The previous chapter spoke of the sacrifice of socialists and Narodniks for the bright ideals of the revolution. Well, that’s it. All socialists proclaim ideas with a long-term plan for their implementation. They promise a lot to the people and take them on a remarkable fantasy journey. But if the people who carefully listen to them resemble the primitive Adam? These are primitive people, for example, who live in the desert or in the far North graze herds of reindeer. What can they see in the drawn future? They don’t see it. They don’t want it at all.
Furthermore, they like the pictures themselves. This is the promised land. In all promises, people will find the most important thing for themselves. This will be important, substantive, and material. They will wait for a bright future, in short, but will settle down already heading to a bright future. After all, heading to the new Eden of socialism, no one forbade implementing the tradition: building houses, starting families, and producing offspring. So, they do not see in any pictures of revolutionaries only tradition. What the ancestors did yesterday from below, they will see today at the top. Yes, these revolutionaries promise to give the land. What else does a peasant need? If the revolutionaries promise to livestock, the nomads will see many cattle. That’s all they need. Each Zeref has its Eden in mind. If the population is made up of Zerefs, they can only really be attracted by traditional fairy tales. But in these fairy tales, everyone will see their own fairy-tale end.
But when Zerefs get into a fairy tale, Zerefs rid of the storytellers and leaves his fellow – Pharisees. Of course, they will understand that they no longer need storytellers socialists. Ordinary people do not prevent the Pharisees from removing the revolutionaries from the hill. Inert people are always busy with themselves, their work, their family, in general, they are busy with old things. And, of course, they will choose the right leaders. They do not need long-term tasks; for example, they do not need socialism in the whole world when they do anything in the village. Pharisees perform their rites. Thus, the revolutionary socialists are dangerous for them, not traditional people. Dangerous for revolutionaries are their comrades; they are also Pharisees who came to perform the rites out of habit immediately from the village. As long as there was a common enemy, the Pharisees were in the ranks of heroes. Even they performed feats for a bright future. Of course, as real Zerefs, they also saw their prospects in the future.
Heading to their cherished dream, they recognized the socialists as their friends. But as soon as the Zerefs received the first harvests from the victory, they quickly grouped even without a team. They saw their goals. To carry on the tradition is all that is needed to Zerefs. That’s all the Zerefs need. This is how new dynasties of “tadpoles” began, which at first waved their tails quite correctly and revolutionarily. From a tadpole, as we know, will be a frog. Just as a traditional person is not stuffed with stories about the big ocean, he will still dream of a swamp.
CHAPTER IV
IDEAS AND HYPOCRITES
So it turns out that the Pharisee isn’t concerned about abstract content. He is much more interested in a full plate of soup. But to get to it, he needs to make a smart enough face. He is smart enough to please. And since speakers or super people, whether they are seven or seven spans in the forehead, still remain infected with tradition (well, not all revolutionaries fell from the moon, after all), they take this rather intelligent expression of the face for an ideological one. Even leaders and speakers can’t be on their toes all the time. They relax and want peace and comfort. What kind of person doesn’t want to go to a corner and sleep? And this is just the moment of conditional silence and comfort, and there is a moment of triumph for all the Pharisees in the world. It doesn’t matter where they got to with the dream of a cherished bowl of soup with their dedicated and intelligent expression.
All ideas in the world, from the religious direction, that is, the metaphysical plan, to the revolutionary change of the social system, suffer from the hypocrites of the Pharisees. They just make a religion out of an idea, and a Church out of religion, and a soup out of a Church. It may be five years or even seventy-three, but everything will open up. It will be revealed how they infiltrated the party of revolutionaries, how they exterminated the revolutionaries, how they raised their offspring in the house of revolution, and how their offspring got tired of hypocritical chatter. Furthermore, the descendants of the first Pharisees broke down the house, the Church, and religion – all in the spirit of tradition. The first generation of hypocrites only adjusts to circumstances. If it is necessary to be revolutionaries, they become revolutionaries; if it is necessary to be counter-revolutionaries, they become Thermidorians of the revolution.
