Igor Eidman: “Who are we fighting against?”

“People of my generation read in Soviet textbooks about imperialist wars waged in the commercial interests of a proprietary oligarchy for sources of raw materials and markets. Then it seemed to many of us that all this was hopelessly outdated Marxist dogma,” the sociologist writes onFacebook , commenting on the news that a company linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin will receive a quarter of all gas and oil from Syrian territory reclaimed by Russia for the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

“That’s probably how it was at that time. However, the Putin regime made it more than relevant again. Russia, as if in a time machine, was transported to where Marx worked, and then the early Lenin - to the second half of the 19th century, to wild oligarchic imperialist capitalism .

All the wars that Russia is currently waging are clearly imperialistic in nature and launched in the interests of the ruling property oligarchy and its leader Putin. Chatter about supporting the “Russian world”, the fight against Islamists or “Bandera” is the “opium of the people”, necessary only to fool the poor slaves. And for the gentlemen, war means lucrative orders, shares in raw materials campaigns, construction contracts, Crimean land and enterprises. In general, everything was as prescribed by the bearded Charles in the 19th century.

True, the entire civilized world already lives in the 21st century. But we returned to the 19th. It’s not for nothing that they say that Russia has its own special path.

It’s time for Russian soldiers howling in Syria to shout as they go into battle: “For Prigozhin’s oil! For Timchenko’s phosphates! For Putin’s billions!” This is precisely why Russian blood is being shed today, thousands of kilometers from their homeland.