including the Kronstadt in 1921 and,
naturally, the Makhnovshchina.
The maximalist Socialist-Revolutionaries led by Aaron Zverin in 1919 prepared battle
groups to destroy the Bolshevik elite and took part in this struggle along with the
organization of the Anarchists of the Underground. At the same time, the maximalists
continued to exist legally, thanks to a cover-up - they told the Bolsheviks that they were
creating fighting groups solely to fight the whites, against Denikin (however, they
actually did this as well).
The Left Social Revolutionaries (PLSR) created a deeply echeloned system to combat
Bolshevism from 1919 - the Overground and the Underground. The overfield was legal and
integrated people prone to open polemics and unfit in underground fighting. The legal
organizations of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia declared their break with the
supporters of armed resistance to the Bolsheviks and that they confined themselves only to
verbal criticism of the regime. The underground also engaged in organizing strikes, armed
clashes with the Bolsheviks, participated in the anti-Bolshevik uprisings. But in reality
there was no real gap between the Left Social Revolutionaries. At least many organizations
of the Nadpolya rendered assistance to the activists of the Underground by providing them
with money, housing, supplying them with documents, etc.
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What was the reason for this attitude of social revolutionaries, supporters of
self-government and socialism towards the Bolsheviks? Why did they go to actions of direct
action against the Bolshevik regime, as, once, and against the Tsarist regime? It was not
only that anarchists, maximalists, and many left-wing Social Revolutionaries believed that
only direct, arbitrary action could psychologically prepare the masses for a
self-governing revolution. It was also in another. Bolshevism eliminated the system of
elections to the Workers' Councils, introduced the most severe system of exploitation of
workers, suppressed the movement of ethnic groups for local self-determination or
federalism. In addition, he destroyed freedom of speech and assembly (the Left SRs of the
Nadpolya held out only until 1923-1924).
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was neither Soviet, nor socialist, republican, nor
allied. Not in any sense. It was a country of great lies, by definition, the left
communist Ante Ciligi.
Yes, there was no socialism in the USSR, because exploitation was not destroyed there
(appropriation of the labor of others): property and power belonged to the state
bureaucracy, on which the entire population worked. All plants and factories belonged to
the apparatus of the state bureaucracy. It was she - the centralized bureaucracy of the
party and the state - that appropriated what was produced by the collectives of workers
(while part of the appropriation was invested in expanding production, as any capitalist
does, and the other part was spent on the privileged existence of the bureaucracy and on
the wars she waged).
But in the USSR there was no Soviet power, republics or union either. In the USSR there
were no Soviets and Soviet power. The Soviets - inter-factory strike committees elected by
factories and factories, and then workers' self-governing bodies - were destroyed by the
Bolsheviks in 1918-1921 Bolsheviks and by dispersing unwanted Soviets). The ruling party
was thus completely anti-Soviet.
There was no republic in the USSR, as there were no elections to the authorities (for what
was when the only candidate from the ruling party was proposed could not be considered an
election). In the USSR there was a dictatorship, autocracy of one (communist) party, which
itself appointed to lead the country. Elections with alternative candidates were extremely
rare and only in some rural regions in the 1920s, as well as during the Perestroika era
during the years of Gorbachev's rule.
And finally, the word "union" implies a voluntary association, federation or association
of autonomous subjects, whereas the USSR was a centralized empire, which was ruled from
the Kremlin. The Kremlin, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the party, controlled
the army, the party-state apparatus, the ministries, and centrally controlled the economy.
And they did not enter there, in the USSR, voluntarily numerous peoples from Georgia to
Ukraine and from Lithuania to Turkestan, but, on the contrary, were incorporated into the
USSR at various times by force, occupied and subjugated by terror and the destruction of
local national movements or movements for local autonomy, including even local national
Bolsheviks.
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Thus, supporters of self-governing socialism and anarchism are enemies of the USSR and
Leninism not at all because they have heard enough of the liberals. They have their own
reasons for this and their own history. And these reasons are rooted both in the nature of
self-governing (anti-authoritarian, anarchist) and federalist socialism, and in the nature
of Bolshevism - the anti-socialist, exploitative, imperial and anti-Soviet system.
Note.
Texts of anarchists, left Social Revolutionaries and other supporters of self-governing
socialism against Leninism
1) Vsevolod Wolin. Unknown Revolution. http://library.khpg.org/files/docs/1359107336.pdf
2) Otto Rühle, the main questions of the organization.
https://avtonom.org/old/lib/theory/leftcom/ruhle2.html
3) An open letter to Maria Spiridonovo (leader of the Left Social Revolutionaries) of the
Central Committee of the Bolsheviks. https:
//litresp.ru/chitat/ru/%D0%A4/feljshtinskij-yu-g/otkritoe-pisjmo-m ...
4) Ante Ciliga. Russian revolution and the causes of its degeneration.
https://avtonom.org/news/russkaya-revolyutsiya-i-prichiny-ee-vyrozhdeniya
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