In order to truly break and to truly build we will have to follow Dolcino, the adamites, Munzer and John of Layden and not Stalin. The Russian revolution actually did not reach many of its goals, failed in a many aspects. But it would be more adequate to discuss this in the next lecture.
Lecture 12
The Bolsheviks started by attempting on many things. On the first revolution of the fourth estate in the world. The entire world of the hungry and the slaves had to, after cutting off the higher society classes for their uselessness, liquidating them or scattering over the country, rule the state itself, by means of the Soviets [councils].
This did not happen. Because: first of all the organization that realized and organized the revolution in the name of the fourth estate (proletarians, hired workers) – the Bolshevik party did not disbanded itself and did not transfer all the power in the hands of the Soviets. The Party, on the contrary, gave up just a little bit in the hands of the Soviets and itself took more and more power. Secondly: the party filled the Soviets with herself from within and thus doubled itself at the power. The functions of the Soviets and the party were not strictly delimited, in any case it is not the fourth estate that began to govern the country but the party.
The RSDRP, later the RKPB, VKPB – the party that realized the revolution, was not in any way a fourth estate party, but was a party of misfits, which was already discussed in this book. And precisely because it was a party of misfits it was talented, effective and could carry out the revolution. Like the Bolsheviks’ party, the fascists in Italy and the national-socialists in Germany assembled misfits’ parties and not parties of the proletarians or the bourgeoisie. (That is why they produced such hatred and that is why they were trampled, all of them. Some – earlier, some – later! They did not belong.)
The Great Parties of Europe, including the party led by Lenin were in fact extraordinary armies of mercenaries-voluntaries who set up for the task of seizing the power for the fourth estate. And to set up the power of the fourth estate, its eternal kingdom. Only they called their “entire world of the hungry and slaves” – the fourth estate differently. The Bolsheviks called it “the proletariat” or “the working people”. Hitler called them the “volk” – the people, or the German people, Mussolini – Popolo d’Italia (his newspaper was called that too), but they had in mind the entire fourth estate – the majority of the population. The power of the majority turned out to be absolutely just in comparison to the power of the minority classes: once of the aristocracy, later of the bourgeoisie. But the thing is that, after having seized the power for the fourth estate, the Great Parties did not leave. They stayed at the conquered power and governed de facto for the sake of the interests of the party, for the party. So no revolution for the proletariat or the volk happened. Happened a revolution for the party in the first place. And a bit for the proletariat (for the volk), so that the doctrine could at least meet ends. In Germany the enchanted power of the national-socialist party triumphed, of those activists and conspirators who gathered together in 1918-1933 under the leadership of Hitler. (Actually, a part of them died in the fratricide slaughter of 1934.) Later representatives of big capital in Germany joined the power. If the first revolution of 1933 (30 January, during the elections) was directed against the leftists and this revolution triumphed, then the second revolution – against the rightists, and it was demanded by the commandos headed by Ernst Rem in 1934, just as it was demanded by the leftist brothers Schtrassers – did not happen in the end. In Italy things were even worse: there the fascist regime of the misfits managed to share the power with the capital and even with the king.
And so, personally the power of the proletariat (the working people), the people (volk), the popolo – did not happen. That was the failure and the lie of the Great Revolutions of 1917, 1922, 1933. And in large part the self-deceit of the Great Parties.
They wanted to remake the world thoroughly and to set themselves for a long time in this “millenary Reich”, in “the communist future”, in “the Italian Mediterranean civilization”. They wanted to create a new man.
They were not able to create the soviet man. Some amount of individuals was subjected to a powerful suggestion, that they are soviet people. But the influence did not last for long. After the forced chopping of the Soviet Union in 1991 on republics, referendums in republics showed how unstable was this new man, how ephemeral. They did not create the soviet nationality of blood. Everything laid on suggestions, thin air.
They did not understand that the small people are slowed-detonation mines, put under the Soviet civilization. Already from the 20s they allowed to every insignificant tribe to cherish its “adats”, its ancestors’ customs. Thus the center in Moscow even helped them! The all-Russian budget gave money for the existence of newspapers, journals, books, typographies on the languages of the USSR peoples. For those, the shabbiest ones who didn’t even had writing, our scientists even developed the writing and wrote down their oral legends. By this, broadening the isolation of these peoples, intensifying their difference, giving rise to international conflicts.
When for a hundred years they should have relentlessly physically mixed the USSR peoples, creating a single, ethnically soviet people. They had to, like it is done now in Saudi Arabia to conduct single demonstrative many thousands’ marriages of northern peoples with the southern, western with the eastern or even select couples at random, or to draw the grooms and the brides in a daily All-Union lottery. To change their names and families on Ivanovs, Petrovs and Sidorovs. They had to starve all languages except Russian. They had to do everything in order that the Latvians, Lithuanians, Kazaks, Kamchadals and others forget their history, if they had one. It was not necessarily to burn historical books and dictionaries. It would have sufficed not to republish them. If the Bolsheviks had started to do this from the first year of the revolution – they would have done the job in 70 years! But not only did they not mold them together, no, they encouraged discord, they encouraged to each man – his. They continued to teach in schools the Tatar yoke, the Kulikovo field, without realizing, indifferently, how was this for the Tatars. So why were they surprised that Tatar nationalism started to come out of the woodwork the moment it became possible. They had to write such history textbooks that would have molded us together! There was no Fomenko/Nosovsky at the time, well they had to invent them!
I remember with shame that ten years earlier I bowed before Stalin as a radical leader. He had a cruel will, but he did not have brains. I looked at Stalin through pink glasses! With his resettlement of ethnicities, hostile to the soviet people – the Crimea Tatars, Ingushi, Chechens and others who dared to fight against the Soviet people on the side of the Germans, a resettlement only to Kazakhstan, in the country interior, he just intensified the problem. And set up a foundation for intertribal conflicts in the future. Because children, grand children were born… They remembered the offense, they survived, they served in the Soviet Army, they learned from the officers of the Empire how to fight. How could this be allowed to happen? At least don’t take them, the offended, in the army, don’t teach them war! They taught Mashadov, they taught Dudaev. If there would have been among the leaders of the Soviet State an expert in Roman history then he would have said: “The Empire perished when it started to accept in its legions barbarians and to teach them military art”… They had to solve the question more radically. They did not succeed in mixing the soviet people, where would have been included the Chechens and the Ingushi and the Crimean Tatars, so they had to solve the question more radically. To banish the incorrigibles peoples from soviet territory. To force them out into Turkey. Who would have dared in 1944 or 1945 to resist the Soviet Army, discharging the resettlers in Turkey? Nobody. After all the tsars already have forced there the Chechens and the Crimean Tatars. There were many there. There would have been even more. And to return would have been far more problematic than from Kazakhstan. They had to disperse the peoples. Among the majority of those who had to be dispersed there was no such powerful nation core as there was for the Jews – the most dispersed people in the world – Judaism. They would have dispersed. They had to encourage mixed marriages. To marry by force, by force to drive them through the country. To introduce planned replacements of population of entire regions. With the power that the Bolsheviks possessed this was realizable. Easily.