[PEN-L:14538] Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism

[Michael Yates]

I don't make any claims as to the goodness of the soviet union.  However,
there was a lot of new and good work done in the arts in the USSR in the
early 1920s. Perhaps there was a flowering, all the sadder in terms of
what happened later.  BTW you might want to read some of the things Louis
Proyect has written on the subject.  He is certainly not a Stalinist if
that is what is being implied.

michael yates

t byfield wrote:


> > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:35:07 +0200
> > From: Russell Grinker <grinker at mweb.co.za>
>
> > >this list is rilly going rilly downhill rilly fast.
>
> > Yeah, could it be that the Proyectites are attempting a silent coup?
>
> i wouldn't know a Proyectite if it hit me in the ass with a
> banjo but when people start (a) challenging statements like
> 'human will was crushed in the USSR' with glib retorts like
> 'where? when?' *and then without stopping to take a breath*
> (b) flatfootedly opining that 'human creativity flowered in
> the USSR'...
>
> human creativity flowered in the USSR?
>
> 'flowered'?
>
> cheers,
> t