The second generation of Pharisees parodies the hypocrisy of the first Pharisees with the same success but with a lower temperature of passion. These are just the words and deeds of hypocrite fathers for the second generation. Therefore, it is not difficult to repeat it and not take any risks. And their fathers took real risks. But during the risk, they knew what it was for. For the family, for tradition. So, that their offspring do not live as badly as they did, their children would live in a world “where neither you nor I will have to live”. And they were not as poor as their father had been. The Zerefs liked Communist ideas because of the future prosperity of their families. And nothing else. All traditional people should understand all ideas; in other words, they should be supported by the people (the physical majority). Otherwise, the leaders and prophets of the revolution will not be able to defeat the old party of hypocrites, idlers, feudal lords. This is the rule of wrestling. The old traditionalists-the Zerots, the feudal elite-were no less concerned about the future, but they had nothing to offer the new generation.
Revolutions always happen when the population grows. Very much growing. Traditional peoples under feudalism reproduce well despite poor sanitary conditions this means that the old stocks or cooked family stocks are not enough for a new crowd of mouths. All the losers of the Zerots (feudal lords of the old elite) had and will have problems with forecasts and provision; in modern terms, there were problems with logistics. This technological progress, which has always come with the trade aggression of advanced Nations and trading peoples, is to blame for everything. Therefore, not getting their share, as their fathers did in their time, young Zerefs starve, grumble, and migrate-they find a way out. In the cities where they escape from starvation in their native village, they find work and a dream. Of course, they find in the new dream and the prospect of living better than their parents. Just such hungry and excited guys come to meetings of socialists of different stripes. And the world, drawn in the beautiful words of revolutionaries, certainly like. After all, everyone understands the future as they want. In the beautiful words of revolutionists, all people are equal. Everyone is born to be happy.
But this is not the case. At first, faith is never like hypocrisy. Faith is never like mass hypocrisy. Otherwise, the hypocrites would have killed each other before their beautiful fairy tales were realized. And Zeref plans are always mundane. And this is the second rule. Fiery speeches really ignite them. They move and shout back to the revolutionaries: “We agree!“But even lit by these wicks, they still do not realize that these same speeches are listened to by their ancestors who have passed away.
Furthermore, these ancestors did not die at all, it is only outside; in this world, they do not seem to exist, but they do. Inside each Zeref they are more alive than all the living. So, they listen to the revolutionaries and do not mind at all that their children and heirs live well. Now, during the meeting, the voices are still silent; they are silent during the revolution because they see a very bright future for their grandchildren, even during the civil war, they keep quiet, on the contrary, encourage the faint of heart they give them your fighting spirit and passion of all the tribal ancestors. And when all these paths are passed, and the real realization of the dream remains just a little, here all the ancestors, inner voices come to life, wake up from non – existence death, and quite really manage the affairs and thoughts of their descendants.
Now internal voices tell Zeref-beat the revolutionaries!
The revolutionaries themselves have no children at all. They only want to have children when the future is bright. The revolutionaries gave all their energy, strength, and health to the altar of struggle. (And the Zerefs, on the contrary, always have many children and abundant offspring no matter what). And then the Pharisees hypocrites begin to put revolutionaries in prison, begin to torture heroes, disgrace on the whole country, and, in the end, are shot as traitors. O great voice of the ancestors!
These voices really showed their power. Especially during the Stalinist trials. After seventy years in the USSR, no one understood how it happened? Why did the great red Empire fall? And it didn’t fall to an external enemy. If the enemy attacked, everyone would unite against the enemy. United and won. But it fell to its elite. We need to pause here.
Everyone should recognize the leaders of the USSR are not leaders, but hypocrites. The Pharisees destroyed the USSR. Grandchildren and children of farmers. Yes, they have changed beyond recognition. They are entirely different from their ancestor’s hypocrites-fellow revolutionaries who shot these same revolutionaries in 1937. But they, like their fathers, listened to voices all the time. The tradition actually lives, only changes the quality. Fathers have many conservative qualities, and their children have few conservative ones. But that’s enough. Tradition penetrates both religion and social revolution equally and successfully. The Zerefs, as traditional people, can believe at first. But they will still remain true to the precepts of their ancestors. The Zerefs don’t care what religion or system is around them. Either feudalism or socialism. They will always adapt. They take on the appearance of an environment almost like animals. Why do animals change? With one goal – they want to survive. Tradition challenges all traditional people to survive. But if there are prospects to survive and double or triple in number, no one objects to this. They always have many children. All Zerefs are potential hypocrites, but they don’t know about it. All regimes and all churches and other buildings, dictatorships are held up by the number of Zerefs; in the end, all States and dictatorships are even held up by the inert human cement. All those who strongly want to survive and then multiply, rather than bring a headache to the next ruler, will accept any idea, but with the covenants sleeping in them, with the ancestors sleeping in them. Reepham anyway, once again, what system, what religion dominates, what idea dominates and absorbs. They will accept everything. But for one purpose.
