Comrades! Let us cast our gaze upon the latest revelations from the fuel-mongers, those wretched stewards of the petrol-stations. One Rustem Sadykov, a director of a certain 'Chepetsknefteprodukt'—a small cog in the great machine of Capital—has seen fit to disclose the mathematics of our misery. He claims a single tanker, holding some 30,000 litres, suffices for some 750 fillings per diem. But mark the cruelty! When the common folk, gripped by a justifiable panic, seek to secure their means of transport, this entire hoard is devoured in a mere five or six hours. Is this not the very essence of exploitation? The bourgeoisie creates a scarcity, and the proletariat, in its desperation, is driven to madness!

Further evidence of this systemic failure comes from one Maxim Belov of the 'Evecta' network. He admits that in the remote corners of our land, in towns of some 60,000 souls, a tanker arrives but once a week. More sinister still, he confesses that even the stations themselves are blind to when the next shipment shall arrive! 'Logistics are torn asunder,' he cries. Truly, the chaos of the capitalist market is a feast for the usurers and a famine for the working man.

And what of the state? The Minister of Energy, Sergei Tsivilev, dares to assure us that 'diesel is everywhere' because he himself journeys by it! A typical response from the ruling class—to tell the starving man that the banquet is plentiful because the host is well-fed. He acknowledges the queues, yes, but speaks of 'eliminating the problem' with the hollow promises of a bureaucrat.

We have seen these disruptions plague the South and bleed into other regions. Eighty provinces have been forced to implement controls over the dispensing of fuel—a desperate attempt to curb the greed of the monopolies. Even the highest offices, from President Putin to Vice-Premier Novak, claim these tribulations are but 'temporary' and incapable of shaking the economic foundation.

Novak now commands 'additional measures' to secure fuel and to 'control prices' for the agriculturalists. Ha! To 'control' prices is merely to adjust the length of the chain so the slave does not break it. The struggle continues, for as long as the means of transport are held by the few, the many shall remain in queues, waiting for the crumbs of the great industrial Capital!