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- From: opaloneva@abo.fi (Olli-Jukka Paloneva)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
- Subject: Re: hallmark of truth
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.142139.20519@polaris.utu.fi>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 14:21:39 GMT
- References: <9301021953.AA01606@feds46.Prime.COM>
- Sender: news@polaris.utu.fi (Usenet News admin)
- Organization: Turku School Of Economics
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- In article <9301021953.AA01606@feds46.Prime.COM> Mark Markish x2799,
- mmarkish@FEDS46.PRIME.COM writes:
- >Has keeping up with the others become a Universal Hallmark of Truth
- >under the New World Order, or this is simply your local reckoning down
- >there in Abo? Or, maybe, it's not the others, but Lenin that matters?
- >
- >In any case, what is the logic of thanking God for this? You cannot
- >have it both ways; this used to be well known in Finland and elsewere.
-
- The New World Order is that of Western/American etc.. or we tend
- to think so. Protestantism and Catholic counterreforms modernized
- European thinking so that industrial and commercial progress was
- possible.
-
- Free trade (GATT) arguments and a wide use of WW2 winners
- (Anglo-Americans) crushes other cultures/unifies world
- (re Francis Fukuyama: "The End Of History" (don't if it is
- exactly this in English)).
-
- Russians missed the start (religious reforms), because they
- had to establish autocracy against domestic heterogenity and
- outside threath. (Catherine II the Great) Liberalism, capitalism
- and freedom almost torn Russia in 1905/1917-22. Therefore
- one party regime was to REPLACE weakened rule of the czars.
-
- One marks of the unsynchronized Russian practise is that of
- Julianian (according to an East-Rome emperor Julianus) calen-
- dar with differs from that of Gregorian (West-Rome emperor
- Gregorius).
-
- One netter said in Orthodox spirit that it was a Bolsevist
- crime. For a reactionary Russian nationalist, who is allied
- with x-commies against Yeltsin democrates/liberalizers/
- westerners/zapadniks even every sensible reform made by
- is considered Bolsevistic crime/bad/stupidity.
-
- Great Russian nationalists do not admit that Leninism was a
- post-feudal project to preserve land from western capitalists,
- which was not possible any more for the czars, so that
- communists are/were successors of crazism. Czar was replaced
- by collective political committee of CPSU, politburo and czar-
- nominated executing power was replaced by party-nominated.
- Leninism was a successful way to re-establish old rule NOT to
- destroy it! Also the communists deny their ancestors - czars
- and czarist bureacrats.
-
- Democracy existed Russia only in 1917 from spring to autumn.
- It was so revolutionary, that Russia could not stand it.
-
- My postulate is: Russian federation and democracy in Russia can not
- exist simultaneously. Either Russia will be split like China in the end
- of 19th century or Russia must consolidate power by deminishing
- democracy. Also China did not succeed in establishing capitalism.
- Japan and European great powers tried to split it. Kuomingtang tried
- to handle situation, but only commies succeeded in consolidating the
- central power by rejecting freedom.
-
- USA-type democracy is impossible, because of lacking influence of
- integrating market forces. The integrator of Russia will still be a
- bureacracy, which can not tolerate too much freedom needed to
- create market system. Freedom needed for entrepreneural purposes
- will be used for bloody nationalism, so that benefits of it are still
- questionable.
-
- Life in Czarist Russia is often made sound nice! It was not for
- the most developed nations in the Russian Empire.
-
- This argument is used only for the political purposes by saying that
- centuries of stagnation is ONLY reason for Russians backwardness.
- This misleads Westerners to forget minority questions and unsuccessfull
- policies centuries ago.
-
- In case democrates are going too far too fast we'll see anybody crying:
- "Something incredible has happened in OUR century! NObody could believe
- it beforehand!" Mass unemployment, no social security, collapse of sop-
- histicated capital-intensive industries, collapse of natural scientic
- research....., may make folks ignorant to democracy.
-
- Would you like to have bread to your child or would you like to have
- democracy?
-
- BTW Russian democrates are anticommunists because they are
- ex-Communists, so that there is no fair democracy on either sides.
-
- Between anticommunists and communists democracy do not exist!
- It can be achieved after one or two generations of stabile (not neces-
- sarily ultrademocratic) development.
-
-
- Olli-Jukka Paloneva
-
- PS Abo is a Swedish word for the city of Turku. In English we use Turku,
- because it can be seen in English maps too.
-
- PPS I am using the VAX of Abo (Swedish) Academy.
-
- PPPS
- USA is a secular country. Why it is said in dollar In God We Trust!
- I noticed in x-USSR that those who believed in dollar had dollars
- and those who obeyed law and/or believed in God did not have
- them!
-
- PPPPS So much for democracy in Russia!
-