But the president-common criminal is also a verdict to the very institute of presidential power. Communists demand the abolition of this institute in Ukraine. Yet even this is not enough to stop the abuses of capital. For this we have to abolish the power of capital as such. And we have to do this not by going back to smaller forms of private property which would inevitably lead to a new concentration of capital, of which the democratic opposition dreams, but by moving in the direction of even bigger concentration of property, though not in the hands of oligarchs, but those of society.
Communists demand to end the rule of capital and to return to a socialist path of development.
We need to have a clear and thorough understanding of these tasks and the specificity of the present situation. Any lack of clarity, any attempt to find a solution to this crisis outside the struggle for socialism can lead only to obvious and very dangerous patriotic delusions, like thinking that if Kuchma is for close ties with Russia we d better not to struggle against him, or if we fight Kuchma too strongly Yushschenko can come to power. On the contrary, Yushchenko can win only if this crisis remains limited to infighting between the cliques on the top, to a struggle behind the scene. But when the working class enters the arena of struggle it will throw away not only Kuchma and Yushchenko, but also the new masters of factories and plants who have been sucking its blood. When our peasantry enters this arena it will put the end to the repartition of land and the destruction of collective farms, all of which allow oligarchs to grab the land.