The suffering this man unleashed upon humanity has been intense, ongoing and ever-increasing! Like Khrushchev before him, he was an arch 'Trotskyite' who manoeuvred his way into the position of 'General Secretary' of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - and was even 'President' of the Soviet Union between 1990-1991 - whilst he oversaw the final destruction of the then 74-year-old Workers' State! The US, UK and EU flooded the post-Soviet space with perpetuators of religious extremism, fascism and free market economics - a process which has saw ‘minority’ Neo-Nazi (and Neo-Fascist) fringe groups brought to mainstream power in the Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, etc! Although modern Russia is now a poverty-stricken, capitalist country suffering from the fascistic-leanings associated with Pan-Slavism, the Russian State has at least seen fit to unleash its military (the successor to the Soviet Red Army) upon its Ukrainian neighbours to combat the Neo-Nazi ‘Euro-Maidan’ regime which was illegally brought to power in 2014 by the US Obama Administration! The Americans have chosen Neo-Nazism as its primary foreign policy tool as it remains staunchly ‘anti-Russian’ in both its early anti-Bolshevik ‘Mein Kampf’ phase – and in its later post-1945 ‘Soviet crushing’ of Nazi Germany phase! This despicable fascist regime has subsequently been further armed, financed and politically supported by the US, UK and EU – with its military being primed for a major push into the territory of West Russia (advancing the cause of ‘NATO’ in the process)! In reaction, the people of the Crimea voted to leave the Ukraine and join Russia – whilst a number of left-leaning ‘Republics’ were declared throughout East Ukraine – all stating their secession from the Ukraine, their self-determination and their eventual intention of merging with Russia! Although the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi ‘Nationalist’ Battalions were used to ruthlessly destroy a number of these ‘Republics’ - two managed to hold-out for the full eight-years – namely Lugansk and Donetsk in the Donbass region. A UN Report states that between 2014-2022 the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi ‘Nationalist’ Battalions killed between 10,000-15,000 men, women and children in the breakaway region, maiming a further 50,000 people! As a consequence, the military actions of Russia are entirely legal - as Russia is coming to the aid of a population that has declared its ‘independence’ and which has ‘requested’ such assistance! Of course, it is ironic that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also the successors of the Soviet Red Army, and that the Ukraine is the area that suffered the most during Nazi Germany’s invasion of the USSR between 1941-1945 (killing around 41 million Soviet citizens). Indeed, the USSR took care to build as many defensive areas as possible throughout the Ukraine without openly effecting the quality of life for the local population, in an effort to ‘protect’ the population of the USSR from the threat posed by a NATO ground and air assault! Today, whilst the Neo-Nazi Ukrainians flaunt their Swastikas and their unbridled Western support – Russia abounds with working-class dereliction, racism, religious extremism and religious stupidity, homophobia and an intellectual and cultural poverty that has taken just 31-years to instil into their minds and bodies! Russian people in general are as ‘nationalistic’ as the Ukrainians they are fighting, and the Donbass inhabitants they are liberating! This fact underlies the power of the betrayal that the man pictured at the top of this article unleashed on the people of the USSR! A people that just 31-years ago viewed themselves as being ‘united’ and part of the ‘International Working Class’ - now view themselves as a ‘separate’ and ‘distinct’ (superior ‘Slavic’) race which hates all non-Russians and views the political left-wing of Europe and America (a political left-wing the USSR helped to nurture and grow throughout the 20th century) as being some type of ‘liberal’ conspiracy designed to import homosexuality (which modern Russians incorrectly associate with paedophilia) into Russia as a means to deprive Russia of its natural manliness! All this bourgeoise greed, hatred and delusion had been educated out of the minds and bodies of the citizens of the USSR through their Soviet (Marxist-Leninist) education – but in just 31-years of the bourgeoisie throughout the post-Soviet space taking back control of the means of production – nationalism, racism, hatred and discrimination are the new norms! The capitalist West may criticise the war between Russia and the Ukraine – but behind the scenes the Western leaders will be happy! The capitalist division of labour is nothing less than the division of the working class! When groups of limited self-interest form that possess no underlying and unifying base – then conflict and competitiveness are the inevitable result! When the working class is divided and fighting itself for the petty control of land – then it is too busy to ‘unite’ and form ‘Socialist’ groups that could effectively challenge the status quo! Surely, this is the greatest achievement of the man pictured at the top of this article – who lived just long enough after the collapse of the Soviet Union he engineered to see its constituent people start the processes of killing one another!
