Dear Michael,
Please unsubscribe me from the PEN=L list.
Thank you,
Aki ORR
Michael Perelman wrote:
I think Aki and Cris can carry this discussion on off list.
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:02:08AM +0200, aki_orr wrote:
Dear Chris,
You ask:
HOW should people organize to bring back the good
old times of the Brezhniev era ?
My reply :
The way people organize to achieve any political aim.
Surely they remember Lenin (whom had to study in school)
stating that the way to organize politically is by starting
a newspaper (today any source to disseminate opinions will do)
and then use this to create a Political Party.
If Lenin could do it in 1903, under much harder conditions, surely
those today who want to bring back the good old times can do it.
Of course, their success depends on their motivation.
I suggest that their nostalgia for the good old times is insufficient
for motuivating them to act politically
Nostalgia is one thing, political activity is another matter altogether
Best wishes to you and to your girl-friend's dad.
Aki ORR
Chris Doss wrote:
--- aki_orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For an eye witness report
of a worker's life
in a State-owned economy
read "A worker in a Workers State" by Michael
Harszti.
I can get that just be talking to my ex-girlfriend's
dad!
If people desire all this surely they can get
organized to bring it all
back.
How?
Do they?
Which ones? Russian society is deeply divided that has
a generation gap. Most young people I would say favor
a mixed economy heavy on state intervention. Older
people tend to idealize the Brezhnev or Stalin eras
(more usually the former than the latter).
I know there is a handful of Stalinists who formed a
Party (run by his
grandson)
to bring back the good old times.
Wrong country. You're thinking of the People's
Patriotic Union of Georgia. Djugashvili Jr. dropped
out of politics a few years ago. A former coworker of
mine interviewed him.
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Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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