Почему не состоялся коммунизм? (Кто виноват? Что делать? Куда идти?) / Why has the communism still not turned out? (Who is guilty? What should be done? Where to go?)

To improve something is necessary to understand before the real reason of worsening.

The story began during hard post-war times, in days of Stalin. In process of restoration of the facilities destroyed by war, work-quotas and wage-rates varied as well to fill the market with the goods. However in days of Stalin those measures were accompanied by annual price-cuttings.

Thus surplus labor taken way from the worker came back to him in form of surplus consumption. Such balance harmonized attitudes of the person and the state. After Joseph Stalin’s death price-cutting stopped while revisions of wage-rates and work-quotas proceed. After N. Khrushchev ‘s coming to power (the CPSU General Secretary in 1956–1965, took the first attempt to reform the Soviet political system), the prices started growing and the worker was caught in a snare.

Frankly speaking, sometimes the wages and salaries were raised: the injections of growth were done to some then to another strata of workers. In fact it meant that government bureaucracy gave to some people the very piece of “money pie” that had been taken away from the others. Instead of allowing people to earn themselves the bureaucracy presented them miserable pittances named by “a huge social gain”. Destroying the valid interest in honest work the ruling elite tried to replace it with political enthusiasm. One injustice was heaped up on another, the good worker has been mixed with the bad one, and even the very accommodation and redistribution of investments led only to moving mismanagement from one branches of the industry to others. Certainly these wage increases had resolved no one problem and only aggravated an economic situation. The economics degradation was proceeding.

The situation was just out of control, but the ruling elite did not understand an essence of the events. It absorbed the illusions the economic science fed it. And the political economy in the USSR just had broken its neck due to ignorance of the valid source of growth of labor productivity. The Communism had been under construction for many years already, but the nation continued to base itself on “working class”, on an intensification of physical labour using the meanest receptions of that intensification. Let’s add to this list of problems the “class struggle” against the whole world, named the “cold war”. The output of tanks, rockets, planes, submarines, bombs accrued in mad quantities. Let’s add the politically-motivated assistance to poor nations and non-equal trade with the states of socialist block. Let’s add to the list the so-called “projects of the century”: development of virgin lands, drainage of bogs and irrigation of deserts, turns of the rivers, etc. All of that – at the expense of toilers and workers.

The policy dictated to economy the rules instead of be dependent on it according to a theory. It defined instead of was defined. Instead of finding the basis for strategic purposes inside the economy, the policy imposed to the economy the exaggerated phantoms of nomenclature elite. Nobody dared to thwart the elite. It was outside of criticism. Certainly such situation could not exist eternally. Many think, that wreck of socialism has occurred as a result of “perestroika” and “reforms”. Alas, this only visible consequence. The events following one behind another in time, are not always connected by a cause-effect chain. We could sink into oblivion ourselves, without any “perestroika”.