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CHAPTER 27. BAPTISM: WADING FOR GODOT
Even Stalin’s wife could not enter his room without knocking and asking permission. She had to
make an appointment – and they lived just in the same house. Stalin was very much in favor of what
he called women’s liberation. And people thought it was not women’s liberation; it was just making
all women prostitutes. Everybody was against it. The whole of the communist party’s high-ranking
people were against it; not a single person was in favor. That’s why the policy was dropped.
Otherwise everything that was private became public – and by public it simply meant it became
state-owned. Your house, your horse, your hands, your land – everything became state-owned.
Hence, in Russia it is not communism.
I call it state capitalism.
The state became the only monopoly – capitalist. In America there are many capitalists; in Russia
there is only one capitalist. And certainly to have many is better. Rather than giving all the power to
one person.... And it is like a pyramid: the communist party is the base and then slowly the pyramid
becomes smaller and smaller with higher bureaucrats and finally and ultimately at the apex comes
the central committee of the communist party with only twelve persons.
One of the central committee will be the president and one of them will be the prime minister. And
the prime minister is the real power; the president is only a rubber stamp. He has to sign anything
that the prime minister decides. Even if the prime minister decides that the president has to be
sentenced to death, he has to sign it. He has no other power except to stamp it. Whatsoever comes
from the prime minister, he stamps it.
This is a new class structure.
Now, the pope seems to be not aware that to call the class struggle a sin means you are supporting
not only America, you are also supporting Russia. Of that he is not aware. That’s the situation of a
man who is asleep. He does not know the implications of his own words, his own actions, because
class exists everywhere on the earth. There is no country which is classless.
And yes, it is needed that one day the world becomes classless. And by a classless society I don’t
mean communism. I simply mean enlightened people who can see that there is no need for poverty
to exist; we have enough technology to destroy it. There is no need to destroy the capitalist. All that
is needed is to spread capitalism so that everybody becomes a capitalist.
Now, my approach is just the opposite of communism.
In Russia, in China, in other communist countries what have they done? They have destroyed all
the capitalists and made the communist party the only monopolizing agency, the only capitalist alive.
And what have they distributed? Poverty! – because after sixty-five years Russia is still poor, still
starving, still without enough clothes, still without enough medicine. Seventy percent of their budget
goes to the army. Only on thirty percent of the budget does the country live. Seventy percent is
absorbed by arms and the army and the piling up of nuclear weapons.
It is such a small thing to see: if we stop the idea of war, which the pope does not call a sin.... War
is okay. He does not include war in his long list of sins. War is okay – because if he says war is
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