“They have broken Marx and Lenin for fine pieces, not to mention us”, Mao sadly spoke about revisionists spreading under the Soviet aegis all over the world. The enemies of revolutionary knowledge, enemies of the people and the proletariat are not always able to ignore or to forge geniuses; they look as no more than unlucky midgets near to them.

So they launch their miserable attempts to shatter the classics’ heritage, to select the most harmless for their reactionary mock-theories pieces from it and to consecrate their own poverty by the shine of bits broken off from them.

What is the Maoism? This ideological current was exposed to the mad defamation in the Soviet Union, it was forged in every way and served up to masses in the monstrously mutilated and hashed shape. The present left movement in Russia still suffers a heavy burden of Brezhnev-Suslov black propagation, slander and fabrications. “There is no need to read many books” – these Mao’s words every remembers. Enemies repeat them with venomous gloating, phony-friends add them to their arsenal and swing them as a banner, don’t applying their forces to penetrate into the sense of them. A rare person recalls that the reform of the education which was chained with old and partly still feudal frameworks of the formalism and the dogmatism, was absolutely necessary for Chine rising on the way of industrialization and construction of socialism. This is a root of a myth about Mao’s “anti-intellectual attitude”.

“It is necessary to read just more Marxist literature” – Mao indeed constantly emphasized. However it is much easier to not read of the Marxist and new, Maoist literature and to not continue Mao’s cause but to call for petty-bourgeois riot or indulgently pat Chinese Marxists on the head for the justified struggle against Khrushchov’s distortions.

Only the foulest jackals of the modern Russian revisionism do not fit the parts of the Maoist clothes at least. “Every scum gets out on its own”. Someone will pull Red Guard’s arm-band, another person will get Maoist jacket or cap like one what Mao presented to Che Guevara. In other words, someone pulls out for private interests Great Polemic of 1950’ies and 1960’ies, which was only diligent implementation of Marxism by the Chinese’s, but gives up further analysis of decay of the Soviet regime, which was logically follow from the Polemic. Someone takes rebellious spirit, which becomes simply petty-bourgeois leftism without the genuine Mao’s ideas, regardless of number of “Mao’s ideas’ banners” rising during this. Someone takes the anti-bureaucratic orientation, limiting and adapting it to the needs. Somehow or other, bits broken of the most advanced and consecutive ideology lose their value. These bits aren’t Maoist and their carriers speculate in the Mao’s ideas at the best and frequently directly go against this ideas.

Maoism is the integral theory and practice of communist struggle, the third, the most modern step of Marxism-Leninism’s development. This is an iron, indisputable fact. Under the banner of Maoism proletariat and oppressed masses all over the world will go forward sweeping away all wretched imitators and slanders.

This inevitable victory will certainly not be a silly scuffle and torture as latent (and not such latent) sad-masochists like to imagine the Cultural Revolution. They like to picture persecutions of bureaucrats by Red Guards, their throwing out through windows onto the street and their smashing by legs. They like to picture hanging of a quite innocent animal, the cat of the British ambassador etc. Such propagandists fondly hope to win verdant youth in such way and following this distribute the false and distorted understanding of Maoism. It’s well-known that the punishments of the opponents during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution basically were the manifestation of the forces which was hostile to the Revolution. They directly contradicted the numerous instructions of Mao and the Communist party of China headed by him. Mao and his supporters inspired all the time that nobody should be executed not only for dissent but also even for open anticommunist speechs. Let speak – it was one of the slogans of Maoism. And there was given permissions to speak even to such worst enemies of revolution as the Soviet revisionists – their scribble was openly published by the Chinese publishers. At the same time Khrushchevist-Brezhnevists cowardly hid from the people not merely arguments of the Chinese but frequently the fact of polemic itself. Eventually they sunk into blocking of the Maoist books in the closed funds (which have just now became accessible for us) and launching the furious attack against China with mendacious accusing it for a nationalism and state-boundary aggression.

