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"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
cancel2 2022 (02-26-2020)
In my opinion, the author's note on the inside cover of Gulag Archipelago is one of the most striking and extraordinary epigraphs ever printed on a book cover.
Author's Note:
For years I have with reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my obligation to the dead. But now that State Security has seized the book anyway, I have no alternative but to publish it immediately.
cancel2 2022 (02-26-2020)
You don't give a rat's ass about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, his literature, his philosophy, his views on the human condition.
You attempted to use a great Russian writer to bash lefties, and presumably by extension, Bernie Sanders.
Solzhenitsyn despised communism and capitalism in nearly equal measure. He was a spiritualist who rejected the capitalist west, and valued a return to traditional Russian Orthodox Christian roots.
Solzhenitsyn thought materialism, profit, and pursuit of wealth were despicable, and he would have found your Orange God morally repulsive.
There is no point getting mad at me and having death fantasies. I am allowed to call you out when you cynically attempt to use a great Russian novelist you know nothing about to support your pro-Trumpist, anti-leftist agenda.
Last edited by Cypress; 02-26-2020 at 08:43 PM. Reason: Typos
cancel2 2022 (02-26-2020)
Nomad (02-27-2020)
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He was exiled from the USSR and needed a place to live. He moved back to Mother Russia as soon as legally practical.
American conservatives were sorely disappointed when they realized belatedly he was not going to be a poster child for capitalism and western values.
I believe his rejection of capitalism and the West left rightwing American dupes aghast
Nomad (02-27-2020)
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“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
~ Antonio Gramsci
(1891-1937) Italian Marxist theoretician and politician, “class warrior”
You are literally angry at me for knowing more about Solzhenitsyn than you.
You attempted to use Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn asa pawn and a poster boy to support your pro-Trumpist, anti-leftists bias.
Since you choose to attempt to use a prominent Russian you know very little about as your pawn, you should have known you would run the risk someone might know more about Solzhenitsyn than you.
Solzhenitsyn did not come to the West because he was enamored with capitalism, nor did he worship at the alters of the capitalist free markets.
He came here because he was exiled from his homeland by the government of the USSR.
I personally think Solzhenitsyn used his sojourn to the west to try to make connections with the Russian diaspora. Solzhenitsyn once asked to meet my cousin Nikita and talk to him, and apparently it was because Solzhenitsyn naively thought there still existed a viable White Russian movement in the diaspora; that these imaginary White Russians represented a true alternative to Soviet communism. That they could be cultivated to be a replacement to communism.
According to what my cousin told me about his meeting, Solzhenitsyn actually had a romantic and unrealistic vision of returning to a ‘lost” traditional Christian Orthodox Russia he imagined would be cultivated by residual Russian White movement in the diaspora.
My cousin Nikita told him that there was no such remaining White Russian movement in the diaspora.
But the bottom line is that Solzhenitsyn never, ever, under any circumstances viewed western capitalism and materialism as a model to follow. He was, in a sense, a religious mystic, who imagined a lost Orthodox Christian Russia which would be morally superior to both capitalism and communism.
There is nothing that you've said so far that I didn't know already, apart from your cousin, fictional or otherwise. He warned about the dangers of Communism and profound words they are indeed. I have also posted this quote, do you have a cousin who knew Gramsci as well?
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
~ Antonio Gramsci
(1891-1937) Italian Marxist theoretician and politician, “class warrior”
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I am wondering just how well known this story is and how close the world came to an abrupt end?
The night the world almost almost ended
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07y7....link.facebook
You will have to explain to me what the point is of lying on an obscure message board to people one has never met. That seems to be something you are attuned to and expert in.
Now, running quickly to Google to cherry pick a Solzhenitsy quote and rushing back here with it does not cut the mustard to characterize this complex and complicated man.
I have not had to use Google one single time to write my thoughts about Solzhenitsyn.
Three seconds before you created this thread, you obviously were vastly uninformed about Solzhenitsyn the man, his literature, his philosophy, and his views on capitalism.
Since you are not knowledgeable in the least about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it is a waste of my time to educate you or engage with you about it.
I leave you to wallow in your petty resentments, you tepid insults, and your lingering hate fetishes.
cancel2 2022 (02-27-2020)
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