RUSSIAN FASCISM:
A SMALL LOOK AT A
GROWING PROBLEM
When the USSR disbanded and Russia became its own
independent country again and adopted capitalism, the
international community overwhemingly cheered the
move claiming it was the beginning of a democratic
process that would spread throughout the world. Indeed,
picking up an American political science text book one
reads that a new spectre is haunting the, the spectre od
democracy ("Government in America," by Robert L. Lineberry, George C. Edwards, and Martin P. Wattenberg. HarperCollins, 1991. Page 14.).
Of course, what is meant by "democracy" is a country
that will open its doors to foreign economic penetration
regardless of the influence that it would have on the
majority of people nor would it matter what the majority
wnat or need. In the capitalist world, Russia's sudden
boom of very rich people, less than 5% of the population,
controlling over 90% of the wealth and economy and
having significant influence upon governement policies
and the media, as with the dubbing over of the voices with
irrelevant, biased interpretations on t.v. of members of the
Communist Party during the Russian elections, is seen as
positive and as a move forward. And why not? Russia has
liberalized its economy making it very profitable for these
people to operate in Russia and within the international
community, allowing multinationals to set up shop in
Russia. It should not be a surprise that capitalist nations
view this as positive since capitalism is run by the few and
powerful whether in the U.S., Canada, or Britian. In most
advanced, pure capitalist states, 20% of the population
control 80% of the wealth and the other 80% struggle
against each other for a piece of the remaining 20%; this
is the case in North America and most of Europe with the
exception of Social Democratic nations like Norway and
Sweden.
But while the existence of the rich in Russia is seen as
a good thing, nothing is said of the plight of the majority of
citizens who struggle day and night at their work, often in
vain. Russian workers often do not get paid. The most
ignored of all are the homeless. The treatment of the
homeless in Russia is similar to the treatment of Jews in
Nazi Germany prior to the introduction of the "Final
Solution" where Jews were systematically killed. Just like
the Jews were forced out of their homes and into ghettos,
so too are Russia's homeless are being deported out of the
cities into isolated, empty "suburbs" where they are left to
do as they please so long as they do not interfere with the
Russia's elites, officials, or "progress." Moscow has
already deported 6,000 homeless out of its city walls.
Aleksandr Zolin, legal advisor to Moscow's mayor, stated
that only those able to afford Moscow should live in
Moscow. New York mayor Rudolf Guliani (sp?) stated
similarly about his city's poor in 1996.
Many Russian officials at all levels applaud the move
saying it will decrease crime, even though the government
and police have said that none of the deportees so far were
criminals. It is a typical feature of most capitalist nations
to link the poor and homeless with criminal activity.
Nobody says anything about the theft of jobs, home,
security that corporations robs most people around the
world everyday. Oh yes, Russian fascism is here, maybe
the Russian "Final Solution" is the next step.
It should be noted that I am not a supporter of the old Soviet dictatorship; however I do find that it was a much less hypocritical time with the USSR in place than Russian society is now because the totalitarianism and human rights abuses were overt whereas know they are covert, subtle, and explained away under pleasnt sounding rhetoric; and these abuses are also supported by the capitalist nations of the West who prosper from them.