In the Peoples China there was a custom to discuss in a democratic way all disagreements among the people. It was recommended to handle sometimes even to the contradictions between the people and his enemies as to the contradictions within the people. In Beijing there was famous “Dazibaos’ wall”, on which everyone could put his leaflet up with a statement of his opinion. When enemies of the revolution came to power they severely prosecuted all successors of Mao’s ideas (first of all “the gang of four” – Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, but also thousand honor communists all over China) and demolished this wall. The revisionists always well know what people thinks and what people wants, they consider the freedom of speech as an extreme heresy which must only be fight against with the KGB and other state structures while “entitled” official organizations drive the people forward as a dumb and thoughtless herd. Any activity of the masses on their own is considered as counter-revolutionary and subject to suppression. Such approach is deeply hostile to Maoism.

Everyone need to read the Maoist literature to understand Maoism. It isn’t enough to read four-volume edition published in the Soviet Union and even more complete Chinese edition in Russian language (which, by the way, isn’t easy to search out). Especially it isn’t enough to read “the small red book” made by Lin Byao in the concrete period for quite concrete “target group”. Our Russian reader can admire with the style but (s)he basically do not able to estimate the instructions to the Chinese soldiers incorporated in “the small red book”. And it is absolutely clear that it is impossible to acquire Mao’s ideas on the basis of the scrappy quotations.

“It is necessary to read just more Marxist literature”. It is necessary to read it completely, diligently pondering into the historical context in which these diamonds of the revolutionary idea were created. Only a few succeed in attempts to intuitively recreate Maoism for him/herself not addressing to its products of the period of the Great polemic and especially the Cultural revolution. The Maoism’s greatest treasures are latent in these, late texts which low Brezhnevist ideologists-in-their-official-capacity have concealed from us. It would be not bad to get acquainted also with the modern Maoist literature – our movement naturally continues to derivate a plenty of the talented researchers and publicists.

The communists of all world armed not with the banners stolen at the revolutionaries of the past and only covering a present revisionism, but with the genuine ideas of Mao Zedong will achieve the final victory above an imperialism, capitalism and patriarchy!

There in Russia the masters are big gas, transport and energy corporations, closely concerned with the state, and more independent oil, engineering and metallurgy companies. Banking, insurance and mass media are highly overridden by the state too. Foreign capital has some positions in oil industry, but especially in pulp & paper, confectionery, brewing and tobacco sectors, and also in retailing.

Recently rising Russian business drives dilative expansion to the abroad, first to the ex-USSR republics, which considers as his “hunting grounds”. Power supply systems of many of them are under full control of the new Russian imperialism. With a brigandage Russia has managed to annex some small territories of Kazakhstan (the takeover of islands Ukatny and Zhyostky in Caspian Sea) and Ukraine (the repartition of Kerch Strait). The war-mongering in the North Caucasus (suppression of Chechen separatism, misusing of the dividing of Ossetins etc.) is meant for the pressure on Georgia.

Within the country the wide reform for the sake of the ruling class occurs:

• Labor legislation has modified for the purpose of reduction of workers’ and trade unions’ rights;
• The progressive tax schedule has been replaced by the flat one (tax rate for the overabundant = tax rate for the poor);
• Benefits have definitely been cut down (replaced by cash grants affecting by the prices rise);
• Commercialization of education and health care is realizing;
• Public utilities pay (granted by the state earlier) is being put to the total-lot level.

The advance of political frosts accompanies these changes:

• The number of legal parties are forcedly reducing;
• The ruling party (United Russia) has been constructed and has ousted opposition from the parliament;
• Single member constituencies has been canceled and the vote minimum for the passing to parliament from 5 per cents to 7 per cents;
• Liberal and democratic mass media has been smashed;
• Appointment of regions’ governors by election has been abolished.