After the school of corporal (training of sergeants), I got into the unit. A strange soldier, a Caucasian “grandfather”, came out of the three-story building of the barracks. Whether he was actually a grandfather ( “grandfather” is a soldier who has served a long service) or not, there are some subtleties in the details of clothing. Of course, he had a loose leather belt (for ordinary soldiers, it is made of leatherette), and his boots were short (either cut off or sewn individually). But what was most comical about this overweight figure was the brown-lacquered panama (headdress of soldiers in the South) hat on his head. The usual panama hat is a protective greenish color. The Armenians standing below, among the ten or twelve, began either to admire this view or to evaluate the fat man’s outfit – there was a polite exchange of opinions with a clear hint of surprise, obsequiousness, hypocrisy.
By the evening, at a meeting in the house of cinema in honor of the celebration of the next anniversary of the Soviet power, of course, the entire regiment was assembled. There were the officers (political officers), officers. At the end of the meeting on the occasion of the Soviet holiday, the floor was given to this obese “grandfather”. It turns out that he was a candidate for the Communist party. Of course, another batch of duty words sounded. The fat man assured with pathos and a Caucasian accent the younger generation will be true to the precepts and build communism…
On the way out of the great hall, as the crowd is slowing down in front of the door opening, someone slapped me on the back of the head. I was bald, and the battalion commander mockingly ordered me to cut my hair. From this, the slap turned out very juicy and sonorous. Turning around-a natural reaction-I saw this fat man-a candidate for the Communist party! Moreover, he accompanied this slap with a kick, which I don’t remember exactly, but most likely, the kick was from him or from his countrymen. The sadistic outburst was accompanied by more racist words: A chump! Hurry up. These actions, together with racist words, were more like the action of a member of the Ku Klux Klan, but not a future communist.
CHAPTER V
TRUMPETERS. THE END OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION
Who was nothing became everything. The world revolution is canceled.
When the Bolsheviks accidentally came to Europe, they saw what is there the people did not want communism, no one was eager to build a just world, according to Marx. Nobody. Even the European workers and the German proletariat were in the vanguard of this strikebreaking, not to mention the German burghers and Junkers. And some groups of European rebels, which rose after famine and devastation after the world war, were suppressed by local groups of the bourgeoisie. But not because the leaders of the rebel groups were only Jewish youths. The only time the Bolsheviks could interfere in their future and expand the base of victorious Marxism was during the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, when the genius of Stalin intervened in the fate of the world and the USSR. What a fateful and fateful accident! But was it an accident?
The mountaineer Stalin with painful self-esteem and the terrorist who led the world revolution with peasant gardens and the Russian world failed not only in their military plan to take Warsaw and then continue their March on Berlin but also created the path of the USSR as “socialism in one country” or socialism in a “besieged fortress”. This moment, or an accidental coincidence, determined the end of Marxism as a project and of the world revolution as a matter of fact. Socialism was defeated. Socialism did not take place as an alternative system.
Russian world, as we know, is built on the community, on the so-called Russian world. This world allows controlling every community member to work well, diligently, not be lazy, and not raise their heads. When Karl Marx’s propagandists came, there was no better audience than the Russian one. The most sensitive ears and the most responsive hearts they no longer found. It was not the European hearts of the burghers and Junkers that were the most fertile ground for agitation, but the Russian peasants, because they did not recognize individuals within the community. Speculators of various kinds – the bourgeoisie were not completely created in Russia. The big bourgeoisie was not formed; it was not enough. There was an absolute majority only of the small peasant bourgeoisie. Speculators, various hucksters were despised by the people. The Russian community had a dictatorship of old people. It was the dictatorship of folk, as a dictatorship conditioned by cultural history; therefore, they liked the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dark, ignorant people felt their world of fathers in the dictatorship. So, the Zerefs found their beards in Marx’s beard as the fish found its pond.