By Vladimir Ryabov
The more passions flare up on the left flank about the economic feasibility of terms of value and worth, the more disputing parties are likened to alchemists trying to “extract” pure gold from the components of what was said. Only in this way do modern “communists” manage to see both the value and the value of the criteria of the commodity mode of production considered by them.
This wave of evaluation of the new economic feasibility has risen somewhere from the period of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx and continues to the present. And all would be fine, since the matter concerns the first chapters of Capital, Marx, where he comprehensively considers consumer and exchange values, the transition from the universal form of value to monetary form. “From the function of money as a medium of circulation, their monetary form arises. The weight part of gold, mentally presented in the price, or the monetary name of the goods, should resist in the process of circulation as a piece of gold of the same name or coin, ”says Marx in the section“ Coin. “The sign of value.” And continues, “Paper money is only so much a sign of value, since they are representatives of known quantities of gold, and the amount of gold, like any other quantities of goods, is at the same time the amount of value.”
But in the fourth chapter of Capital, Marx derives the “General Formula of Capital” C – M – C. And having included the surplus value in the analysis, he comes to the conclusion that capital “is self-growth”. After the section "Buying and Selling Labor", Marx goes directly to the foundations of the class struggle, in which the liberation of the Army of Labor from the shackles of Capital becomes the logical outcome of such a struggle, because the ultimate goal in this struggle is the construction of a classless society, communism.
Why did the modern “Communists" give all the problems of the modern economy to the left-wing bourgeois economists, and began to re-read Marx themselves. Their problem is that they do not want to see that cost has long been in the place of value, which appeared after Lenin’s well-known wording: "Communism is the Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country." Modern followers of the revisionist line of the CPSU Central Committee never analyze Lenin's electrification, since from the Leninist formulation of communism they are only interested in the Soviet regime. But it is impossible to build communism by the Soviet authorities; a powerful economic flywheel of Lenin’s electrification is needed. "Without electrification," said Lenin, "the return of capitalism is inevitable."
Socialism in the USSR fell apart because Lenin’s electrification did not work in it since Khrushchev’s time, and Lenin’s wording on communism was replaced with a promise to build communism in 1980. But in essence, all this Khrushchev-Brezhnev construction of the new society turned into a well-functioning mechanism for transferring the party nomenclature to the bourgeoisie, which in 1991 launched an open attack on property.
Why are modern “communists" better than the Khrushchev-Brezhnev nomenclature? Yes, they are no better. If the old party nomenclature was waiting for the collapse of the USSR, then the modern "communists" are waiting for the peak of the systemic crisis of capitalism, which will bring down Russia as well, which may allow them to take power "on bayonets." But Lenin warned: “One can defeat bayonets, but one cannot sit on bayonets”. Here, wherever you look, you need Lenin's electrification and movement towards communism, otherwise stagnation and counter-revolution.
How, then, at the cost of production, can communism be built?
In 1922, the book of I.I. Skvortsova-Stepanova "Electrification of the RSFSR in connection with the transitional phase of the world economy", which Lenin in mid-April of the same year gave the highest rating. During the Leninist period, Ivan Skvortsov (wrote under the pseudonym Stepanov) was the translator of Capital of Marx into Russian, and after the Great October Socialist Revolution he became the first people's commissar of finance in the Lenin government. So, in his book Skvortsov-Stepanov reduced all Leninist electrification to fuel, i.e., to energy resources.
Energy costs can always be calculated through the cost of production of any product, because all production is electrified and any accounting department calculates energy costs for the production of its own products. The whole question is only who controls the accounting? In Soviet times, this was done by primary party organizations in production, which trade unions could join. Therefore, energy consumption was well controlled only during the period of Lenin and Stalin, and Malenkov kept these orders for two years at the head of the government. Through the saving of energy, they sought to increase labor productivity, and surplus value was a thing of the past. And after the Great Patriotic War they even switched to lowering prices for consumer goods, which moved the entire monetary system to zero. That is, when Otherwise, the Soviet Union switched to the real practice of withering away money and building a classless society, communism.
The process of dying off the monetary system was carried out by controlling the entire production of the interests of the working class, the interests of which were expressed by the party and trade union committees, fighting to increase labor productivity in the whole production. The increase in labor productivity was achieved by saving energy resources, for the sake of which increased production plans were adopted, and energy fuel saved during the work was used to increase the living standards of the entire Soviet people, due to its monetary component. Thus, by counting the energy spent, the working class directly controlled the country's economy, influencing it by the growth of profit on its own interests. Cost figures were announced at every party or trade union meeting, so every worker knew what advantages he had in his work and what needed to be improved. To improve labor productivity, increased work plans were adopted at each workplace. Why did the working class really govern and remain the political leader in the country, under the leadership of its vanguard, the Bolshevik party.