Rights of un-Russian nations (composing a fifth of the total population) are being infringed. The poorest nations here are not Russian but Nohchi (Chechens) and Galgai (Ingushes), Buryats, Komi-Perm, Evenks, Halmg (Kalmyks), Mari, Tuvinians, Dagestan peoples, Koryaks, Chukchi, Erzya and Moksha (Mordvinian peoples), Chuvashes. Cultures and languages of many of them are under the mortality threat while plans of elimination of national autonomies are advancing (Komi-Perm autonomous district has been eliminated already).

Driving national oppression the ruling class relies on widely spread Russian nationalism. According to public opinion polls, nearly half of the population considers that “Russians must have more rights” or even “Russia must be the state of Russians” (“Russians” here means not the population or citizenry of Russian Federation (“rossiyane”) but the sole Slavic nationality descended from the old Muscovites (“russkiye”)). Only 20 per cents oppose toughening of arrangements against migrants from Transcaucasian and Central Asian countries (migrant workers to a degree).

At the same time Russian people itself has no nation unity. Capital city Moscow concentrates huge riches and powers while the provinces partly are in the same misery as ethnic regions – i.e. Ivanovo, Chita, Kurgan, Amur, Primorye, Novosibirsk, Ulyanovsk, Leningrad (region around city Saint-Petersburg), Tver, Kaliningrad (former German city Königsberg), Kaluga regions. Actually, these un-Russian and Russian poor regions compose the internal colony of the Moscow hegemony.

Striking was a significant phenomenon in years 1995–1999 but later (when economic boom started) came almost to naught. Development of new trade unions stopped (old unions which are the heirs of Soviet ones is actually social security offices attached to factory administrations). However walkouts, hunger-strikes, vigils and traffic blockades periodically happens on the grounds of backpays or underpays, lock-out or dismissals without lay-off pay.

Commonplaces are actions of municipal economy workers. This sector suffers also from the disastrous deterioration of equipment (this is a huge problem in view of the severe climate which is typical in the most part of Russia). Periodically all the country is enveloped with tide of students and lecturers in defense of free education, of school and medical workers demanding salary increase and improvement of work’s conditions. The centers of actions in autumn, 2004, were Irkutsk region and Kamchatka, Chernozem, Volga and Ural regions.

Among the left the most marked is the Communist Party of Russian Federation (Gennady Zyuganov), which has 47 of 448 seats in the parliament. Ideologically it is a successor of the  CPSU and is hardly affected with bureaucratism, chauvinism and clericalism. (For example, on January, 2005, the CPRF’s vice-chairman V. Kashin and several other bosses signed an address to the General public prosecutor with the request “to ban every religious and ethnic Jewish associations in our country as all them are extremist”.) Periodically it is shaken with shames of its functionaries’ deserting to President Putin’s regime. Its aged membership is shrinking.

Besides the CPRF there are a number of parties descended from various platforms in the CPSU. The most known of them is the RCWP–RPC (Victor Tyulkin). The nearest to Marxism-Leninism of them is the CPSUB (Nina Andreeva), but it has not overcame Brezhnevist heir and great-powerist influences too.

To the left from these parties are plenty of small groups – Trotskyists (three splinters of the Revolutionary Workers Party and the Committee for the Workers’ International), Hoxhaists (Proletarian Paper group), Maoists (the Russian Maoist Party) and New Left (Revolutionary Alternative, New Resistance, Red Uprise groups). These groups suggest widely varied ideological doctrines, but their political positions frequently are rather close.

There are six oil and gas enterprises among the first ten companies (according sales in 2001) – Gazprom, LUKoil, YuKOS, Surgutneftegaz, TNK and Sibneft. Moreover there are: RAO EES, Rusal and Norilskiy nikel, AvtoVAZ. Total sales of this ten enterprises make 63% of all top-100 companies’ sales.

