WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIAN News Journal Update - (en) Russia, Avtonom: Resentment: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 119 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 1. What is the Russian fighting for? ---- I read studies by

psychologists and psychiatrists about how consciousness saves itself,
sometimes trying to reject the obvious. For example, the realization
that Russia is a fascist country, that the Russians are ruining
Ukrainian cities and robbing and torturing residents in the occupied
territories, is so destructive for many Russians that they are ready to
cling to any justification for the actions of their state. And I once
again thank anarchism for saving my cuckoo. "No god, no homeland, no
master" - after the start of the war, some of those who left Russia
really found themselves in such a situation.

But in fact, these words speak of freedom. You don't worry that the
church supports the war, it's impossible to take you to the manipulation
of "duty to the motherland", you spit on the hierarchy and don't think
that "the authorities know better". Anarchism allows you to see things
as they are and not expect anything good from churchmen and authorities.
In the meantime, even the most advanced of those who consider themselves
liberals and democrats have enough ideas to "replace a bad government
with a good one." In order to again entrust their lives to other people,
whom they will feed along with the entire state apparatus, including
punitive bodies, and will completely depend on them.

If you talk to the Russians - supporters of the war, then, firstly, they
will deny the very fact of the war: this is not a war, but a military
operation, hmm ... there is no war, but there is a military operation?
Well, they will tell you that the Russians never attacked anyone, they
just always defended themselves, and now they are defending themselves,
and in general - these are all primordial Russian lands, but the damned
NATO attacked, otherwise they are for peace in all over the world. And
they never were colonialists, and so on.

As I have repeatedly repeated, people really want to consider themselves
good, but for some reason identifying themselves with the state. Since
the state cannot be good by default, and the fascist state, and even
unleashed an aggressive war, cannot be all the more good, then we need
to come up with an explanation why black is still white, and bad is
good, and pull this owl on the globe. Here, for example, is how the
priest who consecrated the monument to Stalin explained his actions:
"thanks to this (that is, Stalin's repressions against priests) we have
many new martyrs."

And in fact, why be surprised here if members of the Communist Party
believe in God and the "great Stalin", and from all state and church
irons they call to die for their homeland?

It is interesting that the callers themselves are in no hurry to do
this. For example, now in Spain is the holiday season, who owns real
estate there? For example, the actor Porechenkov, a lover of machine gun
shooting and inspiring speeches to soldiers. Apparently, it is somehow
easier to love your homeland from abroad. Porechenkov, however, urging
to keep the line, says that there was no order to die, but here, as it
turned out, it's not very good with rotation at the front, there is no
mobilization of mass support, so it seems like one should die for the
Motherland, but not today.

But besides him there are other actors, deputies and propagandists. Here
is another pre-war link, when even TASS could publish lists of people
with foreign real estate. Sunny Spain is there in the first place. Most
Russians, not only in Spain for euros, but also in their homeland for
rubles, cannot afford such a house or apartment, but what can I say, the
majority of Spaniards, too. All of these properties are luxury.

So why should a Russian die with a toilet in the form of a hole in the
ground? For the Spanish mansion of a deputy or a TV propagandist? For
the oligarch's yacht? Also, you know, before the sanctions, the Russian
oligarchs were very fond of the Barcelona berths. Compared to the rest,
their yachts looked like cruisers among punts. Well, now they just keep
their favorite toys somewhere in the ports of Saudi Arabia, except, of
course, those that the Europeans managed to arrest. Is a Russian going
to die for these yachts? The list of arrested yachts can be found at
another link, their total value is $ 2 billion. What does the Russian
think, where did these 2 billion dollars come from? Isn't he stolen from
him?

2. Passport or death
Let's take the so-called "new territories". From people from Crimea, I
know how many were disappointed that the new government did not create
new jobs, the owners of new hotels imported all the staff from the
mainland, prices rose, wages - no, you still have to go to Russia for
good earnings.

Donbass got war, banditry and torture cellars. Such a "Russian world".

In the occupied territories, where the surviving population does not
seek to obtain a Russian passport, people are forced to do so in order
to conduct a pseudo-vote as soon as possible. In fact, they are faced
with a choice without a choice: either a toxic passport, or deprivation
of all the opportunities that a person can get only with this piece of
paper. Until deportation.

But, indignant at the arbitrariness of the Russian occupation
administration, probably few people think that absolutely any state puts
those living on its territory in a situation of such a choice without a
choice, against which anarchists, among other things, protest.

