On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:47:08 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
writes:
>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
>
>
Solzhenitsyn himself has asserted that the Russian people were
better off both materially and spiritually when the Communists
were in power.
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