The Kremlin Lichocracy Claims Yet Another Victim
The old Marxist rabble-rouser Boris Kagarlitsky was arrested.
The Slavlands are hurtling headlong into yet another doomscape scenario. This is what, the fourth catastrophe we have experienced in the last 100 some years?
But I’m getting ahead of myself as usual.
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky, a rabble-rouser from the Soviet days, was arrested a couple of weeks ago for his criticism of the Not-War by the FSB. He has now been accused of inciting terrorism and extremism. I believe that this is the same charge that was leveled at Strelkov.
Rosfinmonitoring has included sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky (included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the list of foreign agents) in the list of terrorists and extremists, according to the agency's website. Prior to this, Kagarlitsky was arrested on charges of incitement to terrorism.
On July 26, the Syktyvkar City Court arrested the sociologist for two months. Kagarlitsky told reporters that he did not agree with the accusation and intended to dispute it.
The fact that a criminal case was initiated against Kagarlitsky was reported by lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova. She became aware of this during a search at the psychologist Alexander Archagov's, which took place as part of the case against Kagarlitsky.
The FSB later officially charged the sociologist under an article on public calls for terrorist activities using the Internet. Kagarlitsky faces up to seven years in prison.
The lawyer of the sociologist Sergei Erokhov explained that the case was being investigated by the FSB Department for the Republic of Komi, so he was taken to Syktyvkar after the arrest. Erokhov added that his client does not admit his guilt.
Funny enough, this came right on the heels of Boris’ essay talking about why Strelkov was arrested. His essay was very well done, which is why we are going to analyze it below, and I say this as someone who loathes the Marxist worldview, so you know that there is something good enough in it to warrant me holding my nose and reading it.
Now, let me honest with you guys. If me and mine were in power, Marxists like Kagarlitsky would be arrested and thrown into gulags on sight. I have nothing but contempt for this disgusting and murderous ideology and the people who promote it.
Boris Kagarlitsky: a face you can trust.
However, I am interested in what Boris did or said to warrant such charges being leveled at him. With Strelkov, the charges leveled against him are secret. Yes, really.
So, I suspect that despite his odious Early Life section in Wikipedia and the ideological death cult that he promotes, Kagarlitsky is probably innocent of the charges leveled at him. Remember: if someone is genuinely a threat to the state and dangerous, there is a very low chance of them being arrested. Only people who do not have power are arrested by the state because the state has the power to do so. This is a paradox only if you refuse to understand how politics actually works.
This development concerns me because I am a pundit as well. With Strelkov, even though we don’t really know what happened to him and why, the running theory was that he had crossed an unspoken line in Russian politics when he gathered more than 5 people together in one location. This turned him from being an internet critic to a terrorist against the state in the eyes of the spook state. You have to understand that the Kremlin is very unforgiving of any political organizations and pursues them relentlessly. This is a holdover from the Communist era when literally all clubs, groups, organizations not directly under the control of the Bolsheviks were made illegal by the state. Even Karate or Judo clubs were illegal and had to operate underground. Funny enough, one particular Judo club ended up taking over the country eventually, so maybe the Bolsheviks were right in a way. After all, the only way to effect change in society is to create an organization and work together with other people in a structured way. By banning voluntary group associations, you can effectively neuter the possibility of any political rival emerging to challenge your rule. This does not work however, if your opponents can find safe haven abroad or become part of a criminal underground.
After all, Putin’s St. Petersburg gang ended up beating out the Moscow elites, didn’t they?
Solzhenitsyn used to praise America for the civic spirit that he found still alive in the country. People retained the capacity and know-how to self-organize to solve problems in their local community and politically. However, as we all know, the spooks in America got to work on that, manufacturing crises and false flags to essentially ban all non-sanctioned civic associations capable of resisting the dictates of the NWO agenda in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism or White supremacy or the drug cartels before that.
Communism claims to be many things, but its most striking features are its ban on all voluntary organizations, its sprawling spook state and its stifling and oppressive ideological dogmas. By this criteria, there isn’t a country in the West that isn’t Communist at this point. All that stuff about the proletariat is completely ancillary and a simple ideological smokescreen promoted to fool the peasant masses into thinking there is some noble cause behind an obvious power grab by hostile foreign elites. Just because someone says they’re for all the good things and against all the bad things doesn’t make it so necessarily. Absolutely no political, ideological or religious claim should be taken at face value. There is a hidden elitist agenda behind every single artificial ideological construct that is imposed on the hapless peasant masses, be it Communism, Christianity or China-style whateverism. Always.