Under Khrushchev, stagnation began, as the country was slowly shifting from energy to the monetary form of profit, which immediately put the ruble on its knees in front of the dollar. To eliminate criticism from below, I.V. Stalin, there were “victims of repression,” who began to openly destroy the socialist economy. Brezhnev had already introduced the costly mechanism of the economy in monetary terms, according to the principle: the more invested, the better it worked. The working class was not able to manage production through the monetary system, and therefore found itself overboard in decision-making. In the 70s, many residents in the USSR began to realize that a movement towards capitalism had begun. But all the leaders who could lead the movement against the collapse of the USSR were removed from the political arena in advance.
Now control over the consumption of energy resources from the party nomenclature was transferred to the hands of large oligarchs, who had been prepared in advance in the Komsomol committees. And due to this control, the oligarchs increase their profits, not forgetting their benefactors from the CPSU, who received their percentage after the privatization of socialist property. The basis of the economy remains all the same energy resources, which came under the control of the most advanced oligarchs by the forces of former party groups. Because of the resources, real wars erupt from the district level to the republican level, like the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And even quite favorable relations between Russia and Belarus are fraught with the threat of conflict over energy resources.
How did the West respond to the rapid breakthrough of Stalin's industrialization, which allowed the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi fascism? The West responded with its electrification based on the priority of money. The adjustments were made by the Bretton Woods World Monetary System, a form of organization of monetary relations, settlements established by the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, according to which the American dollar plays the role of world money along with gold.
But the American dollar could not become the master of the situation in the world market thanks to the stroke of the pen of the declaration of the Bretton Woods conference. However, he nevertheless became the master of the situation in the capitalist market for the reason that all the oil reserves of the post-war world were concentrated in the hands of the leading British and American monopolies, most of which were in the colonies. And it was precisely on the basis of this “black gold” that the dollar was able to fulfill the functions of the world gendarme, forcing everyone to buy dollars in order to buy oil products and develop their own economy, which without the purchase of energy resources for dollars for developing economies did not allow functioning at all. In addition, for payments in dollars, the American side introduced a system of taxes that had to be paid for the use of settlements in dollars. It must be said that the US imperialist circles also pulled up metals trading in energy trading, since metals depended heavily on the use of “black gold”, therefore they fell into the category of “blue chips” on financial exchanges, the trade of which was also drawn to the use of dollars.
Modern Russian politicians are not averse to leading all the processions associated with the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, as if they were united with the policy of Lenin's electrification, on the economic basis of which the industrial rise of the rear productivity and the combat feat of the Red Army were achieved. At the same time they bashfully close from the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin, whose genius was achieved industrial superiority over the economy of Nazi Germany, crushing under itself the whole of Europe. As they say, Russian politicians value the history of the country of the Soviets, but they love property very much, which does not allow them to raise labor productivity. After all, one cannot spell out spells to increase labor productivity in Russia alone Take real success.
Turning to the left gives two well-known deviations, Trotskyite and Bukharin, which filled the current communist movement and successfully fit into the current regime. In order to achieve self-growth of investments in this direction, it is necessary to use the economic base of Lenin's electrification in order to lead the working class of Russia and our allies in other countries that will support such a policy of the class and its political vanguard. And we must go to the revival of the USSR.
For this, just one modern support of Stalin is not enough, at such a turn it is necessary to know the history of the creation of a nuclear missile shield under the leadership of L.P. Beria and G.M. Malenkov and adopt the economic policy of increasing labor productivity, carried out under their leadership. That is, without erection on a pedestal L.P. Beria and G.M. Malenkova, next to I.V. Stalin, no self-growth is possible. The pedestal for the creators of the nuclear missile shield is not needed on its own, but is needed as an ideological start to exit and consolidate in the Universe, for the sake of which these people lived and where they carried us. There, in deep space, huge energies await us, which we must possess, because Lenin's electrification does not end within the Earth, it is a continuation of the Great October Revolution, which has a great path.
The wretched struggle for “black gold” of oligarchic regimes on the basis of a single world currency - the dollar can lead only to the fire of world war. For energy resources cannot belong only to moneybags, since they are the national property of the whole people, and only the people can manage their resources in their interests. And the thing is, who in the cost of production will calculate energy costs: the Army of Labor or the Army of Capital? The first option opens us the way to the future, the second option has no future.
August 2019
Leningrad
