Kowalski
15th May 2010, 14:01
Hello, comrades! :thumbup1:
I found name of this forum at "Political Crossfire Forum" and of course decided to join :)
First of all I was pleased that security is respected here - have read 2 warnings already =) It's very good and important for us now. As for me, we have at our organisation enough hard rules for information security and I understand this thing, but I already had to become "half-public" because of actions and russian police's attention to us. So some details aren't secret already.
- Where are you from, whats the leftist scene there like?
- What branch of leftism do you subscribe to?
- How did you become a leftist?
So... I'm Michal Kowalski (and of course it's a pseudonym, lol, it's one of our rules to work only with pseud., skew encryption and sometimes IP-hiding). From Russia, originally from Siberia but now living in Moscow. I'm an activist of Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik)
And my occupation there is international tasks mainly.
About Russia's leftist scene... well... We have now a serious crisis of left movement because of reaction period after USSR collapse. Organised leftists aren't enough strong and are very divided. There are:
- Official opportunism of so-called Communist Party of Russian Federation - heir to Gorbachev's CPSU.
The party gather in it's membership people without their checking in work and ideology, just for quantity. It's official parlament revisionist party with very ideological poor members and even nationalists within. But simultaneously try to kick out by administrative force some more left-wing comrades with real communist views. The main activity of the party are elections to official state structures. But a small group of communist comrades from it is working for useful things, they made internet red television for example
- Their communist youth, SKM-RF (Sodruzhestvo Kommunisticheskoy Molodezhi, Commonwealth of Communist Youth of Russian Fed.)
Opportunist and revizionist too, close to party's ideology. With a very poor discipline and theoretic studying (our without them at all).
- A few very little organisations with elderly members mainly, the fragments of fragment of Soviet-time's CPSU. Some of them named CPSU today.
- Several active but not very big organisations. There are:
1) The joint party RCWP-RPC (Russian Communist Workers Party - Revolutionary Party of Communists, is joint from former two parties).
Second after CPRF by members quantity, ideologically revolutionary marxist-leninist, can be called stalinist. Now is going through alternation of generations from soviet-time's comrades to more new.
2) It's youth organisation - RCYL(B), Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik).
- Not very big yet but nowadays more fast growing organisation. I decided that it's the best of what exist in Russia and joined it a few years ago. Also revolutionary marxist-leninist, mostly pro-stalinist. As organisation based on democratic centralism. We have enough hard discipline, candidate period is now with ideological and organising exams at it's end. Is preparing for illegal circumstances - secrecy, obligatory usage of encrypting etc.
Now we are trying to start a regular communist school within our organisation with several directions of studying - mainly marxist theory and organizing, and also studying for propaganda, secrecy, some sports etc.
The main our activity now is propaganda for working and studying people, support of their organized movement, main task for today - to help them make their own organisations for struggle, independent from the state structures.
I'm a member of both RCWP-RPC and RCYL(B).
Also we have some other organisations in Russia - for example our most close ally the Communist Organisation "Iskra" ("The Spark").
- Is very close to us in ideology but has some different views on organising structure.
The Left Front - mainly formed by AKM ("Vanguard of Red Youth").
- Within this organisation there are very different activists from opportunist soc-dem to more left-wing, sometimes we cooperate with them. Hasn't strong discipline, some comrades from it interested in theory studyings, but the majority isn't.
And we have here also some trotskyist and maoist organisations, they aren't big too and I don't know them enough.
Ohhhh..... how a lot of I have written LOL
And here in Russia we have a lot of people with pro-leftist views but not organised yet and not theoretical educated. A lot of young people. The Crisis support this tendency.. Life in capitalism force people to become leftists...
So, my views are dialectical-materialist and of course atheist, marxist-leninist, pro-Soviet, mostly pro-stalinist (I don't agree with a part of his politics, but only with a part - I'm not agree with his national deportations for example, with the reform of Soviet system (from collective-based system to territory based). But mainly this politics was right. And of course I'm hardly anti-revisionist (soc-dem, Khrushev etc. - I'm strongly disagree with them).
How did I become a leftist... Well... It was very difficult :cool: Before it I was an anticommunist and even religious fundamentalist (Islamic :cool: )
But once I get a job...:thumbup1: We with my university campus room-mates were unskilled workers at the construction sites of capitalists' big expensive own houses in special capitalist guarded villages. And there worked not only students but also immigrant labourers from former south USSR's republics - like Ukraine, Moldavia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Some of them were my brothers in belief, muslims. But the work was too hard, especially for the migrants, and they lived directly at the construction site, in garages :blink: In extremely poor conditions.
So it was the time I felt the true class hateness against our bosses..... Gradually I sloped to the left... But when I told one of our islamic "expert" about my relations toward the rich people he told that if they were my brothers I mustn't hate them. And if the bosses oppress my guest-working brothers then I must tell them (bosses) that they aren't right :confused: I though they know it themselves enouth......
So I will not write a lot about all it but gradually I was disappointed in religion and understood that it's only a lie for making us more tolerant towards the ruling class.... I was trying to understand how world is if there is not God within... So I was reading marxist philosophic literature for that cause, about dialectical materialism at first. Then I gradually come to the communists and became a member of communist youth organisation. All this was a few years ago. And a few months ago I joined to the party too.