An dif you disagree, well, that just means you fell for one of these scams and are mad at me for pointing it out.
Now, in Russia, many old-school Communists initially came out against the SMO on the grounds of proletariat solidarity. This makes very little sense given the fact that Donbass is literally a proletariat region filled with uprooted peasants resettled to work the factories and coal mines in the region by the commissars back in the good ol’ days. Pro-Communist sentiment is, funny enough, stronger in Donbass than anywhere in Russia because of this (apart from maybe the rustbelt in Siberia). The Marxists and Communists’ real motivation for not supporting the SMO is subject to debate, but they certainly stand to gain major political points now that it has proven to be such an unmitigated disaster. I think they just instinctively know that anything the Kremlin does is bound to be unpopular and stupid (health care privatization, school reforms, retirement age increase, COVID lockdowns, SMO) because of just how almost comically vicious, stupid and rapacious the spooks and crooks running the country are.
Now, because of Boris’ arrest and Strelkov’s arrest and the arrest of yet more analysts writing about the Not-War, I will have to paywall most of my own analyses on the topic of the rolling arrests occuring in Russia going forward. I hope you can understand the predicament that I am in. If I share with you the writings of people who were imprisoned for treason or extremism or offending Shoigu, am I on the hook for replicating their words and providing them with a voice? What are the rules here? No one knows, really. We are in uncharted doomscape territory here, folks.
You see, the Kremlin can be compared to an almost-dead-but-not-quite, lich-like entity, and it is viciously lashing out at anyone that it can now, clearly.
The worst part about all of this is that Russia used to be a relatively free-speech place before COVID and the SMO, especially when compare to the West. Strelkov’s arrest was a wake-up call because it was proof that the rules had changed and that we are playing by USSR rules again now:
That is why I’m going to paywall any writings of persons within Russia that I talk about who have been arrested or who I fear will be arrested soon. Because then I might be technically redistributing illegal materials, see?
It sucks, I know, but death throes are never pretty.
Better that I lay low with my criticisms or even my analysis of other peoples’ criticisms for a bit. Once they surrender or lose the war entirely or get toppled, people in Russia might temporarily gain some free speech breathing room in the resulting turbulence and criticism of the toppled government will eventually be allowed anyways because there will be a new gang in town, worse than the previous one, of course.
Say what you will about the collapse of the USSR, but the 90s were actually a time of almost unmitigated free speech in Russia simply because the situation was so out of control and the spooks and crooks had other things on their mind at the time like looting the country. As a result of these Weimar conditions, Dugin used to have a show on regular TV talking about vampires and black magic. Now though, I legitimately can see a scenario where even Dugin gets thrown into a spook dungeon at the rate that this situation is spiraling out of control.
A memorial concert dedicated to Alistair Crowley and the Golden Dawn. Note the men in skirts humping one another, the Jesuses being spun on crosses, and the speech by Naz-Bol founder Eduard Limonov and then Alexander Dugin (23 min in).
As the situation stabilized after the 90s, the screws were put back into place and slowly tightened over time in all arenas, not just on late-night TV channels talking about alien sightings. What we have now is reminiscent of the last days of the USSR, which were punctuated by crackdowns and the KGB hunting people down all over the republics. People were put on lists back then for their involvement in Communist Youth student actions that were criticizing the party gerontocracy and they had to go into hiding for a time. But then the bedlam began in earnest and the arrests never came.
Me, I thought that the SMO would force the government to allow patriot-speech and it seemed like that is what was happening, initially. But I was sorely disappointed to learn that actually, only Kremlin-speech and anti-Fascist talking points were allowed and that the SMO was a complete farce on all levels. Many enthusiastic pro-Russia patriots eventually started focusing almost exclusively on criticizing the Kremlin either before or after I gave up hope on the SMO in late summer and early fall. Fast-forward to today and the criticism comes in heavy from literally all corners of the political spectrum within Russia. In other words, I can see why the government is freaking out and I sure don’t want to get caught in the death throes. Furthermore, because the Russian government is an unnatural construct that isn’t structured like a natural government would be, it doesn’t necessarily die when it is dead.
But we will get to that later in the article.
I promised that I’d return to a regular posting schedule, I know, but by paywalling this, I think I can avoid the ZAnon internet list-compilers for another day. Besides, the casuals don’t even appreciate me anyways! Also, I got the money in my Stripe account released this morning, so 800 bucks from last month just got deposited to my account. *Whew*. Rolo 1 - Tech Daimons - 0. Sadly, seven people tried to become Stalkers during this time period, but were rejected by Stripe.
Hey, if you guys are still around, feel free to try again if you want. It should work now.