The enemy that the Russian bourgeoisie secretly dreamed of has been found. The Russian capitalists have received the one and only “national idea” around which they’re going to rally the entire “Russian people”. Having the interests of the Russian state trampled in the international arena is the best reason to fan chauvinistic hysteria in order to reconcile slaves with their masters.
Today it is no longer possible to blame all sins on the “heavy legacy of the Soviet past”. Its most ardent figures, represented by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), took seats in the executive authorities and became an organic part of the current system. Liberals and patriots continue their internecine squabbles, but their interests converge on the main thing: their main opponent inside the country is the proletariat, and their main external competitor is international financial capital, personified in the guise of the United States. To fight it, the Russian bourgeoisie needs the support of the majority of society, especially the workers - as they are its most organised component. It is no coincidence that they’re trying to present the showdown between two bloody imperialist predators (the United States and Iraq) as a blow to the prestige of the Russian Federation.
Recent events in Yugoslavia have further united the Russian bourgeoisie, or rather those who represent its interests in the political arena.
All this hysteria is very similar to the events of the summer of 1914, the beginning of the first world war. All that remains is to rename St. Petersburg to Petrograd, defeat the German embassy and plunge into another imperialist war.
Comrade workers, don’t surrender to the false hysteria of the Russian bourgeoisie, this whole charade was staged in order to raise its shaken prestige and distract us from socio-economic problems and the struggle for our interests. From this war, as from any other, you and I will get nothing: funerals, coffins, blood, sweat and tears – that’s all we will get.
The bourgeoisie will hit the jackpot and prolong its life. Worker, don’t let yourself be fooled and thrown into the meatgrinder of another imperialist massacre!
Only by throwing off the bloodsuckers represented by your government and the entire bourgeoisie from your back will you help yourself and set an example to the workers of Serbia and Croatia, who should have stopped killing each other long ago and turned their weapons against their bourgeois governments.
Let’s transform the imperialist war into a civil war!
Long live the worldwide communist revolution!
Workers of the world, unite!