In understanding the post-perestroika political and economic hands involuntarily, an analogy with maps, with all the concomitant range of human passions, raging around the indispensable illusion of luck, which finally will reward the gambler for all the losses sustained. Indeed, liberal market lingo are not alien to such definitions as “punters” and “investment risks,” “venture enterprises” and other, seemingly borrowed from the slang of gamblers, wondering over the probabilities and possibilities of random events, completely motivated by personal gain and selfish interest as in accordance with liberal dogma, are supposed to act, “the subject of a market economy”. But luck so far and is lucky because the other player turns failure. End of an illusion often puts the opening of the Talon, then the “subject” of the market, sorry, gambling relationship with a broken form of a man, deceived in his most modest expectations, under the false sympathy the rest of the company and remembers sadly the jacks, who came instead of saving kings and aces.
Sane people usually don’t want to gamble and, moreover, randomly open some kind of Talon. The responsible person in a vital area that requires certainty, not faith in blind luck. And yet, “Talon” of “market relations” were imposed on the Soviet people crazy party bureaucracy deceit, against his will, against his objective interests, to the detriment of the economic feasibility. This shameful act was preceded by a loud, brash advocacy of the lowest class, directed from high party offices. People were asked to question the very possibility of rational economic planning. As a life-saving prescription was nominated “concept” “market-regulation”, i.e. such relations in which each pursuit of his selfish, selfish interest, will act for the common good is much more effective than activities it would be directly conducted by an external coordinating center.
Such naivety did not deserve to be and critical interjections, if they had not been the basis of so-called “market reforms” would not have led to the destruction of a great civilization, the destruction of industry, science, culture, defense, wouldn’t have had too trusting of the Soviet people in hopeless historical dead end.
Regarding “jacks” and their unfathomable ability to set up on socially significant positions, I did not personally mean. This is the subject of a big discussion about the paradox of “elite”, about the patterns of negative personnel selection in the conditions of inequality and social privilege. And in any case, I do not want to be understood so that the problem of “elitism” – purely Russian. In the bourgeois world “civilized” countries with a centuries-old “democratic traditions”, the situation is even worse. Election technologies and means of manipulating “the masses” there is honed to perfection. Political leaders of the powers of creation of scenic images may be compared with famous winners of the award “Oscar”. Russian society still makes a huge inertia of the Soviet way of life, with its innate intolerance of injustice and lack of freedom.
The subject of this article will be parsing those fundamental source of the messages that were inadvertently taken on the faith of the Soviet people and to which we owe the present catastrophic situation of the country and society. So, we’ll be talking about “it”.
Capitalist “crisis of overproduction” of the Soviet people, spifflicate and humiliated man-made “shortages” and the queue was not to scare. Closed in their own little world with walls with furniture, tea sets, bookshelves with “deficient” meetings, thinking about the cottage, the dream about the car, he always something was missing. No, the average person is not starving, not living under the fence, climbed on the dumps, had a job and social security, which seemed self-evident. Just wanted to live better than your neighbor, your friends, enjoy your success, well-being, which had a visible embodiment to produced all by hook or by crook “scarce” things that turn in housing, “a full Cup”. This is quite consistent with the Party’s Program to fully meet the growing needs of the Soviet people. These needs have grown in different ways, according to the “labor contribution”, position, place of residence, proximity to the leadership and other Moody circumstances, the ranking of people in unpredictable ways.
A planned economy does not operate with the abstractions of exchange value and financial performance. This archaic merchant court is in need of in the socialist production is not more than the whistle of the train on the plane. Only physical quantities – tons, meters, pieces, megawatts and other material tangibility to have meaning in the activities of Homo sapiens. In the socialist economy, also called “subsistence”, are absent commodity-money relations, there is no exchange of “equivalents”, as the basis of greed and selfish “interest,” no employment as a humiliating form of purchase and sale of labor. Measurement of cost is a natural physical measure – working time. All able-bodied members of the society still engaged in the production of material and cultural goods, still get, still provided live perfectly without mutual struggle for their ration of livelihood.
Rejecting the scientific understanding of political economy factors, destroying the planned economy, believing in the word the nomenclature “market” charlatans, what do we have left? With hope and faith that we will get lucky. Now the future is not created deliberately, formed spontaneously, according to the inscrutable whims of “market conditions,” Providence, or noble inspiration, attending regular jacks on the throne.
Perhaps the main argument in favor of “new ways of doing business, as the party degenerates euphemistically called capitalism, it is understandable to the layman treatment to the subject “deficit”. And beyond any logic, the problem of absence in the shops three hundred varieties of sausage were issued for birth defect of the planned economy. Whether the man in the street even a spark of criticality in the head, he might ask – how so? The economy is planned, and the result is unpredictable? One can not assume that the planning authority deliberately underestimate of the target task to create the deficit? It seems to be easy, the needs of society in food, consumer goods known industry capabilities, resource constraints are also not a mystery. Why not to take and not to plan manufacturing of required products and consumer goods in the required quantity and assortment?
Powerful national economic complex of the Soviet Union it was able to promptly fill up all the shelves of good-quality domestic products, whether on a political will of the government. But this will was constrained, first, by the lack of willingness to take any responsibility;
second, coined the nomenclature “leaders” of the “laws of socialism” in which real life is rough sagged imposed from the top political and economic chimeras, such as “payment for labor”, “socialist commodity-money relations,” “material incentives” and other foul-smelling, alien to socialism elements of the capitalist economic structure;
third, the extremely low level of competence and integrity of the party of the nobles did not want to reduce the level of social differentiation, sacrificing thereby his own, won in career fighting status. Thus, paradoxically, professional revolutionaries, ardent fighters for equality, for justice in a historically insignificant period of time has degenerated into the classic privileged class, distinguished from the nobility only outrageous bigotry and fine possession of sophisticated psevdokommunisticheskie rhetoric.
