[lbo-talk] Re: Eurasianism

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 28 01:47:46 PDT 2003



>From: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au>


>
What I'm saying is that these national ideologies were
>useful tools for those who became the chief local accumulators and wanted
>to
>become ruling classes in their own right instead of paying taxes to another
>new ruling class, often with differing economic goals and based hundreds or
>thousands of km away.
>
Yes, I think this is an accurate assessment of the breakup of the Soviet Union. It is better to be president of Russia than head of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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