Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the postponement
of the “all-Russian vote” on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian
Federation. “Voting” postponed to a later date, but not canceled
The main essence of the amendments was invented and boils
down to finding a legal formula for extending the supreme power of V. Putin.
All other “additions” and “changes” are farce and “distracting maneuvers”.
“All-Russian voting” is not a referendum, its decisions are
not binding and at the same time, the procedure does not even provide any hint
of independent monitoring of the voting process and calculation of its results.
The organizers - the bourgeois authorities of the Russian Federation - can
easily lead dependent groups of people to the ballot boxes and draw any numbers
of results.
Even apolitical citizens understand what the outcome of the
“vote” will be. Therefore, in order not to disrupt the appearance, the
authorities add various “impregnations” to the Constitution, which are designed
to lure the public into the “voting” process.
The Yeltsin Constitution itself, written and carried out
under tank volleys in 1993, does not change its essence in any way from the
proposed "amendments." It presupposes authoritarian presidential
power, designed to ensure the dominance of oligarchic groups of large
capitalists in the country. It was for this purpose that it was created during
the time of Yeltsin.
It is supposed to entice the "electorate" with
caricature-populist phrases, such as a promise of indexation of pensions and
equating the minimum wage to the cost of living. It is significant that these
cartoonish "amendments" are proposed only a few years after raising
the retirement age - after a blow to the most important social achievement that
citizens of the Russian Federation simultaneously lost.
At the same time, the Constitution becomes even more
reactionary: it is proposed to include the words about “faith in God” in it, at
the suggestion of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill.
It is no less significant that the day of "all-Russian
voting" was originally scheduled for April 22 - the day of the 150th
anniversary of V.I. Lenin. Voting for the reactionary Constitution was
scheduled for the birthday of the greatest man in Russian history - apparently
to show the depth of degradation and decline that has befallen our country over
the past 30 years. Instead of Soviet power, we now have an authoritarian
presidential regime, instead of socialism - a "living wage" for poor
citizens and the evocative wealth of capitalist oligarchs, instead of the
development of education and science - "faith in God" transmitted by
"ancestors".
The Bolsheviks urge fellow citizens to boycott the farce,
called the "all-Russian vote." Let the capitalists themselves vote
for their Constitution and the "amendments" to it.
We will not go to the ballot boxes, and on April 22 we will
bring fresh flowers to the monuments of V.I. Lenin, reminding fellow citizens
of the alternative to capitalism that offers mankind the teachings of
Marxism-Leninism.
The boycott of bourgeois “votes” is a step in the struggle
for revolutionary changes in society.
Dar Vetrov
