Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Dave H.
>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.

Many an ex-dissident intellectual discovered this truth after the fall of
the regimes they sought to overthrow.

Yoshie