In Soviet society, crossed two divergent process. The objective process of technological complexity of the production, requiring a tight integration of the entire national economy into a unified whole, faced with the deepening degeneration and decomposition of the managerial “elite”, which has been unable to organize planning and production in accordance with the requirements of the time. Before pribylovskii degenerates, and before any “elite” in the first place was a question of self-preservation, the compounds of their own incompetence and power. This can be done by simply removing the responsibility for economic activity, dividing the functions of the state and production. For this case was invented a convenient excuse – the rejection of “unusual state”, allowed to set in the stately offices of any ignorant pretender quite skilled at gaming hardware and personnel intrigue.
In the frantic attempts of self-preservation, diverting the blow from themselves, the Soviet party bureaucracy blamed for all the ills of the socialist planned economy, euphemistically referred to as “system”, which, allegedly, the “non-reform” and made two monstrous and criminal error.
The first mistake was ethical kind. Gorbachev and his “scientists” toadies considered human cattle who need the carrot and the stick to promote his work, thereby denying the fact of their rationality.
The second fundamental error of economic. In their class-blindness the party nomenklatura rejected the obvious advantage of solidarity before competition. The most important videorelease a sign of a reasonable person, by which he was able to stand out from the animal environment was declared “ineffective”, “obsolete”, not allowing time to plan and consider.
Collectively, these errors determined the choice of a fundamentally false policy of dismemberment of the state, to the disintegration of a unified planned national economy and the deepening social stratification, triggering the most catastrophic consequences for the country and the people. The so-called “new economies” based, ostensibly, on “market competition”, according to the calculations Pribylovsky “strategy” was to lead to filling the shelves, the elimination of the notorious shortages and queues. Signing in his managerial weakness, in his professional incompetence, Gorbachev’s “economists” subjected the Soviet people unprecedented in the history of the experiment to return with a higher level of social development at lower. However, the expected result of the “reform” has not brought. Even the “full” shelves and no queues – no credit “reformers.” It is the merit of Gorbacheva who created the “deficits” and turns in an attempt to “material incentives” production. Compared to the insanity generated by perestroika disaster in the consumer market, the shelves of the most backward countries looked to the standard of well-being. For twenty-five years of “reform” manufacturing has not only grown, but in many respects rolled back for decades. Import “abundance” in the shops is a clear evidence of this failure.
However, the commodity content of the consumer market in the minds of the layman is associated with “economic reforms” which, for all its faults do not look like a step in the grave, but quite the opposite – a movement in the right direction. What to take with layman. Many reputable journalists, “scientists”, “economists” also accepted this conclusion and see a way to continue the market cretinism, Raznas only in matters of state intervention in the economy, the level of social protection of the population and take as role models the political and economic model from the fascist Pinochet liberal capitalism to the Scandinavian model of “socialism”. The impact features a specific mindset, a leading comparison “market economy” not a real socialist planned economy, which anywhere else in the world, but with its practical implementation in the Soviet Union, exacerbated by the uncritical perception of the arguments in favor of “competition,” private property, “democracy”, “freedom”, “human rights” and other bourgeois propaganda above. And all it had to ask the question, why? State why a Manager should give to the business owner? Why, incompetent head is engaged in a business which does not understand that he’s not interested, but from which even his chainsaw to tear? Why it matters personal well-being, family and clan interests to take more than much more important and impressive job of serving people? Why he is flat, wages, the external trappings of “success”, “importance”? Whether he is ready to work as a Minister “for food” and the Dorm room? Is the hundreds of millions no one is willing to sacrifice? Maybe the privilege of guiding activities is all about? Maybe social inequality we owe all the problems of both Soviet and modern society?
A certain color of dead ideas give attempts to paint the ugly reality of post-perestroika strokes pre-revolutionary splint, a revival of certain “traditional” Russian “values,” Imperial “statehood”, Malinovskogo of zlatohlavek, ritual, rites and ragonetti, anything other than feelings of disgust do not cause. Instead of honoring their true heroes – the fighters for Soviet power, for the bright future of all mankind, the nomenclature “ideologists” pull from the historical garbage of such personalities, which I am ashamed even of the bourgeois Democrats during the revolution and to liquidate the aristocracy, class inequality, noble titles and ranks. Indirectly, this indicates the features of the item of attitude, the attempts of the party bureaucracy to distance itself from its Soviet past, but inexperience “Beregovaya stick”, who in his political orientation to the right of the most right-wing European conservatives. Although no real “conservative” or “liberal” would not tolerate the dismemberment of their own country under any pretext. No real “market” would all be recognizable and recognized national symbols and forms of state power, as a commodity brand, in favor of invented “flags”, “emblems”, “dum”, “presidents”, “speakers”, “senators” and other “ombudsmen”. Itching of renaming and social daydreaming reveals the subjective factor of self-affirmation of mediocrity at the turn of the eras, the desire of the little man to leave his mark on historical events, the Herostratus syndrome, if you will.
The privilege leads to the degeneration of power, is detrimental to the country and society. Such power is not capable of identifying the internal contradictions of the dominant mode of production, unable to think of political-economic categories. It feeds the conception of life of two centuries ago, lose with great difficulty and hardship the acquired knowledge, loses its basic ethical orientation in space of Good and Evil. The sleep of reason produces monsters…