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Just as the bourgeoise retain control of the means of product, as the dominant class, the bourgeoise tends to also dominant all the prevalent forms of art. Bourgeois art is indicative of the ‘mystification’ of what it is to be ‘bourgeois’ - and nothing else. The intellectual location of the intended destination of bourgeois art lies just over the boundary of the material edge of bourgeois-defined reality – it is bourgeois material reality 1.5! In and of itself, there is nothing particularly difficult to understand about this as a a) process and b) manifestation. Even for many bourgeoisie – who are too busy amassing their ill-gotten wealth - ‘art’ of this type remains as periphery to their perception as it stands in relation to the relevance of material reality. Bourgeois-art is a manifestation of the limitation of bourgeois thought. This being the case, the working-class should not stand enawed by this process. The proletariat must retain an independent creativity that runs a) parallel to and b) stand in competition to its bourgeois alternative. Although separate and distinct, proletariat art can (and must) occasionally over-lap with, dominate-over and on occasion - ‘replace’ - the bourgeois alternative it seeks to replace. This is because the auspices of proletariat art lie just beneath the surface of a society it does not yet dominant due to continuing bourgeois control of the means of production and every social, cultural and political advantage this dominance bestows upon its bourgeois user. This should not, in and of itself, interfere with the natural business of ideological displacement, for as time progresses, the dialectical power of proletariat art will become ever greater and prominent for the minds and bodies of the majority of human-beings living within society. Proletariat art is the ever-present spectre living just below the surface of the conscious-mind and just beyond the moving aspects of the material world! As the next and most important stage of human mind-body evolution, proletariat art is the summation of everything that is great and good about the working-class and the Socialist Revolution that it will initiate over the bourgeoise! The bourgeois class will eventually cease to exist – just as their art will stop possessing any relevance as an expression of material reality (as the exploitative material reality it currently manifests will no longer exist to be reflected through the machinations of bourgeoise at). However, even at this stage, it is important for the proletariat artist to remain ‘free’ of all contrived structure and mechanisms of self-limiting control. This process also includes not falling into the trap of hyper-individualism premised upon ‘isolation’ and enhanced by a certain ‘cultural’ irrelevance. These are the challenges for the genuine working-class artist.
Living within the capitalist West, the existential reality for a young worker is that of family which serves as a cocoon within larger society. A young worker exists to have their minds and bodies ‘exploited’ by the Bourgeois State within which they live. The purpose and function of each generation of the working-class is the maintenance of the (historical) production of continuous ‘profit’ which is ‘stolen’ and ‘usurped’ by the controlling-bourgeoisie – and used to a) construct a sound nest and b) feather that nest with every available comfort known to humanity! As the bourgeoisie control the means of production, they also control the political system, the judicial system and the type of law-making they prefer which moulds the interior of society to their liking. The predatory capitalist system is presented as ‘inevitable’ with the best the working-class can hope for is to secure semi-stable employment and save a little of their wages for a rainy day. Of course, as the bourgeoisie now ruthlessly controls the management of business and has systematically ‘crushed’ and ‘disempowered’ the Unions over the last four-decades, attaining a job is a) not that easy, and b) maintaining a job once secured for any length of time is just as hazardous. This is because the bourgeoisie use capitalist society as a trading-floor where they buy and sell working-class (human) flesh for the lowest possible prices, for the minimum of any sort of ‘guarantee’. The bodies and minds of the workers are set adrift in this sea of habitual aggression and brutal exploitation with only the agency of ‘death’ (natural or otherwise) offering a permanent ‘break’ with the system! As the ‘Communist Party’ hardly figures on the daily radar of the contemporary working-class (even though the Communist Party is the only legitimate way out of predatory capitalism for the working-class) – as it is the bourgeois system that is pumped into the living room of the average family through the TV, radio and print, media, etc. Schooling provides a sound basis in eulogising the capitalist system and in demonising Socialism and capitalism, whilst further and higher education only serves to strengthen this view through ever more sophisticated models of fabrication, disinformation and exaggeration, etc. In other words, the mind and body of the worker is assailed on every side by the pro-capitalist rhetoric of the bourgeoisie! As it takes time to dialectically work their way out of this ensnarement, coming into contact with the works of Marx and Engels, and getting to grips with the disparate nature of the post-1991 Communist situation (following the collapse of the USSR), a worker is left with the only viable option of working on the state of their own mind. As both Buddha an Marx defined human-suffering as emerging from ‘inverted’ thinking, it can be argued that by embracing an Early Buddhist approach to mind-control and bodily discipline – the greed, hatred and delusion upon which the bourgeoisie construct their society are uprooted from the mind of the individual worker – eventually [producing (through labour) a ‘new’ Socialist individual who has broken the false isolating individuality preferred by the bourgeoisie (as an isolated individual is easier to control than an empowered collective) and has opened their mind to a ‘collective’ and ‘all-embracing’ reality which allows for an inrush of correct class consciousness! This is where a worker can acquire knowledge of Buddhist meditation from a book or documentary, or locate and attend a local Buddhist temple. The point is not to embrace a community of religion, but rather utilise the Buddhist method to break free of bourgeoise conditioning and use this as an embarkation point on the sea of a new proletarian politics! A worker who has achieved this ‘breaking’ with the bourgeoisie system can then approach the complicated world of Socialist and Communist ideology with a sense of confidence and assuredness!
