It is that easy : you can just fire the government!. What kind of
"democratic " constitution does Russia ? . In Western history we read
about a king dismissing Parliament -and that is usually a prelude to
civil war. Does the ex-communist Boris Yeltsin think that he can be
a " free enterprise " Stalin ? He is deluding himself. Monster that he
was Joseph Stalin 's tyranny could guarantee the poor masses a minimum
of security. " Equality in poverty " was perhaps easier for the masses
to bear than the present reckless and lawless contempt of Russia's New
Rich for the " socialist " past.
It is unlikely that such a phony " capitalist " class in Russia
could ever win the respect of the military- once the pride of the nation
that was not too long ago a super power.
Remember the national psychology - the wounded pride of veterans - that
was a big factor in the rise of Hitler's National Socialism in the Germany
of the 1920s.
Since the Bolshevik Revolution destroyed Russia 's upstart capitalist
class, there was in the last decade no raw material for a new wealthy
class, apart from the privileged Soviet bureaucracy. Ironically the
new wealthy in Russia must have been connected to the former communist
elite. Indeed to the most corrupt and unprincipled layer of it !
In his classic work " The Revolution Betrayed ", Leon Trotsky predicted
that the privileged Stalinist bureaucracy would eventually lead the
country back to capitalism . He described the nation back then as a
" degenerated workers' state ".
Russia is still today the dialectician's nightmare of " inner contradictions
It still has a messianic sense and nuclear weapons !
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