Uhh... :confused: That's the story! =)))))))))))))
If anybody will be in Moscow - welcome cordially ! :) It'll be nice to meet you, comrades))
I found name of this forum at "Political Crossfire Forum" and of course decided to join :)
First of all I was pleased that security is respected here - have read 2 warnings already =) It's very good and important for us now. As for me, we have at our organisation enough hard rules for information security and I understand this thing, but I already had to become "half-public" because of actions and russian police's attention to us. So some details aren't secret already.
- Where are you from, whats the leftist scene there like?
- What branch of leftism do you subscribe to?
- How did you become a leftist?
So... I'm Michal Kowalski (and of course it's a pseudonym, lol, it's one of our rules to work only with pseud., skew encryption and sometimes IP-hiding). From Russia, originally from Siberia but now living in Moscow. I'm an activist of Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik)
And my occupation there is international tasks mainly.
About Russia's leftist scene... well... We have now a serious crisis of left movement because of reaction period after USSR collapse. Organised leftists aren't enough strong and are very divided. There are:
- Official opportunism of so-called Communist Party of Russian Federation - heir to Gorbachev's CPSU.
The party gather in it's membership people without their checking in work and ideology, just for quantity. It's official parlament revisionist party with very ideological poor members and even nationalists within. But simultaneously try to kick out by administrative force some more left-wing comrades with real communist views. The main activity of the party are elections to official state structures. But a small group of communist comrades from it is working for useful things, they made internet red television for example
- Their communist youth, SKM-RF (Sodruzhestvo Kommunisticheskoy Molodezhi, Commonwealth of Communist Youth of Russian Fed.)
Opportunist and revizionist too, close to party's ideology. With a very poor discipline and theoretic studying (our without them at all).
- A few very little organisations with elderly members mainly, the fragments of fragment of Soviet-time's CPSU. Some of them named CPSU today.
- Several active but not very big organisations. There are:
1) The joint party RCWP-RPC (Russian Communist Workers Party - Revolutionary Party of Communists, is joint from former two parties).
Second after CPRF by members quantity, ideologically revolutionary marxist-leninist, can be called stalinist. Now is going through alternation of generations from soviet-time's comrades to more new.
2) It's youth organisation - RCYL(B), Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik).
- Not very big yet but nowadays more fast growing organisation. I decided that it's the best of what exist in Russia and joined it a few years ago. Also revolutionary marxist-leninist, mostly pro-stalinist. As organisation based on democratic centralism. We have enough hard discipline, candidate period is now with ideological and organising exams at it's end. Is preparing for illegal circumstances - secrecy, obligatory usage of encrypting etc.
Now we are trying to start a regular communist school within our organisation with several directions of studying - mainly marxist theory and organizing, and also studying for propaganda, secrecy, some sports etc.
The main our activity now is propaganda for working and studying people, support of their organized movement, main task for today - to help them make their own organisations for struggle, independent from the state structures.
I'm a member of both RCWP-RPC and RCYL(B).
Also we have some other organisations in Russia - for example our most close ally the Communist Organisation "Iskra" ("The Spark").
- Is very close to us in ideology but has some different views on organising structure.
The Left Front - mainly formed by AKM ("Vanguard of Red Youth").
- Within this organisation there are very different activists from opportunist soc-dem to more left-wing, sometimes we cooperate with them. Hasn't strong discipline, some comrades from it interested in theory studyings, but the majority isn't.
And we have here also some trotskyist and maoist organisations, they aren't big too and I don't know them enough.
Ohhhh..... how a lot of I have written LOL
And here in Russia we have a lot of people with pro-leftist views but not organised yet and not theoretical educated. A lot of young people. The Crisis support this tendency.. Life in capitalism force people to become leftists...
So, my views are dialectical-materialist and of course atheist, marxist-leninist, pro-Soviet, mostly pro-stalinist (I don't agree with a part of his politics, but only with a part - I'm not agree with his national deportations for example, with the reform of Soviet system (from collective-based system to territory based). But mainly this politics was right. And of course I'm hardly anti-revisionist (soc-dem, Khrushev etc. - I'm strongly disagree with them).
How did I become a leftist... Well... It was very difficult :cool: Before it I was an anticommunist and even religious fundamentalist (Islamic :cool: )
But once I get a job...:thumbup1: We with my university campus room-mates were unskilled workers at the construction sites of capitalists' big expensive own houses in special capitalist guarded villages. And there worked not only students but also immigrant labourers from former south USSR's republics - like Ukraine, Moldavia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Some of them were my brothers in belief, muslims. But the work was too hard, especially for the migrants, and they lived directly at the construction site, in garages :blink: In extremely poor conditions.
So it was the time I felt the true class hateness against our bosses..... Gradually I sloped to the left... But when I told one of our islamic "expert" about my relations toward the rich people he told that if they were my brothers I mustn't hate them. And if the bosses oppress my guest-working brothers then I must tell them (bosses) that they aren't right :confused: I though they know it themselves enouth......
So I will not write a lot about all it but gradually I was disappointed in religion and understood that it's only a lie for making us more tolerant towards the ruling class.... I was trying to understand how world is if there is not God within... So I was reading marxist philosophic literature for that cause, about dialectical materialism at first. Then I gradually come to the communists and became a member of communist youth organisation. All this was a few years ago. And a few months ago I joined to the party too.
Uhh... :confused: That's the story! =)))))))))))))
If anybody will be in Moscow - welcome cordially ! :) It'll be nice to meet you, comrades))