The rest is different, and the cuts are still ongoing.
A friend of mine called the workers of the helicopter plant a “labor aristocracy”, and it seems to me that there are good reasons for this: stable wages, convenient working hours, good working conditions, and social guarantees. Nowadays, the ever-increasing exploitation of the working class (“Yandex-food”, taxis, etc.), where people are squeezed out all the juice for meager wages, the plant seems to be a stronghold of stability and confidence in the future, a sort of island of socialism in a stormy sea capital. There are still the 13th salary, paid sick leave and leave. But this is only the appearance of stability, because the plant has long been owned by shareholders who share the lion’s share of profits in the form of dividends, and none of the workers are guaranteed the right to work, which was enshrined in Article 118 of the USSR Constitution, which stated that : "Citizens of the USSR have the right to work, that is, the right to receive a guaranteed job with payment for their labor in accordance with its quantity and quality." The socialist organization of the national economy ensured this right. The article of the bourgeois constitution of Russia says that “Labor is free. Everyone has the right to freely dispose of their abilities to work, to choose the type of activity and profession ”. Therefore, today, if you have children who can be ill - free, health problems - free, the age is not suitable - free, you don’t need your employer anymore - free! After all, no one else grants the right to guaranteed work, now labor is free, and the current cuts are proof of that. Reductions that are issued for technical re-equipment and optimization, and in fact caused by a drop in production due to the lack of intelligible government order and the plant being hit by foreign sanctions. These people are no longer needed by their enterprise; now they are free.
Communicating with the workers and leading the agitation, I made several conclusions for myself: the first is that most of them are not at all familiar with the theory of Marxism-Leninism; and the second is practically universal “petty-bourgeois” consciousness. The writer Hermann Hössé defined the term bourgeoisism in his writings as: “Quiet following to the majority, for leading a moderate moderate life, it tries to settle in the middle between extremes, in a moderate and healthy zone, without violent storms and thunderstorms”. Most of the workers of the plant have a cozy world of opportunists, everything they have “respectably”, in their opinion, is verified. They have no firm convictions (we are not for the left, we are not for the right, we are by ourselves), selfishness is pronounced (even if they will reduce everyone, but not for me) and other signs of the “petty-bourgeois” consciousness, each of which manifests itself differently. These people seem to have stopped in their development, and not only in the professional, but also in the spiritual. Their whole life boils down to quickly finish the working day and return to their corner with a beer near the TV or computer. But the most unpleasant is consumer attitude to everything, including the plant: “I just need to have time to pay the loan, and then it doesn’t matter what happens to the enterprise and where I will go to work.” They have no pride in their enterprise, pride in their work and in the rank of a worker, they live for one day. They avoid everything that can disrupt their habitual way of life, pull their inner world from the shell. To all the talk about politics, about the processes taking place, about the deterioration of the quality of life, the answer is one: “We cannot change anything, so why spoil our nerves?”
Of course, why spoil your nerves, being interested in politics, where it is better to spoil them, each time getting receipts for housing and communal services, when going to medical institutions, when going to the store, etc. It is much easier to sit and discuss everything that happens in the kitchen than to pick up a book and get acquainted with the theory of Marxism-Leninism and sort out the processes around them, wake up your class consciousness. After all, change must begin first of all from oneself, but a full life and the absence of serious problems lazy people, lazy enough that they stopped reading books. Internet and television are brainwashed every day. The main stream of information is now comprehended from the mouth of bloggers who appeared in a huge number, various “historians”, and TV shows, the reliability of the facts in which, to put it mildly, is doubtful, and often just lying and slanderous, but the habit to calmly and without complacency make it impossible for most to think on their own. Thanks to liberal propaganda over the past thirty years, the ideas of socialism have been tarnished and discredited to such an extent that the entire agitation just breaks against the wall of false templates about “bloody repression”, “millions of people shot” and “total deficit”. The class consciousness in the proletariat is being killed more and more each day, and the “machine” under the name of the media does everything so that it does not wake up.
But there is no evil without good. Previously, among the workers there were a lot of those who, with sympathyI came to the current government, and with confidence that “no one but Putin” will be able to raise Russia, they went to the polls to vote, but now over the past 1.5 years their attitude has changed. If anti-people decrees and laws adopted by the government finally shaken the faith of these people in the correctness of their choice and forced themselves to admit that they were deceived (surprisingly, for the first time in 19 years they were deceived ?!), the crisis at the plant and everything that happened did not admit that they themselves are the dumb accomplice of their deception and their position (especially those who have already been reduced, because many of them voted for the next Putin “economic breakthrough”). The quintessence of this deception was the pension reform, which turned out to be just spitting in the face of people from caring authorities and who finally removed the “rose-colored glasses” from their eyes.
In this situation, paradoxically, the words "the worse, the better." The more the bourgeois government adopts such laws, the more the economy collapses and the unemployment grows, the more people start to face the threat to be on a social bottom, the faster their consciousness starts to wake up, the faster bourgeoisness will get out, because nothing is so clears the head, as a threat to remain hungry or homeless.
Alexander R.
“Modern wage slaves, by virtue of the conditions of capitalist exploitation, remain so overwhelmed by need and poverty that they are“ not up to democracy ”,“ not up to politics ”, that in the ordinary, peaceful course of events most of the population is excluded from participation in public and political life” - VI Lenin, Pol. Collected cit., v.33, p.87
