Back in Action for A Just Russia

First I must apologize for not keeping this blog up to date as I have been busy tending to life matters. But hopefully now I will have time to keep this blog current.

Well, I'm back in time for the Russian elections and while most are predicting a Putin win, I must throw my support (spiritual as it may be) behind the A Just Russia party. Why? A Just Russia and not the CP? Well because A Just Russia has announced that they want "A Just Russia's main values are fairness, freedom and solidarity. The party platform calls for a welfare state where all citizens are equal, the cliff between rich and poor is small, and individual rights are guaranteed. The state should be responsible for the well-being of the citizens, while citizens should be responsible for the effectiveness of the state. The party defines its ideology as "New Socialism of the 21st century", but emphasises that it does not wish to return to "Soviet bureaucratic socialism". In the party platform, New Socialism is defined as the antithesis of "barbarous, oligarchic capitalism". The ideology does not eliminate the market but transfers power over the market from the oligarchs to the people. For New Socialism, the individual is of central value." And the CP has only maintained the old line of the bureaucracy that plagued post Lenin/Trotsky Russia.

Now let me say one thing for certain. I am an unashamed Communist along the Marxist/Leninist/Trotskyist line. And we must remember that Communism was not intended to be dogma. It is a living breathing idea that must be changed and adapted to territory and time while keeping the central core values. It is this reason why I must support A Just Russia in the March 4th elections. Because if they would win they would be the secure path back to Socialism and Communism. And hopefully able to spread it throughout the oppressed world.