Comrades! Citizens! Cast your eyes upon the latest proclamations from the counting-houses of the State. We are told, with a straight face and a cold heart, that the average social pension in Russia has ascended to the sum of 16,600 rubles as of July 2026. A grand increase, they claim—a mere thousand rubles more than the previous year's pittance of 15,534 rubles.

Pray, let us analyze this 'benevolence.' Is this not the very essence of the bourgeois deception? To toss a few copper coins to the starving man while the monopolies hoard the gold of the earth! This sum is not a lifeline; it is a chain designed to keep the most vulnerable members of the proletariat just above the grave, ensuring they remain docile in their misery.

Consider the cruel conditions imposed by the State's bureaucrats. To receive this meager scrap of sustenance, a man must endure the hardships of life until the age of 69, and a woman until 64. And mark my words, the yoke grows heavier! By 1828—pardon, by 2028—the age of eligibility shall be pushed further still, to 70 for men and 65 for women. It is a calculated strategy to reduce the burden of the State, shifting the cost of survival onto the shoulders of the elderly and the infirm.

Of course, the State makes a show of 'compassion' for the disabled and those children who have lost their breadwinners. Yet, read the fine print of this social contract: the moment a poor soul finds honest employment to escape the grip of poverty, the State ruthlessly withdraws its support. This is not social security; it is a trap of dependency, a mechanism of exploitation that ensures the worker remains a beggar the moment he ceases to be useful to the machinery of Capital.

Indeed, we are told that a '6.8% indexation' was decreed by the Prime Minister in March. But what is a percentage to a man whose stomach is empty? While the financiers and the rentiers calculate their dividends in opulent salons, the laborers are told to be grateful for a few rubles added to their misery.

Let us be clear: the social pension is but a veil thrown over the systemic cruelty of a system where the few thrive upon the exhaustion of the many. The bourgeoisie provides just enough to prevent a revolt, but never enough to ensure dignity. The struggle continues!