NP: Solzhenitsyn

[Mark Kohut]

Well, when I was reading him, it wasn't those two foundation stones, whom I'm sure he never liked....
But on real Other Guy in the praxis.....





--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NP: Solzhenitsyn
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 1:42 AM
> Mark Kohut
> >  But not what happened. (He literally put the blame on
> one real man and his
> >  supporters but I can not remember who. I used to
> know, but....Clue: Before Lenin.)
> >
> 
> Gee,, that's tantalizing...
> Wikipedia sez:
> Instead of blaming Russian conditions, he blamed the
> teachings of Karl
> Marx and Friedrich Engels, arguing Marxism itself is
> violent. His
> conclusion is Communism will always be totalitarian and
> violent,
> wherever it is practiced. There was nothing special in the
> Russian
> conditions which affected the outcome.
> 
> I kinda cleave to that outlook with him.  The general case,
> I think,
> is when you build permission for violence into your
> poli-sci (or
> religion) suckage is inevitable...