[lbo-talk] Lieven on Putin's Russia

[Shane Mage]

Lieven writes:
>...Asking the poor of Russia to make sacrifices when their country 
>has been looted by the elites is abominable. Such changes are 
>nonetheless
necessary to Russia's economic progress...

"Abominable" is indeed an appropriate word for
the semi-privatized capitalism installed by the
Yeltsin/Purin/KGB faction of the former "Soviet"
elite...but it is too weak for those "enlightened"
liberals who, just as under Stalin et. al., tell the
"suffering masses" that its all for their own good
and that soon they'll have their Pie In The Sky.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos