NP: Solzhenitsyn

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks, Janos,

I stopped reading AS before The Red Wheel.....

Mark




--- On Sat, 8/9/08, János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NP: Solzhenitsyn
> To: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Cc: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 10:56 AM
> 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...
> >