London Review's of Book: Anderson's 'Russia's Managed Democracy'

[Boris Dagaev]

>Whenever you meet any of those true western Marxists, RUN,
>JUST RUN AWAY FROM THEM AS FAST AS YOU CAN!

It's a smaaaaall world...

On 3/4/07, Maryna Vinarska <vinarska at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mr.Anderson's looooong article evoked my worst memories of the recent years... Couldn't even sleep well...
>
> In order to get a teaching license giving me the right to get a permanent job and not the one on a contract basis, I had to go through a teacher training called Referendariat. I quickly spotted a teacher who was absolutely bright: unconventional way of thinking combined with encyclopidic knowledges in all imaginable areas, sure of himself, a good actor, etc. So, sure, I chose him as a trainer... That was my first mistake... His behavior turned out to be more than hostile... Constant jokes about bloody drunk Russians, stupid Americans and stupid blonds were just "melochi zhizni"... I couldn't understand the reason of such behavior... Many told me: "Go away from him!", but no one wanted to tell me why... I didn't do that. That was my second mistake. When it was too late I was explained at last that I _myself_  managed to choose a trainer who was a member of a communist party, admirer of Stalin, an author of a book on the dialectics of Marx, Hegel and Lenin, and who claimed
>  that Germany could have communism if not those Russians, meaning immigrants, who came and destroyed the country...
> Well... this is probably when one can say: "The fate is not without the sense of irony..."
> Later, in Ukraine, a senior friend of mine (one of our quiet and peaceful communists) gave me a short lecture on western communists, socialists, leftist, etc. I didn't get too much of all those differences, but I saved the main message of his lecture forever... It was as follows: Whenever you meet any of those true western Marxists, RUN, JUST RUN AWAY FROM THEM AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
>
> Best regards,
> Maryna Vinarska
>
> P.S. I wonder if Mr.Anderson can't forgive Russians their "verootstupnichestvo" as to all those ideas about the world revolution?..
>
>
> FRISON Philippe <Philippe.FRISON at COE.INT> wrote: Russia's Managed Democracy
> Perry Anderson
> London Review of Books
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/ande01_.html
>
> Except for its tittle and its length, it seems to me to be a good answer
> to Simon Jenkins's paper in 'The Guardian'.
>
> Anyway it is food for thought...
>
> Philippe Frison
>
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