Comrades! Pray, cast your gaze upon the latest proclamations from the high altar of the Central Bank. The Chief Governess of this financial temple, Madame Nabiullina, has seen fit to speak upon the rising cost of petrol—a fuel that the industrious worker requires for his very survival, yet which the bourgeois monopoly treats as a mere lever for profit.

In a display of most exquisite audacity, the Central Bank suggests that this 'supply shock' is but a fleeting phantom. Yet, mark my words! While they prattle on about 'secondary effects' and 'inflationary expectations,' they are merely calculating how much more they may bleed the worker before the masses awaken to their plight. They fear not the hunger of the poor, but the 'instability' of their precious indices.

'It is paramount,' the Madame claims, that these shocks do not become ingrained in the economy. Truly, a marvel of rhetoric! The only thing 'ingrained' here is the insatiable greed of the capital-owning class. They speak of 'monetary policy' as if it were a divine science, while in reality, it is but a tool to ensure the usurers of the City and the great banks continue to feast upon the toil of the proletariat.

One Mr. Gangan, a functionary of the same monetary machine, admits in the shadows that fuel costs are a 'significant factor' in the burdens of the entrepreneur. Let us be clear: the entrepreneur does not bear this burden; he merely passes it—with interest—onto the shoulders of the labouring man! This is the very essence of exploitation: the bourgeois profits from the scarcity, and the worker pays the price in bread and blood.

Even the government, in its typical fashion, offers 'administrative restrictions'—mere bandages upon a gangrenous limb. They promise stabilization, yet the machinery of monopoly continues to churn. Whether it be the decrees of Vice-Premier Novak or the directives from the highest offices, the result remains the same: the fuel-lords maintain their grip, and the people are told to wait for the market to 'saturate.'

Let us not be deceived by the polished language of the financial elite. When they speak of 'inflationary risks,' they mean the risk that the worker might realize he is being robbed in broad daylight. The struggle continues, for as long as the means of production and the flow of energy are held by a handful of capitalists, the noose shall only tighten!