The most of the top-100 are machine-building companies – 22 (the largest ones besides above are AvtoVAZ, Komsomolsk-na-Amure aircraft combine, TVEL, GAS, KamAZ, Uralmash-Izhora-group), chemical and petrochemical companies – 17 (the largest ones are Bashneftehim, MHK Evrohim, Nizhnekamskneftehim, Salavatnefteorgsintez, Akron), ferrous metallurgical companies – 15 (the largest ones are Severstal, Magnitka, Evrazholding, Novolipetsk metallurgical combine, OMK-group, Tube-casting metallurgical company, Chelyabinsk metallurgical combine, Kuznetsk metallurgical combine, Metalloinvest, Oskol electrometallurgical combine), non-ferrous metallurgical companies – 5 (Rusal, Norilsk nikel, UGMK-Holding, SUAL, VSMPO-Avisma-group, companies for precious metals and jewels – 2 (Alrosa and Smolensk combine Kristall), coal companies – 6 (the largest ones – SUEK Baykal-coal and holding company Kuzbassrazrezugol).

There are not a lot of oil and gas companies – 13, but all of them are concentrated in the top of this list.

The electric power industry is presented by 5 companies: RAO EES of Russia, concern Rosenergoatom, Tatenergo, Irkutskenergo and Novosibirskenergo.

The timber industry is presented by 6 companies: Ilim Pulp Enterprise, Syktyvkar LPK, Volga, Kondopoga, Arkhangelsk CBK, Svetogorsk.

The food industry is presented by 5 companies: Wimm-Bill-Dann, Baltika, APK Cherkizovskiy, Mars, Ochakovo Ltd.

It is a lot of the tobacco companies – 5: Petro, Filip Morris Izhora, Liguett-Duckatt, Donskoy tabak, British American tobacco – Java.

The largest banks according assets volume on October 1, 2002 (excluding Sberbank, surpassed his competitors more than in 6 times): Vneshtorgbank, Alpha-bank, International industrial bank, Gazprombank, International Moscow bank, Bank of Moscow, MDM-bank, Rosbank, Citybank and Industrial-building bank. The concentration of the capital in a banking is those that the Sberbank’s assets are slightly more than the sum of these banks’ assets, and this sum is slightly more than the sum of assets of other banks from the top-100. Lesser banks have only trifling sum.

“…USSR was the greatest anti-empire, the global center of the good, which the destruction of colonial system, getting of national independence, general social progress would be impossible without, and, in general, all the best, progressive and advanced was in our world, which guarantor was just USSR. Now without USSR nobody can stop imperialist reaction longer, going at all directions from universal reducing of political and economic gains of working people to creation of new colonial empires” (D. Yakushev. Whether the imperialists will choke?).

It would be possible to say that Yakushev doesn’t believe for the strength of proletariat and nations of the world which are supposedly unable to do any “best, progressive and advanced” at all without USSR (it hasn’t fabricated by me, but has written by him!). However, it seems, all is easier. It’s a new religion, a millenarianism’s version.

However – what’s the hell! Was it not USSR that made huge efforts to split of the communist movement and isolate of Marxist-Leninist forces in the sixties, what resulted naturally to the defeat of the revolution of 1967–1969?!

It was contrary to USSR millions of Chinese were rising for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, European youth were rebelling, Peruvian and Indian began guerrilla wars. Red Guards on the Far East and communists-Sholay in the Afghan were dying of Soviet bullets. Those who were daring to criticize the Soviet system from the left, were imprisoned and “inhospitaled” – they weren’t wait in the West as those who criticized it from the right.

Early, Leninist (and Stalinist – despite of erroneous 30%!) Soviet Union was the symbol of progress and hope of all progressive humynkind. Just for this reason it became especially vile having betraid revolution and covered from critics with a revisionist rags. Relics of socialism at Khrushchov-Brezhnev epoch only emphasize grandiosity of fall.

The Soviet empire is dead but the revolution is alive. The choice is clear.