NP: Solzhenitsyn

[Mark Kohut]

I am pretty sure it is this guy, one Plekhanov, the first RUSSIAN marxist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Plekhanov

Solzhenitsyn saw everything in Russian first (or most), and Marx and Engels were not.........................

Solzhenitsyn, if I remember rightly, hated Plekhanov for his totalizing, for that book on 'monism'...on believing that 'revolution' NEEDS a theory........Aalexander Solzhenitsyn hated
intellectuals with theories in general....peasants did not have the luxury of "theories", they just had to try to get by.......

he had that belief in life's particulars that other writers in less problematic countries have. 




But, yes, of course he would find the stream Plekhanov drank from to be polluted.


--- 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...