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

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Dec 10 10:29:34 PST 1999



> > Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 13:41:12 -0800
> > From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com>
>
> > <...> IT was indeed paradise compared to the situation most people
> > in the southern and increasingly the northern hemisphere's live in.
> > <...> Human creativity flowered in the USSR. <...>
>
>this list is rilly going rilly downhill rilly fast.
>
>cheers,
>t

Oh, I don't know. How many euphemisms can you think of for "shot while trying to escape"? In that area human creativity definitely flowered.

Plus there's Anna Akhmatova's tremendously powerful "Requiem"...

No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the

shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there

where my people were doomed to be.

Instead of a Forward

During the terrible years of Yezhov, I spent seventeen

months standing outside the prison in Leningrad,

waiting for news. One day someone recognized me.

Then a woman with lips blue from the cold, who

was standing behind me, and of course had never

heard of my name, came out of the numbness which

affected us all. She whispered in my ear (for we all

spoke in whispers there):

"Can you describe this?"

I said, "I can."

Then something resembling a smile slipped over

what had once been her face.

Brad DeLong



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