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The BMA (UK) caters as a focal point for many different people of various backgrounds. As such, there is no rigid membership - just fluid ideas all heading away from capitalism and towards Socialism (as Marx and Engels explained). We all bring our own requirements, so to speak, and collectively work it all out! My job is that of key researcher for the BMA (UK) which involves stripping away all the bourgeois layers of misrepresentation and appropriation that is used to mislead the masses in the West! Basically, Buddha becomes Christ and enlightenment becomes God. The next step is to brainwash the practitioners into believing that there is no difference between the theism of Christianity and the non-theism of Buddhism! This prepares the psychological and physical ground for conversion to bourgeois Christianity, and on it goes! Genuine Buddhism is nothing like this and very close to the Dialectical approach of Marx and Engels! Indeed, these last ten years of my research has been to 'prove' this hypothesis and the evidence is clear. It is an association which is common place in China and I have made good contacts with professors over there - all of whom agree with this observation. In this regard, meditation becomes a means through which working class people can take control of their own minds and purge them of ALL bourgeois conditioning! This method can be used even before any type of formal education as anyone can sit and meditate and reorientate their minds toward a thoroughly proletariat world view. The Buddha dialectically discovered a form of Scientific Socialism 2,500 years ago and expressed it in a Revolutionary manner using concepts familiar to his culture and his Epoch - but like Marx and Engels, he also used the current situation, terms and common understandings to generate a new view of the world that only really makes sense to humanity today, and only then to individuals who have already studied Marx and Engels! When the mind is thoroughly emptied of its contexts, then the only remaining reality is that of Scientific Socialism! Of course, this turns out to be the only real reality when everything else is understood to be bourgeois, delusive nonsense! We can either live in our imaginations or clear our minds and occupy the dominant position of dialectical prominence and advanced understanding and behaviour! Best Wishes Adrian Many authors from the US and Western Europe perpetuate the disturbing habit of justifying and normalising the contemporary modal of predatory capitalism, by severely criticising any attempt to move away from it. Authors such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, for example, attempt to ‘normalise’ the capitalist system by demonising and stigmatising any alternative visions of humanity as being ‘dystopic.’ Of course, the deck is stacked in the favour of their objective as they ensure that truly disturbing, unsavoury or nightmarish realities are ‘invented’ and ‘inserted’ in their narratives to give flesh to the bones of their contentions. Anyone can invent a nightmare and use fear to prevent the easily-led from exploring a certain avenue of exploration. Parents have done this to children since time immemorial, but the intended audience of these dystopic fictions are generally not children – but adults! The authors who employ this scare tactic make a living out of their labours, but more than this, they seek to preserve the idyllic (bourgeois) enclave within which they live, and within which most other people do not live. To achieve this objective, the capitalist system must be presented as the only viable alternative for humanity when all other variants have been considered (the latter of which NEVER happens beyond the sensational). Every word they write buzzes with a ‘narrow’ pro-capitalist rhetoric disguised as ‘universal’ concern for the welfare of humanity! Changing any aspect of contemporary capitalism is automatically associated with the agency of ‘horror’. There is a certain ‘technophobe’ element to this style of writing which the capitalist system extols – with a warning that ordinary people do not possess the intellectual ability or physical prowess to take control of society and guide its development in a different direction to the one it has been going in. This style of science fiction is therefore anti-working-class and anti-Socialist – as the true-horror for the likes of Huxley and Orwell is the proletariat taking-over the control of society and eradicating the unjust and unfair privileges currently enjoyed by the bourgeoisie. A question never asked is ‘where does the true horror lie?’ Predatory capitalism, when viewed honestly and across its broad spectrum of manifestation, presents an image of absolute and true horror a thousand times more terrible, frightening and deadly than anything that has emanated from the pens of Huxley or Orwell! Why is the brutal and oppressive (existential) reality of capitalism never assessed by these bourgeois science fiction writers? The answer is simple – it is because that if they admit the genuinely ‘horrific’ nature of capitalism, they will be betraying the interests of their own class. The pointing-out of the ‘horror’ of everyday capitalist existence is to simultaneously point-out the ‘how’ and ‘why’ the bourgeoisie live in an oasis of capitalist excess built on the bones of the millions of workers who have died earning it for them! Starvation, homelessness, illness, injury, high mortality, deformity, illiteracy, criminality, rape, murder and mayhem! The true horror of the heart of capitalism is the physical and psychological impoverishment of the majority of the people who waste their bodies performing soul-destroying labour which keeps the privileged few sat in their studies sipping tea and making-up nightmarish stories as to why it is that things cannot be changed!
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