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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ossetians
OK, but I don't see what ethnic conflict has to do with individualism
or the suppression thereof.
On individualism and Marxism, see my bibliography:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/marxind1
There is a different explanation that had some currency in
Sovietological circles. It is that Stalin's nationalities policies
deliberately encouraged the cultivation of national identities and
differences, in part attempting to secure central power by cultivation
of local elites (often creation of
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Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ossetians
| CBCentralised socialism seems to have left numerous cultural and
| ethnic conflicts that have exploded after its fall, as if the
| population had no innoculation about how to handle them.
|
| This happened
CBCentralised socialism seems to have left numerous cultural and
ethnic conflicts that have exploded after its fall, as if the
population had no innoculation about how to handle them.
This happened in relatively unstalinist Yugoslavia too.
If capitalist Europe--namely Austria, Germany, and
And on another subject ..
What is to be done with the Ossetians, of whom the Transcaucasian Ossetians
are becoming assimilated (but are as yet by no means wholly assimilated) by
the Georgians, while the Cis-Caucasian Ossetians are partly being
assimilated by the Russians and partly
