What a way to squander nationhood, by harrassing a near majority of your population for episodes in which they weren't primary participants. Your recent posts here, a serial reproduction of the Black Book of Communism, suggest you think internationalism begins with Year Zero and ends at the Gulag. If the petty marshalling of grievance is what you care to legitimize, I'll take my chances in Siberia.
Now you're deploying Bauman on the battlefield. What the hell does he have to do with it? His argument about the Holocaust was that 'obstreperous' Jews defied an order-obsessed German 'gardening state.' I emphasize STATE. Are you saying that East European state actors brought African students to the continent so they could foment racism among their native constituencies in a bid to increase social cohesion and further consolidate power? That tortured through-line is about the only one I can discern in your latest tangle here, Michael.
May I suggest a more commonsensical mode of inquiry? You seem to either focus excessively on minutiae (pedigrees of publication, etc.) or resort immediately to the meta-theories of someone like Bauman. I think something in between would yield saner results.
> More stuff to contest rosy pix of ghost of Walter
> Duranty of the fSU
Taken from David Horowitz's website? Christ, man, I don't recall anybody here assembling a Duranty Defense squad, and I think people here are pretty sympathetic to all manner of misdeeds and sufferings. And I think people here know there history. Who or what are you arguing against?
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