NP: Solzhenitsyn

[János Székely]

In AS' T*he Red Wheel* (a cycle of semi-fictional novels about the series of
"knots" which resulted in the Bolshevik takeover) there two arch-villains.
One is Lenin, whom AS describes as a single-minded bungler, obsessed with
Marxist revolutionary theory (one wonders how he could fetch power after
all). The other, and maybe even more important figure is a demonic guy
called Parvus, personifying everything that AS blames for Russia's plight.
He is a disgustingly fat, rich, *and* socialist Jew, as well as a German
agent. Now for sheer hatred of Russia it was he who planted the idea in the
German leadership that they could use Lenin (whom he sincerely appreciates)
to get rid of their Eastern enemy, and was quite successful at that.

Janos

2008/8/9 Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>

> 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...
>
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