The reaction of supporters of left-wing movements to the events of July 27 was mixed. Unfortunately, it can be noted that some of the “left” in the assessment of the event turned out to be “on opposite sides of the barricades”, speaking (at least verbally) on the side of one of the parties conflicting around the elections to the Moscow City Council.
Such a "delimitation" among the left movements can only cause regret. Communists cannot sympathize with any of the “conflicting” parties - neither the “liberal” (right) opposition, nor the ruling regime guards behind the backs of the riot police. This is the case when it is time to say: “A plague on both your houses!”. Let the two groups of bourgeois forces understand each other, but for the time being we shall stand aside. This is the position occupied by the AUCPB.
Nevertheless, there were figures in the left movement who came out for one of the bourgeois parties. Let's briefly analyze their mistakes.
The most stupid thing was the “Left Bloc”, which sent its supporters to rallies organized by the “liberals”, under the baton of riot police. In principle, this organization has always acted in the role of a “liberals” rash. The leaders of the United Communist Party (OKP) acted more "cautiously", like D. Mitina, who verbally supported the "opposition", but did not send her supporters into clashes, and left Moscow in advance of July 27.
However, even verbal support for the “liberal opposition” (not to mention joining the rallies held under the right-wing slogans) is absurd. Modern “liberals” are not even any liberals, but the most genuine ultra-right, combining the ideology of neoliberalism in the economy with evil anti-communism and anti-Sovietism in politics. Their coming to power will mean the establishment of a right-wing dictatorship with open terror and repression against the communists, left and labor movements. They do not hide these plans. If there is no riot police on their way, then it is possible that stopping them under the slogan “No pasaran!” (They will not pass!) Will have left movements.
The most accurate historical comparison of the events was given by the leader of the Communists of Karelia group A. Stepanov, rightly comparing modern “liberals” with the Hitlerites: “In the 1920s, the police of the Weimar Republic often brutally beat and imprisoned the Nazis. But no matter how the German communists hated the policemen (and there was nothing to hate for) about this, they probably didn’t steam at all, ”he said.
So, to sympathize with the "liberals" to us to anything. Moreover, it was not their leaders who suffered from the riot police batons, but their rank and file supporters. You can, of course, “sympathize” with ordinary demonstrators, who were deceived by their leaders, who were caught up in delusions. Well, so among the supporters of the Nazis were deceived people. With this side, everything is clear.
But, unfortunately, among the "left" there were people who took the opposite position, no less harmful. There were those who began to sympathize with the authorities and the police. Like, if the "liberals" are our enemies, then so it should be, fuck them, sweetheart ... that is, the police. Such a position also looks absurd.
First, we also have no reason to “sympathize” with the riot police. Today, security forces are thrown against the “liberal” march, and tomorrow riot police will attack the demonstrations in the same way, arrest social activists who have come out to protest against the power of the bourgeoisie.
Secondly, it is very foolish to rejoice in the fact that "riot police dispersed the liberals." He dispersed ordinary "infantry", criminal cases of unrest were instituted and ordinary participants of the action were arrested, and the headquarters of the "liberals" remained intact. Recall the events seven years ago: the events on Bolotnaya Square in May 2012. After clashes with riot police, ordinary participants in the clashes went to prison. Of the leaders in prison, only the leader of the Left Front, S. Udaltsov, provided his supporters to the "liberals" as "infantry." But all the “liberal” leaders remained free. This means, among other things, that the differences are not so great, that the gap between the current government and the “opposition” is not great. The lords are fighting, and at the lackeys the forelocks crack.
In addition, rejoice that the "riot police dispersed the liberals," meaningless. The “liberals” did not weaken from this dispersal, but only intensified. Substituting their ordinary supporters under a baton, they created for themselves the image of persecuted, but “irreconcilable” fighters with power. While ordinary supporters heal wounds and sit in jail, the leaders of the "opposition" will continue to collect politi
common dividends
More than a hundred years ago, I.V. Stalin wrote that a demonstration that develops into an open clash is a powerful weapon of the opponents of the authorities. “It’s enough for a person to go out during a demonstration to the street to see courageous fighters, to understand what they are fighting for, to hear free speech calling everyone for a fight, a battle song revealing the existing system revealing our public sores ...“ The curious ”see that the demonstrators gathered on the street in order to express their desires and demands, while the authorities respond to them with beating and brutal suppression, ”comrade Stalin noted.
Today's "liberals", of course, read Stalin, studied the methods and forms of struggle of the past. And they specifically put their supporters under the baton of the police, because they understand that a man in the street, dissatisfied with the social situation, will gradually begin to sympathize with unarmed demonstrators beaten by equipped riot police. He will start to sympathize with the "opposition", not realizing that the leaders of the "liberal opposition", unlike the revolutionaries of a century ago, are no fighters, but dodgy businessmen who turn politics into capital.
The task of the Bolshevik communists today is to expose both the ruling "United Russia" power clinging to their seats, and the "liberal opposition", who dreams of sitting in the same seats.
The task of the communists and all leftists is not to be “infantry” in other people's games, but to lead a revolutionary agitation and prepare the working people for decisive class battles, which are not far off.
Dar Vetrov
