The Fuel Famine: How the Greed of Monopolies Perils the Distant Frontiers

Comrades! Citizens! Cast your gaze upon the latest dispatch from the Far East, and you shall behold the naked cruelty of the market's anarchy. Mr. Yuri Trutnev, a functionary of the State, has seen fit to admit that Yakutia, Chukotka, Magadan, and the Zabaykalsky Territory are teetering on the brink of a fuel catastrophe.

Observe the phrasing of the bureaucracy! They speak of "regional specifics" and "market conjunctures." What a polite, bourgeois mask for the truth! The truth is that the great Monopolies and the lords of Capital care naught for the shivering proлетариат in the frozen wastes. They view the logistics of the North not as a duty to the working man, but as a ledger of profit and loss. When the costs of transport rise, the Capitalists simply tighten the noose, allowing "local deficits" to bloom like gangrene while they hoard their gold in the counting-houses of the cities.

Is it not a scandal that the very warmth and mobility of the laboring classes are subject to the whims of market fluctuations? This is the essence of Exploitation: the most vulnerable are left to freeze so that the dividends of the bourgeoisie may remain undisturbed.

And what of the relief? We are told that Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus promises to continue the supply of diesel and petrol, claiming that obligations are being "over-fulfilled." While we acknowledge the gesture of a neighbor, let us not be deceived into thinking that the systemic rot of the capitalist distribution is cured by a mere shipment of fuel. Until the grip of the money-lenders and the fuel-barons is broken, the working man of the North shall remain a hostage to the greed of the few!