State-Society as the Foundation of the Bolshevik System of Power and Property

Abstract

The research goal is to substantiate the essence of the neologism “state-society”, which formed the basis of the Bolshevik system of power and property. In Soviet times, this system was called socialism / developed socialism, i.e., the “first phase” of Marx’s communism with the distribution of material goods according to the labor invested.

The research methodology consists of the application of a critical rethinking of the standard provisions of Marxism-Leninism, which affirmed the inextricable connection between the Bolshevik regime created in the Soviet Union and the socio-economic system built by this regime with the revolutionary Marxism of the era of the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by K. Marx and F. Engels.

The Scientific novelty lies in proving the worldview chasm between the fundamentally utopian Marxist doctrine of communism and the very real content of the system of power and property introduced by V. Lenin and developed by his successors, which appeared under the name of “socialist construction”. Three consecutive expropriations carried out in Russia and the national republics enslaved by it (the Bolshevik party — by its leaders, the Soviet state — by the Bolshevik party, the Soviet society — by the state commune) led to the appropriation by the Bolshevik leaders of the means of production that existed in society under the mythical brand of the “nationwide” form of ownership. The construction of power in the form of two verticals — extra-constitutional party vertical and constitutional Soviet one — led to the formation of a state strongly connected with the popular elite, but independent of the people. This state threw its backbone into the society thanks to which the socio-political regime and the socio-economic system merged into a single form of existence — the state-society. For three generations, through terror, propaganda and education, Soviet society was dragged into a distorted world, which was formed according to the models of Communo-Bolshevism.

The main conclusion is the thesis about the uniqueness of the Russian symbiosis of the state and society, which appeared under the disguised name of socialism as the first phase of Marx’s communism. Such a symbiosis did not occur either in the countries to which the Soviet Union imposed the so-called “communist” regime after the World War II, or in the union republics, with the exception of the Russian Federation.