[lbo-talk] Gulag thing - Chris is on to something (if by accident)

Peter Lavelle untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 23 15:02:37 PDT 2005


Chris, I think you broach an accidental breakthrough of sorts:

"Solzhenitsyn is a Russian nationalist and a Slavophile (in addition to being a great man although I disagree with him 75% of the time). I doubt he thinks of himself as a "Western thinker.""

Ditto, ditto and ditto.

However, is it possible that there a different paradigm in play? Instead of accepting the Western experience lock-stock-and barrel, shouldn't we be hoping and expecting for (finally) a contemporary Russian version of Western liberalism? Clearly Solzhenitsyn is a strange midwife for this (ref to Joanna's recent post), but....

I think, and call me crazy on this list, this is what Putin and Putinism is all about.

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> Solzhenitsyn is a Russian nationalist and a
> Slavophile
> (in addition to being a great man although I
> disagree
> with him 75% of the time). I doubt he thinks of
> himself as a "Western thinker."
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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