St. Petersburg (Leningrad), December 2018
BEST WISHES to the participants of the symposium
In the Program of the XXI International Scientific Symposium I was surprised by the wording of Clause 1 of the Program: The collapse of communist construction on the foundation of Marxism.
I want to express my opinion on the wording of the reasons for the collapse of the USSR about this discrepancy in the media.
First of all, the USSR was destroyed by actions both from the inside and outside of the USSR. Billions of dollars spent by the West, and above all the United States on the collapse of the USSR, are not badly covered in the communist press. The main internal cause of the collapse of the USSR is the opportunistic degeneration of the CPSU and above all its elite, and not at all the failure of the alleged theory of Marxism or Marxist ideology, as some “political scientists” believe by misunderstanding or malicious intent.
Communist construction was and remains possible only on the foundation of Marxism as the only scientific basis for building the communist civilization, since socialism, the first, initial stage of communism, can only be built on a scientific basis, only on the basis of scientific theory, only on the knowledge of the objective laws of social development, taking into account existing level of scientific and technological progress, and not on the elements of the capitalist market.
Our opinion: the defeat was not socialism on the basis of Marxism, but an opportunist perversion both in theory and in the economic practice of building socialism. Regarding the theory of Marxism, there were no scientists in the USSR who were capable after V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin to develop the theory of Marxism in modern conditions, and engaged only in boring teaching and dogmatism, writing and defending useless doctoral dissertations and empty sophisticated "scientific" discussions on little significant issues. According to Lenin, Marxism is not a dogma, but a guide to action. In the dissertations of pseudo-scholars, any guidance in the development of a socialist society based on Marxism in the development of a scientific and technological revolution was NOT sought after.
Being unable to develop Marxism and the theory of building socialism as a transitional stage from capitalism to communism, under Brezhnev, the economy generally abandoned socialist principles, the basic law of organizing a socialist economy - making a profit by increasing productivity through reducing energy costs and implementing economic the law of capitalism in the form of Kosygin-Liberman reform. From the assessment of the profits of production on the basis of the growth of labor productivity, they moved to the capitalist principle of determining profits in monetary terms. This opened up scope for frauds on the part of managers of enterprises that fictitiously increased the cost of production due to the little costly small “additives” on the product (for example, the drawing on the saucepan a flower and increasing its cost by 2-3 times). This made it possible for the director of production to use the release of a state-planned product — with the provision of raw materials and other things — for the release of additionally unrecorded products and marketing by the directors of stores and various sales offices with a division of revenue between the manufacturer and distributor of goods. This is how the underground criminal bourgeoisie appeared and grew up in the USSR.
The process of deformation of socialism, starting from the Brezhnev period, led to the abandonment of the socialist market (where labor is not a commodity and is the means of production) to the elements of the capitalist market with all the ensuing consequences, where everything, including man himself, is a commodity.
At the same time, an opportunistic degeneration of the ruling CPSU took place. The loss of 3.5 million members of the CPSU (b) on the Great Patriotic War fronts of the 5 million party and filling its ranks with politically illiterate people in Marxism significantly affected the political level of the CPSU. In addition, the children of the so-called repressed under Stalin climbed into the party and state apparatus. The “repressed” under Stalin, the descendants of dissatisfied with the Soviet authorities, who created a powerful fifth column of the pro-Western anti-Soviet-minded part of society, which overwhelmed both culture and the media, imposing nihilism on society in relation to the Soviet period of our history. The party was overgrown with opportunists, careerists, anti-communists.
Dogmatism and comics in party politics, complacency and complacency, conceit and p-revolutionary empty talk, political chatter and the separation of theory from socio-political practice led to the ideological degeneration of the CPSU. The party work itself became a bureaucratic activity. The party declared itself a party of scientific socialism, and then "the party of the whole people." In fact, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union broke away from the people, ceased to be "the mind, honor and conscience," it became rather the opposite. In other words, opportunism has received its political formation in the party.
Along with the rebirth of the party, the state apparatus was bureaucratized. The number of officials increased by 3 times compared with the Stalin period. The concepts of "pure democracy" are being introduced through the media. Through the media, public consciousness is being manipulated - orienting society in any direction desirable for pro-Western “Soviet” liberals.
Socialism can only be built on the scientific basis of the development of Marxism, taking into account the changing nature of the productive forces, by using the achievements of scientific progress. “Without theory, death is ours.” (JV Stalin)
I wish those who consider themselves to be a political scientist and theorist of social development, who have the strength and desire to study the laws of social development, to understand that the future objectively belongs to socialism, to remember that, historically, the national idea of Russia is to go ahead of the entire planet. And therefore, the daring theoreticians, I wish to become the real creators of the development of the theory of Marxism as the only scientific theory of the development of civilization and continue the path of the socialist development of the country. They collapsed the country from above, and it would have to be restored from below.
Good luck on the thorny path of the revival of the USSR!
N.A. Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB
