Alexey Albu | Borotba (Ukraine)
Dear comrades, friends!
We greet you on behalf of the Ukrainian Marxist association “Borotba”.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian separatists concentrated in their hands the entirety of state power. However, at that time, Ukrainian elite groups and society as a whole had hope that Ukraine would become an equal member of the world community, with a developed economy and social guarantees.
Believing the propaganda of imperialist forces, the country began a period of economic liberalization and integration into the world economic system.
However, this integration took place not on the rights of an equal member, but on the rights of a raw material appendage, which opened its unprotected markets to transnational corporations without receiving anything in return.
Mass privatization of the means of production led to a bloody redistribution of property and a wave of violence.
It is worth noting that the horrors of the nineties sobered up the majority of the population not only in Ukraine, but also in the entire post-Soviet space, but there was no turning back. The former Soviet republics became part of the global economy on the rights of a “little brother”.
At the same time, despite the fact that the new countries gained independence, they retained tens of thousands of economic chains that had been created decades earlier in the Soviet Union. The post-Soviet economic system was weakened, but still continued to exist as a single organism centered in Russia.
As the leading countries faced the consequences of the trend of falling average rate of profit, just as 150 years ago, it was decided to “renew” the economies of the first world countries by extensive economic expansion. The essence of this process lies in the fact that with the accumulation of capital there is a change in its “organic structure”―the growth of labor productivity leads to the fact that more and more of the invested capital falls on machinery, equipment, production facilities, means of transport, and a smaller share―on the labor of workers. But it is this latter share that creates surplus value, and hence profit. Thus, more and more investment yields less and less profit, which ultimately causes capital overaccumulation crises and depression.
This is exactly the process of economic expansion that we saw at the beginning of the 21st century at home, on the territory that was the Soviet Union:
2003 – coup d’état in Georgia, dubbed the “Rose Revolution”.
2004 – coup d’état in Ukraine, called “Orange Revolution”.
2005 – coup in Kyrgyzstan.
2009-2010 – coup in Moldova.
2014 – second coup in Ukraine.
2018 – coup in Armenia.
2020 – unsuccessful for the imperialists coup attempt in Belarus.
That is, we see that the post-Soviet economic system, which had previously become part of the world as a periphery, was subjected to multiple attacks from the economic center—primarily the United States and the EU.
At the same time, we saw how the Russian leadership, in the two thousand years, began to resist this process. The war launched by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili against South Ossetia in August 2008 led to Russia standing up to defend its interests.
This move completely shocked the imperialist world. Western strategists realized that it was impossible to organize a color revolution in Russia, which means that it can only be weakened by military force.
This is the real reason for the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, the rise to power of the ultra-right and the transformation of Ukraine into a militarist state.
At the same time, the Russian leadership had before its eyes the example of Muammar Gaddafi and other politicians who challenged world imperialism and were brutally murdered by the imperialist system. This was a good impetus to create its own armed forces, and to gain financial sovereignty.
Thus, Imperialism’s plans to create an enemy state out of Ukraine to attack Russia were thwarted. On February 24, 2022, the Special Military Operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine began.
Many cities and towns were liberated by the forces of the Russian Federation, thousands of neo-Nazis were liquidated. Tens of thousands of crimes that were committed by the Ukrainian ultra-right from 2014 to 2024 have been solved.
Today humanity has a chance to break the back of the world imperialist system based on US hegemony.
We are glad that millions of people all over the planet have begun to realize the importance of the SMO in Ukraine. We are glad that in their own countries they have also stepped up the offensive against Imperialism.
We are confident that if we can unite our efforts, speak with a more organized political front―we can fight against the tools of Imperialism more effectively. We will be able to achieve our goals faster.
Comrades! We wish you strength and success in the struggle to build a new, more just world!
Red salute!