
Is it possible to consider Alexei Navalny and his movements that passed on September 9 throughout Russia inconsistent rallies and processions against the "pension scam"? Yes, it is possible, because they again proved that the "movement of the melons" is the only political force that is really existing in Russia. Because today in Russia politics is arranged so that if you cannot bring at least a few thousand people under the batons of the Russian Guard, you are simply not in Russian politics.
If you cannot bring at least a few thousand people under the batons of the Russian Guard, you are a cardboard hole in Russian politics. Just like a socio-conservative party "United Russia". That's how much the United Russia Party can bring under the batons of the Russian Guard? Yes, not at all. Therefore, it is a cardboard hole. Virtual value. The only real value in Russian politics is the batons of the Russian Guard. The courts and controlled by the authorities of the election committee are still controlled by the authorities. But these are all the appendages to all the same batons of the Russian Guard.
Therefore, the elections mean nothing in Russia. Therefore, in Russia, nothing means a law. Only the baton of the Russian Guard is important. She is the core of Russian politics. Only it is political force. And if at your disposal there are no batons of the Russian Guard, you can contrast them with only your readiness to go to the batons of the Russian Guard. Only in this way can you contrast your political will to the political will of the authorities. Only in this way can you become a political force yourself.
When in the country the whole policy is based on force, either the one with a club, or the one who is able to not obey this club, can be politically subjective. Go to rallies, no matter how forbid them. And no matter how many leaders and coordinators are poured into specialists. Therefore, calls for the unification of a democratic opposition are meaningless. There is no other support, except for the Navalnian movement, in Russia. Neither democratic nor liberal. There are separate more or less recognizable faces of liberal or even democratic views. These persons can periodically speak very correct and beautiful words. But these words only matter when there are people who are ready for them to go under the batons.
Some of these recognizable faces say that going under the batons just the time has not yet come. That's when “they” cross the last “red line”, then we will also show that we are able to massively go under the batons. Only this "last red line", which should be known for everyone knows what "they" are constantly moving away, like the same "communism on the horizon" from the Soviet joke. And society continues to plunge deeper into the disgusting swamp of the servility of the servile humility.
Navalnians do not promise "communism on the horizon" and do not conduct threatening "red lines". They take people under the batons right here and now. They take out as much as they can bring right here and now. This is hopelessly not enough to right now and now dump the power of crooks, thieves and killers. But only the Navalnians pull society by the ears from the disgusting swamp of the servile humility.
That's why the authorities cast such forces to trample the Navalnian movement. Make him dutifully bend and submit to the crook. To force him to agree to rally in the forest on the evictions. To take what the master will deign to give them. That is why the authorities prohibit the Navalnians everywhere.
The only way to convince the predatory and vile power to abandon the practice of lawless, crazy, mockery prohibitions of public actions is to demonstrate to her that her prohibitions do not work. That any mockingly prohibited action will still take place, despite any prohibitions, arrests and beatings. The action will still take place and cause the very resonance that power does not want so.
The political struggle is a clash of political will. The power of the opposition in an authoritarian state, mockingly denying citizens in the right to legal peaceful protest, is to go to the shares again and again contrary to prohibitions, beatings and arrests.
The meaning of any public protest campaign in its public resonance. And the resonance of a protest action prohibited by authoritarian power is determined by the number of beaten and arrested during its holding. Here is the rule of Russian political life. And he has to obey as objective necessity.
The meaning of the mass shares contrary to the prohibitions is that they instill in society disrespect for frantic power. They expose her funny and miserable. They demonstrate that this power cannot really prohibit anything. So she forbids, beats, arrests, but people still go out. But for this, the presence of political will needs to go out again and again.
Our government will have enough political will to beat and arrest much more people than on September 9. She has enough political will to use tear gas and waterlets. But she does not have enough political will to shoot at a peaceful mass demonstration. Because "they" cowards. They can shoot only in the back, as they shot at Boris Nemtsov. They can shoot only in the entrance, as they shot at Anna Politkovskaya. But they will not shoot at a peaceful mass demonstration. At this place, their political will will end. It is necessary that in this place the political will of the opposition is stronger.