3. What do liberals not see?
And now let's imagine, as the liberals from the opposition say,
"beautiful Russia of the future." It will not have oligarchs with their
yachts? "Owners of factories, newspapers, paratroopers"? Well, how, how,
the liberals are so afraid that the people will be able to "take
everything away and divide", that God forbid. I read many of the
liberals, including human rights activists. None of them, even those who
admit that they probably messed up somewhere, do not see or understand
the system error. Russian liberals completely ignore the social issue.
And they continue to pray for capitalism. You just need to change the
"wrong capitalism" to the "correct".

Well what can I say, all they can offer is systemic injustice leading to
resentment. And the Russian authorities, as we see, have turned this
resentment to their own advantage so far, channeling resentment and
hatred into revanchism of the war and the creation of a "great power to
be proud of." In those "great powers" that propagandists refer to, such
as the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union of the Stalin era, kept the
majority of the population in poverty, but, according to statesmen, the
main thing for a person is to be proud of the achievements of the state,
and not his standard of living. It's like a slave is offered to be proud
of the wealth of his master. Well, someone is proud. However, the
history includes the rebels, those whom pride did not allow to reconcile
with the fate of a slave.

It seems that domestic liberals and libertarians are not familiar with
the name of the Nobel laureate in economics and former vice president of
the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz. Writing for the Daily Star, he writes:
"For economists, the natural measure of freedom is the range of what can
be done. The larger the "opportunity set", the more freely you can act.
The one who is on the verge of starvation, doing what he must, just to
survive - in fact, has no freedom. From this point of view, an important
aspect of freedom is the ability to realize one's potential. A society
in which large segments of the population are deprived of such
opportunities, as is the case in societies with high levels of poverty
and inequality, is not really free." (Translation from the channel
"Tread of Astrea")

That is, capitalist economists are fully aware of the danger of
resentment, but statesmen, to whom Stiglitz belongs, usually offer
coercion. However, as an economist, he sees the origins well: in the
book The Roaring Nineties, the economist blames the shock reforms in
Russia and the revanchism they have grown, including on Western
politicians and economists, on whom Russian liberals still pray.

Probably, the question that the social struggle and the struggle for a
world arranged on fundamentally different grounds than the one that led
humanity to a dead end and again put it on the threshold of nuclear war
has never been so clear to anarchists before the question that the
social struggle and the struggle for peace, arranged on fundamentally
different grounds, is the most important thing, Why do anarchists exist?
Not a subculture, not life at the expense of working comrades, but
that's it. No one else in the world, except anarchists, can offer a
worthy future. And no one else in Russia. And they won't follow you if
all you can offer is to smoke weed and relax.

4. Comrades who are not comrades to us
But, of course, the first priority now is to stop the war. The collapse
of Russian power now depends on it. And that means the freedom of our
comrades and other decent people, whose only crime was their humanity
and sympathy for the victims of the war.

Anarchists who were forced to leave Russia and Belarus due to
repressions face misunderstanding from that part of anarchists and
leftists who are accustomed to seeing their enemy exclusively in NATO
and neglect the experience of anarchists from post-Soviet countries. The
selective blindness to Russian fascism and imperialism makes them forget
about anarchist solidarity and demonstrates their essentially colonial
mindset, in which they consider their own experience, the experience of
people living in safe and rich countries, more important than the
experience of those who go through prisons and torture and risk freedom
every day. Criticism of such pseudo-anarchists can be read in the
article translated by the "Pramen" group.

So for anarchists who find themselves abroad, in addition to the worries
associated with starting life in another country and activity related to
activities aimed at the liberation of Russia and the fight against its
militarism and colonialism, another direction for making efforts is not
only cooperation with local social activists, but also an explanation of
the essence of Russian fascism and the Belarusian dictatorship. This is
how, for example, anarchists from post-Soviet countries act in
Barcelona. If you need Spanish-language materials about the position of
anarchists who are in solidarity with the anti-colonization struggle of
Ukrainians, then, for example, comrades living in Catalonia have them.

5. Solidarity in the fight
As you can see, even by squeezing the anarchists out of the country, the
regime will not be able to get rid of them. For those who turned out to
be prisoners, it is important to take care of ourselves first of all.
Letters and material support are still needed and important. On the
resources of "Autonomous Action" you can regularly find out where and to
whom to write.

We remind you that every contribution to the cause of freedom and peace
is important, even if it seems small to some. Everyone has different
capabilities and resources, but where one cannot cope, many will cope.
Resentment - the despair and anger of the dispossessed - resentment must
be ours.

Last week was just the anniversary of Swan Lake, and it is important to
remember the cautionary tale of August 19, 1991. Gray putschists with
trembling hands, people building barricades against tanks (including
anarchists, by the way). The barricade builders won. But politicians
have decided that they are the winners. Next, these politicians will
build a new prison.

Having taken freedom, it cannot be given to "professional politicians"
and "effective managers". Only anarchy, only self-government.

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and
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Issue prepared by Nina T.

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