The Other Russia

Lecture 22

All the bourgeois-communist fuss with labor and capital seems surprisingly shabby from the Lefortovo castle, from the kingdom of the desolate State violence. “We’ll take from the rich and add a bit to the poor”, “Vote for us, we will give you four thousand rubles, whereas the party X offers you two”… Capitalism-socialism is a Siamese beast knitted by cheeks and shoulders. It argues with itself with two slobbery mouths.

It is long known that life’s happiness and pleasure are different for the bourgeois and the aggressive minority of heroes. In essence they should live in distinct States. The old people and the young also need opposed states. Possibly people of the future will eventually reach this. It is not important what the majority thinks or wants. It’s about time to forego the flattery before the crowds of citizens, the electorate, the majority. And we will forego. The majority of people don’t even have an opinion of their own. Reread my book “The Disciplinary Sanatorium”. It is important to orient oneself on the satisfaction of the interests of the heroic, superhuman part of the population of our planet, and the majority will adapt itself. We will not forget them. We will take care of them. It is the majority that needs scanty increases in rubles and dollars. The minority requires an increase in freedom, in the possibility to operate its aggressiveness. Therefore we will orient our civilization on the aggressive minority – on the misfits. They are the salt of the earth. We will call them to the Second Russia, not only the Russians. Everybody.

Let them say: “It never was this way!” If it never was, then it will. There was a time when there wasn’t anything. What one needs is boldness. The founders of Zionism, Herzl, Zhabotinsky were laughed out by their own people when they formulated the doctrine of Zionism and informed that Israel needs a territory for its State. The Zionists were offered Madagascar, Stalin gave the Jewish autonomous region. But they preferred to win themselves a State in Palestine. In the 20s the first settlers began to arrive. There were only a few thousands of Jews in Palestine at first, less than the members of the national-Bolshevik party and actually most probably were mistaken. The Jerusalem of the bible was Constantinople, most likely. But the strength of the faith, the powerful conviction, the wills of the Jewish nation put together, helped them to win. In 1948 Ben-Gurion proclaimed the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine. We will proclaim the creation of our own – the Second Russia. It is not that important who will proclaim, Limonov or his successor. I believe in this and my faith is given persuasiveness by the sounds of the prison, the tinkling of the keys, the clatter of the carts’ wheels that distribute the prison supper, the steps of the sentries. I don’t only feel that I am writing prophetic sentences, I know: fate chose me to proclaim the future. There will be a Second Russia: the shelter of the new civilization, the free Promised Land.

The basic principle of the old civilization is the protestant principle of labor in the name of productivity. The person is promised a sated life till late old age, the life of a moderately working domestic animal. The basic principle of the new civilization has to be a dangerous, heroic, full life in armed nomadic communes, free communities of women and men on the base of fraternity, free love and communal education of the children.

The frozen cities have to be closed down and their population dispersed. As for the nomadic way of life, it will look as follows: a large commune singles out an encampment for itself and relocates there on helicopters; if it is an island – on floating crafts; or on armored carriers, on trucks. In the future, in relation to the dispersion and the withdrawal from the cities, the urban life style will die out. And with it the production of objects for an urban life style. Sofas, cabinets will become useless, the need for apartment furniture, apartment articles will become eliminated.

Because the city, as a principally archaic, people-enslaving, territorial, economic and political lasting encampment of man will be forbidden, the need for long-term construction will be eliminated. The entire construction industry will be working on the development and production of light and warm nomadic lodgings of large and small sizes, capable of fitting the commune members: the personal staff, tools and weapons.

The aeronautical industry, the development and unrestrained production of capacious helicopter type crafts (that rise from place vertically) will develop swiftly. Also the production of sea-going and fluvial ships will be developed, designed for the nomadic way of life of some communes.

The sphere of production in the new civilization will be significantly limited. As already mentioned, the preference will be given to aeronautical crafts of helicopter type. The automobile transport will be developed in limited quantities. Preference will be given to strong trucks. Railroad will be controlled by communes and work inconstantly with the goal of destroying the traditional infrastructures, oriented on cities. There is no need to produce many unnecessary types of production, like, for instance, the quantity of clothes that are produced now in the world. The communist China, following the traditions of the old China, for many generations wore blue cotton pants, coats and slippers. In winter the pants and the coats were wadded, that’s the only change. The great helmsman Mao wore such an outfit his entire life. The society of the future can wholly limit itself to black jeans, black coats and black boots. Such clothes were prescribed, actually, to the early national-Bolsheviks in the “Limonka” newspaper.

Businesses that produce helicopters, ships, cars, arms, sewn articles can be located on the outskirts of abandoned cities. Similarly could live the hired workers, who would want to work in the businesses. There will be only a strictly limited quantity of such businesses.

The living way in the cities permits to totally control man. Therefore for the achievement of man’s freedom cities must be left. In a certain sense, one needs to return to traditionalism. Armed communes will look like primitive tribes. This will be our traditionalism. The communes will be administrated by a Union of Communes. Together the communes can be called the Horde. One shouldn’t be afraid of contradictions that can appear between the armed communes, one shouldn’t be afraid of conflicts. The creative aggressiveness of separatisms is preferable to the carceral order of globalism.

But neither should one take the new civilization as a leap backward in the past. One shouldn’t think that we preach the fight against the development of science, fight against the comfortable and smart achievements of the technical progress. No. We will develop Internet, and genetics, and the new super-television as well. Television and Internet will link the armed communities in a united civilization of free citizens.

What concerns the method of annihilation of the old civilization, then this annihilation will be achieved, naturally, not by a direct frontal confrontation with the old civilization. They will not get the resistance of an army on an army – trenches, tanks or nuclear blows. It won’t even be like with the Taliban. There will be a capture from within. The simultaneous creation of several dozens of centers of uprisings from within the traditional countries. That’s how we will proceed. One shouldn’t be depressed with their present power. In the spiritual internal sense their civilization is dead. It has worn itself spiritually to transparency.