Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism

DAVID HAWKES dh05 at Lehigh.EDU
Fri Dec 10 09:17:06 PST 1999


Doug Henwood writes:


>t. byfield wrote:


>>>human creativity flowered in the USSR?


>>'flowered'?


>Bloomed, positively bloomed! I'm getting misty-eyed with nostalgia
>for the Brezhnev years in fact. How can you be so hard-hearted, Ted?

Well at least the Soviet man in the street had a taste for and appreciation of serious art and literature. Compared to the West, where any such tendencies are crushed beneath the trash peddled by the market. The market is a more effective enforcer of aesthetic homogeneity and banality than any overtly authoritarian censor, when you think about it.

Cheers, Dave



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