Today I made it to the end of the rally on Pushkinskaya, where they commemorated democratic human rights activist Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by fascists Tikhonov and Khasis 3 years ago.
There were about 1 thousand anti-fascists, anarchists, Trotskyists and other honest people. The main slogans were the traditional “No to fascism, no to capitalism,” and also to prevent the union of liberals and Nazis from coming to power (we can already see this with our own eyes in the example of the so-called “protest Organizing Committees” named after December 10 and 24, February 4).
I caught a performance by a Kyrgyz anti-fascist. She said that several Tajik migrant workers had already attended this march and rally, and that hundreds of migrants would already attend the next protests of antifa and the far left. As far as I understood from her speech, the anti-fascist and anti-liberal movement is now growing in Dagestan as well.
I have long been telling the extreme left that they need to go into the world of guest workers and the Caucasian archaism (tribal, primary democracy). The Bolsheviks did exactly the same thing in the summer and autumn of 1917, when they were able to find access to the hearts of the guest workers of that time - the Chinese, Latvians, Koreans, Finns, prisoners of war Galicians and Hungarians, etc. Georgian, Armenian and North Caucasian democratic archaism also existed then.
In Europe today, the far left and antifa also appeal to the “new oppressed.” And the vice-president of Bolivia, communist, militant, former organizer and leader of the Tupac Catari Guerrilla Army - Alvaro García Linera even developed Marxist teaching, arguing that the driving force of the current revolutions will be migrants (not only from foreign countries, but also their own migrants, fleeing from the provinces to the megacities of the Second and Third World countries). By the way, it is noteworthy that Linera, in addition to all the above credentials, is also a professor of mathematics and an open homosexual who has been living in a same-sex marriage for several years. By the way, according to Liner’s theory, homosexuals are also equated with the “new oppressed” migrants.
And so, it seems, the extreme left and antifa in Russia have adopted the Bolshevik model of 1917, the current European and the experience of Latin American updated Marxism. The same migrant workers from Central Asia are potentially 3-4 million voters, i.e. guaranteed 5-6% in elections (and in 5-10 years, migrants from North Asia will mostly have Russian passports).
It looks like we are starting to live in some very interesting times.