Reply to Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky, at [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote on
the 24/8/2000 0:20:
> More on the Kursk. It looks like that the Russian establishment is
> seriously claiming that the sub was intentionally sunk by a NATO
> ship. Slimy road they are treading on...
Comrade,
I question very much the prediction that this is the beginning of World War
III, of all the conspiracy theories that could possibly emerge from the
sinking of the Kursk. Apart from the fact that Russia is incapable of
winning a war against a country a millionth the size of it with a population
of only some hundreds of thousands, and its military has been imploding for
the past decade, the Russian bourgeoisie has depended on Western imperialism
for its continued rule since the counterrevolution commenced. The systematic
rape of Russia committed by the emerging bourgeoisie, the so-called
"oligarchs", was not just carried out with the complicity of imperialism,
but could not have occurred at all if it had not been for their aid.
Much of the nationalism in Russia is that of the oppressed, and its reason
is due to the systematic rape of the country committed by imperialism. The
bourgeoisie cannot simply ignore that. Thereby we have always got this
half-hearted anti-Western rhetoric coming from the mouths of the
representatives of the Russian bourgeoisie. In reality, it is meaningless
dogma. They are incapable of challenging, in any meaningful way, the Western
bourgeoisie, because their fate is tangled up with it.
This was exposed during the bombing of Yugoslavia. Russia would jump up and
down, denouncing the West, asking how dare it could break international law,
bla bla bla. Yet in the end, Russia served as the imperialists' aid in
gaining occupation of Kosovo. They virtually accepted the flattening of
Yugoslavia. The bourgeois press here said that Russia had thereby humiliated
itself. But then the Russian bourgeoisie is not a nationalist bourgeoisie,
but one dependant on imperialism, and thereby its role in Kosovo should not
be taken as a "humiliation" - it did it voluntarily. This is why any support
for the Russian bourgeoisie, for instance in crushing supposedly
"imperialist proxy rebels" in Chechnya is all the more absurd. The only
imperialist proxy is the regime seated in Moscow, and comrades who think
otherwise are usually suffering from Soviet Union Syndrome - i.e. defending
Russia as though it were still a workers' state of some kind.
Owen
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