Rudenko Exposes Fallacy of Marxism (12/26/76)

Rudenko Exposes Fallacy of Marxism

An extensive paper by Mykola Rudenko, "Economic Monologues," has been circulating for some time in the USSR, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation council (abroad).

Mykola Rudenko is a 56-year-old Ukrainian writer, born in Donbas. He studied at the Kiev State University. A member of the Communist Party, he took part in World War II, during which he was seriously wounded.

The war left him an invalid for the rest of his life.

In 1946 Rudenko was discharged from the Army and in 1947 he made a debut as a poet with the collection of poetry "Z Pokhodu." Later, he published other collections of poetry and from 1950 he wrote prose and novels and was recognized as one of the prominent prose-writers.

Observing the catastrophic state of the Soviet economy, M. Rudenko dedicated the past 10 years to economic studies and consequently he wrote the "Economic Monologues."

Studying Marx, especially his "Capital" he came to the conclusion that the Marxian theory is anti-scientific, a fiction, artificially compiled to prove the necessity of dictatorship of the proletariat, realization of which inevitably brings and brought the establishment of concentration camps.

This constitutes the content of the first part of "Economic Monologues" under the title of "Farewell Marx."

In the second part, "Welcome, Quesnay," Rudenko advocates a return to the theory of the French physiocrat of the 18th century Francois Quesnay, on the basis of which, Rudenko feels, it will be possible to stop the plundering of natural resources, eliminate devastations inflicted upon the earth by unreasonable demands made upon it and increase the fertility of the land. This is all possible, according to Rudenko, if the dictatorship of the Communist party of the USSR is eliminated and freedom be established, including renewal of capitalism, possible in the socialist system.

Rudenko wrote to the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine concerning this matter, he subsequently was dismissed from the party and the Writers Union. He lost all privileges which the members of the Writers Union enjoy.

The only means of existence that Rudenko was able to secure after his dismissal from the Writers Union was to work as a night watchman.

On April 18, 1975, Rudenko was arrested for his affiliation with the Soviet branch of Amnesty International. However, he was released after a few days. During his arrest, a search was conducted and Ukrainian and Russian versions of the "Economic Monologues" were confiscated. However, the Russian version was already circulating in the samvydav, and it was this version that has reached the West.

In November of this year the international press informed that M. Rudenko heads the civic committee in Kiev, with Lev Lukianenko, Oksana Meshko, Ivan Kandyba, Oles Berdnyk and Nina Strokata-Karavanska as members, investigating violations of the Soviet government concerning the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords.

The author of the preface to Rudenko's book, Gen. Petro Hryhorenko, is well known in the West as a champion for democracy. In particular his intervention for the Crimean Tatars resulted in his imprisonment for over 5 years in a special psychiatric prison hospital. He was released on June 26, 1974. Since then he has been residing in Moscow.

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