[lbo-talk] Re: pictures from a revolution

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 29 23:25:31 PDT 2005


--- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:


>
> Are the Absolutists the equivalent of Monarchists?

An absolutist is more than a monarchist. Remember this is right after the 1905 Revo. The absolutists wanted the tsar to remain an absolute autocrat, whereas a mere monarchist was satisfied with a constitutional monarchy.


> Also were the
> Absolutists linked with the Russian Orthodox church?
>

With some people in the Church, not all of them.


> (I ask because the two most nortorious anti-Semites
> that Strauss dealt
> with in the 20s were Catholic: Paul de La Guard and
> Carl
> Schmitt.

Interestingly, in the blood libel trial of Mendel Beilis in 1911 (accused of the Jewish ritual killing of a young boy -- he was found innocent), the prosecution could not find a single Orthodox priest willing to stand up in court and testify to the existence of blood libel. They had to dig up a Catholic professor of Hebrew in Tashkent.


> Wasn't Heidegger also Catholic?

He started out that way.

I get you some stuff on Zhabotinsky later. Solzhenitsyn quotes him extensively.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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